ITN News at Ten (1978)

[@ChrisATV301]

When we heard the ITN news at one signature tune it meant we had to get back to school & when we heard the ITN news at ten signature tune that meant get off to bed. It's school tomorrow lol

[@user-blaster_2012]

Thanks, a real gem when a news readers job was to sit in front of a desk to clearly and consicely tell the news - not like today where there's three of them sitting on a couch forming their own opinions among themselves. Modern news programs have turned half chat show.

[@richardfellingham3492]

Andy Hart 00

[@bmasters1981]

And here's IMO, a really well-done example from across the pond from you: ABC's World News Tonight from 1989, w/the great, late Peter Jennings reporting on the George Bush inauguration-- kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4jYfZmlf6imeZY

[@Dukes-nt1er]

yes....that and the stupid virtual studios...and computer graphics....and the so called newsreaders "ACTING"...at the camera..playing a character...like they ALL do now.......everyone wants to be a BLOODY CELEBRITY.....instead of just getting on with the bloody job.....WITHOUT the Theatricals..... they ALL bloody do it.....and it pisses me off to the point...i no longer watch ANY NEWS at all..

[@nottimhortons]

@Steven Universe I know I like being an oldie, but this just makes me cringe reading stuff like how virtual studios are so bad.

[@sillygoose635]

@Steven Universe so you'd rather be... robotic?

[@Housephonestimes4]

Loved 1978 to bits! I was eight years old. THE DAYS OF REDDIFUSION TV SETS!

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

Truly great days

[@apemoon1731]

I love the old News ar Ten music. It meant business.

[@djpeekay25]

Andrew Moore World in Action, Panorama, The London Programme and The South Bank Show also had good theme tunes

[@LionheartNh]

The world just didn't seem like it was so much up its own arse back then.

[@unohoncho7727]

Yep, everyone taking selfies and trying to get their own fame 'following' on social media, today's world is fucked

[@pigknickers2975]

Everyone has become self-conscious, self-aware, self-censoring.

[@ushoys]

Apparently you didn't listen to Reggie's news headlines.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@ushoys they're talking about how news is presented, not the content. They used to tell you the stories and let you make your own judgements. Now news programmes tell you how you should be feeling, reacting, thinking.

[@nottimhortons]

@@zacmumblethunder7466 Mostly in America.

[@g2macs]

News at Ten.. .. Dad gets up and puts kettle on, tea and toast for Mum before she heads up, Dog is back in and we settle down to watch the footie.. .. .. . what I would give to have those simple days back.

[@Realm-of-Horror]

Aaaah the unmistakable voice of Patrick Allan on the Capri ad. Provider of many a voice over back in the day. Also heard Richard Briers on the Stork ad.

[@BROADTRAIN1979]

I WANNA CRY SO MUCH I LOVED THE 70S BETTER THAN LIFE TODAY KEEP YOUR TECHNOLOGY.

[@chrishulse5305]

Proper news readers like Reginald Bosenquet.

[@mikeymc3094]

Chris Hulse Reggie Bosenquet, Sandy Gaul,Gordon Honycomb and who was the other guy? Don’t say Trevor Mac Donald

[@dionlindsay2]

Not really. He was drunk a lot of the time and sounded it.

[@Julia-hs7vh]

Michael Mc Andrew Gardener

[@mikeymc3094]

Julia Ha nice one Julia. That was wrecking my head since I put up the comment Thank you X

[@BaddaBigBoom]

01 to phone London ...ah the memories!

[@neilpower60]

Interesting to see how unpretentious and clear news was in the 1970s

[@Robert_Manners]

Yes studio days were much more serious back then, if you made a mistake you were treated in a manner where you new your peers were not impressed. Today everyone is to busy laughing and joking to even notice.

[@agfagaevart]

@@Robert_Manners Ol' boozy Bosanquet made quite a few mistakes, to which Anna Ford can testify.

[@JavertRA]

@@agfagaevart They made boozy, womanizing but erudite professional Henry Davenport a parody of Bosanquet in Drop the Dead Donkey..

[@montyf2165]

Exactly, read staring straight down the camera, no grimacing or head shaking. The Newsreader must be impartial.

[@pigknickers2975]

My dad used to always laugh at Mr Bosanquet but as a kid I never got the joke. It's hilarious! I get it now Dad!

[@johnking5174]

The best alcoholic newsreader ITN ever had.

