One of CITV's Better but Short-lived Saturday Morning Shows

Intro to Saturday Ghost Train



"Ghost Train" was a Saturday morning show situated on CITV, from 1989-1991, and it was a pretty good alternative to BBC1's "Going Live!". Taking in from this old youtube clip, First of all, please Michaela Strachan, keep those legs away. Ah, and we see one of the crazied commercialised nonsense, that was the dancing flowers, great! Then we see the old CITV logo (one of the best, mind) and then we see Sabra Williams and Frances Dodge (?), I think. Then we have Nobby the Sheep speaking to animated English children's poet Michael Rosen.

The show was mostly known for the ghostly theme, attributed nicely, by "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon showings, and Nobby the Sheep, voiced and puppeted by Simon Buckley. An almost life-size puppet, talking lamb, usually wearing the much-loved shellsuits at the time. Now, Wikipedia, in it's "Ghost Train" article, says Nobby is camp-talking? A little sheep-ish in character, but camp-talking? It's not exactly "George from Rainbow" camp, is it?

The show evolved into "Gimme Five", still carrying on with Nobby, which had a bit more of a mish-mash of a overall underlying theme, and graced by Jenny Powell. I always preferred the earlier "Ghost Train", it was a more exciting show, oh and you also had Gilbert the Alien, probably one of the most whimsical and freakiest of puppets to watch in action. Don't worry, we'll have some his clips on here, UK TV Nostalgia on Youtube!