FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
BBC Two closes down for the night.
Video content
[00:00:00] PROHGRAMME GRAPHIC: standard BBC Two slide design – for Easy Rider.
The film airs later today at 10pm on BBC Two.
[00:00:14] STING: one of the Wallace and Gromit BBC Two Christmas stings.
[00:00:15] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for three animation films on BBC Two:
10pm Thursday 21st December Gary Larson’s Tales from the Far Side.
11.55pm Tuesday 26th December Faust.
1.10pm Saturday 30th December Animal Farm.
[00:00:46] CLOCK: the appearance of the standard BBC Two clock marks the end of the day on the channel. With the usual reminder that BBC Radios 1, 2 and 5 Live are on the air through the night, it’s goodnight from BBC Two.
[00:01:20] IDENT: an announcerless playout of the Car ident.
There then follows around 10 seconds of black and silence, before tone/GLITS kicks in.
Our clip ends soon after the tone starts. Tone would normally be played out for 2 minutes before the overnight shutdown of the transmitter network is triggered.
Acknowledgements
PICTURED: BBC Two ident. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
James Mitchell
Gay Purree is not featured. It is Faust, Boxing Day 1995.
Editor
Thank you James. The page has been updated accordingly.