BBC Video ident

[bobbyrar89]

I am so glad Im not the only one who finds this terrifying...it used to be on my postman pat videos..and I literally used to cover my ears and start crying because I thought I would die if I listened to it properly. Even now when I found this, I had to wait until daylight to watch it..

[jet3529]

i remember this from the Postman Pat vhs tape when I was about 7

[AngloSoviet]

Takes me back to my earliest conscious memories of my Fireman Sam VHS in the very late Eighties.

[Geordieboy83]

Bloody hell havent seen that since death to the daleks video with jon pertwee!!! i still have it somewhere!!!

[PaulMichaels2010]

I was expecting Jon Pertwee's face to appear midway through the sequence.

[RionZeBon]

Perfect hallucinagenic!

[MrAndrewGCGibson]

That says BBC Idio.

[AidanLunn]

@MrAndrewGCGibson Really? I could sear that looks like a V and an E?

[sayastudios]

I don't know whether or not I should be impressed or creeped out.

[mag237]

SCREW YOU GUYS, i think this is catchy.

[piplupsakura]

@ratpackmanreturns When all BBC Video movies taken?

[countsmegula]

This is meant to be scary? This is freaking sweet!

[borgduck]

I miss you Elisabeth Sladen!

[TheRoute19]

Looks like a dodgy acid trip

[bakelitetim]

Takes me back to my childhood. postman pat and fireman sam VHS tapes- those were the days.

[neildKoR]

@bakelitetim I know exactly what you mean. I was expecting it to go straight into the Postman Pat intro.

[namco21gamefreak]

sounds like a yamaha cs-80

[motherfan55]

type PRIZE before youtube and hit enter

[villion]

It reminds me of Videodrome for some reason

[Walters78s]

SOME 1 REMIX THIS! LOL

[rhythmdivine44]

what a piece of music!!! when it goes to the minor bit at the end of the video, it makes me feel very melancholic, like a bit of my past I'll never get back......of course that's until you watch the video again (fireman sam in my case)

[MRMANKY]

Extreme nostalgia, used to be on my old Postman Pat videos when I was very young. Didn't find it scary at all!

[matty9896]

@MRMANKY same! except i definitely found it FUCKING CREEPY!

[daveroker]

I know this ident very well.. It's because i have got FA Cup Finals from 1964-1981 on bbc video with this very ident.. I noticed later that the cup finals from 1982-1988 on video were released by the BBC using their next bbc video ident..(Thats the spinning globe one with bbc video underneath in gold letters)

[allen1jeremy]

This logo was on a video my late father owned called 'The Crowning Years' which was a video about Welsh Rugby.

[borgduck]

Fab piece o Prog!

[pearljam619]

This used to be on my old Dr Who Videos lol

[DoctorWhoIV]

Love this. 'High pitched' - dododododododododododododoo!!!

[eurasian73]

I remember this being the intro and ending for my Faulty Towers Home videos. :)

[cheri3098]

This ident is called the Queen's Star

[wynos0]

That's scary!

[Widgetas]

Holy crap... I remember that from the videos I had when I was a kid.

*nostalgia*

[weezul]

@Widgetas same, but it used to give me horrific nightmares!!!

[BluTrilobite]

Very cool! Stylish and eyecatching.

[sonicandknuxfan]

@Aesthricous I see.

[sonicandknuxfan]

@Aesthricous So the company is called Tranquil Pictures.

[sonicandknuxfan]

@Aesthricous and if you did use that music as an opening for your film company, what would be the name of your film company? I hope I'm not being personal.

[andrewervindowle]

That Ident Appear on Poddington Peas Videos and Raccoons Videos

[andrewervindowle]

Postman Pats Enemy

[andrewervindowle]

That Ident Appears On Looney Tunes Videos

[walterscott380]

lol XD

[KRPTV]

Just found out who composed this tune, it was Peter Howell, a member of the BBC Radiophonic workshop who also composed the Doctor Who theme song.

[borgduck]

@KRPTV Somehow that doesn't surprise me!

[haMMy27691]

The aliens are coming RUN RUUUNN!

[RavenFalcon94]

i don't know if this was me, but this used to scare me when i was little.

[TheRoute19]

It's so scary, it would be 18 rated today!

[french4grapefruit]

@TheRoute19 it one isn't so bad. i used to be scared of the one with the parallalagrams with colourd lines below with the scary music. i always dreded it at the end of noddy (i love noddy :) )

[killbill402]

It's amazing. I remember watching this when i was younger on a postman pat video. It creates goosebumps, it's beautiful, i almost cried when i watched this as a kid.

[KRPTV]

The best jingle to a logo ever, I particularly love the closing piece, how it starts off catchy and funky and it turns into a slow sad song at the end.

