What programme did Muriel Young present?

Answer 1

Whilst not the first face to be seen on ITV, Muriel Young, who died on 24 March 2001, was one of the fledgling network's first female continuity announcers. She joined the new Associated Rediffusion weekday ITV company in London shortly before it made its first transmission in 1955, working alongside Redvers Kyle and Leslie Mitchell.

Female continuity announcers were not a new idea, but with the BBC’s Sylvia Peters, Muriel struck a blow for women’s liberation with her authoritative, knowledgeable and friendly on-screen personality at a time when women’s rights had reached their lowest ebb since suffrage.


When AR began, the promised market for British television advertising failed to appear, and along with AR’s other announcers, she was forced to fill the space between programmes with ad-libbed programme information and news. The length of time she spent on screen soon meant she was a star in London. This also influenced the companies who arrived after 1955, causing them to set out to turn their announcers into stars as well.

Muriel had first thought of being a librarian, then later attended art school before trying her hand at acting. She featured in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan in 1953 and The Constant Husband with Rex Harrison shortly before beginning her TV career in 1955.

Her small fame as an actor and larger celebrity from announcing was nothing to her influence on a generation of young people though her children’s programmes. Sometimes appearing locally and sometimes networked, she became familiar most to children of the sixties through The Five O’clock Club with Howard Williams. To teenagers of the period, she was known as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg, the country’s premier commercial station before the introduction of ILR in the 70s.


When Rediffusion was submerged into ABC’s new Thames empire in 1968, she joined Granada and founded their children’s department. Among the series she created or produced were Clapperboard, Lift Off with Ayshea and Shang-a-Lang.

She retired from broadcasting in 1986, moving back to her northeastern roots with husband Cyril Coke. She became an accomplished painter in oils and her work was exhibited both locally and in London.

Muriel Young, continuity announcer and children’s television producer: born County Durham 19 June 1928; married the late Cyril Coke in 1954; died Stanhope, County Durham 24 March 2001
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Answer 2

Aamir Khan- Ranbir Kapoor Salman Khan-Imran Khan Karishma Kapoor- Jenelia Raveena Tandon-Deepika Crime master Gogo- Rajpal Yadav Paresh Rawal- Javed Jafri

Answer 3

A short answer, the programme was 'Five O'Clock Show' then 'Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club' and 'Five O'Clock Funfair'. ***** Cat Willum, created by Muriel Young, and Ollie Beak and Fred Barker. created by Wally Whyton, were the puppets.

Answer 4

Muriel Young is a legend in British television. Previously married to James Pearson of The White House, Belfast. Her maiden name was Irwin and she lived, for a while, in 2,University Square, Belfast. The famous TV cat ***** Cat Willum was the "cuddle" of her son John; who finally gave up the cat for a guitar in the 1960s. Starting as an actress, she co-starred with Rex Harrison in "The Constant Husband" and was also in "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan". She carved a career for herself as an attractive and talented leading lady.


In 1955, as the first ITV company Associated-Rediffusion was gearing up to launch, she intended to attend an actors' audition at the company, but mistakenly went to an announcers' audition instead. This took her career in a new direction; she was instantly hired and announced for A-R on September 22, 1955, the opening night of commercial television in the UK.

She worked as a presenter and interviewer for regional programmes on Granada Television and Southern Television, and as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg, but was probably most famous for her work as a presenter of children's programmes for Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London between 1959 and 1968, working alongside Wally Whyton and Bert Weedon, and featuring the puppet characters ***** Cat Willum, Ollie Beak and Fred Barker. The popular format they created lasted for many years, under various titles: Lucky Dip, Tuesday Rendezvous, Five O'Clock Club, Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club and Five O'Clock Funfair.

In the late 1960s and 1970s Muriel Young became a staff producer of pop programmes for Granada Television, with such shows as Lift Off With Ayshea, Get It Together, The Bay City Rollers show Shang-a-Lang, The Arrows Show and Marc, starring Marc Bolan. She also devised the Granada children's series Clapperboard. In the 1980s she produced music programmes for Channel 4.

Muriel Young died on March 24, 2001, but left behind a significant legacy of her creativity, with many enjoyable television shows and performances.

Answer 5

Tuesday Rendezvous

Answer 6

do you mean muriel gray the scottish woman with the cropped hair that used to present the tube and also the media show???

if so try here

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/muriel-gray/

Answer 7

Didn't she do The Tube during it's run in the early 80's?

Answer 8

It was "P U S S Y CAT WILLUM" - I remember it well as my grandmother always used to call it "that bloody deaf and dumb cat"!!!
Just realised - those stupid bloody yanks at yahoo think that the P word for cat is a swear word so 'star' it out, hence the spaces ! ! !

Answer 9

several shows Clapperboard , Shang a Lang among them

Answer 10

***** Cat Willum