Great to see some Mashed, there's hardly anything of this show online. Who couldn't love Jez and Jarvis banter? I still remember watching the very last episode, the week before SMTV started, and they closed it off by singing "Day O"
I think I'm right in remembering they had a live link up with Ant and Dec from the SMTV/CDUK studios at LWT on that last show as well? Would be interesting to see that again...
Oh that's interesting. I think they did that at the end of every series of something, and the presenter of the show that would be replacing it would make an appearance on the last episode of the show to plug the new series. Stephen and Danielle also did a live link on Mashed the weekend before they started on CITV.
Growing up, I had the feeling that Tyne Tees productions were a cut below those of the other franchises but they had a certain provincial charm. That puppet certainly isn't Creature Shop grade.
Mashed was ITV's final attempt at a summer replacement show before SMTV came along and was on air all year round ending 20+ years of summer shows. Being only 4 years old at the time I have faint memories of this show other than it being featured on CITV's 20th anniversary where they covered Saturday mornings, what I remember about Mashed was Power Rangers being shown (twas a fad in the mid-late 90s). I recently discovered that Tyne Tees produced the short-lived Saturday morning show which made sense as it seems to be low budget. Jez Edwards would later defect to CBBC shortly after this presenting shows like X-Change and Record Breakers (with Linford Christie then later Shovell from M People and Fearne Cotton).
This was indeed the final series of CITV's low-budget Saturday morning shows, a result of ITV's substantial bid for live F1 broadcasting rights. While Scratchy & Co. managed to compete with Live & Kicking, Mashed was only renewed for a second series in the summer of 1998, unlike Tricky. The latter suffered from poor timing, debuting just a day before Princess Diana's fatal car crash, which was attributed to her chauffeur Henri Paul's intoxication. Additionally, Mashed did not face competition from Live & Kicking, as it was broadcast during the summer when Live & Kicking was off-air. Subsequently, ITV redirected the remaining Saturday morning budget, discontinuing Mashed, Scratchy & Co., Tricky, and the ITV Chart Show, and allocated the savings to Zenith for the creation of SM:TV.
Ah Mashed, I remember catching this in 1997 where they had a guest stint from Hollywood Hogan and the NWO...then I became a regular viewer of it in 1998 when they began airing Power Rangers Turbo. By that point, GMTV had handed over Power Rangers to ITV where it would stay for a few years. When Mashed came to an end 15 weeks into the Turbo season (and ending on a cliffhanger), it would move to CITV Sundays for what I would consider the true start of Turbo and arguably it's best half when the veteran Rangers and story editors switched hands to a new cast and showrunner
Mashed was definitely on its second series in 1998; not sure of the exact timeframe with months here but I remember it first being on in summer 1997 as the proverbial meat in a Scratchy & Co and Tricky sandwich on ITV's Saturday morning schedules that year :) Though I haven't looked, there might be some promos for it in CITV pres clips out there. Even if very cheap, I do think it was one of the network's few slightly better efforts from that era where the BBC were otherwise thrashing them in that timeslot by sheer default. The fact that the Beeb only did Fully Booked on Sundays during that time helped, and if SMTV wasn't always made as a year-round series, I daresay it would've even returned in 1999?
Thanks for the extra info - I'm still trying to piece it all together, and there's not much out there. From the few clips I've seen recently, the show ticks all the right boxes and seems to be a lot of fun. Maybe it's biggest problem was that it was a bit generic, and therefore not memorable...? Or perhaps it really was just down to the opposition.
@@VideotapeFTW I think the thing with it is that it was squarely made to be a lower-budget 'filler' series for the weekend morning schedules in summer - this is what Scratchy & Co was also originally devised to be (at least until it got promoted to running in the late winter/spring months due to ITV budget cuts), ditto Fully Booked in its much-revamped incarnations on the other side. But what set Mashed apart from them is that it was actually always broadcast live, and not pre-recorded, which always gave it that bit more spontaneity... a pretty vital quality for shows like these.
@@aftermath_96 Yes, I definitely agree with that - Saturday morning television was always at its best when it was live. And maybe it's just me, but Mashed seems to have a bit more heart than some of the more sterile low-budget magazine shows.
