Zzzap! - CITV (1994)

More craziness from the TV comic Zzzap. This edition is from the second series first broadcast on CITV in 1994, not sure which episode in the series it is.

[@bigdump2825]

When life had no worries

[@110guided9]

Classic!!

[@rossmurray3724]

Facts 😭

[@varietywizard78]

100% agree the good old days miss them

[@joegrattan6342]

except bad AIDS 👎.

[@jamesobrien1440]

Just carefree sunny days when you were a kid, coming home from school with no homework. A snickers, then marathon bar, full size not the miniature portion you get nowadays and a red coke

[@matt3719]

How did I never notice as a child that Smart Arty is very very clearly Neil Buchanan?

[@mezykin]

I think the eyes instantly made me recognise Neil when I was a kid

[@kronictonic]

Yeah I remember him most from this show

[@scorelineupdate129]

Sir Neil Buchan OBE is living legend Finders Keepers and Art Attack

[@iainbarnfield4049]

Oh my god!! Yes

[@AndrewChapman]

I was just about to say the same thing😆

[@Slice998]

The suspense when that music hit and you didn’t know where it was going to land

[@JamieSMB]

Especially when after once a week episodes, it did finally land on one of those spaces such as the question mark or the eye, it was something to really look forward to each week. Such a good show

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

@@JamieSMB Did it ever land on the laughing clown, the zigzag or the rotating leg? I don't recall it doing so.

[@JamieLikesGames]

​@@Man-From-Another-PlaceIt landed on all those spots except for the leg, but they were replaced by other puzzle segments. The clown got replaced by Dot to Dot, the Zig Zag got replaced by some eyes in a bush

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

@@JamieLikesGames I remember the puzzle segment being the eye. I don't remember it ever landing on the clown, for example.

[@JamieLikesGames]

@@Man-From-Another-Place It never landed on the Zig zag, but when they replaced it, it did end up landing and being a puzzle for guessing the silhouette

[@MrAnthWard]

This programme scared the shit out of me yet I still watched it and I still think it's one of my favourites! Haha!

[@nightw4tchman]

Oh my god finally someone else who this show scared. Everyone else I knew loved it but I used to hate how uncanny it felt.

[@cotterell1985]

@@nightw4tchman count me in the "scared" brigade aswell. Proper freaked me out.

[@Samsung-galaxy1993]

Ayoo same here 😂😂🤣😂

[@allmyfriendsmcr6576]

Yeah it shit me up, quite unsettling

[@MultiKadafi]

It wasn't scary lol

[@andreasophiach]

Am I the only one who always found this show kind of creepy 😅

[@DDaannyy16]

Andrea Sophia yes!! not quite sure why since it seems quite innocent now but as a kid was kinda disturbing

[@noughtiesmonroe]

Yes I did! I don’t know why though! 😬

[@jonathanm877]

Yes because the giant comic and no one talks.

[@violetangelwind2622]

Hiiiiiiiiiii😆

[@leebeardshall2888]

I like it but it was at times

[@karlbristow1223]

Literally used to run home from school to catch this because it was one of the early shows. Loved it.

[@ryanjames3260]

I did the same 😂😂

[@ryanjames3260]

It was on about half 3. I finished school early on Wednesday and ran home to get back in time

[@olliebuck5243]

Me too buddy. This and knightmare were my favorites

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

Same here , used to watch it as soon as I got home from school 😁😃.

[@tomasbiagioni1331]

Interesting fact, the guy who made this had a deaf daughter. Thats why none of the characters speak and its all gestures or words in speech bubbles. He wanted to make a kids show for his little girl.

[@tenpasttwelve8931]

That's not true. Neil Buchanan and Tim Edmunds were invited by Meridian to devise a show aimed at (but not exclusively for) the deaf.

[@PJR29787]

I always wondered as a kid why do they never talk! Use to watch this with my sister! Guna have to bring up this little gem of knowledge from the past! Cheers!

[@Lifeskeyishappiness]

Ahhh, the nostalgia, 27 now. Used to love watching this during my Primary School days.

[@leejones8582]

Me too good times

[@Maryam7862010]

Ah childhood! Any 2018 viewers?

