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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)

10th Jun 2025
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TV Edits close and BBC One closedown (7th October 1992)

23rd May 2025
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BBC One test card and BBC Select continuity (7th October 1992)

22nd May 2025
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Casablanca close and BBC One Scotland closedown including programme promotion for Reporting Scotland (6th October 1992)

17th May 2025
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Channel 4 closedown including programme promotion for My Left Foot (20th March 1992)

11th May 2025
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BBC Two closedown including programme promotions for The Mushroom Picker and Horizon (15th February 1993)

2nd May 2025
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Teledata In-Vision and SABC TV 1 test card (16th December 1986)

8th Apr 2025
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Pulse and bar (early 1990s)

20th Mar 2025
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BBC Two test card (early 1990s)

20th Mar 2025
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BBC Two closedown (26th December 1996)

4th Dec 2023
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BBC One closedown including programme promotion for Heartburn (24th March 1993)

21st Nov 2023
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BBC trade test colour films

28th Aug 2023
Andrew Nairn

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

2nd Apr 2023
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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)

26th Feb 2022
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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)

29th Oct 2021
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Teilifís na Gaeilge pre-launch engineering tests and test transmission (1996)

4th Oct 2021
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Channel 4 test card (1984)

12th Sep 2021
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Alliance Building Society advertisement (1983)

30th Aug 2021
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Galaxy start-up (30th November 1990)

12th Aug 2021
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BBC One/Open University start-up: first on air appearance of new BBC One logo (16th February 1991)

11th Aug 2021
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RTÉ Network 2 closedown including programme promotion for Monday and technical fault (September 1995)

10th Aug 2021
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RTÉ One closedown including programme promotions for Time to Talk and Monday (September 1995)

9th Aug 2021
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RTÉ Network 2 start-up (partial) (1994)

19th Jul 2021
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BBC One test card followed by BBC Select ident and The Social Agenda opening titles (1994)

19th Jul 2021
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RTÉ Network 2 closedown including programme promotion for Sunday (10th April 1994)

17th Jul 2021
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RTÉ One closedown including programme promotion for Daughter of Darkness (13th March 1994)

15th Jul 2021
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BBC One continuity and closedown including programme promotions for Boxing Day and Billy Connolly: A Scot in the Arctic (26th December 1995)

3rd Jul 2021
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Pages from Ceefax followed by the test card (24th December 1981)

26th May 2021
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BBC One Schools and Colleges continuity followed by trade test transmission (2nd October 1978)

10th May 2021
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BBC Two daytime closedown (26th February 1980)

5th May 2021
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Black and white pulse and bar followed by test card – and reinstatement of colour burst (4th November 1984)

26th Feb 2021
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ITV Digital test card on Granada Men & Motors (2002)

26th Feb 2021
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BBC Two Test Card G (BBC Scotland generator) (1980s)

25th Feb 2021
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BBC One test card: logoless (24th November 1985)

25th Feb 2021
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BBC One test card (1st May 1985)

25th Feb 2021
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