Channel 5 | 100% (incomplete) and continuity | 4th July 1999 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2026-09-21 | Channel 5 | 100% (incomplete) and continuity | 4th July 1999 | Part 2 of 2

BBC TWO Schools | continuity | 6th October 1988 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-06 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

From 35 years ago today...

End of Landmarks
BBC Education slide: Landmarks teacher's booklet
BBC "TWO" ident (with countdown clock): Scene - For Glory And Gold

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 2nd August 1982 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-06 | © BBC TELEVISION 1982

End of BA In Music
BBC1 optical slide: BA In Music
BBC1 optical slide: Tuesday evening
BBC1 mirror globe: Taking the Strain

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 2nd August 1982 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-06 | © BBC TELEVISION 1982

End of Spy Story
BBC1 optical slide: A Guide for the Married Man
BBC1 promo: Tomorrow
BBC1 mirror globe: News Headlines
BBC1 mirror globe: BA In Music

BBC ONE | continuity | 5th October 1998

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-05 | © BBC TELEVISION 1998

From 25 years ago tonight...

End of Chicago Hope
BBC ONE trailer: Undercover Heart
BBC ONE slide: I Was A Teenage Frankenstein
BBC ONE balloon ident: Weird Science

BBC TWO Schools | continuity | 5th October 1988

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-05 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

From 35 years ago today...

End of Words and Pictures
BBC Enterprises optical slode: Words and Pictures booklet
BBC "TWO" ident: English Time

BBC ONE | continuity | 23rd June 2001 | Part 2 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-04 | © BBC TELEVISION 2001

End of The Devil's Advocate
BBC ONLINE promo: films
BBC ONE trailer: Waking the Dead
BBC RADIO 1 promo
BBC ONE balloon ident: They Think It's All Over

BBC ONE | continuity | 23rd June 2001 | Part 1 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-04 | © BBC TELEVISION 2001

End of BBC News
BBC ONE trailer: Panorama
BBC Weather forecast
BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE animated slide: European Grand Prix
BBC ONE trailer: Gentleman Thief
BBC ONE slide: Lottery results
BBC ONE balloon ident: The Devil's Advocate

BBC TWO | continuity | 3rd October 1998

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-03 | © BBC TELEVISION 1998

From 25 years ago today...

End of BBC News
Weather forecast with Peter Cockroft
BBC TWO trailer: Blue Peter Night (something seriously wrong with my Betamax VCR when playing this!)
BBC TWO slide: What The Papers Say
BBC TWO "powder" ident: Chris Patten’s East And West

BBC2 | continuity | 3rd October 1993

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-03 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

And from 30 years ago tonight...

End of Q
BBC2 trailer: Red Dwarf VI
BBC2 slide: Performance
BBC2 "floor scraper" sting
BBC2 trailer: Bookmark
BBC2 "optic" ident: Terezin Concert

BBC2 | continuity | 2nd October 1993

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-02 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

From 30 years ago today...

End of Foxhole in Cairo
BBC2 "psychedelic" sting
BBC2 promo: Tomorrow
BBC2 promo: Wednesday night
BBC2 "blade" ident: Khartoum

ITV Central | continuity | 1991 | Part 3 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1991

End of The Two Of Us (LWT)
Central trailer: Rage of Angels
Central animated slide: Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie
Adverts
Central trailer: Chimera and jump into Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TVS)

Adfverts:
Kellogg's Golden Oatmeal Crisp
Shitroen ZX
Carlsberg Lager
Get A Video Out
Rennie Rapeze
Typhoo
Dulux

[720p/50p] BBC1 | Fax and continuity | 7th February 1988 | Part 3 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

End of Misterjaw cartoon
BBC "TWO" optical slide: Review
BBC1 COW globe: Fax
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End of Fax
BBC1 COW globes: Antiques Roadshow

ITV Central | continuity | 1991 | Part 2 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1991

End of Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo
Central trailer: Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Central trailer: Spitting Back
Central animated slide: Inside Out
Adverts
Central trailer: The $64,000 Question
Central trailer: Beat The Cheat
Central ident: The Two Of Us (LWT)

Adverts:
Schweppes (with John Cleese)
Castlemaine XXXX
Dettol
Schweppes (with John Cleese)
Sudbury Sunday Market
FDC
ORACLE

