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It's a Mystery (1996)

  • Kids
  • Mystery
  • 20 min episodes
  • 5 seasons
  • U age guide
  • ★ 8.5/10 from 4 ratings

A children’s magazine show talking us through the fact and fiction of mysterious subjects and spooky goings on.

Created byNeil Buchanan

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  1. 01

    Sooty & Co.

    Shared cast

    1993 · 20 min · Comedy · Kids

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    Second incarnation of the childrens puppet show, picking up almost directly where "The Sooty show" left off Sooty, Sweep, Soo and little cousin Scampi continue their adventures with Matthew.

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    • a principal cast member
    • a closely matched era
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  2. 02

    Art Attack

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    1990 · 20 min · Kids

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    Art Attack is a British children's television series revolving around art. The original series was one of CITV's longest running programmes, running from 1990 to 2007, and was presented throughout by Neil Buchanan. The new series launched on Disney Junior on 6 June 2011 and was presented by Jassa Ahluwalia. Each show involved Ahluwalia voicing-over footage of an artist producing three works of art, taking the viewer through the various stages of production step by step. The show's latest series is hosted by Lloyd Warbey. The new series launched on SAB TV on 10 June 2013 at 7 am IST.

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    Art Attack Portugal

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    2002 · 22 min · Kids

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    Art Attack is an originally British children's television program, first broadcast in June 1990 on Independent Television, by Neil Buchanan. The objective of the program is to make viewers (respectively children) make art with very simple things, but which can give a good concept in terms of art. And all these "contraptions" are made from boxes to plastic bottles, varying from experience to experience. The program was shown in 32 countries, with great international success, having several versions according to these countries.

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    • the same creator
    • substantial genre overlap
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  4. 04

    The Lowe Files

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    2017 · Mystery · Reality

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    Follow Rob Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they investigate unsolved legends and eerie age-old stories on a bonding family adventure years in the making.

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    • shared themes: unsolved mystery and urban legend
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  5. 05

    No. 73

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    1982 · 105 min

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    No 73, later re-titled 7T3, was a British 1980s children's TV show produced by Television South for the ITV network. It was broadcast live on Saturday mornings and ran from 1982 to 1988. The show starred, amongst others, Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchanan, Andrea Arnold, Kim Goody and Richard Waites. When Television South won the contract to provide ITV coverage for the South of England in 1980, the first thing they set up was a children's department. A team put together with a background in theatre and drama, soon decided to produce a Saturday morning show that differed from the usual Tiswas and Saturday Superstore formula: This show would feature actors in character as hosts, performing their own comedic storyline around the usual guests, music videos, competitions and cartoons. Much of the show was improvised, and a whole week of rehearsals plus an extensive dress rehearsal on Friday preceded each live broadcast on Saturday morning.

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    Motormouth

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    1988

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    Motormouth was a Saturday morning children's television series that was produced by Television South and aired across the ITV network for four series, running between 3 September 1988 and 4 April 1992. Each series generally ran from the autumn of one year to the spring of the next, as was common among many 'main' Saturday morning series. The programme was launched following the decision to axe No. 73, which had run in the same slot until early 1988. No. 73 had been revamped during its final series as 7T3, with a partially exterior set. However, the new 7T3 set-up was expensive and difficult to produce, and so it was decided to switch to a fully studio-based set-up. The new show was produced as the same studio complex as its predecessor, and many of the production team transferred to the new show. Whereas No. 73 had included an inherent narrative storyline, the decision was taken that Motormouth would have a straightforward magazine presentation format. The studio set for the first series was dominated by several giant inflatable elements, including a giant motorised mouth, from which the show took its name. In the second series, billed in some cases as Motormouth II or Motormouth 2, there were changes, including the introduction of new graphics and set elements based on cogs and sprockets. The use of the giant mouth declined following this alteration.

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