TV Hell was a BBC2 theme night broadcast on 31 August 1992, showing a whole evening of archive television clips widely regarded by critics and the public alike as among the worst ever produced in Britain. It followed an unrelated series of archive theme nights called "TV Heaven", shown on Channel 4 earlier in 1992. TV Hell was defined as programmes and broadcasts where the conception of the production was misguided, even though it made use of established television cast and crew. Many of the resulting catastrophes caused promising careers to be curtailed, or in some cases led to a review of the commissioning process. The term "TV Hell" has since been adopted in media culture to describe television programmes which are not very good.
Introductions
Aug 31, 1992
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Disastermind
Aug 31, 1992
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It's a Knockout Compilation
Aug 31, 1992
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The Official History of Hell
Aug 31, 1992
A to Z of TV Hell.
Rock Bottom
Aug 31, 1992
A deadpan comical look at the worst pop songs of all time with the morose John Peel.
Going Logo
Aug 31, 1992
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Nicholas Craig's Masterpiece Theatre
Aug 31, 1992
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Triangle
Aug 31, 1992
Introduced by Mark Lawson
Nul Points?! A Brief History of the Eurovision Song Contest
Aug 31, 1992
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Credible Credits
Aug 31, 1992
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Hello and Goodbye
Aug 31, 1992
Danny Baker on the Chat Show.
The Secret Life of TV
Aug 31, 1992
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Storm in an Eggcup
Aug 31, 1992
The hellish history of independent television's first foray into breakfast, TV-am (1983-1992).
Mainly for Men
Aug 31, 1992
Edited version of Mainly for Men (1969) - the first time this has been seen, as it was never actually transmitted in 1969.
Trading Places
Aug 31, 1992
Compilation of famous people not known for singing, who tried singing when they really shouldn't have. Not to be confused with an ITV show of the same title and year also with Cilla Black.
