Chesney Hawkes: "Hair like a piss fountain". Still chuckling at that one.
@dinogoldie9716 Жыл бұрын
8:36 A similar thought occurs to me every time I channel hop onto a repeat of Bullseye. The host is dead. The contestants are dead. Most of the studio audience will be long dead. All those Bully's prize board prizes are now landfill. And that caravan/speedboat crumbled into dust twenty years ago. This too shall pass.....
@garethjohnstone92828 ай бұрын
But they live on in our memories for now..
@ackerjawaka1966Ай бұрын
@@garethjohnstone9282lovely great smashing 😜
@TheCultOfNick2 жыл бұрын
"The most erotic moment of Neil Buchanan's life" - should probably have been the click bait title of this one. Long laughs at that one.
@stephenhough49574 ай бұрын
One of the most erotic moments of my life, don’t know about Neil…..
@Gidsonlives4 ай бұрын
Lost media mixed with a Screenwipe format. This Staurt... Is brilliant. You've inspired me. Cannot understand why you haven't hundreds of thousands of subs
@bletheringfool Жыл бұрын
I wonder was anyone like me? I used to flick back and forth when certain cartoons like Ghostbusters were on or when the boring agony uncle sections of Going Live were on. With fewer channels back then we were more forgiving of shite I think. There were a couple of other shows I remember. The sketch show called on the waterfront with Andrew O'Connor and Kate Kopstick etc. and Parallel 9 which seemed to evolve each series these were summer replacements on BBC 1.
@gcooper6427 ай бұрын
Yeah I did that too. You just choose whatever is least boring.
@olivere54972 жыл бұрын
A few years ago, i met frank sidebottom, i told him i loved watching him on motormouth,he informed me it wasnt him and if it was him on telly he'd be in trouble with his mum.
@cambs018125 күн бұрын
Saw Steve Johnson a few years ago in a pub in Brighton. I didn't speak to him myself, though when someone was chatting to him I think he mentioned something about running a BnB.
@shockz16 Жыл бұрын
I've got to say i watched Motormouth nearly every saturday morning. If i remember rightly they used to run the Police Academy cartoon on it. On a side note. Wtf even was Frank Sidebottom? I think i was a bit too young to understand what he was all about in those days, he just kinda creeped me out, still does a bit to be fair.
@sd-11-11-sd8 ай бұрын
He was a curious creation at the time navigating between adult and kids tv shows with equal absurdity.
@cartoonhead92227 ай бұрын
A man very proud of his papier mache head he made.
@nektekket8525 ай бұрын
You know he was, he really was...
@edgarbeat285116 күн бұрын
Samuri Pizza Cats used to be shown. The crazy cartoon. I loved Frank Sidebottom as a kid. Had a kinda Rick Mayall vibe to him.
@zyourzgrandzmaz11 ай бұрын
Sucks there is so much lost media 😭
@chefexcellence3224 ай бұрын
Motormouth and Ghost Train, the two Saturday morning shows I watched when Going Live and Live & Kicking went on their summer break.
@FranzSanchez-ky9up4 ай бұрын
I knew one of the lesbians from the first episode of Bottom was in a Saturday morning kids show around the same time! Thanks for letting me know I'm not going completely mad, Stuart. I'd forgotten how much a bit'uh alright, Lesley Garrett was and probably still is.
@JamesGillComedy Жыл бұрын
This is phenomenal work. These videos are incredible.
@_Piers_Ай бұрын
"The British Hulk Hogan" You're just a genius Stuart :)
@LordmonkeyTRM Жыл бұрын
I was always aware that BBC kids and ITV kids were two very distinct breeds. I was squarely in the hipper, cooler ITV camp. burgers not steak. Tiswas, Motormouth, Get Fresh, No. 73. were my Saturdays If I wasn't outside on my bike...
@pipoo17 ай бұрын
I started out as a BBC Kid when it was Saturday Superstore but Going Live left me cold, it just always felt slower and cheaper than Superstore (and the ITV shows) to me, so Motormouth it was for me after that with Ghost Train in the summer.
@Nosaveddataretro6 ай бұрын
Gimme 5
@80srenaissance675 ай бұрын
Get Fresh
@1emmajones Жыл бұрын
I loved frank. I saw him live. He was from Timperley you know.
