Wow! Network 7! Janet Street Porter pioneered "Youth TV" in the UK that really gave young people something worthwhile to watch instead of Wide Awake Club, Saturday Superstore and Blue Peter. This programme was brilliant and so ahead of its time. Back in 87 they were showing how easily ATM cards can be cloned and abused. This was from when C4 was a real cutting edge broadcaster that wasn't afraid to take risks and annoy the establishment.
Absolutely required viewing for this 18-19 year old in 1987-88
Some random memories
1. Proto-reality show "Castaway" featuring a hot and bothered Annabel Croft with some twat with an agent trying to be a celeb because he'd shared a cell with one of the Krays.
2. A segment featuring a female journalist who - I suspected - was on the show because she was black with an African name. She then totally fluffed a live I/V with stunt rider Eddie Kidd.
3. A whole Summer '88 show devoted to the acid house phenomenon - I read the NME weekly but I learnt stuff off this show.
4. A cripplingly unfunny semi-cartoon called Brute! Adventures of Sizzler which replaced Dick Spanner for the '88 series and was -eventually itself replaced by something called "The Grand Poseur" which was juts plain weird.
5. Going to college three weeks before the end of the '88 series and getting a large number of my hall watching the show.
More Network7 please. I worked as a runner at Limehouse Studios in 1988 and looked after the Network 7 production crew on series 2. Fond memories of buying £500 of takeaways every Sat evening from Brick Lane. (they would edit the inserts for the live show on the Sunday) When the series finished I had to help clear out the studio, that was a job and a half. I later worked on a spin off show called Seven Sport, we covered skateboarding from Wigan Pier.
Thanks for uploading this. I used to love this programme. It used be be broiadcast on Sundays between 11am - 1pm as I recall (which allowed enough time to watch the programme then slip out to the pub before closing time !)
Never knew it was on so early. I thought 1990. I remember they did an interview with New Order, in the Manchester rain. Presenter, wore done-up shirts wth no tie - very bad.
I would love to see more clips on Network 7 on YouTube. This show was truly groundbreaking. It was a shame none were repeated on More4 for the Channel 4 25 year anniversary.
I wonder if you could post the Network 7 programme about 'coming out'. A friend of mine was on that episode and I came onto youtube looking for it - so was amazed to read your posting.
I was also on that episode 'coming out' been looking for it for years, pls post it. Had a great mornin at the studios, even my hangova didn't dampen the fun :)
This brought back memories! Network 7 was brill for a Sunday morning! yeah it was the 80's and trendy tv was in, just like that one show 4 aired with the computer interviewing guests in a video box situation wot was it called!
you're all wrong! network 7 was brilliant. I loved it when I was 18, bet if there was more of it on youtube you'd see how it shaped tee-vee twenty years later.
I don't believe the titles were done on an Amiga (perhaps part of them were, but not the whole lot). It's not a bad prediction of TV to-day, maybe a bit too Max Headroomish. But just looking at this one clip: island cast-aways before reality TV was... well a reality. Plus information captions at the bottom of the screen (like to-day's Newsround). "Next" captions right at the top of the screen... just like all the channels now!
Does anyone know what the theme tune was for Network 7? I used to have it on 12", and know it was Steve Osborne and Paul Oakenfold who mixed it, around 1987; any ideas?
Yes blimey I agree. One show I have is about 'coming out' and is quite exploitative. In it they have people coming out live on air to friends unexpectedly. One guy is clearly upset to have been misled about the subject of the show and been put in that situation on live TV.
No way, it wasnt crap, it won a BAFTA award. It was essetial viewing Sundays and everyone was talking about it at school Mondays. Bitterly disappointed when they axed it and replaced it with... nothing.
Club X... did that have the 10 min...erm VLS bits... oooh whats it...Bygones! Hurray! - Yeah i loved it just to use my girlfriends red-led's jvc video recorder the size of a suitcase for that
Wow! Network 7! Janet Street Porter pioneered "Youth TV" in the UK that really gave young people something worthwhile to watch instead of Wide Awake Club, Saturday Superstore and Blue Peter. This programme was brilliant and so ahead of its time. Back in 87 they were showing how easily ATM cards can be cloned and abused. This was from when C4 was a real cutting edge broadcaster that wasn't afraid to take risks and annoy the establishment.
JayArgonaut 3 weeks ago
Such a brilliant series!
sevenyearsago 8 months ago
this show was shit, all lipstick and ray-bans look at me i take heroin arnt i cool.snub tv was a 1000 times better.
thelandingsmusic 1 year ago
Absolutely required viewing for this 18-19 year old in 1987-88
Some random memories
1. Proto-reality show "Castaway" featuring a hot and bothered Annabel Croft with some twat with an agent trying to be a celeb because he'd shared a cell with one of the Krays.
2. A segment featuring a female journalist who - I suspected - was on the show because she was black with an African name. She then totally fluffed a live I/V with stunt rider Eddie Kidd.
simonvaddan 1 year ago
3. A whole Summer '88 show devoted to the acid house phenomenon - I read the NME weekly but I learnt stuff off this show.
4. A cripplingly unfunny semi-cartoon called Brute! Adventures of Sizzler which replaced Dick Spanner for the '88 series and was -eventually itself replaced by something called "The Grand Poseur" which was juts plain weird.
