Fantastic to see Matt Bianco performing with real instruments instead of the flimsy-sounding 80s synths they used on their records! If only their albums were like this! EDIT: Damn, they mimed at the end :(
Kathy worked on the BBC later in the decade I seem to remember.Maybe one of the Holiday programmes anyway.Pity come the 90's disappeared from presenting on shows.
It was never made in Gillingham. There were live opt outs when the programme came out of Southampton, but once Maidstone was open, Gillingham was no longer required.
Dawn quickly mentioned here that Ethel would be going on a beach holiday starting monday. Ethel would present Children's ITV for the month of August from a beach, and would be joined by Harry, Dawn and Neil in the second week.
I wonder if Kathy Tayler was filling in for Kim on this episode. I recall Kim usually wouldn't be on 73 when whe was presenting Freetime at the same time.
Yeah very noticeable sound difference between their two songs (and Basia has a silent tambourine). Maybe there was some technical reason, or they were worried about background noise.
@Extreme_Rice there was no technical problems, it would have been decided based on the complexity of the song. This particular song had a lot of processing that would not have come across very well as live, so miming was decided, usually Friday during rehearsals.
It's the Series 4 finale and the bailiffs are sniffing round, so it's all hands on deck! Ethel, Harry, Dawn, Neil, Martin, Hazel and Fred are all here (no Kim though 😟), as are Shaw Taylor, Supersleuth Colin "Don't Call Me Sherlock" Daly and former modern pentathlete and future TV-am and QVC presenter Kathy Tayler. Matt Bianco are our cellar dwellers this week, and their first number is their latest single, the title track from their debut album _Whose Side Are You On?_ It entered the Singles Chart at No.97 the previous week, but dropped out again the week of this episode. It would be back the following week, but would only peak at No.83. They close the show with their previous single "Sneaking Out the Back Door", which peaked at No.44 back in May. By the way, thank you for piecing this episode together. I appreciate your herculean efforts, as I'm sure a lot of others watching do.
You know, the funny thing is, I partly agree. As a kid I used to utterly LOVE Swap Shop! To me then it was the coolest show ever, especially for us kids and it was Noel Edmonds, before he got really annoying he was still pretty fun and cool on Swap Shop. And when I saw it again recently on You Tube its so dull and dry like you say. Superstore was the follow up, basically the same but without Noel and a different name. I remember No 73 being mental fun but the earlier ones were less so. Thing is these shows evolved over their run. I loved the more crazy 73 series when the bathroom floor fell through to the living room after Ethel had left and we had Nadia to look at and Hamilton Dent was bonkers funny as the guy next door. Then they went to the Theme Park and I liked that series as well and Get Fresh...but when you see them now they are not as ....good for some reason. Time has moved on. We are all older and no longer the kids we were with a wild excitement at anything and everything....The very early No73 series was very bland and dull and it took a long time for it to expand and get more sit com elements to it...But all kids Saturday Tv was, across all shows and formats, was simply a way to showcase the latest pop songs people might like or cartoons to entertain or interviews of people with interesting jobs or hobbies purely to show kids the world outside and what they could do or aspire to. Now we have the internet, thats all you need. The world in a box everything is there for you to see and look up and these sort of shows are now obsolete...
@@Simon-xc5oy Saturday Super Store, Why Don't You (ok not Saturday kids TV but holiday kids TV) and No.73 were utter bore-fests. Swap Shop, Tiswaz, Going Live! and Get Fresh were loads more fun.
@@user-ub1dz8js7s Ahh yes...Why dont You? Heh...at the time though we thought they were amazing, well I did. Before Swapshop all you got for kids tv in the holidays was repeats of the Monkeys and the Hairbear Bunch and stuff like Champion the Wonder Horse in the school Holidays and nothing on Saturdays at all. The start of Swap Shop and its massive popularity made the BBC and ITV understand there was a mass audience and market for this and that is where the onset of kids tv began. I thought TIswaz was a bit too stupid at the time...But looking back at Swap Shop now it was pretty dull in comparison. It was just what you liked I suppose. Get Fresh and Ghost Train were brilliant but outside broadcasts, so there was far more scope for mayhem and different locations each week made it more exciting....