Mashed lasted for only two series, in the summers of 1997 (replacing WOW!) and 1998, just before the 'golden age' of SM:TV Live came along and basically said "Right, new millennium is coming let's stop pratting around and just a year-round Saturday Morning show" and it lasted for several years afterward. Who knew all CITV had to do was dedicate their time to just one format. Though having presenters for most of the time; Ant, Dec and Cat did help, I guess? :D As for Mashed, it was CITV's former preference of having a puppet and presenter host a magazine show on Saturday mornings format, pretty much. Oh, and Mickey says "Des" does not represent his company. :D
So where do you think Mashed ranks amongst the great Saturday morning shows? Looking at it now with so much time having passed, I'm struggling to work out why it isn't more fondly remembered. I mean, even if it's not overly special, there's nothing intrinsically bad about it. (Unless you only recorded the best bits, of course!)
@@VideotapeFTW I think this is all that there is, unless there may be one or two more that I can't remember. As for the show itself, probably below average, but at least it had a second series unlike Tricky or even Telegantic Megavision from 1996. The show which ran so short that they had to repeat Spatz at 10.30 or 11.00 before another show called something like The Edge I think? That was a kind of current affairs program aimed at teens, dealing with issues that concerned them, again, I think? I could be wrong. Then it was the Chart Show and everyone was normal once again. But yeah early 1996 on CITV was weird. :D
@@David315842 I wonder what the thinking was behind that. Maybe they decided they couldn't outdo Live and Kicking (and the BBC in general) at their own game so went through a spell of trying to compete in an entirely different way. Same goes for the Steve Ryde out-of-vision era of CITV.
@@VideotapeFTW The BBC did quite well with Live and Kicking lasting as long as it did. Though it did the same thing as other shows did, yet I guess the BBC didn't see any need to change up the flavour, essentially saying "it isn't broken so don't fix it", that's likely why they managed for so long. Speaking of in vision stuff you're right, the BBC always favoured presenters doing live broadcasts over in-vision stuff. You would think it was the other way around with ITV probably making slightly more money from adverts, but i guess the Beeb really wanted to show people that the TV License was being well spent. CITV had to change things up after a while and re-introduce presenters for their main broadcast, which did help to gain them more notice and stand toe to toe with the Beeb again on Weekday afternoons.
@@David315842 Yeah, I don't mind the Steve Ryde era of CITV, and there were some fantastic idents and promos made for it, but I still think it was an absolutely mad decision to do away with the in-vision presenters for so long. Different for the sake of being different. Like you say, Live and Kicking worked, so they kept doing it.
0:15 Just want to add here that in the preview for the next day the episode of Pepper Ann seen here is "Uniform Uniformity" A little summary for those who haven't seen it, Hazelnut Middle School is chosen to test out school uniforms and Pepper Ann is completely against it, that is until she finds out her mother is designing the uniforms.. But don't worry they don't wear uniforms after this episode. At the time the episode aired on One Saturday Morning on ABC in America, a lot of schools in my country were making the decision to have mandatory school uniforms and unfortunately some of these schools still have them. Meanwhile I thought Cleopatra existed during the Danielle and Stephen era only.. It looks like towards the end of the out of vision era
It's a great episode, it was written and airing at a time when America transitioned their schools to full blown uniforms, but thankfully this episode shows that school uniforms don't work in American schools. Especially in this episode when everyone is dressed like prep school students, it was both in its time and ahead of its time. It probably did not make sense to British viewers but this was a quintessential American cartoon, though come to think of it I'd love to see the broadcast of this episode, I loved it
@@QueenofVHS I haven't seen it, but yeah - school uniforms are absolutely ingrained in British culture, so that doesn't sound like it would really chime over here as much as it did over there.
