I remember this so vividly, I was 10. Within a beat of the black screen turning into the BBC2 ident, my mother said “Queen Mother’s gone, then”. I recall being seriously spooked at the time!
@@iVenge I'm genuinely interested in how it looks, especially given how lacking in suitable idents BBC One seem to be now. Given Philip's age, it surely has to be coming in the next few years?
I remember this vividly. As soon as the picture faded out I knew straight away what it was going to be. I turned to my friend and said I bet they’re going to be announcing the death of the queen mother. Every time I see this episode of Steptoe I keep expecting the picture to fade out.
Funny they cut off at the point where they said "well if you don't open it nobody will know will they" and now nobody will because the rest of the programme will not be shown.
In this case BBC2 had already faded out when the newsroom said they weren't ready, so BBC1 - who hadn't - didn't fade out until they were. What's absolutely remarkable in retrospect is that ITV didn't go first. They were literally in a bulletin at the time! Perhaps that actually slowed them down, although it wasn't for obviously unsuitable clothing - Mary Nightingale, on duty that night, was in a grey suit.
@@matt785 It was indeed. A very early Easter Saturday at that (early enough that Prince Charles was on a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps at the time!), so presumably you'd have ended term on the Thursday. (I was 15 then; this was my GCSE year, might be why I don't have any strong memories of this news breaking!)
I have to wonder how many just switched over to any other channel as soon as the screen went black, just to see if there was anything wrong with their telly.
I love how for most of the vid, they show a screenshot of the Bounce ident, with absolute silence. I’d have had the slow national anthem play, then cut to the news.
Wow. This brings back a memory that has always stuck with me. Was with my mam and I'm pretty sure some mothers do av them was supposed to be on after steptoe. We had waited hours for it to come on. It was before we had sky and only had the 4 channels. And when it went on the screen for ages my mam said the queen or the queen mothers died. I remember the feeling cause i was only 9 I felt a weird emotion.
The idea of something being so important, everytime it happens alot of people fear nuclear war may have started, that's what scares people nowadays, it's a big reason why they don't do many newsflashes in the uk anymore as it scares hundreds of thousands of people
Totally agree, scared me at the time too. Everything went through my mind during those four minutes, alien invasion, nuclear war, infact when they did finally tell us, of course it was very sad but I remember feeling a sense of relief that it wasn't any of those things.
4:46 This is BBC Television News. Buckingham Palace has just announced the death of the Queen Mother. In a statement, the palace said "The Queen Mother has died". BBC Television is broadcasting this special programme reporting the Queen Mother's death.
@@bobettepancakes And her husband's even older (and looks it). I've been waiting out of curiosity for how the continuity will look when it happens for years. I'm genuinely amazed the closest we've come to finding out in recent years was that car crash Philip was in.
@@AJS_117 And the continuity was every bit as eerie and fascinating as I thought, maybe moreso - the special introduction, the return of the static Family idents, and this year's weird edge case was BBC Two *actually* getting the news before One this time due to the News Channel simulcast, only for One to get it two minutes later with Martine now black-cardiganed and acting as her own continuity announcer.
Chris Henniker They couldn't. The BBC One director was about to also fade out when News said they weren't ready to start yet and agreed a new on-air time 4 minutes later. Unfortunately BBC Two had already just gone and had no choice but to wait.
It's kind of remarkable that ITV didn't break the news first given that delay, seeing as _they were literally in the middle of a regular news bulletin at the time_. Impossible to imagine anything other than half the country finding out what had happened in those few minutes via online announcements if this scenario played out in 2018.
@@Nogli Na..The Beeb and ITV will report it as soon as Buckingham Palace allow them to do so. They will have rehearsed what to say and what to show in terms of tributes etc when it happens. When Di was killed it was different as the news caught everyone on the hop. But its more than likely that Phillip will go first.
the question isn't what _happened_ but what _happens_ on cbbc and it's a darn good one. Given, though, that all BBC channels will interrupt their program you'd expect cbbc to do the same but then again, that's not exactly something that should be on a kids' channel. Maybe they have a special kind of program which is kid friendly which will air...
What’s the show at the start I can remember it because I used to watch it when I was younger I’ve just forgot the show name because I haven’t watched it in years
BBC Choice existed (BBC Three in all but name). Doesn't matter, because it wouldn't be on air until 7pm anyway. CBBC would have been live, maybe they went to Newsround or flashed up a caption. Cbeebies likely wouldn't do anything (maybe the caption).
CBeebies protocol is to do nothing as far as I can tell. Everything on it is pre-recorded days in advance unlike CBBC which is live. If they do decide to interrupt the only thing they would be able to do is place a caption on screen. But it wouldn't surprise me if they change the schedule over the next few days afterwards. For Remembrance Sunday (think Veterans day) they ran a short 5 minute cartoon that explained war and death ua-cam.com/video/pv_ub7Be7oA/v-deo.html. They might have something like that for a royal death.
