It's somewhat sad but bittersweet to see CITV come to an end. So many great shows, cartoons and anime I was introduced to (introducing me to so many voice actors from around the world too) and it also helped signify my love for the Pokémon anime and I'll forever be grateful for all the memories.
Some great picks on here. Mike & Angelo unlocked a core memory for me, I'd forgotten all about it but seeing that spinning pyramid brought it all back! My all time favourite show had to be Knightmare. It was so ahead of it's time, and the theme music is stuck in my head to this day.
Knightmare is good and yes very ahead of it's time, the only reason it's not in my Top 10 is it's before my time. First time I saw an episode fully was when I was about 18 when they re-ran them on Challenge.
*Sighs* The only good thing about this, is it inspired you to make another video, as it's always a joy seeing your work. :) I guess I grew up during CITV's golden age, growing up during the era of their 80's and 90's shows. Off the top of my head, my Top 10 in no particular order would probably be Count Duckula, Knightmare, Rosie And Jim, The Sooty Show, Art Attack, Wind In The Willows, Zzzap!, Mike And Angelo, Fun House, and Spongebob. Although unlike the others, that one isn't a homegrown show. So many fantastic shows though, pretty much all of the ones you showed, and more besides, I watched and loved. It's sad news, and the end of an era, but thanks to RU-vid, most of those great shows can still be enjoyed by those of us who grew up watching them. Nice to see you again Jack, great video as always. :)
I loved CITV as a child and I loved a lot of shows they aired. Such as Jungle Run, Ministry of Mayhem, My Parents are Aliens, Rosie and Jim, Art Attack, Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob, but the best show of them all is definitely Eliminator! It was so good I did an animated revival of it on my RU-vid channel. The actor who played the first Eliminator Oakley Turvey had seen it and he is very impressed. He even subscribed to my channel too. I can’t believe the CEO of CITV had to stop it because he didn’t like quiz shows. Well, who needs it on CITV when we can have it on RU-vid? Maybe even on Netflix or Amazon Prime. It definitely should be on those channels. Also, since the actor who played the second Eliminator Dan Cade is a Hollywood movie actor now, this definitely calls for an Eliminator movie. Even Dan agreed as he liked my comment on Instagram.
I was more into CBBC but I did love Tots TV, Rosie and Jim, Thomas the Tank Engine and Horrid Henry. Sad to see CITV is closing. Sorry to overuse the phrase but it is the end of an era for children’s TV as a whole. I expect CBBC will eventually come to an end too.
I subscribed to your channel after my sister shared your 90s and 00s kids' show megamix video with me and that video is very good. I have fond memories of watching CITV when I was a child. My favourite programmes on there included Art Attack, Zzzap!, Finders Keepers, Fun House, Jungle Run, SM:TV Live, Alphabet Castle, Astro Farm, Rosie & Jim and Tots TV. I can also vaguely remember Bernard's Watch and Mike & Angelo. I’m sad to see CITV go 40 years after it first aired.
So sad to see the CITV brand disappear 😢, but what nostalgia! The only thing I contest - the countdown and video wasn’t LONG enough 😂. Would have happily watched this countdown for an hour. What shows, what memories: Mike & Angelo such a hidden gem with an iconic title sequence, How 2 always great with Fred, Gareth and Carol, Tots TV always used to kickstart CITV for the afternoon. Jungle Run, essentially a child’s The Crystal Maze for the noughties as you say. Art Attack - enough said, Legendary! Thank goodness for these days of RU-vid where we can relieve such classic programmes from our time!
It's the end of something wonderful. But, as you and we all know, it hasn't been the wonderful thing it was for quite a while. I was just watching stuff from Tommy Boyd on YT and there are a few of his links on CITV from the broom cupboard. It was such a magical time!♥️⭐
I loved watching CITV as a kid as well. I grew up with the same shows as you (I was born in 1992) and some of the shows you featured would be some of my faves as well, in particular Art Attack which was my fave kids TV show of all time, How 2, Jungle Run, ZZZap!, Pump It Up, My Parents Are Aliens, etc I would've added Finger Tips as well which was similar to Art Attack, and some lesser known shows like Play the Game, Scary Sleepover and Potatoes and Dragons (all of which were from around 2004-05)
My favorite citv shows were: Mr. Bean animated series, Canimals, Jungle Run, My Parents are aliens, Bernards Watch, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Wolves, Witches and Giants, TMNT, Art attack, ZZZap! , Meg and Mog, Thomas and Friends before it moved to other channel blocks, Tots TV, Danger mouse and Duckula. Shame Citv is ending :(
TMNT was on Children's BBC when I was a kid, thats one of my all time faves! Great to see someone mentioning, Meg And Mog, I loved that. lol I also loved the original Thomas The Tank Engine narrated by Ringo Starr.
