Tyne Tees TV Northern Life: 6 November 1981

[sentineldg8]

how nice to see tom coyne again thank you

[bucksby]

Great clip. Nice to see footage of Newcastle in 1981. I wonder if the Games Gallery shop at 1.42 was an early computer games shop? (for Ataris or something)

[darrowby1972]

Tom Coigne ?

[paulallan1000]

30 years ago where's the time gone.I remember being at Heworth that day to see the Queen lovely woman,took her time to speak to the kids this really brings back the memories

[jasejames]

Isn't there a piece missing of that intro?

[doubledeckers]

Yes there is a bit missing from the titles. VHS tapes were so expensive in those days (equivalent to £32 each in current money - 17p a minute) that a lot of irrelevant bits got paused.

[UKSazzy67]

The opening titles to the show look so amateurish and was it really necessary for the presenter to sit with his legs apart showing the bulge in his trousers? I think it would have been more appropriate to have him sitting behind a desk.

[CoachAlex1996]

Wow those trains look old!!!

[CoachAlex1996]

Cool video 5*

My Grandpa helped build the metro between Jesmond and Central Sation to the QEII Bridge. Did you know the only part of the Metro that only belongs to the Metro is betweeen Jesmand and the QEII Bridge.

CoachAlex1996

[moveitbetts]

How can anyone diss the 1979-88 TTT logo, it's iconic! Mind you, the "Flowing Rivers" ident of 1988-89 that replaced it was the best of the lot.

[steveh31]

Oh you can't avoid the old "bomb squares" Lucky Her Maj avoided one

[NameNotaNumber]

TRUE STORY:

See the horrible old Tyne Tees logo sequence at the start? One day when I was skiving off school I was so bored I rang Tyne Tees and told them their logo was an embarrassment to the region. To my surprise, the woman I spoke to said "eeh, we've never really thought about it, I'll bring it up at the next meeting" and about a month later they changed it to a brand new shiny metallic computer graphic one.

TRUE STORY.

[thelyniezian]

Not that said ident lasted long before the ITV generic silliness.

[MQsCues]

A month later? Hmmm, they might already have been working on that one then!

[NameNotaNumber]

Oh no, it was definitely my phone call that did it. I was also the brains behind the "Never In A Month Of Sundays" ad campaign for Bisto.

[SozLike]

That's Tom Coyne - *reputedly* the inspiration for Roger Mellie in Viz. Allegedly.

[RobertHartlepool]

I heard Mike Neville was the inspiration. anyone from Whickham who knows of him will know he is legendary for liking the odd tipple.

[matelot95]

Mike Neville wasn't it?

[leedsmackem]

The duke said it was just the 'ticket'....hahahahahahahahaha­hahhaahahaaahhaahhhhahaahhahah­ahaaahahhahahahahahahahahhahah­ahhahahahahahhaahahahaha

They mustve scratched their heads all day to think of that one

[doubledeckers]

You're right! I've changed the year.

[altona1968]

isn't it 1981? See the last second of the film, on the plaque.....

[RobinCarmody]

What an incredibly dated, plummy voice that reporter has (two amusing things: the way he sounds extraordinarily reverential but gets the Queen's formal title wrong, and the way he pronounces "nonetheless", which suggests that he was actually a Northerner underneath).

"becoming a grandmother again" must refer to the announcement that Princess Anne was pregnant with Zara (not that I care, really: I just *know* these things).

[SteveA1978]

I think it might be Diana pregant with Prince William. Zara was born in May 1981