ITV Schools on 4 junction - Stop Look Listen

[RobRobintv]

Great piece of Cont, with delightful piece of music.....

[mp888990]

Wow! What a tune! Brings back great memories of sitting outside the classroom on the floor waiting for the programme to come on. We all would sing along to the tune even though there weren't any words. Great, great TV.

Shame all the schools programmes have now finished on BBC and Channel 4. If Channel 4 ever thought of bringing back schools programmes, then this is what they should use. Very happy memories of being young again!

[feckingbillgates]

These always bring back that strange sense of anxiety I had at school.

[LIVERNIL723]

Same here - wish they'd put this sort this thing back on to educate the kids of today !!

[JamaicaUK]

I remember this when I was in primary school. Dear God take me back to the innocent times of my life!

[ceefaxfreak09]

That was the best ever set of schools idents, and was fresh and innovative (yeah, not words you'd link with ITV today, huh?).

Music was good as well. This from a fan of BBC Schools/Interval/Ceefax link tracks too!

It was something just to be there at 09:28 when the sequence started, and the couple of minutes around 11:57 when we had a short shot of this before programmes commenced on 4...

[rimmersgirl81]

ahh!!! this takes me back to my primary school days and going down to the tv room to watch schools programmes on either the bbc or itv schools on ch4!!! i just wish that more people would upload more bbc and itv schools on ch4 full length programmes so that people who grew up in the 80's and 90's can watch them and relive their childhood!!! does anyone know where abouts online i'll be able to watch full length 80's bbc and itv schools on ch4 progammes? as i have been dying to watch them!

[daveroker]

Ah the memories..you can't beat them can you.. These idents take me way back nearly 25 years ago when i was in junior school..Gone but not forgotten.

[atomicnortherner]

They must have spent a lot of time in the 80s to get the graphics that good! Looks like it could be used now!

[daveharries]

I have the full version of the music that goes with the spinning ITV logo because someone let me have it as an MP3. If you want it, give me a PM with your Hotmail address and I will pass it on. And, like others who have posted here, I can't stop listening to it either after more than 20 years. It is the one track that never gets taken off my MP3 player.

[huggy176]

great tue. im 41 now and if schools programmes were still on i'd watch them all over again. they were great

[Nicky2822]

This takes me back to my schooldays over 20 years ago when I was a child. We learned about health and safety and also we watched Middle English and when I was of school sick I used to watch it at home.

I like the chilled out music.

Those were the good old days. :)

[megamaximus07]

brings back memories of my innocent childhood. oh the great days of primary school and FUN HOUSE on a friday afternoon

[bradthelad7]

a cool ident & fantastic tune

[wonkar243]

reminds me of being off sick from school with a bowl beside my bed ahhhh the good old days id do them again any day

[gallafey]

anyone who was either off sick, off for half term or if the teachers went on strike would catch this although teacher would record th program so it could by the class

i miss those days but with all the documentry channels like Discovery or the History Channal, Channel 4 don't do the programs for schools & collages, even the BBC seem to have stopped doing them

[bradthelad7]

ur right there sandyx74 it looks cool, i wonder if its done in cgi

[fraserkatie]

@bradthelad7 It was! They did it all by computer effects which took the novelty out of me! I thought it was a rotating model as a child!

[Archon818]

4.38 is where it kicks in with the good one, its been stuck in my head for 20 years

[aikonmk]

@Archon818 I completely agree with you 100%!

[solcuerda]

The song played during the spinning ITV is by James Aldenham - The Journey. The last minute is called "just a minute" by James Aldenham.

The full version of "The Journey" 6:06 in total. :)

[megamaximus07]

i didnt see this itv thing that much only when i was off sick. ahh the good old 90's.

[lavverlylad]

Reminds me of being off sick from school.

[vodkamad]

@lavverlylad - me too!!!!!

[MattWindsor91]

I was born too late to ever see this at school, and instead I got the mid-90s C4 Schools ident, the one with the mildly scary beeping and static title card =(

[Delta10666]

That ITV schools music was LEGENDARY!

[BCJ1985]

I remember actually tuning into this in the mornings before I even began primary school and just sat in front of the TV by this spinning, shiny, coloured thing. The music's great - the bit I remember most is 3:47 onwards. Then of course when I joined primary school we all viewed this on many occasions.

