Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, miss those 'pure' years so dearly that we oddly find comfort in little things from back then... even in the iconic tune from Thames TV. It seems that every year that passes is a little bit better than the next one. So sad.
I just saw this on Daily Motion when one video rolled in to the next. I haven't seen or heard it since then and it immediately transported me to my younger years watching The Benny Hill Show et al late at night in America when there were only seven channels on the dial; gave me goosebumps.
I was born in '78 and I've never even been to England or even Great Britain but the mid- to late 80's Thames intro is still stuck in my mind. Our state channel licensed a lot of stuff from BBC and ITV. Seeing this before a show meant quality, at least for me. Mr. Bean, The Wind In The Willows, so much more Good thing is the post-watershed Brit shows were never dubbed (unlike Charlie Chalk, Postman Pat etc) so that's how I learned English: Monty Python's Flying Circus, 'Allo 'Allo, Hale & Pace, Smith & Jones, you know Made me English well 'ard
I know you guys won't believe it, but I watched Thames Tv's shows in the early 90s here in Kenya. The iconic theme sound gives me nolstalgia. Damn! The good old days!
Yup the same i can say in Ecuador although we have the shows either in Spanish or subtitled. I love when i was a kid Count Duckula or as we call it CONDE PÁTULA
@@ZootWorld1 Multiculturalism means more crime, move traffic, more houses needed. Doesn’t take a genius to work that out! Oh and some cultures are better than others.
At 1:03 in the late 70s/early 80s the whole family would cheer with excitement as it meant the Benny Hill show was about to start! Thank you PBS and UK-
@@ArmyJamesit wasn’t Thames’ decision, it was a central mandate from ITV for all franchises to use the same tune. It was a compromise to even retain their logo at the very start, which ITV also did-away with a few years later. It’s quite sad, what was a wide range of regional diversity is now all ITV branded. It’s STV up here in Scotland; but even STV has no personality, and there used to be two different Scottish regions with very different designs! But it’s a right shame, especially given they’d only just had their new cinematic rendition of the same theme (rather than the small brass ensemble that I remember). I can’t imagine they were happy about it, they probably wanted to get another 20 years use out of it minimum.
I did not grow up in the UK but I feel very nostalgic about this. I watched loads of British television in the eighties and funny how life goes.. I always wondered how London is and Big Ben was etched in my mind as this image of a big city. Little that I knew I would end up moving to UK and for a long time came out of Westminster tube every morning greeted by Big Ben. Maybe it worked subliminally!
Early days of the bill. For me. Sitting watching it with my parents. Not forgetting when Emerdale was known as Emerdale Farm and Was a lot better. When Coronation Street was also a lot better with Stan and Hilda. Both of the soaps are a load of nonsense today.
The good old Thames TV jingle... It became quite popular also here in Spain between the late 70s and the mid 90s. Hearing that tune on TV meant that you were going to have a good time during the next minutes.
0:39 Brings back memories watching Count Duckula on Nickelodeon in the late 1980s. Count Duckula, You Can't Do That On Television and Mister Wizard... Nickelodeon had these three completely unrelated shows in the same time block, but I loved them all.
It's an arpeggio based on the fifth of the chord, so even though it's reassuringly plummy there's a sense of expectation from the instability of the second inversion. That's some classy attention to craft for a 7 second continuity jingle
Most UK TV idents had similar musical depth, it’s one of my favourite things about them to be honest. A lot of the Scottish and Grampian ident jingles used the specific pentatonic scales common in Scottish folk music :)
0:39-0:45 is the one I remember from my childhood. There was something very, very relaxing about seeing and hearing that. I could fall asleep in peace by meditating on it - although there was a fun show about to begin. From that moment I forgot about everything that could make me feel bad.
