The Time, The Place

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The Time, The Place
Title Card From The Time, The Place
Format	Talk show, audience participation
Starring	Mike Scott John Stapleton
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bob Cousins
Running time	35 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Anglia Television for ITV
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original run	1987 – 1996
External links
IMDb profile

The Time, The Place was a British audience participation talk show that was produced by Anglia Television and broadcast live on ITV from 1987-1996. TTTP was presented by Mike Scott from 1987-1991 and by John Stapleton from 1991-1996. The program was developed as ITV's competition to the BBC's Kilroy morning discussion show which premiered in 1986. It differed from Kilroy in that Kilroy delved into more political and current event related issues, while TTTP focused on human interest topics.

[edit] Incidents

On a later episode (c.1995) dealing with men's fashion, the discussion was successfully interrupted by two protesters. When asked to give their opinion on their fashion sense, the two men, who called themselves "Prayer Man" and "Magic Spider" started by discussing their fashion tastes, and why they were wearing leather jackets and turbans, but soon after engaged the presenter about racism and a shouting match ensued. Stapleton attempted to keep some order in the studio by ignoring the protesters and going to interview another couple, but the two men continued their ranting and walked out to the front of the stage. Stapleton attempted to have them evicted and when security became involved things quickly got out of hand. The show ended several minutes early that day.