I really feel sad that CITV is coming to an end. My most memorable childhood was Scratchy and Co. and SM:TV Live. I also remember The Big Bang with one of the returning How2 presenters.☹️
Its one of those things about the evolution of life. Kids those days spend about 90 per cent of the time on a mobile phone or computer so it makes sense to bump the childrens programs off on The Internet
It's such a shame. But Kid's just don't watch tv after school anymore. It was the thing you did in my day. Now kids just game hop onto the PS5 and game with there mates after School.
Yep....I recall Tim Whitnall who played Angelo in Mike & Angelo saying he felt that show ended at the right time, due to the way Children's television broadcasting was changing going into the 00's.
CITV was my childhood. Watching the slow, agonising death of traditional television is so depressing to me. Nothing will ever compare to rushing home from school, just in time for the new episode of your favourite show, seeing all the adverts for the new big toys to beg your parents for, or those moments when you'd be channel surfing and randomly stumble across a show you loved. It's a feeling streaming services can't and will never replicate. I pity the kids of today, and of course, those who simply can't afford to bleed out money for those services constantly. It's truly the end of a wonderful era.
duuuuuude these shows brings back soo many memories! I myself used to watch CITV everyday after school while eating chips, turkey dinosuars and I would watch the way through till the show finished. Shortly after The Simpsons would come on at 6PM so I had control of the tv for a good few hours. Bernard's Watch again one of my favs. My mam said to me she was thinking of putting me on Jungle Run, but were unsure on how to go about it haha. Thank you for this video. Im happy to watch another top 10 CITV shows that you enjoyed. Edit: I had to add after watching the rest of the video, Zzzap! I still watch it on youtube now and then and still enjoy it.
It’s is indeed an end of an era. Well done Jack for putting this together. I would’ve personally put Fun House in my top 10 and I just knew before it come up Zzzap was gonna be number 1 I watched the 30th anniversary video you did earlier this year so yh so I guessed right.
I'm not surprised that Jack Hayward aka Jack's Throwback Attack has place the tv show Zzzap at number one , Because it is his favourite kids show. I can't pick a kids show from CITV that i enjoy watching, too many to go through because i like most of then . But the out of vision links between 1993 till 1998 with Steve Ryde is my favourite not just the one where Steve Ryde dress up as a reporter by wearing a large brown coat .
Rip, I grew up during the early 2000s, the programs I remember are the captain scarlet reboot, my parents are aliens, transformers energon and cybertron, A.T.O.M, generator rex, Ben 10, huntik, power rangers, yu gi oh, Pokemon, bakugan, atomic betty, deadtime stories, prove it, barnyard, tricky tv, art attack, horrid Henry and finally toonattik. I had a really great time and I'm really sad CITV is no longer a thing. R.I.P. To CITV and soon CBBC, child hood would've been crap without them and will be crap for the future generations.
