Another Grampian one ( which I think was shown on STV too ) " Shammy Dab " in which Scottish..erm..celebrities took part in a quiz discussing the origins of Scottish phrases.
Excellent offering from HTV - "The Road That Changed Wales" - 6 x 30 minute programmes all about....er...the M4...
There was also a recent one on a similar theme.
A bloke in a white van drove the length of various Welsh roads.
One, quite interesting, edition was a drive the length of the OLD A48 from the old ferry point under the Severn Bridge, right the way to Carmarthenshire.
:-(
A former member
there was another STV programme; it was in gerlic its was just A helicopter flying around Scotland and a man talking about what there saw.
A weirs WAY how does a 50 year old man get away with running about Scotland
Border TV had an Inter-town talent competition in its very early years (61-66) called "Cock of the Border". It was screened in peak viewing time and drew a huge audience. The participants....singers, jugglers, ventriloquists, dancers etc, would have no chance of getting such exposure these days. Grampian did, IIRC, have a similar show called "Cock of the North". Border's local output (they did little else prior to the 80s), later included "Top Town" (a local quiz) and "Happy Families", introduced by Derek Batey, which was basically "Mr and Mrs" but with mums and sons, dads and daughters etc. Border also screened a Yorkshire TV programme, introduced by Freddie Truman, which featured pub sports like skittles. I think it was called "Indoor League".
HTV West did an interesting set of programmes on the run up to Christmas 2004.. I remember the first episode featured a turkey and tinsel where the elderly citizens would gobble down there dinner to get a nice seat for.... bingo
At a fancy dress party he went as the Grim Reaper.
Hardly a strange regional programme, as it spun off into the legendary Channel 4 staple.
Which makes me think, why do Countdown bosses think a big name like Des Lynam or Des O'Connor is needed to fill Richard Whiteley's shoes? Richard, after all, got the job because Countdown was originally a local show.
Perhaps YTV should have given someone else previously unknown to a national audience the chance to work their way to TV hero status? Des Lynam, as always, was Mr Faceache while Des O'Connor's joviality is suppressed.
