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TV Times advertisement, Channel 4 continuity including break filler and programme promotion for Raffles followed by The Avengers opening/close (6th February 1983)


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Our clip includes the 7.15pm Channel 4 junction.

VIDEO: TV Times advertisement, Channel 4 continuity including break filler and programme promotion for Raffles followed by The Avengers opening/close. Announcer: Keith Harrison. Voiceover: TBC (TV Times ad); TBC (Raffles trail). TX DATE: 6th February 1983. COPYRIGHT: Channel 4 Television Corporation.

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[00:00:00] ADVERTISEMENT: an incomplete copy of a slide-based ad for TV Times.

This is likely to have been prepared and inserted by LWT.

[00:00:15] BREAK FILLER: with no further ads to show in this ad break, due to an industrial dispute between the IPA and Equity, the London version of Channel 4 rejoins the main national feed of the channel, which is showing a break filler caption and music.

On this occasion, the graphic includes an explanation about the strike.

[00:01:10] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Raffles.

The film, starring David Niven, airs tonight at 10.45pm on Channel 4.

[00:01:57] IDENT: one of the standard Channel 4 idents is used to link into The Avengers.

[00:02:11] PROGRAMME: the opening titles and closing credits from an episode of The Avengers, titled Something Nasty in the Nursery.

Sandwiched in the middle, the slide used to punctuate commercial breaks.

Acknowledgements

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
With thanks to Mason Leka for identifying the announcer.
FEATURE IMAGE:
PICTURED: Channel 4 break filler. COPYRIGHT: Channel 4 Television Corporation.

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