@@VideotapeFTW Unfortunately in most American schools they have them Even the public schools Where I live we had them in elementary and middle but high school didn't have them. But in the metropolitan city near my home town which is in another part of the state they don't wear uniforms at all and that made me jealous
Oh dear, it's Jailbird Des again.... I did have the very end of the final Mashed on video at one time (as I'd taped the final ITV Chart Show) but annoyingly it got taped over a few months later when I gave the tape to someone to record something from Sky One (before we had cable ourselves!) and they rewound the tape before recording it even though I told them not to... I did get another copy of that final Chart Show years later, but it doesn't have the Mashed bit on sadly! Or the trailer for SM:TV that followed it. I actually watched a lot of SM:TV/CD:UK in that first year, when most other people didn't! I actually have fond memories of those early shows, even if few other people (including Ant & Dec themselves!) don't.
Oh, you'll get me started here... I _so_ wish recordings of all of these Saturday morning shows would be made available, one way or another. They're part of our cultural heritage, but nobody takes them seriously!
@@VideotapeFTW Oh, I could spend months of my life watching old Satruday morning shows! I know Big Centre TV showed edited editions of Tiswas for a while when it began... though of course you could only get that if you lived in Birmingham (before Kaleidoscope quickly gave up and the archive content went, then got swallowed up by Made TV... like most local channels). And the Family Channel and very early days of Challenge TV did the same with Motormouth before the TVS archive fell into rights hell. I think that's the only time any have been repeated years later though. Not that either show is one I have any memory of- I wasn't born when Tiswas was on, and for some reason I have no memory of Motormouth even though I remember the 8:15 From Manchester, Parallel 9 and Going Live on CBBC from the same era, I guess I just never watched it. I did have an edition of Live & Kicking from Jan 98 on video that I actually rewatched quite a lot... then I stupidly taped over it a couple of years later with something that ended up not being any good anyway, and I regretted it ever since. I also have the final 3 SM:TVs from 2003, not that the show was much to shout about by then. There was someone I used to talk to who worked for the BBC who about 10 years ago ran off copies of old Going Lives to watch at home, I was jealous!
I remember hearing about those showings of Tiswas - it's a pity it was on such a small scale and didn't lead to anything greater. If anything, it's probably put everyone off from trying anything like that again. I also think the BBC missed a trick by not backing up their Friday night Top of the Pops repeats with the Saturday Superstore/Going Live/Live and Kicking from the same week. Even just highlights would have been nice. Speaking of Motormouth, though, have you been keeping an eye on the new Made in Maidstone channel? www.youtube.com/@Made-in-Maidstone A few episodes of Motormouth on that, plus loads of its predecessor No 73. I suspect it's someone who used to work at TVS running that, and I'm absolutely loving it.
@@VideotapeFTW Yep, been following that channel! Good that someone's liberating the TVS archive considering it's in rights hell regarding any official repeats or releases. Would like to hope it puts to rest the myths about the TVS archive being "wiped" too- there's so much misinformation about that. That channel's been driving some of the main peddlers of conjecture and misinformation about missing TV shows nuts, as it's uploading master tapes of things they've spent years confidently assuring has been wiped! I guess you can argue that Maidstone is the true home of ITV Saturday mornings, surely more of it came from there than anywhere else- No. 73, Motormouth, What's Up Doc, Telegantic Megavision, WoW and MoM/Saturday Showdown (and is it really 20 years since MoM began? Yeesh....). Even if there was a 7 year gap between WoW and MoM when they weren't, they still surely still top the list.
@@2001JamesTV I must admit, I believed most of those stories about the Motormouths and No 73s being gone forever, so this Made in Maidstone channel came as a real shock. A pleasant one, but a shock nonetheless. One thing we do know for certain is that a lot of the TVS paperwork disappeared, meaning that what was left of the archive wasn't catalogued properly, and that also contributed to the rights issues. It's such a mess, but at last it's being put right. Long may that continue, and here's hoping even more Saturday morning shows are liberated soon.
That crossed my mind, but I'm not sure how famous Sara was at this point. Was she still just an MTV presenter, or was she better known? This is before The Big Breakfast (according to Wikipedia).
I remember that bank holiday Monday very well, seeing Beetleborgs Metallix and Beast Wars
Great to see some Mashed, there's hardly anything of this show online. Who couldn't love Jez and Jarvis banter? I still remember watching the very last episode, the week before SMTV started, and they closed it off by singing "Day O"
I think I'm right in remembering they had a live link up with Ant and Dec from the SMTV/CDUK studios at LWT on that last show as well? Would be interesting to see that again...
