The Banned Chucklevision Episode

A banned Chucklevision episode that aired once on BBC One, vanished forever, and left a trail of traumatised viewers who swear they saw Andy Peters lurking in increasingly disturbing knitwear… sounds like the kind of lost media gold that keeps the internet awake at night. We couldn’t resist following the thread, right down into the weeds of screenshots, forum posts, “broadcast standards”, and the sort of too-perfect details that make a rumour feel real.

We talk through the alleged story beat by beat: Paul and Barry doing their usual jobs, then spotting Andy Peters standing stock still in the background, his jumpers showing warped faces of familiar children’s TV presenters. The creep factor ramps up with reflections, an unplugged television showing him anyway, and a final sting that turns cosy 1990s kids’ TV into something closer to a playground nightmare. Along the way we ask the bigger questions that lost media fans always ask: could the tape be missing, damaged, wiped, or locked away in the BBC archives, and why do “banned episode” stories spread so fast?

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Transcript

Welcome And The Strange Suggestion

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello and welcome to the UK Nostalgic Podcast, Who Remembers? In this episode, we're asking who remembers the band Chocolate Brothers episode?

SPEAKER_02 0:52

This sent me this doesn't mean I'm a mad rabbit all this later.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Yeah, you love all this sort of stuff, don't you?

SPEAKER_02 0:57

So we've got to take a look at the.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Can we just say, by the way, I I think this is slightly mad to do a sort of lost episode. Because the whole point is who remembers? Neither of us really remembers this. And it's probably I think I'm I do though. Yeah, maybe. I mean, it's not impossible that we that we watch this episode. I but it's probably actually quite likely we watch this episode. But yeah, I must admit, I I I I I can't say, yeah, yeah, absolutely watch that.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

I don't I mean this got sent in by a guy called Gory Duke Talmer, who's one of our new million followers that we've got on Twitter, don't we? Well, that's not that much, about 500. But we've got a lot of obviously we did some videos and stuff, and yeah, some famous faces came along for the ride. So well, welcome. You know, you're here now. We didn't want to be able to do that. You're invited, but welcome. Yeah, welcome. Uh but yeah, it's one of them uh he just said, Oh, why don't you do the uh Chugger Brothers episode that's been banned?

SPEAKER_01 1:53

And I'm like, Did you know if did you know of a banned episode or was that sort of playing into?

SPEAKER_02 1:59

No, no, no, no. And I'm normally quite on top of these sort of things, and from what I can get into it, it's a it's a bizarre one because it's also lost media as well. And most of the research that I mean I put most of this together to be honest. Um, not throwing you under the bus there, Liam, but this is my field, innit? Yeah, you love it.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

If there's a rabbit hole, you'll head first straight in, won't you?

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Yeah, but yeah, I think you're you're welcome to ride here. I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

I had uh my old foreman had a Paddale Terrier that I think got stuck down a rabbit hole, it went down to chase some rabbits and they had to dig it out.

Setting Up The Lost Episode Mystery

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Yeah, very much like that. This reminds me a bit of that Roy J stuff. Do you know the Roy J uh conspiracy that it weren't real? But you know, this is I don't know, this is just a mad one there. So someone sent us this thing about Chuckle Brothers, so I looked into it. There's not much information online about it.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Just before we go into the specific episode, so obviously Chuckle Brothers, massive institution. I I mean I I don't know whether it's sort of the whole country, like obviously we're fairly local to Rotherham. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

So I I looked at just big in Rotherham.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

No, I don't think so. But I don't know if it's a northern thing. I don't know. I mean, obviously it was on national, it was on uh uh BBC kids. What C BBC was it? Was it called C BBC when they were on? I I think so, yeah. I think yeah, yeah, I mean shown on national TV, two brothers. They sometimes had a I think there's a third brother that sometimes sort of bad guy.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

He's like a no slack, he's a no slacky man, isn't he? When he says, Come on, no slack is right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

