Twenty years ago buoyed by the success of Strictly Come Dancing the BBC decided audiences couldn't get enough of watching fleet footed people on telly. With that in mind the powers that be decided the perfect show to fill the gap until the Saturday night staple's return was a spin off of the audeience favourite - but with ordinary people. Hence Strictly Dance Fever was rushed out. Eschewing the expensive celebrity contestants, and the pro dancer pay packets, the show was an amateur dance competition hosted by Graham Norton.

It featured four judges which included acclaimed choreographer Arlene Phillips who, at the time, was also a judge on Strictly. Alongside her were West End star Ben Richards, legendary ballet dancer Wayne Sleep, creative director, choreographer and persenter Stacey Haynes. Even though it was itself a spiritual spin-off, it also had it's own spin off shows - two in fact. The Saturday night BBC Three host was Zoe Ball and there was a nightly BBC3 roundup and fanzine programme hosted by Joe Mace.

It followed a fairly standard TV talent show format. There were two weeks of auditions ran for two weeks. These were followed by a fortnight of recalls.

Finally, the live dance-offs, ran for a period of eight weeks where the contestants were put through their paces with different dance styles.

Just like Strictly, the judges awarded scores with a maxiumum of 40 on offer. These were then added to the public vote to decide the winners.

It proved a total disaster with both viewers and critics who brutally hauled it over the coals.

Recalling it in 2013 The Guardian brutally said: "Strictly Dance Fever failed because it turns out that most right-minded people would rather blow their own kneecaps off than watch a watered-down version of Strictly Come Dancing where Arlene Phillips got to yell bad alliteration at a clutch of bright orange, desperate-eyed civilians."

However while it may not have proved a hit the contestants remember it fondly. One took to Instagram recently to recall their time on the show.

They posted images of their audition captioned: "Remembering the crazy rollercoaster that was BBC Strictly Dance Fever 2005. I was the Firestarter for my first audition! I was also the first bboy/breaker on a UK dance reality TV show."

After just two series the BBC decided to put it out of it's misery announcing it had been axed in favour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent search, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?