Oh that's interesting. I think they did that at the end of every series of something, and the presenter of the show that would be replacing it would make an appearance on the last episode of the show to plug the new series. Stephen and Danielle also did a live link on Mashed the weekend before they started on CITV.
That's the first time I've seen the opening titles to Mashed crop up on RUclips!
The poor programme doesn't even have its own Wikipedia page!
@@VideotapeFTWbecause Mashed was a short lived 9:25 show and it wasn’t that great
@@Giovanni_Team_Rocket_UK Well, yeah, but it wasn't _that_ bad, either! I mean, far worse things than Mashed have their own page...
Growing up, I had the feeling that Tyne Tees productions were a cut below those of the other franchises but they had a certain provincial charm.
That puppet certainly isn't Creature Shop grade.
Mashed was ITV's final attempt at a summer replacement show before SMTV came along and was on air all year round ending 20+ years of summer shows. Being only 4 years old at the time I have faint memories of this show other than it being featured on CITV's 20th anniversary where they covered Saturday mornings, what I remember about Mashed was Power Rangers being shown (twas a fad in the mid-late 90s). I recently discovered that Tyne Tees produced the short-lived Saturday morning show which made sense as it seems to be low budget.
Jez Edwards would later defect to CBBC shortly after this presenting shows like X-Change and Record Breakers (with Linford Christie then later Shovell from M People and Fearne Cotton).
This was indeed the final series of CITV's low-budget Saturday morning shows, a result of ITV's substantial bid for live F1 broadcasting rights. While Scratchy & Co. managed to compete with Live & Kicking, Mashed was only renewed for a second series in the summer of 1998, unlike Tricky. The latter suffered from poor timing, debuting just a day before Princess Diana's fatal car crash, which was attributed to her chauffeur Henri Paul's intoxication. Additionally, Mashed did not face competition from Live & Kicking, as it was broadcast during the summer when Live & Kicking was off-air. Subsequently, ITV redirected the remaining Saturday morning budget, discontinuing Mashed, Scratchy & Co., Tricky, and the ITV Chart Show, and allocated the savings to Zenith for the creation of SM:TV.
Ah Mashed, I remember catching this in 1997 where they had a guest stint from Hollywood Hogan and the NWO...then I became a regular viewer of it in 1998 when they began airing Power Rangers Turbo. By that point, GMTV had handed over Power Rangers to ITV where it would stay for a few years. When Mashed came to an end 15 weeks into the Turbo season (and ending on a cliffhanger), it would move to CITV Sundays for what I would consider the true start of Turbo and arguably it's best half when the veteran Rangers and story editors switched hands to a new cast and showrunner
@cheapfinish6224 How do you know hogan and nwo in mashed
Mashed was definitely on its second series in 1998; not sure of the exact timeframe with months here but I remember it first being on in summer 1997 as the proverbial meat in a Scratchy & Co and Tricky sandwich on ITV's Saturday morning schedules that year :) Though I haven't looked, there might be some promos for it in CITV pres clips out there.
Even if very cheap, I do think it was one of the network's few slightly better efforts from that era where the BBC were otherwise thrashing them in that timeslot by sheer default. The fact that the Beeb only did Fully Booked on Sundays during that time helped, and if SMTV wasn't always made as a year-round series, I daresay it would've even returned in 1999?
Thanks for the extra info - I'm still trying to piece it all together, and there's not much out there. From the few clips I've seen recently, the show ticks all the right boxes and seems to be a lot of fun. Maybe it's biggest problem was that it was a bit generic, and therefore not memorable...? Or perhaps it really was just down to the opposition.
@@VideotapeFTW I think the thing with it is that it was squarely made to be a lower-budget 'filler' series for the weekend morning schedules in summer - this is what Scratchy & Co was also originally devised to be (at least until it got promoted to running in the late winter/spring months due to ITV budget cuts), ditto Fully Booked in its much-revamped incarnations on the other side. But what set Mashed apart from them is that it was actually always broadcast live, and not pre-recorded, which always gave it that bit more spontaneity... a pretty vital quality for shows like these.
