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WYSIWYG (1992)

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How it feels

A children's series from 1992. Each episode begins with a parody of a popular ITV show. An alien broadcast from the planet Merdocc interrupts the parody.

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What happens

WYSIWYG is a 1992 CITV children's series broadcast in ITV. Five episodes were produced. It stars Julie Dawn Cole as Maz, Clive Mantle as Globyool and Nick Wilton as Wysiwyg. Each episode starts as a different show (usually a parody of a popular ITV programme of the time, e.g. Blockbusters). The parody is then interrupted by am IGTV ("InterGalactic Television") broadcast from the planet Merdocc. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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