[@tomthekat2826]

Yeah haha used to watch this after school when I was a kid

[@aptheplotagonandpuppetpals6424]

Me

[@jonathanm877]

This wouldn't be allowed today due to the Jeremy Corbyn loving vegan sexually confused gay snowflake generation.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

2019

[@tayeebhussain5014]

Me and my mum used to love watching this lol brings back great memories.

[@lagomorphine]

The Handymen music has remained engrained into my memory. It's my brain's hold music

[@matthewjoy4244]

Psychedelic this program was looking back at it now. Had me hooked for a solid 30 minutes. Them theta brain waves when you're just a kid...

[@jamiemarshall125]

Can’t believe I never noticed it was Neil Buchanan 😂

[@selinabegum4418]

The arty guy is Neil Buchanan from Art Attack if I remember correctly

[@JackpotButtonLewis]

You are indeed spot on! Don't forget Do It, No.73, Motormouth, It's A Mystery, and Finders Keepers! He even produced the first few series of ZZZap! too! This video link will prove that at 3:07! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKXNgX-pnamtfac

[@chill579]

Any TV heads want to get together and remake this for modern screens? Kids deserve the quality programming we had growing up. This stuff is stimulating, and bearable to watch as an adult. Looks like a 4-9 years old format as it is reliant on reading, in some instances quite quickly. Also looks as if the creators made this on a shoestring budget, this is a good way forward as it allows for volume, something network heads like. The original show put out 131 full episodes from 8/1/1993 - 21/9/2001. A season aired over a three month period and the show had a total of 10 seasons. With the same grassroots approach, we could make a charming little reboot that will be admired by kids and parents alike.

[@Kate31415]

Never clocked it at the time but watching it now this show was clearly designed with hearing impaired kids in mind.

[@nathaliegrieves3859]

I suppose it was

[@sssophie9292]

Yeah, as well as young kids I saw this on a fb memories post Haven't thought about this show for probably nearly 20 years Recognise the daisy girl and the handyman so clearly

[@leejones8582]

I was told it was made for deaf kids

[@n1msu]

I was born in 87, the show freaked me out then and it still does now. This show is the easiest proof that there might be a parallel universe xD

[@Cole_King]

You smoking some strong stuff dude

[@n1msu]

haha I can't smoke that stuff, it makes me paranoid. I'm guessing you never had the displeasure of watching this before it had beem recorded to YT for 20 years,

[@swanclipper]

@@n1msu displeasure? either you are choosing to ignore the comments and the love this show had, where the cast went at the time OR you're just ignorant and it's "displeasure" for you, and not anybody else. reality says different. if this show freaks you out, i wouldn't give you paracetamol, nevermind weed. all of us love this show. people like you exist for this show, like i exist for Lord of the Rings. don't like it, it's dumb and it's irritating to watch. but i don't seek out Lord of the Rings videos, to mention how much i fucking hate it. you're next level mate. you're a total prick. considering you're 3 years my senior, if this freaked you out and you was older than me, i can only assume life was super safe for you. the rest of us lived in reality and a couple of sounds and lights didn't "freak" any of us out. you're the child who walks around with headphones on and then having a fit when someone opposes you. "i'm guessing" is a phrase you used. so.... i'm guessing. asshat.

[@adrianandlaura]

Brilliant! I’ve just moved to the road behind the TV studios where this was filmed and for ages I couldn’t remember she name of this programme. A night of googling lead me to this.

[@Gambit771]

Those transitions I always found weird and trippy.

[@leoparkes7536]

Yes especially the first one with its slightly different chords 😦

[@lewishall9993]

Yeah it honestly sounds sinister 😂

[@Tiresias55]

Childhood right here. I loved this show as a kid, particularly the rubber gloves doing arts and crafts. Unfortunately, I can no longer enjoy watching due to sight loss, as this is definitely a program geared towards the deaf and hearing impaired. God bless

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

I'm so sorry. I wish I could describe an episode to you scene by scene so you could at least picture it. Although I know it wouldn't be the same. Take good care.

[@billyclark7079]

How did you write this if your blind

[@Johnbboy595]

Back when life was at its best.

[@ashleysharp7563]

It wasn't until I was much much older that the French painter was Neil buchanon from art attack 🤣🤣

[@jonathangray4890]

3:30 ???? Or do I just have a dirty mind? 😂

[@TheSuperQuail]

Omg that is ridiculously bad 😆 I used to watch this as a kid

[@TheOneLichemperor]

@@jonathanm877 Wait, isn't that the same generation that grew up watching shows of this era?

