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Pages from Ceefax, Christmas 1982. Worth skipping to 3 mins in for the Christmas greetings from other Teletext services across the world.

The Santa (at least, I presume it's meant to be Santa) in the West Germany greeting is, um, scary.

BBC World - World Business Report, June 2007. A slightly more calmer Aaron Heslehurst.

The final episode of the original American version of Blockbusters, complete with horrible colour schemes, a horrible set, and tacky buzzer noises:


Not one of the more successful American gameshow formats, it only lasted two years and nearly 400 episodes on NBC, whereas it was more successful internationally, particularly here in the UK where it racked up nearly 1350 episodes in the Bob Holness era alone.

An episode of Neighbours complete from a master tape:

Blatant sucking-up to Margaret Thatcher - TV-AM via John Stapleton presenting her with a birthday cake on her 58th birthday:


For balance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omc5b9bTZK8 is a nice little mother-daughter chat between Thatcher and her daughter Carol.

and the american version came back in 1987 for a 5 month run with Bill Rafferty as host

"Grace Bros. Removals" one of the sponsors- good to see they branched out beyond their department store

Given Are You Being Served was quite popular in Australia - I wonder if that was an in-joke?

Just a coincidence.

its the USA VERSION!!!

Slight cockup in the credits there at 27:41