BBC1 31 October 1992 - Continuity Before/After Ghostwatch

[Ropponmatsu2]

I love the ending with the face leering at you with no announcement....Ah....Doctor Terror's Vault of Horror....

[Striplights1980]

I seem to remember about an hour or so after the programme had ended there was a junction explaining that the programme was all a hoax. Probably due to the hysteria and flood of phone calls to the BBC.

[BL1TZEN]

Brilliant television. BBC at it's finest. I bought it on DVD when it was released a few years back and loved it all over again. Yes it may look dated - But forget Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, Insidious etc - Ghostwatch was where it was at before all these!

[superblaster2]

Myself and some friends who were all around the ages of 12 and 14 at the time, watched this at home, and we were absolutely terrified by it! To this day, I still maintain it was one of the BBC's greatest triumphs!!

[scousemouseuk]

i was 7 years old when i watched ghostwatch and i can be truthfull and say that it fucked my head up for a good few years i wouldnt sleep alone or with the light of or nothing, i should sue bbc for that lol,

[MEpianist]

Thanks so much for this upload -- I've always dreamed of a TV wayback machine where you could dial in a time and location and see what was on.

[MrTeamLeader92]

omg this was on tv the day i was born :D

[tokando69]

damn!! The graphics of the guy kicking the football! That takes me wayyyyyy back

[Retrotruffle]

I think one of the reasons why people fell for it was because during the week leading up to this program the bbc kept on showing trailers for this as a 'live' broadcast with no indication of it being a drama.

[pantsonhisheadkid]

So it was broadcast fairly early if it was finished by 7:15. I sought of imagined it was broadcast at nighttime.

[Retrotruffle]

@pantsonhisheadkid It was broadcast at around 9:30 on a Saturday, the listings in this clip are showing what is on on Sunday.

[insdmia]

I have a question...at the end, after the broadcast, did the announcer know what was going on (the calls, the panic, etc.) or was the voice-over pre-recorded? He sounds a bit like "Well, should I say something about it or what?" Love the whole channel.

[Retrotruffle]

@insdmia He sounds like he's trying to make light of the situation, the sh1t is probably already hittng the fan and he knows it.

[ptremote]

Got to add that John Kettley lives quite close to me nowadays, I'll have to ask him how it felt to be the weatherman before Ghostwatch! :)

[jonnyhaw]

That intro makes it pretty clear it's only a drama - how did people fall for it?!

[ptremote]

@jonnyhaw because people either don't listen or assumed that because people like Parky, Smithy and Sarah Greene are in it, that it's a proper, fully fledged documentary. And don't forget, this is 1992 and reality TV was still only a pipe dream.

[arizonabay6]

@ptremote People missed it due to a film on ITV. They switched over to the BBC after it had started and were suckered in.

[Concreteowl]

The perm was truly terrifying, what's more she probably paid good money to have it done to herself.

[Loosecrewproductions]

John Kettley is a weather man, a weather man, a weather man, John Kettley is a weather man and so is Michael Fish.

[lostinbass4]

classic ghostwatch!

[arfonjones]

That’s fantastic! Thanks for uploading that. It has to be my all time favourite BBC voice over moment! Lol

[shanepoole]

hi great video do you have any stuff from before the news that night (maybe my memory is playing tricks on me ) im sure that Sarah Greene did a "live" insert before the news would love to see it again

[francis1971]

@shanepoole That is in fact untrue.

[Schnorbs]

Ah, Helen Rollason. Hard to believe she died more than 10 years ago. Thank you for posting.