Australian children's TV series and format that's been rehashed a few times under different names, Backyard Science:
Aired on Toonami and POP ad-infinitum off and on over the years (and is still on in Australia best part of fifteen years after it was first made), the show was later repackaged for BBC Alba. I used to volunteer at a local Cub Scout pack and I will admit I used an idea or two from this show for badge projects once I'd come across it.
Aired on Toonami and POP ad-infinitum off and on over the years (and is still on in Australia best part of fifteen years after it was first made), the show was later repackaged for BBC Alba. I used to volunteer at a local Cub Scout pack and I will admit I used an idea or two from this show for badge projects once I'd come across it.
I remembered that show. Alway watching it after school and I remember doing one of those science experiments in school.
I've remembered today a show on ITV from 1989. It was called "emergency 999", not to be confused with 999 which was on the BBC a couple of years later. Emergency 999 was hosted by Michael Aspel, and it was a weekend of programmes looking at the emergency services in this country.
Viewers were also invited to send in for an information pack, which contained leaflets on safety, first aid etc. There was even a comic for the kids. We actually had one of the leaflets for many years on our telephone table, but alas no longer have it.
The programme was, to my knowledge, hosted from London, though camera crews and OB units from all ITV companies were with crews on their patch. I guess that LWT produced this programme. Michael Aspel also would give you some snippets of incidents that the emergency services had dealt with, that weren't filmed. One tragic report was of a fire crew, who got called to a house only for it to be a hoax call. Worse, the female resident of the house, in shock at the incident, suffered a fatal heart attack as a result.
The next year, Nick Owen was the host of a weekend of programmes on ITV looking behind the scenes at Heathrow Airport. Same format as Emergency 999, but this was called "Airport 90". It was interesting to note on day 1, viewers called ITV to report the globe in the studio was spinning the wrong way round, and it was corrected!
Cropped up in my YouTube side bar and thought I'd shove it here:
I have no idea what this this, I don't remember it but it's Australian, ran on the Nine network for two seasons/series and the main actor apparently went onto Neighbours a few years after this ended.
That was one of those Australian kids shows that were ubiquitous in the late 1980s/early 1990s, if you had TCC at any rate. There was nothing particularly original about it, but it had a very catchy theme tune.
