TV Shows GONE WRONG | The BBC's Biggest Disasters (NEW EDIT)

[@AdamMartyn]

Just to stress again, this is a NEW EDIT to the video. To better comply with KZbin's Community Guidelines, some sections of video have been blurred (namely revolving around Anthea Turner's accident) and other small additions have been added, that I originally had aimed to include but missed. I hope you all still find the video an informative one, despite the heavier subject matter. Thank you for your support and patience

[@ElectroStorm_Gaming]

I've seen the OG One!

[@TheMirrorMan-k2j]

​​@@ElectroStorm_Gaming Almost 3-4K Saw It

[@kingeatking]

Shame as the original hit like a brick. This does not but completely understandable why the change had to be made.

[@ElectroStorm_Gaming]

@@kingeatking Yeah, GOD DAMN KZbinS POLICIES!!

[@Feenixfire90GamingTFG]

Stupid KZbin being stupid!

[@stevenstiles5112]

As someone who knew Michael, please never forget this extremely friendly, generous, and liked by everyone man, still to this day, it's hard to believe he lost his life this way, and so young, He only brought good to the world, never to be forgotten, you're very missed, RIP my friend.

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

Very, very sad. I hope Mr Lush rests in peace.

[@stevebloomer7027]

Sorry for the loss of your mate. Just the picture of Michael Lush is telling. A hod of bricks over his shoulder. Wearing normal street clothes. No PPE. No goggles. No helmet. No gloves. Nothing.

[@gimble447]

Jenny Powell coming down via parachute near the start looked pretty dodgy riskwise too 😂

[@RovinTan]

We need to repeat all these stunts with Philip schofield today.

[@gazza2933]

Unbelievable that there was no Safety Net. Even professional circus acts use them. Rest In Peace Michael.

[@paullayton363]

I can recall a woman doing a challenge on the LLBS which involved riding on a train and jumping onto bridges which the train ran under...there was hardly any clearance between the top of the carriage and the underside of the bridge....it would be around 1983 and I can remember thinking at the time that it was remarkably dangerous.

[@FerdinandCesarano]

I don't think it's right to insinuate that the presenter is to blame for the death of Lush. Safety arrangements are the responsibility of the show's producers.

[@MichelleMybelle61]

They tried to say because he wanted more dangerous pranks ..I used to watch the show ..and I'm sure safety could of been better RIP to the young man

[@markdaly1648]

Mike smyth never forgave noel Edmonds for running away from the inquest into lush death. And was apparently so angry over Edmonds decision to leave the accident that killed micheal lush that the they had a massive falling and did not work together again after. I could be wrong but I think that Smyths widow sarah green hinted that it played some role in his ill health and his subsequent heart problems

[@BillCalahan]

I agree with you - something like a bungee jump shouldn't even be dangerous if the risks are managed correctly, and it's not down to the presenter to do that.

[@trishshoe1709]

​@@markdaly1648ts is smith lll

[@cornerofthemoon]

I lived in England back in the 80's. I remember watching TLLBS and I (along with just about everyone else) knew it was just a matter of time before the show would kill someone.

[@mrkipling2201]

Same here. Especially after the one they did with the car jumping over things and injuring the driver. I loved growing up in the 1980s!!

[@SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG]

Their biggest disaster was hiring Savile

[@RealJoBoGamer]

Frrr

[@bostonrailfan2427]

no, it was hiding it from the police and the public for decades

[@Fcutdlady]

@SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG yet you're using his name . Is this a case of birds of a feather flock together ?

[@Andrew_Hillis]

Jimmy WHO ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔

[@Onmysheet]

And covering it up.

[@mrkipling2201]

The fact is that we didn’t have health and safety guidelines in the 1980s. I grew up in the 1980s and it was non existent.

[@Ivorahyatt]

They've had them since 70s.

[@mrkipling2201]

@ not that I recall. Certainly nowhere near the level of even the 1990s.

[@pietweety7020]

It’s unfair to blame Edmonds he was just a front man and a good one at that. RIP Michael Lush

[@stephenholmes1036]

Correct, It was the people who organised the stunt and supervised it.

