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Old ITV Idents Still In Use

(October 2006)

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JP
Joe Public
Hi

I would like to know if there are any other old ITV idents still in use.
I know of two:

Paramount Comedy - The New Statesman - Yorkshire
Challange - Bullseye - Central (allthough not seen this for a bit)

Anymore?
LL
Larry the Loafer
Thames is seen before Man About The House starts on Paramount 2.. I think.
OV
Orry Verducci
Thames is seen on a few programmes on Paramount 2, George and Mildred being the example that comes to the top of my mind.
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A former member
And Dangermouse on Boomerang.

Plenty of Thames idents on Man About The House, George And Mildred and Bless This House, all on Paramount.

Central idents sometimes shown (both front and endcaps) on Family Fortunes/Bullseye on Challenge.

The first Catherine Cookson drama "The Fifteen Streets" has the 1988-89 Tyne Tees ident burned into the start, as shown on UKTV Drama, however the time I saw the start of this there was only a 2-frame flash of the fadeout.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
jason posted:
Central idents sometimes shown (both front and endcaps) on Family Fortunes/Bullseye on Challenge.


Most of the late 1980s episodes that Challenge show are complete with end-idents, in fact Central seemed quite keen on this one: http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvmidlands/itvmidlands/idents/centralproduction1989.rm
Many if not most of the early 1980s Bullseye episodes shown on Challenge have Central frontcaps as well - mostly this one: http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvmidlands/itvmidlands/idents/central1.rm
BO
Bongo
Series such as Airline on Sky Travel still retain the pre Granada purple LWT Endcaps.
NW
nwtv2003
Joe Public posted:
Paramount Comedy - The New Statesman - Yorkshire

Anymore?


I've bought the rereleased DVD from Network and I can say from the disc that I've watched so far they've kept the Liquid Gold frontcaps and endcaps. I had Series 1 on DVD from the GR/N/D/ / Cinema Club version but they went to all the trouble of removing them.
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A former member
Chances are that any external company which takes on archive material, be they TV companies or DVD sellers, are going to leave the frontcaps intact if that's what they receive on the master copies they receive. Reasons being that (1) it's too much like hard work and too costly to make professional edits for a fairly minor thing, (2) nostalgia reasons and (3) a potential copyright backlash (generally companies will be told not to alter the source material in any way, and removal of copyright notices could be seen as such).

On the other hand of course, internal releases will be altered, as it is in Granada's interests to forward its current branding wherever possible. Not a new thing; when Tyne Tees released a Bobby Thompson video in the early 90s they removed the 1980s branding from the tape.
JA
james2001 Founding member
jason posted:
And Dangermouse on Boomerang.


That's only a recent thing though, they used to cut them out. I am slightly puzzled as well, as the frontcap even appears on the later episodes, which were made & aired after frontcaps were abolished.
DV
dvboy
The DVD of Count Duckula has the Thames idents on it too.
BH
BillyH Founding member
The Region 1 DVDs of Mr Bean have the 'skyline' Thames frontcap too, apparently, which is weird as the first one was shown in 1990, after frontcaps went.
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A former member
why was frontcap scrapped?

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