And actually, we we went out with friends of the show. Well, well, actually, friends of us, I suppose, was is more true than friends of the show.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Friends of the show friends friends of the Chuckle Brothers as well.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Yeah, I bet they'd love to be friends of the Chuckle Brothers, but yeah, Kate, Kate and Dave, we did the quiz recently, and I I actually thought when this they talked to us about an episode where they mentioned Chris Wilder and they play football, and and I thought that that sort of triggered some memories of oh, is that the one that never got shown again or something? But but it wasn't. That's a this is a this is a separate thing to that, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 4:04

Yeah, so what uh you I'll let you go through the story. We're not gonna go massively deep into the story because uh we've not seen it, you know. I think these little bits that I sort of remember, but and then we'll talk about why we think it got banned at the end. But this were aired once, never repeated. You'll not get it on YouTube, Cluster's Lost Media.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Um I mean, what's interesting is potentially somebody listening, it's possible recording it on VHS, it may exist somewhere. I don't know if it has to be a good idea. Well, there is a screen screen.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Apparently, there is a screenshot going around, which no one's sure if it is real or not, uh, of this episode. But wiki we're a lot of this is from Lost Media Wiki. They say that no footage has ever shown up uh of this, and they they sort of doubt the the picture going around of it as well.

Recounting The Creepy “Plot”

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Yeah, so so through the episode, for for anyone who knows, they they kind of get up to various antics. Um it's genuinely good, Chuckle Brothers. But opening scene, the the painting of fence, um something to do with some not stately home, but like a posh house in Rotherham. Yeah, they've been told they've got a spruce it up, the sort of handy men, I think, for the day or the weekend.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Yeah, they've had a few jobs, aren't they, Chuckle Brothers? Oh, they get around, don't they? Yeah, yeah, they've had more jobs than our mate Russell Paul Jones, we mentioned he's had a lot of jobs, hasn't he?

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Do you remember when he showed us uh his CV and it were like, you know, and Gareth in the office says a few questions and that big like long list drops down?

SPEAKER_02 5:27

It were unbelievable. Three three pages long of just a list of jobs that he's had. Uh but you know, he's never out of work, I'll give him that.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Anyway, yeah, so they're they're painting a fence and the freeze. I think it's Barry who spots spots something and says, Who's that? The camera slowly moves, and it's it's Andy Peters, and he's standing there and he's he's not moving, he stood absolutely stock still, staring at him. He's got a knitted jumper with what appears to be Zoe Ball on it. The slightly distorted, like it's like a sort of like a bitmap image almost from just putting in there, Liam.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Obviously, we've not seen this, but from what some comments have said, some people go more and more mad with it, which I think is a false memory. Some people say her eyes are like massively wide apart, and actually has got like a Joker style smile on a jumper. But other people say, like, you know, it's just Zoe Ball's face.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

We're not really sure, you know, what's yeah, and I don't know if just a knitted face would appear slightly distorted anyway. I I don't yeah, I don't know if there's any truth in in the fact it's deliberately distorted. I don't know why I actually don't know why you would do that because the sort of story relies on us knowing who it is, and and it it's so important.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, it must be unless it's a picture of her rather than an anyway, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

So, yeah, the Paul sort of says ignore him, uh he's rehearsing for something, and it just fades with with him stood still watching them. I don't know if this is around the time when he would be presenting as well. I mean, I looked into this, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

He stopped in about 92. Well, he sort of he did uh he did little bits of oh go on, going live, didn't he? But Schofield were doing going live at this point, and I think Andy Peters had taken over from Scope.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

Oh, he did all sorts, didn't he, Peters?

