The seconds series first premiered in the UK before it aired in Australia and the United States. It aired on ITV's GMTV (now known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited) and was 18 minutes long and these versions of the episodes were only made for GMTV. When the show aired again on Nick Jr. UK in 2004, their 21-minute versions made for Australia and North America were used. Only one DVD with an 18-minute version of the episode Play was released in the UK in 2005. However, there have been rumors that the original GMTV versions of the episodes used to have songs from the videos The Wiggles released back in their early years.
Evidence :
Hi all,
I used to listen to youtube video yXu4fqqbuwo [Music from GMTV (1993) (7 tracks)] in the background quite a bit. It was a set of 'beds' for a daily TV show which ran for decades in the UK on a main terrestrial broadcaster but stopped broadcasting years ago. Today after 7 years online it was 'claimed' by a generic revenue company and deleted (oddly, rather than monetised).
I contacted said company who told me they use a keyword matching system but have no idea who the actual owner of the music was (i.e. they said there is no chance of purchasing it and they don't really know who 'owns' it themselves - they claimed it based on the text string "Music from GMTV" and said they do not collect revenue nor verify the claims, only send takedown requests based on that string). The music was written obviously around 30 years ago and is not based on a commerical song that can be bought or easily found elsewhere.
The youtube channel it came from has also been deleted (and it was inactive for 5 years or so anyway) so I cannot ask the channel creator.
For reference there is an almost identical edited version (pitch changed but no length changes) at video 5g14q-yOv7M
but no other copies of the original (which was in "stunning" quality for the era).
Collecting TV Theme tunes seems to be a hobby of some - does anyone have the original stored (or can find it)?
Thanks!
We need more people from their era on TV - absolute gold!
The original GMTV Airings 18-minute of TV Series 2 is really hard to find, only on TV Airings, Sadly. but nobody knows about GMTV Airings on TV Series 2, The 22-minute Episodes are regular and most common. The GMTV versions have not been rerun or released since and all but one episode is considered lost media. The version of the episode Play on the UK compilation DVD Playtime Children's Favourites is the GMTV version. Based on that episode, these versions did not contain the concert clips seen in the others (Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack) is replaced with the version from Wiggle Time!) and contained other edits to reduce the run time (The Monkey Dance and the prologue to Ponies are cut entirely, while the epilogue to Starry Night is shortened). Episode credits are also much shorter. The standard version of the episode Your Body contains a single frame of The Wiggles Big Show version of Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) before switching to the Toot-Toot Show!/The Wiggly Big Show version, possibly meaning the GMTV version used the clip from that concert.
If you don't know GMTV is, GMTV (now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited) was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the program would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.
For those users who lives in who lives in the United Kingdom or England:
If you know The Wiggles After January 2nd, 1999. to had those VHS Recording broadcasts on GMTV, you have a way to capture VHS tapes in HIGH quality.
DO NOT CONFUSED THEM WITH 22-MINUTE VERSION!
First GMTV, then Daybreak, then Good Morning Britain. Why did they even change it in the first place? It bugs me just enough to point it out to her, but it'll never change. It's always still GMTV apparently.
It's now 'Good Morning Britain', though really, it'll only ever be GMTV.
I would love the pokerus. Please give it to me.
