| It's a Mystery | |
|---|---|
| Format | Children's television series |
| Starring | Neil Buchanan Gail Porter Sophie Aldred Tristan Bancks |
| Country of origin |  United
Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CITV |
| Original run | September 12, 1996 – May 9, 2002 |
It's a Mystery was a networked Children's ITV programme which ran for five series from 1996 - 2002. It was produced by The Media Merchants Television Company Ltd and Meridian Broadcasting Ltd. Series five was simply called Mystery.
It was a programme that educated children by challenging them to solve a mystery. Usually this would involve people telling stories of mysterious occurrences that have happened to them, such as a Man in a Van driving up to a roundabout and seeing his exact duplicate across the roundabout, driving the same vehicle. Other times, the presenter would show unexplained phenomena such as ghosts in the Tower of London or the Loch Ness Monster. The presenter would then offer up possible explanations as to what might have been behind the mystery or if there is even an explanation to give. After each story, it would be given a solved or unsolved designation. At the end of each episode, a riddle would be asked for the audience to solve until the next episode (where the answer would be given).
Forty-four episodes were made, and the series regularly made the Children's' Top Ten.
The programme was presented by Neil Buchanan and Sophie Aldred (Series One); Neil Buchanan, Gail Porter and Tristan Bancks (Series Two and Three); Neil Buchanan, Ben Jones and Shelly Blond (Series Four); Steve Wilson and Shiarra Juthan (Series Five).
The programme was Directed by Paul Walker (Series 1-2), Ian Bolt
(Series 3) and Simon Pearce (series 4-5); Produced by Tim Edmunds
and Neil Buchanan (Series 1-2), Helen Dawson (Series 3) and Driana
Jones (Series 4-5); The Associate Producer and Script Editor was
Nic Ayling (Series 1-5); and the Researcher/ Writers were: Nic
Ayling (Series 1-5), Amy Bingham (Series 2), Jo Clark (Series 5),
Tom Edmunds (Series 5), Alistair Merrifield (Series 3-4), Leo
Morgan (Series 3-4), Matt Porter (Series 1), Mark Sidaway (Series
1), Helena Stylianou (Series 3) and Zoe Symonds (Series 4-5).
It's A Mystery has not been repeated on CITV at all since it ended production in 2002.
The series used many actors over the years. These included; Jo-Anne Good (Crossroads, BBC London 94.9), Russell Hookey (Channel Report, Lookaround, ITN News), Barry Rose (Crossroads), Mike Dyer-Ball (Casualty) and Hal Dyer (Rentaghost, On the Buses, George & Mildred)
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