The Anglia production we see finishing is an ITV Playhouse called 'St Vitus' Dance' starring Brian Blessed. 'Murder at the Wedding' turns out to be a rare excursion into drama by HTV - anyone know the announcer heard tagging the promo?
This is from Tuesday 10th July 1979 - a month before ITV was pulled off the air in a strike as important in British history as any the previous winter.
Oil of Ulay, not Oil of Olay. I don't know why they changed the name, unless they thought matadors needed moisturising. Ah, the days before predictive text.
Ignore John's poor trolling, the actual reason why is that Granada Television's first chairman - Sidney Bernstein - considered the viewer being able to see mere operatives like continuity announcers and for the continuity announcer to inject even a little bit of personality as "cheapening" his station in the eyes of the viewer. He left Granada Television in 1976, but it took a few years for continuity announcers to begin to appear in-vision on Granada and for them to appear a little more relaxed and not as "stiff-upper-lip" as they had been previously. Some (like Colin Weston, Jim Pope and Charles Foster) took to it like a duck, whereas others (e.g. Graham James) still reserved any personality and joviality for being away from the announcer's microphone. From the available evidence, IVC was definitely in place on Granada by the end of 1980.
@@stickytapenrust6869 We could get a fuzzy version if Granada because we were in the border of two regions and it always seemed to be Colin Weston announcing. I hope he got an attendance bonus.
@Feisty1967 knowing posh people at the time, I doubt they'd have watched ITV much even though it was already 25 years since "their" party had brought it into being ... there's something else Thatcher was to change
The cornflakes jingle has been stuck in the heads of millions for thirty-odd years - but dammit I still can't make out a word in the penultimate line! "It's (something) to start with Kelloggs Corn Flakes". I used to think the word was "about" - it's obviously not, but what is it?
@@zacmumblethunder7466 No, I meant the one who tried to clean up the economic mess that was a result of 30 years of complacency after the end of WW2. Blair and Cameron did far more damage than her and without good reason.
@@JasonJason210 Well, as my main local industry (which had never had poor industrial relations) was reduced from employing 40,000 to under 10,000 by her economic policies, with the consequent loss of uncounted jobs dependent on it, we'll just have to agree to disagree about her if you are a fan of hers. But not on Blair & Cameron, they should both be tried for treason for what they did. I'd put Callaghan on a par with them, but with him it was sheer idiocy rather than political chicanery.
@@zacmumblethunder7466. I'm not a fan of hers at all because she went too far, but I think one has to recognise that when she took office, Britain's industry and economy was wrecked and unsustainable. You only need to look at the Clyde shipping industry in the 1960s and 1970s to understand the problems this country was faced with at that time.
The days when ITV was quality
I remember that Kelloggs cornflakes advert well, I shook the cornflakes packet the same at home and my mom went mad saying I had broken them all!
The Anglia production we see finishing is an ITV Playhouse called 'St Vitus' Dance' starring Brian Blessed. 'Murder at the Wedding' turns out to be a rare excursion into drama by HTV - anyone know the announcer heard tagging the promo?
I think so many uses of the word 'bloody' might've shocked a few TV viewers back in 1979.
I remember the Lyons maid gold seal ah happy days I was 19
This is from Tuesday 10th July 1979 - a month before ITV was pulled off the air in a strike as important in British history as any the previous winter.
I THINK that's LISA HARROW in the Oil of Ulay ad. Life was better then. 1979 - what a great year.
I think it is. An actress who could be recognised by her cheekbones alone.
Was wondering who that hot as hell lass was just now!
I remember the corn flakes advert.....yes, I am that old
In This Clip, From 5:27 To 6:37, It Was ITN-TV's ITN News At 10 Video Open From Tuesday Night, July 10, 1979.
sure?
When news at ten came on, my dad would say to us kids time for bed, and my god you went fast lol
bedtime was nine o'clock until i was sixteen
same here. i would go real quiet cause the music would always remind him i should be in bed.
