Wish You Were Here...?

This article is about the British TV show. For other uses, see Wish You Were Here (disambiguation).

Wish You Were Here...?
Format	Travel
Presented by	Judith Chalmers Anthea Turner Mark Durden Smith
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	30 minutes (including adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original airing	7th January 1974–29th June 2003 2008

Wish You Were Here...? is a British television show that was first broadcast on 7th January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours and had gained a significant viewing audience in the UK. It is currently owned by Fremantle Media (then known as "Pearson Television"), who purchased its producers Thames Television in 1996.

The show was cancelled in 2003 after a reshuffling of the primetime Monday 19:00 slot on ITV.

Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then

ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008, giving Judith Chalmers' son Mark Durden-Smith the role of main host, along with Sarah Heaney, which sees them visit some of Britain's best loved holiday destinations, this is filmed within production studios and not directly on location.

Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then is a 25-part series where Durden-Smith and Heaney revisits destinations, originally visited by Judith and other WYWH? presenters in the original 1974 series, to see how much they have changed.

The programme is produced by Talkback Thames, and began on 14 January 2008 at 16:30. The full series was not screened on STV and UTV.

Opening titles

The opening titles in the late 1970s was a number of scenes, one of which was kids jumping on a bouncy castle. By January 1986, and the opening sequence had changed a bit since the late 1970s. The theme tune had also changed to the second one. By now the opening sequence included an animation of a suitcase being closed, put on a plane and jetting off. The opening titles and theme tune were changed again in about 1990. The theme tune used then was called The Carnival and was performed by Gordon Giltrap. [1]

Sponsorship

• Barclaycard 1993
• Vernons Pools 1995
• SEAT 1996-99
• Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides 2000
• Post Office 2001-03

Presenters

• Judith Chalmers 1974-2003
• Chris Kelly
• John Carter
• Mary Nightingale 1999-2001
• Martin Roberts
• Anneka Rice 1986
• Anthea Turner 1996-1999
• Anna Walker 1991-1996
• Ruth England 2001-2003
• Steve Hume
• Denise Van Outen 1999
• Heather Mills 1999
• Davie Kirkpatrick
• Jamey Johnson 1988-1990

See also

• Holiday (TV series)

External links

• Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then at itv.com
• Wish You Were Here...? at the Internet Movie Database