@TheAlexmynameis Жыл бұрын
RIP all the singing doggies😢
@80srenaissance675 ай бұрын
"Steve will be an irritant throughout" 😂
@retrogiftsuk4812 Жыл бұрын
I used to love Motormouth and particularly the behind the scenes comedy bits. Far better than the repetitive catchphrase stuff of Trev and Simon. Also loved What's Up Doc as the wolves "Bro and Bro" endlessly eating the children in the studio was brilliant TV. It's the reason that even now me and my brother (both in our 40s) still write birthday cards to each other "To my bro".
@alisoneales2 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic video, thank you. I loved Chesney Hawkes so there is a non-zero chance I watched that edition when it went out. I could tell you what the song at the end is called, who wrote it, and the single to which it was the b-side. I am (as ever) appalled at myself.
@leedobson5 ай бұрын
Neil Buchanan was ITV's Cheggers
@Trefor19812 жыл бұрын
“Dressed like he lives in an abandoned arcade in Gotham” - amazing
@Perfect_Rice2 жыл бұрын
Lame to fame: I once had dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Islington with Sandi Toksvig's writer Elly Brewer. It was only the two of us, and she paid. I don't remember much else, mainly that a random guy threatened to stab me when I was walking home.
@StuartMillard2 жыл бұрын
Screen name fits
@therespectedlex97946 ай бұрын
Did you feel violated and melancholic as a result? I mean after the threat, not the dinner.
@stephenhough49572 ай бұрын
Dinner with Brewer. Death threat with a skewer.
@80srenaissance676 күн бұрын
A succulent Chinese meal ?
@COL3212 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching that. Frank Sidebottom and the Manics? Those lucky viewers. Also, you don't see Russian acrobats much these days, do you?
@caro_lam2 жыл бұрын
so disappointed we didn't get to see richey edwards doing backstage skits about potatoes with lesley garrett
@markmckinney41492 ай бұрын
"Yeah you love spuds, you love spuds...."
@matthewlawrenson36286 ай бұрын
I was slightly past Saturday morning kid's TV's target audience by this point, but I always watched Motormouth to catch Samurai Pizza Cats. The rest of it I didn't think much of.
@sambwoy32 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for What's Up Doc?- that weird enterprise where TVS joined with Warner Bros to produce a Saturday morning show- though as we'll see the actual content probably did little service to the name of the wonderful Looney Tunes. Bro and Bro the wolves were a puppeteering marvel though.
@ruleninetyone4 ай бұрын
Loved “How2” to bits! lol 😝
@dab887 ай бұрын
15:42 "the British Hulk Hogan" lmfao
@Jaspacat19657 ай бұрын
FYI, not all the tapes have been wiped, No73 is appearing now and Motormouth is slowly being put online again
@MrDannyDetailАй бұрын
I think it's more that they were made (I think?) by TVS, whose archive was bought by a company who was bought by another company who was bought by another company who was bought by Disney. It seems that TVS's tapes did not follow the same set of movements at TVS's legal paperwork for the same shows, and thus it has proven almost impossible for anything by TVS to be legally cleared for home video or streaming, particularly as Disney are believed to be largely unaware that they even own a former ITV franchisee.
@Jaspacat1965Ай бұрын
@MrDannyDetail TVS was bought by IFE. While IFE changed hands, the archives kept going. TVS programming was still being shown right up to the point when the archives needed to be moved out of Maidstone Studios by Flextech. That's when tapes and paperwork were binned by Disney. There was a lot of the archive saved and stored. Made In Maidstone are showing not only TVS archive stored in Maidstone, but also Southern archive believed wiped.
@sd-11-11-sd8 ай бұрын
Lovely find and analysis here sir, had almost forgotten about this old gem. I love the analysis of the multi channel presenter Andy Crane hopping like 'Razor Ramon' 😂
@mattcast442 жыл бұрын
Another great video, cheers! Looking forward to the next one already!