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 7th February 1988 | Part 2 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

End of Perfect Strangers
BBC1 COW globe: Misterjaw cartoon

ITV Central | continuity (incomplete) | 1991 | Part 1 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1991

Adverts
Central trailer: Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Central trailer: Richard Digance
Central animated slide: Inside Out and jump into Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo

Adverts:
Tetley bitter
BT

[720p/50p] Channel 4 | closedown with NICAM stereo test broadcasts | 6th March 1990

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION 1990

A slightly late way to mark 4,700 subscribers! If you're after the IBA NICAM stereo tests, they're from 15:30 to 35:35.

*Unfortunately* this was recorded on a plain old mono VCR (so we don't hear sound channel 2) as NICAM stereo VCRs were still *very* expensive and geographical NICAM stereo coverage was still quite underdeveloped as only a few transmitters in the country were broadcasting IBA (ITV/C4) NICAM stereo at this time. (For the BBC, the only NICAM stereo transmitter they had at this time was Crystal Palace, until they started to re-engineer transmitters for NICAM starting in late 1990/early 1991).

It took until around 1994/95 for all ITV and Channel 4 transmitters to be converted. It took until 2002(!) for the BBC to convert all their transmitters to NICAM. Given Digital Terrestrial was established and well on its way to overtaking analogue TV by then, one wonders what was the point of the BBC continuing to re-engineer analogue transmitters for NICAM when other forms of digital stereo sound (of a different coding system from NICAM) were available on Digital Terrestrial, cable and satellite from late 1998?

End of The True Glory
C4 slide: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
C4 trailer: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
C4 clock (01:47am): closing announcement
C4 closedown ident
Black and silence
IBA:CH4 ETP-1 test card with EBU stereo tone
Black and silence
IBA Channel 4 NICAM dual language tests
Black and silence
IBA:CH4 ETP-1 test card with EBU stereo tone (it stayed on this for another 40 minutes until the end of the tape).

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 7th February 1988 | Part 1 of 3

Sticky tape n rust 2023-10-01 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

End of Wonderful Country
BBC Enterprises optical slide: Movie Musicals
BBC "TWO" optical slide: Music in Camera
BBC1 COW globe: Perfect Strangers

[720p/50p] BBC1 | Nine OClock News and continuity | 10th August 1983

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-30 | © BBC TELEVISION 1983

End of The Super Cops
BBC1 optical slide: The Kentuckian
BBC2 optical slides (electronically composited): Film Buff of the Year
BBC1 electronic clock (9:00pm): BBC Nine O'Clock News
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End of Nine O'Clock News
BBC1 trailer: Breakfast Time
Weather forecast with Michael Fish
BBC Enterprises promo: Radio Times
BBC1 optical slide: Everyman
BBC1 mirror globe: A Ring of Keys

Headlines:
- Gadaffi's forces close in on Chad
- Tensions rise in Belfast on day a soldier was charged with murder
- Tug in trouble in the Channel, 7 rescued
- Mystery about submarine Swordfish solved
- Thatcher declared physically fit to go on holiday. Pity they didn't assess whether she was mentally fit to be Prime Minister...
- 3 foremen at Plesseys sacked because bosses found hidden sleeping chambers
- British Leyland warn 10,000 truck factory workers that the firm is fighting for its survival
- London Computer Marathon is held
- New search for murderer of actor Peter Arne
- Police stll trying to contact male friends of missing woman Mrs. Diana Jones
- Italian Secret Society chief who disappeared from jail in Geneva
- Mrs. Cheryl Skirton is doing well in a Melbourne hospital
- Winds still blowing in right direction across South African coastline to avoid oil slick damage
- Reports of athletics friom David Icke. Maybe he saw lizard people running?

[720p/50p] BBC1 | closedown | 17th July 1994 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-30 | © BBC TELEVISION 1994

I only captured this a few days ago. This was originally intended to be scheduled for its 30th anniversary next year but has been brought forward as a belated way to mark the death of actor Michael Gambon, who died on Wednesday. He was the star of The Singing Detective and it was his TV breakthrough.

I know this is a closedown being published now and I usually ration them to one a week, but as it's being published to mark the death of a fantastic actor and as tomorrow's closedown has been publicised on several Facebook groups, I'll make an exception this week and publish two!

