Years later and still no repeats...

Four and a half years ago, this topic appeared on the forum: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/tv-show-that-never-get-rebroadcast-31768/

How we'll all grown since then, but yet still the amount of programmes to never get a repeat has continue to grow. The number of channels has also grown yet there is no place for repeating some gems from years gone by.

Why is this still the case, DVD sales are still strong for many programme which have not been given repeat airing. ( expect for Russ abbot, which cant get a dvd release for some strange point. )

I'd dearly love to see Shoestring series 2 (of which there were 10 episodes) repeated in UNCUT form. Not worried about Series 1, as it's available on DVD in uncut form (except for one minor music edit in episode 1).

Yes, there have been repeats of both series of Shoestring on UKTV Drama/Alibi etc, but the episodes were edited down from their original lengths. You have to go right back to the early 90s, when UK Gold showed uncut episodes of Shoestring.

I'm amazed that Victor and Hugo, a Cosgrove Hall stablemate of Dangermouse and Duckula hasn't had a repeat airing. I believe it sold reasonably well overseas.

I think Duckula was repeated on the bbc a couple of years after it finished on itv. Victor and hugo is a forgotten classic

Duckula was also repeated on sky one. Another of their series avanger penguin has also it's seems been forgotten.

Does anyone remember Sam from Granada?

Duckula has done the rounds, I seem to recall that even GMTV had shown it at some point. Funny to think that in the 1990's they could get away with repeating any old cartoon, where as today that wouldn't happen, most kids today wouldn't be interested by old repeats. Like the CITV anniversary weekend, was probably watched mostly by adults under the age of 40 for nostalga purposes.

Kids TV has always been largely repeats though hasn't it? When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s they were showing stuff from the 70s

There still repeating old Scooby doos to this day.

The repeats are even older than that - Tom & Jerry for example or Looney Tunes or even the original Disney cartoons. Tom & Jerry's first episode dates from 1940, Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies started in the 1930s and Disney's first cartoon was pushed out in 1928 (Steamboat Willie). Back in the day of course when they had a home on the main four (at the time) channels, sometimes scheduled, sometimes used as filler.

IIRC Tom & Jerry never actually appeared as part of Children's BBC, but the BBC had the rights to it for many years.
Looney Tunes was a regular staple of Children's ITV, particularly in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
I can't remember who aired the bulk of the original Disney shorts before Disney Channel came along.

The one thing it does prove though - good animation never dies, it just gets passed on to the next generation.

I suspect that occasion when Noel Edmonds appeared in the Broom Cupboard after Noel's House Party was abandoned could be the only time Tom and Jerry was introduced in vision from the Broom Cupboard

Im sure Tom and jerry had its own BBC series where 2-3 clips where shown at once, the intro had tom, jerry and spike watching a film projection screen?

Thinking about it, it always was a bit strange that the BBC 1 announcer would introduce T&J over the globe then Phillip Schofield would pick up afterwards. Presumably done that way to allow a changeover in con without Children's having to do the junction out of a non kids programme.