Wish You Were Here...?
Wish You Were Here...? | |
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Genre | Travel |
Presented by | Judith Chalmers Chris Kelly Anthea Turner Mark Durden Smith |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | c. 25 minutes (excluding adverts) |
Production company | Thames Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 7 January 1974 29 June 2003 | –
Wish You Were Here...?is aBritish televisionseries that was first broadcast on 7 January 1974 onITV.It was a series of 30-minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours. The series was cancelled in 2003 after a reshuffling of the primetime Monday 7pm slot on ITV.
Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then
[edit]ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008,Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then,givingJudith Chalmers' sonMark Durden-Smiththe role of main host, along withSarah Heaney.The 25-part series saw Durden-Smith and Heaney revisit destinations featured in the original series, to see how much they have changed, and was filmed within production studios and not directly on location.
The programme was produced byTalkback Thames,and began on 14 January 2008 at 4.30pm. The full series was not screened onSTVandUTV.
Opening titles
[edit]The opening titles in the late 1970s was a sequence of scenes, one of which was children jumping on a bouncy castle. By January 1986, the opening sequence and theme tune also changed. By now, the opening sequence included an animation of a suitcase being closed, put on a plane and jetting off. The opening titles and theme tune were changed again in about 1988. The theme tune used then was called "The Carnival" and was performed byGordon Giltrap.[1]The BBC's equivalent programme,Holiday,used a section of Giltrap's "Heartsong" as its theme tune from 1978 until the end of the 1985 series.
Sponsorships
[edit]- Barclaycard(1993)
- Vernons Pools(1995)
- SEAT(1996–1999)
- Dorling KindersleyTravel Guides (2000)[2][3]
- Post Office Ltd(2001–2002)[4]
- Slim Fast(2003)
Presenters
[edit]- Judith Chalmers(1974–2003)[citation needed]
- Jim Lloyd
- Chris Kelly
- John Carter
- Mary Nightingale(1999–2001)
- Martin Roberts
- Anneka Rice(1986)
- Anthea Turner(1996–1999)[5]
- Anna Walker(1991–1996)
- Ruth England(2001–2003)[6]
- Steve Hume
- Denise van Outen(1999)
- Heather Mills(1999)
- Davie Kirkpatrick
- Gloria Hunniford
- Tris Payne(1993)
See also
[edit]- Holiday(TV series)
- Oryol i Reshka,aUkrainianRussian languageshow with a similar format
References
[edit]- ^"Gordon Giltrap: CDs: Music For The Small Screen (re-issue)".Giltrap.co.uk.Retrieved24 July2013.
- ^"Dorling Kindersley to sponsor ITV holiday show | PR & public relations news".PRWeek. 9 November 1999.Retrieved24 July2013.
- ^"Dorling Kindersley to sponsor series of Wish You Were Here | PR & public relations news".PRWeek. 15 November 1999.Retrieved24 July2013.
- ^"Post Office to back ITV travel show | PR & public relations news".PRWeek. 10 August 2000.Retrieved24 July2013.
- ^"Entertainment | New faces for holiday shows".BBC News.1 April 1999.Retrieved24 July2013.
- ^Julia Day (15 August 2001)."England lands TV holiday job | Media | MediaGuardian".Guardian.Retrieved24 July2013.
External links
[edit]- 1974 British television series debuts
- 2003 British television series endings
- 1970s British travel television series
- 1980s British travel television series
- 1990s British travel television series
- 2000s British travel television series
- British English-language television shows
- Television shows produced by Thames Television
- Television series by Fremantle (company)