Yes, in the US for late boomer teens/GenX kids, 0:43 meant Benny Hill. And in the late 70s-80s in my Midwestern US hometown, it also meant Man About the House, Robin's Nest, and Kenny Everett. A deeply Anglophile programmer must have been at the local indy station. I grew up seeing a ton of UK shows aside from the usual Monty Python, Doctor Who, and Are You Being Served? on PBS-my town even got 2-weeks-late TOTP. By the time I left home for college in '87, French & Saunders was on Saturday afternoons, as was Black Adder and Red Dwarf, and the international version of ITN News at 10 was on, yes, at 10 with Trevor McDonald. I remember this ident, London Weekend, ATV, Granada, and Anglia (and the spinning ITC diamonds meant it was time for The Muppet Show!).
My friend got Thames I got anglia . On Saturday he got UFO. I got farmers weekly . We were only a few doors away . He tell me about captain scarlet , the Brady bunch and a whole raft of stuff . Anglia had regional programs about Norfolk and bloody tolly cobbold ads with willie rushton . I was addicted to tv in those days . Would watch anything . I would wait for the programs to come on .this was about 72
Though I'm Japanese, I lived in London from 1985 through 1991 as a child. So I do remember these sounds very much. It always reminds me of my happy days in London. Thank you so much for sharing.
When I was young, I often referred to Big Ben and St. Paul's Cathedral as "London and Washington", as the dome on St. Paul's Cathedral is similar to the dome on the United States Capitol HQ. Now years later I am developing the format for a TV spy series featuring a British diplomat and a tough US CIA agent from Washington D.C. as the main characters.
I was born in the 00's but I remember the 90s and 80s one so vividly. There used to be this thing that came on where they would show all the old programmes and I would watch that with my mum. I can remember it so much and it has so much nostalgia towards me.
Castle Duckula. Home for many centuries to a dreadful dynasty of vicious vampire ducks. The counts of Duckula! Legend has it that these foul beings can be destroyed by a stake through the heart or exposure to sunlight. This does not suffice, however, for they may be brought back to life by means of a secret rite that can be performed once a century when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius. The latest reincarnation did not run according to plan...
When I was kid,I remember this sound and picture,I saw a great show’s, series, now I discover it THAMS TV, what a great days,a great Company and Great Britain 🇬🇧
They should not have messed around with this ident or the iconic jingle. The simple eight notes of the 60's, 70's and early 80's were the best and you knew straight away you were watching something from Thames Television.
There was one used on a few series 3 episodes of Callan where the "Thames" lettering disappeared along with the reflection of the word. And I've seen a couple of programmes using the vignette ident but with the later version of the jingle, with the elongated 4 final notes.
Always reminds of RAINBOW!!! on ZBC TV in Zimbabwe... Gosh what happy carefree days..... such beautiful nostalgia. How do we get back to those happy days?!
To be honest in those times everyone tried to use modern visual effects - thing was, the software and hardware just couldn't produce anything of value. Progress for the sake of progress.
I bet if Thames kept the franchise then the 91-92 ident would've lasted well into the very end of the 90s and been almost as iconic as the original skyline one! Though only in London, cos by 1988 ITV stopped showing regional idents for programmes, which is a massive shame.
That iconic music and image will be deeply embedded in Childhood memories of 70s TV for many including myself. It was a special era, and better quality TV than the 100s of fibre optic channels on tap today. 😊
Such fond childhood memories here in Canada of various English TV series back in the early half of the 1970s where this "THAMES" logo was the opening of each episode. Good Old Days.
If Thames ever gets revived, but as a name-only unit than an actual production company, they should make the logo likes the older ones with its famous jingle.
The nighttime version I remembered was used for *"Armchair Thriller"* in the late 70s, where sometimes you had a witch on a broomstick fly over. Great days. Bring back Thames!!
The nighttime variant was also seen at the start of a Christmas TV movie called Quincy's Quest which starred Tommy Steele & was broadcast on ITV at Christmas 1979.
Me too. I knew World at War was coming on. Back in the early 70's. That was a graphic show for a 10 year old kid. My dad was in Europe and was in the big push from Normandy on but he never talked about. I wanted to see myself.
I remember seeing this at the start of shows made by this production company as well as LWT, and being a kid from Australia I always thought it was how the word looked and would say thhames and my mother would say the proper pronunciation i didnt know it was more like Tems.
