It's a Mystery (CITV)
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It's a Mystery was a networked Children's ITV programme which ran for five series from 1996 - 2001. It was produced by The Media Merchants Television Company Ltd and Meridian Broadcasting Ltd. Series three and four were simply called "Mystery".
It was a programme that educated children by challenging them to solve a mystery. Ususally this would involve people telling stories of mysterious occurances 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 presentor would show unexplained phenomenons such as ghosts in the Tower of London or the Loch Ness Monster. The presentor would then offer up possible explainatoins as to what might have been behind the mystery or if there is even an explaination 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).
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)