Thank you for the video Jack. I'm hoping it will go back to how it was originally. The shut down of its own channel. Will save ITV Millions. So I really do hope it will come back on daytime telly again. Or it will do eventually
Sad to see it go, but there's many factors to it, mostly some of the generations grown up, more focus on online these days, most current generations don't watch TV anymore and mostly gaming and online streaming service and such, management issues or some of the entertainers or shows aren't as good as back in the day, no longer in cable tv and mostly on satellite boxes or on the likes of Sky, Virgin Media and such where not everyone has current even in this day and age theres still some that don't have such and so, and so on, love if just stays or rerun of their golden age shows and such, so yeah Honestly, only one way we can save these channels of such if we can watch and run them on streaming services, online or such, so yeah
I was always more of a CBBC fan as a kid, but I am feeling weirdly sad about CITV coming to a close (probably because it's a sign that CBBC doesn't have that many years left either). I remember when there was hype for a new series starting or a particular episode happening, and everyone had to wait to watch it at the same time so they could talk about it in the playground the day after. Your top 10 and honourable mentions are great, but there were a lot more shows that I felt should have gone in the HM to. Like you say though, the list could have gone on forever had you done so :-D These are the ones that immediately come to mind: Brum Button Moon Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons Count Dukcula Dange Mouse Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids Kipper Mr. Bean: The Animated Series Rainbow Thomas & Friends (been on various networks but began on ITV) Thunderbirds / Thunderbirds Are Go (I was genuinely expecting this to be N*1) Tiswas (I personally don't like it I know it's got its fans)
An end of an era indeed, cheers for this video! Definitely unlocked some memories with some of these shows that I'd almost forgotten about (It's A Mystery being one of them) Zzzap! was also my number one favourite alongside Art Attack, and I'm thankful I'm not the only one that remembers Eliminator! I enjoyed the bits I saw of that, I can definitely see why people think of The Chase 😂 Watching the channel close down for the final time last night, I actually felt a lot more sad about it than I excpted to, like a nostalgic gut punch! We really were spoilt for choice with quality programs back then, good times! ❤
Tots TV was a big part of my childhood, it's so sad that the house was burned down a few years ago. 'It's a Mystery' was a good show too, one particular story I remember from that was when a couple stayed a night in an old fashioned hotel, then the next morning after they had left, the woman remembered that she had left her bag behind so they turned around and went back to the hotel only to find that it had vanished! That one spooked me at the time!😲😲😲
Besides Tots TV, Sooty & Co., How 2, Mike & Angelo, It's a Mystery, Finders Keepers, Crazy Cottage, Fun House, Art Attack and ZZZap, I also watched these shows on CITV: Bad Influence Knightmare Avenger Penguins Spatz Harry's Mad The Raggy Dolls The Dreamstone The Legends of Treasure Island Wolves, Witches, and Giants Wizadora Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime
Before Children’s ITV and CITV the children’s segment was called ‘Watch IT’. Thames Television also has the Thames Television Children’s club this all consolidated into Children’s ITV😊
Great video as always! I use to love What’s Up Doc on Saturday mornings 🥲- Sam Sam the pumpkin hairdresser from hell would come out every Halloween 🎃✂️ 😂
To me CITV's ELIMINATOR was the birth of THE CHASE & it is basically a Children's Version of THE CHASE, as long as they keep getting the Correct Answers they remain safe at all times
It certainly bringing small tears to my eyes that CITV is ending like this, but I'm also very glad that I got to grow up watching so many classic CITV shows like the ones listed in this video
I VERY fondly remember Citv, even though I avoided it and CBBC from 1996-1999 due to having Sky and Cartoon Network becoming my main channel (hence why I didn't discover Bernard's Watch until 2009), Citv gave us great shows like Tiny Toon Adventures, The Gingerbread Man, Old Bear Stories, Reboot, Animaniacs and Budgie The Little Helicopter and it is so fucking wrong that ITV are shutting down Citv after nearly 41 years! ITV have clearly been leaving kids programming to the wayside, what with them not even launching a Citv+1 and even going as far as to NOT exclude Citv from this "all ITV channels switching over for the Queen's funeral" shit! I know a lot of young viewers are turning to streaming these days, but I'm pretty sure things are deeper than that, as I will explain in my video, How Dare ITV Kill Citv, which premieres tomorrow night!
Sad to see the end of CITV. it was such a part of my childhood. I was born in 1988 so grew up watching CBBC and CITV in the 90s. I couldn't pick just 10 so here is my favourite 20 CITV shows (in no order) are: 1. Art Attack 2. Spatz 3. Mike & Angelo 4. Rosie and Jim 5. The Big Bang 6. How 2 7. Bernard's Watch 8. Wizadora 9. Finders Keepers 10. The Riddlers 11. The Magic House 12. Tots TV 13. Allsorts/Gigglish Allsorts 14. Woof! 15. ZZZap! 16. My Parents are Aliens 17. Wolves, Witches and Giants 18. Sooty & Co 19. Budgie The Little Helicopter 20. The Adventures of Grady Greenspace - I remember getting up early and seeing this in the morning and no one I know has heard of it. The English dub shown on CITV is now lost media and I have only been able to find a promo clip from CITV showing it and original episodes in French. Also Fun House and SM:TV Live. Like many boys who watched Fun House, I used to like Martina and Melanie. On Saturday mornings I used to first watch Live & Kicking and then switch over to SM:TV live and hope I didn't miss much of it. I loved parts like Wonky Donkey, Challenge Ant, Chums and I also remember "Eminemerdale" and when Dec faked fainting.
