GMTV - Good Friday 9th April 1993 - Commercial Breaks

Описание: It's Friday 9th April, Good Friday 1993, and the United Kingdom helped Sonia in choosing a song to sing at that year's Eurovision Song Contest, held the following month in Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. (The song chosen was “Better The Devil You Know” which, eventually, came second in Eurovision itself. Ireland's Niamh Kavanagh won the song contest with “In Yours Eyes”, making it the second of a three contest winning streak for the host country.)

Earlier in the day, over at LWT's Kent House base in the London Borough of Lambeth, ITV's new Breakfast service GMTV was in it's 99th day of broadcasting, having taking over from TV-am on January 1st that year. And being the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, it had a some special treats for the kids. (one of those kids was a certain 8-year old from Breightmet, Bolton, who was recording them on video at the time!) Among them was a Winnie the Pooh triple bill. (Back then, Disney owned a portion of GMTV.) The stack consisted of 'Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too' (1974), 'Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree' (1966) and 'Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day' (1968).

While all this was recording, little that I realise that at least two other people were recording the same programme that I was. One of those recording were recorded from the Scottish region, and was recently uploaded on YouTube by Joachim A/V. (you can see it here:    • Видео  ). Due to the locality of the recording, one of the commercials below was replaced by a different commercial. Watch this, then the other (or vice versa if you want to) to find out what it was!

One piece of warning – there will be tape problems towards the end of one of the break. Let's face it, it WAS 27 years ago, you know!

Commerical Break 1:
ICI Dulux Natural Hints Paints
Rowntree Mackintosh's Quality Street chocolate assortments
Vax Vacuum Cleaners (voiceover from the late Anton Rodgers)
McCain Micro Chips
Lilt pineapple and grapefruit soft drink
Felix cat food
Penguin chocolate biscuits (featuring Peter Blake as one of the penguins, but Timmy Mallet didn't really appeared on this one!)
Cow & Gate Olvarit baby food (Was that Danny Baker doing the 'voice' of the baby?)
Ariel Ultra washing powder (voiceover from Ray Brooks)
Nestlé Shreddies breakfast cereal (voiceover from Chris Evans)
Kwik Save supermarkets
Napolina italian food range
Munch Bunch Pot Shots yogurts

Commercial Break 2:
Kia-Ora orange cordial drink (The iconic 'I'll be your dog' one.)
Farthing Wood Friends magazine (based on 'The Animals of Farthing Wood' animated TV series)
Bird's Eye Healthy Options range (with the late Clement Freud)
Black & Decker Dustbuster portable vacuum cleaner (featuring Michael Fenton Stevens – 'Uncle' Mike Stand from Radio Active/KYTV)
Paxo sage and onion stuffing (with a seducing Linda Lucardi – who just overcame the dreaded coronavirus - and voiceover from Stephen Fry. Interesting fact: Linda Lucardi was an original member of GMTV's presenting team, doing the Keep Fit section. She was replaced later in the year by one Mr. Motivator!)
Ideal Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Mutations action figures
Chambourcy Hippotots yogurts (voiceover from Enn Reitel)
Ideal Baby Boglins toys
Napolina (same advert as in the last break)
Kellogg's Pop Tarts (“So hot they're...” burn your mouth!)
Kia-Ora (shorten version with a mention of a special offer for when you buy 3 bottles.)
Trailer for Easter Saturday on GMTV (I believe that the voiceover came from from A.J. Williams)

Here how ITV's Good Friday looked in the Granada region:
05.30 ITN Morning News
06.00 GMTV (A different clip from the day can be seen at    • Видео  )
09.25 Jeopardy! (Short clips from this final edition can be seen at    • Jeopardy! (UK version)  )
09.55 Worship from Westminster Cathedral (Full service:    • Good Friday Office of Readings, Westminste...  )
10.50 Bugs Bunny
11.00 Film: The Four Feathers (Trailer:    • Видео  )
13.00 ITN News; Weather
13.15 Home And Away
13.45 Stuntmasters
14.40 Film: Funny Lady (Trailer:    • FUNNY LADY 1975  )
17.10 Movies, Movies, Movies
17.40 ITN News; Weather; Granada News
18.00 Home And Away (Repeat of the episode shown at 13:15, but I bet you know that already!)
18.30 Granada Sport: Kick Off
19.00 Celebrity Squares
19.30 Coronation Street
20.00 The Bill
20.30 The Gingerbread Girl
21.00 Doctor Finlay
22.00 News at Ten; Weather
22.15 Granada News
22.20 Film: Swing Shift (Trailer:    • SWING SHIFT - Original Theatrical Trailer  )
00.20 Film: McCloud: Top Of The World, Ma!
01.50 Whale On (Full programme:    • Видео  )
02.50 Raw Power
03.50 Entertainment UK
04.45 Riviera
05.10 Jobfinder
Source: The Times