SPEAKER_02 7:10

In the broomcut. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we didn't have him last week, by the way, on our TV house because he is on this morning still. So that's why we didn't have him on, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Talented man, yeah. So moves into the next scene, the pegging out some laundry again in this kind of big garden of this again. I'm gonna say stately home, but it but it's not, it's like a manor. I suppose a manor house is probably a better description. Um Barry says to Paul something about the clothes keep going missing, and and Paul says, Don't be daft, Barry. Well, silly me.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

I can imagine, I can imagine this. Obviously, we're gonna say silly me, silly you, silly me.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

The turn again, and Andy Peters this time is in the garden, he's holding I think he's holding a sock or some clothes in his hand, and he's got a different jumper on this time, and the face is supposedly Michaela Strachan. Again, I mean, people are saying a distorted Michaela Strachan. I'll tell you what I mean. I think she's quite distinctive, but I I think if you distorted Michaela Stracken's face too much, you wouldn't necessarily know it's Michaela Stracken.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

What I've read on Reddit, which we'll get to later, is Michaela Straken's face stretched vertically like someone's pulled her image upwards.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Apparently there's a line of dialogue there that probably t covers that. Maybe maybe it was distorted because uh Barry says why is he wearing the Michaela Stracken jumper? So and uh a great response from Paul. He's very supportive of wildlife.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

I like how Barry's a real really wild show she was presenting at this time.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Because on this, obviously, if people have not seen, I presume people know this about the Truckle Brothers. Barry is seen as the idiot to Paul, but he's far more clued up than Barry. Like uh sorry, than Paul. So Barry's like notices things, and Paul goes, No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Paul sort of sees himself as the the one in charge, the the spokesman, but he's more often than not the biggest idiot out of the two, yeah. Yeah. Uh next scene they get a parcel delivered. Um, they open the door. It's Andy Peters who's actually uh the assumption is he's delivered it because he's standing at the door. Same absolute blank expression, he's not moving again. He's got a jumper on this time with Phil Schofield and Gordon the Gopher. But and again, depending which comments you read and how far you want to dig into this, some people say it was actually uh an amalgamation of Schofield and Gordon the Gopher. Some people say it was actually just uh an image of those two in the they used to call it a broom cupboard, didn't they? With Gordon Gulf sat next to it.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Um again, uh whether there is any distortion, but apparently see why why he's gone gopher on his jumper, he's branching out, Barry. Um never mind, just take the parcel, that's the cleaning products that I ordered.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Yeah, so Barry again's getting a he's going, well, I don't get why he keeps and Paul's just taking it all in his stride, you know, like the ultimate professional.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Yeah, I I don't know if he I don't know, I'd love to see it. I don't know. I don't know if he's sort of seeing something. Is he scared of Andy Peters or they're just not acknowledging him? I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Well Barry is obviously acknowledging him, but Paul is not having anything to do with cleaning the house, innit? Yeah, like I say, ultimate work then.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

So they've had the cleaning products delivered, next scene, um, they're in the living room, and they're they're sort of doing a sort of typical scene where one of them will move something, then the other one puts it back, and they're the the usual sort of Chuckle Brothers type humour. But but one thing Barry notices is when he's wiping surfaces so they're really shiny, he keeps seeing Andy Peters reflected back in it.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

I'd love to see this because I think this would be proper scary this. I wonder if this is why it got banned this scene, actually.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Yeah, the the wipe so so he says something to I think he yeah, I don't know, he taps or grabs Paul or something, tries to show him he's not having it. There's a I think there's a silly me, silly you, silly me, silly you, yeah. And then Paul wipes the TV screen and Andy Peters this time is on the TV, so he kind of turns the TV on, I think, is the implication.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Although it's not on. And he's just stood there again looking at them. And Paul well, bat Barry looks worried and says he's in there now, and he says he's probably just doing his new show, Barry. They tried to turn the TV off before they realize it's actually not even plugged in.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Yeah, that's bizarre.