@@aftermath_96 Yes, I definitely agree with that - Saturday morning television was always at its best when it was live. And maybe it's just me, but Mashed seems to have a bit more heart than some of the more sterile low-budget magazine shows.
Mashed lasted for only two series, in the summers of 1997 (replacing WOW!) and 1998, just before the 'golden age' of SM:TV Live came along and basically said "Right, new millennium is coming let's stop pratting around and just a year-round Saturday Morning show" and it lasted for several years afterward. Who knew all CITV had to do was dedicate their time to just one format. Though having presenters for most of the time; Ant, Dec and Cat did help, I guess? :D As for Mashed, it was CITV's former preference of having a puppet and presenter host a magazine show on Saturday mornings format, pretty much. Oh, and Mickey says "Des" does not represent his company. :D
So where do you think Mashed ranks amongst the great Saturday morning shows? Looking at it now with so much time having passed, I'm struggling to work out why it isn't more fondly remembered. I mean, even if it's not overly special, there's nothing intrinsically bad about it. (Unless you only recorded the best bits, of course!)
@@VideotapeFTW I think this is all that there is, unless there may be one or two more that I can't remember. As for the show itself, probably below average, but at least it had a second series unlike Tricky or even Telegantic Megavision from 1996. The show which ran so short that they had to repeat Spatz at 10.30 or 11.00 before another show called something like The Edge I think? That was a kind of current affairs program aimed at teens, dealing with issues that concerned them, again, I think? I could be wrong. Then it was the Chart Show and everyone was normal once again. But yeah early 1996 on CITV was weird. :D
@@David315842 I wonder what the thinking was behind that. Maybe they decided they couldn't outdo Live and Kicking (and the BBC in general) at their own game so went through a spell of trying to compete in an entirely different way. Same goes for the Steve Ryde out-of-vision era of CITV.
@@VideotapeFTW The BBC did quite well with Live and Kicking lasting as long as it did. Though it did the same thing as other shows did, yet I guess the BBC didn't see any need to change up the flavour, essentially saying "it isn't broken so don't fix it", that's likely why they managed for so long. Speaking of in vision stuff you're right, the BBC always favoured presenters doing live broadcasts over in-vision stuff. You would think it was the other way around with ITV probably making slightly more money from adverts, but i guess the Beeb really wanted to show people that the TV License was being well spent. CITV had to change things up after a while and re-introduce presenters for their main broadcast, which did help to gain them more notice and stand toe to toe with the Beeb again on Weekday afternoons.
@@David315842 Yeah, I don't mind the Steve Ryde era of CITV, and there were some fantastic idents and promos made for it, but I still think it was an absolutely mad decision to do away with the in-vision presenters for so long. Different for the sake of being different. Like you say, Live and Kicking worked, so they kept doing it.
Would love to see more Diggit or GMTV Disney’s Roadhog amazing stuff
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Just want to add here that in the preview for the next day the episode of Pepper Ann seen here is "Uniform Uniformity"
A little summary for those who haven't seen it, Hazelnut Middle School is chosen to test out school uniforms and Pepper Ann is completely against it, that is until she finds out her mother is designing the uniforms.. But don't worry they don't wear uniforms after this episode. At the time the episode aired on One Saturday Morning on ABC in America, a lot of schools in my country were making the decision to have mandatory school uniforms and unfortunately some of these schools still have them.
Meanwhile I thought Cleopatra existed during the Danielle and Stephen era only.. It looks like towards the end of the out of vision era
Thanks for the extra detail! I think this comes around the time of Cleopatra's second single, but before their CITV show.
It's a great episode, it was written and airing at a time when America transitioned their schools to full blown uniforms, but thankfully this episode shows that school uniforms don't work in American schools. Especially in this episode when everyone is dressed like prep school students, it was both in its time and ahead of its time. It probably did not make sense to British viewers but this was a quintessential American cartoon, though come to think of it I'd love to see the broadcast of this episode, I loved it
@@QueenofVHS I haven't seen it, but yeah - school uniforms are absolutely ingrained in British culture, so that doesn't sound like it would really chime over here as much as it did over there.
