FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
The 7.15pm Channel 4 junction.
Video content
[00:00:00] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Gunston’s Australia.
The programme airs tomorrow at 9pm on Channel 4.
Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) was a sort of prototype Partridge. This was Gunston’s last regular series until a comeback in 1993. The series was cut short when McDonald suffered a breakdown.
McDonald also recorded a one-off BBC Two special in 1976 (The Norman Gunston Show).
[00:00:45] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: standard slide design – for Performance: Black Wax.
The programme follows at 8.15pm on Channel 4.
[00:00:53] IDENT: one of the standard Channel 4 idents is used to link into The Avengers.
[00:01:08] PROGRAMME: the opening titles and full closing credits from an episode of The Avengers. And we have the “ABC Production” graphic at the end.
Acknowledgements
With thanks to Gareth Joy for identifying the announcer and the additional information about Gary McDonald.
PICTURED: The Avengers opening titles. COPYRIGHT: Unknown.
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