"Silly You!"

More nostalgia from the post broom-cupboard era, in fact
quite a bit of time since the demise as this clip comes from late June 1997
when CBBC moved into the new purposely built Studio 9 overlooking
the Blue Peter garden where links were presented from during the summer
which was a nice touch.

Not on a day like this however, a rather miserable Thursday with a pre-Da Bungalow
Dick And Dom, or Rich and Dominic as they were known back then.

Due to Wimbledon finishing early on BBC 1 they have a bit of spare time which is filled with a pre-rec interview with another duo who were quite an influence on the pair,
The Chuckle Brothers promoting the second series of their rather enjoyable game show
"To Me, To You" starting the next day.

Towards the end there's the intro to "Plasmo" which was a really cute five minute animation about a plasticine alien. In fact I've found an episode on Youtube that can be seen here in case you're rather confused as to what it was about.

It's also worth pointing out the "Loopy Letter" that's shown with "Studio 9" written on it with each letter in the shape of something that the particular letter begins with, if you know where I'm coming from.

This reminds me of the Children's BBC ident used 10 years earlier when Andy Crane took over from Phillip in the broom cupboard where each letter of the word "Children's" was represented by an object or mode of transport in exactly the same way. It's pretty hard to find on the internet although I'm sure TV-Ark used to have it on their site.

On that subject, it wasn't long before Children's BBC had a makeover with the on-air branding changed to CBBC officially as it's been known ever since and the superb idents of different styles and animations were replaced by rather uninspiring animations with a yellow background and 2D animations in black.
They did keep the David Arnold theme used since 1994 but the first few idents introduced in October made the tune sound almost unrecognisable.

With regards to the Chuckle Brothers, it reminds me of another infamous Buzzcocks moment from Series 12 in early 2003 when they showed the video for Def Leppard's "Animal" which can be seen here in glorious stereo, and with regards to the fella who pops up at 2:21, they said he looked like "a gay Chuckle Brother".
This lead to a few crude but very funny jokes about how
they may interperet the catchphrase "To me, to you!".

And yes, they also made jokes about drummer Rick Allen's missing arm.

Moving back even further, I don't often post full jingle packages here but as I took the trouble to upload it to send to someone via e-mail, I thought I'd share this, the Radio 1 additional cuts from 1985-1987.

BBC Radio 1 - Add Ons 1985-1987 - JAM Creative Productions

Included are cuts for "Chartbusters" which went out on Sundays before the Top 40 in the late 80s, The Mike Smith Breakfast Show which started in 1986 and lasted for just two years, and The Radio 1 Chip Shop which was when they would play the coding for a computer game on the radio for listeners to record onto cassette tape to use on their ZX Spectrum. That's about as much detail as I'll go.

And also there's stuff for Live Aid, DJ idents for Simon Mayo, and Johnnie Walker who returned to the station to present the Stereo Sequence on Saturday afternoons before leaving for Richard Branson's "Superstation" and returning to that same slot in 1992 for three more years after Richard Skinner had departed to launch Virgin 1215.

And there's also the infamous "Newsflash" jingle which I imagine was used when the Challenger shuttle exploded in 1986, and when the Zebrugge ferry disaster happened in February 1987.

If they were to use that now when a serious story broke out there would definitely be trouble.

Overall it proves a point made by fellow jingle collector and BBC journalist Nicky Schiller that whenever Radios 1 and 2 needed something for a new feature or DJ, the guys at JAM would come up with the goods.
A far cry from the even more tighter money regimes that are present now.

No time like the present, and Adrian Chiles was back on the One Show sofa tonight where the guest was "future prime minister" David Cameron.
I very much doubt he'll return as a guest in Jonathan Ross's new series after that dodgy incident in 2006 with regards to Maggie Thatcher.