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Test Cards

From the days when gaps in the programme schedule were filled by the test card and music.

Channel 4 test card (1982)

Pub: 10th June 2025
by The Rewind Team

TV Edits close and BBC One closedown (7th October 1992)

Pub: 23rd May 2025
by The Rewind Team

BBC One test card and BBC Select continuity (7th October 1992)

Pub: 22nd May 2025
by The Rewind Team

Casablanca close and BBC One Scotland closedown including programme promotion for Reporting Scotland (6th October 1992)

Pub: 17th May 2025
by The Rewind Team

Channel 4 closedown including programme promotion for My Left Foot (20th March 1992)

Pub: 11th May 2025
by The Rewind Team

BBC Two closedown including programme promotions for The Mushroom Picker and Horizon (15th February 1993)

Pub: 2nd May 2025
by The Rewind Team

Teledata In-Vision and SABC TV 1 test card (16th December 1986)

Pub: 8th April 2025
by The Rewind Team

Pulse and bar (early 1990s)

Pub: 20th March 2025
by The Rewind Team

BBC Two test card (early 1990s)

Pub: 20th March 2025
by The Rewind Team

BBC Two closedown (26th December 1996)

Pub: 4th December 2023
by The Rewind Team

BBC One closedown including programme promotion for Heartburn (24th March 1993)

Pub: 21st November 2023
by The Rewind Team

BBC trade test colour films

Pub: 28th August 2023
by Andrew Nairn

BBC Two continuity, test card and Pages from Ceefax (14th July 2001)

Pub: 2nd April 2023
by The Rewind Team

BBC One/BBC One Northern Ireland continuity including programme promotions for Beverly Hills Cop III and Glasgow Kiss followed by Pages from Ceefax and Test Card J (6th August 2000)

Pub: 26th February 2022
by The Rewind Team

BBC Weatherview and BBC Two closedown including programme promotions for The X-Files, Cuba Night and Gimme Gimme Gimme followed by BBC test card (2nd January 1999)

Pub: 29th October 2021
by The Rewind Team

Teilifís na Gaeilge pre-launch engineering tests and test transmission (1996)

Pub: 4th October 2021
by The Rewind Team

Channel 4 test card (1984)

Pub: 12th September 2021
by The Rewind Team

Alliance Building Society advertisement (1983)

Pub: 30th August 2021
by The Rewind Team

Galaxy start-up (30th November 1990)

Pub: 12th August 2021
by The Rewind Team

BBC One/Open University start-up: first on air appearance of new BBC One logo (16th February 1991)

Pub: 11th August 2021
by The Rewind Team

RTÉ Network 2 closedown including programme promotion for Monday and technical fault (September 1995)

Pub: 10th August 2021
by The Rewind Team

RTÉ One closedown including programme promotions for Time to Talk and Monday (September 1995)

Pub: 9th August 2021
by The Rewind Team

RTÉ Network 2 start-up (partial) (1994)

Pub: 19th July 2021
by The Rewind Team

BBC One test card followed by BBC Select ident and The Social Agenda opening titles (1994)

Pub: 19th July 2021
by The Rewind Team

RTÉ Network 2 closedown including programme promotion for Sunday (10th April 1994)

Pub: 17th July 2021
by The Rewind Team

RTÉ One closedown including programme promotion for Daughter of Darkness (13th March 1994)

Pub: 15th July 2021
by The Rewind Team

BBC One continuity and closedown including programme promotions for Boxing Day and Billy Connolly: A Scot in the Arctic (26th December 1995)

Pub: 3rd July 2021
by The Rewind Team

Pages from Ceefax followed by the test card (24th December 1981)

Pub: 26th May 2021
by The Rewind Team

BBC One Schools and Colleges continuity followed by trade test transmission (2nd October 1978)

Pub: 10th May 2021
by The Rewind Team

BBC Two daytime closedown (26th February 1980)

Pub: 5th May 2021
by The Rewind Team

Black and white pulse and bar followed by test card – and reinstatement of colour burst (4th November 1984)

Pub: 26th February 2021
by The Rewind Team

ITV Digital test card on Granada Men & Motors (2002)

Pub: 26th February 2021
by The Rewind Team
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