The Kids Are Alright: episode 2 - ITV 

The monthly presenters of Children's ITV in its early years... *1983* January - Matthew Kelly February - Isla St. Clair March - Derek Griffiths April - Charlotte Coleman as Marmalade Atkins May - Mick Robertson June - Bob Carolgees July - Pat Coombs August - Tommy Boyd September - Mike Reid October - David Rappaport November - Bill Oddie December - The Krankies *1984* January - Derek Griffiths February - The CBTV Team, including Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Anneka Rice and Mike Smith... and possibly Harry the Security Guard (played by Harry "Aitch" Fielder) March - Roland Rat April - Christopher Biggins May - Sue Robbie June - Bob Carolgees July - ? (One source states Carol Lee Scott as Grotbags, but footage or TV Times pages from this month have yet to surface) August - Sandi Toksvig, Andrea Arnold & Neil Buchanan as Ethel, Dawn & Neil from No. 73 September - Rod Hull & Emu October - Terrahawks November - Bonnie Langford December - Matthew Kelly *1985* January - Roland Rat February - Cheryl Baker March - Uncle Travelling Matt from Fraggle Rock April - Ken Jones as Whistle Willie from Behind the Bike Sheds May - Gudrun Ure as Supergran June - Timmy Mallett July - ? (Wikipedia says Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore, but there's no evidence to support this anywhere as of yet. Also, the same source as July 1984 claims Martin "Son of Paul" Daniels presented this month) August - Andrea Arnold & Nick Staverson as Dawn & Harry from No. 73 September - Jimmy "And There's More" Cricket October - Stu "Crush a Grape" Francis November - Gary Wilmot December - Rod Hull & Emu *1986* January - Bernie Winters & Schnorbitz February - Nino Firetto March - David "Kid" Jensen April - Matthew Kelly May - Carol Lee Scott as Grotbags June - James Baker from Wide Awake Club (occasionally joined by Arabella Warner & Tommy Boyd) July - Basil Brush August - Elizabeth Estensen & John Hasler as T-Bag & T-Shirt *1986-87 Academic Year* September to December - Matthew Kelly January to March - Gareth "Gaz Top" Jones April to June - Andrea Arnold as Dawn from No. 73 Children's ITV presentation became live in July 1987 after Central gave up on in vision continuity, freeing up the IVC studio. Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore were the first two presenters in this brave new world.

Gary Terzza. One of the voices of Channel 4 in the 90s and 00s

I remember Matthew launching the spaceship like it was yesterday! I was 12. It was all brand new then. Channel Four and Breakfast TV came along around the same time, all brand new concepts....brilliant documentary by the way. Thankyou

Love watching all these man. Appreciate the work and research. Brilliant stuff. Thanks

Brilliant, as always. And confirming what my hazy memories had suggested to me for years: that I stopped watching Children's ITV altogether in favour of the Broom Cupboard, sometime around 1987. I have no knowledge whatsoever of many of the ITV shows or presenters presented here, and I only know the CITV logos from watching continuity on RU-vid. I was not, it seems, missing much.

And of course, Thames gave us the astoundingly charming The Sooty Show, which they snagged from the BBC

I remember Stephen and Danielle having great fantastic chemistry to the point it looked like they might have had a thang going on.

The reference to "the puberty facilitating Lift-Off With Ayshea" made me snort my drink out through my nose. It's funny because it's true.

Here after the news of CITV shutting down... 😭

Thanks for posting these I remember seeing them on vimeo

Citv was at its best in the late 90s and early 00s with Steven and Danielle at Gas Street alongside great programmes such as Mad for it and Smtv. A shame for it to go downhill when CBBC upped their game in 2002

Many people prefers CBBC from 1997 until 2002 than Citv

I'm sure I'm one of the few people who actually remember the programme "Three, Seven, Eleven".

5:21chhhhhhurrrrrrrrrrrrch

Goodnight, CITV

Though I remember barely Tommy Boyd in vision, I never quite 'felt it' with CITV, and the Steve Ryde voice era was the best. In much the same way as we just accepted Andi Peters as "the Children's BBC man", I accepted that CITV is entirely voiced, while CBBC is in a big studio, and the Broom Cupboard of my primary schooldays was The Den on RTE. There was always something bland, generic, insincere even, about CITV being studio based. I couldn't shake the feeling that they were talking down to the kids. To think Stephen Mulhern is as relatively prolific on ITV as he is now, having started here. "Unbelievable..." As if credit squeezes weren't bad enough, they followed The Den (Den2 as it was by then) and ignored credits entirely, screwing up my routine. Nope. Studio based linkage was BBC territory to me, stick to your lanes.

Was that gaz top towards the end

I see the Mike Smith resemblance in Mark Grainger but I don't see the resemblance to Dan Hegarty. Do you mean Den Hegarty from Darts? Actually, he doesn't look much like Mark either!

Yessss

Part 3: Channel 5, Milkshake/Shake.

For some reason the StoneWall CITV Continuity Sets kinda remind me of the Host Segments from MST3k

Will there be episodes about Weekend kids' TV?

Part 4: Freeview.

Tbh there’s quite a few notable Michael Jacksons out there, so I’m still not sure what ‘not that one either’ is referring to.

The Kids Are Alright: episode 3 - Channel 5

12:42 Where did that clip came from. I want a link!

Stephen and Danielle - when they were likeable. Now he's ITV's answer to "who do we get to present this?" and she's turned into someone like her colleagues on TalkTV - a very dislikeable presenter.