Channel 4 Continuity & Idents 1996

[Philhouse88]

holy shit! i remember watching that showing of the life of brian!

[mrbiffolives]

90'S LAPTOP!!!

[marbleskc]

Some those ads are so 90s cliche.

[jmspllkn]

Oh my, look how dated the CG looks in that Toshiba advert! It probably cost an absolute fortune as well back in 1996!

[tomharding]

I used to love Whose Line Is It on Fridays. I miss TV as it was back then.

[tomharding]

Ahh, I have that olympics advert recorded somewhere. Those were the days.

[JHollowayNetwork]

early 1996, because the blocks ident was replaced by the circles ident in November that year.

[thelyniezian]

Budweiser inviting the whole world to join their party? Cheek? Considering that *that* Budweiser is a pale imitation of the original Czech beer, it seems wrong.

If trivial.

[LieutenantGibGib]

Wow. Back in the days when Friday night television was worth watching; Friends and Frasier.

[creeball]

does anybody remember a show called passengers on c4 YEEAARRRS AGO??? had some random sex stuff in it? wasnt seedy and questionable like todays sex shows, tho. it looked more.... explorational than anything.

[rlugg]

Amazing, I still use that toothpaste!

[racrmimbpsvc]

When abouts in 1996 were the blocks dropped? Does anyone have that closedown?

[jaychristie909]

11th October 1996... never seen the closedown though.

[nahpop1]

lol i rememba the allied dunbar ad...i was 8 yrs old....lol

[Glamking1]

it sounds the like the music from trigger happy tv in the late 90s and early noughties?

[creeball]

i think this tune was actually used for trigger happy tv.

[zeonbub]

@creeball It's 'Connection' by Elastica

[coolcatnat1994]

Oh my God! I just fast forwarded to The Whose Line one, I was only 2 when this ad was on! I'd love to go back to then! :)

[AddiUni]

1996 was 12 years ago. Scared yet?

[ProtoKun7]

@AddiUni 1996 was 15 years ago now. I'm utterly beside myself.

[philevans1986]

Good set of Ad's there

[plasticflowerz]

I remember the olympics advert (great Elastica song) and tghe colgate advert as though it were yesterday! Autumn 96 was the year I started secondary school. Time flies!

[translift608]

holy shit thats the year the volvo s40 was released my god

[SteveA1978]

notice the world trade center in the Toshiba ad?

[knicksfan89]

classic friday night line-up friends frasier and WLIIA you can't get more classic than that

[syrett76]

At least some things never age - good old monty python

[notbubu]

I think that's Peter Serafinowicz doing the voiceover on the American Express ad.

[Curlibear]

Is it me or is the Robinsons advert scarier than anything else in this universe?

[mattkynaston]

Dramaqueen.

[Curlibear]

Just me then.

[TenchiUK]

It is strangely creepy and unexpected.

[L1ZZ1771]

lol i loved those Allied Dunbar adverts.

[newagent]

Heh, City types...

[gottagothatsme]

That sandwich looks disgusting!

[RobinCarmody]

Meanwhile John Peel can be heard at the end of the Branston's Sandwich Pickle ad.

[RobinCarmody]

I notice Budweiser using (I think) "Connection" by Elastica ... no more accurate epitaph for Britpop's futile dreams of ending Americanisation, whether in pop or more generally.