End of The Day of the Triffids
BBC1 trailer: The Singing Detective
Weather forecast read by announcer Roger Maude
BBC Radio 3 trailer: Proms 94
BBC1 clock (02:11am): closing announcement
BBC1 virtual globe with national anthem before recording cuts to something else.

[720/p50p] BBC1 | continuity | 17th July 1994 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-30 | © BBC TELEVISION 1994

End of Heart of the Matter
Unbranded slide: Heart of the Matter edited transcript
BBC1 trailer: Inside Story
BBC1 virtual globe: Day of the Triffids

[720p/50p] ITV LWT | continuity | 2nd October 1983

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-30 | © ITVplc/LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION 1983

From 40 years ago today...

End of Clive James On Television (LWT)
LWT optical slide: Boomtown Rats
ITV trailer: Terrahawks
British Caledonian adverts
London News Headlines
LWT optical slide of Nightlife ident: Boomtown Rats (probably played out by LWT themselves)

ITV Central | continuity | 20th February 1995 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-30 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1995

End of Coronation Street (Granada)
Central trailer: Beyond Reason
Adverts
Central trailer: 99-1
Central ident: Lucky Numbers (Granada)

Adverts:
Co-Op
Dettox
Monster Munch
Tagamet 100

BBC2 | continuity | 29th September 1993

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-29 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

From 30 years ago today, Spain Means Business is cancelled...

End of Labour Live
BBC2 slide: Spain Means Business
BBC2 "optic" ident: Star Trek

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 22nd January 1983

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-29 | © BBC TELEVISION 1983

End of The Glenn Miller Story
BBC2 optical slide: Louis Armstrong Anniversary Concert
BBC1 trailer: Last of the Summer Wine
BBC2 optical slides (electronically composited): Sir Geraint Evans - A Farewell Concert
BBC1 mirror globe: The Les Dawson Show

[720p/50p] BBC1 | continuity | 23rd October 1982

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-28 | © BBC TELEVISION 1982

End of Breakheart Pass
BBC1 trailer: The Night The Bridge Fell Down
BBC2 optical slides (electronically composited): International Snooker
BBC1 mirror globe: Carrott's Lib

Channel 4 | continuity | 5th May 1997

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-28 | © CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION CORPORATION 1997

End of Battle for the Planet of the Apes
C4 trailer: Gulliver's Travels
Adverts
ITV trailer: Touching Evil
C4 "Jon Snow" sting
C4 trailer: Health Alert
C4 ident: Channel Four News

Headlines:
- Government opens a fresh dialogue with new EU members
- Tories seek new leader
- Rebel forces move closer to Kinshasa

Adverts:
Bacardi
Norwich Union
Kenco
BT
Loreal Elvive
Oral B electric toothbrush
Rover 400
Budweiser

ITV1 HTV (Wales) | continuity | 6th February 2002 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-27 | © ITVplc/HARLECH TELEVISION 2002

End of Coronation Street (Granada) including ITV1 trailer: Britain's Brainiest...
ITV1 trailer: Pop Idol - The Final
Adverts
ITV1 trailer: The Swap
ITV1 HTV trailer: Britain's Brainiest

Adverts:
Dettol
Barratt shitboxes
CP Motor Company, Pontypridd
Kellogg's Special K
Huggies stretchy wipes

BBC1 | continuity | 26th September 1993 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-26 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

From 30 years ago today...

End of Keeping Up Appearances
BBC1 trailer: Clash of the Titans
BBC1 virtual globe: Lovejoy

BBC1 | continuity | 26th September 1993 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-26 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

From 30 years ago today…

End of Songs of Praise
BBC1 promo: Thursday comedy
BBC1 trailer: Lovejoy
BBC1 virtual globe: Keeping Up Appearances

ITV Central | continuity | 1st September 1999 | Part 2 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-25 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1999

End of Coronation Street (Granada)
ITV trailer: Daylight Robbery
ITV trailer: The Second World War In Colour
ITV Central animated slide: Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes
Adverts
ITV trailer: Midsomer Murders
Central ident: Stars In Their Eyes (Granada)

Adverts:
The Scum/Tesco
Your Dream Dolls House (obviously dubbed!)
West Bromwich Building Society
West Midlands Safari Park
Utterly Butterly