When It Turns Into Kids’ TV Horror

SPEAKER_01 11:26

So I mean that is the first bit really where it's creepy. Other than that, it's a bit it's a bit weird that Andy Peters is there, but now he's he's on a TV that's not plugged in. So that's that's I suppose where the the creepiness comes in.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

By the way, this came out in February. Uh, this is not a Halloween thing, which is even weirder.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Yeah, no, no. I think that's the thing. There's no deliberate attempt to to freak people out. Yeah, it just it just was a bit odd. Uh, next scene, they're carrying a ladder, it's one of the classic to me to use. Um turn a corner, they're they're struggling to get round the corner, they kind of can't figure out their angles. And as they turn, Andy Peters is in the hallway and he's actually blocking their path. Uh, this time he's got a jumper, it's Peter Simon on. I I think this is nonsense. Somebody says it's Peter Simon, but his eyes were replaced with the eyes of Gordon the Gophers. So obviously, we people were speculating about Schofield and Gordon the Gopher. Now they're saying I don't know if you're on a knitted jumper you would know that Gordon the Gopher's eyes, Gordon the Gopher's eyes, that's his eyes just black, aren't they?

SPEAKER_02 12:29

So yeah, yeah. I maybe two people putting two and two together, maybe it was just Peter Simon with black eyes, which is even which is probably weirder, but maybe, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Um Barry says he's getting closer, Paul, and he says, just go around him, Barry. They try to. He as they move, he moves. There's a bit of a stalemate. They stood looking at each other, they they end up going backwards.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

I can imagine this scene, by the way, where I can imagine the music you know, every time they're moving, and he's moving at the same time as them.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Yeah, it's like um sort of slaps, it's like a Lauren Hardy type. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It almost doesn't need any any sound, not sound, any words this bit, does it? You can just imagine that every time they move, he moves. Uh scene six, so it's coming towards the end of the episode now, so TV broadcast. So they've sort of done their day's work, they turn on the TV and the appears is on. He's not moving again, though, he's still staring. This time he's got a jumper with all the different faces that we've seen so far. They're all they're all kind of blurred. I I don't know how that works. I don't know if it's like a checkerboard pattern or if they're all kind of somebody said they were swirled again. I don't know how you'd necessarily know that. Yeah, uh this they try and turn it over, say let's watch something else, but whichever channel they get they get to, it's him. Uh Barry looks really concerned and says, Why is he on every channel? I think he wants to be the most famous man on kids' TV, Barry, says a worried Paul.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Yeah, so according to the script, this or the people who've looked on the Lost Media thing, this is the or people say they've seen it. Uh this is the bit where Paul, like he does in every episode, by the end of it, he thinks he's the one who's noticed there's something weird going on. Yeah. Barry, what's going on? Yeah, yeah. So they try and turn the TV over, don't they? But they obviously well say all the time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Um at the end of this particular scene, he raises his hands and points directly at the camera. So he's pointing at the Paul and Barry watching it. Uh at the same moment, uh, an actual Andy Peters stands up behind the self uh wearing a jumper, but it's got a completely blank face on it this time. And the implication is that he's going to get his next victims.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

So this is what someone else has added. We'll talk about this after. So the the Lost Media thing says wearing a jumper because he's waiting for his next victim. A blank jumper because he's waiting for his next victim. But this is the scene that people apparently were most scared of where Andy Peters is just pointing straight at the camera, and then so I think it's like a jump scare, do you know, like from behind the both places, so they run off.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Yeah, and the last scene it's the garden, it's dusk, so it's it's kind of dim light. Uh this time, as they get out into the garden, there are multiple Andy Peters, all standing, all wearing a different jumper, all with different kids' TV presenters on there. Um, Barry says to Paul, what does he want? Um Paul says, I think Barry wants to be the only one left. And Barry says, What happened to all the others? He says, Look at the jumpers. And one of the Andes, sorry, all of the Andes apparently take a step forward and they've got knitting needles with them. Paul and Barry run and the screen goes to black.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Yeah, and then apparently all you can hear is the knitting needles, and then the chuckle vision thing comes on.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

And the implication there to I'm I mean, I'm not reading this, but it seems obvious to me that the the sort of joke throughout is Andy Peters is taking over sort of kids TV, yeah, and he's turning presenters or hosts or uh people into his jumpers, and he's now come for the Chuckle Brothers.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Is he killing them? Or is he just making it?

