> TTTV will get that B/W ident with 'Tyne Tees Television Channel 8' v/o that's probably seen more use as a nostalgia piece than it ever did as an ident
Hah! Yes.
You realise as well that TTTV hardly ever put that ident out with the voiceover -- that was as recorded for posterity in 1959, and the voiceover was done live by Adrian Cairns. Generally it went out without the voiceover.
It was rarely used in any case -- TTTV used static captions before most programmes well into the 1970s, with this being mostly used in continuity. It was replaced in around 1961, but none of the others have survived in animated form (most of them were static in any case -- there were about 4 or 5 of them apparently).
Going back to LWT, what messing about do they do with the archives?
I'm asking that as I've been (unashamedly) watching On The Buses on ITV3 for the last few days, some screenings end with 'A London Weekend Colour Production', yet the one today ended with 'An LWT Production for IT*', so they must have meddled with it at some point, I think An Audience with Billy Connolly (1985) has an LWTP endcap on the DVDs!
You realise as well that TTTV hardly ever put that ident out with the voiceover -- that was as recorded for posterity in 1959, and the voiceover was done live by Adrian Cairns. Generally it went out without the voiceover.
It was rarely used in any case -- TTTV used static captions before most programmes well into the 1970s, with this being mostly used in continuity. It was replaced in around 1961, but none of the others have survived in animated form (most of them were static in any case -- there were about 4 or 5 of them apparently).
There is a surviving version which just has the jingle and no voiceover, this made an appearance in the first episode of
The Darling Buds of May
when Ma was watching a gameshow.
Slight suspension of disbelief required though - the first episode was set in spring 1957, two years before TTTV launched, and surely the series' setting (Kent) would have been firmly in the patch of Southern Television? The same Southern Television which itself didn't launch until summer 1958! But you'd have to be
really
sad to notice that, right?
I'm asking that as I've been (unashamedly) watching On The Buses on ITV3 for the last few days, some screenings end with 'A London Weekend Colour Production', yet the one today ended with 'An LWT Production for IT*', so they must have meddled with it at some point, I think An Audience with Billy Connolly (1985) has an LWTP endcap on the DVDs!
Probably meant that the programme was either repeated or released on video sometime between 1996 and 1998 and this edit of it is what the current master is based on - around this time whenever they dug out an old programme for whatever reason they seemed to have an obsession with removing the period LWT endcap and substituting a then-current one in. At first this was the 'LWTP' silver endcap (usually complete with 1996 copyright date, irrespective of when the programme was actually made!), then when the LWT Productions brand was retired they simply put on a standard 'LWT Programme for ITV'. Rather oddly, any existant frontcaps were usually left intact. The practice seemed to end around the time the 1998 ITV logo was introduced.
All of the first season and some of the second season of 'Upstairs, Downstairs' is affected by this policy (from an aborted mid-90's rerun), amongst many other programmes.
You realise as well that TTTV hardly ever put that ident out with the voiceover -- that was as recorded for posterity in 1959, and the voiceover was done live by Adrian Cairns. Generally it went out without the voiceover.
It was rarely used in any case -- TTTV used static captions before most programmes well into the 1970s, with this being mostly used in continuity. It was replaced in around 1961, but none of the others have survived in animated form (most of them were static in any case -- there were about 4 or 5 of them apparently).
There is a surviving version which just has the jingle and no voiceover, this made an appearance in the first episode of
The Darling Buds of May
when Ma was watching a gameshow.
Slight suspension of disbelief required though - the first episode was set in spring 1957, two years before TTTV launched, and surely the series' setting (Kent) would have been firmly in the patch of Southern Television? The same Southern Television which itself didn't launch until summer 1958! But you'd have to be
really
sad to notice that, right?
Very sad -- I'd have been shouting at the TV as well -- ahem
YTV seems to have had an obsession with Tyne Tees pre-1968 -- wasn't there an edition of Heartbeat where a TTT crew came around? Each part of the local news programme started with the jingle -- hmmm.
You realise as well that TTTV hardly ever put that ident out with the voiceover -- that was as recorded for posterity in 1959, and the voiceover was done live by Adrian Cairns. Generally it went out without the voiceover.
It was rarely used in any case -- TTTV used static captions before most programmes well into the 1970s, with this being mostly used in continuity. It was replaced in around 1961, but none of the others have survived in animated form (most of them were static in any case -- there were about 4 or 5 of them apparently).
There is a surviving version which just has the jingle and no voiceover, this made an appearance in the first episode of
The Darling Buds of May
when Ma was watching a gameshow.
Slight suspension of disbelief required though - the first episode was set in spring 1957, two years before TTTV launched, and surely the series' setting (Kent) would have been firmly in the patch of Southern Television? The same Southern Television which itself didn't launch until summer 1958! But you'd have to be
really
sad to notice that, right?
Very sad -- I'd have been shouting at the TV as well -- ahem
YTV seems to have had an obsession with Tyne Tees pre-1968 -- wasn't there an edition of Heartbeat where a TTT crew came around? Each part of the local news programme started with the jingle -- hmmm.
I think was The Royal rather than Heartbeat; I remember all the hospital staff getting excited about being filmed. I too found it rather odd that they kept playing the TTT jingle almost continuously when the film crew were there.. strange.
YTV seems to have had an obsession with Tyne Tees pre-1968 -- wasn't there an edition of Heartbeat where a TTT crew came around? Each part of the local news programme started with the jingle -- hmmm.
I think was The Royal rather than Heartbeat; I remember all the hospital staff getting excited about being filmed. I too found it rather odd that they kept playing the TTT jingle almost continuously when the film crew were there.. strange.[/quote]
Well Whitby does receive Tyne Tees, so there is some sense to that
Going back to LWT, what messing about do they do with the archives?
I'm asking that as I've been (unashamedly) watching On The Buses on ITV3 for the last few days, some screenings end with 'A London Weekend Colour Production', yet the one today ended with 'An LWT Production for IT*', so they must have meddled with it at some point, I think An Audience with Billy Connolly (1985) has an LWTP endcap on the DVDs!
Yep An Audience With Billy Connolly does, for some strange reason, obviously, as another poster said, a re-run then used for the DVD
> Well Whitby does receive Tyne Tees, so there is some sense to that
Oh it's based in Whitby is it? I'd always assumed Croft (you can tell I don't watch it can't you) -- which is just down the road from where I live.
Yes Whitby is TTTV territory -- they have (had?) a relay there.
The Royal is mostly filmed at Scarborough ("Esinby"). The exterior shots of the hospital are done at a block of apartments on the corner of the Eslpanade and Holbeck Drive (although the interior shots are of a disused hospital wing in Bradford)
I could be wrong, but the Oliver Mount relay that serves Scarborough, is tuned to YTV?
I'd imagine that Goathland (of Aidensfield/Heartbeat fame) is served by TTTV, given that Bilsdale Mast is only a short distance west from there.
Well, although the Channel 3 branding was pretty much a disaster, watching that youtube clip has made me go all rose tinted. In 11 years, look what's happened to a typical night's programming on ITV. It's gone from a pretty reasonable menu of Gameshow, Soap, series drama (as The Bill was then, nowadays it's virtually a soap IMO), Sitcom, Period Drama to the fayre of trash they now put out. Tonight in the same timespan it's: Soap, Soap, regional doco (soon to be dropped AIUI),
another Soap
, and a Drama.
At least there's still a bit of drama on the channel. But Poirot isn't exactly a new idea is it.
