[720p/50p] ITV Thames | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 29th June 1983

© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1983
End of I Escaped From Devil's Island
Thames IVC (Tom Edwards)
Adverts and jump into Slouch Down And Ignore
Thames optical slide: Weather forecast
Thames IVC: closing announcement
Thames optical slides: Thursday and clock (12:12am) with "Sweet Surrender" by Rod Stewart
Switch off TV set warning
Black and silence
Loss of sync at 40:20
Transmitter shutdown at 44:00 (sound is ahead of the video because my capture card doesnt like the loss of sync)
Adverts:
Digital Computers
Timotei
Daz
TV Times

[@marktubeie07]

I had forgotten about the lost art of reading from a book without looking at the pages - masterful ! 😂😂

[@jaycee330]

Autocue has tamed BRIAN BLESSED!!

[@marktubeie07]

@@jaycee330 😂😂😂😂 good point !!

[@Scatscar1985]

Apparently everyone's favourite weasel-faced needle-drop-loving foot-fetishist Quentin Tarantino is a fan of "I Escaped From Devil's Island". More interestingly, it's a bit surprising seeing "Barnaby Jones" (a feature-length episode) getting an airing on people are awake during the 1980s (it was never as popular on Thames as fellow Quinn Martin series "The Streets Of San Francisco").

[@jaycee330]

UK used Fahrenheit then? When did they stop?