I like the night time one, I don’t think I ever saw it. I had to go to bed before it was on. All of the idents are special and take me straight back to the 1980s and my childhood.
From an American Point of view, Thames television was one of the top, and boss TV companies in the UK. It also was internationally recognized thanks to Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, Duckula, Danger Mouse, etc. However they lost their license in 1991, and the UK Television scene hasn't been the same since.
They were still around in 1992, finally ending their broadcasting era then and most of their programming. Though Pearson Television (now Fremantle Media) brought the name and continued producing the occasional Thames show like The Bill, it just wasn't the same.
@@newstarcadefan ITV eliminated all regional identity in 2002. Due to the advent of Digital television and more choices in channels, they just became a stand alone national channel. Though they still provide regional news.
A quality broadcaster, purveyor of fine programmes, and a name you can trust, whittled away by the 1990 Broadcasting Act and Maggie Thatcher's hard nuts whose lousy quality threshold and stupid cash bid requirements put an end to the company.
it still brings nostalgia to hear this tune the sweneys, Bennyhill, Cheers and george & mildred , Bless this house etc.... those were the days my frind ...blimey i brcoming like arf garnett !!!!
0:45-0:51 and 1:03 - 1:11 are both the same with slightly different exposure settings with the film being played through. And the same for both between 0:09 to 0:23,. different exposure settings, same ident. Though I have seen and heard a version of the vignette skyline with the later variant of the Salute to Thames theme.
It has that classic 1970s - 80s music in it that even if you make anyone hear just this music and ask them from which decade is this from, he/she can tell that it's from 1970s - 80s..
There's something so magically British about this.
Yesss
Because it is
Yes indeed. This intro turn my hot chocolat in a cup of Five o'clock tea, you know 😉🇨🇱🇬🇧
agree - Tower bridge for one
And something magically trippy too....at least the 70s version.
Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, miss those 'pure' years so dearly that we oddly find comfort in little things from back then... even in the iconic tune from Thames TV. It seems that every year that passes is a little bit better than the next one. So sad.
well , I was born 1988 but most of the series shown to us in our country just freed from ocupation were the ones beginning with the Thames tune
I just saw this on Daily Motion when one video rolled in to the next. I haven't seen or heard it since then and it immediately transported me to my younger years watching The Benny Hill Show et al late at night in America when there were only seven channels on the dial; gave me goosebumps.
I was born in '78 and I've never even been to England or even Great Britain but the mid- to late 80's Thames intro is still stuck in my mind. Our state channel licensed a lot of stuff from BBC and ITV. Seeing this before a show meant quality, at least for me. Mr. Bean, The Wind In The Willows, so much more
Good thing is the post-watershed Brit shows were never dubbed (unlike Charlie Chalk, Postman Pat etc) so that's how I learned English: Monty Python's Flying Circus, 'Allo 'Allo, Hale & Pace, Smith & Jones, you know
Made me English well 'ard
I’d forgotten this completely from childhood but got an amazing jolt from seeing it again.
La la la la lalalala 🎵!
I know you guys won't believe it, but I watched Thames Tv's shows in the early 90s here in Kenya. The iconic theme sound gives me nolstalgia. Damn! The good old days!
I believe you lol. We did the same in Nigeria
Your Right Bro, the same feeling in Colombia
The nostalgia is simply Overwhelming, TV was entertaining then.
I bet the lost episodes of Doctor Who must be in Kenya or Nigeria. The British TV companies sent out many shows to former colonies
Yup the same i can say in Ecuador although we have the shows either in Spanish or subtitled. I love when i was a kid Count Duckula or as we call it CONDE PÁTULA
Don't fix what ain't broken. It was so iconic.
You could say the same thing about London itself.
It was a beautiful city before it was "enriched".
BRAVO!!!!!!!! WELL SAID SIR!
@@user-lz5wf "enriched" = I don't like brown people.
@@underneonloneliness2 Oh heaven forbid you see people who aren't white more often!
