HBO Sign-Off

[tmf1977]

Wow....how do I long for the 80's. Never realised how wonderful and simple it was back then.

[IAmSquareOne]

WOW I remember this.......once it signed off and adults were sleep....we'd flick it over to SkinaMax....... ;)

[rclaughlin]

Another sign that this was the 1980s: the kissing spouses at the end are one man and one woman.

[mikeycereal]

I don't remember this sign off, but then again I didn't stay up until 2am back then. I think all TV signed off around 2am even local channels. Why do people need to be up past then? Get to bed!

[vulcansdaughter]

My parents had cable in the late 70s. the old brown box with buttons connected to the cablebox with a wire. HBO was the ONLY channel and it shut down just before 2 am. Why do I remember this? My father worked from 5pm to 2 am. Thank you for posting!

[jucurtis23]

back in the early 80s.....HBO signs off.....the party just begins!!

[annaeharrispink]

WHAT HAPPEN AFTERWARD? I WASN'T BORN WHEN T.V WAS NOT ON 24/7, I WAS BORN IN THE 90'S

[AEMoreira81]

@annaeharrispink Most of the time, the carrier was just cut and you got static. Even into the 1980s, it was common for many stations to go dark overnight.

[TroyCutie679]

@AEMoreira81 Wow. Seriously? I never knew. I was born in the 90s, half the decade went by before I was born.

[ChrisAshtear]

@annaeharrispink Color test lines. just colors bars. and a really annoying tone.

[bryandamadman]

Like that door hook is gonna keep a negro out of your house.

[MrMAHBOI1]

@bryandamadman woah there! You're being pretty racist there, don't wanna be a flamer.

[jmarcum72]

Seems like the evening routine has changed quite a bit since then too, huh? Setting out the milk jugs? Winding the watch and the alarm clock? Wow.

[JHollowayNetwork]

I have uploaded the one in full, which it ends with the color tone.

[Familygirl17]

I'm somewhat frightened...and I LOVE IT!

[dscookrph]

I had no idea HBO ever signed off! This was cool...thanks.

[astrofiasco]

Are you serious? HBO had a sign off? Wow! 

[zshaw7549]

I am glad that I was not even thought of during this time, I could not deal with HBO signing off. The best things on come HBO at late night.

[Christinada5]

It's it just me or does the music totally contrasts with the cartoon being shown, lol

[HCShannon]

They need to show something like this on Cartoon Network when Adult Swim starts!

[TheBorisduck]

@HCShannon They did something like this before durning one summer. Forgot which.

[chrislastnamerperson]

@HCShannon actually they do,kind of

[ablethevoice]

My family got cable in 1978 and HBO used this little sign-off animation then, too. I don't recall when HBO went 24/7.

[TurtleDove81]

Still sounds like a humping beat :-P

[pancakeman22]

Excellent job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[waveali]

Damn this is a throwback. I didn't even realize pay channels signed off..lmao. We didn't get cable till 1981 or something. I wonder what year this is from?

[ladidacow1]

so if you tried to watch tv after a certain time nothing would happen?

[TurtleDove81]

this is such a porn beat. I assume by this hour it was some funky sexy movie, followed by ads that say 1-900 lick me? then the famous mult color off the air sign that gooes riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iing

[uncleroyhoggins]

That's awesome...I have never seen that...but then we never had HBO.

[Nodog438]

@uncleroyhoggins You know what. i like to watch CRASHBOX. Too bad we dont have HBO anymore.Hey. theres a store near us called HBO CABLE.

[mobydee71]

u r really old if u remember a pay service called "ON TV"....LOL

[tsntana]

What I don't remember is what HBO had when they signed on.

[marioTmaggot]

I remember this. This was when television was still classy enough to go off. Now the shit is on all the time unfortunately.

[JoebDragon]

a lot of them don't have shut down they just show ads.

[mypalrocco]

@marioTmaggot

Too bad you're not "classy enough" to watch your fucking mouth!

[marioTmaggot]

@mypalrocco Nor was your mother classy enough to say no the night you were conceived.

[mypalrocco]

@marioTmaggot

Even I gotta give you a thumbs up on that one, jerky!

[LJK193]

Hard to believe there was ever a time when HBO signed off. It's weird imagining HBO not playing dirty stuff at 2 AM

[kargaroc386]

this is a mind fuck.

except there's not that much crazyness in it, but it just feels that there's nothing normal about it.

but it was the 70s, the era of mindfucks, so what do i expect.

[TurtleDove81]

O_O I don't think I like this music too much, this bum bum bum.. has an adult..porn type of beat to it

[guitarsword15]

*Yawn* Good Night...

[pogkappen]

Why would you adjust your watch before you go to bed?

[haileyy9jenna1]

it was the probably 70s, what would you expect??!

[usjets08]

daylight saving time?

