Andrew Wiseman
@aswiseman.bsky.social
Runs old telly website https://625.uk.com
Yes - something like that!
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yes - something like that!
As I recall, Pamela S answers and it looks like it's a 'heavy breathing' nuisance call, probably Mel Smith. Can't remember the punchline...
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As I recall, Pamela S answers and it looks like it's a 'heavy breathing' nuisance call, probably Mel Smith. Can't remember the punchline...
Was there a Not the Nine o'clock News sketch with Pamela Stephenson answering the phone with the same number? Or am I just misremembering the Victor Meldrew scene?
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Was there a Not the Nine o'clock News sketch with Pamela Stephenson answering the phone with the same number? Or am I just misremembering the Victor Meldrew scene?
I believe Lambie-Nairn decided centre-justification was a neat solution for a design system that would need to cope with presentation in 4:3, 14:9 and 16:9. The balloon idents were filmed widescreen and there was even a widescreen closedown that was never used
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I believe Lambie-Nairn decided centre-justification was a neat solution for a design system that would need to cope with presentation in 4:3, 14:9 and 16:9. The balloon idents were filmed widescreen and there was even a widescreen closedown that was never used
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Oct. 4th 1997 was also the first day of the main network's new name: "BBC ONE". (A similar update befell BBC2.) Here's the main network clock... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
BBC1 Balloon Clock
The BBC1 network clock, introduced in October 1997, reproduced in SVG format for viewing on phones and tablets.
625.uk.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Oct. 4th 1997 was also the first day of the main network's new name: "BBC ONE". (A similar update befell BBC2.) Here's the main network clock... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
Interesting user of the term "displays" instead of pages and weird that they call this "ITN's latest service".
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Interesting user of the term "displays" instead of pages and weird that they call this "ITN's latest service".
Link to video... bsky.app/profile/thet...
🟥 REWIND | Rare footage of early ORACLE trials in a brief segment in tonight's ITV News at 70.
Not the familiar teletext format we came to know.
Not the familiar teletext format we came to know.
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Link to video... bsky.app/profile/thet...
From 1973 according to the Top 20. First time I've seen any early Oracle. 2-digit page numbers, monochrome, no graphics and all caps (ignoring the colour graphic of the queen which must have been from a later time).
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
From 1973 according to the Top 20. First time I've seen any early Oracle. 2-digit page numbers, monochrome, no graphics and all caps (ignoring the colour graphic of the queen which must have been from a later time).
Was that promo broadcast or was it actually shown in cinemas? Or both?
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Was that promo broadcast or was it actually shown in cinemas? Or both?
Superb... I especially like the diagram on the door showing there's a card for each hand on the clock and a card where you can manually set the time! Was this just for BBC 1 NI or does the box also have the BBC 2 background in? And what is the drop-shadow card all about?
September 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Superb... I especially like the diagram on the door showing there's a card for each hand on the clock and a card where you can manually set the time! Was this just for BBC 1 NI or does the box also have the BBC 2 background in? And what is the drop-shadow card all about?
Reposted by Andrew Wiseman
If you add in the widescreen version broadcast on the station's last day on air... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg... and the MOCK of the Christmas-themed logo here 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg..., I think that makes 32 different versions you can view! Happy 55 years, London Weekend stripy logo!
London Weekend
London Weekend's first flowing stripes ident from September 1970, reproduced by Dave Jeffery with Adobe Flash and then translated into SVG format for viewing on phones and tablets.
625.uk.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you add in the widescreen version broadcast on the station's last day on air... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg... and the MOCK of the Christmas-themed logo here 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg..., I think that makes 32 different versions you can view! Happy 55 years, London Weekend stripy logo!
There was also apparently a version where the lettering didn't appear. I did that one too... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg....
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
There was also apparently a version where the lettering didn't appear. I did that one too... 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg....
It wasn't a generic look, though. Generic means unbranded. This was a common or shared look. The generic was the version with no region name on it seen overnight before the ITN news.
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It wasn't a generic look, though. Generic means unbranded. This was a common or shared look. The generic was the version with no region name on it seen overnight before the ITN news.
In other news, have you also captured a change from C4 to CH4 in the page header?
July 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In other news, have you also captured a change from C4 to CH4 in the page header?
COUNTDOWN wasn't a programme for the ITV Network, though?
July 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
COUNTDOWN wasn't a programme for the ITV Network, though?
Got this on double cassette after having the first two volumes on vinyl.
July 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Got this on double cassette after having the first two volumes on vinyl.
All 100 ITV/C4 re-creations are here: 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg.... Hope you like them.
More Flash-free Files
British television idents originally
reproduced by Dave Jeffery using Adobe Flash and now translated into SVG
format.
625.uk.com
July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
All 100 ITV/C4 re-creations are here: 625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg.... Hope you like them.