[@Andrew_Hillis]

R.I.P. MICHAEL LUSH

[@sarahsarah4271]

I will never forget that it was awful.

[@Andrew_Hillis]

@@sarahsarah4271 I WAS TOLD THAT HE OFF'D HIMSELF, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Andrew_Hillis]

@@sarahsarah4271 I was told that Michael Lush OFF'D HIMSELF, I don't know if this is TRUE ? ? ? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Andrew_Hillis]

@@sarahsarah4271 I was told that Michael Lush OFF'D HIMSELF, I don't know if this is TRUE ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@GlennPearson-z3k]

They paid his wife £120k? My god the man was only 25 that should of been a million at least the BBC literally getting away with murder 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Innesb]

In today’s money, it’s the equivalent of about £500,000. In 1986, the median wage for an adult was approx £10,000 so the compensation was equivalent to more than ten years of salary for the man in the street. It’s worth noting that at that time, Noel Edmunds would have been earning at least hundreds of thousands of £s per year from his work with the BBC, and possible £1m or more. By 1993 he was reportedly earning almost £2.5m per year from the BBC and he reportedly signed a £3m dollar contract to host Deal or No Deal in 2006. Compared to those figures, £120,000 is pitiful. Having said that, I’m not suggesting that any amount of money is appropriate recompense for this kind of incident. It wasn’t a ‘tragic accident’, it was an inevitable but avoidable event caused by an organisation creating entertainment on the cheap. Individuals should have been imprisoned as a result of this incident. Whether that be the producers or the supervising staff, I don’t know, but it is clear that several people must have been culpable for the litany of dangerous incompetence displayed in the production of this stunt. I didn’t know Michael Lush, but his death comes to mind whenever I hear Noel Edmund’s name or any mention of live Saturday night TV from the 1980s.

[@stevebloomer7027]

What is far worse is that NO ONE was ever prosecuted for the stunt.

[@Ivorahyatt]

HE made a choice to do it, HE had alcohol,HE wasn't wearing suitable footwear. As much to blame as the people who were there

[@kevinrayner5812]

@@Ivorahyatt Complete utter bollocks. Shame on you for such a comment.

[@martinodoni8943]

@@Ivorahyatt He was an ordinary member of the public, you dolt. He had no experience in what he was doing, and he had put his trust in the BBC to make sure he was safe. They completely failed. All the warning signs had been there that someone was going to be killed on that ridiculous show sooner or later and they were just ignored.

[@pjw1993]

It’s amazing that Noel Edmond’s continued to have such a long career after this. People so often brush under the carpet the incident involving Clive Anderson in ‘97 too.

[@RandyDarkshade2]

It wasn't Noal's fault though. It wasn;t he who organised the stunt, it was his bosses. So why shouldn;t he have continued a career?

[@prappsy]

You couldn't get away with the Clive Anderson murder these days. Everything's too woke now and you'd be be banged up for it, depriving the world of 20 more years of Noel's talents. .

[@tracymurray6840]

Noel is not to be blamed here, the blame should go to the producers, and perhaps, the BBC.

[@mbvideoselection]

@@tracymurray6840 I do wonder if he should have raised concerns before though, especially after the car crash. I remember a clip where he says on the phone during the whirly wheel segment that he will "receive training from the finest experts". Did he sincerely believe that? Is that what he was told?

[@anngulliver5964]

What's this about Clive Anderson

[@channelzero2252]

I couldn't help but notice what looked like the channel 10 (Australia) logo behind Noel during the clip from that Christmas special 14:30 on the left side of the screen.

[@Wenlocktvdx]

That does look like the TEN logo

[@bostonrailfan2427]

it is…look at his sweater: UK and Australia are on it, so there must have been something involving that network and the show

[@Wenlocktvdx]

Can recall the news about the accident making Australian news, but can’t recall anything about him on TEN

[@kbhasi]

I imagined that the show was broadcast on both BBC1 in the UK and TEN in Australia, with the latter receiving the show via satellite link from the former.

[@Wenlocktvdx]

Could be, the wiki entry says it was repeated on Nine but makes no mention of the previous airing. TEN would have recorded as the BBC1 air time would have equated to early morning Australian time. Looks like a Christmas special too.

