Underplayed Gems

The 8:15 from Manchester (1990)

The 8:15 from Manchester poster
Original title
8:15 from Manchester
Genre
children and youth program
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 43 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a British children's Saturday morning show that mixes cartoons, games, and music. A presenter hosts challenges like board games and pool contests while short dramas leave viewers with a question.

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What happens

The 8:15 from Manchester is a British children's television series that aired on BBC1 on Saturday mornings from 21 April 1990 to 14 September 1991. The show took its name from a train departing from Manchester Piccadilly station for London Euston, which was, and still is at 08:15. It was presented by Ross King and Charlotte Hindle. BBC Radio 1 and subsequently BBC North West weather presenter Dianne Oxberry joined for the second series. The format was very similar to Going Live!, with imported cartoons (Rude Dog and the Dweebs, The Jetsons and Defenders of the Earth) punctuating items, such as games, music performances and interviews. A regular segment in the first series was "It's Tough at the Top", a Snakes & Ladders game where two teams of two contestants had to win the game without landing on a "snake" and sliding down into a pool of Gunge. This was replaced in the second series with The Wetter The Better, a game show based in a swimming pool (filmed in Blackpool) and hosted by Ross King with the scores being kept by Sonia. A weekly drama was shown, in which the short episode ended in a dilemma of some sort (e.g. should x tell her sister that y has been cheating on her). Two endings had been filmed and viewers telephoned to vote which ending would be shown. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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