Need help from a U.K. user - looking for UK TV special.

[housepig]

Greetings all.

just got back from London, and am hoping someone can help me.

I caught about half of a show called the 100 Most Embarrassing Moments of British TV (or something similar). I would love to see the whole thing. It seemed from the TV listing that this is something that gets re-run frequently.

Is there anyone who a) taped the show and b) could capture it as a NTSC-format dvd?

I would be happy to pay for time and postage, or trade similar material.

(note to Baldrick and mods - I'm not sure if this violates the warez prohibitions, it seems to me from other posts that this is more of a grey area and not a violation, but I could be wrong. if so, please accept my apologies and delete.)

thanks for any info.

[Craig Tucker]

Nice to see you back safe and sound Housepig, how was London. I watched the program in question, or at least bits of it. Did not tape it though

[energy80s]

I think this was the second showing of it (Richard Madeley's Ali G impression won the day) so it may not be shown again for a year or two.

[Craig Tucker]

Actually I think it was the third. And some of the placings had been updated, so who decided that I dont know as it was supposed to be a public vote.

For example Judy Finnigans norks popping out replaced Tara Palmer-Tompkinsons, cringeworthy pissed, up display on the Frank Skinner show.

Here are the original placings from the 2000 airing.

1 Richard Madeley does an impression of Ali G on ITV's This Morning (2000)
2 Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox mess up on The Brits (1989)
3 Tara Palmer Tomkinson is worse for wear on BBC1's The Frank Skinner Show (1999)
4 Richard Madeley upsets singing legend Shakin' Stevens on Calendar Goes Pop
5 The Bee Gees walk out on BBC1's Clive Anderson All Talk after a jibe about being tossers (1997)
6 Julian Clary's British Comedy Awards joke about Tory weirdo Norman Lamont being fisted (1993)
7 Keith Chegwin goes bare on Channel 5's Naked Jungle (2000)
8 New Hall College amass a mere 35 points on BBC2's University Challenge (1997)
9 When new actors play established soap characters
10 ITV game show 3-2-1 – the one with unfathomable clues and Dusty Bin (1978-87)

11 BBC1's soap opera flop Eldorado (1992-93)
12 Weirdo Tory John Redwood mimes the Welsh National Anthem (1993)
13 Dubbed TV shows
14 The Hopefuls seek fame on Channel 4's The Word (1993-95)
15 The resurrection of Bobby Ewing in Dallas (1983)
16 The streaker who leapt across Fred Talbot's weather map on ITV's This Morning (1995)
17 Shaun Ryder swearing on Channel 4's TFI Friday (1999)
18 People who become stars on docusoaps eg Driving School's Maureen (1997)
19 ITV game show Bullseye
20 The Jackie Wilson/Jockey Wilson mix-up on BBC1's Top Of The Pops (1982)

21 Janet Ellis has shock news: the Blue Peter Garden has been vandalised (1983)
22 Cable channel L!ve TV (1995-1999)
23 Reporter Chris Mayhew takes drugs on BBC1's Panorama (1955)
24 Shopping channels
25 Wayne Hussey of rock group The Mission misbehaving on ITV's The James Whale Show (1990)
26 BBC1's It's A Royal Knockout (1987)
27 BBC1's multi-national quiz show Going For Gold with Henry Kelly (1987-96)
28 Footballers singing, such as Hoddle and Waddle
29 Johnny Rotten being awkward on BBC1's Juke Box Jury (1979)
30 Irritating children's TV show presenters such as Timmy Mallett

31 Norway's Eurovision Song Contest flops
32 Old DIY shows
33 Iggy Pop in see-through trousers on Channel 4's The White Room (1997)
34 ITV quiz show Sale Of The Century (1971-83)
35 Australian drama Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979-86)
36 Oddball variety acts
37 ITV's disco dancing contests in the 1970s
38 ITV's Game For A Laugh (1981-85)
39 ITV's Junior Showtime (1968-74)
40 Private Dicks on Channel 4's Something For The Weekend (1999)

41 The Stone Roses suffer a power cut on BBC2's The Late Show (1989)
42 Channel 4's Minipops featuring kids as pop stars (1983)
43 Jeremy Paxman's chaotic OB from the Berlin Wall for BBC2's Newsnight (1990)
44 Pan's People's rather literal dance routines on BBC1's Top Of The Pops
45 OTT, ITV's grown-up version of Tiswas (1982)
46 A demo on ITV talk show The Time… The Place… (1995)
47 Nasty comments from the panel on ITV talent show New Faces (1973-78)
48 Wrestling on ITV's World Of Sport (1965-88)
49 Eager keep-fit instructors such as Eileen Fowler
50 Girl group L7 expose themselves on Channel 4's The Word (1992)