[@mbvideoselection]

Thankfully John Noakes survived his ordeal up Nelson's Column.

[@Buster_Piles]

I didn't even know he met Mandela never mind got on that well with him. That's racey news. 😮

[@cornerofthemoon]

I don't blame Noel Edmonds for the Michael Lush tragedy, however, I do blame him for being the most overrated and overexposed TV presenter of all time.

[@Buster_Piles]

Plus he shot Clive Anderson. Check it out. The Baastard.

[@Onmysheet]

Then, in the 00s, we got Davina Mccall and Ant & Dec. There's no escaping them.

[@gazza2933]

Definitely those last two. Talkabout 'money for old rope'

[@saxx001]

Well said all.

[@melasnexperience]

The Michael Lush death reminds me entirely too much of Owen Hart's death, and while he might not have been 100% responsible for it, Edmonds being a crank about "health & safety overreach" it it happened really looks vile in its wake & makes it hard to give him a pass like others are doing. He might not be the "culprit", but he definitely didn't give a damn. That said, the announcement deciding to replace the episode with "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" should not strike me as humorously tone-deaf as it has.

[@Ivorahyatt]

Who is Owen Hart?

[@melasnexperience]

@@Ivorahyatt A 90s wrestler who was killed in a poorly planned stunt. He's a personal favorite of mine, and I'm sure you can find documentaries about him on here if you're curious.

[@bernardevans1]

The LLBS format was to call the person as their name was drawn out live. The clip of Michael Lush being called after being drawn was played on news reports at the time. In today’s Money equivalent the amount paid is £440,650.00

[@NickFieldMedia]

Great video Adam, Savox (who has a channel full of videos like this) would be proud. You could probably do a few more for other TV channels too - ITV has had its fair share of them, as has C4... I get the impression there was an accident waiting to happen on these shows and sadly Mr Lush lost his life as a result.

[@ivaneurope]

There's another horrific incident that almost ended in tragedy - the Samuel Koch incident on the German TV game show "Wetten, dass.. ?". Airing on ZDF, "Wetten, dass.. ?" (translated from German to "Wanna bet that.. ?") had similar premise to the daring segments of "The Late, Late Breakfast Show". On 4 December 2010 episode, Koch's challenge was to jump over 5 moving cars wearing spring loaded boots. He cleared the first and third cars (the jump on the second car was aborted), but when it came to the 4-th car (driven by Koch's father)...well, Koch's head hit the windshield and he landed on the studio floor, resulting in two cervical vertebrae fractures and damaged spinal cord. Thankfully, Koch survived after an emergency surgery, but since then he's been paralyzed for life from the neck down. What makes this really horrific is that "Wetten, dass.. ?" was a live televised show, meaning that this incident was broadcasted live on TV. The episode was then taken off air 20 minutes after the incident occured. On the following episode, Thomas Gottschalk resigned from his duty as the show's host, effective following the conclusion of the 2011 series. The original show continued until 2014 (it was revived in 2021) with the final episode featuring Koch as one of the guests. For the record, Koch never blamed the show or the host Gottschalk for his condition.

[@Portondown]

Just after this tragedy! My grandmother was on a Round the World tip. When she returned - she said it was not that good! There was a little man sat next to her all the way - he never stopped moaning! His name was Noel Edmond’s.

[@johnnyboy18778]

What a funny story

[@BillDunlop-b1u]

He's the typical whingeing pom.

[@stephenholmes1036]

Noel Edmonds did not organise the events. The Stunt team and organisers were the people who supervised the stunt.

[@ulsdon7]

I've always remembered Michael Lush to this day , so sad.

[@xangelita101x]

Oh my gosh, that was terrible during nation television, not only in the UK, but in the United States.

[@annonimouse170]

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop... Crazy how I still know that telephone number.

[@edcatt6003]

So, KZbin's Community Guidelines have ruined another great video.

[@scarpergirl]

The video creator himself ruined it. All KZbin did was put an age barrier on the original one, and a graphic content warning, they didn't remove it. How many of this guy's viewers are under 18? Unnecessary censoring for no reason

[@epender]

​@@scarpergirl It's not that black and white. If a video is age restricted, it will be blacklisted in the recommendations as KZbin can't place ads on the video.