ITV Central | continuity | 1st September 1999 | Part 1 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-25 | © ITVplc/CENTRAL INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1999

End of Emmerdale (Yorkshire)
ITV trailer: Taggart
ITV animated slide: Coronation Street
Adverts
ITV trailer: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Central ident: Coronation Street (Granada)

Adverts:
Farmfoods
Oxo
TV Choice magazine
Ariel Alpine tablets
Royal Mail
Fixodent
West Bromwich Building Society
Central TV advertising

[720p/50p] BBC1 | News and continuity | 12th February 1983 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-24 | © BBC TELEVISION 1983

End of Les Dawson Show
BBC1 optical slide: Dynasty
BBC1 electronic clock (9:00pm): BBC News
---------------------
End of BBC News
Weather forecast with Michael Fish
BBC1 promo: Sunday evening
BBC1 mirror globe: Dynasty

Headlines:
- More victims of Dennis Nilsen found
- Crazy old bat confirms she's round the twist
- More than 1,000 CND protesters meet in London
- Worzel Gummidge criticises Tory budget
- 2,000 peace activists march through Tel Aviv
- Prince Charles speaks about being a labourer on Dartmoor farm
- Norwich Cathedral holds memorial for Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars

[720p/50p] BBC1 | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 21st May 1982

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-24 | © BBC TELEVISION 1982

End of Brewster McCloud
BBC1 electronic clock (01:09am): closing announcement
BBC1 mirror globe with national anthem
Black and silence
Black and tone
11:17 - sync pulses cut
20:03 - transmitter shutdown

ITV1 HTV (Wales) | continuity | 12th May 2002 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-24 | © ITVplc/HARLECH TELEVISION 2002

See, I can't work out the exact date of this. Wonkypedia says Diane Pretty died on 11th May but The Forsyte Saga episode was broadcast on 12th, according to the BFI website.

End of The Last King (Granada)
Granada Media slide: Forsyte Saga merch
ITV1 trailer: British Soap Awards 2002
ITV1 HTV slide: ITV News
Adverts
ITV1 trailer: Airline
ITV1 HTV ident: ITN Weekend News

Headlines:
- Arrests after arson attack kills 7
- Diane Pretty is dead

Adverts:
Hyundai Santa Fe
Cahoot
IBM
Garnier Kids Milk 60 sunscreen
National Lottery/Lotto
Direct Line Rescue

BBC TWO (Midlands) | continuity | 23rd September 1988 | Part 2 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

From 35 years ago today...

End of The Phil Silvers Show
BBC "TWO" optical slide: Phil Silvers Show
BBC "TWO" trailer: A Gentlemen's Club
BBC "TWO" Midlands electronic slide: Inside Story
BBC "TWO" ident: Foolish Wise Ones (QED)

[720p/50p] BBC2 | Newsnight and continuity | 24th February 1993 | Part 4 of 4

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

End of Mr. Wroe's Virgins
BBC2 trailer: Mr. Wroe's Virgins
BBC2 trailer: The Late Show
BBC2 promo: Birthnight
BBC2 "glass" ident: Newsnight
-------------------------
End of Newsnight
BBC2 trailer: Prague
BBC2 trailer: French and Saunders
BBC2 "shadow" ident: The Late Show

Headlines:
- John Major is first European leader to meet President Clinton
- Nigel Lawson says Maastricht should be ratified
- Is it time to scrap GMT?
- Bobby Moore dies aged 51

[720p/50p] BBC1 | Les Dawson Show and continuity | 12th February 1983 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1983

To keep things in chronological order, the following news will instead be published tomorrow at 12 noon.

End of Fathom
BBC1 trailer: Masada
BBC1 mirror globe: Les Dawson Show
----------------------
End of Les Dawson Show
BBC1 optical slide: Dynasty
BBC1 electronic clock (9:00pm): BBC News

[720p/50p] BBC2 | continuity | 24th February 1993 | Part 3 of 4

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

End of M*A*S*H
BBC2 "pancake" sting
BBC2 trailer: Red Dwarf V
BBC1 slide: Clive James - Fame In the 20th Century
BBC2 trailer: Prague
BBC2 "powder" ident: Mr. Wroe's Virgins

[720p/50p] BBC2 | continuity | 24th February 1993 | Part 2 of 4

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

End of Timewatch
BBC2 trailer: Mr. Wroe's Virgins
BBC2 "water refraction" ident: M*A*S*H

BBC2 | continuity | 23rd September 1983

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1983

From 40 years ago today...

