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What is the bridge shown in the open/close?

Wonder if that chap Alex Ferguson will ever amount to anything... 🙂

Pamela Ballantine on announcing duty, and also appearing in-vision in the 'Farming Ulster' trailer.

Maxwell Deas, Tyne Tees's long-serving head of religious broadcasting and the leading force behind Highway presenting the epilogue. Annie St John doing her thing out of vision this time, for some reason.

Amazing

Oh the memories!

Nicholas Parsons was astounding at the end of the show - the off the cuff closing speech was superb.

Ah, great memories, when Xmas TV was so much better than it is now. More does not equal better.

Long shot, but looking for the play Dearly Beloved (with Gareth Thomas), if anyone has it! (It’s the one that’s advertised in the trailer at the end of this clip.)

Wonderful.

Brilliant.

Poignant warm memories of a time. Mid 70s, a winter afternoon with the coal fire blazing. 😉

These truly are gold dust - any new complete eps of this classic are to be treasured

Scenes of a simpler era

Super to be transported back to a lovely bygone era

TSW presentation was a class act compared to Westcountry.

Lavers the legend! 👍👍

Terrific old time entertainment - love it!

Fantastic !

Thank you so much for sharing this. Full disclosure; I downloaded the audio, to use the end credits of "Father's Day" for one of my videos (I have the theme song, but no footage). I have longed to see this programme again, and despite searching long and hard for any footage, your video with the end credits is the only one I've ever come across; even so, it was still wonderful to see a small glimpse of this programme. It's a great thing you're doing; preserving these moments of our history that, whilst on the great scheme of things seems inconsequential, bring such joy to those of us that remember these times of our lives; the programmes, and even the continuity, so thank you!

Brilliant - before this nonsensical PC s**t invaded lives

£140 for a Vauxhall Chevette. Worth every penny!

Absolutely genius stuff, how lucky to be a kid back then

It is indeed Simon Bates. He did several stints as the voice of BBC1 menu trailers in the late 70s and early 80s. I think mostly deputising for Ray Moore.

Grampian - still "generic" in 1995.

Is there life after death? We at ATV asked the people of Birmingham...

This is very rare. Perhaps you could upload it to Archive or similar with the original interlacing still present?

Brilliant! THANK YOU!

Fantastic upload! Thanks for sharing this! I’d love to see more Believe it or Not ❤

Who did the titles for The Nature of Things? Monty Python?

Good old days.

Very clean switch at Post Office Tower for 1979

Simply wonderful!

... and this is the earliest Thames to LWT handover found to date. Excellent find!

Strangely, on one of the monitors in the background you can see an ITN VT clock counting down into Duck Tales. I can’t imagine ITN standing for anything other than Independent Television News. Was the programme edited at Grays Inn Road or something?

Fantastic stuff... Best ITV behind the scenes documentary of the analogue era but a great introduction to the embryonic digital contributions. Digital frame buffers, Phase array repeaters, Oracle-on-Radio as a prototype RDS... Enthralling! And instant messenger... "4 DON'T WAIT UP FOR ME TONIGHT It's a pretty brave person who uses that too regularly"!

37:44 the most 70s thing ever. How will we show bitrate examples... Let's get a scantily clad beauty to dance for us.

A truly fantastic find, thank you!

I couldn't agree more with your video description, definitely the glory days of Saturday night ITV gameshows.

Cwl

I feel that continuity uploaders have truly established themselves when they discover one of these. Probably because I never rested until I found one. Now I will not rest until the BBC ONE Wales version of the balloon closedown sequence is discovered. Different, longer national anthem so it must have had a different balloon sequence.

Eee... lad. It's Yorkshire Television, frum space. 'appen.

Announcement error at 0.28... Michael Parkinson, not Aspel.

Is that Tom Edwards voicing the Robin of Sherwood pre-titles recap?

The Bishop's name was John Taylor. He became Bishop in 1980, retired in 1995 and passed on in 2016.

Fantastic find.

If only I could borrow the Tardis.

I can't believe that Benny "dunnit".

News at Ten item 1: strike; 2: strike; 3: strike; 4: IRA bombing campaign. Yes, those were the 1970s!

Fantastic 💖 what memories