5. Going to college three weeks before the end of the '88 series and getting a large number of my hall watching the show.
simonvaddan 1 year ago
i was one of the twins coming down the stairs in dungeries ,well it was the 80's
cornholio1962 1 year ago
My morris minor was used in a series 2 show, it was a clip about recently changed pub opening times. Does anyone have a copy
grantbennett2 1 year ago
More Network7 please. I worked as a runner at Limehouse Studios in 1988 and looked after the Network 7 production crew on series 2. Fond memories of buying £500 of takeaways every Sat evening from Brick Lane. (they would edit the inserts for the live show on the Sunday) When the series finished I had to help clear out the studio, that was a job and a half. I later worked on a spin off show called Seven Sport, we covered skateboarding from Wigan Pier.
grantbennett2 1 year ago 2
@grantbennett2 did you ever meet the great Janet street-Porter - is she as rude and arrogant as everyone says she is?
revol148 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this. I used to love this programme. It used be be broiadcast on Sundays between 11am - 1pm as I recall (which allowed enough time to watch the programme then slip out to the pub before closing time !)
drpoxy 1 year ago
Never knew it was on so early. I thought 1990. I remember they did an interview with New Order, in the Manchester rain. Presenter, wore done-up shirts wth no tie - very bad.
transonicbuoy1 1 year ago
Wasnt this yooth TV
Still brings back fond memories even though it was a lifetime ago....
jacksiin 2 years ago
network 7 going back some time over year 21
finerhope231 2 years ago
What about MAGENTA the N7 reporter who never took off her Raybans, whatever happened to her?
poetlorryit 2 years ago 2
I would love to see more clips on Network 7 on YouTube. This show was truly groundbreaking. It was a shame none were repeated on More4 for the Channel 4 25 year anniversary.
MBHD153 2 years ago 2
I have 17 recordings will look through it all and see what there is.
doubledeckers 2 years ago
@doubledeckers
I wonder if you could post the Network 7 programme about 'coming out'. A friend of mine was on that episode and I came onto youtube looking for it - so was amazed to read your posting.
Anyway, here's hoping!
choclate275 1 year ago
donnamono :
I was also on that episode 'coming out' been looking for it for years, pls post it. Had a great mornin at the studios, even my hangova didn't dampen the fun :)
donnamono 1 year ago
Im sure that Dick Spanner was shown on here.
mononokehime316uk 2 years ago
He was - I remember a bit with him shooting out of a rooftop in an elevator by pressing the top button too hard..? So stupid.
luqas99 2 years ago
The original broadcast date of this clip was 12th June 1988 (though in the intro the announcer mentions that this is clip a repeat).
Agree about the titles - some elements look Amiga-ish, but something else was used to put the animation of those elements together.
More Network 7 pleeeeease. Pls contact me if you have any to swap.
StillbornChrist 3 years ago
fooking freaks of nature!! ha the fecking monitor was on so we could see the others symbols cracking f up ch 4 yes i was one of the twins !!
cornholio1962 3 years ago
This brought back memories! Network 7 was brill for a Sunday morning! yeah it was the 80's and trendy tv was in, just like that one show 4 aired with the computer interviewing guests in a video box situation wot was it called!
limeyosu 3 years ago
That show was called Starquest
draven26 3 years ago
Star Test.
As parodied by French and Saunders
Ulleskelf 3 years ago
Network 7 was fave TV show when I was 14. :-)
Debagio 3 years ago
and of coures the person behind it was Janet Street-Porter "and it was the first of my YOOF programmes"
Malcos68 3 years ago
you're all wrong! network 7 was brilliant. I loved it when I was 18, bet if there was more of it on youtube you'd see how it shaped tee-vee twenty years later.
17ntoirgweirt34 3 years ago
I don't believe the titles were done on an Amiga (perhaps part of them were, but not the whole lot). It's not a bad prediction of TV to-day, maybe a bit too Max Headroomish. But just looking at this one clip: island cast-aways before reality TV was... well a reality. Plus information captions at the bottom of the screen (like to-day's Newsround). "Next" captions right at the top of the screen... just like all the channels now!
filmnet 3 years ago
This show probably encapsulated some of the naff things about the 1980's. Mike S.
hugalove 4 years ago
i was one of twins aged 26 in dodgy dungeries
cornholio1962 4 years ago
Does anyone know what the theme tune was for Network 7? I used to have it on 12", and know it was Steve Osborne and Paul Oakenfold who mixed it, around 1987; any ideas?
weepilchard2 4 years ago
They weren't wrong with the 'tomorrows TV today'. Janet Street Porter, you have a lot to answer for.
emalyse 4 years ago
Yes blimey I agree. One show I have is about 'coming out' and is quite exploitative. In it they have people coming out live on air to friends unexpectedly. One guy is clearly upset to have been misled about the subject of the show and been put in that situation on live TV.
doubledeckers 4 years ago
Love the titles, but that show really was pretty crap.
blimey2 4 years ago
No way, it wasnt crap, it won a BAFTA award. It was essetial viewing Sundays and everyone was talking about it at school Mondays. Bitterly disappointed when they axed it and replaced it with... nothing.
poetlorryit 3 years ago 2
i think they replaced it with club x
rainxxxx 3 years ago
doubledeckers - THANKS for this - what a sequence - what a show opening!
dirtynegative 4 years ago
Oh, genuine 80s C4 programming, - the worst at it's best. Now if only I could find some Club X on here....
IPrimus 4 years ago
Club X... did that have the 10 min...erm VLS bits... oooh whats it...Bygones! Hurray! - Yeah i loved it just to use my girlfriends red-led's jvc video recorder the size of a suitcase for that
b6gm6n 4 years ago