BBC Three obviously didn't exist until February 2003, but even if it did, it wouldn't start until 7pm. CBBC probably would have cut to Newsround, Cbeebies probably either just put up a caption or continued to run. BBC Four would have been on at 7pm, BBC One and BBC Two interrupted their programming and went to the news and News 24 would have not been affected, since it's always live and it would have cut straight to the news, just more seamlessly.
I remember this so vividly, I was 10. Within a beat of the black screen turning into the BBC2 ident, my mother said “Queen Mother’s gone, then”. I recall being seriously spooked at the time!
Carlotta V This ident card and the quietness is what is flipping creepy to me!
Same as a 8 year old, it was shocking and I remember having prayers for the Queen Mother at school.
I was just over a month old!
I dread the next time this happens.
@@iVenge I'm genuinely interested in how it looks, especially given how lacking in suitable idents BBC One seem to be now. Given Philip's age, it surely has to be coming in the next few years?
I remember this vividly. As soon as the picture faded out I knew straight away what it was going to be. I turned to my friend and said I bet they’re going to be announcing the death of the queen mother. Every time I see this episode of Steptoe I keep expecting the picture to fade out.
This interruption was quite lame
"On BBC One now, an important announcement is being made, while here on BBC Two, me telling you this."
For anyone wondering, the episode of Steptoe & Son interrupted here was shown again in full later that year.
Thank God
Funny they cut off at the point where they said "well if you don't open it nobody will know will they" and now nobody will because the rest of the programme will not be shown.
I remember being so annoyed they cut off and was hoping the episode was going to resume.
Incase you are wondering who was knocking on the door, it was the local vicar.
@@stewartlynch7859 🤣🤣🤣
@@stewartlynch7859 Was he on the ear ‘ole again? 😄
@@mikeyjones9449 Did it resumed?
Do they not realise, by the time they get the BBC1 simulcast on air, everyone will have already gone to BBC1 to watch it?
Erm no the news report at 4:47 happened the same time as BBC 1, that’s why it’s called a simulcast 🤷🏻♂️
In this case BBC2 had already faded out when the newsroom said they weren't ready, so BBC1 - who hadn't - didn't fade out until they were.
What's absolutely remarkable in retrospect is that ITV didn't go first. They were literally in a bulletin at the time! Perhaps that actually slowed them down, although it wasn't for obviously unsuitable clothing - Mary Nightingale, on duty that night, was in a grey suit.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old and I thought the TV had broke.
Wow, I was 11 now 28 remember my mum telling me after she watched it, me and my sister came in from playing outside
@@matt785 It was indeed. A very early Easter Saturday at that (early enough that Prince Charles was on a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps at the time!), so presumably you'd have ended term on the Thursday.
(I was 15 then; this was my GCSE year, might be why I don't have any strong memories of this news breaking!)
For nearly 5 minutes do we have sit through a yellow screen with the number 2 on its side at the left.
Her daughter has now passed :(
I am pretty sure every living person with internet access is aware
@@Altoclarinets Seda, this was posted 1 minute exactly it occured so respectfully bugger off
I remember this day very well was watching when interrupted
I have to wonder how many just switched over to any other channel as soon as the screen went black, just to see if there was anything wrong with their telly.
I love how for most of the vid, they show a screenshot of the Bounce ident, with absolute silence. I’d have had the slow national anthem play, then cut to the news.
Wow. This brings back a memory that has always stuck with me. Was with my mam and I'm pretty sure some mothers do av them was supposed to be on after steptoe. We had waited hours for it to come on. It was before we had sky and only had the 4 channels. And when it went on the screen for ages my mam said the queen or the queen mothers died. I remember the feeling cause i was only 9 I felt a weird emotion.
Hi John, in think channel 5 came out a few years earlier than this so there were 5 terrestrial channels available.
They mustn’t have had reception of Channel 5.
That scared me
Ident. Voice or the News?
The idea of something being so important, everytime it happens alot of people fear nuclear war may have started, that's what scares people nowadays, it's a big reason why they don't do many newsflashes in the uk anymore as it scares hundreds of thousands of people
Totally agree, scared me at the time too. Everything went through my mind during those four minutes, alien invasion, nuclear war, infact when they did finally tell us, of course it was very sad but I remember feeling a sense of relief that it wasn't any of those things.
4:46 This is BBC Television News. Buckingham Palace has just announced the death of the Queen Mother. In a statement, the palace said "The Queen Mother has died".
BBC Television is broadcasting this special programme reporting the Queen Mother's death.
I realy fear the day we will see this again
The Queen is almost 100 years old, I doubt it will be too far away now..
@@bobettepancakes And her husband's even older (and looks it).
I've been waiting out of curiosity for how the continuity will look when it happens for years. I'm genuinely amazed the closest we've come to finding out in recent years was that car crash Philip was in.