Remember this one. I shouted, but only at the telly! Hazel - I’ve got a very quiet voice really (Martin enters, puts his hand on her shoulder). AARGGHH, DON’T DO THAT MARTIN! 🤣 Love how Jeannie and Richard go from sitcom type characters to natural presenting and improvisation with the phone in. Nick didn’t need much of an excuse to get his kit off as Harry did he lol 😂 Neil shoehorning in his tips for budding artists while endorsing the Look In holiday special lol. Matthew did the sandwich quiz again in ‘85, Ethel’s wedding episode, with Cheryl Baker when Bucks Fizz were on promoting their comeback single You and your heart so blue.
I should point out that Bucks Fizz didn't perform the song on the show, they brought the music video in before Harry interviewed them. Redskins performed in that episode.
Yeah, and Redskins were definitely performing live. Actually doesn’t Ethel marry the bank manager in that episode? Maybe the 9-year old who wrote that letter was on to something.
@@Extreme_Rice That episode was the Series 5 finale, and was the build-up to the wedding. It's revealed at the start of Series 6 that Ethel and Frederick mutually called off the wedding.
It’s the version/creation date of the title sequence not the programme… will always depend on at which stage of the overall transmission chain the programme recording was made and the individual company policy of VT Clocks at the time!
That's correct. The date is actually when a Soho based facilities company - Visions - made the opening titles for TVS. I'm guessing that the postcard flip and vanish effect in the titles couldn't be done at Southampton/ Maidstone. Visions (and similar Soho bases facilities companies like Molinare) would have had more powerful Quantel Paintboxes and motion graphics computers to achieve those effects.
Wow, great upload as usual. Memory's a funny thing, watched this episode back in the day and i could have sworn the kid took Neils jumper to put in the matchbox, i`d put money on it. Strange, anyway, thanks again for the upload.
Jesus Christ. I’ve been looking for this for over 25 years, I even had an email exchange with Nigel Baldwin (the author) about it once, in the late 90s. It’s MORE disturbing than I remember. Fantastic.
Bit confused on this as the series is series 5 which should be 1985, but the VTR Clock says 28.4.83 and Sandi would have still been in the series in 1983.
I'm a simple man. I see Kim Wilde and I click. 😍 With her band, including bassist John "Rhino" Edwards before he replaced Alan Lancaster in Status Quo, she performs "Rage to Love", the third single from her fourth album _Teases and Dares,_ her first for her new label MCA Records. At the time of this episode it had just entered the charts at No.54, it would peak at No.19 by the end of May, making it the highest charting single from the album. At the end of the episode, she performs album track "Suburbs of Moscow".
Thought Dawn was gonna go arse over tit hurrying down the stairs in her roller skates at the start! Wonder how many times they had to rehearse that. Doubt Andrea roller skated in real life, so I would’ve pissed my pants if she had taken a tumble! 🛼 🛼
Yes. To me she is forever Dawn from No73. In my head she is still there and still looks the same! As do Harry and Neil and Nadia etc...What is upsetting me is seeing this show and it feels like it was yesterday...and it was almost 40 years ago! This season is the first one I would have watched in my room on my new 14" portable I got for Christmas 84! And i remembered it especially for the terrible drawing Neil does on that mad phone in description! It looks nothing like Ronald Reagan at all....Mind you Harry gets closer but even so...its funny and no real shock they did not do more of this segment....After Motor Mouth I never saw much of Dawn / Andrea again...I grew up and moved on with my life and away from Kids tv....as did we all. But she was great as Dawn. I was reading a while back one of her interviews she gave some years later. And she was telling people she had not enjoyed being in front of the camera and would rather create than play a character etc...but she did a damn good and memorable job as Dawn...
8:54 Two Scousers cracking jokes. They take the door steps in over night. Non of us would've got that at the time but that's very funny. Also thinking this was Neils accent that drew me into brookside. You hear an accent and love it but dont know why. . The accent got me hooked ineo Brookie. Tv legend and actually very important man for Liverpool.And most importantly The Beatles.
