![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, another very closely associated production hasn’t actually been seen from that day to this. Always happy to prop up experimental artists, progressive musicians and local traditional folk and craft, ITV’s idiosyncratic broadcaster for the North West were only too willing to push at the creative boundaries for children’s television – after all, they were doing so for all kinds of television from ghost-hunting Coronation Street spinoff Turn Out The Lights to voluble left wing politics-driven sitcom The Dustbinmen to audience-shocking pop-art gangland thriller Big Breadwinner Hog – and one particular production is hugely celebrated to this day. As the sixties spilled over into the seventies, children’s television started to get very weird indeed and, arguably, nowhere did it get weirder than at Granada Television. ![]()
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