Ah this is so brilliant. Thanks a million for the upload. Lovely memories of the analog era

I'll bet younger folk brought up on round the clock programming (and multi channels) wud find it incomprehensible that there was no telly after 1am! Always loved the reminder to "turn off your telly" lol.

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

They wouldn’t. I was born in 1990 and many digital TV channels still close down.

@vanderark89

Ай бұрын

It’s seems odd but we only really had ITV at night from the late 80s until the 2000s. Now they don’t really show programmes as such. I preferred 4 channels as it forced you to either watch something you didn’t want to or go out do something interesting.

@vanderark89

Ай бұрын

@@stickytapenrust6869that is a good point. I will say that the destruction of the regional ITV has not been to anyone’s benefit. Thanks for putting up these little time capsules.

David Hamiton did his DJ job at BBC Radio 1 & 2 in the weekday mornings. Then he does his evening slot at Thames Television since 1968.

@rtc9063

10 ай бұрын

Surprised the BBC let him work at Thames

@mikemartin2957

10 ай бұрын

@@rtc9063 I think BBC radio were a lot more relaxed then about presenters working for " the other side"! However it was a few years later in 1981 ,TV Gardner & Gardeners World presenter Percy Thrower got sacked from BBC Midlands for doing a 90 second commercial for ATV plugging Fisons ' growmore'

Great to see a Thames Diddy closedown, worth the wait…

@markofsaltburn

Жыл бұрын

David Hamble Diddyton, as he was called in “Porridge”.

Going by The TVRDb, this actually December 1979! "Top Secret" reunited everyone's favourite family-friendly predator with the producers of brilliant "I Spy" no Robert Culp this time sadly.

@markroberts7303

Жыл бұрын

You’re correct it’s Monday/ Tuesday 3rd / 4th December 1979

@christopherwilliams2093

Жыл бұрын

Also, the big giveaway of it being 1979 was the style of the slide which David talked over, so the American Typewriter-style font did not come in until early 1980 when the style of Thames slides had changed.

This was before "CLOSE" got rebranded into "Sit & Listen".

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

Aka “Slouch Down And Ignore”.

Ah well, only another 22 days before Xmas ads are over and then it's time for a holiday and cut out the coupon in the TV Times or call for a Hoseasons brochure? 🤭

Officially the oldest VHS footage you've found so far! Whoever owned these sure looked after the tapes well.

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

These were recorded on the earliest (and most expensive) JVC/Ferguson/Baird VHS tapes, before cassette manufacturers started cost-cutting by reducing the quality of the plastic cassette and the tape strip within it. That’s why they’ve survived so well.

@DanielMullins-c4s1

Жыл бұрын

@stickytapenrust6869 And I believe they feel a little heavier as well. I had some of them, but I only ended up finding some early 90's to late 00's on them. You did very well on your recent finds. Keep up the good work as usual.

@markofsaltburn

Жыл бұрын

@@stickytapenrust6869Some of these tapes possibly haven’t been played or wound for forty years - do ever come across any that have fused or have other damage?

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

@@markofsaltburn I do sometimes but they tend to be mouldy ones that have fused together.

You watch Diddy in his pomp at Thames and you realise just how much Bill Steel ripped off his style while the two were at ABC - right down to the little asides about the staff... Of course the two knew each other going way back: Bill will have been his TC at TTT in the '60s.

Even does not have a transmitter shutdown

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

No, the recording stopped before the transmitter shutdown.

@GrahamPearson-oo4uy

2 ай бұрын

The tape ran out before the transmitters were rested for the night.

Do you have a Westward closedown?

@stickytapenrust6869

9 ай бұрын

If I did, I would have uploaded it by now.

Is that in-vision continuity with David Hamilton

@stickytapenrust6869

Жыл бұрын

Read the description and you’ll have your answer…