BBC Video - ident compilation 1980-2002

[@jamiewindsor]

Nostalgic excitement of watching all those Doctor Who VHSs again.

[@billyh88uk]

I used to find the music of the end variant at 2:46 rather sad as a small child...like the video was dying and wistfully bidding goodbye to the viewer as the star faded from view. Particularly as this would be followed seconds later by an abrupt cut into blank tape fuzz, as if the life support machine had been turned off.

[@K-o-R]

Billy Hicks: Yes, me too! Falkor: Especially since (for me at least) the next thing I'd hear would be the start of Postman Pat's intro. Those two sequences are the only ones that really seemed to "fit" that animation.

[@felixcuthbert2719]

You know something, Billy. I feel very much the same.

[@mortified776]

Omg I thought that was just me! I am not a lone freak lol

[@Mevans_2001]

Dang, Billy. Throw in some shade.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Billy Hicks I thought the exact same thing. A nice way to wind down the video experience though :)

[@mrstecdude1236]

2:30 is possibly the best and iconic because I remember I saw it on the Postman pat 1 vhs. Damn now I want to return to my younger days.

[@TimeLord675]

I remember seeing it on a Doctor Who tape (which I still have today)

[@Terrosso174]

​@@TimeLord675i remember seeing it on Fireman Sam

[@JokeriPokeri17]

4:47 I love this one, so many memories of those late night summer days when i used to watch the new Hercule Poirot episodes with my sister at her home few years back.

[@user-vh6ts9uf6c]

3:16 - Fantastic Max 4:10 Red Dwarf Series 2 (Byte 1) 4:49 Red Dwarf 7 (X-Tended)

[@DavidBromage]

The original tune was composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst who arranged the 1980-84 versions. The electronic versions were arranged by Peter Howell, who wrote the second electronic theme which was used until 1988.

[@Sheena1234ization]

4:47 Never knew as a kid that those ribbons were in the colours that would form the old BBC logo with colours

[@guymadgesam24]

Holy fuck

[@TheWillHadcroft]

The one at 1.45 was the first for me. The next one after that was my favourite, and I have a fondness for the globe one. Blasts from the past. Thanks for uploading.

[@ieuantime3257]

I remember watching Pingu on VHS, and I used to hide behind the sofa when the globe ident came on, as it used to scare me.

[@mikeyjames9245]

Me too!!

[@gemmak3617]

Omg. I was literally just telling my boyfriend this EXACT STORY. We had the same childhood 😂😂

[@Nathaniel2256Studios]

I did as well but it didn't scare me cause I liked the globe

[@AKRGames]

BBC Video: *Sometimes, my genius, it's almost frightening.*

[@SiBanstead89]

how about the ident that followed?

[@brigadier-tc8565]

All of the star ones after 1:47 are the ones I remember from Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who's and a few Tom Baker ones, and then the one at 4:09 for the rest of my Doctor Who VHS's... good days.

[@TimLeeSongs]

2.30 and 2.40(ish) versions are definitely my favourite, quite beautiful that music, and so nostalgic!

[@lindsaypollock597]

A thousand, bajillion percent

[@David315842]

My personal account on these BBC idents. The diamonds were rather nice, though I agree that the last one of the diamond idents seems a tad bit sad as if the video itself is saying good-bye, it didn't help that this was the version used on a lot of the early BBC children's videos. The globe ident was BBC perverting their own BBC One Globe by adding intimidating music which included 'wong wongs' at the start and at the end, which were wrong, wrong! LOL. The 90's version I wasn't scared of at all, but I can see why some people would be intimidated by the music and logo appearing from the darkness. But I found it an improvement over the 'wong wong globe'. The last one from the 2000's though is my favourite, beautifully simple and with nice calming music. Definitely the best of the bunch for me. :)

[@DanDanDaaaan1]

I could watch these for hours

[@gower23]

In the 2:30 version, that particular jingle coupled with the kaleidoscope sequence frightened the life out of me as a child.

[@MrGlenbw]

2:30 - 3:04 Ah yes, the BBC jingles I used to hear as a kid whenever I watched the classic 1954 animated movie Animal Farm on VHS a couple of times. Miss those childhood times!

[@acesigma06]

2:30 still the best ,followed by the Doctor Who theme , happy days.

