'This is Manchester!': When our nightclubs got a visit from The Hitman and Her

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Before the age of social media and reality TV that we know today, you could turn on the telly in the early hours and watch someone else's night out.

A window into the world of late night clubbing, a generation will remember The Hitman and Her show which aired on ITV's Night Network in the late eighties and early nineties. An anomaly on our screens, it gave the public a glimpse into nightlife in clubs mainly across the North.

Every week, the show would capture clubbers dancing to popular hits in the charts, playing party games and number of celebrity performances. Hosted by Michaela Strachan and Pete Waterman, The Hitman and Her was often recorded on Saturday nights, edited and then would air hours later on Sunday morning.

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Regardless of the city hosting that week, local c lubbers would arrive at the featured venue hoping to appear on television. The Hitman and Her also featured regular dancers who went on to have their own music careers - from Take That's Jason Orange to Jimmy Constable and Spike Dawbarn of boy band 911.

The first ever Hitman and Her show came from Mr Smiths, in Warrington, in 1988 and the final show, which aired in 1992, was filmed from The Discothèque Royale, in Manchester. In its time, the show also visited the likes of Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham, Coventry, Newcastle and, of course, others popular venues in Greater Manchester.

Whilst on air, The Hitman and Her visited a number of Manchester venues, such as Discotheque Royale and Bowlers. Over the years, episodes were also filmed in The Roxy, in Bury, and Liberties - or Liberty's - in Sale.

Today, there are some classic moments of different episodes of the