Old CITV and Rainbow Introduction

From 1996. Copyright for Rainbow belongs to ITV.

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Entertainment

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• CITV
• Rainbow

[AidanLunn]

ITV has become like channel five - the worst network!!! Course its the worst network now:

endless soaps

crap "reality" (cough) TV

crap current affairs programmes.

Back then ITV were so good that one programme - Death on the Rock (1988) got Thames - the ITV company that made it - taken off the ITV system at the next license renewal (1992)!!!

The programme-makers have moved out of ITV and the accountants have moved in.

[jaychristie909]

Fair do's, the regional structure nowadays is just as fucked as ITV itself. It's a shame really. CITV and ITV itself used to be such an awesome network.

[shermanvermin76]

@fraserkatie I *love* Wizadora! (I prefer the *original* actress - Wendy van der Plank, and when her hair was *shorter*) and I like the three 'drawer people' - Top, Sticky (when he was a more *yellow* colour and voiced by Sue Darcre) and Bottom. *That* show was new just after Thames was changed to Carlton, TVS was just a memory and TV-am was changed to GMTV (as well as when the *original* *1972* version of Rainbow was no more, when the show was twenty years old).

[shermanvermin76]

(comment continued) @hugalove this is the same reason TVS (Television South) *additionally* ceased being an ITV company on 31 December 1992 (this is why Catchphrase had a *new* look and theme tune since Friday 30 September 1994) and TV-am's last day was, yes, (triple Ts!) 31 December 1992, and was consequently changed the next day to GMTV.

You might even remember LWT, which debuted at night, since Friday 2 August 1968, became just a memory, since after Sunday the 27th of October 2002.

[Udany147]

This was when Geoffrey went through his black phase...

[katib123ful]

suks.



[AidanLunn]

@Hattie1992 CITV used to base itself around a "theme" every month, and this theme used to be inbetween the programmes. So they may have been the theme for a month or two.

Also, the babies programmes used to have a variety of animals in their idents. There was one with a cat, one with some budgies, a dog, and a few more. Maybe your sis is remembering one of these, with mice?

[jasbk]

what the hell is this crap? wheres Geoffrey?

[Hattie1992]

Ok, my twin sister claims that before CITV had presenters they had these little puppet/cartoon mice introducing the next programme. Although I remember the day when CITV first changed its format and they brought in presenters, I can't remember the mice, does anyone have any ideas?

[wiggaroo]

i USED TO LOVE ABACAT