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Indeed, and in the One Day In The Life Of Television book, which records This Morning just a few weeks into its life, one of the viewers talked about specifically tuning in for The Wool Strand. In those days they would have a detailed billing in the TV Times with the individual strands billed separately as if they were proper programmes (which in a way, they were). This was also the era when the TV Times used to bill what was in every individual part of Motormouth, which used to fascinate me.
In those days This Morning would go off for the summer, but when they were on during other school holidays they would show cartoons during the programme.
There were a couple of spin-offs in the nineties. This Sunday was in the God slot in the early nineties, which came from the This Morning studio and had a spiritual vibe about it, much like Sunday Morning Live I suppose. Didn't have much else to do with the show. In the summer of 1992 there was also a primetime spin-off on Sunday nights, The Richard and Judy Show. Not sure what happened in that, didn't watch it. Then in 1996 there was the clunkily-titled Tonight With Richard Madeley And Judy Finnigan, now only remembered of course for the OJ Simpson interview. This was a proper chat show in front of an audience, and prefacing their move later in the year, half the episodes came from Manchester and half from London. But it never caught on, and that OJ interview didn't really help, it just overshadowed everything else.
You can see from the credits at the very end of this clip from 1989 that in this particular edition Border TV contributed something called ‘The Wool Strand’.
Indeed, and in the One Day In The Life Of Television book, which records This Morning just a few weeks into its life, one of the viewers talked about specifically tuning in for The Wool Strand. In those days they would have a detailed billing in the TV Times with the individual strands billed separately as if they were proper programmes (which in a way, they were). This was also the era when the TV Times used to bill what was in every individual part of Motormouth, which used to fascinate me.
In those days This Morning would go off for the summer, but when they were on during other school holidays they would show cartoons during the programme.
There were a couple of spin-offs in the nineties. This Sunday was in the God slot in the early nineties, which came from the This Morning studio and had a spiritual vibe about it, much like Sunday Morning Live I suppose. Didn't have much else to do with the show. In the summer of 1992 there was also a primetime spin-off on Sunday nights, The Richard and Judy Show. Not sure what happened in that, didn't watch it. Then in 1996 there was the clunkily-titled Tonight With Richard Madeley And Judy Finnigan, now only remembered of course for the OJ Simpson interview. This was a proper chat show in front of an audience, and prefacing their move later in the year, half the episodes came from Manchester and half from London. But it never caught on, and that OJ interview didn't really help, it just overshadowed everything else.
