please empty your brain below
Oh, hubby's gonna love this. Ta :-)

(psst-it's Juliet Bravo)
dg writes: Fixed, thanks.

HoosierSands | Homepage | 21.11.20 - 7:06 a.m. | #

Some great memories here, especially the ludicrously low budget Blake’s Seven featuring the only spacecraft in the universe to have a highly audible plywood floor!

Bob S | 21.11.20 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Interesting how over the years some opening titles became a drama in themselves, for example the doom-laden scene-setting of the original Survivors, which made a huge impact on me as a teenager.

Waterhouse | 21.11.20 - 8:15 a.m. | #

Thanks! I think I’ve spent virtually every waking hour this morning looking at this. The televisual equivalent of Proust’s madeleine will be different for everyone, but I’m sure it’s lurking here somewhere...

Baldassaro | 21.11.20 - 8:17 a.m. | #

In the 1950's they have Andy Pandy and This is our Life, but show colour caption and video clips. Colour TV came in 1967 and Andy Pandy in colour was 1970. This is your Life was black and white in the 1950's. Show the right caption for the decade please.

John | 21.11.20 - 8:22 a.m. | #

Oh this is torture. Have just seen the opening credits of the adaptation of Iris Murdoch's The Bell from 1982 - the series above all others that I want to see again, but which has never been repeated or committed to video. So near yet so far...

Waterhouse | 21.11.20 - 8:29 a.m. | #

Another gem, thank you!

Seeing 'Byker Grove' reminds me that I hadn't actually realised that 'Byker' was a real (rather than fictional) place until we ended up driving through it looking for a tile shop recently.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 21.11.20 - 9:06 a.m. | #

This looks amazing! It doesn't work for me right now as I'm not in the UK [yes, I know about VPNs] so I'll put it on the list for "next time".

Many thanks!

Suse | 21.11.20 - 10:20 a.m. | #

A lovely link, of course like many others I look at these through the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia, I wonder what the intended student audience makes of them.

Also the effort that was put into a relatively short introduction, '40 Minutes' was only 22 seconds long, at least in those days the programme started after the introduction, not like now with a pre-introduction lasting sometimes several minutes, then the title of the programme, then it finally starts.

Still Anon | 21.11.20 - 10:30 a.m. | #

It always slightly annoyed me that they used the opening music from Animal Magic for W1A, when as any 50+ kno, Animal Magic was BS8.

Sarah | Homepage | 21.11.20 - 11:13 a.m. | #

What an horrendous post this morning DG, I have no idea at all when I may re-surface into the 'real world' again! I could remain lost in this veritable web of clips for ever!! But seriously, thanks for letting me know about this 'gold mine' 😂

Kevin Too | 21.11.20 - 11:15 a.m. | #

I think my favourite find so far is BBC Two's Christmas ident from 1993. It must have been weeks of effort for something which was only on air for three days. (It did win a BAFTA though).

martin | 21.11.20 - 1:03 p.m. | #

Crikey, two hours have just disappeared. Doctor Who could learn from Panorama - It's actually fine if you don't change the basic arrangement for 50 years. The Money Programme was very distinctive with the deep bloated rasp of the base line. I see they took it out for a while and then restored it. It brings back memories, but I don't know what of.

NickW | 21.11.20 - 1:34 p.m. | #

Pot Black, presented by "Whispering" Ted Lowe.

One of the best sporting commentary gaffes ever." For those of you watching in black and white, the pink ball is next to the green ! Magic!

Richard | 21.11.20 - 1:54 p.m. | #

Actually not such a gaffe Richard, if the green was on its spot.
Ah, Pot Black - the beginning of a 40+ year obsession with snooker.

Sarah | Homepage | 21.11.20 - 6:51 p.m. | #

Not so much a trip down Memory Lane for me, but a journey round the Memory M25, as these programmes represent 40 years of my working life at the BBC!

ActonMan | 21.11.20 - 8:01 p.m. | #

1962,Z Cars reprised in W1A. Both wonderful in their own ways.

Scrumpy | 21.11.20 - 8:54 p.m. | #

I'd kind of forgotten that once upon a time signature tunes were played on real acoustic instruments (OK, not Dr Who). But Maigret, Z Cars ...

Peter | 22.11.20 - 2:43 p.m. | #











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