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

I don't know just before we go into the aftermath.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

I mean, I suppose the implication is that that that it wants them to be no more. I want this man to be.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

Yeah, I I think I can see why people thought this was scary, just based on I mean we don't know how much is urban legend, and we don't know how well, because we can't watch it.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

That's that's the most ridiculous thing about it, yeah.

Aftermath And The BBC Silence

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Yeah. But I'll just do a bit of the aftermath then. What happened in the aftermath? The episode broadcast once, 14th of February, it was 1991, subsequently withdrawn from rotation. The BBC never made a statement about it, they just quietly removed it. But someone on the Lost Media Forum contacted the BBC in 2023, and they actually received a reply saying, While the BBC recognises the affection audiences hold for Chucklevision, this particular episode does not meet current or historic uh historical broadcast standards, and there are no plans to release it commercially or digitally. We ask audiences to refrain from contacting BBC archives regarding this episode as no further information is available. Which is adds to the doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Yeah, I mean weren't there a thing that some archive footage got deleted.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Well, uh the the mods on the mods on the Lost Media Forum closed the thread on this, saying the thread is now locked. This is why it's been so hard to get hold of, like any information. The thread is now locked due to repeated requests and and links for this episode. I stated many times no footage exists online. Please stop posting. I found it on YouTube because these links are always fake. The thing that you're on about is there's apparently a rumoured screenshot of a grainy looking VHS sort of taken from a VHS.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

No, no, sorry. So that that's next step. But what I was thinking is that because the implication is like the BBC have either sort of locked this away or deleted it or got rid of it. But I I'm sure there was a thing where they like certain stand-ups and that they've just lost some old like do you know like the thoughts that it's not uh it's been deliberately removed, it's just that it just doesn't exist anymore.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Well I think just that the the BBC though saying uh it doesn't meet uh current or past broadcasting regulations is the odd thing about it though.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Yeah, but what what would they say though? That we yeah, we're sorry, we it it got stored somewhere damp and it done.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Yeah, it could be that. Yeah, it could be that. I like say the the screenshot that apparently going around, which uh I have looked at it, it's it's so you can't really see much, can you, to be honest? No, I don't I I mean ultimately, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

I I I don't know why I suppose there would there could be a screenshot from it. I don't I don't know, like but yeah, I I I'm I'm not sure whether to read too much into that one way or another. I think certainly possible. I I I mean what's the would there be digital footage then? Is it is it is it somebody took a photo of it and has had the photo or is it supposed to be a screen grab? I don't know, I don't yeah, you can't see any.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

I think it's I think it's a fake. And I like I say people in the lost media think think it's a fake as well. I think it's just someone taking the Mickey, you find all these sort of things with Lost Media. Oh, I found this, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

I mean you could grab a sort of screenshot from any Chucker Brothers episode and and just put Andy Peters in there with AI, easily.

Reddit Memories And False Details

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Well, we've all done but we've all we've all put Andy Peters in the background. Yeah, we've all we've all done that. Uh AI Peters, I call him. Um do you want me to do something? I w what I'm gonna ask you at the end, Liam, is whether you think you'd have been scared by this. And I'm this is from a Reddit thread um called Does Anyone Remember the Band Chucklevision episode with Andy Peters. I'm gonna read these people's names out and stuff as well because I don't want to take credit for these because we can't remember it. So, you know, I don't want to get it.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

