SMart was a British CBBC television programme based on art, which began in 1994 and ended in 2009. The programme was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Previously it had been recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The format is similar to the Tony Hart programmes Take Hart and Hartbeat. The show was revamped into an hour-long show in 2007; from 1994 to 2006 it was previously a 25-minute show. From 1994 to 2005, the show also featured Morph, originally from Take Hart. The series run featured 199 episodes, last airing on 11 August 2011. Production The BBC noticed the success of Art Attack with Neil Buchanan for CITV which started in 1990 and decided to create their own art show that was accessible to children similar to Art Attack. The original theme tune was composed by Kjartan Poskitt, famous for the Murderous Maths series of books. From 2003, a different tune was used, written by Steve Brown (known as the fictional musical director Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge). In 2007, this was remixed by Matt Thomas of Mosquito Music in line with the new format. In 2007, the new autumn series had a new format mixing some of the old segments with new ideas. It was aired on Sunday, and repeated on Wednesdays. It involved more child participation in games and celebrity guests. This new format also allowed for episodes of The Fairly OddParents (and sometimes Thumb Wrestling Federation) to be aired halfway in. One of the segments displayed art that had been sent in by viewers, to the backing music of 'Give It Away' by Zero 7.

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Notable quotes

“Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.”
— Henri Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime (1882), translated by Mary Augusta Ward (1885), entry for 7 April 1851.
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
— Albert Einstein, "The Goal of Human Existence", Out of My Later Years (1956), p. 260
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
— Stephen Leacock, The Garden of Folly, "The Perfect Salesman" (1924).
“So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
— Bertrand Russell, cited in
“Just as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions.”
— Simone Weil, Human Personality (1943), p. 68
“Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.”
— Albert Edward Wiggam, as quoted in Philippine Almanac (1986), p. 344.

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Overview

SMart was a British CBBC television programme based on art, which began in 1994 and ended in 2009. The programme was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Previously it had been recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The format is similar to the Tony Hart programmes Take Hart and Hartbeat. The show was revamped into an hour-long show in 2007; from 1994 to 2006 it was previously a 25-minute show. From 1994 to 2005, the show also featured Morph, originally from Take Hart. The series run featured 199 episodes, last airing on 11 August 2011. Production The BBC noticed the success of Art Attack with Neil Buchanan for CITV which started in 1990 and decided to create their own art show that was accessible to children similar to Art Attack. The original theme tune was composed by Kjartan Poskitt, famous for the Murderous Maths series of books. From 2003, a different tune was used, written by Steve Brown (known as the fictional musical director Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge). In 2007, this was remixed by Matt Thomas of Mosquito Music in line with the new format. In 2007, the new autumn series had a new format mixing some of the old segments with new ideas. It was aired on Sunday, and repeated on Wednesdays. It involved more child participation in games and celebrity guests. This new format also allowed for episodes of The Fairly OddParents (and sometimes Thumb Wrestling Federation) to be aired halfway in. One of the segments displayed art that had been sent in by viewers, to the backing music of 'Give It Away' by Zero 7.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

SMart was a British CBBC television programme based on art, which began in 1994 and ended in 2009. The programme was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Previously it had been recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The format is similar to the Tony Hart programmes Take Hart and Hartbeat. The show was revamped into an hour-long show in 2007; from 1994 to 2006 it was previously a 25-minute show. From 1994 to 2005, the show also featured Morph, originally from Take Hart. The series run featured 199 episodes, last airing on 11 August 2011.

Notable quotes

“Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.”
— Henri Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime (1882), translated by Mary Augusta Ward (1885), entry for 7 April 1851.
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
— Albert Einstein, "The Goal of Human Existence", Out of My Later Years (1956), p. 260
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
— Stephen Leacock, The Garden of Folly, "The Perfect Salesman" (1924).
“So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
— Bertrand Russell, cited in
“Just as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions.”
— Simone Weil, Human Personality (1943), p. 68
“Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.”
— Albert Edward Wiggam, as quoted in Philippine Almanac (1986), p. 344.