Why Don't You...?

WHY DON'T YOU...?
Made by: BBC?
Shown on: BBC
Years shown: 1973-94

Theme tune: “Why don’t you, why don’t you/Why don’t you, why don’t/Switch off the TV set, and do something less boring instead?/Why don’t you?!”

The theme lyrics said it all, really - it was the mark that of a very bad summer holidays if you were tuning into Why Don’t You? in the mornings. Groups of drama school rejects from around the country, with names such as The Brummie Gang, and The Liverpool Posse, would present this no-adults programme about ideas to keep you from stealing hub caps in your long vacation. There would be ‘makes’ from various pieces of junk that you could find by rummaging in a skip, jokes from random kids off the streets, and some of the most revolting recipes known to man - I particularly recall an annoying whippersnapper, called Brett, making something called ‘Wacky Tacky Pizza’, which was enough to have you confined to your bed for the remainder of the school break. One of Why Don’t You?’s claims to fame - or perhaps its only one - is that it first gave screen time to a twelve year old Anthony McPartlin.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 4/10

(Thanks to www.tvradiobits.co.uk for the borrowed pic)