@@ZootWorld1 Multiculturalism means more crime, move traffic, more houses needed. Doesn’t take a genius to work that out! Oh and some cultures are better than others.
I loved this as a child, now it makes me melancholy.
Me too. I feel really sad, and wish I could go back and live those times forever.
Same
Same for me as well. It’s comforting but always makes me melancholy bc I know times will never be this simple again.
At 1:03 in the late 70s/early 80s the whole family would cheer with excitement as it meant the Benny Hill show was about to start! Thank you PBS and UK-
Or Rainbow when I came home from school for dinner ('lunch' to southern people).
1:03 was the last of the 'real' Thames intros.
Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise.
Why would they ever get rid of anything as iconic as that?
My favorite
Indeed it is
@@ArmyJamesit wasn’t Thames’ decision, it was a central mandate from ITV for all franchises to use the same tune. It was a compromise to even retain their logo at the very start, which ITV also did-away with a few years later.
It’s quite sad, what was a wide range of regional diversity is now all ITV branded. It’s STV up here in Scotland; but even STV has no personality, and there used to be two different Scottish regions with very different designs!
But it’s a right shame, especially given they’d only just had their new cinematic rendition of the same theme (rather than the small brass ensemble that I remember). I can’t imagine they were happy about it, they probably wanted to get another 20 years use out of it minimum.
I did not grow up in the UK but I feel very nostalgic about this. I watched loads of British television in the eighties and funny how life goes.. I always wondered how London is and Big Ben was etched in my mind as this image of a big city. Little that I knew I would end up moving to UK and for a long time came out of Westminster tube every morning greeted by Big Ben. Maybe it worked subliminally!
The logo is how I learned of the UK's Thames River.
Growing up, that sound always meant that it was time for Benny Hill!
(Or Dangermouse,I guess.😹)
For me it will always be associated with Rainbow 😂
Yep, Benny Hill !
Early days of the bill. For me. Sitting watching it with my parents.
Not forgetting when Emerdale was known as Emerdale Farm and Was a lot better.
When Coronation Street was also a lot better with Stan and Hilda.
Both of the soaps are a load of nonsense today.
Or Count Duckula
Mr. Bean...The Tomorrow People...
Always feel warm and fuzzy when I hear this.
Reminds you of the Thames river.
The good old Thames TV jingle... It became quite popular also here in Spain between the late 70s and the mid 90s. Hearing that tune on TV meant that you were going to have a good time during the next minutes.
Yep. Benny Hill was coming next.
0:39 Brings back memories watching Count Duckula on Nickelodeon in the late 1980s.
Count Duckula, You Can't Do That On Television and Mister Wizard... Nickelodeon had these three completely unrelated shows in the same time block, but I loved them all.
I came looking for this comment. Same here! Count Duckula was the best.
In the US we got to watch many British 🇬🇧 shows on our Public Broadcasting Systems (PBS).
You mean the public broadcasting service
That's how I know it too
It's an arpeggio based on the fifth of the chord, so even though it's reassuringly plummy there's a sense of expectation from the instability of the second inversion. That's some classy attention to craft for a 7 second continuity jingle
I'd love to play it on a keyboard
Most UK TV idents had similar musical depth, it’s one of my favourite things about them to be honest. A lot of the Scottish and Grampian ident jingles used the specific pentatonic scales common in Scottish folk music :)
I always thought the first four notes were a riff on the chimes of Big Ben
It works brilliantly on an E9 pedal steel guitar.
0:39-0:45 is the one I remember from my childhood. There was something very, very relaxing about seeing and hearing that. I could fall asleep in peace by meditating on it - although there was a fun show about to begin. From that moment I forgot about everything that could make me feel bad.
Me too. I totally understand what you mean.
funny how we work
The ident 0:39 to 0:45 is the one I remember I saw on The Rainbow Tv
I can listen to this all day.
Loved this as a child. I’m in Australia but my Pop must have watched a lot of Thames Television programs. Takes me back to the 70’s
Remember hearing this (0:39) on TV in the 80s growing up in Jamaica. Pure nostalgia....
