BBC Nationwide - Last edition for Frank Bough

3rd December 1982
Close of Look North, Nationwide - Hugh Scully & Frank Bough
Franks last day and the obligatory 'surprise' at the end.
Breakfast Time was 6 weeks away and within 9 months Nationwide had ended.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

RIP Michael Barratt 1928 - 2022, underrated perhaps but superb in a live context staying effortlessly in control at all times. Like all the best, he made it seem so easy.

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes he did-I remember him on Nationwide too. He was a good presenter for sure.

[@Dommer1973]

Great yeah, but not relevant as he isnt on this edition.

[@DBIVUK]

The late Harry Gration at the start.

[@speakfreeley4473]

R I P

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes when Nationwide ended in 1983 it was replaced by the short lived Sixty Minutes on BBC1 at the time. This was not really a comparison and viewers did not take to it so well. It ended in 1984 and in September that year
the Six O Clock News started followed by the Regional News; as it still is today of course.

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for the reply there which is much appreciated too.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

Thanks so much for this David

[@speakfreeley4473]

Before everyone found out what Frank Bough was really up to away from telly.🤣

[@stephenguppy8886]

And, according to Fern Britton, what he did AT his place of work. She said that when she was filling-in on Breakfast Time, he said it was a shame she didn't fancy him because he had, in his own words, " an enormous c*ck". So, like the rest of them, people at the BBC knew about "Uncle Frank". Nationwide finished less than a year later, to be replaced by Sixty Minutes, presented (initially) by Desmond Willcox, old Rancid's hubby. She set up Childline to protect more than the poor kids.

[@dlamiss]

@@stephenguppy8886 Pretty blunt but very true

[@brucedanton3669]

What like Jimmy Savile or not I wonder?

[@speakfreeley4473]

@@brucedanton3669 What Jimmy Savile did was vile. What Frank Bough did was hilarious, hence why he still allowed to pop up (in archive form) today.

[@brucedanton3669]

@@speakfreeley4473 Yes of course you are so right there-and I see what you mean too. Thank you for that!

[@Dommer1973]

Last item didnt age well

[@markofsaltburn]

The man in the blue jumper would benefit from a sports bra.

[@msimpson7910]

And the first sighting of Titchmarsh on a 'general' assignment film report? Great upload David. Many thanks. But what's the rap /drill music all about, around 17.30 in?

[@bdavebaldwin]

Unfortunately they stuck a bit of Jean Michel Jarre at that point. So it was let them dub it or cut it out.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

Is that a bit of beige carpet wrapped around the front edge of Frank’s desk ?

[@bdavebaldwin]

Probably hoped no one would think to record it.

[@bdavebaldwin]

Do you remember on the Thunderbird one take off sequence they thought no one would spot the lemon squeezer on the wall but....

[@archibaldchuff3557]

@@bdavebaldwin yes indeed, even as a child I spotted it all: Bough combovers, lemon squeezers, cheap fabric desk cladding. Some may have called me a ‘sad nerd’ but I prefer the term ‘enthusiastically over-attentive’.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

@@bdavebaldwin Thanks again for these videos of BBC past. A great celebration made available permanently in full on the net which I have really enjoyed reliving.