Live from TVS Maidstone
With: Neil Buchanan, Tony Gregory, Gaby Roslin, Andrea Arnold
Our thanks to: Erasure, London Boys, Jason Donovan, Andy Serkis, Martin Richardson, David Taylor, Rachel Wright, Penny Boyd
**It’s Torture !**
With: Steve Johnson
Contestant Co-ordinator: Jane Breach
**Motormouth**
Original idea by: John Dale
Music: Mr Miller & Mr Porter
Location Cameraman: Keith Hunter
Picture Editors: Paul Neale, Bill Garner
Location Directors: Tim Edmunds – Costa Rica, Simon Staffurth – Japan
Costume: Brandon Everett
Make-up: Tracey Hall
Astons: Carol Seaborne
Chargehand: Peter Smith
Production Buyer: Barbara Spiller
Vision Control: John Latter
Technical Co-ordinator: Martin Mills
Vision Mixers: Timothy Jeffes, Julie Miller
Floor Manager: Zandra Watts
Production Assistants: Amanda Dowding, Sarah Horne
Senior Cameraman: Trevor Hawkins
Sound Supervisor: Simon Ingarfield
Lighting Director: E. G. Knagg
Graphics: Crawford Wilson
Research: John Bullivant, Kate Ledwith, Joan Lofts, Robert Muller, Andy Prendergast
Music Associate: Tim Byrne
Design: Philip Murphy
Associate Producer: Vanessa Hill
Executive Producer: Janie Grace
Director: Adrian Edwards
Producer: Sue Morgan
TVS Production
© 1989 Television South plc
16 Comments
Certain periods of the 80s and 90s have a higher than usual nostalgia value to me. Autumn-Winter 1989 is one of them.
Holy cow! Andy Serkis!
"Stop" by Erasure is one of the best pop songs of the 80s! Thanks for this blast rom the past!
Pity they never put andrea in skates again.
Amazing, more Motormouth series 2! It was certainly flowing a lot better than series 1, this was where it started to become a notable threat to the BBC. Pure throwback to No 73, with Andrea skating around the studio. I hadn't actually realised that she'd had any involvement at all with series 2, I assumed she left after series 1 along with Caroline and Julian. Steve was already emerging as a standout star of the show, he had a great energy for it. Gaby was also settling in nicely, and doing a confident job considering that this was her first big break. I always found it strange when people referred to her as a newcomer to TV when The Big Breakfast was starting to take off, as she'd had three years on Motormouth by that point and was absolutely no stranger to kids of the day. How different things may have turned out though, if TVS had won the franchise and Motormouth had continued. We might not have had the Chris and Gaby partnership at all on The Big Breakfast.
9:15 Andy Serkis!
Fantastic, thanks very much!
London Boys, Erasure and saving the rainforest….if this was today the Daily Mail would be running a 6 page story but how kids TV is Woke.
Brilliant! It's such a treat to see more of this on Youtube and I hope there will be more episodes yet to come.
One could only imagine the outrage and moral panic that would go down if It's Torture were to air today. xD
i prefer these early episodes of motormush and the old its torture format
the later "gunge em in the dunguon" and the "fickle finger" just didnt have it
Never liked Motormouth but didn't realise Andrea moved to it from 73. Its funny seeing all these old skool shows and remembering it was the only way bands could get noticed other than the radio hence you'd have big names appearing.
VHS copy with TVS ads. Great to see how Motormouth developed over each series. Oh how adverts have changed!
7:43 a less than subtle hint for the creep to stay away.
Fingers crossed that you upload the episode from the week before (16.09.89) as I know someone who was on it!
Interesting to see these old Saturday morning shows, they certainly won't ever get repeated or added to streaming services. Do you have any Ghost Train that ran on CITV during the same era as Motormouth?
I FORGOT about this show! 😃