[@scarpergirl]

@@epender But is that a big deal to a guy with 50,000 subscribers?!

[@noisychamps]

The blurred section can be seen in other KZbin videos covering the incident, such as "Motorbike Stunt Accident Of Anthea Turner." I don't know whether it's because those videos were uploaded some years ago and KZbin's restrictions were different then or it is something else that I'm not aware of, but maybe viewers should be given the choice to blur or unblur content? After all, watching footage of natural disasters or conflict such as war on KZbin news channels can be as distressing as to being curious about how a stunt went wrong, which itself became a news item, isolated from the TV show it was recorded for when it was being reported across news channels or networks.

[@ianrobertsonRR1]

I did add comments on the 'uncensored' version as I was on the 'whirly wheel' a few clicks away from Mr Lush but not getting involved in this clip if all it is doing is getting more money blah blah blah. Shame really really but there you go.

[@kennyjones3679]

The horror of the death of Stephen ladd in 1972 riding through Blazing hay bales which went uo to 1000 degrees.

[@annonimouse170]

Utter madness... I can't remember the Late, Late, Breakfast Show but I was at uni doing my first degree so Saturday evenings were probably focussed on libation.

[@paulf9487]

When health and safety doesn't go mad.

[@speakfreeley4473]

Rich Smith was a pro in his profession. He soon made a full recovery & was back to what he love doing.

[@nigelstansfield1644]

I would like to believe.Soon seems unlikely,though..Multiple injuries.

[@Onmysheet]

Edmonds's hey dey was Noel's House Party.

[@rogersimmons8788]

Ah, a nice cup of tea. Yep, the cure for everything!

[@KimiIceman22]

Disasters aside, you guys should check out timestamp 8:28 - THE BBC HAVE LITERALLY PLAYED THE STAR WARS THEME SONG AND GOT AWAY WITH IT! 😂🤣

[@maxsvoicecollection]

Where did you get the dramatic reenactment of what happens to Michael Lush? Was it a documentary on Channel 5?

[@SuperLuigiSixty4]

I follow a Doctor Who channel that keeps its videos on private for a few days just in case copyright hits or other restrictions come up. That may be a helpful strategy for heavier videos, at least. Great vid, happy to watch again!

[@AdamMartyn]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tortysoft]

I was working at BBC Enterprises that day. We used to have a taxi to get us to the TVC restaurant for our evening meal. Not that day though. This is the first time I have heard the details. Basically staff were told nothing.

[@TWPMusic-Factory]

I was only 7 or 8 but I remember hearing about the fall on the radio. The first time I was old enough to understand how messed up this was is.

[@tphvox]

What is the point of showing this video if its all blurred out anyway? 😂

[@163andyc]

Can be found on Google.

[@freemansteinslab]

Such is the necessity these days to appease the YT overlords unfortunately. Not doing so will often result in age restriction, demonetisation or even channel termination.

[@Damien-q8t]

She says "if you would like something to happen to you" and then blows up......the irony of it

[@DeioMacEochaidh]

I clicked this for a bit of a laugh whilst having a wee brew, and, for sure, I laughed, but what was more surprising was being overwhelmed by a powerful no-holds-barred bout of nostalgia. Forget the Tardis, what a time-machine. Fair play.

[@iainmcloughlin6305]

A laugh! Someone died you sicko!!

[@joda6466]

The superman music as he crashes😂😂

[@dontbesodense]

Is this a re upload? Im sure I watched a video just like this afew days ago

[@ellieleekz]

Yes.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the original got age-restricted because of the explosion incident scenes so he blurred them and reuploaded the video

[@nicholaskirk9810]

As a kid I always really liked Jenny Powell as a presenter. 😁👍👊.

[@bwilson5401]

She's my age, but I liked her too.Very much.😂

[@keefdippy2886]

Why put a viewer discretion warning then blur the accidents

[@freemansteinslab]

Such is the necessity these days to appease the YT overlords unfortunately. Not doing so will often result in age restriction, demonetisation or even channel termination.

[@thechatteringmagpie]

I don't want to appear morbid but is there an uncensored version available?

