Thames Closedown - 2/4/1986

VHS recording from a Wednesday in 1986 starts with the final moments of 'Night Thoughts' followed by the weather.
Then, in vision, Thames announcer Tom Edwards goes through Thursday's programme highlights.
What follows are two slides with details of Thursday evenings programmes accompanied by music.
Finally the Thames 'Good night' clock wipes on with the time coming up to 12:22am. As it fades to black we get a final message from Tom Edwards reminding us to switch off our television sets. Those were the days!

[@PinkFloydFan74]

Amazing quality for a VHS tape of it's age.

[@MrScamman]

These were repeats of The A-Team on Thursday nights.

[@olliedann]

Thanks for the date. Much appreciated.

[@Slay33D]

Professional while being friendly. Good programming all the time. News you want to hear, instead of hearing that Liverpool's superbanana thing is being built everywhere. Regional identity. That was the old ITV. As I live in Liverpool, I have to receive transmissions from that abomination of mankind we know as Granada. Once, they were good with good news and sports coverage. Now, they control the whole network and show nothing but celebrity crap. Thanks Granada(!)

[@Timothy-San]

VHS recording from a Wednesday in 1986 starts with the final moments of 'Night Thoughts' followed by the weather.Then, in vision, Thames announcer Tom Edwards goes through Thursday's programme highlights.What follows are two slides with details of Thursday evenings programmes accompanied by musicThe Thames 'Good night' clock wipes on with the time coming up to 12:22am. As it fades to black the National Anthem plays, and we get a final message from Tom Edwards reminding us to switch off our television sets. Those were the days!

[@RobinCarmody]

Tom Edwards of course always referred, as here, to Good Morning Britain as "Good Morning Great Britain".

[@olliedann]

The good old days.

[@robster773]

The Closedown Music featured, Anglia used on mainly Breakdown captions too

[@robertcomer2767]

Cyril McGregor! Absolute class

[@djonshore]

Channel 5 didn't launch till Easter Sunday, March 30, 1997 and was 24 hrs from launch.

[@rajnirvan3336]

I remember when The A Team was on Thursday once. Proper days of real shows and decent announcers Tom Edwards, Peter Marshall and Philip Elsmore legends

[@pjgathergood6987]

They were, Thames ran some second season repeats of the series on Thursdays for a while.

[@brucedanton3669]

@@pjgathergood6987 I guess when it was not being shown by LWT then at the time of course so too?

[@up-to-eleven]

@@brucedanton3669 Nope, the LWT run had taken a break for a few months - though when the final LWT repeat had been broadcast in the previous run, Thames did show an episode that very Thursday. London did get a bit of a raw deal with the series, skipping the first season re-run that most of the other ITV all took.

[@brucedanton3669]

@@up-to-eleven I see there of course too. I know I did not see it at the time, but I remember seeing it shown in the TV Times in the 1980s at the time. I know with it being American it was one of those series I guess as you say which was shown around the regions at the time. I guess also other series were Magnum; The Fall Guy; TJ Hooker; Chips; Quincy; Knight Rider; to name but a few there. I know the BBC did much the same too with series such as The Dukes of Hazzard and so on too. But as you say most of the other ITV areas did show it then even if London did not?

[@daManDRAK]

haha .. the good old days!! ... i was 3or4-years old then. Its funny, I live-with / work-for an 80year-old, from a rural area ... he's a cool guy, but finds it shocking that anyone would be awake past midnight!! Let-alone havin a drink, shagging, or surfing the net!! LOL

[@unicentre6967]

you can't really say that bbc1 is 24 hour tv,it just links up to their news24 channel in the early hours

[@JHollowayNetwork]

I think this might be 2nd April 1986.

[@jrdavis1992]

What was the name of the music I am hearing in this video? I'd like to download an MP3 of it.

[@olliedann]

Perhaps Rillington2000 meant 1998?

[@Gallowaywind]

Can someone tell me when Emmerdale moved from 5.15pm ON Thames to 7pm slot?

[@brucedanton3669]

Sadly I have no idea there on that one so too?

[@GMIKI96]

Where's the Benny Hill show?

[@Scatscar1985]

"The A-Team" on THAMES?

[@hf6150]

A show called "Six Centuries of Verse"/I'm surprised wasn't paid from the BBC purse.

[@raykatlauskas9272]

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