The Kids Are Alright: episode 2 - ITV
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Television, like the radio, the book and wood, has been used to shut children up since its invention. From black-and-white puppet shows to sophisticated tablet-ready interactive cartoons, The Kids Are Alright provides an overview of the organisation of children's television through history. Are you sitting comfortably? Well, we're beginning anyway.
Episode one: Watch It, Scally. CITV in the face, or How over a dozen squabbling regions kept your children quiet for 60 years. Or not.
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The reference to "the puberty facilitating Lift-Off With Ayshea" made me snort my drink out through my nose. It's funny because it's true.
The monthly presenters of Children's ITV in its early years... [UPDATED NOVEMBER 2024]
*1983*
January - Matthew Kelly
February - Isla St. Clair
March - Derek Griffiths
April - Charlotte Coleman as Marmalade Atkins
May - Mick Robertson
June - Bob Carolgees
July - Pat Coombs
August - Tommy Boyd
September - Mike Reid
October - David Rappaport
November - Bill Oddie
December - The Krankies
*1984*
January - Derek Griffiths
February - The CBTV Team, including Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Anneka Rice and Mike Smith... and possibly Harry the Security Guard (played by Harry "Aitch" Fielder)
March - Roland Rat
April - Christopher Biggins
May - Sue Robbie
June - Bob Carolgees
July - ? (One source states Carol Lee Scott as Grotbags, but footage or TV Times pages from this month have yet to surface)
August - Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson, Andrea Arnold & Neil Buchanan as Ethel, Harry, Dawn & Neil from No. 73
September - Rod Hull & Emu
October - Terrahawks
November - Bonnie Langford
December - Matthew Kelly
*1985*
January - Roland Rat
February - Cheryl Baker
March - Uncle Travelling Matt from Fraggle Rock
April - Ken Jones as Whistle Willie from Behind the Bike Sheds
May - Gudrun Ure as Supergran
June - Timmy Mallett
July - Martin "Son of Paul" Daniels (thanks to a video uploaded by the late Oliver Ashmole for confirmation)
August - Andrea Arnold & Nick Staverson as Dawn & Harry from No. 73
September - Jimmy "And There's More" Cricket
October - Stu "Crush a Grape" Francis
November - Gary Wilmot
December - Rod Hull & Emu
*1986*
January - Bernie Winters & Schnorbitz
February - Nino Firetto
March - David "Kid" Jensen
April - Matthew Kelly
May - Carol Lee Scott as Grotbags
June - James Baker from Wide Awake Club (occasionally joined by Arabella Warner & Tommy Boyd)
July - Basil Brush
August - Elizabeth Estensen & John Hasler as T-Bag & T-Shirt
*1986-87 Academic Year*
September to December - Matthew Kelly
January to March - Gareth "Gaz Top" Jones
April to June - Andrea Arnold as Dawn from No. 73
Children's ITV presentation became live in July 1987 after Central gave up on in vision continuity, freeing up the IVC studio. Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore were the first two presenters in this brave new world.
Love watching all these man.
Appreciate the work and research.
Brilliant stuff. Thanks
Gary Terzza. One of the voices of Channel 4 in the 90s and 00s
I remember Matthew launching the spaceship like it was yesterday! I was 12. It was all brand new then. Channel Four and Breakfast TV came along around the same time, all brand new concepts....brilliant documentary by the way. Thankyou
Brilliant, as always. And confirming what my hazy memories had suggested to me for years: that I stopped watching Children's ITV altogether in favour of the Broom Cupboard, sometime around 1987. I have no knowledge whatsoever of many of the ITV shows or presenters presented here, and I only know the CITV logos from watching continuity on RUclips. I was not, it seems, missing much.
Let's not forget ITVs Dramarama though
And of course, Thames gave us the astoundingly charming The Sooty Show, which they snagged from the BBC
Be great to see the battle of Saturday morning kids TV from the 50’s to 2010’s. Most who grew up in the 80’s remember things like Saturday Banana and No 73 but not many remember MPTV (Mersey Pirate TV). Be great to get a breakdown 😊👍🏾
He's already done that with a 7-episode series called "Watch and Smile".
I remember Stephen and Danielle having great fantastic chemistry to the point it looked like they might have had a thang going on.
They might have, you never know with some presenters! Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee got married!
@@reginahyde1488 Danielle isn't Stephen's type.
@@reginahyde1488 I stand corrected. I always thought he was gay. My mistake.
@@reginahyde1488 I probably unconsciously absorbed the information unconsciously through the news and media around me.
@@reginahyde1488 I can't say I ever went out of my way to look into it, as I said earlier I must have just absorbed it through osmosis for want of a better term. I made a mistake, and I apologised and owned it. I don't get why I get the third degree now?
Thanks for posting these I remember seeing them on vimeo
Here after the news of CITV shutting down... 😭
Citv was at its best in the late 90s and early 00s with Steven and Danielle at Gas Street alongside great programmes such as Mad for it and Smtv. A shame for it to go downhill when CBBC upped their game in 2002
@Tim Goodwin I'm sorry but you are wrong and I disagree with you, the best time CBBC was on top was between 1997 and 2002 when it also has the best presenters such as Ana Boulter, Michael Underwood, Adrian Dickson, Angellica Bell, Emlyn the Gremlin and Liam Dolan, it went downhill ever since, Citv was downhill from 1998 until 2002.
I'm sure I'm one of the few people who actually remember the programme "Three, Seven, Eleven".
Goodnight, CITV
Many people prefers CBBC from 1997 until 2002 than Citv
5:21chhhhhhurrrrrrrrrrrrch
12:42 Where did that clip came from. I want a link!
TVARK again.
Thanks.
Was that gaz top towards the end
Will there be episodes about Weekend kids' TV?
There's a series about it
www.bobthefish.org.uk/watch-and-smile
@@BobtheFishProductions brilliant.
Though I remember barely Tommy Boyd in vision, I never quite 'felt it' with CITV, and the Steve Ryde voice era was the best. In much the same way as we just accepted Andi Peters as "the Children's BBC man", I accepted that CITV is entirely voiced, while CBBC is in a big studio, and the Broom Cupboard of my primary schooldays was The Den on RTE. There was always something bland, generic, insincere even, about CITV being studio based. I couldn't shake the feeling that they were talking down to the kids. To think Stephen Mulhern is as relatively prolific on ITV as he is now, having started here. "Unbelievable..." As if credit squeezes weren't bad enough, they followed The Den (Den2 as it was by then) and ignored credits entirely, screwing up my routine. Nope. Studio based linkage was BBC territory to me, stick to your lanes.
I see the Mike Smith resemblance in Mark Grainger but I don't see the resemblance to Dan Hegarty. Do you mean Den Hegarty from Darts? Actually, he doesn't look much like Mark either!
Part 4: Freeview.
For some reason the StoneWall CITV Continuity Sets kinda remind me of the Host Segments from MST3k
Funny, the Host Segments always remind me of children's television. Especially in the Joel era.
Part 3: Channel 5, Milkshake/Shake.
Yessss
The Kids Are Alright: episode 3 - Channel 5
Tbh there’s quite a few notable Michael Jacksons out there, so I’m still not sure what ‘not that one either’ is referring to.
I just assumed it was controller of BBC2 from 1993-1996.
Stephen and Danielle - when they were likeable. Now he's ITV's answer to "who do we get to present this?" and she's turned into someone like her colleagues on TalkTV - a very dislikeable presenter.
I didn't know that. That's disappointing.