[720p/50p] ITV Thames | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 14th April 1982

© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1982
End of The Valachi Papers
Adverts
Thames IVC (Philip Elsmore): Slouch Down And Ignore
Thames IVC
Thames optical slide: Weather forecast
Thames IVC
Thames optical slides: Thursday Evening with "Someone You Never Met Before" by Carole King
Thames clock (12:44am)
Switch off TV warning
Black and silence
Loss of sync at 40:22
Transmitter shutdown at 44:05 (the loss of sync here makes the sound and video on my capture card go out of sync)
Adverts:
Computacar
Sweetex
Zanussi (with Michael Elphick)
John Bull Bitter (voiced by Mike Reid)
British Leyland... Sorry, I had to laugh like a hyena at that claim they were "Building Cars To Beat The World"
Ronseal

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Michael Elphick flogging washing machines effortlessly and brilliantly.

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Proper variety and quality of tv

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Tomorrow on Lyrics for Our Lord, the Reverend Ian Paisley will be bringing us Showaddywaddy's Under the Moon of Love...

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He would never do that. Never! Never! Never!

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@@McFelch69 Let's go for an Orange Walk, ba-doom, bad-doom, un-derrrrr the moo...