@PooperScooperTrooper2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos. Thanks 🙂
@ethansmith68736 ай бұрын
Do Big Breakfast next. Cheers, Ethan from America
@StuartMillard6 ай бұрын
A Big Breakfast video is coming next month
@LovecraftComedy3 ай бұрын
There seems to be a lack of footage of this, and internet discussion, but it'd be good to have a look at On The Waterfront. Obviously a lack of footage hinders this, but I at least recall The Flashing Blade, Lantern Jaw, a sketch about continuity and Bernie Nolan giving away a Nolan's album alongside every competition prize.
@JurassicRod10 күн бұрын
Anyone remember What's Up Doc? The Saturday morning ITV show in the early 90s?
@theaaroncarruthers2 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel today it brings back so many memories and has made laugh so much. Would you do a video on Get Fresh please? I found a clip on KZbin that was filmed in my town that had Aswad as the musical guest that I was at as a 3 year old in a buggy.
@StuartMillard2 жыл бұрын
A Get Fresh video is in the pipeline.
@flemishdog2 жыл бұрын
What a shame the Welsh were denied motormouth for a minute or so. Those poor bloody HTV viewers.
@WallyPyneoil4 ай бұрын
With the Barnett Formula, asymmetric national devolution, etc, they have compensations.
@roscovb2 жыл бұрын
I am become death, destroyer of worlds. S.Millard 2022
@GlassTarantulah8 ай бұрын
Great stuff sir! 3:05 I bet Neil got the shot in first of all and they had to make him do another and miss.
@mattl_2 жыл бұрын
Terror Towers own Steve Johnson!
@everyone06 Жыл бұрын
I use to watch that show Series 2 was the best.
@dycebastion6 ай бұрын
Which was the ITV show with the wolves? That was a good one.
@tabithacole596411 күн бұрын
As a middle-aged lesbian, I'm appreciating younger Gabby Roslin quite respectfully.
@csurname2 жыл бұрын
15:20 those shirts really say YES
@MT-cd7cs3 ай бұрын
+1 for What’s Up Doc? .. don’t remember Motormouth per se but I do remember Mouse Trap IRL and I definitely had it in my head this was its own programme, that Buchanan only presented Art Attack while I was alive and nout else, Roslin only had The Big Breakfast and Crane had Bad Influence.. if only 5 year old me had paid more attention to ITV and less to Ed the Duck!
@eddiepurple2 жыл бұрын
Great video, thank you!! I never watched Going Live!, or CBBC for that matter. ITV had the better cartoons, where you're less likely to learn something. I'm pretty sure I watched all 4 series of Motormouth, but can remember very little apart from in the first series where they all sat inside a giant mouth, although I'm honestly not sure. Steve Johnson's "It's Torture!" was good, children tortured to death with various gunge tanks etc, which evolved into the inferior "Gunge Em In The Dungeon", then "Mouse Trap". I thought the children were actually being murdered on air. 28 years old I was etc.
@garethjohnstone92828 ай бұрын
I used to love weekend TV. Getting back to school on Mondays and talking about it with friends. Even watching the programs knowing your mates were almost certainly watching at the same time, too. Modern life doesn’t have that with on demand and being able to just stream whenever. And being able to just talk about it on WhatsApp.
@markdavidson9100 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video thank you, the hockey and basketball playing was like a YouBet challenge
@johnnycrawford15842 жыл бұрын
Stark exposition of the human condition. Ta much Mr M.
@edgarbeat285116 күн бұрын
Was the intro not done by the same people that dis the classic Smarties advert. Would not suprise me. They used to show Samuri Pizza cats a catoon made by cocain. The original stores scripts were lost and the English dub was Hilarious. Between 1990, 91.
@LittlePixelTMАй бұрын
Get Fresh!
@stephenhough49574 ай бұрын
‘Ordinary basketball’. Erm ok, Mr Able Bodied……
@piggo646 ай бұрын
TISWAS!
@RememberTheRegs9 күн бұрын
God. I didn't recognise Motormouth until the Mousetrap section popped up.
@noneofyourbusiness46162 ай бұрын
Trying to imagine Vincent Van Gogh about to cut his ear off and being confronted with a vision of a future in which his act of pain is used as entertainment for children.
@simondavies4196 ай бұрын
Frank Sidebottom was genius...
@townsjim Жыл бұрын
Hi, just wondering if you'll be doing a video on What's Up Doc? That show was a treasure trove of weirdness.