[200919651]

same for me loved the music

[200919651]

same for me loved the music

[icewolf762]

You could always tell when a class was about to watch a schools program as you could hear the children hum allong to "Just A Minute"! Good times indeed. And yes, I was one of those kids! XD

[acesigma06]

yeah i agree i loved the, the titles where the best part of schools was not interested in the programmes, although i preferred the "just a minute" countdown to "the journey" although you cannot have 1 with out the other.

[ajam27]

I used to watch this just for the titles. The programme was secondary. Loved it when the titles changed colour and the lettering dispersed!! Wonderful. Good post!

[daveharries]

Some legend sent me the tunes as MP3s so I will forward them if you send me your email address via. PM.

[rotater77]

I agree that The Journey is a masterpiece and never mind the music that was in the charts at the time: this tune was the soundtack to my life (when I was at school). However I only caught it in full once: before an episode of Experiment (I think in either 90 or 91) one Thursday morning; only the intro was omitted. And those ITVs are still hypnotic even today...

[Waterwings1978]

Not just Chris Tarrant but I believe that Matthew Kelly also narrated Stop, Look, Listen as well.

[fraserkatie]

He did! Matthew Kelly did do the narration for Stop look listen, but I wish the youtube user atvcolourproduction would return as he had loads of episodes of Stop Look and Listen! How I miss them!

[lfc231914]

Yes fraserkatie, I remember when the user atvcolourproduction had loads of episodes of Stop Look Listen, before they were all removed. The earliest episode was from 1970! It was 'Rail'. There were loads of very good episodes to enjoy. How much we'd love to see 'em again.

As for the music and rotating ITV Schools block, and the clock, I remember them alright, used to be literally glued to the tele, waiting for the next programme. Loved the music. It was done by Brian Bennett. Great vid.

[madcapoperator]

Oh god what a blast to the past! Not that I ever watched this as it was broadcast, but it was always on a load of tapes at my primary school so I remember it vividly. Moreso than test card F in fact! (bear in mind im 18).

But the one I remember more was the one shown reguarly after this I presume. Usually with a still image of the next show with some strange ambient music. Good times =D

[Lucasimo]

theme music was often the best part. I remember in the 80s with the huge big tele too and I seem to remember the video player breaking down fairly often :)

[cambridgechris]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, you are mu God

[FriedEggsandChips]

I remember how boring this used to be. We had to watch this in the corridoor on a HUGE ugly T.V they wheeled into the coats area and make us watch the dullest documentaries. Waiting for this to be finally over was the worst bit. We had to sit as a class watching this in SILENCE for like 5 minutes. I was FIVE!!

[FriedEggsandChips]

Your channel seems to say 'This was given to me by a friend who can't get it up' - until I press More Info.

Thought I'd say! XD

[paistemike]

Happy days! I can still hear the room full of 30 7 year olds singing along to this! The Journey and Just a Minute themes were more exciting than the programmes!!!

[Tayla8995]

Happy days!! bought home so many memories, mainly those of having sick days off school and laying on the sofa! Loved this so much as a kid, bought a tear to my eye!

[hyperwhizzkid]

I like that rotating glassy looking ITV logo, looks quite modern even today.

[sandyx74]

it looks more modern than there itv idents today lol!!!!!

[RobinCarmody]

Presumably the same John Prowse who directed many BBC children's series, including my all-time favourite The Changes? What we see of this particular 'Talk, Write and Read' certainly resembles a BBC period drama from the 1970s ...

[Waterwings1978]

It's nice 2 see a fairly long interval from the ITV Schools on Channel 4 era as it is not very often I have seen one like it on You Tube.

[timonline2000]

I agree. I only remember seeing a rotomotion sequence of more than 6 minutes once, and that was in the academic year 1988-89 before the programme "Middle English". I can distinctly remember this because the "Journey" theme appeared to end, only to segue back to the beginning again.

[Hoddersrevenge]

The long version of the journey which i managed tog et off MHP Private APrts is 6 mins or thereabouts.

[timonline2000]

6 mins is the standard length of "The Journey", and the one that's available on various websites. I believe Brian Bennett did record a much longer version around 15 minutes long, but that recording has been lost. Either way, the extended version I remember hearing all those years ago could easily have been "edited/remixed" from the 6 min version with professional equipment.

[fraserkatie]

The full version is on sub TV!

[benriggers]

thanks for uploading this!