And it's Goodbye from us Part Two Southern's final prog.

[SuperGingernutz]

Perhaps Henry Mancini should have sued the composer - it sounded like the Pink Panther!

[GLFVIDEO]

@SuperGingernutz

I didn't sound like the PP to me! You are of course entitled to your opinion, and thanks for that.

GL:F

[GLFVIDEO]

youtube.com/user/GLFVIDEO#p/u/­37/9TFAlxpXK3s

[onthetellybox]

Christopher Robbie did some continuity for TVS as late as 1986 as per the link www2.tv-ark.org.uk/itvsouth/tv­s_continuity.html (half way down) I wonder how many watched this whilst celebrating 1981 going into 1982! Do you have the whole programme in full as the best bit is when Robbie welcomes in 1982 but its done with the typical Southern losing bite that the whole programme had. Be worth an upload.

[GLFVIDEO]

@onthetellybox

Hi,

The whole programme is on 'My Channel', but in four parts. Thank You for your comments.

GLF

[ShutUpYouMong]

@GLFVIDEO link please?

[brucedanton]

Thank you for the posting here-it is excellent!

It is amazing, but on the 31st December 2011, it will be exactly 30 years since this Southern Television send off-and though it paved the way for TVS and Meridian to come, it was indeed one of the things that led to the rot of television today-in particular ITV1 I feel!

[TheMasterNo6]

The star ending is creepy. Southern were extremely bitter of their loss, hence the abrupt sign off, no 'switch off your sets, no 'once again a very goodbye...etc'. I'm sure Chris Robbie went on to be on screen announcer for TVS when I were a lad...

[GLFVIDEO]

@TheMasterNo6

I take your point. But there would have been little point in adding a "Remember to switch off" Anno, after the drama of the close down.

As far as I know Chris Rrobbie never did v/o work for TVS.

regards,

GLF

[TheMasterNo6]

@GLFVIDEO Yes but its well known they did it as a two thumbs up to the IBA-a why bother attitude. They even had that idiot Richard Stilgoe do a song that had a line that took the mick out of incumbent TVS being in porta cabin offices outside the Southern TV offices as they awaited full vacation...

[GLFVIDEO]

@TheMasterNo6

Portacabin TV was quite an insult to TVS, as you state it was indeed designed to be so! Southern had nothing to lose by insulting the IBA, Lady Plowden in particular.

Long live the memory of the first ITV TV service for the South of England.

GLF

[Tripp1993]

What are the songs Lillian Watson sings? I know one song is Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" (famously covered by Annie Lennox in 1990), but what are the other two songs Lillian Watson sings?

[premiaire]

Thankyou GLF VIDEO, I was 16 when the tv changes came as ATV & Southern sadly went.

I remember the show Out Of Town with Jack Hargreaves, Im sure there was a spin off ?.

I still have lp records of the Out Of Town series.

The tv shows now shown on ITV are less quality since the ITv network became one. ?

Best wishes to everyone.

Jason

[GLFVIDEO]

@premiaire

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your comments. Yes, ITV are not once what they were. Production values have slipped, programmes are too mainstream these days.

Nothing we can do I'm afraid, except to not watch them!.

It is good though to look back on the 'old days'

Cheers,

GLF

[medicdeano]

Lucy Morgan looke rather tasty!

very sad night for decent television though- the start of the rot!

[GLFVIDEO]

@ingravegreen

I am pleased I have been able to restore some gold old fashioned 'TV Nostalgia' for you. Look how many other British icons have gone to dust, or been purchased by other Countries - You are not allowed to say foreigners nowadays, - oops I just have!.

[Xxfancythat79xX]

Did they deliberately make this boring?!

[AdiRudi]

@Xxfancythat79xX Southern Television always seemed kind of stuck in the 1950s. Probably one of the reasons it lost its licence in the 1981 round.

[Tripp1993]

06:34, you can tell Lillian Watson was crying!

[GLFVIDEO]

@Tripp1993

Certainly one of them!.

[Tripp1993]

You think, like, Thames becoming Carlton Television was one of the most depressing nights in television along with the end of Southern Television?

[TheAnneLeveridge]

Very nice quality. I think it's nice to have the start going into outer-space as a nice end

[GLFVIDEO]

@TheAnneLeveridge

Thank You for your comments.

Like you I think the 'Southern star' spinning into space for eternity was actually quite a nice, even imaginative touch.....

[JasonC1782]

Clearly the best part of the parade of presenters at the end was seeing the expressions give the game away as to who had been kept by TVS and who hadn't.

You'd think Arnold Wilson had only gotten sacked that day from how pissed off he looked. :D

[GLFVIDEO]

@JasonC1782

I understand what you mean, but not sure I would have used your description!. In fact very few Southern presenters/journalists/produce­rs etc were employed by TVS. By that reckoning there should have been rather more 'sad' faces in the line up. I still fail, after all these years, to understad why Pat Sloman grinned, and licked/sucked her lip when the camera panned by. C'est la vie I suppose.

