Thames Television Ident History

[@andresacosta4832]

1:11 FINALLY! A Thames Logo History video with the rare 21st Anniversary logo!

[@christopherdrennan4947]

Everytime I hear the Thames Ident I think Rainbow is starting!

[@mrs.evelynkerr8799]

Hi there! I think that everyttime that I hear the Thames ident that I think of Benny Hill tv show.

[@jane1975]

@Christopher Drennan: Thames made so many things, its a shame it lost its franchise in 1992 and its also a shame that ITV is no longer regional, at least on screen anyway.

[@Elitist20]

Watching UK programs on Australian TV in the 70s and 80s (generally on the ABC) I remember this from Minder, The World at War (that was on Channel 9), Man About the House (which played with it), Kenny Everett, Rock Follies, Danger UXB among others. My wife says she was disappointed when she first went to the UK and found that all those London landmarks actually aren't that close together!

[@lukegreen5341]

0:39 The Thames Television Logo Is Also Appears At The Beginning Of The Very First Ever Episode Of Button Moon In 1980. X

[@evonne_]

So miss Thames TV. A part of my youth from the 1980s 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 Was so upset when it went.

[@97channel]

With hindsight, it's quite remarkable that a major TV station pretty much had only one ident for the best part of its 24 year reign. Sure, there's the odd variant here and there. It got remade every now and then to freshen the look of the recording. And it may seem like more when you watch them all together in this two minute compilation. But remember, this is the entirety of a quarter of a centuries worth of idents. To viewers of the day, Thames only had that one ident. But maybe that's all you need. One good sequence that stands as representative for everything the station offers. This has burned itself forever in the minds of a generation (or two) of viewers. What's more memorable, THE Thames ident or the bulging cluster of Channel 5 idents over the past two decade which have featured all kinds of action, motion and logo designs? Remembering a single one of them, vividly, is a strain. On the flip side, however, there's Central. At least four million sequences of the Cake ident, yet all fantastic and collectively memorable for the striking logo which formed in them all.

[@waffenbuckmodels8961]

The night-time version always gave me the creeps. Especially when I would be about 12-13 years old and staying up past 10pm to watch the late film...Blues Brothers or something similar.

[@michaelg1009]

0:01-1:10 best ones ever. Not from UK but Thames was part of my childhood. Count duckula, Mr bean, after Henry were all awesome. Thank you Thames from the bottom of my heart. Sad you are gone but will not be forgotten. #thamesliveson

[@paulanderson79]

Spot the change to duet horns when the first colour ident arrives

[@haileyshannon7548]

Hey Count Duckula and/or Benny Hill are starting!

[@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast]

Don't forget sooty that was made by Thames Television

[@haileyshannon7548]

I don't think that aired in the US!

[@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast]

Hailey Shannon it did in the 1950s on ABC

[@jane1975]

@ Hailey Shannon: Jamie and the Magic Torch, Rainbow, Cockleshell Bay ( pretty much anything by Cosgrove Hall ), Button Moon, The Sweeney, Never The Twain, Man About The House, Thames made tons of programmes in the 1970's and 1980's the most-I grew up with regional ITV, pity it all stopped.

[@DSDMovies]

Something nightmarish about all these for me, I guess it's to do with my age when I saw them. Early 80s ITV had a homemade, eerie quality. I might be imposing those feelings onto it as I was about 4 at the time. Imagine going from the Thames ident into early 80s World in Action, with the red vitruvian radar demon from Hell. And the smell of chips and ketchup. On a less mental note, I had completely forgotten about the later Thames ident with the dove and montage. And yet I see it and remember it. So it was locked away in there somewhere. Almost 100% chance I would have never thought of it ever again until I saw it here. How strange.

[@TallulahLaGhash]

+DSD Movies I feel the same. I was writing a blog post which referenced the 1980s version of the idents and I tried to describe the feeling of pleasure (knowing a TV show I would enjoy was about to come on) and also uneasiness...it is hard for me to explain, but yes, I found them nightmarish too..and I LOVE World in Action beginning for the same reasons!

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

DSDuddles ok glad I'm not the only one. ..

[@FishOnTwoWheels]

Thanks for sharing. Always preferred the earlier indents and not the latter jazzed up ones.

[@TheDEATHSTARIII]

I want this as a ring tone

[@benlockhurst3878]

you knew that after hearing the thames tv music there would be a decent programme to follow same as the lwt logo and theme

[@ravenhill-ofthe-pitchfork-1968]

did the tv series minder with dennis waterman used to start with Thames too?

[@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek]

Yes. A new series from Thames started, eventually, after the 1979 strike.

[@Baggieboy-zb8lw]

Bring back Thames Television on ITV

[@TumbleTower]

I remember the Thames ident that was shown at the start of network programmes outside the London region in the 1970s and 1980s very well. This is my written interpretation of its jingle (based on how it sounded to me): Gowng gowng geeng-er horng ut a norng

[@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast]

The next thing I hear when the Thames logo ends is Rainbow, Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, Jamie and the Magic Torch or The Sooty Show's opening themes

[@JasonRanford]

Happy Birthday ITV. Thames is the best ident ever!

[@TheropodHunter]

Always gives me the feeling Morecambe and Wise is about to start! :D

[@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek]

"Here they are now..."

[@zyawotha]

Why did they change the original music? reminded me so much of the benny hill show

[@qdog568]

The one at 40 seconds always came on before Benny Hill on channel 9, here in New York.

[@DJdefcon4]

Hated the transition to the 'Thames' new' modern era 1:11 - seemed my childhood had ended 1:04 for me lol

[@TheQuiet1]

Seconded.

[@Londonpitbulls]

Memories

[@watchtellyinuk]

Trying to figure out exactly which one I saw circa 1968-1976.

[@MrTartancam]

"You've just been watching the Thames Television symbol. Watch it again!"

[@sillyone52062]

The World at War.

[@SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk]

1:23 in so remins me of episode of one foot in the grave series 2 i beleave when margaret is standing in front of all the tvs, and ITv showing clips for Jeremy beadles Youve been framed, and has this logo on after Pigeion Street :)

[@dominewimbury2039]

Monday Morning Will Be Fine

[@philipkemp5725]

Stereo kicked in earlier than i thought.

[@williamwilliam9993]

thames itv

[@Voxac100b]

You forgot the Thames Morecambe and Wise indent

[@starbarrothschild6597]

how do I set this as my ringtone ?!

[@martinkelly6709]

Der, der, der, der, one's upside down.

[@imperatorvult]

Time for Count Duckula!

[@ieuantime3257]

The second one is scary.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

The one at 0.49 is my era

[@SillyCreatureSally]

We're off to Button Moon now XD

[@amirg1645]

My Great fetish to the greatest British TV series of my life…. my stronger memory is to Inspector Dalglish to come and solve some frightened Mysteries…

[@southlondon63]

I will always remember that tune before The Sweeney came on

[@Alexb9870YT]

ahh yes when they were on at night (if it was night in London) 0:53

[@kumogoresday3368]

Jaguar skills!!!!

[@whatonearth9809]

As soon I hear this it makes me think The World at War is starting!

[@matthewpayton]

Great I dents

[@bb3ca201]

I see this and then I expect Benny Hill to start

[@the-bhbtco.8763]

Stereo sound 0:38 to 0:45.

[@howardtommyelliottmickeymo5695]

like it

[@philipkemp5725]

Street Hawk!!!

[@salvadormarley]

The modern ones are crap compared to the originals

[@ruthagapov5284]

Don king

[@prnfl]

Bah no dates.

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Cue The Sweeney..

[@ruthagapov5284]

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