13 February 1984 Thames - ads, Night Thoughts & close

Tom Edwards bids London viewers goodnight after the usual late night offering, this time from Una Kroll.
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[@JasonC1782]

Please tell me people didn't take 'Night Thoughts' seriously at the time.

[@applemask]

"That conversation proved to be a turning point, and his second suicide attempt was a success."

[@MEXICANMOOSE1976]

That animated Bank advert..voiced by Richard Briers!!! 😂😂😂

[@jamestowler68]

Night thoughts lady reminds me of the Kenny Everett Character Verity Treacle.

[@bobrew461]

Remember when Lucozade was considered a healthy drink to take to patients in hospital? Now it is considered to be toxic! Glucose Energy...Yeah. :-0

[@utterlee]

The healing power of a jolly good kick up the arse. 🙏 😂

[@Rosiebeatle]

I rather fear they did. I'm a tyne tees girl ...I don't remember us having cracking closing music of the night playing like this, but I was 11 at the time so missed a lot of these epilogue type programmes. The ones I did see were always places in a library set with people of this lady's age presenting some waffle . I thought it was to help send you to sleep because they were always so boring and I wonder what the viewership actually was....maybe it was only me watching ?! Scary thought. I loved playing name that tune though. I could never figure out how they would get it!on just one note cos it could have been anything! Any other clues went over my head.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

To be honest, this is rather upbeat music for a Thames closedown compared to what they'd usually play.

[@arthurvasey]

Tyne Tees’s epilogues always saw a clergyman reading from the Bible - only lasted for about five minutes - then the duty announcer would give a quick précis of what was to come, then play the National Anthem over a still of Her Majesty (we still had a Queen in those days), the screen would go blank, then the announcer would tell us to switch off our sets, then run their finger around a glass of water to generate that horrible noise!

[@Rosiebeatle]

@@arthurvasey those were the days! I may have still had a black and white portable with a rotary dial at the time but I may have had my colour one by then. I can also just see Judi Lines and her wine glass signing off for the evening too...

[@movesky6696]

epilogue night thoughts

[@dacre1975]

Night night campers

[@twold4this]

Norman still hasn't found a job. His wife changed her name to Yoko Ono and ran off with John Lennon..... funny ol' world ain't it?