That's the one I remember vividly too myself. 😏
And in our head we hear... "Castle Duckula..."
I'm in the Danger Mouse camp when I see this.
I never get tired of watching this. I used to watch Benny Hill here in the USA and I loved seeing this and hearing the jingle.
Cannot beat the old theme reminds me of growing up
“Dad! Mom! ‘Benny Hill’ is on!”
I just shouted... "ITS STARTED"!!!
Yes, in the US for late boomer teens/GenX kids, 0:43 meant Benny Hill. And in the late 70s-80s in my Midwestern US hometown, it also meant Man About the House, Robin's Nest, and Kenny Everett. A deeply Anglophile programmer must have been at the local indy station.
I grew up seeing a ton of UK shows aside from the usual Monty Python, Doctor Who, and Are You Being Served? on PBS-my town even got 2-weeks-late TOTP. By the time I left home for college in '87, French & Saunders was on Saturday afternoons, as was Black Adder and Red Dwarf, and the international version of ITN News at 10 was on, yes, at 10 with Trevor McDonald.
I remember this ident, London Weekend, ATV, Granada, and Anglia (and the spinning ITC diamonds meant it was time for The Muppet Show!).
the spinning itc diamonds were definitely unforgettable XD
This instantly makes me think of The World at War
Thames jingle, cheery.
World at War theme music, haunting.
My friend got Thames I got anglia . On Saturday he got UFO. I got farmers weekly . We were only a few doors away . He tell me about captain scarlet , the Brady bunch and a whole raft of stuff . Anglia had regional programs about Norfolk and bloody tolly cobbold ads with willie rushton . I was addicted to tv in those days . Would watch anything . I would wait for the programs to come on .this was about 72
My grandmother was British and I remember as a kid sitting in her living room and watching shows with this in it. It brings back great memories
This is so nostalgic sometimes I watch this and its amazing
I needed my Thames TV ident fix this morning, as I dreamt it last night.
The older ones were better. Always meant Danger Mouse
That what I think of when I hear it 😆
@@KissMyFatAxe Nah..... "Here they come now, Morecambe and Wise..."
World at War for me.
Count Duckula
Though I'm Japanese, I lived in London from 1985 through 1991 as a child. So I do remember these sounds very much. It always reminds me of my happy days in London. Thank you so much for sharing.
Magnificent & calming. This is my impression of the Thames intros.
When I was young, I often referred to Big Ben and St. Paul's Cathedral as "London and Washington", as the dome on St. Paul's Cathedral is similar to the dome on the United States Capitol HQ.
Now years later I am developing the format for a TV spy series featuring a British diplomat and a tough US CIA agent from Washington D.C. as the main characters.
For American kids in the 70s and 80s, this sound meant one thing: time for BENNY HILL!
I was born in the 00's but I remember the 90s and 80s one so vividly. There used to be this thing that came on where they would show all the old programmes and I would watch that with my mum. I can remember it so much and it has so much nostalgia towards me.
oooh
@@luketimewalker I think it was 2008 or 2009 when they showed it, I'm pretty sure
I literally only know them because my parents had a danger mouse DVD from the 80s. It would always play the Thames TV before the episode started
Here comes another episode of "The World At War."
Weahld at Waahr
♥️♥️♥️♥️
Exactly! The Thames indent will always remind me of World at War and the living room I watch it in.
Yes, that's what I remembered...
I watched every episode when I was 10 or so. I was fascinated by the whole thing.
having 2 horns play in thirds on the fifth note sure helped that original intonation problem .....
Ok, yes, and now the lightning strike and the Duckula intro
I think of count duckula everytime I hear this awesome jingle. 0:01-1:11 best ever
same here!
And Dangermouse
Castle Duckula. Home for many centuries to a dreadful dynasty of vicious vampire ducks. The counts of Duckula! Legend has it that these foul beings can be destroyed by a stake through the heart or exposure to sunlight. This does not suffice, however, for they may be brought back to life by means of a secret rite that can be performed once a century when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius. The latest reincarnation did not run according to plan...
