This was another Jonathan King effort, a sort of British counterpart to Entertainment USA. The show would come from a different town each week and its young presenters would anchor what was almost a tourist information film about the place, interspersed with music videos featuring, surprise surprise, American AOR hits. King advertised for new presenting talent in his column for The Sun but after the changeover at the end of season one he got fed up of this and so Jenny Powell and Tony Baker ( above ) remained in place for the rest of the series.
The programme was unceremoniously dumped in 1988 when Janet Street-Porter took over as Head of Youth Programming and axed both of King's shows as one of her first priorities. Powell dusted herself down and her presenting career is still ongoing but Baker has disappeared.
Last time I saw Baker was on the I Love 1985 edition which talked about this very show. He just went back to his day job after No Limits wrapped and Powell expressed regret that he didn't pursue his presenting further because she believed he was the more talented one. I also remember a lot of critical voices from the celeb talking heads on that edition that rightly pointed out how naff the music was. They had been expecting some kind of local, 'here'd what's hot in....' kind of programme, visiting the local scene etc, but ended up stuck with videos of Huey Lewis and the News! Famous of course for that irritating and now highly dated pause, rewind, play, pause, rewind play technique which the programme would drop at alarming frequency and its casio keyboard simple theme tune
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