[@TheOneLichemperor]

@JSUK News Then I'm a little confused as to which generation is being referred to here!

[@nervesconcord]

@@TheOneLichemperor Under 25s, I'm 29 and watched this as a kid, and me and my friends can't stand the Jeremy Corbyn loving vegan sexually confused gay snowflake generation. My sister is 21 and is a moderately feminist socialist vegetarian who doesn't want to listen to facts that refute things she believes, so therefore also a snowflake, that generation sucks ass.

[@TheOneLichemperor]

​@@nervesconcord You may well be right in some respects, but it appears to me that every generation has its fair share of the willfully ignorant. My personal gripe with the younger generation is this complete obsession with social media and smart phones (I would consider myself a "Luddite" of sorts, if you would permit me to misuse the term. Alternatively, a 'grumpy old man'), but then plenty of the older generations have also been swept up by the phenomenon. In summary; I don't believe that Humans have changed all that much, really, but the environment has; so blaming the individual seems somewhat futile. Anyway, this is hardly the forum (under a bloody Zzzap! video no less!) for this discussion, so I apologise for babbling on! =P

[@elleeme9451]

I found this absolutely disturbing as a kid. I still agree with my judgment. There's something really sinister about it in an uncanny valley way. Especially, when the camera would hover over the characters suspended silent and manic/dead- looking in the comic

[@GeorgiaHelenaMoran13]

1000% agree!!! I found it terrifying but me and my sister would still watch it ahaha

[@FlyingHarlequin]

I thought the same!! It’s sort of like a bad recurring dream. Just confusing. Lol.

[@markdaly1648]

I agree.i was a teenager in Ireland. This was unwatchable. I didn't see the point of it

[@Idol2Idol]

Did ye aye ?

Same music made it so unsettling

[@lfcdavo90]

Weirdly terrifying programme

[@Aamzy786]

I'm so glad it wasn't just me that got freaked out by this show as a kid. Idk what it was about it but it was just creepy😂

[@adammclaughlin845]

As a kid, I had no reaction to this. As an adult, it's terrifying. Imagine being locked in a room with Daisy gurning at you. She grins like Frank Spencer.

[@miss_j_8811]

Loved this programme. Fondest of memories sat on my living room floor with my brother after school watching this, amongst other things 😊

[@fatloser666]

i’ve been trying to remember the name of this programme for YEARS omg 😭😭😭 i thought i’d imagined it

[@danielparry2114]

Hahaha just freaked me out to think i watched this as a kid and i’m now 33 👴🏻

[@ukrichardwalker]

This is such an odd yet entrancing show. Could not remember it's name until today.

[@Jaymonroe88]

Wow remember getting back from school and couldn’t wait to watch this nostalgic lol

[@AnthonyIanMallon]

Brilliant Show This Was 📺 I Feel 8 Years Old Again

[@liamx102]

It's sad kids of today will never experience this 😔

[@RadagonTheRed]

And suddenly - I’m 4 years old again. Just like magic.

[@sc1mpkownage]

This was part of my childhood 94 ,i was 7

[@Curas1]

Do not forward to 3:34 without seeing what came before. Ahh yeah.

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

The childhood memories Zapp brings back. This will always be part of my childhood along with mr oakie doke, the chuckle brother's, bodger and badger , button moon , brum e.t.c. I am currently playing Hogwarts Legacy on PS5 and this song at 7:28 is on there ,as soon as i heard the song it brought back childhood memories of Zapp and this scene.

[@KingBlackToof]

LITERALLY SAME! lol

[@pi3.14etc]

exact same here, recognised it a few weeks ago and came back today.

[@pi3.14etc]

exact same here, recognised it a few weeks ago and came back today.

[@pi3.14etc]

exact same here, recognised it a few weeks ago and came back today.

[@pi3.14etc]

exact same here, recognised it a few weeks ago and came back today.

[@Wheatley101]

When life was the best :(

[@zednes2065]

I feel like crying for some reason 🥲 but good tears

[@saramccallum8024]

Loved this remembered it today and searched it up to show my kids back when the world was alot simpler

[@classicalmusic1175]

This was one of favourite shows as a kid, along with Thomas the Tank Engine, and the Chuckle Brothers. Those were the days!

