[WATCH]: We Want an Adventure: CITV adverts and continuity, 1996

From my late Gran's pile of decomposing VHSes comes this raddled old artefact, with the sound and picture going up and down at random (I normalised it in segments so you could hear it at all, but some bits are still louder than others, careful with that volume control). This particular tape started out with the last ten minutes of a barely discernible edition of Can't Cook Won't Cook from the Lambie-Nairn BBC1 era, but this was the first thing of interest that came out visible. First, the end credits of a Scooby-Doo episode, from the shit and awful era when the cast had been pared down to Shaggy, Scooby, bloody Scrappy, and just for eye-candy and damsel duties, Daphne. Note the CITV DOG in the corner. Featuring that vaguely fascist

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