Central Adverts & Continuity | ITN News Report (King's Cross Fire) | 18th / 19th November 1987

[@ifaiful]

Omg, fresh King’s Cross fire footage! My father narrowly avoided this. And I’ve been obsessed with body 115, the last unknown victim.

[@dissonantdreams]

Interestingly, two of the three local businesses featured in Central’s “Business Break” are still in existence! (don’t know why I felt the need to google that in the first place tbh, but there you go)

[@naysmith5272]

your not alone in the google habit.

[@martoto77]

87 and 88 seemed to be cursed with disasters. Kings Cross, Hungerford, Enniskillen, Zeebruge, Piper Alpha, Clapham Junction, Lockerbie. Then Hillsbrough soon after.

[@loulou7963]

And earlier in the 80s we had the Bradford fire too

[@neilbethell2299]

Awesome, Had a Hinari Sunrise tv. Remember this night on tv but was watching the Granada Region.

[@druidswillow1052]

R.I.P to all the victims & injured in that tragic night and respect to all the emergency crews the haunted looks on the faces of the firefighters is something I've never forgotten🙏

[@applemask]

Lucky they didn't play any of the last track on that Pet Shop Boys album

[@ifaiful]

Oh hello Mathew, didn’t think this news flash would be up your street.

[@Blubatt]

Its quite a weird coincidence that ad aired just after that extended report

[@11carbuff19572011]

Tim Brooke-Taylor was disguised as the chicken in the advert for Hamlet Cigars, the outfit being a pantomime prop. Ros Landor was on the carphone in the advert for the Renault 25 car, she was Pru Standfast in the series C.A.T.S. Eyes, the spin-off that TVS produced from LWT's The Gentle Touch. Right, yeah. Allan Sherwin was the announcer, he joined Central Independent Television in 1987, even though there was a "Follows Shortly" slide shown it did lead into adverts and not that dreaded instrumental music accompanying.

[@ifaiful]

Bbc news also ended without music at least on the night after.

[@agfagaevart]

It's not Tim Brooke Taylor.

[@keithmartin1328]

Even the adverts back in the 1980s were better than today. No Injury lawyers for you, mis sold PPI etc.

[@loulou7963]

I agree. Nothing now except money money money