Category: Programmes
Programme title sequences and set design.
BBC Nine o’Clock News festive close (23rd December 1985)
For the final edition of the programme until the new year, a festive touch for the closing sequence.
BBC News After Noon opening titles (17th January 1983)
The start of an edition of BBC News After Noon on the day that the BBC began a regular breakfast TV service.
BBC Mid-day News opening titles/presentation (9th December 1980)
The first television news of the day, reporting on the shock news of the murder of John Lennon.
BBC One continuity and BBC One o’Clock News opening titles/presentation (31st August 1994)
The BBC One o’Clock News reports on the IRA ceasefire announcement in 1994.
BBC One continuity and Six o’Clock News opening titles (November 1986)
The long-running titles for the Six o’Clock News.
BBC Two continuity and News Review opening titles (1982)
The opening sequence for News Review – the BBC’s review of the week’s main news stories, with subtitles for the hard of hearing.
BBC One North continuity and BBC Evening News opening titles (26th October 1981)
A snippet of BBC One North continuity, followed by the opening titles of the national BBC Evening News.
The Channel Four Daily opening titles and presentation (first edition) (3rd April 1989)
Channel 4’s first foray into breakfast television. The programme was produced by ITN in conjunction with various other production companies.
LWT closedown including London Community Unit Information Service (11th June 1983)
A full LWT closedown from the summer of 1983.
BBC One continuity and BBC News (25th December 1986)
A short early evening news update from Jan Leeming.
BBC One continuity and Children in Need opening titles (26th November 1982)
Simpler times and not quite the glitzy entertainment show that it would go on to become.
BBC One continuity and BBC Six o’Clock News opening titles (1997)
A minor blooper here, with the presenters barely visible in the opening wide shot.