[720p/50p] BBC1 | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 29th May 1984 | Part 2 of 2

© BBC TELEVISION 1984
End of World Professional Latin American Dance Championships
BBC1 optical slide: Come Dancing
BBC1 mirror globe: News Headlines
BBC1 optical slides (electronically composited): Wednesday night. A Christmas special in the middle of summer... just what I always wanted! r/sarcasm
BBC1 mirror globe: Weather forecast
PIF: Don't smoke before sleeping
BBC1 clock (11:53pm): closing announcement
BBC1 mirror globe with national anthem
Black and silence
Black and tone
Pulse and bar with tone
Loss of sync at 22:12 (the lack of sync here must have triggered something in the original VCR that recorded this, making my VCR blank out the picture with grey)
Transmitter shutdown at 28:10
Headlines:
- Battle of Orgreave takes place
- US sends Stinger missiles to Saudi Arabia
- Last month worst on record for British trade
- IRA claim responsibility for bomb that killed Steven Anderson
- Regan says he will talk about Northern Ireland with Thatcher
- Eric Morecambe to be buried next Monday in Harpenden

[@markofsaltburn]

The recent Come Dancing repeats on BBC4 have convinced me that we need more formation/ballroom dancing on TV, but WITHOUT the annoying celebrity element. It’s the most de-stressing thing on telly.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

I used to watch Strictly sometimes but they've become so overproduced, hollow, and seem to involve less and less dancing or learning how to dance - the last I watched had them doing watered down charlestons most weeks and then one week doing hip hop where "hip hop" amounted to bouncing up and down on a ball. As you said, I'd prefer seeing a return to Come Dancing.

[@mikesmemoriesfromthepast89]

The BBC1 announcer was Malcolm Eynon.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Never seen that PIF. Powerful stuff.

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for this of course so too!

[@brandontheeveryfan305]

I remmeber seeing an alternate version of that PIF on TVARK, but with a different announcer. ("The older you are, the more likely you will be killed, or injured, in a fire.")

[@frostycola42]

I think i saw that one at some point in the early 1990s on BBC1

[@simonsaifaimak]

9:47 now part with Home Office, UK.