[@Nogli]

I always wanted it to go to that leg that was poking out of the bottom left corner, but it never did...

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

Yeah, me too. The same goes for that laughing clown.

[@SuperDouginator]

The leg puzzle page was revealed in the final series where it changed to a magnifying glass. But that was intended to be a puzzle page along with the clown that’s was supposed to be a joke sketch. But due to the time limits they never got to use them. The original intention I believe was to have almost every square visited in each episode.

[@jimmy7434]

If I hadn’t seen this I would have completely forgotten about it forever, yet seeing it again it’s like I watched it last week.

[@joeberryman3563]

Daisy is a lot more attractive than I remember.

[@Cole_King]

The classical music for Smarty Arty brings back the memories 😊

[@greatstuff8554]

Do you know what it’s called?

[@edmoore]

@@greatstuff8554 It's the Minuetto from Bocherinni's E Major string quintet.

[@greatstuff8554]

@@edmoore thank you

[@Vocalistvsoul]

Omg memories this show had me hooked to the screen so exciting and over stimulating to the eyes. For kids with attention issues 😂i miss the 90s

[@rossbain6311]

Am I the only one who got a very uneasy feeling watching this show as a child?

[@watts4433]

Nope, same here

[@hazelberry1454]

I loved this as a kid and only found out recently that apparently it was made for deaf kids? Not sure how true this is?

[@watermelonineasterhay]

Ive heard that, it makes sense.

[@Queen_-gg5jn]

Omg , thanks!!! My childhood favorite show along with Blue Peter and Art Attack. Watching all episodes again haha 😂 still gives me a really good nostalgic , happy warm feeling to this day 😁. Love all characters but daisy dares you my top fave. I don't suffer deafness but this show will always be the best

[@Stitch13257]

Use to love it watching it after school miss them day’s ❤️. Even bernerds watch. Wizi wig. These are the old good day’s. can’t forget rupert the bear. Where’s wally 🥰

[@Gitimus01]

I never knew this show was made with deaf children as it's priority. It explains so much.

[@leoparkes7536]

You knew when Zzzap! was on it was the start of the weekend!

[@wesleycracknell1623]

yes on the citv channel alot

[@nathaliegrieves3859]

Friday afternoons

[@bluesmobilehire4053]

Before knightmare

[@irena7777777]

Youth club and run down the road for this. Don’t know why I liked it so much.

[@blackmountains6645]

Daisy Dares was my favourite - she was always last and I still remember that feeling of excitement when Smarty Arty would point at her panel - 11:47 - because you knew it was her turn.

[@VideoNarstee]

Daisy Dares had a cracking smile!

[@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911]

@ 4:50 & 9:43 Smart Arty: MWAH! MWAH! MWAH!

[@ca9262]

God I used to love this show

[@mezykin]

This is probably one of the few episodes where Daisy celebrates at the end with the team 🙂

[@reasonable9647]

OML I always think of this and can NEVER remember what it was called!!!!

[@007beck9]

That was nice at the end where the dasiy was cheering with the kids

[@StFidjnr]

everybodys a winner

[@JackpotButtonLewis]

That's funny! I thought the kids would have lost that challenge because they clearly didn't do a good job of painting a clowns face, clearly Daisy won this challenge fair and square IMO! :/

[@davidfearis7335]

@@JackpotButtonLewis Maybe it was declared a draw, anyway there were dozens of time the kids technically won challenges even though it was shown that Daisy appeared to win

[@JackpotButtonLewis]

David Fearis Well, you’re not wrong there! I know a fair few challenges at least where the kids outright won against Daisy, but this kind of changed when they did lose a challenge and wanted revenge by chasing Daisy away in the later series!

[@sm4carnageihope]

Vaguely remembered this show, but couldn't remember the name. Kind of glad to have come across it. Didn't remember much of Cuthbert to be honest with you, but I definitely remember Smart Arty and Daisy I couldn't forget, she was nuts..... And one of my first crushes.

[@TripleB-nb8en]

The 90s was trippy as f

[@Jalkoth]

Just been binging a load of episodes man I miss this show always watched it after school while eating my dinner

[@richardjones1737]

I used to watch this all the time, it's insane haha

[@MrAli5519]

This show is 25% inexplicably terrifying.

