BR
It is also in what is still a prime slot for C4. 11.05pm would be a burn off.
Anyway, back on topic and anyone remember Eden on C4. Was completely different to this one - it was a reality show set on an island. Think it basically replaced the original Shipwrecked but did include some public vote element IIRC.
Anyway, back on topic and anyone remember Eden on C4. Was completely different to this one - it was a reality show set on an island. Think it basically replaced the original Shipwrecked but did include some public vote element IIRC.
NJ
And of course there was the BBC rehash - Castaway 2007 - in a nutshell go to a New Zealand island for three months and try not to get voted off Big Brother style. The grand prize is to win, um, a trip to New Zealand. And IIRC they tried to spin the premise out with red button specials, a BBC Three spin-off and "this is what they did in the last 24hrs" type show - most of which were later dropped?
Neil Jones
Founding member
Here’s a *current* TV show that is a strong candidate for a future forgotten show: Channel 4’s version of Castaway 2000 for the 2010s, Eden.
And of course there was the BBC rehash - Castaway 2007 - in a nutshell go to a New Zealand island for three months and try not to get voted off Big Brother style. The grand prize is to win, um, a trip to New Zealand. And IIRC they tried to spin the premise out with red button specials, a BBC Three spin-off and "this is what they did in the last 24hrs" type show - most of which were later dropped?
NT
There was a time across the seventies, eighties and early nineties when BBC One showed a religious / moral based programme for children at 9.15 / 9.30 on a Sunday morning.
Those that I can remember - The Sunday Gang, Wake Up Sunday ( with Dana ), Knock! Knock! and Umbrella. I think there was also an American animated series at one point too.
The Sunday Gang -
https://youtu.be/WTktE3QT-Bw
https://youtu.be/KvQrFlaKGs4
Those that I can remember - The Sunday Gang, Wake Up Sunday ( with Dana ), Knock! Knock! and Umbrella. I think there was also an American animated series at one point too.
The Sunday Gang -
https://youtu.be/WTktE3QT-Bw
https://youtu.be/KvQrFlaKGs4
SW
Yes, that was a bit of a disaster as well, I think the idea was that it could have potentially run forever if it had caught on. I seem to remember the big problem with the format was that you could vote people in, but couldn't vote anyone out, so if the public hated a contestant they couldn't anything about it. And they did hate most of the contestants.
Indeed, and of course for many years they were the only thing resembling a kids show on a Sunday morning, so we sometimes watched them, though we knew even then they weren't proper kids shows. In the mid-eighties you would have the Play School or Playbus repeat at 8.55 and then Umbrella or whatever at 9.15, and then that would be it for the day on the Beeb. People complain about there being no kids shows on the terrestrial channels these days, but of course there are loads of other channels, but up until the mid-nineties there actually weren't any kids shows on Sunday morning for most of the year.
Umbrella for a while was presented by the distinguished actor Bryan Murray and whenever I saw him on anything else, like Trevor Jordache in Brookie, I always thought "That's the bloke from Umbrella". There was also in the early nineties a sort-of-sitcom called Movable Feasts (a joke I never understood at the time) about a team for caterers who would cater for some religious event every week and after some misunderstandings would learn A Valuable Lesson about a particular faith. Around this time Sunday morning CBBC was becoming a regular thing so they were now part of that, and then gradually phased out.
Anyway, back on topic and anyone remember Eden on C4. Was completely different to this one - it was a reality show set on an island. Think it basically replaced the original Shipwrecked but did include some public vote element IIRC.
Yes, that was a bit of a disaster as well, I think the idea was that it could have potentially run forever if it had caught on. I seem to remember the big problem with the format was that you could vote people in, but couldn't vote anyone out, so if the public hated a contestant they couldn't anything about it. And they did hate most of the contestants.
There was a time across the seventies, eighties and early nineties when BBC One showed a religious / moral based programme for children at 9.15 / 9.30 on a Sunday morning.
Those that I can remember - The Sunday Gang, Wake Up Sunday ( with Dana ), Knock! Knock! and Umbrella. I think there was also an American animated series at one point too.
Those that I can remember - The Sunday Gang, Wake Up Sunday ( with Dana ), Knock! Knock! and Umbrella. I think there was also an American animated series at one point too.
Indeed, and of course for many years they were the only thing resembling a kids show on a Sunday morning, so we sometimes watched them, though we knew even then they weren't proper kids shows. In the mid-eighties you would have the Play School or Playbus repeat at 8.55 and then Umbrella or whatever at 9.15, and then that would be it for the day on the Beeb. People complain about there being no kids shows on the terrestrial channels these days, but of course there are loads of other channels, but up until the mid-nineties there actually weren't any kids shows on Sunday morning for most of the year.