[@thegreatexterminator1095]

4:10 used to scare the life out of me whenever I heard it. Good thing it used to be followed by Wallace and Gromit 😂

[@chikamotokenji3217]

Cheeeese

[@6666-g1q]

*Cheese gromit*

[@Mr_Storm_22]

We have to get the Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

[@rolom3]

That evil penguin though

[@BenRoyFothergill]

Glad I'm not the only one who had that obscure oddly specific fear aha

[@KRPTV]

The 'star' ident beats all the others in my opinion, one of my favourites. As a child, before I could even read the words 'BBC VIDEO' I used to refer to the ident as 'the colours'.

[@the_tv_museum]

Guys please don't use these pages for arguments, we get an email every time you comment and don't have time to wade through them and cut the silly ones.

[@CyberLink70]

The TV Museum I think you can turn those off somewhere...

[@pjgathergood6987]

Agreed James. Turn them off and reply to only the ones that directly mention you and should still flag up. Either that or just disable comments for the video. Love the work gone into this but saying basically "please don't comment" is a bit severe.

[@teresacmoore6549]

Fraud...charged $56.00

[@myristicina.]

Teresa C Moore it’s not tho lol

[@martinsmith1538]

Well i for one am not arguing with you. These are legendary and took time to upload. Fantastic job. Rekindled my childhood.

[@anonUK]

2:32 This was the intro to our Fawlty Towers videos of the mid 80s- although there must have been releases with the earlier idents as well, as it was always massively popular.

[@MysteryManfrom79]

No, they only had that one - all releases from 1984 on only used that theme. BBC Video never used to update the master tapes very often, so many titles like Doctor Who still carried the earlier variants well into the 90s even though the logos had changed...

[@timdowns7937]

Yes anonUK I remember this from my Fawlty Towers video too I had for Christmas around the early-mid eighties. It had Waldorf Salad, Gourmet Night and a Kipper and a Corpse on the same tape 🤗

[@khangphamchannel016]

I also have Fawlty towers on vhs, it was an US release but still have the BBC video logo that you are talking about.

[@karenorrock6388]

The warning on the globe one is silent, but then we get a low humming noise then a sparkling noise when the warning zooms out.

[@ZazanasirandLogokid]

I remember when i was watching hey duggee

[@michaelweech6432]

Best 4 idents: 2:45 (interestingly, I prefer the closing, to the opening) 3:16 (opening) and 3:32 (closing) 4:09 (opening) and 4:17 (closing) 4:47 (opening) and 5:00 (closing) The ident whose closing logo I prefer, to the opening logo, is the last ident to use the star for the logo, and I’m aware the last two idents are the only two whose music is the same in the opening and closing. Oh, and in the 1991 (used until very early October 1997, as said below) ident, they dropped the word ‘video’ (just as well, given how redundant it would be to say ‘video’ on DVDs with this as the distributor). When BBC began using the last ident, as of very early October 1997 (again - opening at 4:47, and closing at 5:00), they should merely have settled with that ident, and still used it up to this decade.

[@josephryan362]

The star BBC video logo is my favourite BBC video logo

[@ripperevo2011rrchamp]

The first logo sure had a lot of variants.

[@tomasnovak1909]

My favourtie logo is at 2:30-3:04.

[@danwoodhouse9290]

its the only one that fits the music

[@KRPTV]

It's the only version that I have vhs's of, I didn't know there were other versions of the star logo until I was a lot older.

[@myristicina.]

That one creeps me out

[@RavenFalcon94]

2:30 this used to scare me big time as a kid. Every time a Postman Pat or Fireman Sam VHS was on, I’d be running away from that ident.

[@CaptainTJMiller1701]

Learned the late 90s one on the piano for my first piano lesson

[@whatamalike]

The 80-88 one was basically the hand me down videos from family's older kids, 91-97 were the ones actually bought for me, 97 onwards were my sisters. the 88-91 one one only on one video i owned which was the fireman sam christmas special.

[@jayadamone]

2:31 Death to the Daleks 1987, memories!!!

[@andyElec]

That's what immediately springs to mind for me too!! 😂😂

[@gingered3311]

2:30 was the VHS ident on the Doctor Who TV movie of Day Of The Daleks (with John Pertwee) that I got in the 1980’s. Subsequent Doctor Who VHS tapes I got of John Pertwee & Tom Baker in the 1990’s had the second from last BBC ident on them, so it all depends on WHEN you bought the videotape not which Doctor was on it.

[@MysteryManfrom79]

The tape masters were rarely updated though - most VHS releases carried whichever ident they had on their initial release, so you could still buy ones with the Star Ident well into the 90s. The only ones that were updated Doctor Who wise were the ones that were originally omnibus editions (like Spearhead From Space) and got re-released complete and unedited. I bought Revenge of the Cybermen and The Seeds of Death in the 90s (with the modern black cassette label) but the tape still had the original 80s master on it with the older star ident.