[@yackezia7864]

nostalgia as soon as the intro hit…I remember watching this after school being picked up by my mum and then eating banana sandwiches…such a long time ago…plus it took me ages to clock that it Neil Buchanan was in this haha

[@gregjones3678]

I Remember This Children’s TV Series.

[@thomaspickard4138]

Take me back to the 90s I’d do anything! 2000s are just too depressing people too vain technology too serious! Need the simple life back when a phone was a phone and a TV was just a TV 📺 😂

[@piusx8317]

Damn right!!

[@shona9697]

This programme terrified me. I can’t even watch this full video #scaredddd

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

This was repeated again in the summer of 1996 so on Friday 26th July.

[@noctisvictory4325]

I'm afraid I'm another one of those of whom this scared the shit out of, well back then it was a mixture of enjoyment and fear, but after watching it now, just pure fear! 😢, so weird haha

[@Josh-dy5lj]

I would have nightmares about the handymen. In my childish mind I saw them as autonomous giant disembodied hands and not a dude just wearing coloured gloves

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

I think the idea was that the hands were sort of free-floating. I read somewhere that it was actually a woman who was wearing the gloves.

[@lauragraham933]

Aww wow this was my childhood 👌was little disturbing really good programme though, glad this is on here ❤️💖

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

Me too. The time since then seems to have passed so quickly.

[@lauragraham933]

@@Man-From-Another-Place yep sure has

[@attitudeaggressionera.]

Core daisy scared life out of me back then. I think she’s pretty now lol. But still evil

[@94perrieg]

I was in the daisy dares section. Can't believe I found it.

[@sarahcatchpole7323]

Bring back zzapp 2019 xxx

[@shehbazmohammad7120]

Omg I forgot about that one I and my brothers watched this

[@EXPERIENCEDSHADOW]

Cuthbert lilly the mr tumbles of our generation!! 😂😂

[@jedimaster708]

Do you think it was called Zzzzap! because a remote control is sometimes known as the zapper? And it's an electronic comic! Think this was a bit like Vision On, aimed at a particular audience, but anyone could enjoy it! It would explain all the visuals in the sketches! That's Neil 'Art Attack' and 'Finders Keepers' Buchanan in the smock! And Boccherini's Minuet is the music. Reminds me of the character Kenny Everett used to play, the mime artist who drew things that became real!

[@qwave1322]

The way the credits are moving backwards. 😂❤

[@UltimateMoralizer]

The 90s are irreplaceable. I used to love this.

[@charliegirl2941]

Absolutely loved this as kid 😂wow 😂😂😂😂

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

I absolutely love this episode of Zzzap!

[@m4554c73d]

I used to be shit scared of this when I was young

[@ShamanTiers]

This is cool premise for a show of course it was made in the 90s!

[@Viczarratt]

Hmm... that smashing sound at 4:25 sounds like the start to Shock to the System by Billy Idol doesn't it?

[@CALJ154]

14:27 Daisy cheering *with* the children 😄

[@peterheyes8552]

My favourite show from my chidhood

[@melplays90]

my childhood just bitch slapped me and I'm not angry lol

[@Jaywolf271]

This show disturbed me as a child. No idea why though!

[@nightw4tchman]

11:49 Imagine what this segment was like if you were on drugs.

[@majidskinnerkhan6960]

The 90s was the best times of my life

[@auto2112]

My dad wanted to kick the shit out of Daisy Dares You for YEARS. He despised her. 😂😂😂

[@jazzahazza9045]

After school on a Friday vibes 😊😊🎉

[@stevenknight6223]

Good old days

[@joannelawrence6235]

What happened to Tricky Ricky?

[@JackpotButtonLewis]

Joanne Lawrence You mean Tricky Dicky?

[@filmcrazy2008]

Tricky Dicky was replaced by Daisy Dares You because he was considered too scary for kids. . . at least that's what I heard. I think he only lasted two seasons.

[@shishiranair4095]

Wow , I use to watch a lot during my childhood

[@user-iw5dg9lz1q]

Now I see.This is how tick-tock all started

[@tylerrees9527]

Loveddddd this

[@benwilliams11]

It would be better if Zzzap was available on iTunes.

[@DR-dh8nq]

Can't believe I didn't notice that Daisy Dares is Janet Street Porter!

[@Liki972]

oh dear oh no chucklesivion

[@kierancreighton96]

This show was the best honestly. This and grizzly tales