[720p/50p] ITV Thames | News at Ten and continuity | 11th December 1979 | Part 2 of 2

© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1979
In which Rhodesia announces it will rename to Zimbabwe and British steelworkers get a taste of the utter misery that was elected to power that May!
BTW, “Salisbury” referred to here is not the city in the south of England, but the original name of Harare, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’s capital.
End of Charlie Muffin (Thames)
ITV trailer: The Racing Game
Adverts
ITV trailer: Before The Monsoon
Thames ident: ITN News At Ten
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End of ITN News At Ten
Thames optical slides: Weather forecast
Thames optical slide: Before The Monsoon
Adverts and jump into Before The Monsoon (ATV)
Headlines:
- 52,000 British Steel jobs go, 11 coal pits may close
- Lord Soames is off to Rhodesia
- 2/3rd of Shell's drivers vote to go back to work
- Esso drivers continue with their overtime ban
- Oil prices may rise 30%, gold is at a record
- US and allies talk of continuing sanctions against Iran top get them to release the US hostages
- Trouble could break out in Azerbaijan
- Iranian student in France released by French Police
- Terrorists storm a business school in Italy and hold students hostage
- France blocked Britain's farmers from getting more money
- Government announce yet another reorganisation of the NHS. Plus ca change... ("£9,000 million? That's called £9billion, Anna!)
- Why Aberfan Disaster should never happen again
- Coal output went up 1 million tonnes
- Avalanche of lecturers being made unemployed could result from making overseas students pay their tuition fees
- Miss Christina Onassis divorces her Russian husband Sergei Kauzov
- British Leyland turn down offer from David Brown
- And finally... Rhodesia to change name twice - firstly to Southern Rhodesia then to Zimbabwe
Adverts (break 1):
Old England British Sherry
Kodak
Vosene
Philips Ladyshave
Surf Automatic
Ritz biscuits
Old Master Chocolate Liqueurs
Adverts (break 2):
James Walker jewellers
Gillette Contour Blade
International Stores (voiced by Tom Baker)
Ty-Phoo Fresh Brew
Adverts (break 3):
William Younger's Tartan (I can't ever see Colin Welland without going "Casper! Casper!" with buck teeth!)
Moulinex
Ronson (with The Goodies)
Rotary (with Peter Davison)
Canada Dry

[@AntarcticaTelevision]

Any full NaT from anytime before 1980 is a master find!

[@MsArrowroot]

With regards to the Kodak advert: Oh the joy of waiting for your photos to be developed! And then opening the envelope they came in. Happy days.

[@agfagaevart8655]

"Old England"
"Old Masters"
Harking back to good ol' days that didn't exist.

[@sofialadune9351]

Merci.

[@philipdalton1000s]

I can still vaguely remember some ad for Vosene shampoo showing some lad having his hair washed in the bath. I've only ever come across one other person online who remembered it-they said it was run for years.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

That Thames weather graphic shows how large Thames Television transmission area was.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

On 405 lines VHF (which this seems to be a rough approximation of). 625 lines UHF was about 2/3rds the size.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

@@stickytapenrust6869 The high powered Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace transmitters did get out to quite a good area out of Central London as far as Reading Berkshire in the West, parts of Buckinghamshire, Essex to the East, odd pockets of Kent close to London and as far the crow flies in all directions up to Watford Gap in the North.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

@@anthonyperkins7556 You forgot to mention Croydon. London ITV on 405 came from the Croydon transmitter.

[@davidstewart2996]

The actor getting licks from a golden retriever in the Gillette ad is Gordon Salkild he also featured in a Krypton Factor Identity Parade in 1977 or 1978.

[@philipdalton1000s]

That girl at the end of the Vosene ad is being called over the kitchen sink by her mum to have her washed.

[@saxongreen78]

A three-year-old blast furnace was to be decomissioned - a stupid waste. Australia lost its own steel industry about 15 years later.."couldn't compete" (owners wouldn't adopt necessary new smelting technologies - Bessemer Process hugely outdated.)

[@PeterRapley-gv5vt]

Anna Ford was a very attractive young woman.

[@duffymoony]

Corby steelworks too in 1980.....and geddit right up ya yu ozzie bastards!

[@stuartmcminn3891]

Old master chocolate liquors what an advert lol ..

[@screenclips9105]

The young girl in the Gillette advert kissing the old man at 26:30 looks very like a young Amanda Mealing.