[720p/50p] BBC1 | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 10th September 1987

© BBC TELEVISION 1987
An early one that night!
End of Gorky Park
BBC1 optical slide: Stardust
BBC1 electronic slide: Friday evening
Weather forecast read by announcer Ian Philips
PIF: Please Give Blood
BBC1 clock (11:37pm): closing announcement
BBC1 COW globe with national anthem
Black and silence
Black and tone
Pulse & bar with tone
16:23 - sync pulses cut
16:50 - transmitter shutdown

[@rtc9063]

God you felt absolutely conned when they closed down at a time like this. And seeing that would have been the mid 80’s, they’d have had the bloody testcard on at every opportunity possible during the day.

[@garyhunt8067]

I remember when programmes closedown at that time

[@80ssynthfan48]

Bit surprised that there would be closedowns well before midnight well into the 80s.

[@simonsaifaimak]

5:17 now part with National Health Service, UK🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

[@chriswheeler70]

A shite night for TV viewing

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Most nights even in the supposed “golden age” of TV were 95% shite.