Gimme 5

GIMME 5
Made by: Tyne Tees
Shown on: ITV
Years shown: 1992-4

“What can we do for kids on a Saturday morning which will cost under £1.65?” wondered the folks at Tyne Tees. Gimme 5 was all they could come up with, made all the more cheaper by the fact that it was all filmed ‘on location’ (by a canal in Hartlepool or at a garden centre in Peterlee) and needed no permanent set. As is required for Saturday morning kids’ shows by some kind of strange bye-law (probably), they bought up some cheapo cartoons, a vat of gunge, and brought in some low-rent pop guests to interview. The presenters came and went, the most notable of which was ‘top TV totty’ (according to FHM and the like) Jenny Powell, but the most irritating remained - Nobby the Sheep. The kids loved him, apparently. Yeah, with mint sauce.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 1/10

(Thanks to the website of puppeteer Simon Barkley, aka Nobby the Sheep, for the borrowed pic)