51 BBC1's politically-incorrect The Black And White Minstrel Show (1958-1978)
52 Public Image Limited get angry on ITV's Check It Out (1979)
53 Annoying kids' show Why Don't You (BBC1, 1973-95)
54 Shaky soap Crossroads (ITV, 1964-88)
55 Glen Medeiros gets slagged off on BBC2's Juke Box Jury (1990)
56 ITV's Epilogues before closedown
57 Football managers swearing
58 ITV's The Comedians, home of quickfire, non-PC gags (1971-85)
59 Felix, the 13-year-old presenter of Channel 4's The Tube (1986)
60 ITV's regional beauty contests in the 1970s

61 BSB's sitcom about Hitler called Heil Honey I'm Home (1990)
62 Lynne 'Ivy Tilsley' Perrie making a fool of herself on Channel 4's The Word (1994)
63 Bizarre young antiques expert James Harries (who became a woman) on BBC1's Wogan (1988)
64 TV poets such as Pam Ayres
65 Stan Boardman goes on about Fokkers on ITV's Des O'Connor Tonight (1986)
66 ITV's racially-insensitive 1970s sitcom Mind Your Language
67 Ventriloquists such as Roger De Courcey
68 Jonathan Ross gets handcuffed on his Channel 4 chat show (1989)
69 Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard murder You're The One That I Want on Top Of The Pops (1978)
70 Carol Vorderman selects the letters for 'Wankers' on Channel 4's Countdown

71 ITV's tedious Telethons
72 Mo Mowlam encounters a vibrator on Channel 4's So Graham Norton (2000)
73 The sexism of Benny Hill
74 Michael Winner attacks the lesbian-bating host on ITV's Richard Littlejohn Show (1994)
75 Bernard Levin gets punched on BBC satire show That Was The Week That Was (1963)
76 ITV's racially-insensitive 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour
77 Rubbish cooking shows such as BBC1's Ask Zena Skinner! (1970)
78 Bow Wow Wow's Anabella Lwin storms off BA Robertson's show (1982)
79 ITV's long-running countryside show Out of Town
80 Channel 4's controversial 1990s series The Girlie Show

81 Kevin Keegan tumbles off a bike on BBC1's Superstars (1976)
82 ITV 1970s kids' show Animal Kwackers
83 Channel 4's "experimental" 1980s yoof show Club X
84 ITV's 1970s show Indoor League, with gruff Fred Trueman
85 ITV's 1970s matrimonial quiz Mr and Mrs
86 Keith Moon and The Who run riot on ITV's Russell Harty Plus (1973)
87 Harold Wilson is a useless host on BBC2 chat show Friday Night Saturday Morning (1979)
88 BBC2 1970s yoof show Something Else
89 John Otway goes wild on BBC2's The Old Grey Whistle Test (1977)
90 ITV's paper-folding show Origami (1968-72)

91 Paul Shane growls You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling on BBC1's Pebble Mill (1996)
92 ITV sitcom Curry And Chips in which Spike Milligan blacked up as an Irish Pakistani (1969)
93 Boyzone's embarrassing TV debut on RTE's The Late Late Show (1993)
94 The bizarre Albion Free State on BBC2 access show Open Door (1974)
95 BBC2 yoof programme The Oxford Roadshow (1980)
96 MP Tony Banks rolls joints on Channel 4's Naked City (1993)
97 ITV 1980s sitcom Bottle Boys
98 Play Guitar With Ulf Goran (ITV, 1974)
99 The This Morning team perform Stars In Their Eyes (2000)
100 David Frost meets the Yippies on ITV's The Frost Programme (1970)

[housepig]

1 Richard Madeley does an impression of Ali G on ITV's This Morning (2000)

"It because I is black, innit?"

I about fell out on that one.

please, tell me someone taped this....

[Craig Tucker]

Do you get Ali G in the USA housepig. His last series was actually titled Ali G in the USAiii

[housepig]

not unless he's on some cable like HBO or Cinemax or something. I've seen a little of his show, and heard some audio clips, but I've never seen his show proper.