BBC1 Closedown - Saturday 17th August 1991

[Huddersfield1985]

At 1.43 it is Geoffrey Palmer. He appeared as a guest on Fawlty Towers

[Applemask]

Ah, the days when it was acceptable to fuck around with movies for TV. We taped this showing of the Terminator, and then taped it again later when they showed the actual movie as James Cameron actually made it.

[RobinCarmody]

This is from Saturday 17th August 1991.

These were the days when - as the BBC was ignominiously forced to admit two years later - it couldn't afford to run a proper schedule in August. Repeats and a dire TV movie were pretty much the norm on summer Sunday nights back then.

[AidanLunn]

Late August 1991 - BBC1's NICAM stereo service began officially (though there had been stereo programmes several years beforehand - McCoy-era Doctor Who springs to mind) on 31st August 1991.

Transmitters radiating BBC1 in NICAM by this point were Crystal Palace, Emley Moor, Sandy Heath, Sutton Coldfield, Wenvoe, Mendip, Belmont, Black Hill, Pontop Pike & Winter Hill.

[RobinCarmody]

@AidanLunn living where we did at the time (Swanscombe, Kent) we were on Crystal Palace (not Bluebell Hill which was also available) but we had a clapped-out old TV that could never have coped with stereo.

[AidanLunn]

@RobinCarmody It wouldn't have picked up the NICAM signal - NICAM was a digital format. It would have just picked up the frequency modulated mono carrier, like all of my sets do. NICAM is too recent for my sets :)

[brucedanton]

@RobinCarmody You lived Robin, but a few miles from where I am, as I live near Dartford in Kent, and yes it is Crystal Palace where our relay comes from too!

Thank you for the posting-well done!