[@narrowmindedrailworks]

Reginald Beaujolais

[@millionseller001]

loved the adverts..you were lucky to have a video in '78.

[@dominewimbury2039]

I miss 01 being our code here in London. I miss Thames and Rainbow as well. I miss my bloody childhood!

[@myutuber100]

You miss white London as well it will never be the same

[@vale-y1i]

This explains why I haven't been able to get hold of my Mum, despite calling her since 1990. Thanks!

[@StarsManny]

The London of your childhood doesn't exist any more...the sweeney, the professionals, even only fools and horses. That London has gone. When I see TV programs made in the London of the 70s, 80s and 90s it's actually quite a shock. It's like I'm looking into the distant past rather than a few decades ago.

[@binagarten4667]

@@myutuber100 The Genie is out of the bottle and will never go back in. Enoch and countelss others warned you and your luvies who lived in totally Englsih suburbs, just wanted more migrants, would come in digging thier gardens, plastering and painting at £1 per hour. They want the 3 punnets of corrinander for £1, the Chicken Tikka Massala, their son to marry the Indian female GP but woe betide if thier daughter dates the Indian Consultant! You have a big problem and this is why the Hindus, Sikhs have all gone home, or to NZ, Austrailia, Canada, USA. It will be Black and Muslim Britain and the BBC have tried to cover up the issues. Muslim Grooming gangs, Knife crife, most are black perpetrators. Just watch every ad has to have a black person. Oh what shame. Sure I got told to go home and I did! When I visit the UK every place has Mosque, all the meat is Halal. Cars parked everywhere. The only civilised people are the ones in the villages and they are not happy with it. But alas you allowed this! A nation of sheep beget a govt of Wolves and alas your now off to the slaughter house a Halal slaughter house!

[@crimsongunner2529]

40 years ago 1978 the year i started secondary school time just flys

[@alexandradane3672]

The wonderful , forever missed ,Reginald ( Reggie ) Bosanquet . A proper journalist editor, a highly respected diplomatic reporter and thence, news broadcaster of elegance , elan and intelligence . He raised the standards of news broadcasting in all manners. Nobody before him and decades later , still nobody to even come close to him. I still miss him to this day , decades later . I pity the public of today, so denied such excellence and as a man , he will continue to be missed by still many old friends , younger at the time , who are now themselves considerably older than he was when he died . Continue to RIP - you’re now very old friends will soon be there …… go and bag the table in the old favourite restaurant and prepare for a mighty lunch with hoots of laughter and discussion !

[@mikemartin2957]

Yes Reggie had a great sense of humour, even when Comics like Benny Hill & Mike Yarwood took the piss😁

[@Gannett2011]

6:03 "An astonishing and unwarranted slur" - didn't Reggie do that every time he read the news? Seriously, though, great TV, from the days when there were genuine characters on TV.

[@josephlandrut4154]

As Reginald would be about my age now we lost a great News at 10 presenter at a early age, which was most unfortunate for everyone who knew and loved him

[@thefurrybastard1964]

+Joseph Landrut My favourite newscaster.

[@rw8733]

And mine. Why did you go away?

[@Voxac100b]

Reggie was great and well liked

[@ToupeesAndWigs]

I always remember Reginald Bosanquet. And his wig. May they both rest in peace.

[@ToupeesAndWigs]

fifthof You could be right. Thanks!!

[@ToupeesAndWigs]

***** Did you know Andrew's wig has Brillo pad DNA in it.

[@ToupeesAndWigs]

***** Haha.

[@markstevenson7577]

Died on the same day as Eric Morcambe I believe.

[@timjohnson689]

Like going back in time. It was rather calmer.

[@JasonJason210]

I still lived in bubble back then. The world seemed a lighter. brighter and happier place. You could go on holiday without fear of getting blown-up, kidnapped or hijacked...even ride with the Captain on the flight-deck if you asked nicely . which I did on numerous occasions. It was a more innocent time.

[@lazycalm41]

I completely agree with you Jason, plus music was better & more diverse with proper musicians, our outdoor playtime as kids was simpler yet way more fun, electronics were mostly made in Japan & made to a standard & NOT shoddily made to a price in China! There were only 2 'rush hours' per day instead of the whole day being a traffic nightmare! & on Sundays you could drive anywhere & see only a handful of cars on the roads instead of the Sunday 'rush hour' we have today & the joy of pulling into a petrol station without having to join a queue first. & best of all rip off companies like 'Lawyers4you' & 'Injury Lawyers' as a whole did not exist & accidents were just that...an accident & not something to instantly blame someone else for & therefore claim flippin compensation for everything! It was a more innocent & far nicer time.

