Hangar 17

{{Short description|British children's music and variety television programme}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

{{Infobox television

| image =

| genre = Children's variety show

| presenter = Mickey Hutton

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_series = 3

| num_episodes = 32

| location = BBC Elstree Centre{{cite web |url=https://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/itv-studios-in-london/elstree-clarendon-road/ |title=Elstree – ATV & BBC |publisher=TV Studio History |accessdate=19 December 2021}}

| runtime = 25 minutes

| channel = BBC1

| first_aired = {{start date|1992|01|10|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1994|03|29|df=y}}

}}

Hangar 17 is a children's variety show for 9 to 13 year olds that aired on BBC1 from 10 January 1992 to 29 March 1994. The show was presented by stand-up comedian Mickey Hutton and featured a mixture of jugglers, mime artists and comedians along with the more usual musical guests. In the first series the show promoted unsigned musical guests during a Battle of the Bands feature, but this idea was dropped from the second series in favour of more established acts such as Take That and East 17. The show also featured Brit School pupil Paul Leyshon as the show's resident DJ who joined in the second series and was produced by Peter Leslie. Both Hutton and Leyshon were joined by actress Colette Brown for the final series.

The show was filmed in a hangar that used to store planes.{{cite news |date=1992-01-10 |title=Blast off — 'Hangar 17' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/loughborough-echo/152875028/ |newspaper=Loughborough Echo |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=2024-08-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808111839/https://www.newspapers.com/article/loughborough-echo/152875028/ |archivedate=2024-08-08 }} It was produced by Chris Pilkington and lasted for three series.{{cite news |date=1991-12-26 |title=BBC call to Hangar out |newspaper=The Stage and Television Today |issue=5776 |page=15 |id={{ProQuest|962509632}} }}{{cite news |date=1994-11-03 |title=Out with the old in with the new |newspaper=The Stage and Television Today |issue=5925 |page=23 |id={{ProQuest|1040622237}} }} Despite previously having not been a television writer, Daniel Peacock jointly wrote the second and third series with Hutton.{{cite news |last=Leavy |first=Suzan |date=1994-02-17 |title=Mud, mud, glorious Mud! There's nothing quite like it – especially when you've got a children's-adventure series set in an outdoor activity centre |newspaper=The Stage and Television Today |issue=5888 |page=21 |id={{ProQuest|962552200}} }}