Today’s UWTV entry comes from a member of the Weird British TV Memories group on Facebook, James Fish, who recalls a strange production on TV back in the 80s about three people trapped in an apartment, possibly in purgatory. Over to James… “I have a vivid memory from something fairly unnerving I saw some time during the 80’s in the UK with my family. It starts off with a guy alone in an apartment. He is soon joined by 2 women and all 3 have no memory of how they got there. As they try and work it out, they get flashbacks of horrible deaths. The insinuation is that they are all dead. I recall m ..read more

Today we continue our exploration into the dark recesses of televisual and psychological do-they-or-don’t-they-exist mysteries, with this UWTV memory submitted by one of our followers, Kirsty Asher, of a strange animated claymation short film about an anthropomorphic dog, seen on TV around the turn of the millennium. Over to Kirsty! “I have searched and searched for evidence this animated short exists because I definitely remember watching it, but haven’t managed to locate any stills or IMDb clues. It would have been late 90s, possibly early 00s. No idea what channel it was on I was probably a ..read more

Today’s UWTV entry takes on the task of searching for an unidentified piece of kids’ TV from the 80s that a follower of Scarred For Life contacted them about back in 2018. Five years on, this TV memory remains unidentified – so can any of our followers solve the mystery? This weird TV memory was apparently a kids’ show, although it sounds terrifying… yet as we all know, kids’ TV of the 70s and 80s really pushed the boundaries as far as ‘terrifying’ was concerned, so it wouldn’t surprise us at all if this recollection is accurate! The person’s recollection is of a children’s TV show about the m ..read more

Today’s UWTV memory comes from one of our blog followers, Stephanie Owens, who is looking on behalf of a friend for a strange short film or sketch, thought to have been shown on Channel 4, about a man trapped in a river. This one may be slightly outside of our usual 1970s-90s range as the person who saw this thinks it was around 2002-2005 that they saw this. But it is certainly weird and seems to echo of classic Hauntology-era TV weirdness, so it is definitely worth an entry on UWTV. So over to Stephanie, to relay the memory from her friend: “Some time in the early 2000s – probably around 2002 ..read more

Today’s UWTV entry is about a surreal advert for breakfast cereal that was on UK TV in the 90s. From my recollection it was mid-to-late 90s, I think some time between 1994-98, but I can’t recall the exact year. Nor do I recall what cereal it was for but I’m fairly sure it was an ‘obscure’ cereal as opposed to the more well-known ones like Corn Flakes, All-Bran, Shredded Wheat etc. This advert was rather weird and (to me at least) perhaps unintentionally disturbing, so here goes… The advert featured a comedic woman who was rather bumbling and silly, in a kitchen/dining room making a bowl of bre ..read more

So this one isn’t unidentified, but it seems worth doing a UWTV entry for anyway, since it was for a long time unidentified – and though it’s now been found, there exists at least one other advert in the same series which we’d love to get hold of. For many years I was well and truly perplexed by a weird series of adverts I had seen on TV around the mid-80s. Being only about 4 or 5 at the time I couldn’t remember a great deal about them or what they had been for, but my recollection of them had me totally lost as to what they might have been for, and completely confused the hell out of anyone I ..read more

This latest search is for an advert that several of our readers have recalled, apparently from the mid-80s, for some sort of confectionery – either sweets, chocolate or bubblegum though we’re not certain which. The advert has been described as follows: “The advert had some finger-wagging old bat scolding some little kid… she took a bite out of this confectionery that the kid had on him, whereupon its magical powers of zaniness sped up the old bat’s voice, lifted her into the air and hauled her off, still finger-wagging and screeching, into the wild blue yonder, and the kid grinned to the camer ..read more

In the various forums on which weird TV of the Haunted Generation is discussed, many obscure and long-forgotten gems of British kids’ TV’s disturbing past come up. While many long-lost shows have been rediscovered this way, there is one that’s been enquired about on several occasions that has yet to be identified. And it’s got many of us curious to find it, because it sounds outright disturbing, if not frankly terrifying… From the recollections of the people who’ve posted about it, this was a children’s TV drama, broadcast some time around the late 80s or early 90s. The description of this TV ..read more

This UWTV blog entry comes from one of our followers on Twitter, Emma Graney (@emmagraney). Emma recalls a strange advert from the 90s that could have been for Orange mobile, but she’s not certain… if anyone can help Emma identify this memory, please comment here or drop us an email! Over to Emma…: A lot of years ago, around the time of when Orange mobile started, they had a big ad campaign launch with a baby floating in it and clocks ticking down – I think this was around 1995… But before this launch there was, say, a 10 second advert that was shown of an eye blinking, with weird music to acc ..read more

Today’s UWTV memory is a guest blog post by one of our readers, named Pat. If anyone can help Pat identify or find these elusive TV horror films from the 80s, please comment here or drop us an email! Over to Pat…: The first was screened in the scheduling dead zone after Christmas, definitely on ITV, during a weekday afternoon in early January 1985 or 1986, while the schools were off. I think it was called Fraidy Cats, and it was an American or Canadian production. It was a one-off, shown at maybe 1pm-2pm, on the STV regional channel. I remember watching this with my brother on an old blac ..read more