I think I only knew about Bernard's Watch because it was on after Fun House. It was a nice show to come down on after the hyperactive messy zaniness of my personal #1 CITV show.
My favourite shows on CITV are Sooty & Co., Budgie The Little Helicopter, Rosie And Jim, Tots TV, Astro Farm, Wizadora, Mopatop Shop, Emu, Horrid Henry, Mr. Bean: The Animated Series and Dream Street.
My favourites were Horrid Henry (2006), Mr Magoo (Reboot), Sonic X (2003), Grizley Tales (2006), Animaniacs (1993), Tiny Toons (1990), Scrambled (2020) Jungle Run (2003) Tom and Jerry Tales (2006) and Pokémon (1999)
I used to love watching CITV when I was a kid. Fun House, How 2, Zzap, SMTV Live and Round the Bend are just a short list of favorite shows of mine that aired on the after school block (well, except for SMTV Live which was on Saturday mornings). While it is a shame to see CITV go after all these years, it's not too much of a loss to me since... well, CITV is after all for children and children in the 2020's have different tastes in entertainment to what we 90's kids and kids of other generations had... And there are other ways to watch the shows we all loved as kids... But considering that CITV started as an after school block and slowly transitioned into a whole channel, I don't see why CITV couldn't transition from a TV channel to an online service and continue from there onwards, instead of killing off the brand and replacing it with a new brand that's exactly the same as CITV in concept just with a different name. And I think "CITV" rolls off the tongue better than "ITV X Kids".
My picks would be ReBoot and New Captain Scarlet. Both shows that were (sadly) not treated well by CITV at the time of their airing with ReBoot being halted in the middle of the third season and New Captain Scarlet was buried within the Ministry of Mayhem timeslot.
@@adultmoshifan87 Hmm I know Meridian were the ones who acquired ReBoot for CITV (hence why their logo was affixed to the end credits during ReBoot's broadcast), but it was scheduled by the ITV Network Centre in London who apparently pulled the show due to a drop in ratings. There were also issues with one episode getting complaints to Ofcom (or the ITC as they were at the time) due to violence
I think it does speak volumes for the quality of their programming back then that I enjoyed watching programmes like Tots TV, even though I was a little bit too "old" to be within it's target demographic when it aired. I still loved watching it when I came home from school. lol One aspect of it that I loved, was the fact that Tilly actually spoke French, I think that made it even more educational than shows of that type typically are, and not in the typical way.
@@salliewagenblatt5188 Yes, but really it's for the best. Both channels input have been pretty poor in recent years. Kids (So I have been led to believe) spend all their free time on their smartphones looking at dear knows what, so it's no wonder both channels are calling it quits. They won't be missed, not in their current state anyway.
@@matthwe3468CBBC was great until 2016 or 2017 then as soon as this decade started they fell off big time and CITV has been shit since 2007 and they never recovered since then with an exceptions of shows like Horrid Henry, Mr Bean, Bear Grylls Survival School, Thunderbirds Are Go, Dave Spud and Lloyd of the Flies they barely had anything to offer other than crappy imports.
I really can't believe😒 that they have decided to close down CITV forever like this and moves all the shows to ITVX Kids as a streaming service, seriously what's the point of all this because there aren't going to be anymore cartoons/anime on freeview channels and this is a stupid decison.
The programs on the channel do interest me most of them are good to great while some are decent or okay knowing that some from other UK TV corporations have a similar thing. Still good picks for your list and HM's.
Zzapp would my number 1 . Then Fun House number 2 I like most shows in CITV . Personally with my age now lol I won’t miss CITV. But I do have fun memories.
Yeah, I wasn’t too surprised, when I read this news, about CITV - TV has never been the same since 2002 post-August (bet, since then, CITV had been losing ratings, so it was actually *time* CITV ended).
