TMNT 87: Questions of a Brit

*Galactus* · 05-03-2020, 12:30 PM

An interesting thing that I've never seen mentioned is that originally when the two satallite services launched in the UK it was actually BSB that had the rights to new TMHT episodes and it was a big part of their advertising to incentivise people to pick them over Sky. It aired as part of their Kids Club but as I recall it was the only new cartoon they had. Everything else was years old like Hanna Barbara's Shazann and the Fimation New Adventures of Batman and Robin and I vaguely remember seeing Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.

When BSB flopped hard and they were taken over by SKY TMHT simply swapped over to Sky. I remember getting up one morning expecting to see the Kids Club to be greeted by the SKY logo and DJ Kat and wondering if this meant no more turtles only to be relieved to see them.

Another medium for non-satallite Brit families to know the origin was a series of books that adapted several episodes of the first two seasons of the show complete with screen caps of the episodes. The first season was summarised on three books but strangely they missed out Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension-X. I don't know why all these adaptions miss out at least one episode.

05-03-2020, 12:30 PM	#8
Galactus Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,009	An interesting thing that I've never seen mentioned is that originally when the two satallite services launched in the UK it was actually BSB that had the rights to new TMHT episodes and it was a big part of their advertising to incentivise people to pick them over Sky. It aired as part of their Kids Club but as I recall it was the only new cartoon they had. Everything else was years old like Hanna Barbara's Shazann and the Fimation New Adventures of Batman and Robin and I vaguely remember seeing Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. When BSB flopped hard and they were taken over by SKY TMHT simply swapped over to Sky. I remember getting up one morning expecting to see the Kids Club to be greeted by the SKY logo and DJ Kat and wondering if this meant no more turtles only to be relieved to see them. Another medium for non-satallite Brit families to know the origin was a series of books that adapted several episodes of the first two seasons of the show complete with screen caps of the episodes. The first season was summarised on three books but strangely they missed out Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension-X. I don't know why all these adaptions miss out at least one episode. Last edited by Galactus; 05-03-2020 at 12:43 PM.