FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
BBC Two Northern Ireland takes a breather prior to The Learning Zone, with a local Pages from Ceefax session.
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[00:00:00] GRAPHIC: pointing viewers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the preceding programme) to the Cult forum on the BBC website.
[00:00:06] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Making a Difference.
The programme airs on Friday 11th February on BBC One Northern Ireland.
[00:01:09] GRAPHIC: Ceefax slide used to start and end in-vision Pages from Ceefax broadcasts. It was unusual for an announcer to talk over such a slide, as is the case here.
[00:01:32] TELETEXT IN-VISION: BBC Northern Ireland’s teletext decoder is used to fill most of the gap up to The Learning Zone at 3am.
The decoder was similar to network’s Level 2 device, with a few differences:
- The current sub-page is displayed in the top left.
- Page changes are preceded by a fraction of a second of no rows being displayed (including the header row).
- Fastext links are displayed.
- Red text is replaced by yellow text (example: the red fastext link); red graphics are replaced by yellow graphics (example: the base of the Moneyfile page heading); though red new background displays properly.
- Consecutive dash characters are displayed as a continuous line (example: row 17 of the Sport Headlines page; there are similar examples on the Moneyfile and Travel headline/index pages).
The tracks played:
[00:01:22] Peter Gunn performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra.
[00:03:35] The Sweetheart Tree performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus.
[00:05:34] The Pink Panther Theme performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:08:14] Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus.
[00:10:51] Dear Heart performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:13:34] March of the Cue Balls (Mr Lucky) performed by Henry Mancini. May have been faded out prematurely due to a technical issue.
[00:15:44] Whistling Away the Dark performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus.
[00:18:39] Two for the Road performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra. Seems to have been a video glitch during this track.
[00:21:31] Baby Elephant Walk performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:24:15] Softly as I Leave You performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra.
[00:26:35] The Days of Wine and Roses performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:28:44] Mr Lucky (Main Title) performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:30:59] Theme from Hatari performed by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, Henry Mancini Chorus.
The Pages from Ceefax broadcast continues below.
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The BBC Northern Ireland Pages from Ceefax broadcast continues. Music tracks played:
[00:00:03] Darling Lili performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra.
[00:02:53] Midnight Cowboy performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus.
[00:05:01] Moon River (Main Title) performed by Henry Mancini.
[00:07:45] Nykyaikainen – Modern Girl performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
[00:11:11] My Simple Heart performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
[00:14:53] I’d Rather Leave While I’m in Love performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
[00:17:52] Mandy performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
The Pages from Ceefax broadcast continues below.
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The BBC Northern Ireland Pages from Ceefax broadcast continues. Music tracks played:
[00:00:01] 9 to 5 performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
[00:03:19] I Only Want to Be with You performed by The Tony Hatch Orchestra.
[00:06:23] I Could Be So Good for You performed by Unknown.
This track is faded out prematurely, before we cut back to network and join their brief Pages from Ceefax broadcast at [00:07:45].
[00:07:45] Choca Coca performed by Alan Dickinson and Roderick Bruce Hancock.
The picture disturbances at [00:07:59] are BBC Northern Ireland being taken out of circuit.
[00:11:00] Rum Party performed by Alan Dickinson and Roderick Bruce Hancock.
[00:11:43] GRAPHIC: the Ceefax slide brings this Pages from Ceefax broadcast to a close.
[00:11:54] IDENT: one of the standard Learning Zone idents.
[00:12:08] PROGRAMME MENU GRAPHIC: for tonight’s Learning Zone, which is showing GCSE Bitesize Revision programming.
[00:12:27] PROGRAMME: opening titles for GCSE Bitesize Revision.
Acknowledgements
With thanks to Ben Rigsby for identifying the network announcer.
PICTURED: Ceefax news headlines page. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
At 07:45 on the second video, Modern Girl is played by The Tony Hatch Orch (NI digging out a Radio play CD used in some early 1990’s Daytime on Two transmissions). At 11:45 the same orchestra play My Simple Heart, and at 14:53 they play I’d Rather Leave While I’m In Love.