One-offs

YSTV has made many one-time-only programmes. List them here.

1980s

• unsure dateUnverified or incomplete information - Treaure Hunt
• 1986 Primary Colour - We started broadcasting in colour. Not sure what we did apart from make a hologram ...
• 1987 YSTV Tour - a light-hearted introduction to the inner workings of YSTV.
• 1987 Puppets - a music video, produced well before Premier Pro...
• 1987 Now Get Into This - Multi-team competition taking place around York.
• 1988 Breaker 88 - Surely the biggest YSTV One-Off ever, which put us into the record books for the longest programme under a single director, Keith Hide-Smith.
• 1998 Grease - Central Hall production

1990s

• 1992 Jim'll Sodomise You - indeed.
• 1992 John's Sick Jokes - Series of sketches filmed in Physics gent's to be used during live broadcasts to hide technical issues.
• 1993 Closure - produced to mark the closure of the Physics studio and potential end of YSTV.
• 1994 Fresher's Guide to Campus (or The Search For Wentworth) - Spoof guide by John Thompson and Fiona Taylor, demonstrating various stereotypical aspects of York's campus.
• 1996 Joker in the Pack - Graham Quince's drama inspired by the BBC's House of Cards.
• 1996 The Saturday Show - one-off magazine show made for Freshers Week.
• 1997 Joker in the Pack II - Sequel that was sadly never completed.
• 1998 Postcard to Montserrat - Another drama from Graham Quince.

2000s

• 2000 Making of Bulletin - broadcast on BBC Choice Scotland.
• 2000 The Pill - female issues programme but only one got made.
• 2000 Vanbrugh Paradise - not meant to be a one-off, but only one episode of this student soap ever got made.
• 2000 Lolita - one off drama piece. Actually pretty good.
• 2000 YSTV-am - a saturday-morning-kids-TV style programme put out live each morning in Freshers' Week.
• 2000 WoodenSpoon - a cookery show
• 2001 This Afternoon - Yet another magaziney programme, for Freshers' Week 2001
• 2001 Lazy Lunch - A re-freshers' week show, this time at lunchtime
• 2001 Kings of Queen - a live concert video at the York Barbican
• 2002 Reader of the Road - a drama shot in York city centre
• 2003 Have I Got News For YUSU - Student union spoof of the panel show, made all filler for Elections 2003
• 2003 The Great Big Massive YSTV Christmas Quiz Game Show Thingy 2003 - If you can fit all of the title on the screen, it tells you what it did.
• 2003 Whose YSTV is it Anyway - Another pilot-only show, you can guess where the idea came from ...
• 2004 YSTV Clean-Up - live coverage of us tidying up!
• 2004 URYVision Song Contest - coverage of URY's Eurovision rip-off
• 2004 Stereotypes - Made over the weekend of week 2 Autumn term with lots of new members involved.
• 2005 Elections Past - highlights from 21 years of YSTV Election Night footage
• 2005 YSTV's Bloomers - eighteen months' worth of cock-ups collated in this compilation.
• 2005 Good Morning Campus- Early morning live show. Very bloody early.
• 2005 Guide To Campus - Does what it says on the tin, at least until they change bits of campus around.
• 2005 Make Poverty History - we took a camera to the rally in Edinburgh, and made this program as a result.
• 2005 Learning Curves - The first and only animated show on YSTV?
• 2006 Webstream Launch - A night of YSTV goodness to celebrate the launch of streaming on the internet