Duckula castle
@CreeWilly The latest reincarnation did not run according to plan...
From 1971 - 1976 we lived in the UK when I was a kid, the Thames tune always brings me back
Danger Mouse was on that (on CITV) but now it's on CBBC.
When I was kid,I remember this sound and picture,I saw a great show’s, series, now I discover it THAMS TV, what a great days,a great Company and Great Britain 🇬🇧
They should not have messed around with this ident or the iconic jingle. The simple eight notes of the 60's, 70's and early 80's were the best and you knew straight away you were watching something from Thames Television.
Growing up in Florida that sound meant The Benny Hill Show was starting. lol
Like to have it a cell ring sound, too.
Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise.
Danger mouse!!
There was one used on a few series 3 episodes of Callan where the "Thames" lettering disappeared along with the reflection of the word. And I've seen a couple of programmes using the vignette ident but with the later version of the jingle, with the elongated 4 final notes.
Always reminds of RAINBOW!!! on ZBC TV in Zimbabwe... Gosh what happy carefree days..... such beautiful nostalgia. How do we get back to those happy days?!
I am an American and there is something so oddly familiar and comfortable with this tune. Almost like a pleasant and sunny afternoon. I love it.
The nighttime one blew my mind
The latest ones are awful.
To be honest in those times everyone tried to use modern visual effects - thing was, the software and hardware just couldn't produce anything of value. Progress for the sake of progress.
1:08 was the era I grew up in!😀👍🏽 Thames was the best in the early 90’s when I was a little boy. I’ll never forget the introduction!🎵
first encountered this with the World at War series back in the early 70s.
Mr. Bean, Benny Hill... great memories!
"The World At War" series is what I remember this from.
I bet if Thames kept the franchise then the 91-92 ident would've lasted well into the very end of the 90s and been almost as iconic as the original skyline one!
Though only in London, cos by 1988 ITV stopped showing regional idents for programmes, which is a massive shame.
My first memories of life and watching tv in northern ireland... this is one of my first memories!
Mr Bean memories!!
Wow this just gave me a blast of nostalgia! I remember this intro from my childhood awesome stuff
Iconic. When life seemed more simply and happier
The last Thames ident's music is so rare. Most versions you can find on UA-cam are without the cymbal crash at the end.
They didn't used for long. Oh, and yeah Thames TV got replaced by Cartlon in more than 4 years later.
As an American, from my point of view I always thought this is the most British thing I've ever seen
As a young American lad in the 70’s, this stirs up fond memories of me staying up late at night to watch Benny Hill.
That iconic music and image will be deeply embedded in Childhood memories of 70s TV for many including myself. It was a special era, and better quality TV than the 100s of fibre optic channels on tap today. 😊
Such fond childhood memories here in Canada of various English TV series back in the early half of the 1970s where this "THAMES" logo was the opening of each episode. Good Old Days.
0:00-1:11 Better than 1:11-2:02
Mike Traceur I agree with you. never the same.
If Thames ever gets revived, but as a name-only unit than an actual production company, they should make the logo likes the older ones with its famous jingle.
M
anything is better than 1:11-2:02
--- when you hear those notes, you know something great was about to be on TV --- 12MAR23
0:53 The night time edition before Armchair Thriller always gave me goosebumps when I was a kid.
The nighttime version I remembered was used for *"Armchair Thriller"* in the late 70s, where sometimes you had a witch on a broomstick fly over. Great days. Bring back Thames!!
The nighttime variant was also seen at the start of a Christmas TV movie called Quincy's Quest which starred Tommy Steele & was broadcast on ITV at Christmas 1979.
0:54 Ah wow, a nighttime Thames theme! I had to learn this on my guitar, It's simply perfect, probably the greatest theme/jingle of our time.
That one was used for a programme called "Armchair Thriller", it was the only programme it was used for
@@nord1486 Was also used by Thames TV for their night-time transmissions for short period around 1987, maybe?
