The Big Breakfast (lost appearance of Robot Wars team on Channel 4 breakfast show; 1998)
Dartford Girl Grammar's appearance on The Big Breakfast.
Status: Lost
The Big Breakfast is a Channel 4 breakfast light entertainment show that originally aired from 1992 to 2002. In an episode broadcast in early-1998 Robot Wars team Dartford Girls Grammar made an appearance on the show prior to Robot Wars' first series, with their machine Detonator.
Background
Dartford Girls Grammar competed on the robot combat show Robot Wars from Series 1 to 5 with robots Detonator, Napalm, and Shadow of Napalm.[1][2][3] Napalm proved the most successful, reaching the Pinball stage of the Second Wars' Semi-Finals.[2] In contrast, as detailed in Episode 1 of Robot Wars Revealed, Detonator struggled throughout the First Wars, attributed to issues ranging from a damaged fuel tank prior to filming, as well as Team Captain David Crosby forgetting to charge the machine's batteries that led to its elimination at the Trials stage.[4][1]
Nevertheless, the team made a number of appearances on other shows prior to the airing of the First Wars.[5] Alongside an appearance on the BBC children's show Blue Peter, where they demonstrated Detonator, they were also invited to appear on The Big Breakfast[5]. Unlike with their Blue Peter appearance however, little is known about the segment itself, although a photo on the team's website confirms its existence.[6][5]
Availability
Ultimately, many of The Big Breakfast's episodes are also lost media. This includes the episode containing the Dartford Girls Grammar segment, with the only currently available media linked to it being a photo on the team's archived site.[6]
Gallery
Video
See Also
- 1995 Robot Wars UK Open (partially found rejected robot combat TV show pilot; 1995)
- American Robot Wars 2000 (lost MTV pilot of British robot combat game show; 2000)
- BattleBots (found Comedy Central robot combat game show; 2000-2002)
- BattleBots (partially lost build of unreleased GameCube/PlayStation 2 game based on robot combat TV series; 2003)
- BattleBots Collegiate Championship (partially lost unaired spinoff of robot combat TV show; 2009)
- Blue Peter (partially found segments of Robot Wars teams on children's television series; 1998)
- Mechanoids (partially found BBC robot combat game show; 2003)
- Plunderbirds: Talk Robots (partially found unfinished robot combat mockumentary film; 2019)
- Robot Wars (found cameos of robot combat-themed BBC 2 ident; 1999-2000)
- Robot Wars (lost footage and HSE documentation of behind-the-scenes accidents of BBC robot combat game show; 1998-1999)
- Robot Wars (lost near-death footage of Jeremy Clarkson from robot combat game show; 1998)
- Robot Wars (lost work on unfinished cartoon series based on robot combat game show; existence unconfirmed; 2002-2004)
- Robot Wars (partially found footage of robot combat show qualifying auditions and battles; 1998-2003)
- Robot Wars (partially found unaired or partially aired battles of BBC robot combat game show; 1998-2017)
- Robot Wars (partially found uncut battles from BBC robot combat game show; 1998-2017)
- Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1 (lost original BBC Choice version of robot combat battle; 2001)
- Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors: Season 1 (found TNN robot combat game show; 2001)
- Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors: Season 2 (partially found behind-the-scenes footage of TNN robot combat game show; 2002)
- Robot Wars Revealed (found BBC Choice spin-off of robot combat game show; 1998-2000)
- Robot Wars: Series 8 (lost unaired pilot of BBC robot combat game show; 2016)
- Robot Wars: Series 8 (partially found Science Channel reruns of robot combat game show; 2018)
- Robot Wars: The Kick-Off (lost BNN robot combat special; 2001)
- Robotica (found TLC robot combat game show; 2001-2003)
- Robots Revenge (partially found Discovery robot combat documentary series; 2001)
- See Hear (lost appearance of Robot Wars team on BBC magazine show; 1999)
- Why Hypno-Disc can't work in an office (found testing video of Robot Wars competitor; 2000, 2007)
External Link
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Archived Tectonic Robot Wars summarising Detonator's elimination in Series 1. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Archived Tectonic Robot Wars noting Napalm's run in Series 2. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22
- ↑ Archived Tectonic Robot Wars summarising Shadow of Napalm's appearance in Series 4. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22
- ↑ Mech+ providing Episode 1 of Robot Wars Revealed that contained footage of Detonator's Blue Peter appearance and detailed its elimination from the First Wars. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Archived Oliver Steeples detailing Dartford Girls Grammars' appearances on Blue Peter and The Big Breakfast. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Archived Dartford Girls Grammar site containing a photo of the segment. Retrieved 2nd Sep '22