Sunday 21st December 1980 - BBC2 - Midnight Cowboy - Walter Matthau - Christmas - Closedown - Rare

Sunday 21st December 1980 - BBC2
Channel: BBC2
Date: Sunday 21st December 1980
Time: 12.40am approx. (22nd December)
Continuity Announcer: Mike Gamble
• End of Midnight Cowboy
• Continuity: re. Walter Matthau films on BBC2 in Christmas week
• Continuity: Closedown

[@martoto77]

Lovely stuff. Listening to Closedowns now it’s as if you’re being left in some isolated post in Antarctica and you’ll have no further contact until spring.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Indeed so too

[@bobrew461]

If my memory is correct, BBC showed 2001 A Space Odyssey that christmas. Can anyone confirm this?

[@simonguitarman]

Seems like winter hill was having a bit of trouble

[@tv68uk]

If they'd just forked out for some black Letraset too, those captions on the slides would have been a bit more legible!

[@bobrew461]

They must be some of the worst films Mr Matthau made! No Odd Couple. Or Taking of Pelham 123. Or even Charlie Varrick? :-(

[@FromtheHerts81]

He seems like he was a very talented actor. I'll see if I can watch some of his better work in the New Year.