[jayrox40]

Excellent quality!

[dwibs93]

guess what tvlive said was true, Southern TV never did shake of the 50s/60s

[Tripp1993]

Would a film about Southern Television's last days ever be made into a movie?

[GLFVIDEO]

@Tripp1993

No.

[TheMikehobson]

Like i said - i think this was a very sad event for all concerned - the opinion that the ending needed to be "bright and cheerful" is of course subjective on your part.

i thought it was very moving but then thats subjective on my part. i enjoyed seeing it again. many thanks

mike

[TheMikehobson]

I cannot see how or why you feel this was a "severe ending."

I felt this was a very sad ending - although most of the music was dreadful

Southern was, of course replaced by the awful TVS

[GLFVIDEO]

@TheMikehobson

Mike you are entitled to your opinion.

To close a TV station with a line up of 'Presenters' that look like they are going to the gallows, is I feel, not a very bright and cheerful way to remember them.

The programme was of course recorded the previous day. Only Christopher Robbie was actually 'Live' in the continuity studio for the interim VT inserts.

[Tripp1993]

How did you know that?

[GLFVIDEO]

@Tripp1993

I am not revealing my source!. I'll leave it up to your imagination to decide - Perhaps I have 'inside' information.........

[GeorgeASFTHM]

Ironically, the layout of the studio with the people standing in line reminds me of the BBC version of Pass the Buck from the late 1990s - a show that Fred Dinenage himself presented.

[GLFVIDEO]

@GeorgeASFTHM

I have never heard of that programme. Perhaps they shared the same Director!

[Nunsweepit421]

Very sad indeed to see the Southern star fade away amongst all the other stars in the universe never to come back. Brings a tear to my does that. I was after all, bought up in Kent and Southen gave us great programming. Especially childrens TV programs after school. Thank you Southern for the lovely memories.

[eurovisionuk2008]

well it was similar

[eurovisionuk2008]

that was the insperation for BBC1 wales analogue shutdown last night

[GLFVIDEO]

@eurovisionuk2008

Well there was not a lot to inspire BBC Wales then was there - even if in only 625 Analogue lines!!

[JAYROX1969]

Christopher Robbie played the Cyberleader in Dr Who Revenge of the Cybermen!

[Ducky248]

Go to the near the end, where it has all the names of people that worked there..at time 8.04 to be exact, Peter Clark. That is my Grandad!!! No Joke!

[GLFVIDEO]

I know your Grandad - that is no joke either!

[renard801]

@Ducky248

So who is your dad  - Nick or Jeremy?

[Tripp1993]

Would Nic Ayling mind if the Southern logo was used in a film about its final day?

[GLFVIDEO]

I have no idea. Ask him!

[Tripp1993]

And do you think a film could be made about Southern's final day?

[ChrissyboyH44]

I was just over a year old when this was televised so obviously dont remember, but this is one of, if not the most unique and bizarre night time closedown in the whole of British tv broadcasting history.

[GLFVIDEO]

Hi There,

You have to remember that SOUTHERN TV was one of the origianl ITV Companies, and thought itself 'unbeatable' The manangement was very conservative in it's outlook, and was very surprised when it lost it's franchise. This prog was of course no ordinary nightime closedown, It was Southern's 'swan song' the rotating Southern Star back into the universe was itself I think, quite a good idea. Glad you enjoyed the prog.

[Tripp1993]

No shut-down announcements, no telling the audience to turn off their television sets and removing the plug from their sockets, no continuity, not even "God Save the Queen" signalled the end of Southern Television! The Southern Star on VT, just spinned into space, ending the special and Southern TV, and the transmitters abruptly shut down 100%, ending 1 era in exactly 2 minutes flat.

R.I.P. Southern Television:

Saturday, August 30, 1958 at 5:30 PM GMT - Friday, January 1, 1982 at 12:45 AM GMT.

[GLFVIDEO]

Yes, Yes and Yes!

[Tripp1993]

Thank you.

[GLFVIDEO]

I was 4 years of age when Southern started. I remember sitting on my fathers knee in 1960, when the first Coronation Street was broadcast. I was 6 by then I remember it very well, a few weeks later my father passed away. That memory has stayed with me ever since, more for my dad than Corrie.

[Tripp1993]

Lilian Watson is a really beautiful singer...and it was almost 28 years before Susan Boyle became an international celebrity.

[GLFVIDEO]

Hardly in the same league!

[Xxfancythat79xX]

That was really quite sad. I don't remember that cos I was only 2 but i'm sure my parents do....what happened next? do you have a video of when TVS tookover?

[GLFVIDEO]

Yes it was quite sad actually! The TVS VT's are all on my Channel for you and others to enjoy!