Granada ITV TV adverts and ITN News at Ten (1979)

[dom1972a]

Thanks for posting. I was also 6 at this time and i can still remember the ELS adverts. Amazing how much you have locked inside your brain. :-)

[Lousypenguin]

That Ice Cream looked the dogs bollocks!!!!

[MegaDave1973]

a weird clairol advert

[Feisty1967]

Did cats not have fleas in those days?

[hectorlupino]

Blime I was only 6 at the time but I remember the ELS ad and when continuity annoucers announced behind the Granada ident!

[franksmith109]

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?

[radiodj1520]

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.

[col2006ie]

Malcolm Brown announces from Quay Street.

[RobinCarmody]

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.

[Feisty1967]

My Mother and I loved Murder at the Wedding, our posh relatives didn;t get it though!!

[RobinCarmody]

@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

[matty12jkishs]

That music still scares the shit of me