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Subject: UK Saturday morning kids shows
Hello everyone.
On saturday mornings, we have live 2/3 hour live shows. I think the eighties did them better . . . Anybody remember these . . . ?
BBC
Saturday Morning Swap Shop (with Noel Edmonds, Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin)
Saturday Starship (Bonnie Langford?)
Going Live (with Phil Scofield, Sarah Green and Trevor and Simon - dare I forget him? Gordon 'The Gopher')
ITV
TIZWAS (Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry and Bob Carolgees)
Number 73 (Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchannan)
Wide Awake Club (Tommy Boyd, Michaela Strachan and Timmy Mallett)
Get Fresh (with Gazz Top and 'Gilbert the alien')
Motormouth (with Neil Buchanan again and others)
Ghost Train (with Gerard, Francis Dodge, Jenny Powell and 'Nobby the sheep')
Ghost Train was made in 1990/1991 and was one of my favourites.
I would love to hear from anybody who remembers this. ;D
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
I don't remember Saturday Starship, although I try to block any thoughts of Bonnie Langford anyway, I thought Mike Read came after Noel Edmunds with Saturday Superstore??
Never watched the ITV shows!
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
Hello Boris66au!
Mike Read might have come after Swap shop! ;)
As for Bonnie Langford, I can thoroughly understand. 'I'll scream and scream until I am sick' - Eurgh!
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
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Whatever happened to Spit The Dog...? ???
Huw
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dried up? i loved Spit
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I awoke from a deep sleep once, and my kid had the Teletubbys on. At first I thought I was in an LSD trip, and when the baby sun started giggling, I fainted.
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
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dried up? i loved Spit
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Just found this page on Spit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1981/toys3.shtmlThere's a video though it's a bit small and dark so it's difficult to make out what's going on... :(
all the best
Huw
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
The last time I remember seeing Bob Carolgees with Spit the dog was on 'Surprise Surprise' with Cilla Black in the late 80s.
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
Mike Read hosted "Saturday Superstore" I think, it was the show that replaced "Swap Shop".
TISWAS (no "Z") was my favourite - Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile. Chris Tarrant's finest hour. Remember The Phantom Flan Flinger? The Masked Poet? The Bucket of Water Song? Bob Carolgees had puppets other than Spit The Dog, particularly Charlie the Monkey and the spectacularly unsuccessful Cough the Cat.
I was getting a tad old for this stuff by the early 90s when "Ghost Train" was on, but wasn't that the one with the strange trainspotter/anorak type bloke on it who was obsessed with cheese? He was funny.
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
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TISWAS (no "Z") was my favourite - Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile. Chris Tarrant's finest hour. Remember The Phantom Flan Flinger? The Masked Poet? The Bucket of Water Song? Bob Carolgees had puppets other than Spit The Dog, particularly Charlie the Monkey and the spectacularly unsuccessful Cough the Cat.
I was getting a tad old for this stuff by the early 90s when "Ghost Train" was on, but wasn't that the one with the strange trainspotter/anorak type bloke on it who was obsessed with cheese? He was funny.
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I wonder if people outside of the UK had something similar to TISWAS. If they didn't, they were missing out!
The trainspotter type guy was on Motormouth and had his barage of 'Cheese Rangers'. His name was Norman and stereotyped the geek personality.
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I only really watched either Tiswas or Swap Shop. Loved Tiswas at first but found it very tedious towards the end of its life.
I bet everyone here can remember doing the 'dying fly' as well!
You've got me singing The Bucket of Water Song now.
"We sing a song, a bucket of water song
We can't go wrong, we're as happy as can be"
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
* joins in, embarrassingly *
"Though life can be hard, we do the best we can
Stand on one leg and point up to the Sun
We dum-di-dum as we march along
We clash the cymbal and bang the gong
Weeeee sing the song, the bucket of water soooooonnnnggg!!"
John Gorman, he was on it too, Scouse comedian, ex member of The Scaffold (of "Lily The Pink" fame).
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
:-[ I can still remember the postcode as well
Birmingham B1 2JPeeee!
Also the Swap Shop phone number
01 811 8055
Subject: Re: UK Saturday morning kids shows
I remember 'Going Live'. Gordon the Gopher-so cute!! There was also the CBBC Broom Closet where they did the 'after school' shoes, and 'Edd The Duck' popped up sometimes. Who remembers Roland Rat?
I also watched 'Live And Kicking', but that was in the early 90s right? Before the late 90s it was the BBC that ruled early morning TV, but everyone seems to watch 'SMTV' now I think.
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Roland Rat is evil and must die !!
I watched Swap Shop and Tiswas though I don't think my Dad really approved of Tiswas !!
Who remembers Poshpaws on swapshop??