Get It Together was a long-running British children's Television series, produced by Granada Television for the UK ITV network between 1977 and 1981. The series followed an almost identical format to the earlier Lift Off with Ayshea, also created by series producer Muriel Young.
The series was presented by former 'straight man' to Basil Brush, Roy North, initially with Linda Fletcher and then later with Megg Nichol. Whereas 'Lift Off' had been originally designed to showcase viewer's pop music requests by guest artists, Get It Together relied more on the presenters and resident band and singers. Mike Moran was the show's musical director, leading the studio band on camera, with singers including Victy Silva and Kim Goody.
According to the BFI database, the first show was televised on 6 April 1977 and the last on 22 December 1981. It is possible that the first transmission was in fact earlier. One of the first guests on the series were that year's British representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest Lynsey de Pa
Criss Cross Quiz was a quiz programme that combined the game noughts and crosses with general knowledge questions and aired on the ITV network from 1957 to 1967. It was produced by Granada Television.
The programme was presented by Jeremy Hawk from 1957 to 1962 and Barbara Kelly from 1963 to 1967. The series was based on an American show entitled Tic Tac Dough which ran from 1956 to 1959 and was revived in 1978.
Additionally, a children's version of the show called Junior Criss Cross Quiz was produced starting in 1957. Kids played the game, but for prizes instead of money. This series ran from 13 November 1957 to 29 June 1967. Presenters on the children's version were: Jeremy Hawk, Chris Kelly, Bob Holness, Mike Sarne, Chris Howland, Gordon Luck, Peter Wheeler, Bill Grundy, Danny Blanchflower and Barbara Kelly.
Orm and Cheep is a 1980s British children's television series that was aimed at the younger viewers of CITV. It used puppets as the main characters and was narrated by Richard Briers. The show was created by Tony Martin, the puppets created by Mary Edwards. There were a total of 26 episodes, which spanned between the years of 1983–1985, each episode consisting of eleven minutes.
Daybreak Northern Ireland was the regional news strand for Northern Ireland provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast.
Unlike the ITV plc-owned regions, UTV - the ITV contractor for Northern Ireland - did not provide regional news broadcasts during Daybreak. This was due to a dispute between UTV and GMTV which dates back to 1994 when UTV opted out of the national breakfast contractor in breach of their broadcasting licence to provide live coverage of the breaking news of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire.
GMTV Northern Ireland was rebranded as Daybreak Northern Ireland in September 2010, when GMTV was replaced by new breakfast programme, Daybreak. Regional bulletins aired three times each weekday, and included a look at the days main headlines, a travel news update, and a weather forecast.
My Husband and I was a short-lived black-and-white British sitcom starring Evelyn Laye and her husband Frank Lawton, who played themselves. It ran for seven episodes in 1956. My Husband and I was written by Geoffrey Kerr and James Leasor. It was made for the ITV network by Associated-Rediffusion.
Arrows was a pop television series aimed at the teen market, which aired in 1976 and 1977 in the UK. The show was produced by British TV legend Muriel Young, and ran for two full 14 week series on the ITV network, produced by Granada Television. The Arrows show format was that the band would perform their own songs, and they would introduce the guest artists. There was also a pop dance troupe called Him and Us who were regulars on the series. The Arrows were Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker and Paul Varley. Guests on the Arrows show included such artists as Marc Bolan, The Bay City Rollers, The Drifters, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Peter Noone, Alvin Stardust, Gene Pitney, Slade, Pilot, Billy J. Kramer, The Real Thing, and many more.
From tea-cup Chihuahuas to miniature pigs the demand for mini-pets is growing but is it a lucrative business or a cruel genetic mutation? This documentary goes behind the scenes of what is fast becoming a multi-million pound industry. Candid interviews with breeders and owners reveal the extent of the demand which now extends to supplying tiny cows, pigs, rabbits, horses and even goats. Probing and insightful, Super Tiny Animals is a compelling look in to a world of incessant human intervention.
In a remote part of the Welsh countryside in the late 1980s, Gwyn and his family remain haunted by the disappearance of his sister, Bethan, in a snow storm five years before. On his ninth birthday, Gwyn's eccentric grandmother, Nain, gives him five unusual gifts - sparking off an adventure when she declares 'Time to find out if you're a magician!'
The Dales is a British television programme hosted by Ade Edmondson. The series follows Ade as he explores the Yorkshire Dales, getting to know the area and meeting the residents.
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.
Rescue Robots is a British game show, produced by Mentorn and shown on ITV in 2003, presented by Anna Williamson. One series of 15 episodes was produced however only 7 episodes were aired.
The show was based on an original idea of Adam Clark, creator of the robot 259 which featured on Robot Wars.
The set was one of the biggest sets ever built for a children's show, which included urban and industrial landscapes, countryside, lakes and rivers.
Each episode featured teams of four children using three robots best suited for the challenge. The teams had to battle against the clock in a mission to save a town called Calamity City from a disaster such as nuclear meltdown, or environmental catastrophe. They tasks required a balance of problem-solving skills, driving skills and technical ability.
The Sky's the Limit was a United Kingdom game show first broadcast on 10 July 1970, being a travel-themed version of Double Your Money. The contestants had to answer questions based on their specialist subject, with every set of answers increasing their prize fund. In the first round, contestants answered questions increasing in value from £1 up to £100. They then had to answer a special question to qualify for the further rounds.
Further rounds involved contestants being seated in a 'soundproof box'. After the first round questions contained subsequently more parts, so that on the final round the question was a five-part question - all parts had to be answered correctly in each round. The top prize was 21,000 miles of travel and £600 spending money. The show was hosted by Hughie Green and co-hosted by Monica Rose, Audrey Graham and Katya Wyeth
The Director was Royston Mayoh and the producer Peter Holmans
Bostock's Cup was a one-off British television comedy drama about a football team which appeared on ITV on the eve of the 1999 European Cup final. It was written by Chris England, directed by Marcus Mortimer and produced by Mark Robson. It starred Tim Healy as the club's manager, Neil Pearson as a veteran sportscaster, and Nick Hancock as his upstart rival. The film featured innovative use of old footage of seventies football matches to recreate the era. It was aired on 25 May 1999.
ITV News West Country is a regional news service covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, produced by ITV West Country.
Rescue was a 13-part documentary series created and directed by Cameraman Paul Berriff. It focused on the air-sea rescue work of "Rescue 137", a Sea King belonging to 202 Sqn, Royal Air Force in and around their base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland and the North Sea over a period of a year between 1988 -1989.
The series covered a multitude of incidents ranging from ferrying a sick child to hospital right up to the world's worst offshore disasters, the explosion and ensuing fire on the Piper Alpha oil platform.
STV has upload all the episodes, with the exception of "Piper Alpha" to the STV Player YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/show/rescue
Nellie the Elephant is a cartoon series created by Terry Ward on behalf of FilmFair in the United Kingdom that ran between 1989 and 1990. The series featured Lulu as the voice of Nellie, with Tony Robinson as narrator. A comic-book annual was released in 1991 in an attempt to further advertise the series, but the annual failed to attract a wide audience.