Late Night telly. What do we get these days? BBC News 24, Super Casino, infomercials and ITV Night Screen. Utter rubbish. For years we had no night time entertainment at all - everything stopped after the broadcast of the National Anthem and then it was testcard time. In the late 80s, TV producers figured out they had something to gain from late night/all night television and started in earnest to produce or import programmes especially for us night owl insomniacs. What ensued was a golden era of half excellence/half crap which kept us 'entertained' throughout the wee small hours. Most, if not all, of these shows are defunct now and sitting in an archive gathering dust. Please enjoy the list and remind me of further late night television memories.
10. Carnal Knowledge
Obnoxious quiz/game show presented by Maria McErlane and Graham Norton (before he unfortunately got famous). The topic was sex and the couples who came on the show were asked squirmingly intimate knowledge questions about their partners. The whole point was to get admissions of kinky and depraved sex out of the couples. Frequently they would simulate what they did in bed. I remember watching this and cringing with embarrassment (and I would have been 16 around this time. Yes its content was salacious (which is down my street) but the show was so cheap and nasty, not even I could go with the vibe. it didn't run for very long, thank the Lord, but you may have beer-hazy memories of it from post-pub TV channel surfing.