Carlton ads and ITN News clip (11/7/94)

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2 ай бұрын

Out of Bananas in Pyjamas, a full Carlton ad break, and into the ITN News with Carol Barnes, from (according to ‪@AntarcticaTelevision‬ in the comments - thank you) Monday, 11th July, 1994. Top stories are the Cash for Questions scandal engulfing John Major's government, and the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries, who was still missing at the time. Thankfully, she was found safe and sound after 17 days away from her parents - but what I found out only fairly recently was that the police had already spoken to her kidnapper and seen Abbie herself by that point. Twice.
Many thanks to ‪@David315842‬ for sending me this tape.
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@David315842 2 ай бұрын

This was from July, at the start of the summer holidays, hence why Carlton was airing Bananas in Pyjamas at the time. However unlike the previous year which had loads of cartoons and stuff for kids, this year was pretty lackluster, with only Scooby-Doo and then Bananas in Pyjamas each weekday morning, followed by a morning movie after the news headlines. A practice that they continued for years to come, though with fewer kids shows as time went on. By 1999 we had Judge Judy and Jerry Springer ruling the airwaves. WOW, the police sucked in that Annie Humphries case. :( But yeah, you finally found it. :) Thanks again for the upload. :)

@VideotapeFTW 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the extra background info (and the recording itself, of course)! So was there no summer morning CITV at this point? I'm just trying to map it all out - it feels really weird the way they come out of Bananas in Pyjamas into nothing more than a dry bog-standard Carlton link.

@David315842 2 ай бұрын

@@VideotapeFTW That was how it was in 1993/94 and carried on for quite a few years. The last CITV Summer Mornings was in 1992 with Glen Kinsey as the host, that was about it, until 1998 where CITV went live again in the mornings, but only really around Christmas time. Carlton would still have the occasional children's programme on summer mornings, till 1996 where after they aired episodes of The Real Ghostbusters, they didn't air anything else after that for kids, except for stuff like Disney's Talespin and James Bond Jr. in the very early hours of Christmas mornings in 1996 (in case children were all ready awake or still awake being unable to sleep I guess), though the latter two was likely throughout the network and not just restricted to London.

@VideotapeFTW 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was aware there was a sort of wilderness period for CITV, but that all strikes me as just plain daft. I wonder who was making these decisions at the time. Mind you, even when the CITV channel ended a few months ago, I don't think anyone at ITV really appreciated the legacy of what they once had...

@David315842 2 ай бұрын

@@VideotapeFTW I hate the fact that people think CITV is dead, when all they've done is turn it into a morning block for ITV2. Some of the decisions may have come from wear ever or not it was Carlton or Granada who was in control of certain regions. Granada did go the extra mile to show some kids programming in the mornings such as their Summer Breakout block in 1996, of which I uploaded a trailer of it on my channel.

@VideotapeFTW 2 ай бұрын

That Summer Breakout is more like it - kids' TV needs some sort of proper identity and presentation, rather than just sterile links. Not that kids actually watch linear TV any more, apparently.

@AntarcticaTelevision Ай бұрын

11/7/94.

@VideotapeFTW Ай бұрын

Thank you. How did you manage to pinpoint it?

@AntarcticaTelevision Ай бұрын

I searched a bit about the main story at the start of the news here, and also narrowed it down by searching on the Jul 94 editions of the Times on a website that has the Times archive from 1986 to 2010.

@VideotapeFTW Ай бұрын

Brilliant - thank you. I've updated the title and description.