TF:TM previews on Children's ITV. In 1986.

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OK, bear with me about this, I'm talking about stuff which was broadcast on television almost 30 years ago.

I'm just asking if anyone else remembers the preview clips of Transformers the Movie shown on Children's ITV in late 1986(!).

I'm certain that two brief clips of the Movie were shown on Children's ITV programmes - one of the Starscream coronation/execution scene, and another of Daniel transforming his exo-suit to escape Decepticons on the Planet of Junk. I think that one of the clips was shown on Saturday morning show No. 73, but it's been so long I care barely remember.

Anyone?

[Kingoji]

I can barely remember seeing it at the cinema, so I'm no help.

[Philip Ayres]

I can remember Film 86 using the sequence starting from where Soundwave deploys his tapes through to where they fight Blaster's tapes

[Philip Ayres]

Oh and I would be failing in my duty here ....

Feb 1, 2016 14:03:36 GMT anonymousx said:

I think that one of the clips was shown on Saturday morning show No. 73, but it's been so long I care barely remember.

Hey up!

[Hero]

I recall the Hot Rod and Kup execution escape scene being shown on ITV, but on the afternoon news show. It was played right until the Dinobots entered. I loved what I watched even though I could not hear it very well over my baby sister crying during the whole thing. Looked stunning and made me want to see the movie!

I have vague memory of the Coronation being shown on ITV too, but can't remember whether it was on no.73 or not.

[Andy Turnbull]

Get Fresh had the scene with Hot Rod firing on the shuttle, pretty sure Furman was interviewed.

Andy

[Benn]

I'm almost certain there was a program called Splash! which did something with a giant Galvatron wandering around.

[Philip Ayres]

Splash was an 80s itv afternoon kids show devised as a Magie replacement/Blue Peter rival.

[Pinwig]

Feb 1, 2016 18:25:53 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Oh and I would be failing in my duty here ....

Hey up!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhggggggrrrttttthhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Noooooo!!!! It will never leave. IT WILL NEVER LEAVE!

Puttup.

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Feb 1, 2016 19:36:18 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Splash was an 80s itv afternoon kids show devised as a Magie replacement/Blue Peter rival.

The name of that series rings a bell… As does the description. That might be one of the series that featured a clip of Transformers the Movie. Unfortuately, there's literally no information online about that series, so we won't know for sure.

[Philip Ayres]

www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=8586

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Firetto

[The Huff]

One of my most vivid memory's from going to see it for the first time back in '86 was a kid in front of me saying to his friend that he'd seen a clip 'with Galvatron and Starscream asking him if he's Megatron'. So that must have been on that TV show you mentioned.
Never see any myself though, but had read the comic adaptation before so knew what to expect events-wise but wasn't at all ready to be blown away by the whole thing as I was.

[Deleted]

Thanks Phil and Matt, kinda corresponds with what I can (dimly) remember.

[The Huff]

Can anyone else recall their original TF The Movie theatre viewings? Or anything that you remember differently that didn't actually happen (like the many fans that seem to remember Prime crumbling to dust when he died)?

I recalled (wrongly) that Instruments Of Destruction played when devastator combined.

[The Doctor]

I saw it in the cinema in Ashton Lane in Glasgow (it is still there as far as I know). Other than myself and my parents the only other people in the theatre were a boy and his dad.

-Ralph

[Pinwig]

I do. I saw it twice in the single screen cinema my home town used to have. It's been demolished and replaced with flats since. Both times I went alone despite having a close friend at the time who was nuts about Transformers too. I think that was because I was in a youth theatre company at the time, which operated out of the arts centre next to the cinema, so being that time of year I'd have been slipping out between frequent rehearsals for the Christmas production that year when I could.

By then it was only me and this other chap into TFs still. Everyone else had grown out of them, and by the time the Headmasters arrived it was just me.

I did genuinely cry when Prime died. I knew it was coming so it's stuck in my mind because I was surprised I did.

[The Huff]

I went with a friend the first time and then with my brother again. The movie was the main thing that 'kept me into' Transformers for many years. Then it was the long wait for the video to come out which was almost a year later.
Actually - quiz question: What biggish thing happened the night of the Monday the video was released in the UK? Anyone know or remember?

[The Doctor]

No idea. We didn't have a VCR until 1990.

-Ralph

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Feb 11, 2016 18:54:19 GMT The Doctor said:

I saw it in the cinema in Ashton Lane in Glasgow (it is still there as far as I know). Other than myself and my parents the only other people in the theatre were a boy and his dad.

-Ralph

I saw the film at the local fleapit municipal cinema with my mum and brother. The total audience that day must've been a dozen, tops.

I had no idea what a cinema was before I went - my dad had described it as "a big room with a very big TV", and I had thought that meant it was like a school hall but with many televisions all over the walls. In the end I preferred how cinemas looked in reality to how my child mind imagined them. I was particularly impressed that I got to have ice cream, even though it was November or something.