[@richardcavell-clarke8928]

3:14 loved that one when I was a kid the nostalgia

[@rnw2739]

Me too, mate!

[@richardcavell-clarke8928]

Stop it and tidy up

[@user-vh6ts9uf6c]

Same. Fantastic Max.

[@KittyKatt_Luna80s]

The star intro! I remember this from when I was tiny!

[@jensarinbjorn]

4:10 Remeber being so scared when I was little and these came up when watching the Teletubbies.

[@AntarcticaTelevision]

If you saw a BBC Video ident in front of a BBC Video release you owned, then it was a sign you owned a piece of the output of BBC-TV all for yourself.

[@LovelyYT]

What?

[@meg9258]

I remember 2.33 onwards. The star one was from a Family Ness VHS I had and the globe was on a Pingu VHS. Those were the days :)

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I love the orchestral strings jingle at the start

[@Abbieeffectgirl]

I like the one with the xylophone thingy then made me cry

[@missawsum4918]

4:47 lol I remember this at the start of balamory and it was scary I feel bad for the people who seen the one before that because that's worse.

[@desireaiir3820]

Miss Awsum I remember when I was little the second to last one scared me to death

[@myristicina.]

That one made me feel excited because we were watching something in class like that

[@alexmacleod3728]

I’m i the only one in the comment who didn’t find this scary as a kid, I mean this is my childhood.

[@LovelyYT]

This one is my favourite because the music is nostalgic but it actually sounds emotional to me and I nearly cried listening to this

[@michaelhobbs3105]

The first ones came out before my time I remember the ones from the post,an pat and the bbc globe from the fireman Sam videos then the later ones to this present day it changed over the years.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

02:30 02:31 That is one of my favourite BBC Video idents

[@willlovesgaz]

i only just realised watching this - on the globe ident at 3:17 the words at the beginning zoom in towards London :)

[@laotian12innumberverse6]

4:47 I used to see this ident in school when I was in Year 2 and my class had a VHS Player. My teacher had a VHS of the so-called “Words and Pictures” and when that logo came on, I said to myself “Uh oh, It’s the BBC.” almost as if the BBC had invaded the home video industry in the UK. And the BBC also got me on the news that same year! Just before I left Year 1!

[@laotian12innumberverse6]

This was in 2014, 8 years after BBC Video merged with VCI to create 2 Entertain!

[@matty6598]

@@laotian12innumberverse6 Wait so you were in year 2 in 2014? And a vcr in your classroom in 2014?

[@polakball142]

This is the logo that i grew up with!

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

2:30 is the one I remember hearing on a BBC VHS video I bought in 1989.

[@mbvideoselection]

Yes that jingle seemed purpose-written to match the animation whereas the military two step most certainly didn't. I don't know why they persisted with it for so long.

[@jaycee330]

Same for NBC videos in that era as well.

[@chl0roplasttt]

The last one terrified me when I was little

[@niamhseamark1696]

At least I'm not the only one 😂

[@desireaiir3820]

The second to last one scared me when I was little

[@совёнка]

4:10 Are you talking about these logos?

[@ridbensdale]

The Vic & Bob versions of 3:51 are hilarious. From the Series 1 VHS releases of ‘The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer’.

[@gogodahero]

3:43 *MCMXC* M=1000 CM=1000(M)-100(C)=900 XC=100(C)-10(X)=90 *MCMXC=1000(M)+900(CM)+90(XC)=1990* 5:04 *MMII* MM=1000(M)+1000(M)=2000 II=1(I)+1(I)=2 *MMII=2000(MM)+2(II)=2002*

[@TeyonTheeOfficial]

I like that dent because of the music. I like that. 1:46 - 2:08

[@FA2012YT]

I got the COW globe logo on my copy of Postman Pat's Big Video

[@nicholasdickens2801]

I couldn’t stand the military jingle but the lovely jingle at *02:30* and onwards was perfect. Still have very fond memories of my old VHS video tapes of Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Only Fools and Horses :) God bless the BBC :)

[@Super71_lpc]

0:56 Maybe from Lucky Luke

[@miketesh-ff5rd]

I love these idents ❤❤

[@annawise1147]

The one in watch with mother!

[@officialSgtPepperArc360]

2:30 - My favorite version of that logo! I think the music really matches the animation!

[@officialSgtPepperArc360]

***** Of course not, because the shadow effect started in 1985.

[@mohammadfaizkizlan]

I'm agree, the ending music also suited with the animation. My second favourite to 1997 ribbons logo, the latter was my nostalgic introduction to "Teletubbies" as my favourite TV show (I was in pre-school days when this came out).