[@dawnfinch8873]

thats so true we were happier no mobiles internet or computet games.online dating used to go out with mates i think we had more fun

[@bluemooninn]

Did you not see what this news report was about though? Haha he literally mentioned terrorist attacks and plane hijackings

[@ajs41]

Yes but most of them were confined to places like Palestine.

[@agfagaevart]

@fifthof what utter nonsense: The 1970s were when hijackings were at their height! Entebee, springs to mind. Air travel was not as safe as it is today, despite the long queues we have now at security. "Society had yet to be split..." Really? What about the civil unrest that was going on? National Front marches? Strikes? Football hooliganism? The music WAS great! I'll agree with you on that. But there was some shite around too, but it could be avoided at least. Talk about rose-tinted...

[@clairemorgan]

FANTASTIC! Bonus with the adds

[@malcolmclements9254]

In 78 you could have three pints in the pub £1.08, a bag of nuts 12p, 50p in the slot machine at 2p a go, 20p return bus ticket to town, 50p in to the Locarno night club, 4 beers at 40p each, a game of pool 10p, and a hot dog on the way home 15p. So Saturday night was about £3,80 + a drink for any girl you may have met, if you won on the slot machine it was even better.

[@QuoPaperPlane]

Where was the Locarno you mentioned?

[@mjstefansson7466]

I remember that evening. I was in Pizza Express in Woking

[@tentringer4065]

Sitting next to that sweaty bloke?

[@TheWhitehall]

RB was the first TV newscaster who delivered the news that Elvis had died.

[@Goldi3loxrox]

I wish they made the Ford Capri now that still looks like the 70s one, they were so cool. I want a purple one .

[@custardo1]

I was a 70's kid and I thought 'Thames' was pronounced as it is spelt!

[@thesubtleface]

Wow, the lead story was so exciting!!

[@JasonJason210]

Again, watching this video - hard to believe how times have changed. Noticed in one of the adverts the Ford Capri. All our cars have gone, replaced by homogeneous, cheaply produced computer designed clones, that beep and flash annoying warnings at you if you don't what you're supposed to do. Our old British cars were like personalities... who can forget cars like the Triumph Dolomite, the Hillman Imp, the Maxi, the Wolseley 1300, the Land Rover series, Ford Cortina Mk II and Mk III, Morris Marina, and many more. All easy to repair to...DIY job most of the time. It's only forty years ago, but in that time, the Britain I knew and grew up in has gone...almost as if someone took it away. It's like we were denied the future we were promised.

[@DDandrums]

JasonJason210 Oh yes, what a great car the Morris Marina was(n't).

[@JasonJason210]

DDandrums It had the same engine as the Morris Minor. It was a simple engine but I could fix anything on it. Same with the rest of the car - everything was dead simple to fix. Most parts were generic, and it was the same with the Marina.

[@EricIrl]

Good job they were easy to repair - as they needed repairing... often.

[@yakacm]

I know what you mean Jason, my VW is so boring, the last one I had did 250'000 miles and didn't even need a clutch of exhaust, just started every morning for the 12 years I had it, no drama, nothing like the excitement of driving those old British cars you mention, when you would get in it in the morning with a rising sense of anticipation would it start or not, and if it started would it make it to where you wanted to go, I feel like I really missed out on all that, yes the poor people of today with their boring reliable cars, oh how they missed out of the fun of 70's motoring.

[@JasonJason210]

I think I prefer the old, unreliable 1970s, rather than the faceless, meaningless existence we live today. Your efficient car only serves to give you more to do in the same amount of time, instead of relaxing. Every "advancement" is like that. It's used to give us a competitive edge. Think about computers. Many people now spend most of their working lives glued to a computer screen. Life does not get easier. It gets more boring and repetitive.

[@Redtagheuer]

Fabulous !!! Keep up the great uploads. Find MORE from the 70's (particularly 1978). I love you man xxxx

[@787Speedbrakes]

When TV was great. Even the adverts!

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

If you look closely at his licence you'll see that the drink driver lives in Ipswich. Actually, based on the colour of the bus he missed and my local knowledge from living around there I think that's where the whole advert was filmed.

