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Joan Blackburn with a quick weather update on RTE with the aid of a relatively inexpensive portable television, complete with a roll of clear Sellotape resting on the top. Uploaded by killan2.
A slight breakdown turns a continuity announcer into a gibbering but polite wreck. Uploaded by tv68.
A few things with this one.
1) The fact that the graphics people had to make the name caption black so it wouldn’t get lost in Bryce Curdy’s startling white suit.
2) The cut-out STV hanging against the curtain.
3) The sign-off wink.
4) The sign-off smile with retracting head.
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Nothing wrong with the continuity announcer here - it’s the preview afterwards. A dramatic trailer for ‘Sea Dragon’ is undermined by the perpetually giggly voiceover of Rustie Lee. Uploaded by JB1601.
Granada’s Chaos-Magnet, Colin Weston, returns. Watch his mortified face when he appears on screen for the first time. Then ponder what ‘gearing up your frying pan’ might mean. Uploaded by tv68.
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Lynette Lithgow says “As usual it’s nice” for seemingly no reason at all. Later she pretends to have enjoyed a creepy cartoon. Uploaded by tv68.
A wonderful description of a vegetarian meal is undermined by this announcer’s slipped finger. Uploaded by doubledeckers.
Extraordinary apology by ITV after an edition of ‘C.A.T.S. Eyes’ from 1986. 24 seconds in. Uploaded by putthetellyon1.
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Surreal, charming, non-religious ramble about insomnia, bumble bees and Anna Ford from Steve Race, before the Thames TV closedown in 1982. Uploaded by putthetellyon1.
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