End of Jack High
BBC2 slide: Gardener's World
BBC CEEFAX slide: Civilisation subtitles
BBC =2= ident: Civilisation

BBC TWO continuity | 23rd September 1988 | Part 1 of 2

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

From 35 years ago today...

End of Way Out West
BBC "TWO" optical slide: Pack Up Your Troubles
BBC1 electronic slide: The Olympics Today
BBC "TWO" optical slide: The Foolish Wise Ones
BBC "TWO" ident: Phil Silvers Show

[720p/50p] BBC2 | continuity | 24th February 1993 | Part 1 of 4

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-23 | © BBC TELEVISION 1993

End of Nature
BBC Enterprises slide: Wildlife Magazine
BBC2 trailer: Nature
BBC2 trailer: First Sight
BBC2 "paint" ident: Timewatch

BBC1 | continuity | 26th February 1995 | Part 2 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-22 | © BBC TELEVISION 1995

End of Pie In The Sky
BBC1 "jelly" sting
BBC1 trailer: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
BBC1 trailer: Goodnight Sweetheart
BBC1virtual globe: Only Fools and Horses

BBC1 | continuity | 26th February 1995 | Part 1 of 2 | NICAM stereo

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-22 | © BBC TELEVISION 1995

End of Last Of The Summer Wine
BBC Enterprises slide: Last Of The Summer Wine VHS release
BBC1 trailer: As Time Goes By
BBC1 trailer: Crown Prosecutor
BBC1 virtual globe: Pie In The Sky

[720p/50p] Channel 4 | continuity | 19th March 1983

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-22 | © CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION 1983

End of Brookside
C4 optical slide: Brookside
C4 trailer: Upstairs Downstairs
C4 optical slide: 7 Days
Adverts
C4 optical slide with electronic slide: Irish Angle
C4 ident: 7 Days

Adverts (LWT region):
American Airlines
Whiskas
Swan National
Servoflow

BBC TWO Schools | continuity | 21st September 1988

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-21 | © BBC TELEVISION 1988

From 35 years ago today...

End of Words And Pictures
BBC Enterprises optical slide: Words and Pictures booklet
BBC "TWO" ident: English Time

BBC TWO | continuity | 29th May 1990

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-20 | © BBC TELEVISION 1990

End of Newsnight
BBC "TWO" trailer: Hidden Ground
BBC "TWO" ident: The Late Show

[720p/50p] ITV Thames | continuity | 15th July 1982

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-20 | © FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1982

End of Genevieve
Thames optical slide: Genevieve
ITV trailer: TV Eye
Adverts
Thames IVC (Peter Marshall): TV Eye (Thames)

Adverts:
Girobank
Dixcel
Ariel Automatic
Swingball
Fuji
Tellydisc Dreams

[720p/50p] ITV LWT | continuity | 17th October 1982

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-19 | © ITVplc/LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION 1982

End of Hanover Street
LWT trailer: Bring 'Em Back Alive
LWT trailer: Star Wars
Unbranded optical slide: Tales of the Unexpected
Adverts
LWT trailer: Clive James On Television
LWT optical slide of ident: Tales of the Unexpected (Anglia)

Adverts:
Shell
OXO
Kellogg's/British Rail
Daily Heil
Dish of the Day cookbook
MaxFactor Colour Fast
Bacon

Channel 4 | continuity | 1990

Sticky tape n rust 2023-09-19 | © CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION 1990

End of a film
C4 slide: The Wall
C4 trailer: A Town Like Alice
C4 slide: Verdict
Adverts
C4 trailer: Beyond The Groove
C4 slide: The Harp In The South
C4 ident: Verdict

Adverts:
Yellow Pages
Nationwide-Anglia
Kentucky Fried Chicken
TCP
Alberto Pure & Clear
British Gas (with Alf Garnett from Till Death Us Do Part and Mrs Dribelle from Bodger and Badger!)
BSB/Comet