One of the last news bullitians before the 13 week ITV Strike
Great Video Great programme
Garry, on the day ITV went on strike viewers didn't like early cut offs to News at Ten.
Malcolm brown announcing from Manchester.
dId garnada do invision continuity in 1970's
Great adverts.
IRON
TOO
Must have eaten cornflakes a thousand times in my lifetime. They never crunched that loud! Even if they had IRON TOO!
Those big ben chimes strike my heart the gloom of... it's bed time soon ... it's bed time soon...
The thumbnail reminds of Simon Bates' VSC warnings.
Oil of Ulay, not Oil of Olay. I don't know why they changed the name, unless they thought matadors needed moisturising.
Ah, the days before predictive text.
Did Robert Powell do VO for every ad in 1979?
Yes.
Blime I was only 6 at the time but I remember the ELS ad and when continuity annoucers announced behind the Granada ident!
Ignore John's poor trolling, the actual reason why is that Granada Television's first chairman - Sidney Bernstein - considered the viewer being able to see mere operatives like continuity announcers and for the continuity announcer to inject even a little bit of personality as "cheapening" his station in the eyes of the viewer. He left Granada Television in 1976, but it took a few years for continuity announcers to begin to appear in-vision on Granada and for them to appear a little more relaxed and not as "stiff-upper-lip" as they had been previously. Some (like Colin Weston, Jim Pope and Charles Foster) took to it like a duck, whereas others (e.g. Graham James) still reserved any personality and joviality for being away from the announcer's microphone.
From the available evidence, IVC was definitely in place on Granada by the end of 1980.
@@stickytapenrust6869 We could get a fuzzy version if Granada because we were in the border of two regions and it always seemed to be Colin Weston announcing. I hope he got an attendance bonus.
@Feisty1967 knowing posh people at the time, I doubt they'd have watched ITV much even though it was already 25 years since "their" party had brought it into being ... there's something else Thatcher was to change
Is William there? No but you're clearly behind the 'wall' on the set - we can hear you!
The cornflakes jingle has been stuck in the heads of millions for thirty-odd years - but dammit I still can't make out a word in the penultimate line!
"It's (something) to start with Kelloggs Corn Flakes". I used to think the word was "about" - it's obviously not, but what is it?
It's smart to start with Kelloggs Corn Flakes
@@xboxgamer7453 How come I can remember this jingle but can't remember where my good pliers are?
The adverts look so deteriorated
Bloody hell ELS remember them? Great TV this, would love to go back shocking in UK today, bastard country is finished better times then. SIGH!
Yes, and we thought Thatcher was bad!
@@JasonJason210 You don't mean Saint Margaret do you? Patron saint of factory closures, social care cuts and bogus patriotism.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 No, I meant the one who tried to clean up the economic mess that was a result of 30 years of complacency after the end of WW2. Blair and Cameron did far more damage than her and without good reason.
@@JasonJason210 Well, as my main local industry (which had never had poor industrial relations) was reduced from employing 40,000 to under 10,000 by her economic policies, with the consequent loss of uncounted jobs dependent on it, we'll just have to agree to disagree about her if you are a fan of hers.
But not on Blair & Cameron, they should both be tried for treason for what they did. I'd put Callaghan on a par with them, but with him it was sheer idiocy rather than political chicanery.
@@zacmumblethunder7466. I'm not a fan of hers at all because she went too far, but I think one has to recognise that when she took office, Britain's industry and economy was wrecked and unsustainable. You only need to look at the Clyde shipping industry in the 1960s and 1970s to understand the problems this country was faced with at that time.
I remember the oil of ulay adverts.
My mum and her friends used to use it and it used to think, 'Well that clearly doesn't work.'
Not a token or any woke propaganda in sight. Bliss.
Ah, the Cooperative Retail Society - a pity that their grasp of geography wasn't as sharp as their pricing!
I thought "Blimey the sea had moved a lot inland between this clip and when I went to Flint.
The beginnings of Thatcherism after the Winter of Discontent.
All went downhill from there. Cameron was worse though.
Wow, white people on TV adverts.