The Time, The Place
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| Format | Talk show Audience participation |
| Presented by | Mike Scott Henry Kelly John Stapleton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Bob Cousins |
| Editor(s) | Peter McHugh |
| Location(s) | Various Locations |
| Production company(s) | Central Independent Television Anglia Television Ulster Television |
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| Original channel | ITV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original run | 7 September 1987 – 28 November 1998 |
The Time, The Place was a British audience participation talk show that was produced by Central Independent Television, later Anglia Television and broadcast live on ITV from 1987-1998. TTTP was presented by Mike Scott from 1987-1993 and by John Stapleton from 1991-1998. Henry Kelly also presented the programme for a period before Stapleton took over full time.
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[edit] Format
The program was developed as ITV's competition to the BBC's Kilroy morning discussion show which premiered in 1986. It differed from Kilroy in that Kilroy delved into more political and current event related issues, while TTTP focused on human interest topics.
The programme toured the country and came from the various ITV regional studios. Towards the end of its run, the programme came from London at least three days a week to save money.
It was axed to make way for the less topical, more issue-led programme Vanessa, which mainly dealt with personal matters.
[edit] Incident
On a later episode (broadcast on February 3, 1995) dealing with men's fashion, the discussion was successfully interrupted by two protesters. When asked to give their opinion on their fashion sense, the two men, who called themselves "Prayer Man" and "Magic Spider" started by discussing their fashion tastes, and why they were wearing leather jackets and turbans, but soon after engaged the presenter about racism and a shouting match ensued. Stapleton attempted to keep some order in the studio by ignoring the protesters and going to interview another couple, but the two men continued their ranting and walked out to the front of the stage. Stapleton attempted to have them evicted and when security became involved things quickly got out of hand. The show ended several minutes early that day.
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