[KateAshbySeries]

I've got this ident on Postman Pat 1 video.

[MattemoTV]

Has anyone noticed that at the end, the copyright date stays still, but the above information wobbles about?

[steviegTVreturns]

As the actual year appears to be added on electronically, where as the Copyright is part of the animation on screen. I guess it was just easier and cheaper for the year to be changed on the ident like this.

[AidanLunn]

@steviegTVreturns Yup. Much cheaper! :)

[gallafey]

this music some always went well with the 70s Dr Who theme, Death To The Daleks was first Dr. Who story I bought on VHS that was Christmas 1990 although it was released in the mid 80s all Dr. Who videos then were released in movie format until 1989 when the first unedited Dr. Who was released which was The Daleks as a two part release part 1 The Dead Planet & Part 2 Expadition

[dalek42]

YES! lol I've always, ALWAYS put the music of this ident with Death to the Daleks, one of my first ever Doctor Who stories on video :D

[borgduck]

Doctor Who.

[Joeythemaster2]

Reminds me of Fawlty Towers

[dalek42]

my God! YES! ABSOLUTELY!

[regentv980]

do you have the earlier version please

[montanatexasfloridaz]

this cares the shit outta me lol

[KRPTV]

I have been passionate about graphic design from a very early age. I think I was about a year old when I first saw this and I remember being amazed by the bright colours. This ident is probably what started my interest in graphic design.

[OhLookItsMauve]

so glad it's not just me. found it scary at age 4 and still do!! (age 30!)

[ste1bro]

Reminds me of Dr Who on VHS in the 80s.

And the Protect & Survive videos - they had scary synths on them, too...

[OYE87]

I remember seeing this before "Postman Pat". I also remember how f***ing scary it was. Like looking into another dimension.

"2001", anyone?

[anniemal08]

When I was doing my last year of A Level English, we watched a video of Abigail's Party that had these idents on it, and a substantial proportion of the male members of the class (myself included) all collectively went "This was on my Postman Pat videos!" upon seeing it. That's what I associate this logo with though. Good times.

[essexbred1986]

To met he intro to this ident both does bear some resemblance to the Star Gate sequence from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

[windogmassey1]

ah that takes me back. Always remember that as the intro the my fireman sam videos :p

[Lynx890]

Yeah, that takes me back. If the programme you were watching was monochrome then the last few seconds of the form up turned to black and white.

For some Dr Who Revenge of the Cybermen had a different tune, the only time I heard that one. The rest of my tapes were this one.

[sambda]

The "Revenge of the Cybermen" one was the original music. RotC was one of the BBC's earliest video releases, in the early 80s. The version here is the second ident.

[Hodnux]

If anyone saw the Kevin Bishop Show episode featuring the Countdown USA spoof, you can hear a few notes of this music with the mock NBC logo

[apl175]

I LOVE the ending of the closing piece. It's like an extra little surprise that rounds it all out.

[boobtuber06]

i know, it's very royal sounding... very British.

[antjeisback]

It's worth noting that at the time these idents were made and screened, the video cassette were highly regarded as one of the technologies of the future. How times have changed when the CD then the DVD came in.

[vortexguyz934]

This just brings back memories of growing up in the 90's constantly rewatching old Fawlty Towers Videos

[zaxxonuk]

This has got to be the most colourful and hypnotic ident ever! and the vangelis style music is very well suited.

whoever thought this one up did a very good job indeed!!

Excellent!!!

[stingrayfan2007]

Yeah it is really something,I used to have this on my Postman Pat 3 Vhs, but I reckon someone got rid of it because I can't find it anywhere in my house!

[sonus03]

Does everyone else notice the 'moon' shape object that appears too right at the end when the star 'shines' for the last time?!

I always wondered what it was? Was it really space I used to think? :) Are there moons and other planets and things in that blackness? The star needs to shine brighter so we can see them! :)

[AidanLunn]

If you mean the shine just above it - that is not a moon, it's just light diffraction on the camera lenses.

[sonus03]

O M G!

I haven't seen this for over 20 years!

Seeing this just actually made me cry! I was whisked back in time to being sat in front of the TV watching Postman Pat videos. That is just incredible.

THANK YOU for uploading it. I loved my childhood, and this ident just takes me straight back to it at warp speed whenever I click 'replay'. :)

Thank you so much.

[antjeisback]

I think... I have the digital recordings of these on my PC but I'm still trying to convert to a readable format.

[fraserkatie]

I know, I was sacred of the video music too!

[SpongLena]

I was so scared, I had to mute the TV whenever it came on! I wasn't so scared of the other 2 musics, though.

[Arrunthegreat2009]

it dont get much more 80's than this does it lol.

[regentv980]

love this as the one before!

