Not The Nine 'O Clock News - BBC2 Closedown

[Cool2BCeltic]

Remember this too.

[kcwacey]

lol funny

[Feisty1967]

LOL!!!!

[gibsosgerbil]

Why Would Teenage Boys and Girls Do The Annoucements On BBC Closedown?

[JHollowayNetwork]

1981

[pembridgegardens]

Blimey! I remember this!!

[xandy1959]

it is from that show girl iv got a dvd of it

[ziclepickle]

hehe my dad remembers theese when he was a kid, makes me proud to be british :)

[DaughterofDecay]

They broadcast this episode on BBC2 at Christmas, and after the show ended the actaul link announcer said "You don't know how close to the the truth that is". :)

[rachel7000rf]

10/10

[Larashadowful]

awesome!

[AnthonyUK]

The BBC1 test tone was stereo when NICAM was introduced.

[xesionprince]

Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex!

[tsangari]

@xesionprince NICAM DIgital Stereo. I remember when that began!

[racrimbpsvc]

Rowan Atkinson would make a good announcer!

[jaychristie909]

He would if it was still the 80s. Sadly, nowadays, there's no room for those great, deep and soothing voices that the BBC once had.

[MrDCWood]

@racrimbpsvc

Agreed! Rowan Atkinson settles for nothing less than perfection! He'd be SO ideal!

[makiavelli999]

hahahahaha! PEEEEEEEEEP! Oi!! wheres the button? what was on before the broadcast ended i didnt get too bloody see it!! now mr bean is a global brand! that is why he drives a mc laren F1 and.. and..

[123ThisIzMe]

Yeah ... I remember those days, when shortly after midnight there was nothing on telly anymore ... and all you got was that frustrating continuous ear-piercing sound and a silly still picture ....

Great to know that Rowan made the sound! LOL!

[GARETHQUAILE]

Yes and i guess thats why you should turn the set off so you dont have that sound in your ears all night

[sakhoul]

hahahahahahahaha funny!

[pokemonrocksfm]

i ve nver seen eny thing like it

[andremp04]

AH so thats what happens after your switch off your set :-P

[cottonwhiskersuk]

Nothing so funny nowadays, alas.

[22Crystalline22]

This is far better than the bingo phone in shown on ITV. They ought to close ITV down at night and play this rather than put that rip off tosh on. (Yes I know it's BBC)

[EKTVbroadcasting]

aaaaah, so thats how they did the tone! XD XD XD

rowan is legend!!!!!!!

[cwilliams1976]

The BBC2 clock was working off the computer designs; also, the normal BBC2 test tone is at 440Hz, whereas BBC1's is 1kHz.

[aric2007]

Thank you, Mr. Bean!

[James2001TV]

Definatly from an episode of Not The Nine O'Clock News.

[rjhglover]

Defintely is. It was from the last one ever made, followed the song "Kinda Lingers".

[rimmersgirl81]

is that clip not from the tv show "not the nine o'clock news" starring rowan atkinson,mel smith griff rhys jones and pamela stephenson? i'm sure i saw that end clip used on an episode i watched a few weeks back when they showed it on paramount comedy 1 or 2.

[CapnKirkus]

You know it could be. I don't have the definite information, all I know is that it was recorded on the same night as Comic Relief, one after the other. If anyone can definitely clear this up I'd really appreciate it, so I can put in the right details.

I was purely going by what was on the tape, and in what order

[cylon6]

@CapnKirkus Not The Nine O'Clock News started in 1979 and that was also the year the stripey "2" was introduced. This is a sketch from the series. Also the show finished in 1982 and the very first Comic Relief Red Nose Day was in 1988.

[Ackworth97]

@cylon6 the cast may have returned for a sketch in the name of Comic Relief

[cylon6]

@Ackworth97 Not for this one because I watched this clip when it first was broadcast on Not The Nine O'Clock News.

[Ackworth97]

@cylon6 thanks Cylon, i did not know that :)

(sarcasm)

[cylon6]

@Ackworth97 And I was to thick to realise that you did know that! Oops! :-s :-)

[TheJimmax]

@CapnKirkus Think it was 1981 but no later than 82 because that was the shows last year.

[wisteela]

Love it.

[AidanLunn]

they clearly used the wrong clock. Sure it aint 1986?

[CapnKirkus]

It could be, I'd have to check into it really, but I judged that it was 1988 from the adverts on the same recording that said 1988 on them. I'll look through the video more though.

If anyone else has information on this it'd be much appreciated

[dot18]

This sketch was first broadcast in Series three of NTNOCN some time around Nov1980 on BBC2. iI was supposed to be in Ep 3 ,but was prob. used in ep4 or 5. It was subsequently shown in repeats, and compilations, and was indeed used at the end of Comic Relief night one year .

THD

[asnycnow15]

they probably used a different color

[AidanLunn]

no. its a completely different design. the clock face is different as well.