That day was today.
@@AJS_117 And the continuity was every bit as eerie and fascinating as I thought, maybe moreso - the special introduction, the return of the static Family idents, and this year's weird edge case was BBC Two *actually* getting the news before One this time due to the News Channel simulcast, only for One to get it two minutes later with Martine now black-cardiganed and acting as her own continuity announcer.
@@shinydavidhowell her husband is dead now
Watching this is scary but I think I’ll be oddly terrified when the queen dies
Allahu Akbar
How do you feel?
Remember watch that episode on that day
Queen lived for another 20 years
What episode of Steptoe and Son was that?
Was CBBC and Cbeebies interrupted?
The BBC handled the Queen mother's death appallingly.
They interrupted Steptoe for this? I'm going to find my licence and put my foot through it.
If they seriously couldn't get onto BBC One, they could have just turned to News 24. Or if all else fails, just put the Fault Slide on.
If I was the controller of BBC Two, I would have just put the Fault Slide on.
Why did it take so long, when they could have gone straight to the newsroom straight away?
What? And have BBC 1 viewers join half way though, having no idea what was happening? Great idea (!)
Chris Henniker They couldn't. The BBC One director was about to also fade out when News said they weren't ready to start yet and agreed a new on-air time 4 minutes later. Unfortunately BBC Two had already just gone and had no choice but to wait.
They could have just put the Fault Slide on.
It's kind of remarkable that ITV didn't break the news first given that delay, seeing as _they were literally in the middle of a regular news bulletin at the time_. Impossible to imagine anything other than half the country finding out what had happened in those few minutes via online announcements if this scenario played out in 2018.
@@Nogli Na..The Beeb and ITV will report it as soon as Buckingham Palace allow them to do so. They will have rehearsed what to say and what to show in terms of tributes etc when it happens. When Di was killed it was different as the news caught everyone on the hop. But its more than likely that Phillip will go first.
I refuse to believe I was 2 years old when this happened 😮
What happened on cbbc?
the question isn't what _happened_ but what _happens_ on cbbc and it's a darn good one. Given, though, that all BBC channels will interrupt their program you'd expect cbbc to do the same but then again, that's not exactly something that should be on a kids' channel. Maybe they have a special kind of program which is kid friendly which will air...
Also CBeebies
On the day of the Queen Mother’s funeral CBeebies did a 2 minute silence thingy which included a slideshow with pictures of her.
The break in started on 2 first
It starts at 4:45 You're welcome.
2021, recommend to me again as prince Phillip dies 9 april 2021
This was like the 1st anniversary to invader zim-
What’s the show at the start I can remember it because I used to watch it when I was younger I’ve just forgot the show name because I haven’t watched it in years
Steptoe and son
I wasn’t even born. I wanted to be alive to see Dianna and Queen Mother, but I know I wasn’t meant to be.
Imagine, the year is 2021, and this happens s again, but for the queen’s death
We might well be looking at it for her husband very soon...
@@shinydavidhowell You’ll never believe what happened today
@@sillymari01 It was hard not to notice with full protocol activated!
The Queen Mother is Queen Elizabeth's grandmother.
Noo really?! I thought it was her granny!
@@lillypatterson7670 It sure is and now she's reunited with her granddaughter.
@@hayleywaalen2612 yes
Oh...........................no
Saturday 30th March 2002
God save The Queen
Yes Darryl I agree
20 years ago today
Where is the spoof announcement, The BBC is at war.
Did it happen on bbc3
sexy turtle bbc three didn't exist when HM Queen Mother passed
BBC Choice existed (BBC Three in all but name). Doesn't matter, because it wouldn't be on air until 7pm anyway.
CBBC would have been live, maybe they went to Newsround or flashed up a caption.
Cbeebies likely wouldn't do anything (maybe the caption).
InsaneGamers What is CBeebies' protocol for a royal death anyway? I come from the land of cheeseburgers and freedom so I do not know.
CBeebies protocol is to do nothing as far as I can tell. Everything on it is pre-recorded days in advance unlike CBBC which is live. If they do decide to interrupt the only thing they would be able to do is place a caption on screen. But it wouldn't surprise me if they change the schedule over the next few days afterwards. For Remembrance Sunday (think Veterans day) they ran a short 5 minute cartoon that explained war and death ua-cam.com/video/pv_ub7Be7oA/v-deo.html. They might have something like that for a royal death.
BBC Three obviously didn't exist until February 2003, but even if it did, it wouldn't start until 7pm. CBBC probably would have cut to Newsround, Cbeebies probably either just put up a caption or continued to run. BBC Four would have been on at 7pm, BBC One and BBC Two interrupted their programming and went to the news and News 24 would have not been affected, since it's always live and it would have cut straight to the news, just more seamlessly.
Not Steptoe and Son ahahaa