Bad Influence!

Bad Influence!
Presented by
Starring
  • Andy Wear (Nam Rood: 1992-4)
  • Z Wright (1992-1994)
Theme music composerErnie Wood
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series4
No. of episodes57
Production
Running time20 minutes
Production companyYorkshire Television
Original release
NetworkITV (CITV)
Release29 October 1992 (1992-10-29) –
2 January 1996 (1996-01-02)
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Bad Influence! is a 1990s British factual television programme broadcast on CITV from 1992 to 1996, produced in Leeds by Yorkshire Television. It looked at video games and computer technology, and was described as a "kid’s Tomorrow's World".[1] It was shown on Thursday afternoons and had a run of four series of between 13 and 15 shows, each of 20 minutes duration. For three of the four series, it had the highest ratings of any CITV programme at the time. Its working title was Deep Techies,[2] a colloquial term derived from 'techies' basically meaning technology-obsessed individuals. The show's finished title was a reference to how video games were often viewed by the UK press at the time.

  1. ^ Violet Berlin Website 2008
  2. ^ BUZZ!, a now-defunct video games magazine on ORACLE