[@chrispearson3333]

Ipswich not far from me, out of interest I checked out the DVLA registration region of the cop car. No doubt it was a film company car as VD is the number plate ID for Lanarkshire, not Suffolk. Got time on my hands tonight. Great clips from a bygone age.

[@malcolmclements9254]

I was at that game at Villa.

[@lenafan492]

Oh, oh, oh Bosanquet, why did you go away?

[@johnmoore9862]

lena fan, Because he died far too young.

[@rw8733]

He was a proper newsreader.

[@garrywillits8025]

nostalgia means believing everything was better when you were young whereas the principle thing that was better was the fact you were young.

[@NeilVanceNeilVance]

Great quality video! ... I loved the ads here .. I remember that big white 22 Sq Ft block of polystyrene being shoved in the back of a Capri!

[@daviddwyer8272]

Times have changed. No doubt about it. Aston Villa in the quarter finals of the eufa cup, eh? It was a 2-2 draw if any-one is interested.

[@chrismacgregor9342]

Nope not interested lol

[@knownpleasures]

Only a few years later they won the European cup !

[@ardennite1]

Julian Haviland was a class act. Well-spoken, his diction was a joy to listen to. Can you imagine an Eton-and-Cambridge-educated, upper-middle-class reporter today ? Frankly, I'd prefer to see more of them on television rather than the foul-mouthed louts we are subjected to now.

[@DDandrums]

Silver Lady 925 Today's reporters are foul-mouthed louts? What the heck are you talking about?

[@ardennite1]

DDandrums I'm just using emotive language to register my disapproval of the rise in swearing and cursing in today's media, including on BBC Radio 4. Bill Grundy was sacked from Thames in 1976 for less than some of the words that are used on television and radio today.

[@DDandrums]

Alright, I'll let you off.

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

part of the closing credits of 'Send In The Girls' can be seen at the start of the clip. I know this because I have every single copy of the TV Times from 1978-80 on cd and, by looking at the Anglia edition of the magazine from February 25 that year, I was able to deduce that 1 March fell on a Wednesday.

[@PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts]

Wow! takes me back! Thank you!

[@squirehaggard4749]

I'm shocked! Where was the invitation for me to text in my vitally important opinions on the news stories? Where were the swirling background graphics?Why was the presenter not seated on a sofa?? Thanks for posting. Good ads. Was the fellow in the Stork margarine ad the same one who was on "Blake's 7"?

[@SSCFPA]

I think he was! I would have been 11 when this was aired.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@SSCFPA Michael Keating, AKA Villa Restal, sticky fingered space adventurer.

[@dharding5510]

And who won the Capris??

[@johnking5174]

Eric Morecambe did a great joke about Reggie - "I watch News at Ten. I like to bet on what colour Reggie's hair will change during the commercial break".

[@foxee36]

Plus not the nine o clock news song

[@dawnfinch8232]

Thankyou for the memories

[@simonlilley]

Philip Elsmore the continuity announcer for Thames. Them was the days

[@mickeydodds1]

The Gentleman's Gentleman.

[@RobinCarmody]

The sight and sound of the post-war consensus unravelling ... And with ads like that, can we really be surprised that Mac Markets went under the following year? Elsmore in godlike form here, btw.

[@malcolmclements9254]

I was earning £35 a week in 78 for my main job (40 hours) and £14 take home for a 15 hour weekly bar job which was average money. A pint of beer was 36p so £3000 for that Capri was equ £27,000 in today's money.

[@antonhaq3503]

There's a funny bit in John Lydon's biography where he recalls being a shop assistant and Reggie came in to buy a skin tight rubber top.

[@skinnygrave2487]

@vtrevlyn39 In Steve Jones's autobiography he says Reg would read the news wearing rubber pants, and a wink to the camera would be directed at Jordan the SEX shop assistant to let her know he had them on.

[@rw8733]

Don't disrespect Reggie. 😃

[@tracyaustin829]

I was 4 months old when this was on

[@mu9cephei]

Russell Kerr was my MP when this was recorded - thanks for posting!

[@theresapierce3934]

Britain was a nice country back then. We did have problems, but people in general got on ok.

[@rw8733]

I am 13 again!! 😂 And I still want that Ford Capri.

[@talcy]

Spotted at 2.27. Vila (Michael Keating) from Blake's 7 and Dot Cotton's vicar.

[@deepindercheema]

Vila from Blakes 7! 2:32

[@kengeorgejones6855]

+deepinder cheema Looking kind of hot...

