Alot of people have forgotten how good WACADAY is, and no it was not just like that for the franchise renewal. Even in late 80s Timmy used to do a lot of films for Wacaday where he would explain stuff etc. Some of the cock up have ended up on Alright on the night
Timmy was not underrated to begin with, it was expected he would move on to Grown up telly in the mid 90s....
From 1987 each series of Wacaday became themed as reports were shown each day of Timmy visiting a particular country. The first trip was Mallett in Majorca while later locations included Egypt - who remembers WAC like an Egyptian?, France, Asia (Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia - under the title WAC Asia), Jordan, Germany (or Blermany as Timmy called it!) and Gibralta. Towards the end of Wacaday's run the set would also become themed to the country.
One of the best bits of Timmy's Travels were all the wonderful stories Timmy told.........................................
Timmy was not underrated to begin with, it was expected he would move on to Grown up telly in the mid 90s....
Timmy Mallett is very much like Marmite in some respects. He started in radio, joined TV-AM and was there until the station closed in 1992. After TV-AM he did some work for CITV and The Children's Channel.
Apparently makes a living from Uni/80's themed gigs now, riding on the nostalgia train. Not bad for somebody who whacked Thatcher with the mallett.
But yes, Wacaday was a great show. Educated without you knowing it. Will we see its like again?
Timmy was not underrated to begin with, it was expected he would move on to Grown up telly in the mid 90s....
Timmy Mallett is very much like Marmite in some respects. He started in radio, joined TV-AM and was there until the station closed in 1992. After TV-AM he did some work for CITV and The Children's Channel.
Apparently makes a living from Uni/80's themed gigs now, riding on the nostalgia train. Not bad for somebody who whacked Thatcher with the mallett.
But yes, Wacaday was a great show. Educated without you knowing it. Will we see its like again?
When he joined TVAM in 83 didn't he also do radio until late 80s?
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He was launch breakfast presenter at the doomed Centre Radio in Leicester in the very early 80's.
FULL version of Thames - Lwt Handover in Umlaut 1992, including cutting off the last CITV link etc
Anyone remember why they used to omit the final link? I assume it was so they had 5 minutes to fill before 5:15 and wanted to include the extra 5 minute cartoon into Children's ITV?
Didn't CITV end at 17.10? Did they ever show Home and Away in that slot and if so, how did they get around the switch?
Anyone remember why they used to omit the final link? I assume it was so they had 5 minutes to fill before 5:15 and wanted to include the extra 5 minute cartoon into Children's ITV?
Didn't CITV end at 17.10?
Yes, hence the need for a 5 minute filler cartoon to extend the kids shows to 5:15.
It only finished at 5:10 when the News at 5:15 became the News at 5:40.
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Did they ever show Home and Away in that slot and if so, how did they get around the switch?
Yes, they did for a while in the early 90's*. Thames just started Home and Away at 5:10 and then there was a bit of a disturbance at 5:15 when LWT took over.
*IIRC Thames showed it at 6pm during the week because their news was on at 6:30. On Friday's it started at 5:10 because LWT's local news was on 6pm-7pm. However towards the end of Thames there was no hour long LWT regional programme at 6 so Home and Away was on all week at 6, with LWT News on at 5:15
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