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Wish You Were Here...?

British TV series (1974–2003)

Summary

British TV series (1974–2003)

Field	Value
genre	Travel
presenter	Judith Chalmers
Chris Kelly
Anthea Turner
Mark Durden-Smith
company	Thames Television
runtime	c. 25 minutes
(excluding adverts)
network	ITV
country	United Kingdom
language	English
first_aired
last_aired

Chris Kelly Anthea Turner Mark Durden-Smith (excluding adverts) Wish You Were Here...? is a British television series that was first broadcast on 7 January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30-minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours. The series was cancelled in 2003 after a reshuffling of the primetime Monday 7pm slot on ITV.

''Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then''

ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008, Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then, giving Judith Chalmers' son Mark Durden-Smith the role of main host, along with Sarah Heaney. The 25-part series saw Durden-Smith and Heaney revisit destinations featured in the original series, to see how much they have changed, and was filmed within production studios and not directly on location.

The programme was produced by Talkback Thames, and began on 14 January 2008 at 4.30pm. The full series was not screened on STV and UTV.

Opening titles

The opening titles in the late 1970s was a sequence of scenes, one of which was children jumping on a bouncy castle. By January 1986, the opening sequence and theme tune also changed. By now, the opening sequence included an animation of a suitcase being closed, put on a plane and jetting off. The opening titles and theme tune were changed again in about 1988. The theme tune used then was called "The Carnival" and was performed by Gordon Giltrap. The BBC's equivalent programme, Holiday, used a section of Giltrap's "Heartsong" as its theme tune from 1978 until the end of the 1985 series.

Sponsorships

Barclaycard (1993)
Vernons Pools (1995)
SEAT (1996–1999)
Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides (2000)
Post Office Ltd (2001–2002)
Slim Fast (2003)

Presenters

Judith Chalmers (1974–2003)
Jim Lloyd
Chris Kelly
John Carter
Mary Nightingale (1999–2001)
Martin Roberts
Anneka Rice (1986)
Anthea Turner (1996–1999)
Anna Walker (1991–1996)
Ruth England (2001–2003)
Steve Hume
Denise van Outen (1999)
Heather Mills (1999)
Davie Kirkpatrick
Gloria Hunniford
Tris Payne (1993)
Victoria Studd
Nick Knowles (1998)

References

(11 April 2012). "Wish you hadn't told us: Veteran presenter Judith Chalmers confesses".
"Gordon Giltrap : CDs : Music For The Small Screen (re-issue)". Giltrap.co.uk.
(1999-11-09). "Dorling Kindersley to sponsor ITV holiday show | PR & public relations news". PRWeek.
(1999-11-15). "Dorling Kindersley to sponsor series of Wish You Were Here | PR & public relations news". PRWeek.
(2000-08-10). "Post Office to back ITV travel show | PR & public relations news". PRWeek.
(1999-04-01). "Entertainment | New faces for holiday shows". BBC News.
Julia Day. (2001-08-15). "England lands TV holiday job | Media | MediaGuardian". Guardian.

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