Catchphrase

Name: Catchphrase
Genre: Documentary

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Say what you see, and a golden robot called Mr Chips who was the reason anyone watched.

Catchphrase opens with a main title sequence of 35 seconds.

It arrived on ITV in 1986, when The Sooty Show, Thomas & Friends and Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends were also on the network.

The opening titles

35s

Fan upload of the opening alone; the other copy in circulation runs the closing titles with it.

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