[@ivaneurope]

I think ordinary people should not be allowed to do dangerous stunts at all or at least without proper training or supervision from a professional stuntman. It's beyond mind boggling that an institution like the BBC even allowed this to go ahead knowing that it could end tragically which it did. And where were the authorities in all of this? It took a stunt that went wrong and took the life of innocent person for the BBC to realize that this was wrong on so many levels.

[@pferreira1983]

Since the original video was taken down I just want to say there was terrible irony in the BBC stupidly announcing showing One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing following Lush's death. 🤦‍♂

[@PaddyBaxter-ji8in]

The late great Keith Moon unexpectedly joined Led Zeppelin on stage at the LA Forum in June 1977 playing John Bonham’s kettle drums on the last song of the night, “Whole Lotta Love”. What he didn’t know was that he was standing right on top of at least one strategically positioned pyro which was supposed to go off at the climax of the song and it went off right on time and right underneath him as he was playing and he survived. He was a bit scorched, though. He got himself into many scrapes more serious than this one so I’m not sure it ever made the papers outside of LA but I didn’t read about it until years later. For him this was probably just a scratch. However, long before that incident, back in the mid-60s on the Smothers Brothers TV show in the US with The Who he famously persuaded a stagehand to fill his bass drum with so much gunpowder - the original plan was to only use a tiny amount for a pyro-like explosion - that when the time came for the plunger to go down at the end of “My Generation” his drum kit blew up with such force that he was thrown off his stool backwards for several yards. This performance is on the soundtrack of the film “The Kids Are Alright”. A pyro wouldn’t create anything like THAT level of destruction - it’s really just a blinding flash that dazzles the audience for a second or two and is nothing compared to THAT - and although Pete Townshend’s hearing was permanently damaged nobody, including Keith Moon, was seriously injured. OK, this isn’t great health and safety practice and having a pyro going off underneath you can’t be much fun and I wouldn’t recommend anyone to put themselves in that position but it isn’t really that big an explosion. I played drums in a band that regularly used pyros in small venues with small stages and they were on the floor only about a metre away from my kit on both sides, sometimes closer. Admittedly Anthea was a bit closer to her pyros than I was to mine but I never suffered any injuries nor got my hair set on fire from playing next to pyros. Nor did anyone in the audience. I always knew to close my eyes when the time came or I would get dazzled just like in that bit of footage and knocked off my stride. I was never deafened by a pyro, hardly any noise at all - it was a visual rather than a sonic experience. Also, if the biker, even though, unlike Anthea, he probably wore some protective clothing, was supposed to ride through these pyros as they went off then it can reasonably be assumed that he would definitely survive the explosion from these pyros, even with petrol in the tank of his motorcycle, so while she might have been badly shocked, a bit singed and maybe partly deafened for a few hours I think Anthea’s quite resilient and I don’t believe she was in any imminent danger of death. Possibly these pyros were larger than the ones we used but they were being detonated off the back of a truck so I can’t imagine they were excessively large. However I can imagine Led Zeppelin may well have used at very least the same size or even larger pyros than the BBC and Keith Moon survived one of them. Maybe I missed it but I don’t recall any mention of injuries that Anthea suffered as a result of this incident. Can’t imagine it was nice for her, but compared to the Noel Edmonds incidents, this is nothing.

[@richardkent2014]

That's when the UK was really the UK when you get blown up by fireworks then the new presenter comes on the telly tells you Anthea is ok she's just popped to see a medic having a nice cuppa tea she will be ok 😂😂😂😂. I don't know how we survived growing up compared to the UK today

[@NeilDevlin-b5d]

Bit harsh calling Anthea Turner 'sugar paper' isn't it 🤔😆

[@RONAL459]

I didn't find Top Gear entertaining in the end, due to them⁷ not respecting the dangers of vehicles, and then Freddie Flintoff nearly gets killed, for a laugh. It was inevitable that this was going to happen. Thankfully, Freddie survived. RIP Michael...

[@ashleymartin4512]

i'm very glad that the stunt involving poor micheal lush was not filmed for a multitude of reasons primarily the addded trauma/pain it would have caused his family and friends and that no one would have the oppurtunity to watch it an i.e view such a desperatetly bad incident as some kind of entertainment.........