Umbrella for a while was presented by the distinguished actor Bryan Murray and whenever I saw him on anything else, like Trevor Jordache in Brookie, I always thought "That's the bloke from Umbrella". There was also in the early nineties a sort-of-sitcom called Movable Feasts (a joke I never understood at the time) about a team for caterers who would cater for some religious event every week and after some misunderstandings would learn A Valuable Lesson about a particular faith. Around this time Sunday morning CBBC was becoming a regular thing so they were now part of that, and then gradually phased out.
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I remember ITV throw out The littlest hobo on a Sunday morning just after Disney club, but it was the summer months wasn't it? MAY - August it was films?
ITV did have moral based programme for children
* The Story Keepers There is no clips on YT
* The ark:
ITV did have moral based programme for children
* The Story Keepers There is no clips on YT
* The ark:
VM
The 2002 Eden is memorialised in this blog post: https://afropeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/a-travellers-tale-return-to-eden/
It is also in what is still a prime slot for C4. 11.05pm would be a burn off.
Anyway, back on topic and anyone remember Eden on C4. Was completely different to this one - it was a reality show set on an island. Think it basically replaced the original Shipwrecked but did include some public vote element IIRC.
Anyway, back on topic and anyone remember Eden on C4. Was completely different to this one - it was a reality show set on an island. Think it basically replaced the original Shipwrecked but did include some public vote element IIRC.
The 2002 Eden is memorialised in this blog post: https://afropeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/a-travellers-tale-return-to-eden/
SW
Yes, ITV did have some shows on a Sunday morning, and for a while they were there all year round with spin-offs of the Saturday morning shows - that happened from 1987-89, spanning the last two series of Get Fresh, the final series of Number 73, and the first series of Motormouth and Ghost Train . But after the Disney Club started in the autumn of 1989, when that was off air in the summer there would indeed be films in its place, followed by The Littlest Hobo or something like that. Which seemed a bit of a step backwards.
Of course, the first series of Gimme 5 in 1992 rather oddly ran from April to June, and in July and August they just showed films, so during the 1992 Olympics there were no Saturday morning programmes on either channel, and I was bored witless.
I remember ITV throw out The littlest hobo on a Sunday morning just after Disney club, but it was the summer months wasn't it? MAY - August it was films?
Yes, ITV did have some shows on a Sunday morning, and for a while they were there all year round with spin-offs of the Saturday morning shows - that happened from 1987-89, spanning the last two series of Get Fresh, the final series of Number 73, and the first series of Motormouth and Ghost Train . But after the Disney Club started in the autumn of 1989, when that was off air in the summer there would indeed be films in its place, followed by The Littlest Hobo or something like that. Which seemed a bit of a step backwards.
Of course, the first series of Gimme 5 in 1992 rather oddly ran from April to June, and in July and August they just showed films, so during the 1992 Olympics there were no Saturday morning programmes on either channel, and I was bored witless.
IS
One problem the Eden had is that it's fairly similar, but not as good as The Island with Bear Grylls. I think was even in the same slot as Eden
Here’s a *current* TV show that is a strong candidate for a future forgotten show: Channel 4’s version of Castaway 2000 for the 2010s, Eden. Aired one series last year and was supposed to continue with updates through the 12 month period, but ratings must have been poor so nothing more than four episodes were broadcast.
One problem the Eden had is that it's fairly similar, but not as good as The Island with Bear Grylls. I think was even in the same slot as Eden
AK
Often accompanied by a repeat of a horse-orientated drama from the 1970s. If not that, The Campbells, which I absolutely loathed and despised with all the fibre of my being.
Yes, ITV did have some shows on a Sunday morning, and for a while they were there all year round with spin-offs of the Saturday morning shows - that happened from 1987-89, spanning the last two series of Get Fresh, the final series of Number 73, and the first series of Motormouth and Ghost Train.
Often accompanied by a repeat of a horse-orientated drama from the 1970s. If not that, The Campbells, which I absolutely loathed and despised with all the fibre of my being.
RO
One for STV viewers, a monthly show called Crimedesk. Hosted from the Scotland Today studio. The presenter was sat behind a desk, hence the name. Also, it would feature one, or maybe at a push, two items.
Talking of crime, who remembers the short Crimestoppers inserts you used to get at various times at the end of ad breaks?
Talking of crime, who remembers the short Crimestoppers inserts you used to get at various times at the end of ad breaks?
TC
Crime Desk was actually weekly, and was one of a number of programmes - like Raw Deal - which were made by the News & Current Affairs team and transmitted live from Studio C. Crime Desk was hosted by Bill Knox and was the STV equivalent of the Shaw Taylor "Police 5" shown in London and the Midlands of England.