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FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: Dave Baldwin

Kenny Everett trails his own Christmas show, as only he could.

VIDEO: BBC One continuity including programme promotion for The Kenny Everett Television Show. Announcer: Bruce Hammal (network) and Brian Baines (BBC North). Voiceover: Greg Bance. TX DATE: 24th December 1981. COPYRIGHT: BBC. VREF: 25906-01.

Video content

[00:00:00] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: a festive cross-channel promotion graphic, for All Creatures Great and Small, on BBC Two.

[00:00:10] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: Kenny Everett trails his own Christmas show.

This was Kenny’s first TV show on the BBC. Five series of primetime shows followed, running from 1982 until 1988. Many of the characters from his Thames TV show made the move to the BBC, in spite of a failed legal attempt by Thames to prevent this.

[00:01:12] CLOCK: the network clock but with BBC North voiceover, to signpost Look North.

Acknowledgements

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTION:
Thanks to Gareth Joy for identifying Greg Bance as the voiceover on the trail.
FEATURE IMAGE:
PICTURED: BBC One programme promotion: The Kenny Everett Television Show. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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