It's a weird choice for who remembers, but yeah, we yeah, we're remembering it through other people, I suppose.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Yeah, Lars of Pilcell said he didn't speak for the entire episode, just stared. Every scene he was getting closer and closer, which is something that's not on the Lost Media thing. He said his mum turned the TV off uh when he appeared behind the sofa wearing that jumper with Zoe Ball's face stretched like a balloon.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Yeah, which which I mean is the running sort of theme, is this sort of distorted face? I I well I'm not gonna do it right now. I'm not do you know what I'm not gonna do it ever, but I'd be interested if uh Well, you're gonna try and do your own Zoe Ball jumper with No, I'm just wondering if it distorted Zoe Ball's face, like would you still know it was Zoe Ball? I'm not if anyone else wants to do that.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Someone else try that, someone else can try that. Sashay Atoya said the jumper traumatised me. He said the jumper's the big thing here, traumatised me. Um the the one that was the worst was Philip Schofield and Gordon go for mashup. He said it looked like Gordon was trying to escape through Phil's cheek. I didn't sleep for a week. Um Earl Weiser says, Didn't Paul say something like he wants to be the most famous man on kids TV, Barry? And Barry said, Yeah, so what happened to the others? And but Paul said, look at the jumpers, and that was the last line, and that haunts uh Earl today, he said. Um, and then another one that I found interesting with Faith Skies, who said, I swear one of the jumpers had Michaela Shraken on it, but her eyes were replaced with Gordon the Gophers, but no one believes me. Obviously, in the Lost Babies things, Simon. Well, but they they said it's Paul Simon on the other one. So this is this this person said it's Michaela Shraken who's actually got the Peter Simon. Paul Simon's uh That'd be mad if it's Simon and Garfunker.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

That'd be brilliant if he goes off to musicians as well. Is that the same thing? Why have I got a stretch face down in the middle?

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Why uh it's Michaela Straken, Bone Digger, Bone Digger, Bone Digger away from me.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Such a weird, such a weird song that you can call probably weirder than this episode. You can call me, what is it? You can be my bodyguard. I could be anyway. Um so as if you read this, Liam, now and your kid said, I found this Chuckle Brothers episode. Can we watch it? Would you let them see it? I know they're a bit older than the target audience probably for this, but Yeah, because I think things have moved on.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

I I I don't know if this is necessarily that creepy anymore. Which again makes me think that that rather than sort of being something sinister in behind why it's never been shown, I just wonder if it got lost or or deleted or damaged or I I I'm not convinced that it's that I mean it's weird because obviously it's it's disturbed people, so so maybe there is something in there, but without seeing it, I I don't know, it just seems like another a slightly darker Chuckle Brothers episode, but I can see I don't know, Liam.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

I think it's fucking dark. They've got rid of the faces.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Like, I mean it I think you're sort of looking for some sort of like because something I read said like it was possibly an early example of like kids TV being blurred with horror. I I don't think it is.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

I don't think it's if you think about it, what what else could it have possibly been? Why is he?

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah, but you're saying like he's sort of moving faces and putting them on jumpers.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

Andy Peters is a cold-blooded murderer, that's what I'm putting on.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

I almost think that there could be a scene at the end where Andy Peters has got them locked in the broom cupboard and and he's given them access to sort of teas and cakes and stuff, but he just doesn't want them on TV anymore, so he can do all the shows. That would have just given it a light-hearted feeling. Why the jumper? Why the jumper? Because he's saying like that, I'm top dog, I've got rid of this. Why do you then? Why are they distorted? Well, that's the bit I'm not sure that is real, to be honest.

Would It Scare Kids Today

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Oh, you're calling what is it, Lars of Pils, uh a liar, are you? I'm saying it was a long time ago, Lars. Anyway, it's mentions in the media that I found. Um the Metro briefly mentioned it in a 2014 article called uh Ten Band TV moments you won't believe aired. And it all it says is uh the unsettling chuckle vision installment where Andy Andy Peters appears repeatedly in increasing disturbing knitwear. So they're sort of going on there. I mean, I don't know whether they've seen it. The Guardian uh did a uh an article on Lost TV and said this was a surreal, possibly accidental descent into children's television horror, which and what about it? Oh, that might be what I read, yeah, yeah. Yeah, not that the BBC have always refused to comment on the whereabouts of the Master's take. But how many people have asked them? Really?

