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  • brilliant footage of CITV from 1991 :)

  • I like Huxley Pig and DuckTales. And Also Thomas the Tank Engine.

  • I remember when I use to come home from school everyday to enjoy all the shows on CITV, they were so good back then^^ even those I couldn't stand at the time seem good to today's shows. that was the life, I long for my past:D

  • the 90s was a pretty good generation to be a young pre teen or young teen kid. Alot has changed in the past 20 years. THey don't really have alot of kids cartoons these days and now everybody has digital tv which not everybody had then.

  • @1982FMJ

    Yes. Sky was relatively new and only about 1 in every 100 homes then. It wasn't until the mid-late 90s Satellite and Cable began really luring the audiences away from Terrestrial.

    The early 90s were a great time to be a Primary School aged Kid.

  • The date for these links is Thursday 18th July 1991.

  • plaese 21hammadmossop plaese upload some more citv stuff you tube is the home of citv and that why i love your account

  • upload tots tv episodes!

  • The CITV intro at the start looks like it was designed by someone on LSD

  • @Markjuk  LOL. I see what you mean by that. What happened in 1989 is most of the ITV franchises had a genric (same designed) ident. The same was for Childrens ITV until it got replaced by a blue box, yellow circle and a large red C. After which IVC - Invision contanuity was dropped in favor for pre-recorded contanuity.

    I still often wionder if ITV (Granada and Carlton) ever planned a 'hearts' ident of CITV although not as bad as the LSD version.

  • I have notcied in the opening there is a logo that looks like the world in action logo

  • i thought so too

  • This must be from summer 1991? As he asks Pat whether he's booked a holiday this year.

  • The Fun House ep was 1990

  • Yes, it was from 1990, as I think they repeated the 1990 series in mid-1991 & the actual 1991 series was on later in the year.

  • Do you have any full Fun house Episodes?

  • Sadly, I don't have any full episodes of Fun House.

  • However, Challenge (a UK digital channel) showed one of the later series (the '98 one I think) earlier this year, so hopefully they'll repeat that soon or show one of the earlier series, which would be good to see now.

  • You are in luck! They are reapeating Fun House every weekend moring from 8am as double bills as from this weekend (9am for Challenge +1)

  • Hi Jaradoref, cheers for letting me know about this, I will make sure I watch it! Good old Challenge, they showed the whole 8 series of ''Knightmare'' a few years back too, it's one of my favourite Sky/Virgin channels.

  • @DJFairborne77 I am hoping thatthey will acquire the earlier series of Fun House soon.

  • When was the last Children's ITV which had IVC.

  • @pistak09 Have a look at the Children's ITV page on Wikipedia for lots of info about it's presenters & IVC over the years.

  • RIP Pat Sharp's Mullet

  • best episode of Scooby Doo ever

  • Holy Shit - Pat Sharps hair is quality!

  • Now this is the era of CITV I remember. Tommy Boyd was a legend on this, comparing well with Philip Schofield on CBBC. Look at that tabletop and shelving filled with stuff! Listen to his gentle voice! Brilliant. DVDs packed with CBBC and CITV continuity from 1984-1992 would sell so well.

  • Hi DJFairborne77 I have uploaded The Riddlers episode from 1995 but I am going to upload the rest in another few days

  • Good morning to you, Hammadmossop1988. Thankyou for letting me know about the 1995 episode of ''The Riddlers'', I am looking forward to seeing it. You are a big Riddlers fan, I think you must be the person who knows about the show the best, which is good. Have a good weekend...

  • Hi DJ Fairborne 77 all your CITV clips are great I can see how they still work perfectly suprising enough even the 1989 and 1990 and 1991 video clips which are very old

  • Why has this video got poor quality in some places

  • Hi Hammadmossop1988, this video is a bit poor quality in places, as it's an 18-year old videotape, so sadly it's detiorated a bit over the years - but at least it's still watchable! Glad you've been enjoying the videos btw!...

  • Anyway DJFairborne 77 what happened to your video cassette with Jerry and Scally it would have been grand to have seen that on you tube

  • Hi again Hammadmossop1988. All my Jerry & Scally footage has already been uploaded onto here, so check them out in my videos list. All of it was on a Scotch tape, which is 20 years old now! Their "lifetime guarantee" has lasted 20 years, so that's pretty good going by anyone's standards!...

  • Thats very true even I have a few recorded Scotch tapes with a lifetime guarantee certificatet and the recordings are great considering its age

  • I had some Betamax tapes from Scotch with their lifetime guarantee!!! They still prove that Betamax was always better than VHS!!!

  • Thank you very much for uploading this DJ Fairborne 77 it is the best 1991 video clip ever thanks

  • Pat Sharp still has long hair from the 70s like a mullet on there but this is great DJ Fairborne thanks for uploading this it is the best including Fun House opening and closing titles and the bit where Pat Sharp and Tommy Boyd eats the Ice Creams these where the days also the bit where Pat Sharp puts the masking tape over Tommys mouth and where Tommy cuts Pats hair

  • Actually the Mullet was an 80s style. It's a different style of long hair from the 70s-style long hair.