[@myristicina.]

That one scares me

[@LovelyYT]

@@myristicina. same but it's the closing variant that makes die of scariness

[@lukegreen5341]

1:46 This BBC Video Star Logo Is Taken From The BBC Video UK VHS Releases Of Fawlty Towers The Original Series Volume 1 The Germans And Other Stories And Dad's Army The Original Series Volume 1 The Day The Balloon Went Up And Other Stories And Doctor Who The Original Series Volume 1 Spearhead From Space And Doctor Who Volume 2 The Robots Of Death And Postman Pat The Original Series Volumes 1 2 And 3 And Fireman Sam The Hero Next Door And Fireman Sam The Original Series Volume 2 Lost Cat And Other Stories. Awesome. Thanks Mate. X

[@tflm9802]

These all feel so homely

[@mintchocolatecookies]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who got scared and would hide when the streaks of death/doom would come on 😂

[@LovelyYT]

I was the one who got scared and hid in my room when 2:46 came on when a VHS ended

[@flamingomingo9810]

Isn't there one with a white background that has the same music as the one on 4:10?? I saw it on Wallace and Gromit and it scared the shit out of me so I wanted to find it.

[@mackenziewachter2508]

Flamingo Mingo Uh oh! Prepare to get Were-Rabbit'd!

[@jaxxchaos4779]

I believe you are looking for this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jInVpYFopZeImrs

[@LovelyYT]

Streaks of Death II?

[@flamingomingo9810]

@@mackenziewachter2508 I JUST SAW THIS THANK YOU

[@michaelweech6432]

Another VHS to use this ‘creepy’ ident is Mr. Blobby.

[@davidisrael8537]

So at the beginning I'm reminded of Jimbo but didn't go much past that. I just thought I'd look back at the spinning globe, which freaked me out when I was a kid. It may have been the music. I had to brace myself when I saw the copyright message as I knew what was coming lol.

[@davidgraham7029]

The logo from 2:30 is the one that is on my FA Cup Finals on BBC Video. Its on the 1953,1961,1964 and 1966 FA Cup Final VHS as well as the Cup Finals from 1970-1979 and 1981..The logo from 3:08 was used for the 1980 Final and from 1982-1988.. Phew!! Hope that narrows that down. Lol

[@victorhidalgoburgos8452]

Taken From Jimbo and The Jet-Set

[@MinecraftLover2007]

The TV Museum! You forgot the Watch With Mother version of the first logo.

[@MinecraftLover2007]

Hey what if there was a international version of the copyright stamp in a different language?

[@mrblobby7864]

I remember the intro at 4:10 on my Noddy Vhs! It sounds kind of creepy and ominous.

[@desireaiir3820]

Same

[@simonread8713]

Well, this IS the BBC we're talking about... (but, in all seriousness, I felt the same about it as a kid)

[@michaelweech6432]

I’m aware this is off-subject but that’s the ident used on all three 90s VHS releases of the Wallace and Gromit trilogy (‘A Grand Day Out’, ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and ‘A Close Shave’) [by the time said duo even existed, courtesy of animator Nick Park, the BBC had ditched / done away with the star logo ident, hence couldn’t have used the ident that people felt like crying to, when they hear the logo - at 2:45].

[@danielwilliamson6180]

0:00 Series 1 0:30 Series 2 0:56 Series 3 1:46 Series 4 2:31 Series 5 3:18 Series 6 4:10 Series 7 4:48 The 8th and Final Season.

[@SPGRepublic]

2:58 I love these sounds.

[@billyshearer117]

Wow. Wasn't aware of any of the jingles before 2:30

[@kirisuna19]

I quite like the one at 1:45!!

[@mrjonnieb24]

I've got to find out who wrote the 80s one. Sounds like Walter Carlos and Vangelis. Does anyone know who wrote perormed it because its brilliant

[@michaelhobbs3105]

The one I liked the most was the BBC Video theme with the golden spinning globe don’t know what year that was could have been still in the 80s when all the 80s shows were out on video. Tapes. The next BBC theme was during my birth years in the 90s up to the year 2000 and still video tapes and now this is today’s BBC theme that plays for the shows of today and some from the past on dvd instead of video. The other one I heard was the earlier 1 that played on the introduction to fireman Sam and postman pat.

[@michaelhobbs3105]

Sorry forgot to mention blue as well

[@george.mathieson2]

The Radiophonic Workshop music does me with that ident.