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Mark of that one person who sent that message in that we read out.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Um Wikipedia, I've got I I looked up Wikipedia and obviously the Chuckle Brothers, Wikipedia thing's massive, but they do mention it. It says on uh 14th of February 1991 on BBC One, before being um this this episode was broadcast before being withdrawn from uh rotation. The episode is notable for the repeated, unexplained appearances of presenter Andy Peters, who is shown silently observing the Chuckle Brothers while wearing a series of knitwear items through distorted images of other children's television personalities. Although the BBC have never released the episode commercially, it has gained a cult following online and is frequently cited in discussions of lost or banned television.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Yeah, I mean I I I think people are overplaying it. I mean it's like unexplained appearance. Well I think I think it makes sense to me. I don't know if people didn't get it at the time, but I I if you want to sort of think that he's killing them or whatever, I can understand why they thought it was too dark. But I think he just wants their their slots.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

He just wants their I think there'd have been a better way to do it than just sort of images on a T on a a uh on a jumper. Well we'll never know. Yeah, so that's it, so thank you anyway for um sending that in, because it's something I've got.

Door Knock And The Jump Scare

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Yeah, an interesting one. Um sorry, just give me one second. I think we might have to cut this, I think someone's just at a door. I think it's gone okay. Yeah, just re-record it when it comes to it, it might think hold on. Oh my god, it's Andy Peters. He's not m he's got out face on his jumper!

SPEAKER_00 25:59

It's Andy Peters There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once. Shame on shame on you. It fooled me, we can't get fooled again.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

So that were an April Fool's lium, weren't it? We got ya. We got ya. You failed the challenge. You failed the challenge, you fooled your company.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

I'm like the challenge, and you were on to us.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

I I don't know. That that that none of that happened. It didn't, it never existed. It was made up by everyone. We've put a few uh curveballs in there, obviously, um a few clues, should I say? Last week's episode were about how hoaxes. This is April the 1st, as this goes out, and it works because we're we're we're releasing it before midday, so we're not the fools.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

So if you listen after midday, that's your choice. You're still the fool.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

You're still the fool.

SPEAKER_01 26:55

Um you can't be a fool after if you release it before. You can't be a fool again.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

You can't be fooled again. Gory Duke Tom Um is an anagram of the guy who asked us to do it, is an anagram of you got murked. So that's that's if anyone figured it out from that.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

That is absolute world class.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

If anyone sort of thought if you figured it out, let us know where we went wrong, because we genuinely wrote this script. It's just mad. Of uh, in my eyes, like I mean, we sort of did it obviously like on.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

It's not script, by the way. We just had a spot outline for the episode. Imagine if it was a script.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Well, we had we had loads of ideas, didn't we? We're gonna do Granger, where I think we're just gonna be like CCTV and there were a murderer or something. We we tried to get something that wasn't as mad that you won't believe it immediately. Um that's why you were playing the devil's advocate. But I did want it to be Andy Peters is basically going around murdering.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

You insisted this would feature Andy Peters as uh as a kind of nasty piece of work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

I've done nothing against Andy Peters. I just thought.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

No, no, no, you just like that narrative, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Yeah, the clean cut Andy Peters uh were gonna be like, I don't know, sort of going around I think the first idea that we had with Andy Peters was they had a tape, didn't they, that said Peter's tape? Yeah, the Peter's tape, yeah. And it was just and another idea we had we were just gonna be them sitting to me to you for a full 19 minutes, weren't we?

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Yeah, there was uh an episode where they they got stuck in a loop of to me to you for something like 11 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Yeah, yeah, that'd have been amazing. So all the other shit, obviously, obviously, none of it's real. So the aftermath and the jumpers. How the hell, realistically, would you know Zoe Ball or Michaela Schrackado? Or any of them? Peter Seidman just a bold man, if they were like stretched out and stuff. I wouldn't know it were them. Yeah, uh other anagrams that we put in there from the Reddit thread, Laws of Pilso is an anagram of April Fools, Sasha Atower is an anagram of This Is a Hoax, which it isn't actually, because there's no X in it. So that's I was gonna say, Where's the X? No, no, that's not that's not worth that one. That's my fault that as well. Full ourselves. I must have missed an X out somewhere. Earl Wiser is We Are Liars, and Faith Skies is This Is Fake as an anagram. So fake news. Um yeah, we were gonna add a couple more things in, but we thought the the more we added, the less believable it were. Let us know where you found out or when you realize that that was an April Falls I'd love to love to know.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