[@BlytheWorld1972]

omg rip to MICHAEL LUSH

[@johnarnehansen9574]

Accidents on Live Television back was pretty much commonplace, although rules and safety-regulations have been improved at this point, these were most likely ignored. But if you were to pull this of on live television you would have to get paramedics, doctors, firemen and firewomen in order to complete this stunt!..

[@martoto77]

A good inclusion in this video would have been a clip from Noel's HQ where he had a section that involved him complaining about "Health and Safety" regulations. The man is scum.

[@theaverageteleporter7435]

Great. Now we are going to need a new new edit.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Sounds like Richard Stockton Rush...

[@kenny832]

Cool kids watched Tiswas!

[@nathanjames1514]

The man is scum? What did he say or do please?

[@martoto77]

@nathanjames1514 Watch the video, read my post.

[@VideoTransmitService]

5:05 "Fatal" miscommunication?

[@ethzero]

The secondary meaning: "leading to failure or disaster". Another example is computers can have "fatal errors", but clearly they do not die in any sense.

[@djpeterabreu]

I agree, I would've used a different word though fatal can also mean disastrous

[@GodlessScummer]

I'm from the same small town in Hampshire that Michael Lush was from. The stunt took place just down the road from where I live. I was very young when this happened but I remember that the whole community was shocked by the event and it was a talking point amongst locals for some time.

[@FerraristDX]

The second story eerily reminds me of Owen Hart's death during a WWF show in 1999.

[@alfasdelpi]

I knew one of those involved in the stunt. Terrible shock.

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

The Michael Lush accident took place at Long Crendon nr Thame Oxfordshire.

[@IssacLHunt]

That's some funny shit hee hee The Biker One minute a stunt man to a spastic in A Wheelchair

[@adamstar7516]

What’s the point of compiling this video and NOT showing the clips. They are available elsewhere too. Waste of time.😊

[@newforestpixie5297]

GAZ Topps’ MULLET was scarier than Gilbert his Alien chum

[@mrkipling2201]

The Michael Lush tragedy sounds eerily similar to the Owen Hart WWF tragedy in 1999.

[@Andrew_Hillis]

HEALTH & SAFETY WHAT HEALTH & SAFETY ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@dean6816]

Well at least THE BBC was bothered about viewers in 1982!

[@Ivorahyatt]

That was before Noels house party so he did work again.

[@matthewpayton]

Don't try this at home.

[@NickFieldMedia]

Funnily enough that was the name of a Saturday night ITV show in the late 90s with Davina McCall and Darren Day, which also showed members of the public doing stunts - thankfully it seemed lessons had been learnt with regard to safety. However despite this, and the show's title, and Davina and Darren yelling the aforementioned title at the end of every show, they still had to broadcast a "Do not recreate any of this" disclaimer message during the credits...

[@frankshailes3205]

"Don't try this at home." Or, indeed, anywhere :D

[@stevebloomer7027]

Health and safety wasn't really a thing back in the 1980s and before then. Remember, it was only 40 years after the War so that was a generation which had either grown up with a shit load of death or was just one generation away from it. Things were just a lot more reckless in those days - people drank a lot more, smoked loads, did dangerous things for a laugh. It's only in the last 20 years or so that things have become so tight that you can't fart without being rushed to accident and emergency for possible terminal flatulence. People just don't die as much these days as they used to. In the 1980s alone you had a lot of football violence, Broadwater Farm, King's Cross, Zeebrugge, Marchioness, Heysel and Hillsborough. People not alive during that period just wouldn't understand the culture really.

[@manda322]

Lost count how many times I got concussion as a kid from tarmac playgrounds. None of the softer stuff kids benefit from today

[@nigelstansfield1644]

I don't agree with any of this.I agree that H+S has become a career for some people,but lives mattered even in war.Most of these were avoidable tragedies.

[@OfflineSetup]

Unfortunately there is no longer a decent quality clip of Charlie Drake being knocked out on live tv, and an actor (and another actor who was not meant to be I n the scene), picked up his limp body and threw it through the window (as the script called) of course there was a mattress on the other side, but that was intended for Charlie’s to have been conscious (!). The story of how he was knocked out is probably apocryphal (supposedly a carpenter “fixing” loose shelves- it was likely to be the weight of the books that were not there in rehersal). The clips are out there.

