Southern Television - 'Weekend'. Fri 20.07.1979

[@DavidWilliams-km5xu]

Bless him. Trevor Baker.

[@TheBluechickens]

A fragment of In Vision Continuity from earlier the same evening (post 6pm) places Lesley Judd in the role of duty announcer

[@jhibberd6290]

Sarah Kennedy is the news reader

[@RobinCarmody]

The Tolpuddle rally has changed a lot and evolved into a huge festival - arguably what was happening politically at this point (and related events such as the massive strike that was about to take ITV off the air and accelerate the de-alignment between the working class and 'Old Labour') marked the death knell for what it had been until then. There is a plaque unveiled at the 1979 rally in Tolpuddle's Methodist chapel, but it is very much the outlier here as is inevitable in such a Tory region.

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Two cricket matches, Four village fete's and a steam train rally! Whoooaaarrrr! What a wild dangerous exciting and riveting time to be had at the weekend in the southern region in july 1979! I bet Sarah Kennedy was first in the queue to be let into them there village fete's!!!!

[@arthurnibble4763]

I remember seeing this or a similar program on Fridays evenings (after News At Ten?) in the 70's / 80's on Southern during the football season, when during the listings they'd mention the region's games in the Isthmian and Southern Leagues.

[@dmh872]

And I'm sure that the Troon mentioned at 1:52 in is the Troon near Camborne in Cornwall and not the one in Scotland.

[@christopherhulse8385]

What was Trevor the Weather doing reading out announcements?

[@garrysimpson1395]

Just before the ITV Strike. GOD BLESS!

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

This is why there was a strike, they were striking until the southern tv region agreed to be more exciting about their weekends and bank holiday!!

[@RobinCarmody]

No doubt that Portland open day and 'A Flea in Her Ear' were also plugged on Westward ... for the benefit of non-Portlanders (i.e. almost everyone ;-) ) the site of the then Naval Base is now the Sailing Academy which the world saw during the Olympics. One of many game-changing lager ads here and you do wonder whether "a tribute to private enterprise" is a coincidental line at this point. Christopher Robbie voices the two local ads, he must have been duty announcer that night.

[@christopherhulse8385]

Portlanders could get Westward and Southern in most places.

[@gottagothatsme]

Gosh. The theme tune for Weekend is just minging.

[@mikehumble1120]

Sarah Kennedy.... The thinking man's drunkard 👍

[@christopherhulse2041]

The intro music is awful.