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LWT continuity including programme promotion for LWT Arts Programming followed by Spitting Image opening (March 1985)

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FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: Ashley Sowerby

A late Sunday evening LWT junction.

VIDEO: LWT continuity including programme promotion for LWT Arts Programming followed by Spitting Image opening. Announcer: TBC. Voiceover: Melvyn Bragg (LWT Arts Programming trail). TX DATE: March 1985. COPYRIGHT: ITV plc.

Video content

[00:00:00] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for arts programming produced by LWT. Programmes featured: The South Bank Show; Book Four; Hey Good Looking!; The Arts Review.

[00:01:02] GRAPHIC: for LWT Weather.

The weather bulletin is read out of vision by the announcer.

[00:01:30] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: standard LWT slide design for Spitting Image.

The programme follows the commercial break.

[00:01:35] BREAK BUMPER: the standard LWT break bumper of the time.

The commercial break has been excluded from our clip.

[00:01:36] PRE-PROGRAMME IDENT: the standard Central ident.

[00:01:43] PROGRAMME: the opening sketch (Saint & Greavsie), full opening titles and a portion of the second sketch (featuring Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson).

Acknowledgements

FEATURE IMAGE:
PICTURED: Spitting Image opening titles. COPYRIGHT: ITV plc.

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