ITV Fridays 7pm 1992-1998

John J. Hoare's 2nd June 2023 post on his site, Dirty Feed, included a scrap of paper in which his secondary-school-aged self mentioned the Friday 7pm timeslot on ITV, and a TV progamme he had made up that apparently involved body fluids and would have been a bit extreme even for the early hours on Channel 4, let alone primetime on ITV. Anyway it inspired me to find out what would actually have been on in that timeslot during his secondary school years, to try to figure out which, if any, of the shows aired in that slot may have led to him associating that slot with trashy tv shows. Mostly it seems to have been various gameshows.

1992
January 3rd to February 21st Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
February 28th to May 1st The Help Squad (7pm to 7:30pm TVS)
May 8th to June 5th Through The Keyhole (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
June 12th Home and Away (7pm to 7:30pm)
June 19th Through The Keyhole (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
June 26th European Football Championship Final (7pm to 9:30pm)
July 3rd Through The Keyhole (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
July 10th to November 20th Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
November 27th to December 18th Through The Keyhole (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
December 25th Barrymore (6:50pm to 7:50pm LWT)

1993
January 1st Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
January 8th to May 7th Celebrity Squares (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
May 14th to September 3rd Through The Keyhole (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
September 10th to December 31st Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)

1994
January 7th to March 11th Celebrity Squares (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
March 18th to June 17th Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Card’s Right (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
June 24th World Cup ’94 (5:15pm to 7:30pm)
July 1st to July 8th Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Card’s Right (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
July 15th to September 9th Body Heat (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
September 16th to September 23rd Beadle’s About (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
September 30th to December 30th Catchphrase (7pm to 7:30pm TVS for Meridian until 28th October, then Carlton from 4th November)

1995
January 6th to February 3rd Catchphrase (7pm to 7:30pm Carlton)
February 10th to May 26th Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Card’s Right (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
June 2nd to August 25th Celebrity Squares (7pm to 7:30pm Central/Carlton)
September 1st to December 29th Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)

1996
January 5th to January 26th Family Fortunes (7pm to 7:30pm Central)
February 2nd to May 17th Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Cards Right (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
May 24th to June 7th Lucky Numbers (7pm to 7:30pm Granada)
June 14th Coronation Street (6:45pm to 7:15pm Granada)
June 21st to September 20th Lucky Numbers (7pm to 7:30pm Granada)
September 27th to December 27th Catchphrase (7pm to 7:30pm Carlton)

1997
January 3rd to March 7th Wheel of Fortune (7pm to 7:30pm Scottish)
March 14th to March 28th Lucky Numbers (7pm to 7:30pm Granada)
April 4th Emmerdale (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
April 11th to July 4th Lucky Numbers (7pm to 7:30pm Granada)
July 11th to August 8th Beadle’s Hot Shots (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
August 15th to August 22nd Regional Variations [Eye Spy/The Vet/Up Shot!] (7pm to 7:30pm)
August 29th to September 12th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
September 19th Emmerdale (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
September 26th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
October 3rd Emmerdale (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
October 10th to December 19th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
December 26th Film: Forever Young [1992] (6:20pm to 8:20pm)

1998
January 2nd to January 9th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
January 16th to May 1st Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Cards Right (7pm to 7:30pm LWT)
May 8th to May 29th Emmerdale (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
June 5th Take Your Pick (7pm to 7:30pm Central/Carlton)
June 12th Take Your Pick (6:50pm to 7:20pm Central/Carlton)
June 19th to June 26th Take Your Pick (7pm to 7:30pm Central/Carlton)
July 3rd Take Your Pick (6:45pm to 7:15pm Central/Carlton)
July 10th to August 28th Take Your Pick (7pm to 7:30pm Central/Carlton)
September 4th to September 11th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
September 18th Emmerdale (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
September 25th to December 18th Bruce’s Price Is Right (7pm to 7:30pm Yorkshire)
December 25th Coronation Street (7pm to 8pm Granada)