That sky at 1:33 looks ominous.

A local vagrant,a curly-haired Irishman with one working eye,who I used to chat to sometimes sadly froze to death in the January 1985 one,I learned shortly afterwards.

February 86 is not one of those spells that sticks in peoples minds mainly due to the fact that it was often sunny, snowfall not hugely disruptive and a fairly dry month. What was notable was the persistence of the cold right from the 30th of January until the 2nd of March without a single break. I believe London’s maximum temperature during that spell was just 4C and sea ice formed on some of our coasts. As someone that worked outside during it, it was incredibly cold.

@@simonvalibor498 That's true,good observation. There were roofers working on a house near us at the time and they must have had a time of it. I remember quite a number of sunny blue sky days then despite the cold.

Lol

This had been developed just over a year earlier in February 1985 It launched 14.02.1985

Anglia / ITV

Simple. Like the BBC does, PBS sells its content worldwide. An ITV company bought the rights to screen it and it was broadcast network wide.

It was also broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK

PBS has shown a good bit of ITV stuff.

Basically the BBC didn't want it. They resented the very notion of Sesame Street muscling in on their unrivaled childrens television output mixed with a great sense of middle class snobbery (dismissing sesame's very american nature). ITV were admittedly in a similar frame of mind but being commercial were more receptive to taking it on. Though at first only in a handful of regions. It took almost 10 years for the entire network to show it! (ending with Yorkshire and Tyne Tees as the very last)

Not at all. In December 1890, Scotland averaged 1.2˚C, England and Wales combined -0.9˚C! Even in that February 1986 - a similarly cold and very dry and quiet month with nothing more the cold high pressure day after day - Scotland was warmer than England and Wales by 0.2˚C, and Lerwick in the far north was probably the warmest place in the UK on average, if not to the same extent as December 1890. More recently, Scotland was warmer than England in February 1993, January 1997 and February 2012.

lol in the 80s that prob was a mini heatwave given we used to have proper cold winters lol

Central were also showing it in 1985

@@robertcomer2767 So was TSW!

Is it ??? He killed them simple as that

Fucking idiot!

He killed them!!

I wonder so too. She did open air on bbc1 for a while and I remember reading about her in the TV Times one time so too.

That went for years until the ITV rebrand.

That depended on the ITV franchise company. Central had a totally different feel to Anglia, for instance.

LufthansaTerminal To be honest, that was the year it all switched to 625 lines... but then again the latest anyone got colour was probably Channel or TSW...

Fucking hilarious mate 🤣even as a 10 year old child I remember thinking thank fuck I don't live in Norwich and have to watch Anglia 🤣

Anyone know any programmes they successfully networked?! I can't help thinking whenever I saw an extremely cheap and old fashioned programme it was usually followed by an Anglia or border production slide ! Bless em !

@@muk8804 they did quite a few quality networked programmes - Tales of the Unexpected, Survival, Knightmare, The Chief Also Gambit and Sale of the Century

@@Rexowogamer this is Partially correct. Westward (TSW) was late to the color party, only Getting Color in May 1971, Shortly after the 10th Anniversary of ITV in the Southwest. Westward did, However Beat Border and Grampian by a few months to color TV. Grampian was the last Mainland British Company to get Color Broadcasts in September 1971, compared to Border, who got it in August 1971 Channel Television was the LAST to get Color in 1976! Color Timeline: November 15-17 1969: Associated Television (ATV) Granada London Weekend (LWT) Yorkshire, Thames (NOTE: Thames went Color on the 17th, which was a Monday, given that the 15th fell under LWT's Contract, being Saturday.) December 13 1969: Scottish Television (Soon to be rebranded as STV in early 1970) Southern April 4 1970: Harlech (Rebranded to HTV on the same day, since the name HARLECH was alienating to viewers on the England side of the Bristol Channel) July 17 1970: Tyne Tees October 1970: Ulster Anglia November 1970: COLOR STRIKE May to October 1971 Westward (May), Border (August 31st) Grampian (September 30th) July 1976: Channel. 405 Line Broadcasts continued up until January 3rd-5th 1985 (Most sites say January 3rd, I added the 5th since there was a KZbin Video on Winter Hill (LINK AT END) saying that Winter Hill (Granada, Channel 9) Went off on the 5th.) Source to said Winter Hill video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2mcgotmnpmnmpI and the January 5th 405 shutdown date is revealed at the 16 minute, 38 second mark. There is also a BBC teletext slide that said: "THE FINAL 24 405 LINE TRANSMITTERS LISTED BELOW WILL CLOSE BETWEEN JANUARY 2ND AND JANUARY 6TH" one of those listed was WINTER HILL, Ch 12, which was activated to help with BBC 405 line reception in areas in the Northwest who had Trouble with Holme Moss (Ch 2) Source: www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/tx_list.html Sadly, the exact teletext pages have NOT Been Discovered/RE-Emulated (AT LEAST NOT YET as of 4/16/22)

@Peter Marshall no but evidence does

@Peter Marshall he was responding to the claim of Jeremy's supposed "deep grief". His guilt was determined through other means.

Well done!