  • Oh my word the old CITV This brings back child hood memories and OMG Pat Sharpe with his Mullet hehe.... I liked Fun House but they never came to my school

    :(

    Oh well

  • The next CITV era, with the off-screen presenter was better imho!

  • i was a cbbc man myself!

  • Wow thank you so much for uploading this DJFairbourne77 I think old 1991 Childrens ITV is great better than the ones we have now also have you got any episodes of The Riddlers or Gigglish Allsorts episodes such as the one where they sing some folks they like crossonts some like to dunk them in there coffee

  • Hi Hammadmossop1988, glad you've been enjoying all my CITV videos. Sadly, I don't have anymore footage left now, or any episodes of "The Riddlers" & "Allsorts" either. CITV was great back in these days, far better than what the kids of today have!...

  • DJFairborne I am going to leave very nice comments on all your CITV videos since I really like them all you done a very good job uploading these great clips including this old one from 1991 and also the CITV from 17/12/93 I would miss these if you took them off you tube

  • I cannot beleive that Tommy actually CUTTED Pat Sharps Trademark! Known as his HAIR!!!!!

  • Completely not as good as the Broom Cupboard. Funhouse was great!

  • CITV in the Steve Ryde era was even better than the BC!

  • I think they were about equal but with better cartoons... Duck tales & Ghostbusters gave ITV an advantage. ps. I just corrected duck tales I'd written 'suck tales'..lol.

  • citv was/is my fav but cbbc had tmnt or tmht and thunder cats. those 2 got me switching over... fun house rule, i'm 28 but if i had the chance i would run, jump and slide around the fun house all day... lol...

  • No it wasn't. CITV have never been able to do better than CBBC at any point, and the whole Steve Ryde era was just dire. I didn't watch a massive amount of CITV during that time largely because I disliked the out-of-vision style.

  • Well that's entirely why I preferred CITV, it was more downmarket and I don't like the idea of on-screen presenters AT ALL!

    Presenters are in programmes - announcers are between programmes!

  • I agree that the Steve Ryde-era of "CITV" was a load of crap, but I just don't agree that they never beat "CBBC", as I much preferred the Stonewall Productions-era to Andi Peters!

  • What was the name of that episode of Duck Tales

  • Tommy says at 2:57 that the episode is called "Yuppie Ducks".

  • Did you record the episode Yuppie Ducks DJ Fairborne 77 I really wanted to see that episode I have not seen it before

  • Hi Hammadmossop1988, sadly I haven't got any episodes of "Duck Tales", only the brief bits in my videos on here. I would like to see "Yuppie Ducks" too!

  • Pat Sharp is acting and soundng like David Brent does around Finchy

  • CITV have there own channel now anyway, the CITV Channel.

  • but its not the same. I would think of it as CITV only in name.

  • Yeah I argree.

  • It's just not the 90s legendary channel CITV. It's just the generic unoriginal trollop CITV of the 21st century.

  • The bloke that was introducing the programmes was he on come dine with me?

  • OMG I used to love Fun House <3333

  • there's a full episode on here!

    and I went on an episode in 2000!

  • In Autemn 1996, Children's ITV Changed To

    CITV. It runs From 3:30 pm To 5:00 pm. But

    Children watches CITV EVERY Afternoon Here

    On ITV And It's Channel 3.

  • shirley, the times of CITV varied from year to year. in 1983 when CITV started it was running from 4-5:10. In the 1990s till early 2000s, it was running from 3:30-5:40pm.

  • Why don't ITV as well let an independant company run CITV? like that one did when they won the contract off Central!! I mean ITV can't be assed about Children's TV format so it's pretty pointless at it being at Granada's studio don't you think and ITV could probably start making profits out of Kids TV if they are classed as a "mainstream" broadcaster don't you think?

  • well:

    a) Central television practically don't exist anymore

    b) blame the government for banning junk food ads. That's where the money was to be made in CITV

    c) It would be pointless in a few years as everyone will have digital TV.

  • @MackMacProductions When Children's ITV first introduced it used to be at the ATV Centre in Broad Street, Birmingham from 1983 until 1997 when they moved to Gas Street, Birmingham in '97.

  • the music at 1:55 is a rip off of the background music of level one in the game "batman the movie"

  • For which system?

  • i cant remember which one. actually i think that short part i meant is too short to be a copy sorry

  • i remember when Pat sharp first cut that mullet off! Also, Tommy Boyd rocked!! he was my favourite tv presenter in the 80's - he ruled The wide awake club!!!!!

  • cool

  • ahhhh they were the days! i miss them!

  • Tommy Boyd, subtley owned Pat Sharpe there...

    Tommy is a fucking God...

    The man is superb...

  • oiuye

  • pat sharps hair is positivly magnificent!! what a mane!

