If you take a look at Nationwide - the titles for each of the first four seasons the titles changed. In 1970 to include regional presenters, in 1971 to change to colour and again in 1972 to include Frank Bough.
"I remember how horrified I was as a child when I found out that Michael Barrett smoked 60 cigarettes a day." You must have had a real touch of the vapours when you found out what Frank Bough got up to.
Thank you for posting this. Not seen the colour titles before. Reckon they are from about 1972/3? When Frank Bough and Sue Lawley joined the team and the programme went five days a week.
It wasn't an overnight conversion. A little like HD tv now the regions were years before they went into colour. BBC North from Leeds was somewhere around 1974 before they were in colour
David Baldwin The Channel Islands didn’t get colour until 1976! When colour came to BBC1 in November 1969 it was only available to transmitters serving Thames/London Weekend, ATV, Yorkshire and Granada areas
@@bdavebaldwin I believe that's when the BBC in Leeds got their first VTR. Before then, if they wanted to video one of their programmes, they had a recorder in Manchester, at the other end of a 40-50 mile coax cable under the Pennines.
I don't think they were that fussy back then about brand image on the screen- the screens were pretty lousy then anyway. In the 405 line days, caption cards were often not even straight on screen and the pictures weren't sharp enough, to the extent that you could have painted background scenery on the main set, as opposed to through a window or in the distance, where painted sets didn't matter so much. Electronic recolouring and captioning also wasn't a precise art until CGI started to come in 10 years later. Most people in 1970 were watching on 625 line black and white sets, with quite a few still watching on murky old 1930s- era 405 lines. It would be the equivalent of using quadrophonic stereo on a radio station where everybody was listening on 1960s transistor sets in FM mono or even AM (then VHF and MW).
Never knew Nationwide had a previous Theme Tune before the one We all know and Love.
If you take a look at Nationwide - the titles for each of the first four seasons the titles changed. In 1970 to include regional presenters, in 1971 to change to colour and again in 1972 to include Frank Bough.
I remember how horrified I was as a child when I found out that Michael Barrett smoked 60 cigarettes a day.
"I remember how horrified I was as a child when I found out that Michael Barrett smoked 60 cigarettes a day." You must have had a real touch of the vapours when you found out what Frank Bough got up to.
@@Earhairy Yeah, we all did 😂
00:41 (cue The Police) Sue Lawley!
Thank you for posting this. Not seen the colour titles before. Reckon they are from about 1972/3? When Frank Bough and Sue Lawley joined the team and the programme went five days a week.
Im I correct just seen a young Sue Lawley is that right
The one sweeping her hair back......yes
Do I remember watching this? Not at three months old! Nationwide came to an end when I was 13, after all.
@ Angela Cooper: I do, Angela. I was 11!
That means you would have been born in 1959, then.
Does anyone know the name of the reporter on the bus in the colour titles?
Esther Rantson
@@bdavebaldwin didn't look like Esther Rantzen to me!
I don't think it was a reporter,it just looked like a passenger!
@@anthonybailey1966 that’s why I gave the sarcastic response
@@bdavebaldwin ah forgive me,should've seen the irony! 😁
Why first NW intro is in B/W? Is TVC was converted into color, but Lime Grove not?
It wasn't an overnight conversion. A little like HD tv now the regions were years before they went into colour. BBC North from Leeds was somewhere around 1974 before they were in colour
David Baldwin The Channel Islands didn’t get colour until 1976!
When colour came to BBC1 in November 1969 it was only available to transmitters serving Thames/London Weekend, ATV, Yorkshire and Granada areas
@@bdavebaldwin
I believe that's when the BBC in Leeds got their first VTR. Before then, if they wanted to video one of their programmes, they had a recorder in Manchester, at the other end of a 40-50 mile coax cable under the Pennines.
BBC ident was colourized with the wrong colours! Think it was done as part of a mock up on an anniversary edition.
I don't think they were that fussy back then about brand image on the screen- the screens were pretty lousy then anyway. In the 405 line days, caption cards were often not even straight on screen and the pictures weren't sharp enough, to the extent that you could have painted background scenery on the main set, as opposed to through a window or in the distance, where painted sets didn't matter so much. Electronic recolouring and captioning also wasn't a precise art until CGI started to come in 10 years later. Most people in 1970 were watching on 625 line black and white sets, with quite a few still watching on murky old 1930s- era 405 lines.
It would be the equivalent of using quadrophonic stereo on a radio station where everybody was listening on 1960s transistor sets in FM mono or even AM (then VHF and MW).
Spotted Chris Trace from Blue Peter - I think then presenting Look East in Norwich.