Wish You Were Here...?

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Wish You Were Here...?
Genre Travel
Presented by Judith Chalmers
Chris Kelly
Anthea Turner
Mark Durden Smith
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running timec. 25 minutes
(excluding adverts)
Production company Thames Television
Original release
Network ITV
Release7 January 1974 (1974-01-07) 
29 June 2003 (2003-06-29)

Wish You Were Here...? is a British television series that was first broadcast on 7 January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30-minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours. The series was cancelled in 2003 after a reshuffling of the primetime Monday 7pm slot on ITV.

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Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then

ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008, Wish You Were Here...? Now & Then, giving Judith Chalmers' son Mark Durden-Smith the role of main host, along with Sarah Heaney. The 25-part series saw Durden-Smith and Heaney revisit destinations featured in the original series, to see how much they have changed, and was filmed within production studios and not directly on location.

The programme was produced by Talkback Thames, and began on 14 January 2008 at 4.30pm. The full series was not screened on STV and UTV.

Opening titles

The opening titles in the late 1970s was a sequence of scenes, one of which was children jumping on a bouncy castle. By January 1986, the opening sequence and theme tune also changed. 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 1988. The theme tune used then was called "The Carnival" and was performed by Gordon Giltrap. [1] The BBC's equivalent programme, Holiday, used a section of Giltrap's "Heartsong" as its theme tune from 1978 until the end of the 1985 series. 

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Presenters

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