  • I'm opening a petition on the PM's website to both allow ITV franchise licences to be revoked and to have ITV divided into different regions once more. I'll tell you the address when the petition is approved, which usually takes about a week.

  • well that won't happen again because the regions have gone. Their old studios have closed down and been sold off.

    ITV just doesn't have the money anymore to operate a thriving network of regional stations like they did about 20/30 years ago.

    THE DAYS OF REGIONAL ITV ARE OVER AND DONE WITH AND WITH THE ADVENT OF SATELLITE AND CABLE I DOUBT THAT THOSE GLORY DAYS WILL EVER RETURN.

  • MULLET!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Talk about the good ole days. Good God I wanna go back!

  • I could not agree more.

  • Glad You Cut Sccoby Off.

    I HATE SCOOBY.

  • FUN HOUSE = QUALITY CHILDREN'S TV.

  • Pat Sharp on funhouse was quality, nowadays he does the DJ spot on Q103(Cambridge)radio in the weekday afternoons

  • oh my.....lol. just...lol.

  • Oh Well Never Mind Do You Have Any Allsorts Episodes At All

  • I've noticed at the start of this video it shows the old CITV logo and then after Tommy shows the black screen and then the logo changes, was this the show when they changed the CITV logo?

  • stewartlee, as part of their contract, Central (who produced Children's ITV) would have to show the 'generic' ident at least once per day, but they had their own ident for going into breaks etc. Hope this helps.

  • at this point, CITV was produced by an independent company but using Central's facilities in Birmingham. So this independent company decided to use in-vision continuity with their own CITV logo, but they were told that Central had to broadcast the CITV logo than incorporated the normal ITV logo. Central won the full contract back in 1993, they decided to dipose of in-vision continuity, have computer-generated imagery for continuity and dispose of the generic ident as described above.

  • Between 1991 and 1993 they used a mix. The old CITV logo was used to introduce and end CITV's afternoons whereas the newer "Citv" logo was used between programmes.

  • It looks like a TV set behind him is a Bang and Oulfsen BeoVision MX 5500

  • It IS a TV set, never mind looks like one. We used to have one very similar to that but it was one that had its own motor inside the stand that meant you could turn it simply by pressing buttons on the remote control.

  • Your'e right. We have a later version, the MX8000 I think coz its only about 5 years old.

  • THAT WAS CiTV AT IT'S BEST!!!!!! Was this before and after the CiTV logo change?

  • during the middle of the CITV logo change, you can see that at the time they were using both the 1989 and 1991 idents.

  • I remember CiTV with Tommy Boyd, I loved Harry's Mad and Toucan Tex. Pat Sharp was hilarious too. I loved Fun House!!!

  • Well Pat Sharp Was Great Do You Have The Allsorts Episode From Wednesday 11th September 1991 If You Have Please Could You Upload It

  • Sorry, I don't have it...

  • I think the question everyone wanted to ask him at the time was, "did you shag the twins."

  • O.o WOW! THE MEMORIES!! Thanks for uploading! XD

  • Duck tales! The best

  • That TV set beside him is made by a Danish company called Bang and Olufsen. How do I kno this? because those sets were RARE and we used to have one.

    It was such a luxury item that it had an electric motor underneath the telly - which meant you could turn the TV round by pressing the left and right buttons on the remote - which had so many buttons on it it makes the Sky remotes look basic!!!

  • Aidan, I googled Bang and Olufsen, and it gave me the website for it! Try it and you might see their products they sell. Posh TV's and videos by the looks of it!

  • hi there great video

    is it at all possible to upload the full episode of fun house.

  • I'm afraid I don't have the full episode of "Fun House", sorry!

  • so does that mean you only taped the continuity

  • Yes, I just taped the continuity as I was short on videotape back then I guess! Sorry...

  • thats okay

  • Hi DJFairborne77

    Awesome clip of CITV continuity especially seeing Duck Tales I haven't seen that in years. Do You have anymore CITV continuities featuring early editions of Art Attack?

  • Hi there, glad you liked the clip, but sorry I don't have any "Art Attack" clips at the moment.

  • Love the hair references in the Pat Sharp interview! :)

    No sign of Davina McCall in that "Don't Try This At Home" trailer, was she in one of those cars that Eddie Kidd jumped over?

  • "Don't Try This At Home" that was shown on CITV, with Frank Bruno & Eddie Kidd, was a special one-off programme that was filmed at the World Stunt Festival, Toulouse, France in 1991. The Davina McCall series of the same name didn't start until 1998 & ended in 2001, and had no connection with the Frank/Eddie show, as far as I know, but maybe that's where they got the name of it from! As for Pat Sharp, he was a legend and "Fun House" was great fun to watch after a hard day at school!

  • Hang on a sec, the opening ident is the 1989 version yet the ident going into the break is the 1991 version after Central got the CITV contract back.

  • After Central got the CITV contract back in 1991, they still used the 1989 opening ident at the start of each day, right upto the end of 1992.

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