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Classic shows you remember, but the public might not (July 2017)

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A former member
I'm surprised the The Campbells have just disappeared, it run for 4 years with over 100 episodes. You would think it would get an airing on STV2....
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MY83
I recall Guilty being used as filler to pad out the Sky3/Pick TV schedule back then. It’s never been given an outing since then.


I remember it as the go-to programme for replacing certain Sky One programmes on CableTel output of Sky One due to certain programmes being satellite-only exclusive hangovers from the BSB/SkyTV days....
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harshy Founding member
Kapatoo produced by Tyne Tees fantastic theme tune, Wilderness Edge produced by Granada 1993, Streetwise produced by childsplay for TVS late 80s early 90s, all great shows at the time, never repeated ever again.


Also Kappatoo Two and as well as 3 7 11.

I enjoyed Wilderness Edge and miffed that only one series ever made

I just found kappatoo on YouTube Very Happy
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MY83
I've never heard of it, and still have no recollection after watching the You Tube clip, so I'm sure I'm not unique !


Guess it took a certain type of 11-15 year old to watch BBC2 on weekday afternoons after school instead of CBBC or CITV! Shocked
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Whataday Founding member
I guess lots of early Channel 5 shows fall into this category, such as the gameshows Whittle and Move On Up.

I defy you not to get this dreadfully catchy theme song stuck in your head. Either that or the titles will give you a seizure.

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Worzel
Trivial Pursuit with Tony Slattery:



Defectors from Challenge (TV), IIRC hosted by Richard Orford and also the UK Play version of Ask the Family with Alan Titchmarsh.
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Markymark
Riaz posted:
The Real World. A short lived competitor to Tomorrows World by TVS.


Yes, one of TVS's first network offerings, and the initiative of Michael Blakstad, who was Tomorrow's World's exec producer, before becoming TVS's founding Director of Programmes.

One of the first things TRW did was a 3D broadcast, with the glasses given away in TV Times.

Also, I've got a feeling they collaborated with ITN over ITV's coverage the first Space Shuttle mission ?


Yep - The Real World was a favourite. They did a couple of shows on 3D TV - one in B&W and then one with an attempt at colour.

For some reason I have a feeling TVS were involved in Helen Sharman's cosmonaut flight too - which would have been towards the end of their franchise period?

Another science/health show I remember on ITV was 'Where There's Life' presented by Dr Miriam Stoppard (wife of playright Tom Stoppard at the time) and Dr Rob Buckman?


Where There's Life was a YTV show I think, and a spin off from Don't Ask Me, that featured Magnus Pyke ?

YTV was sort of ITV's de facto supplier of science/medical programming.

I have a feeling the Helen Sharman thing was YTV too ? I've checked, the first shuttle mission was April 81, so TVS were yet to launch then ( no pun...)

Edit: I remember now, it was the BBC's Tomorrow's World team that did the Beeb's shuttle launch. Micheal Rod from TW defected in 1982 to TVS to present TRW ( brought over by Blakstad)
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Steve Williams
Where There's Life was a YTV show I think, and a spin off from Don't Ask Me, that featured Magnus Pyke ?

YTV was sort of ITV's de facto supplier of science/medical programming.


Yes, they had a science department at YTV who did a load of these pop science things, and Adam Hart-Davis produced most of them. Where There's Life wasn't really a spin-off of Don't Ask Me but it was the same sort of style with a studio audience who would frequently get involved in the features. I really would like a pop science show like that these days with lots of audience participation, I know ITV did It's Not Rocket Science but it wasn't quite the same.

Another YTV pop science show was Fun and Games, which was a similar vibe but about maths, presented by Johnny Ball. Actually the combination of Johnny Ball and the YTV science team seems a match made in heaven but apparently Johnny didn't enjoy it all and left after the first series...



Trivial Pursuit with Tony Slattery:

Defectors from Challenge (TV), IIRC hosted by Richard Orford and also the UK Play version of Ask the Family with Alan Titchmarsh.


Ask The Family was on UK Gold, of course, wouldn't quite fit on UK Play. And it was repeated on BBC2 as well.

There was another attempt to put Trivial Pursuit on the telly when BBC1 did a game show based on it in 1990, presented by Rory McGrath. I remember the prizes were all a bit odd, I remember the star prize in one was an "alien TV" which was a normal TV but with bits of plastic stuck to it, and the consolation prize was a bit of the set because it was made up of lots of weird bits of modern art. I think the whole series was a bit too stylised for mass consumption.

MY83 posted:
I remember it as the go-to programme for replacing certain Sky One programmes on CableTel output of Sky One due to certain programmes being satellite-only exclusive hangovers from the BSB/SkyTV days....


Indeed, in the early days of ONDigital there were various shows on Sky One and Sky Movies that couldn't be shown on ONDigital because they didn't have the rights to show them terrestrially, I remember Xena Warrior Princess was one of them. So they had an alternative schedule in the Radio Times for a couple of months, with Guilty! appearing quite frequently.

Three shows involving Tom o Connor for you. Firstly, on Tyne Tees, PickPockets, which was a snooker based gameshow. There is an episode on youtube.

Two others from the BBC. Firstly, a lunchtime show that ran for one series, The Tom o Connor Roadshow. The other, was a lunchtime game show, involving BBC news reports and local news teams, "That's news to me".


I was convinced for ages that The Tom O'Connor Roadshow was the first programme we ever recorded on VHS, but it was in 1987 and we got our first video in 1984 so it can't have been. I do remember coming home from school at lunchtime and seeing it though. As the name suggests, it came from a different place for a week at a time, and one day it snowed so much nobody turned up.
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nwtv2003
I guess lots of early Channel 5 shows fall into this category, such as the gameshows Whittle and Move On Up.

I defy you not to get this dreadfully catchy theme song stuck in your head. Either that or the titles will give you a seizure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLzP6YaoyQ


Such a tacky show and set, even for 1997 standards. It was only ever shown during the period when Whittle was off air and they were recording the second series.

There was a similar game show called Split Second (no examples online) which was made for Channel 5 (I think either by Meridian or Anglia) but was never shown, but got shown on Challenge TV once later in 1997.
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benriggers
Jenny posted:
"Take Nobody's Word For It" (which may have been an Open University co-pro and ran on Sunday mornings I think)


I remember it as an evening show, but it may have been both. I think I have the tie-in book somewhere. One of the presenters was Carol Vorderman, but during the brief period she was going by her then married name of Carol Mather.


Also show during 'Daytime on Two' in the early 90s (showing just the experiments from the programme, hence the title Experiment!)

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Whataday Founding member
There was a similar game show called Split Second (no examples online) which was made for Channel 5 (I think either by Meridian or Anglia) but was never shown, but got shown on Challenge TV once later in 1997.


Made by Action Time, hence why it probably made its way to Challenge pretty easily.



I do love the TVS-esq set.
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robertclark125
I remember Fun and Games, for the second series, a guy with curly hair and a beard replaced Johnny Ball.

One from Sunday mornings, which I believe Carol Vorderman helped present, "Take Nobody's word for it!". You can take my word for it, it really was a show!

EDIT: someone else mentioned it. Sunday mornings on BBC1, but wasn't an OU programme.

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