Never found the Ilkley Moor jingle that scary. To be fair I was born in 1985 and they'd changed to the more melodic Chris Gunning arrangement by then.
Very well put together and informative. I grew up in the Yorkshire region, (Lincolnshire, actually, but we had Yorkshire Television), and I wasn't particularly scared by the Yorkshire ident. In fact, when, on the occasion of being 'home alone', I'd get great pleasure from being naughty turning the volume on the TV up so that, 'BLAH BLAH-BLAH-BLAH BLAHHHH', could be heard halfway down the street. Very much like I did with the Open University ident, but that's a different story.
What about Lincolnshire! We never wanted to be shipped off to Yorkshire TV in the first place, it was foisted upon us! We used to get Anglia TV up until 1974 and the About Anglia programme was much more professionallly presented than Calendar. Anglia also had in-vision continuity and birthday annoucements that were far more friendly than the boring, static idents of YTV!
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The people who are scared of idents just seem... a little sad really. Fun fact, the sub-culture of scared folk on the interweb usually seem to be the least mentally stable, no doubt because of 4 second long animations scarring their souls for eternity.
Yorkshire TV provided some of the nation's best loved and most enduring programes, some of which are still on today. Mind you, a franchise which covers 6 million people should be one of the main players of the network.
I never even knew until this video that the Yorkshire ident was considered scary by kids!
The Yorkshire fanfare always seemed cosy and comforting to me as a kid, like a brass band. Plus, it came before stuff like 3-2-1 and No. 73 - how could that be scary?
This series is now way beyond being simply a history of idents, It's the best damn ITV history lesson I've ever seen.
The 3-2-1 titles even made me jump just!
tokutom 1 month ago in playlist ITV in the Face
Thanks for all these. I love tv idents (execpt itv genric idents)
rachel7000rf 5 months ago
Well it wasnt short enough.. Loved the scilence from 15 to 29. And did you recoed it mono for a reason? Guess money was the reason... NEXT.....
DarkLard999 7 months ago
@DarkLard999 I bet you're the kind of spod who thinks FLACs are appreicably different from MP3s.
Applemask 7 months ago
Yeah but the UK's idents, compared to those in the US, are more respectable and "uppercrust."
And atleast it's not Russia's BND (VID).
Hectotane 11 months ago
Never found the Ilkley Moor jingle that scary. To be fair I was born in 1985 and they'd changed to the more melodic Chris Gunning arrangement by then.
RobinBlamires 1 year ago
Very well put together and informative. I grew up in the Yorkshire region, (Lincolnshire, actually, but we had Yorkshire Television), and I wasn't particularly scared by the Yorkshire ident. In fact, when, on the occasion of being 'home alone', I'd get great pleasure from being naughty turning the volume on the TV up so that, 'BLAH BLAH-BLAH-BLAH BLAHHHH', could be heard halfway down the street. Very much like I did with the Open University ident, but that's a different story.
JFredUK 1 year ago
@Darenster Yeah? So am I.
Applemask 1 year ago
What about Lincolnshire! We never wanted to be shipped off to Yorkshire TV in the first place, it was foisted upon us! We used to get Anglia TV up until 1974 and the About Anglia programme was much more professionallly presented than Calendar. Anglia also had in-vision continuity and birthday annoucements that were far more friendly than the boring, static idents of YTV!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
I must say your yorkshire accent was actually quite good, albiet condescending. Not that I care, great vid :)
madcapoperator 2 years ago
Oh my God, you've done my 'ead in now. I'm going to have some lunch of some Lincolnshire stuffed chyne and pickle, then I'll get back to you.
UKSazzy67 2 years ago
BOO! in colour. That was just a fantastic opening. 5*
Hodmox 2 years ago 6
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The people who are scared of idents just seem... a little sad really. Fun fact, the sub-culture of scared folk on the interweb usually seem to be the least mentally stable, no doubt because of 4 second long animations scarring their souls for eternity.
geniusburger 2 years ago
Brrrr, did you have to include that horrible emergency logo??? Apart from that, fantastic piece - keep them coming!
TigerWalrus26980 2 years ago
Yorkshire TV provided some of the nation's best loved and most enduring programes, some of which are still on today. Mind you, a franchise which covers 6 million people should be one of the main players of the network.
morgansifer82 2 years ago
Your references to all yorkshirepeople being flat-capped, Whippet-owning working-class Labour supporters is *VERY* out of date - by about 70 years!
AidanLunn 2 years ago 4
And I'm a cream-tea eating tin miner married to my sister. Stereotypes never die.
Applemask 2 years ago 2
They do actually.
Been up North recently?
AidanLunn 2 years ago
I watch Z-Cars on the gas-powered telly while sitting in my tin bath having a scrub with Ajax and some Brillo pads.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
@TashkentFox You enjoy it mate, sounds superb.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
@AidanLunn Ah fuck off.Been to Lincolnshire lately?
Feisty1967 1 year ago
@Feisty1967 1) No, and I have no reason why I should want to go to such a dungheap!
2) There's no need to swear.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
Yorkshire used to scare the shit out of me....
...Oh, we're talking about the company, not the place.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
I'll wager that the footy clip shown here is Stoke v Leeds (the all-yellow strip giving things away here)
brickbat246 2 years ago
Yep. First clip featuring Leeds in the 70s I found on YouTube.
Applemask 2 years ago
Firestorm gag = brilliant.
I never even knew until this video that the Yorkshire ident was considered scary by kids!
The Yorkshire fanfare always seemed cosy and comforting to me as a kid, like a brass band. Plus, it came before stuff like 3-2-1 and No. 73 - how could that be scary?
This series is now way beyond being simply a history of idents, It's the best damn ITV history lesson I've ever seen.
Bring on the Midlands!
ste1bro 2 years ago
lol yorkshire logo used to scare me
doctorwhokris1980 2 years ago
Oh not so silly. I rather enjoyed the Firestorm gag. So these are the guys who produced 'The Sandbaggers.'
I always thought that the bleak Russian/Finnish terrain looked like somewhere north of Harrogate
docmagnus88 2 years ago