And it's a bit of a mad one that we don't always do this sort of mad, crazy shite.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Um, if people if we it's a bit of a mad thing.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

We've got some new followers and listeners from yeah, so we decided to go absolute left field and do something crazy. But yeah, that's the normally we just we do remember stuff, but this is not yeah or we try to anyway, but this is making stuff up. This is not really who remembers this this is this who lies.

Apology Gift And What’s Next

SPEAKER_02 29:39

This is not um it's not every day it's April Fool's Day. The Saviour's Day, as we call it, April Fool's Day. And the Saviour's Day, and the April Fool's Day, but we will be back. I think I'm not gonna promise what we've got coming up because you have let the public down on many occasions, aren't you, Liam? I think people know what we're talking about here.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Yeah, there's a there's a um obviously This is lost media, this is genuine lost media. Yeah, we're we're not we're not we don't condone or condemn any religions really, so but Easter Sunday is the the day that I believe that the that Christ rose and escaped the tomb. So our Chapel St. Leonard's karaoke drunk episode should rise from the from the dead on Easter Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

And that's gonna be our uh apology for making you waste an hour listening to something that didn't exist. But I hope you enjoyed it along the way. And um, yeah, we are I think we're gonna try a couple of new sort of things out with an episode, aren't we? Um we've got some ideas, we've got some things in the can. We've got some things in the can. But like I say, if you are new and you thought these guys are just idiots, it's correct, but we don't normally do this.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

But no, I was a one-off this. I mean we've ruined for next year because you can't get full degree in, unless you can, in which case we might try and find out.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Well, to be honest, the only reason we did it this year is because it falls on the our normal release schedule. So that's the only reason we did it this year.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

And we did sort of we we did think about doing hoaxes as an episode, and then that made us think actually we could do an April Fool's hoax of our very own. Um let us know if you if you believed it, if you didn't, if I mean if if you thought this is absolute bollocks, you you're not still listening, are you?

SPEAKER_02 31:21

So you're not well I think look real, I I've got a few I've got an idea that a lot of people will be too proud to to to accept that we've completely fooled him. That's my idea.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Paul's memory might be sketchy these days. I I wonder if Paul Truckle might think it was a real episode, if he doesn't listen to the full thing.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

I saw Paul Truckle and he says he sees Barry every day. So maybe that's fucking spooky, isn't it? Do you know what I mean? That's like more terrifying than anything else. Man, you see Barry every day. He said I think he's like sort of thinks he's with him every day. Well, like a nice thing that he was saying. Um but yeah, he says like he sees him every day, Barry. Yeah, but people are not gonna believe what I've said here because obviously it's all been a fake episode. No, he did genuinely say that.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I think it's like you're basically saying he's always very close to him and he's he's still with him, yeah. I'm sure.

How To Contact The Show

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Some way. Right, we'll see you. Hopefully, we'll see you Sunday for something that we recorded a year ago. And then hopefully we'll see you. Well, we will see you for a normal episode next time. So thank you. Back to normal after this one. Thank you for being so understanding for because I enjoyed doing that, Liam. I don't know, even if any no one else did. So I think we've had a lot of fun, even if nobody else did. Yeah, so thank you very much, Liam. See you next time. Certainly will. Thank you for listening to Who Remembers. If you want to get in touch with us, you can find us at Whorrememberspod at com. If you are a right wing fascist, you can find us on Twitter at Who Remembers Pod. Or if you're a wokener, you can find us on Blue Sky at WhoRememberspod. Once again, thank you for listening, and we'll see you next time for more remembering.