[@Mark12106]

One thing that no one mentioned, The person choose to do it he was not forced to. There was no blame on Noel what so ever and there have been many accidents since. Just like pilots like don’t crash planes on purpose on most occasions but things go wrong. This presentation was one of the worst I have seen on you tube since the beginning and this presenter was only going for the shock treatment

[@SUCCESSPASS]

I couldn’t watch it, it’s too sad!

[@Danny123a]

I hate Turner and Edmonds

[@Buster_Piles]

Pair of spunkers

[@Onmysheet]

Apparently, a lot of people hate Edmonds. But he still has his stalkers.

[@Buster_Piles]

@@Onmysheet after what he did to poor Clive Anderson no wonder.

[@Danny123a]

@Onmysheet I hope they're armed lol

[@Onmysheet]

@@Danny123a Actually. One of them wanted to kill him.

[@Jab7581]

Great so what caused turner to come so close to death ??????????

[@thisisnotme7017]

carabeana clip? Did that kill Owen Hart too?

[@downtheallotment]

What’s the point. You don’t show them

[@alexanderscottrell8627]

This is shocking !

[@gimnazjalista97]

good evening. i remember a rather strange incident. it's not big. but small. in the morning program on tvp 2. which was called "pytanie na śniadanie". in july 2016 a certain illusionist was invited. and the co-host of this program was to perform a trick with a real metal nail. and this nail pierced her hand. but she didn't bleed. few claimed it was a fake. but others claimed it was true. a few hours later she took antibiotics and tetanus injections. fortunately she survived. i'm waiting for the next video. but this topic with breakfast television that i mentioned. will be a small curiosity for viewers.

[@3rdalbum]

I remember seeing a clip of this, probably shortly after it occurred.

[@NeilChristian-s5r]

wasnt the Jensen a bit bonnet heavy

[@SushiTime1981]

The motorbike stunt is on other YT clips.

[@JohnOakes-mw5ls]

I reckon Eamonn Holmes, who Anthea Turner had a precarious relationship with, organised the pyrotechnic disaster! Lol 😝 I jest of course!!!

[@4justo740]

1:39 MTV was never a big thing in the U.K. It was probably only after Sky Sports grabbed the Premier League TV rights in 1992 that the number of satellite dishes significantly increased and so it was mainly for sport. I'd never even heard of MTV Europe when I first had access to Sky; I only knew of the American version. There was only The Chart Show on ITV for music videos other than those shown on TOTP (which preferred acts to appear in person on the programme). I don't think MTV Europe even began until the summer of 87.

[@007JNR]

Is was a big thing in London

[@prappsy]

Many who did have satellite in the early 90s would watch MTV a lot though. It was perfect background entertainment as an alternative to the radio. Everyone I knew who had Sky from 89 to the mid-90s would watch an awful lot of MTV or VH-1. It was a launchpad for a lot of UK presenters too, Davina McCall being one of the more notable ones.

[@Dean-kg2py]

It was bigger than sky sports at the start... much bigger 😂

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

Like I Mentioned in the previous video, ITV have also had their fair share of disasters, Ranging from contestants breaking their limbs on The Krypton Factor's Assault Course (one Dislocating their shoulder in 1978 & another breaking their leg in 1989) to the Catalogue of Injuries that plagued Gladiators (like when Panther nearly Broke her Neck & One contestant almost dying in the 2nd Semi-Final of Series 2 during a game of Hang Tough against Lightning).

[@Radd654]

Aah the good old 80s when men were men and you could smoke anywhere you wanted 😜

[@AdamMartyn]

Sounds horrific 😂

[@RandyDarkshade2]

I have never understood why a channel that literally talks and shows borrowed clips from TV needs patreon support, what costs are involved to warrant that?

