The vibrancy of the show with its crazy games, music and studio setting of a mansion offered an alternative to its grownup rivals of BBC Breakfast and GMTV. It was one for the teens and twenty somethings to tune into to start the day. It first aired in 1992 and was the springboard for the careers of presenters Chris Evans, Johnny Vaughan, Denise Van Outen and Zoe Ball.

It went out on the road too and was broadcast on a couple of occasions live from Blackpool – notably the Pleasure Beach in 1995 and also at Marton Mere Holiday Park.

These photos dug from the archives rewind to that nostalgic time. Were you there?

In case you missed these:

29 scenes of Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the 70s, 80s and 90s which will remind you of its thrilling rides - some long gone but not forgotten

22 scenes from the shops loved and lost in Blackpool that you might remember from the 70s to 90s

Reminiscing over shopping trips to Blackpool town centre - 18 scenes from the nineties and noughties

Streets, landmarks and shops on the Fylde Coast that set the scene in the 1990s

21 rarely seen photos of Blackpool's much-loved Derby Baths from the 1980s

18 street scenes from around Blackpool which take you back to town centre sights in the 90s

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