[wirhannah]

I've just remembered another video I've seen this one on - when I was at school we had to watch the cartoon version of Animal Farm and it was at the beginning of that.

[wirhannah]

This one scared me a bit when I was a kid because of the music, but I love it now :) Reminds me of my cousins' Fireman Sam vids. My brother's friend also has old Monty Python videos with this logo on as well.

[RobotwarsKing]

I bet BBC could easily re-animate this for any older shows they do!

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[regentv980]

bbc are like my backside regarding classic progammes releasing them on dvd,what about Top of the Pops in the 70's,all the Jon Pertwee Dr Who's,The Long Chase,The Changes and many more

[darkwhitty]

2nd one was at the start of my fireman sam VHS

[darkwhitty]

I realise my error. The first one plays at the start, then 2nd at the end.

I like the second best, if any1 can do a HD version i would be greatful

[retronicky]

this is great! soo retro!

[stim124]

The Music sounds like it was made by Peter Howell of the BBC radiophonic workshop.

I wonder if it was by him?

[pbraddazz]

Get in!! Reminds me of my oldschool Fawlty Towers videos!  Nice post - much appreciated!

[stewiegriffin1963]

Actually, this always reminds me of 'Death To The Daleks' episosde with John Pertwee.

[stewiegriffin1963]

Actually, this always reminds me of 'Death To The Daleks' episosde with John Pertwee.

[RobotwarsKing]

This was on my old Fireman Sam videos! ^_^

[Davewakeham]

idents are about as usefull as indents

[AidanLunn]

eh? Idents are very useful, as they tell you which channel you are watching. and they make you associate which type of programming is on which channel e.g. great stuff on BBC, absolute shit on ITV.

[MrHammadmossop1988]

@AidanLunn Yeah it is a very good ident this is what do you think the tune off this from the 80s is brilliant I mean I tell you another thing Aidan if they released this old BBC Video logo on any old classic videos now it won't be anywere near as good as it was all them years ago when they used too release them on old VHS tapes from the 80s I mean I have to agree with you about what you were saying about great stuff on BBC but ITV is not that bad although the broadcvast programmes are not good

[AidanLunn]

It was the 80s! And you have to say that its better compared to the later ones!!!

[stewiegriffin1963]

WHAT, YOU ARE eszettfromhell ONE MAD HATTER! This ident's THE most nostalgic AND it always, ALWAYS reminds of 'Death to the Daleks' with John Pertwee!

[stewiegriffin1963]

I love it, it's retro AND it always reminds of 'Death to the Daleks' with John Pertwee!

[AidanLunn]

I think they could EASILY re-animate this for DVD!!!

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[SonOfAbramovich]

Brilliant. Back when the BBC stood for something more than poorly disguised social commentary and lefty propaganda.

[syrett76]

Take your rose tinted glasses off

[madmonkeyreturns]

I'm pretty sure I had this ident on an old Postman Pat video I had when I was little :)

[sonus03]

Me too! :)

[tailsiscutexd]

that used to be on my postman pat vid for well well back 80ts man that was well back 92 or 1990

[DuncanMcA]

BTW I'm sure they used a bit of this music on Channel 4's Kevin Bishop Show last night, over a mock HBO ident

[tedmaul]

yeah they did i noticed that too :)

[DuncanMcA]

Loved it :)

[Kargaroc286]

this reminds me of the stuff done with scanimate

[Hoddersrevenge]

IIRc it is scanimate. Damn good scanimate at that.

[Hoddersrevenge]

It is Scanimate.

[CNash85]

I love the final outro shot of the star winking out.

[sonus03]

Yeah! :) Me too! There was something 'magical' about the star shimmering at the end. Like it was saying 'goodbye, until next time' or something!

Perhaps it was a subliminal message programmed in by a BBC Micro to make us all buy retro computing hard and software in our 20's, 30's? :)

[cassettiespagetie]

Best One EVER. They have put effort into this one...

[Hoddersrevenge]

Unlike the crap effort on the latter two, of course the globe was good.

[Harr123]

This is one of my favourites, I have this on a few old videos, the music is excellent on this one. The way to know whether this ident is on a tape is if at the bottom of the sleeve spine you find the words "BBC VIDEO" in capital bold print.

[jon2johnny]

I had this on an old VHS of the Five Doctors

[1985queen]

So very charming and warming, a true classic of BBC television, I have this ident on my old Faulty Towers videos! A classic ident to go with the classic shows of the 80s!

[sootyndark]

You sure love the word classic!!!

[1985queen]

lol! Certainly do! :D Classic!

[Nlangkirby135]

A Great Classic Indeed.

The ending one makes me smile :-)

[ZiggyShadowDust]

The glory days of BBC video Idents. This and the spinning gold globe where great BBC Video idents.