@@VideotapeFTW Unfortunately in most American schools they have them
Even the public schools
Where I live we had them in elementary and middle but high school didn't have them. But in the metropolitan city near my home town which is in another part of the state they don't wear uniforms at all and that made me jealous
@@ryandawson8513 I don't have it.
Oh dear, it's Jailbird Des again....
I did have the very end of the final Mashed on video at one time (as I'd taped the final ITV Chart Show) but annoyingly it got taped over a few months later when I gave the tape to someone to record something from Sky One (before we had cable ourselves!) and they rewound the tape before recording it even though I told them not to... I did get another copy of that final Chart Show years later, but it doesn't have the Mashed bit on sadly! Or the trailer for SM:TV that followed it.
I actually watched a lot of SM:TV/CD:UK in that first year, when most other people didn't! I actually have fond memories of those early shows, even if few other people (including Ant & Dec themselves!) don't.
Oh, you'll get me started here... I _so_ wish recordings of all of these Saturday morning shows would be made available, one way or another. They're part of our cultural heritage, but nobody takes them seriously!
@@VideotapeFTW Oh, I could spend months of my life watching old Satruday morning shows!
I know Big Centre TV showed edited editions of Tiswas for a while when it began... though of course you could only get that if you lived in Birmingham (before Kaleidoscope quickly gave up and the archive content went, then got swallowed up by Made TV... like most local channels). And the Family Channel and very early days of Challenge TV did the same with Motormouth before the TVS archive fell into rights hell. I think that's the only time any have been repeated years later though. Not that either show is one I have any memory of- I wasn't born when Tiswas was on, and for some reason I have no memory of Motormouth even though I remember the 8:15 From Manchester, Parallel 9 and Going Live on CBBC from the same era, I guess I just never watched it.
I did have an edition of Live & Kicking from Jan 98 on video that I actually rewatched quite a lot... then I stupidly taped over it a couple of years later with something that ended up not being any good anyway, and I regretted it ever since. I also have the final 3 SM:TVs from 2003, not that the show was much to shout about by then.
There was someone I used to talk to who worked for the BBC who about 10 years ago ran off copies of old Going Lives to watch at home, I was jealous!
I remember hearing about those showings of Tiswas - it's a pity it was on such a small scale and didn't lead to anything greater. If anything, it's probably put everyone off from trying anything like that again. I also think the BBC missed a trick by not backing up their Friday night Top of the Pops repeats with the Saturday Superstore/Going Live/Live and Kicking from the same week. Even just highlights would have been nice.
Speaking of Motormouth, though, have you been keeping an eye on the new Made in Maidstone channel?
www.youtube.com/@Made-in-Maidstone
A few episodes of Motormouth on that, plus loads of its predecessor No 73. I suspect it's someone who used to work at TVS running that, and I'm absolutely loving it.
@@VideotapeFTW Yep, been following that channel! Good that someone's liberating the TVS archive considering it's in rights hell regarding any official repeats or releases. Would like to hope it puts to rest the myths about the TVS archive being "wiped" too- there's so much misinformation about that. That channel's been driving some of the main peddlers of conjecture and misinformation about missing TV shows nuts, as it's uploading master tapes of things they've spent years confidently assuring has been wiped!
I guess you can argue that Maidstone is the true home of ITV Saturday mornings, surely more of it came from there than anywhere else- No. 73, Motormouth, What's Up Doc, Telegantic Megavision, WoW and MoM/Saturday Showdown (and is it really 20 years since MoM began? Yeesh....). Even if there was a 7 year gap between WoW and MoM when they weren't, they still surely still top the list.
@@2001JamesTV I must admit, I believed most of those stories about the Motormouths and No 73s being gone forever, so this Made in Maidstone channel came as a real shock. A pleasant one, but a shock nonetheless. One thing we do know for certain is that a lot of the TVS paperwork disappeared, meaning that what was left of the archive wasn't catalogued properly, and that also contributed to the rights issues. It's such a mess, but at last it's being put right. Long may that continue, and here's hoping even more Saturday morning shows are liberated soon.
omg cleopatra
It's not Sara Cox, is it?
That crossed my mind, but I'm not sure how famous Sara was at this point. Was she still just an MTV presenter, or was she better known? This is before The Big Breakfast (according to Wikipedia).