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VMPhil
Wow, we finally get to hear what the original version of the familiar SMTV theme sounded like! It sounded very odd!

The Saturday Show (mark 1) hasn't got any better with age.
TM
ToasterMan

The Saturday Show (mark 1) hasn't got any better with age.


Wonder if he has any CBBC continuity from late 2001-2002 (pre and post CBBC Channel) or early CBeebies bits, it appears most of his continuity stems from the mid 90's to mid 2000's.
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james-2001
That wasn't the original SM:TV theme tune, the original was the same as the CD:UK one, but with "Wake up, Saturday" instead of "Countdown UK". Was only used for the first 3 episodes.

Also notice how the Diggin it set (10:10 on the second video) looks very much like the original SM:TV set, I always wondered if they'd dug the old SM:TV set out of storage and given it a lick of paint, they were so similar.
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VMPhil
That wasn't the original SM:TV theme tune, the original was the same as the CD:UK one, but with "Wake up, Saturday" instead of "Countdown UK". Was only used for the first 3 episodes.

Yes, I know, which is why I said 'the original version of the familiar SMTV theme'

From videos on YouTube, later episodes did not even include the 'Wake up Saturday' parts. That seems to have been removed, before the CD:UK-like theme was dropped entirely for the familiar SMTV theme.
Last edited by VMPhil on 24 March 2020 7:58pm - 3 times in total
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fanoftv

Also notice how the Diggin it set (10:10 on the second video) looks very much like the original SM:TV set, I always wondered if they'd dug the old SM:TV set out of storage and given it a lick of paint, they were so similar.


The Diggin' It set was a redressed Studio Disney set, but SM:TV could have been the inspiration for that.

VMPhil posted:
From videos on YouTube, later episodes did not even include the 'Wake up Saturday' parts. That seems to have been removed, before the CD:UK-like theme was dropped entirely for the familiar SMTV theme.


I know that the third episode had no vocals over the titles, but unsure about the second.
Watching the clip of the 1998 episode, the music is taking me back to a happier time. I liked the simpler arrangement, a shame that it was changed so soon.

Another interesting video on Robin's channel shows a plethora of T4 links over the years (These are all making me feel very old and have me pining for my youth again)
ToasterMan, dbl and DeMarkay gave kudos
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james-2001
I like the early T4, a lot. Went downhill rapidly when they started outsourcing it to indies, shoving it in a studio, then stopped even doing it live.
TM
ToasterMan
From early 2006, a caption for the then-upcoming CITV Channel:
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RobinBlamires05
Cheers for the kind words.

Oddly enough I do have a few CBBC and CBeebies links from around 2003-2005 to come.

And a few more from T4 a few years earlier.
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FanOfTV99
Cheers for the kind words.

Oddly enough I do have a few CBBC and CBeebies links from around 2003-2005 to come.

And a few more from T4 a few years earlier.


Keep up the great work pal.
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LondonNewsBites
From early 2006, a caption for the then-upcoming CITV Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBMP1tL-h0

Weird... This uses the old logo from 2001(?). Did they change the logo quickly before it launched?
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LondonNewsBites
Speaking of CITV:
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VMPhil
From early 2006, a caption for the then-upcoming CITV Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBMP1tL-h0

Weird... This uses the old logo from 2001(?). Did they change the logo quickly before it launched?

All the ITV logos changed in January 2006, a couple of months before the channel launched, so it's possible that caption was being broadcast from sometime in late 2005

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