[@3rdalbum]

1. Time spent making the videos as opposed to doing overtime in his day job 2. Internet costs to download source material and upload finished product 3. Storage space to hold uncompressed/lightly compressed video

[@RcCrawler-g2p]

Noel Edmond’s great presenter

[@Andy-lm2zp]

NOT going to watch this but I have to comment, not only did a person die, BUT THE NEXT series they Pretended something had gone wrong on another stunt SICK PEOPLE

[@Littlemitashy]

Ridiculous it got age restricted for the Anthea Turner clip when it aired live in a CHILDREN'S SHOW to millions of children in the first place.

[@AdamMartyn]

I mean on one hand sure but I don't think they planned to set her on fire when they originally broadcast it 😅

[@alanreader4815]

What Finished him off was a box full C5 exsploive on Deal or no deal. poor noel edmands.

[@QPRTokyo]

Should have gone into the later incidents.

[@aldomir]

Was it necessary to blur out the explosion of Anthea?

[@rajjy1976]

I remember watching it live as a kid. It didn’t need blurring. I’ve seen worse on KZbin 😂

[@SuperLuigiSixty4]

The original version of this video was unblurred and was restricted by KZbin within a day of upload.

[@scarpergirl]

​@@SuperLuigiSixty4 So what? Restricting just means you have to press Confirm before watching the video. Seems an overreaction to pull and blur. Just makes what happened vague a.f. - his voiceover hasn't been changed to fill the gaps either.

[@curiousmind616]

I miss noel on tv

[@jacey5201]

You can still find Anthea Turner's accident here on KZbin for a good laugh. Well me and my brother was rolling around on the floor laughing our heads off when we were watching it at the time. Still makes me laugh still to this day. That shows you the mentality of the audience of that era. Don't forget the 80s was that time of Beadle's about and You've Been Framed amongst other things. We love it when it all goes wrong on live TV.

[@dannytooley7530]

That’s not funny that’s mean if it is in a action movie or wresting is awesome but this was real life

[@Onmysheet]

If she had been sitting in the centre of that truck, she would be dead.

[@russellb99]

Gave up watching after the first 3 minutes. The narrator did nothing but bore me witless, and kept building up and building up, but nothing happened.

[@AdamMartyn]

😂😂😂

[@derekspence6994]

NOEL what a great guy eh lol

[@scarpergirl]

Sorry to say i think you editing this is a bit silly. Yes, KZbin is going to restrict it, but you have newrly 50,000 followers, its not like anyone was going to miss seeing the video - all you get is a warning about graphic imagery. I had my subscriptions on auto, full screen on my phone, wasn't able to read your comment about having edited it, and i had only a vague idea of what was supposed to have happened to Anthea... I just assumed the camera had gone blurry, not that you'd blurred it. If you'd have just left it unblurred it would have been more informative but instead you felt the need to play ball with KZbin...

[@bostonrailfan2427]

money matters more…he chose money over leaving it as-is. he could have cut it out entirely and redone the narration without referencing to her incident and been just fine but chose to not do it

[@Innesb]

It allows people to learn about the events without watching the ‘gore’. I didn’t know about the Anthea Turner incident, so I was interested to learn about it. I’m not sensitive to seeing injuries, but I have no interest in seeing Anthea Turner on fire when it’s very clear from the narration what happened. In addition, it is useful for younger people to be able to watch this video and learn about TV history without being exposed to real injuries occur ripping on-screen.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@ there was no gore, and it was an extraneous bit that didn’t add much at all as 80% was devoted to the second incident

[@scarpergirl]

@@bostonrailfan2427 honestly my biggest gripe is that the censorship wasn't explained in the video, but only in the description, which seems a lazy edit

[@greenman1411]

I liked watching Noel Edmunds programmes because they always had a stupid stunt in them.

[@mbvideoselection]

Maybe the BBC should have learned from its own 1968 drama The Year Of The Sex Olympics.

[@frankshailes3205]

The makers of Big Brother did... by copying it!

[@Buster_Piles]

I got a gold in the " most birds shagged in the bum competition" at that. Still have it proudly on the mantle! 😊

[@derekspence6994]

BBC there you go to humans!!

[@tonycoffey2485]

Can't believe we nearly lost Anthea. The TRUE Princess of our Hearts. As for Mr Tidy Beard the playground joke was 'What's worse than catching zAids? Getting a phone call off Noel Edmonds.