@@michaelweech6432CITV was pretty good in 2013 with Old Skool Weekend but yeah the 2010's was a horrible time for them the rest of the 2000's was pretty decent until 2007 or 2008 they had Blips, Boblins, Ministry of Mayhem, Tricky TV, Horrid Henry, Scratchy n Sniff, Barking, Bounty Hamster, Captain Scarlet, The Fugitives.
No singing kettle??? Only the greatest children's group of the last 40 years!! They have the most iconic songs as well. I also loved teddybears and jamboree. Alsorts was a good show and had that Emmerdale actress in it. Titch was also brilliant.
My favorite CITV shows were Sooty, Rottentrolls, Thomas The Tank Engine, Lavender Castle, New Captain Scarlet, Pokemon, Fraggle Rock (though I'm more familiar with the American version because that's where I'm from), Men In Black, Scooby-Doo, Spooks of Bottle Bay, Art Attack from what little I've seen, Zzzap!, Bug Alert and Jungle Run
It’s a real shame I have very happy memories of CITV it had some of my favourite shows when I was a kid Fun House Button Moon Saturday morning was really good you had SMTV and CDUK What’s Up Doc which was a change to a lot of Saturday morning programmes at the time which showed Disney they showed Waner Bros programs like Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures Their Saturday morning programmes were often a lot better than the BBC ones except Live and Kicking ( the one with Jamie Theakston and Zoe Ball) once they left SMTV got a larger portion of the viewership. It’s a shame it’s gone really.
Two ends of eras announced this week, CITV and Wilko, I'm very sad 😢 Loved your list, though I wasn't paying attention towards the end and I thought Zzzap was one of your honourable mentions and for a few seconds I was raging that you picked Bernard's Watch for your top ten and not Zzap and then you said it was number one😅 oops. Where was Knightmare?? I'm wondering if it was slightly before your time maybe? You said you watched Tots TV when you were little and I was older when it was on and I only caught the last seasons of Knightmare so you might not remember it as much but I'm only speculating (and rambling) x
Aha yes, I rushed this video in one night so yeah the editing could be better 🤣 You are right! It's before my time. First time I heard of it was probably the 100 Greatest Kids Shows on Channel 4. I didn't see an episode fully until the CITV 30th weekend in 2013.
I think the first 3 series of Knightmare were the best, before the real life scenery and co host. But the whole show was amazing and was taken off way before it's time. I was a young adult when it started and never missed an episode.
@@JacksThrowbackAttack that was about the time I stopped watching it, my childhood sat squarely with the Steve Ryde era. It’s a great show though, the whole lot is here on RU-vid.
It's really sad it's ending, and I saw someone say The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud is scheduled to be the last show, so I'm guessing they aren't going out with a bang, nothing special for the last day of broadcast which is disappointing. I'm 27 so my favourite shows are similar to yours except The Worst Witch and Atomic Betty would additions on my fave Citv show, and as a kid that's not my childhood because it ended before I was born, but I discovered it at 17 when CITV had the 30th anniversary day, Press Gang, literally I brought the DVD box after that and watched it all. Although it creeped me out as a kid I do like Zzzap because I have 2 connections to it, 1. My Dad worked on it, he worked for the Media Merchants for most of my primary school years, so Art Attack, It's A Mystery, Ministry of Mayhem, Finger Tips etc all basically kept a roof over our heads 😂, so I should be thankful for Citv😅. And 2. In more recent years I worked in the shopping centre where the kid with the remote control is in the opening ( one of my former colleagues said to me once she was an extra in it, theres a shot of a couple of other people in that opening and she's one of them), so Zzzap will forever live in my memory 😅
I think mine are: Thomas the tank Engine & Friends Fun House Finders Keepers Knightmare Wizadora Pump it up Mike & Angelo Tugs (through vhs but it was citv - counts) Rescue robots Beat the Cyborgs Art attack Zzzzap!!! And Roger and the rottentrolls
Like I say, if they're not there, they weren't in my top 10 favourites, or I didn't watch them. I'm a mid 90s baby so a lot of those are before my time.
@@JacksThrowbackAttackYes, so I've seen. The only videos that feature it that haven't been taken down are your Simon Buckley interview and theme songs compilation