[@Robert_Manners]

Yes getting the role in Blakes 7 was a breakthrough for him.

[@garethglitter5932]

Don't eat that stork! It's been drugged by the Federation !

[@dark3879]

awe no dumbing down and to the point news

[@dark3879]

ive miss that type of news

[@ajs41]

Did you see ITN's News at Ten from a couple of days ago reporting the bridge collapse in Italy? Absolutely dreadful, like something off Alan Partridge. Even Newsround used to be at a higher level by comparison.

[@robertgay7876]

Those were the day's. .Down the pub, chippy and top of the pops.

[@JasonJason210]

Pubs have virtually vanished. Saturday night's in my home time used to be full of people walking around...going from one pub to another, or going to the night club etc. Now the streets are dead at weekends, the pubs have all but gone, and all the youngsters meet in places like cafés or at the gym in the day instead.

[@richardfellingham3492]

JasonJason210 00

[@ajs41]

There are still lots of pubs in my area but most of them have a crap atmosphere. I've never smoked myself but I think smoking used to give pubs a nice atmosphere in some ways. I say that as someone with asthma.

[@robertoc2485]

That's it in an nutshell. None of this Mobile phone Facebook shite.

[@apemoon1731]

@george he didn't rape me or any of my mates.

[@thevibesss7831]

1978 had my first jump good days

[@TheMasterNo6]

Reggie Bosanquet was an old soak - well known for it, so was Sandy Gall. Reggie also wore a wig and was inspiration for one of the main characters in Drop The Dead Donkey. My parents liked him as a newscaster.

[@Loverboy19691]

tuesday 16th of August 1977 i watched news at ten with my family in wales and i saw reginald bosanquet say that they think that elvis presley has died, and that they would tall us more after the break, when they returned after the ads he confirmed that elvis had indeed died, i wonder if anyone else remembers that!

[@skozra]

Awesome Capri advert :)

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Love old adverts.

[@slobodanreka1088]

Now THIS was a decade. Clip begins with a woman flicking a V at a wrestler, moves on to a Ford Capri ad that boasts it can do 119 mph.... Love it.

[@tinahardman9805]

Anyone got a time machine? Is it only me who wants to go back to the 70's. Wouldn't be a kid today for anything. Love Reggie, no characters like him today, bland , self absorbed, opinionated news personnel. (They wouldn't call themselves news readers today.)

[@MightySouthpaw]

thanks for uploading! Cheers pal.

[@foxee36]

Oh Bosenquet!,why did you go away!

[@DopravniPoradce]

I'm here because of Not the 9 O'clock news and i can't help but laugh. 😂 Thank you very much for this upload.

[@weaksauceremy]

Wow my mum was 10 when this was on TEN

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

I was 14. Thanks for making me feel so old!

[@CalvinistBriton]

According to the TV Times listings for 1 March 1978, Send In The Girls is the programme before News At Ten.

[@malcolmclements9254]

Good old Reginald Bosinquet.

[@TheWillsy]

Mr Elsmore once again on duty.

[@martyw34]

Takes me back.Great.Ta.

[@darren2514fv]

was there a Party Political Broadcast on that night hence the 10.15 start of News At Ten and the Send In The Girls episode starting at 9.15

[@alanbain7471]

Yes. By the Labour Party. Quite why is was shown the day before a by election (Ilford N) is a mystery but Thatcher's Tories still won it.

[@darren2514fv]

Another By-election lost by the Callaghan Labour government

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@darren2514fv I reckon Callaghan was a secret Thatcherite, buggering the country up so she'd get elected.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Was that old whassiname from Blake's seven in that Stork SB ad?

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Michael Keating (just Googled)

[@roddale8412]

Yes, definitely was Michael Keating.

[@garrysimpson1395]

In the days when ALL Football was highlights only but free!

[@peterbrown6434]

Time Machine anybody?

[@DN21Media]

Vila from Blakes' 7 in the Stork ad!

[@darganx]

Ah, the mighty Reggie Bosanquet. Always seemed like he had a bottle of whisky and a page 3 girl under his desk

[@Sunrise-qo2df]

Great video , upload more please

[@carlh429]

1st March 1978

[@FCWatford1]

Recorded football and UEFA Cup football at that - how grim and depressing it was! No wonder a Winter of Discontent followed?