@StuartMillard Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Once I've built up the courage.
@townsjim Жыл бұрын
@@StuartMillardhaha yeah I get you 😬
@mathuxley72648 ай бұрын
Please get on What's Up Doc. Birthed from the shitty cultural resurgence of the Tazmanian Devil but host to characters like Naughty Torty that felt like a many-faced demon was taunting us by flaunting its presence on live tv. The nearest Yvette Cooper ever came to the actual supernatural
@Tomurow Жыл бұрын
There was always a bit of disturbing malevolence behind Andy Crane's pseudo-curtains...
@cartoonhead92227 ай бұрын
This episode is sponsored by: POTATO
@SMlFFY8510 күн бұрын
I'll not hear a bad word against What's Up Doc'
@LovecraftComedy3 ай бұрын
Sorry to go on, but I have an interest in programmes that had shite or unexpected bands on, acts you'd never heard of. Eggs 'N' Baker was good for this, Cheryl trumping up unknown acts as if it were Madonna or Bros. I recall a girl group called the Marines and also the never-popular band PELE. I'm sure Fresh might've cropped up too singing 'Did I Say Te Amo'. And maybe the Osmond Boys. There's also the appearance of rave act Oceanic trying to make a comeback on Tricks and Tracks, with the utterly lame 'Celebration'. I'll shut up now as I've started thinking about Kelly G (Ray from Grange Hill) doing his single 'Teach Me" on Blue Peter...
@pipoo1 Жыл бұрын
It's the only show other than SMTV that beat the BBC during the winter months, ITV often won the summer thanks to No73, Get Fresh and Ghost Train. I loved Saturday Superstore but I never ever got into Going Live! It always seemed slow and boring to me. Motormouth was just bigger, set, features etc and actually in hindsight a lot like Saturday Superstore, with Andy Crane cast in role of Mike Read even the set from series 3/4 was vaguely similar to that of Superstore with it's cocktail bar in place of the coffee shop.
@MrDenzal276 ай бұрын
Boss, the world was a million times better than today. I was aloud to think, and hold views. We had much better comedy. We was so much more free in those days. I love reminiscing about these days in ur vids. :)
@zanducktv23982 жыл бұрын
Steve Johnson was an annoying weirdo. What was the point of the backstage sitcom, so tedious. Poor Neil with bubbly Lesley Garrett, so much cringe 🤦♂️ Wonder what things would’ve been like if Schofe had landed this one and Andy got Going Live 🤔
@msgrime19817 ай бұрын
So, was Ghost Train before or after Motormouth?
@PotatoPirate1237 ай бұрын
Ooh-aaah
@snailo96507 ай бұрын
I think it was before
@pipoo17 ай бұрын
Same time, Motormouth 88-92 Ghost Train 89-91 Motormouth was the winter series and Ghost Train the summer one. With the Chart Show year round at 11.30. This was by far ITVs most successful Saturday morning lineup until SMTV at the end of the decade.
@snailo96507 ай бұрын
@@pipoo1 All I can remember is Barry Mafia and some kind of hilarious fight game 😂
@billyhodges71949 күн бұрын
BBC ruled ?? Not in my house.... We were strictly Tiswas and I swear there were kids in my street who couldn't watch Tiswas under any circumstances, and my parents were very keen on moral punishment but luckily had a sense of humour.
@lanceuppercut3498Ай бұрын
Only ever saw bits and pieces of Motor Mouth back in the day. And what I saw just looked poor and unappealing compared to Going Live, to me was just better in every way. Although I have seen full episodes (thanks to Made In Maidstone channel) of Motormouth recently. It was okay, but still Going Live was still far superior. And as for Steve Johnson, to me at the time he was the most unfunny annoying man on Children's TV at the time, couldn't stand the guy.
@thedivinemrm58324 сағат бұрын
5:55 - is that not James Dreyfus, effete star of "Gimme, Gimme, Gammon" and "The Thin Blue Line (between biological sex and gender expression is not a real thing so let me shit on the trans folk from my lofty position as the acceptable face of right-wing homosexuality)"? If 'kippers and brexiteers had only known he'd done kids TV...