[AllFamily3]

You used to have to WIND your watch to keep it running & keeping good time. Before bed was as good a time as any to do it.

[lurch321]

You used to have to wind your alarm clock too!

[Z3R0FiR3]

Hahaha. Cat.

[happy7117]

This bumper is saying "see you in the morning when you wake up"

[sonicman2500]

HBO says Good Night

[xxbox6191]

yeah now days there bunch of in commercials and scams and saving money on late night tv,

[BigPimpinXLII]

what was the color of George Washington's white horse? (90% of you will take more than 10 seconds to answer this)

[RickyZ101]

Man, The night time must of got pretty boring/scary during the late night back then, eh?

[kargaroc386]

yeah.  that ended in the early 2000s

[345345453254]

@RickyZ101 exactly what i was thinking. wonder what kinds of things went on late at night besides sex or reading. creepy.

[jriley1992]

What year was this?

[Ibusers1]

@jriley1992 This sign-off ident is from 1979.

[jriley1992]

Wow Awesome! I didnt know HBO was out in the 70s. I thought it came out in the 80s or something. But then again, I wouldnt know, I was born in the 90s :)

[undertakerfreak1127]

"THIS CONCLUDES OUR BROADCAST DAY."

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I figured that this channel wasn't always full service, but this is a pretty neat sign-off.

My favorite one is still fX network (1994 until it was revamped in '97) sign-off, with the title cards of their TV shows played over a whistling of "Star Spangled Banner," followed by a quiet, "Good night!" before cutting to an infomercial.  Ah memories!

[Kargaroc286]

videohollic has a better quality version of this in his wall of tapes. and it's up here!

[madiroe]

Man I totally forgot about that till I just watched this! Wow, its amazing what you can remember when you see something! Awesome

[GullahFan240]

LOL 25-28

[coach2ma]

I remember that between midnight and 5 AM it would go to a blue screen that just ran the listings for the programming the following day.

[Kargaroc286]

most of the time it would go to color bars. if you check the version on google video, you see it at teh end

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I didn't realize HBO signed off so "early" - midnight? For me, that's still fairly early in the evening - I'm a night owl, and love staying up till 3 am, so anything on TV is a blessing, but I usually find Bad Movies at that hour.

[mrbumps164]

Now if anybody can dredge up those intermission clips they used to play on HBO way back in the day I would be in nostalgia heaven. I'm talking about the 10 or so minute films they played between features. I particularly remember one showing the Museum of Modern Art, plus one with Greenwich Village. This would be from around '77.

[Kargaroc286]

this=coolness

[MADDOG3200]

this was HBO in the 70s???

AWESOME!!!! :D :D :D

[combinownage]

All it has now at signoff is Porno.

[MADDOG3200]

i know aint that the sad truth combinownage???

[InsomniacGirl]

I remember this, thanks for posting :-D

[jtm0ney]

awesome

[jhwink]

Anybody know what year this first aired? That is some crummy animation, but still really cool.

[jjm1965]

I started receiving HBO in March 1980, and this looks older than that.

[mike72988]

I remember watching it in Seattle in 1978. I worked nights and saw this almost every night before bed

[Kargaroc286]

coolness!

i bet this is embedded into yer head for the rest of yer life

[rumplins]

aaah, back when TV actually ended at night.

[mysteryword]

Reminds me of the good old 70's and 80's time period and all the stuff that came out.

[simonjeste]

ROFL it's the signoff for HBO?

Then where is all the swearing?

[kascnef82]

The logo at the end was the first HBO logo, before all the letters were separated. Also, Time/Life would soon merge with Warner and the resulting company still owns HBO and its networks.

[OpenArms82]

This was cool,though it was caught off A bit!

[mikecleona]

Not only did HBO sign-off in the early AM, it also didn't begin its broadcast day until three in the afternoon. This was about 1979-80. Their motto was, "HBO People Don't Miss Out!"

[virgolibraariesmoon]

LOL How neat!!!

[92days]

did they had one for when they came back in the morning?

[mrmoore1970]

Yes they did. It wasn't an animated short like this one, it just showed the HBO logo and the announcer speaking before they showed the daily lineup.

[yousucklolol]

that is an EXTREMELY weird animation but it's pretty cool

[cosmokramer1987]

But of course America had some morals back in the 1970s, now its a fucking cesspool, thus we have no more graphics like this.

[huggyface]

Yeah, the inane crap that permeates the airwaves nowadays surely is "graphic"...no more cool graphics like the 70's.

[paleale1984]

Fucking excellent..... MUST HAVE MORE

[TVsTim]

Wow, this looks like something from "Seasame Street". Hard to believe that this came from the same network that now gives us "The Sopranos", "Sex In The City" and "Cathouse".

[ProductionX]

Don't forgot "Oz".  :-)

[JMFabianoRPL]

And the one truly great one, Curb Your Enthusiasm