Childrens ITV continuity and adverts - 26th June 1989 pt. 2

[TheRazorbladesmile]

Anybody else notice J Michael Strazynski's name here in the credits,creator of Babylon 5 and Spiderman Writer

[Applemask]

- Ah, the days when children's TV actually showed the credits of shows in full, instead of actively promoting a gnat's attention span. We shall not see their like again. Faintly weird in retrospect seeing JMS' name nestled in the credits.

- BUT MUMMY MUMMY THERE IS A. BUNNY. Never give the punchline to a child actor.

- A Kwik Save Mary Steenburgen in the Kwik Save advert.

- Johnny Ball was recently demoted to demigod for his water-carrying activities for the global warming flat-earther lobby.

[uhegbu]

The Milkybar advert looks older than 1989.

[tellywebtoons]

Wait, Frosted Wheats was called Toppas?

[JHollowayNetwork]

at the end of the Real Ghost busters closing credits they didn't show the Columbia Pictures Television 1982-92 logo, instead they slide into the CITV continuity.

[wayzotoichi]

There IS actually a bunny that drinks your Nesquik.

Don't buy Nesquik because it's a danger.

[qwertychips]

plz can u upload the new itv player advert

[shadowolf192]

There is still one page of soundtrack advertising at 0:25.

I guess it would be very difficult, to edit that out... Particularly with Children watching.

[wayzotoichi]

it wasn't that stringent then. they still have soundtrack advertising on films they show on television.

[rayquazalover]

The milky bar geek...

THE MILKY BARS ARE ON ME! NOW GET EM OF ME!

He never bought the milky bars.....

[shadowolf192]

Apparently, the Milky Bar kid, was lactose intollerant.

What a Dime Bar.

[rayquazalover]

lol......

[Plan9wood]

Two words never heard in American TV adverts "Yummy Scrummy" hhhahahahhah

[balin2k]

wow that mikybar kid gets around alot. 1st a cowboy then a indiana jones kinda of guy. wat next!

[xpack1]

CITV has always sucked. BBC was miles better in the eighties. I hate the way everything has to be all trendy

[sparspecker]

With the exception of a few shows, Chrildrens ITV really did suck arse.

[firekind1980]

the nesquick lady was in brookside

[roguekiller23231]

Thats all that i remember of ghost busters, i always used to get back from school just to catch that ending. lol

[feckingbillgates]

Toppas are now called Frosted Wheats and I bought some recently, only to find BEEF GELATINE is in the ingredients! Why do they need that?!

[wayzotoichi]

haha I remember Toppas too, what a segue from RGB, to beef gelatine !

[mononokehime316uk]

Does anyone out there reading this have the making of Ghostbusters 2 special shown on CITV around December 1989 to promote the film. I didn't tape it at the time ( I was 6 but still I liked taping stuff so I should have done really) . It had all the cast talking about both films and was really interesting. Its not on either films DVD anywhere in the world sadly either.

[mononokehime316uk]

I always wondered why the song repeated like that.

On the tapes released in the UK at the time they had the proper credits on with the DiC logo and Columbia TV logo with the Coca Cola company bit at the bottom.

[mistofoles]

Is it just me, or did the Milky Bar Kid always look like a minature John Denver?

[reedywomble97]

I watched the Real Ghostbusters religiously everyday it appeared on CITV, I taped some of the episodes but now I no longer have the tapes to upload the episodes. Except the ones I taped off Fox Kids/Jetix

[Wyraachur]

Yeah. i can see they removed the screen saying that the cartoon was released on RCA Columbia videotapes. and they held the last screen to cover up the DiC logo (And completly removed the Columbia TV logo). Interesting why they did that.

[reedywomble97]

Sometimes the network wouldn't always show the closing credits, CITV were notorious for editing programmes for time on their network

[Wyraachur]

i think i remember they used to do that when they aired Pokémon years ago.

[frankandmoritz]

Have you got any Jellyneck? I loved it and even got my Dad to take our video recorder on holiday so I could record the last one. Unfortunatly it was set up wrong and didn't record!!! I cried for two days.

[treffynnon19]

Central announcer Ted May voices the trails.

[riktimmy]

Is that Pippin the Dog (who has been in loads of tv shows and adverts) in the Kwik Save advert?

[MudSpider]

I am the boy in the Nesquik advert. Not seen it in years. No surprise that my acting career never really took off...

[fraserkatie]

Aww! I loved that advert with you in it! You were very sweet!

[fraserkatie]

That's to Mudspider by the way!

[mistofoles]

Mudspider,was that Glynis Barber playing the part of your mother?

[harshsmit]

no that isn't her.

[mrdiddlydonk]

The announcers probably can't announce when the program is next on these days because they're always messing about with TV schedules. In the comensation culture world we live in these days, people would probably put a claim in if it wasn't shown when they said it would be!! LOL!!

[FoxTechno]

At 1:05 when hes talking about next program, if you listen very carefully you can here a lady counting down the time to adverts.

[CryOfTheCelts2]

I'm sure that the woman in the Nesquik advert was Karen Drury who played the ill fated Susannah Farnham/Morrisey in Brookside!

[DJFairborne77]

You are correct, it is Karen Drury in the "Nesquik" advert. Also, the voice-over in the "Orangina" ad was done by Hugh Laurie.

[DJFairborne77]

The blonde woman in the "Kwik Save" advert is the actress & presenter, Maria McErlane, who is best known for being the voice-over/narrator on the Channel 4 series, "Eurotrash". She also co-presented the ITV late-night quiz show, "Carnal Knowledge", with the then unknown, Graham Norton in 1996.

[DJFairborne77]

Have you got the full episode of "Codzmorf"? If so, was it any good? I don't remember much about the 1989 series of "Dramarama", except for an episode called "Mitchin", which was made by then local region TSW & was filmed quite near to where I live in Cornwall!

[JayFirestorm]

I have about 10 minutes or so of it, until it hits the end of the tape. I was a bit young for 'Dramarama' when it was on. If you want I can upload as much of the episode as I have got sometime.

[DJFairborne77]

Shame your tape ended & you don't have the full episode of it, but if you could upload the 10 minutes or so that you have, then that would be great! I want to see what the 'big blue blob' looks like!

[col2006ie]

The voiceover on the "C.A.B." trailer is Ted May, a Central continuity announcer.

[RobinCarmody]

"C.A.B." was in fact made by Thames, but I suspect all Children's ITV trailers were made by Central regardless of which company had produced the programme concerned.

I was rather a big fan of "C.A.B." at the time, and even got a reply to my letter to Thames asking about the series which congratulated me, with fine exaggeration, on "watching all our programmes".

[JayFirestorm]

I think that's the case too. Central was repsonsible for the bulk of Children's ITV. The other regions 'sent in' their programmes and Central 'packeaged them', to put it in simple terms.

[DJFairborne77]

Great clips of classic CITV, keep them coming please!...

[JayFirestorm]

More on the way! =)

[soeffingwhat]

@JayFirestorm - WOW! Youtube is GREAT for this. Before you'd have to either rely on reading old Mags, Listen to Music form that time, or watch Reruns or Rent/Buy Vids made from that Time (or find an old Vid recorded from the TV then that you didn't touch in all those Years, I have 1 or 2 thankfully). Its easy to forget the Adds and just think of the Programmes but the Adds bring back as many Memories, defintely. One would wonder what some of those Actors and Kids are doing now. Thanks a million.

[CJ20]

I seem to remember 'Seasiders', mostly the star shapes.