[@DemonBlue809]

4:10 This BBC logo ran from May 1988 to August 1998

[@thomashewitt2713]

2:30 and 2:46 i like that version

[@Cazkumali]

My fav is the globe one fromn 1988-1991 from 3:06-3:48

[@myristicina.]

Callum&Maddie1992 that one is so scary wtf

[@SukiCat85]

RarityMoon omg yes!!! It’s absolutely terrifying!! Scares the heck outta me

[@kaw203]

So many different theme versions on the first ones

[@lenmarfox2947]

You dui miss out the Watch with Mother Ident which goes from Colour to black and white and then the closing going from black and white back to colour.

[@Tomsonic41]

That globe logo at 3:23 looks very reminiscent of the BBC1 ident used in the 1980s. I wonder if they were generated by a similar system?

[@applemask]

Yes, it's literally the same thing.

[@justynandersonlfc1892]

Love them all but my favourite ident has to be the globe one🌍

[@kaw203]

3:09 has always been my favourite

[@sebastianfrost9969]

3:50 used after Tsunami Hazard and when difficulties occur in my brain

[@LovelyYT]

Its actually an old message that used to appear on VHS tapes to remind people to adjust the tracking if picture interference occurs because doing the following would fix it

[@himynameiswerty]

the globe one used to terrify me as a child

[@drawntoicehockey]

Augustus Sammons I was a kid when the one with the ribbons was in use, and that unsettled me slightly back then. Looking at the other ones now though, I’m scared of the globe one now not gonna lie😂

[@LucamacGuy]

I think that the music is quite chilled in the globe one, and not that scary. (I was a kid in the ribbon period)

[@myristicina.]

I’m scared of the globe one

[@ScoutSunset]

It makes me wonder why people were freaked out by the Ribbon/Stream logo.

[@SukiCat85]

Yes the globe one terrifies me too! Even now I can’t watch it.. The ribbon one to me isn’t scary at all, funny how these different things affect others

[@timdowns7937]

The one that starts at 2.31 was the music composed by Vangelis? I knew he had a studio in the UK at the time and was popular in the wake of Chariots of Fire.

[@andrewbuckley9180]

Great, love the one at 2:30 - any idea who wrote it? Was it from the Radioph0nic workshop?

[@ZeroStar-yt]

It was made by Peter Howell, the same bloke who composed the 1980's arrangement of the Doctor Who theme

[@LovelyYT]

@@ZeroStar-yt It sounds good but the closing variant scared me as a child

[@sbred6009]

1:44 bookmark

[@jaycee330]

2:30 This music and logo animation was also used for NBC video, I presume the same company did it both.

[@SkyziProductions]

That might be fake.

[@amalanwilliams]

makes me feel weird

[@myristicina.]

Alan Williams ikr and nostalgic at the ribbon one even though I never grew up with it

[@vladimircool1491]

Top 6 BBC Logos: 6. 1988-1991 5. 1991-1997 4. 1997-2009 3. 2009-2017 2. 2017- 1. 1981-1988

[@yoshihirogamer]

What's the name of the instrument? , I liked this part at 1:44

[@jojoolegario1690]

Brian May:This is the BBC

[@kirisuna19]

They do great work on docos and kids shows and all!!!!

[@jojoolegario1690]

Link OcarinaofTime1998 docos like doctors

[@kirisuna19]

@@jojoolegario1690 no like documentaries!!! Hehe!!!!

[@elliottp3751]

the last intro is my favorite. is't a clam intro and i really like it.

[@thekinglav1925]

Nice

[@padraicglynn2657]

The end variant at 2:46 sounds like trumpet music for the royal family

[@louiejonesponation]

4:39 I remember that warning and the ident from my Fimbles DVD.

[@adminguy1719]

2:45 BBC,Broke my head,Girl fish pee.

[@myristicina.]

L&K Challenges lmao

[@LovelyYT]

4:10

[@tenacious3911]

The plonky synthesiser pieces sound like they were composed for a full military band, if they'd used real instrumentation they might have had more staying power.

[@myristicina.]

Tenacious Barlow that one just screams 80s Uk

[@romanaii]

Happy times I remember spearhead from space first release

[@RobotsSharkTaleAndNIMH2Fan2005]

I like this ident 0:56

[@heene]

2:30 That's the one I remember when we rented tapes.

[@awesomeracer2007]

3:49 is my favorite.

[@bugbagel]

I saw the 1980 one on Postman Pat 1 VHS tape

[@lukegreen5341]

2:30 This Music Is Funky. Thanks Mate. X