Blips is a British children's television series from Ragdoll Productions, which first aired on CITV in 2004 and returned for a second series in 2005. It starred Robin Stevens as Mr. Perfect and Patricia Routledge as the narrator. The 26 episodes were written by Alan Dapre & Robin Stevens. Since 2006, the show has been often repeated on the CITV channel. The Blips are animated characters in a live-action setting.
Music by Paddy Kingsland
Beryl's Lot is a British comedy drama about a woman approaching middle-age and embarking on a programme of personal development. It was written by Kevin Laffan, produced by David Cunliffe and Peter Willes, and directed by Derek Bennett and David Reynolds for Yorkshire Television and broadcast on ITV between 1973 and 1977. Beryl's Lot ran for 3 series and 52 episodes in total before its cancellation. The first two series each consisted of 13 one hour-long episodes, the third series of 26 episodes of 30 minutes.
Farrington of the F.O. is a British television comedy series by Dick Sharples about the staff of the British Consulate in "one of the armpits of Latin America". It was produced by Yorkshire Television and broadcast from 1986 to 1987. Its second, and final, series was simply called Farrington.
WOW! was a children's entertainment magazine programme, broadcast in 1996 on the UK's ITV television network. It aired for 16 weeks from 31 August to 14 December 1996, preceded by the Summer 1996 run of Scratchy & Co. and followed by the spring 1997 run of the same show.
The presenters of WOW! were Simeon Courtie and Sophie Aldred. The programme was broadcast from The Maidstone Studios in Kent, also home over the years to shows such as No. 73, Motormouth, and Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown. The programme was produced by The Media Merchants for ITV.
The show was a live, anarchic, entertainment magazine similar to Tiswas or Motormouth. It featured imported cartoons, guest interviews and music performances, games and competitions, and comedy. Comic characters featured within the show included the 'Tea Ladies' - played by male actors Peter Cocks and Woody Taylor - supposedly 'interrupting' the show to provide banter and bicker with the guests; and Syd the Spider, a puppet arachnid voiced by Phil Cornwell.
The Wall Game was a 1985 children's television game show produced by Thames Television for ITV. The show was based on the idea of a theatre workshop and would see two groups of contestants building sets from pieces of a giant wall, then improvise a play. The programme was presented by Helen Bennett and also starred Hal Lehrman, Anthony Johns, Sinitta, Deborah Goodman, and John Ramm. The series was chosen to represent Britain at the 1985 Tokyo World's Fair.
Capstick's Law is a British television drama series that originally aired in 1989. Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, it centered around a firm of solicitors in the 1950s.
Whatever it Takes is a 2009 British television drama film directed by Andy Hay and starring Shane Ritchie, Amy Beth Hayes, Eva Alexander, Gary Lucy and Ron Cook. Ritchie plays a publicist observing and interacting on the story of Daisy Cockram, a police officer catapulted to fame after she is arrested for public indecency with a footballer in the back of a car and who becomes a national celebrity, which is soon shown to have many pitfalls. The moral of the story being "be careful what you wish for". It was first aired on ITV & UTV on Sunday 26 July 2009.
Got Talent is a talent show television format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCOtv company. A pilot show was made in Britain, hosted by Paul O'Grady, but after O'Grady's split with ITV, the series was postponed, resulting in America's Got Talent – the first full series of the format. It has spawned spin-offs in over 50 countries, in what is now referred to as the Got Talent format, similar to that described by FremantleMedia of the Idol format.
Hey Hey it's Saturday was a British children's Saturday morning television series that aired on the breakfast television channel TV-am. It was produced by Clear Idea Productions.
Based on the Australian Saturday morning/night television series of the same name, the series ran from July 1990 until September 1991 when it was replaced by TV Mayhem. It was a replacement for WAC '90, which was previously known as the Wide Awake Club.
The series was presented alternately by Tommy Boyd, Mike Brosnan and Michaela Strachan.
The series includes several animated and live-action programmes such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Captain N: The Game Master, Maxie's World, Top Banana, Dink, the Little Dinosaur, Animals in Action, The New Archies, Super Mario Bros, Captain Planet and the Planeteers and the live-action comedy series The Charmings.
Bygones is an Anglia Television documentary series exploring East Anglian history and traditional rural crafts first aired in 1967. The series, and in particular the regular Bygones Specials featured many interviews with people who used to do traditional work now lost to history and investigation and preservation of surviving East Anglian culture.
Bygones was presented by Dick Joice from 1967 until his retirement in 1987 when the film historian John Huntley took over. It was made by the Norwich-based television company Anglia for the ITV network. The series was discontinued in 1989, but briefly brought back by Anglia TV in 2007 following an overwhelming vote from viewers on a programme they wanted reinstated.
It features mystery objects where the audience are asked to write in and guess what the implement's original function was. Dick Joice's collection of objects which featured in Bygones has been on display at Holkham Hall, Norfolk since 1979, in what was once the stables.
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Ripley and Scuff is a children's programme that was produced for ITV's children's strand CITV and originally aired from 7 January 2002 to 28 February 2003. The show is a spin off to the highly successful Roger and the Rottentrolls.
Cor, Blimey! is a 2000 TV film that follows the relationship between Carry On film actors Sid James and Barbara Windsor.
The film, first broadcast on ITV in April 2000, was adapted by Terry Johnson from his stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick which debuted at the Royal National Theatre in 1998.
Wacaday was a children's television series in the United Kingdom that ran in TV-am's school-holidays slot from October 1985 until 1992, in an 8:50-9:25 a.m. slot, and was hosted by Timmy Mallett.