@@mohammadfaizkizlan I don't remember
The fanfare is apparently called “Salute to Thames”, although we all called it “Monday Monday”.
Me too. I knew World at War was coming on. Back in the early 70's. That was a graphic show for a 10 year old kid. My dad was in Europe and was in the big push from Normandy on but he never talked about. I wanted to see myself.
I remember seeing this at the start of shows made by this production company as well as LWT, and being a kid from Australia I always thought it was how the word looked and would say thhames and my mother would say the proper pronunciation i didnt know it was more like Tems.
Lovely to see them thames tv idents brings back memories
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0:32 - 0:44 were the ones showed in the 80s and 90s kids TV shows I used to watch, memories 😊
You can never stop some jerk from fixing something that isn't broken.
Exactly, what a shame.
I remember watching these ID bumpers while serving at RAF Chicksands, 1972-74.
I like the night time one, I don’t think I ever saw it. I had to go to bed before it was on. All of the idents are special and take me straight back to the 1980s and my childhood.
This is a prime example of ‘Don’t fix what isn’t broken.’
I needed aome comfort and looked this up. So many memories.
Great video
I remember being a little kid and hearing this sound and being so excited because it meant watching Benny Hill with my grand 😁
Still in my head from watching Benny Hill reruns Lol
From an American Point of view, Thames television was one of the top, and boss TV companies in the UK. It also was internationally recognized thanks to Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, Duckula, Danger Mouse, etc. However they lost their license in 1991, and the UK Television scene hasn't been the same since.
They were still around in 1992, finally ending their broadcasting era then and most of their programming. Though Pearson Television (now Fremantle Media) brought the name and continued producing the occasional Thames show like The Bill, it just wasn't the same.
@@David315842 that actually is correct. UK television also was never the same when LWT was shutdown in the early 2000s.
@@newstarcadefan ITV eliminated all regional identity in 2002. Due to the advent of Digital television and more choices in channels, they just became a stand alone national channel. Though they still provide regional news.
watching Nickelodeon in the 80s as a kid brought me here. Thanks Count Duckula!
For me after the intro.. "Hammer house of horror " dan dan daaan. 🙂 after watching, use to leave the rooms light on, when sleep.
Love seeing Thames TV opening - and seeing shows like the Bill, Rainbow, etc
Looking at the ID makes me feel like an Indian subject under the british empire in 1946... and I was born in 1989!!!
A quality broadcaster, purveyor of fine programmes, and a name you can trust, whittled away by the 1990 Broadcasting Act and Maggie Thatcher's hard nuts whose lousy quality threshold and stupid cash bid requirements put an end to the company.
I grew up in England till age 7 . I remember this so well
Notice the horns went to duet in the first colour ident.
They had a bigger budget in the '70's, maybe?
@@jasonayres Very good :-) Like it!!
Best classic itv ident ever love the jingle
A very much missed British institution.
This is Thames from London
Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise.
As a kid, l would always 'sing' the words...
# ding dang do dong der der do deeeeer #
lol
or sing "Pull your pants down right fucking now"?
@@robosborne7103 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This theme always meant Benny Hill here in the USA. "ding dang do dong...here's Ben-ny Hillllll."
"Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise."
@@micmac99 "Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise."
it still brings nostalgia to hear this tune the sweneys, Bennyhill, Cheers and george & mildred , Bless this house etc.... those were the days my frind ...blimey i brcoming like arf garnett !!!!
Really Love Thank You THAMES
0:45-0:51 and 1:03 - 1:11 are both the same with slightly different exposure settings with the film being played through.
And the same for both between 0:09 to 0:23,. different exposure settings, same ident.
Though I have seen and heard a version of the vignette skyline with the later variant of the Salute to Thames theme.
Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise.
Really Loved This Ident
This was embedded in my brain ever since I was a kid.
It has that classic 1970s - 80s music in it that even if you make anyone hear just this music and ask them from which decade is this from, he/she can tell that it's from 1970s - 80s..
Love this...every time I saw this meant something good was coming on: Benny Hill, The Prisoner...