[@MrJacMac1968]

Vila Restal from Blakes 7 at 2:23

[@AlexAlexon3897]

I reckon that Comfort advert was voiced by Alexis Korner.

[@MisterBeauJanGels]

At the very beginning, one of the stills appears to be of Brian Crabtree standing over Giant Haystacks. I understand that ITN aired wrestling at the time but have no clue as to the context of that particular clip.

[@squeakeroo1]

I'm buying the Daily Express tomorrow.. Now I know the answers I'm bound to win that Ford Craprie.

[@HayamWaruk]

Wow! A Brand new Ford Carpi for under 3 grand? LOL!

[@agfagaevart]

John Spartan The average wage was between £6,000 - £7,000 in 1981. Not sure if that was good value TBH. Now its about £20,000. What car can you buy now for 10 grand?

[@explorer806]

00:56 "Safe, predictable handling". Capri. :)

[@Robert_Manners]

@@agfagaevart in 1978 £3500 - £4000 was an average years pay. With strikes & inflation you can see how quickly wages jumped by the early 1980's.

[@bluerubyshadow]

how tf did y'all have cars under 10,000 in the 70/80s idc what currency yall use

[@paulcrombie9623]

Great car the Capri, wonder why it went out of production and not to continue with technology?

[@anthonyperkins7556]

It suffered a steady decline in sales and began to look dated against other high performance cars that were better i.e Volkswagen's stonking Golf GTI and Ford's Escort XR3/XR3i, Fiesta XR2, Sierra XR4x4 / XR4x4i and others.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Very convincing toupee Reggie has on there. Wish I had it.

[@cfntl2629]

The comfort advert feels nice. Although then again it is one of the only adverts back then that was completely videotaped

[@Earhairy]

"The comfort advert feels nice." Voiceover done by Alexis Korner.

[@radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 4:54 To 6:26, It Was ITN-TV's ITN News At 10 Video Open From Wednesday Night, March 1, 1978.

[@daviddingvean8597]

He.s half pissed

[@mylomather3]

£3000 for a Capri was a great amount of money then (still is) new UK built cars were very dear until the rust bucket Datsuns came along I bought my 1st house the year after a semi for £11.700 Which means average semi today 2012 around 140.000 would equate house to car ratio in 1978 @ roughly 1/4 of the house price. So today a new Ford Capri would cost 35k lol Also there was 3 month waiting list for new cars! I know as we bought a new 1.6 white Capri with fully GRASS GREEN coulor interior!

[@RozhyarRashid09]

This News at Ten Intro in this video, in Night Intro was 23rd September 1974

[@weallmakechoices7456]

THE beautiful speaking voices and diction of RP.

[@sallysmith1484]

Great days.

[@kresblain]

@radiodj1520 Video is right! After seeing the standard version at the TV Ark website, you can tell on this clip here that ITN's alternate version of the News at Ten intro was not only chyroned titles, but accompanying still graphic pans as well. I wonder if there were other time-specific variants like the quarter-past edition shown here..

[@malcolmclements9254]

Great stuff.

[@World-Superbike]

It looks like they had a ball making the Ford Capri advert! Damn you Health and Safety!

[@BaddaBigBoom]

That guy in the Stork marge advert looks like Vila from Blakes 7 ! (?)

[@richardsharpe2966]

Well remember Reginald Bosanquet who people used to say was always a bit drunk when doing the news infact is that Reggie like myself suffered from a mild form of epilepsy

[@dunebasher1971]

This could have been VHS, Beta or Philips 1500/1700. All were available in 1978. And home recordings from the early 70s or even late 60s aren't all that rare either.

[@JackLongbridge]

4:53 That has to be the worst of all the NAT intros. That cardboard cutout of Big Ben at the end there is a joke. It looks like it's about to fall down.

[@johnking5174]

If this was a cardboard cut out of Big Ben, then how is it that time on Big Ben's clockface is not at 10pm? When News at Ten was pushed later in the schedules due to sport etc, the clock face always showed the exact time when the bulletin aired, so here we have it at 10.13pm. Does this mean they had cut outs of the clock face for all the times after 10pm in case they were late?

[@mikeauld7971]

Think its the other way round - this sequence looks more like live shots put together rather than any cardboard, whereas the classic intro is using a rostrum shot zoom into Big Ben. At least in a matter of months, they did seem to have thought this through enough in the updated sequence to have some overtime ones ready, see this one from 1979: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aamypqOamLiSr80