BBC Scotland continuity - Boxing Day 1983

Another fabulous find from an old Betamax videotape! Three consecutive BBC Scotland junctions from the early evening of Boxing Day 1983, including two network BBC1 Boxing Day trailers, both the BBC1 digital clock (just a glimpse) and the BBC Scotland analogue clock, complete weather with Bill Giles, and TWO showings of the BBC Scotland Christmas 1983 ident. Superb! Now, who will be first to spot the mistake contained within the broadcast? [Apologies for the poor quality audio.] ANY AND ALL COPYRIGHTS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.

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• 1983
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• Christmas
• ident

[tvcreamguide]

The other mistake, of course, is that they refer to Laughing Matter as including "fifty minutes of comedy", when the menu points out it's actually only forty minutes. Mind you, they made that mistake in the Christmas Radio Times too.

I don't normally make requests but you wouldn't happen to have that Final Score we've got the intro and outro to able to upload, would you?

[DELTIC1976]

Very well spotted. At the time of writing this, I still have the tape which has the material on it, but it has no intro or outro to speak of. After the ident, it is a simple cut to an upper body shot of David Icke, the classified football results, pools news, a couple of other sports related news items, and the close of the programme is simply a slide for horse racing from Chepstow on BBC2 the following day.

[RobinCarmody]

But isn't that BBC Scotland clock *terribly* dated for 1983 by comparison with the network version? The announcer is also much more amateurish than most of those on network.

Mild and wet - ugh, the worst possible winter weather (for me anyway).

[DELTIC1976]

Dated in terms of not being up to speed with the network version, yes, but newer is not always better. There is, for me, a certain feeling of being soothed by the old analogue second hand not being so exact and regimental.

Amateurish? That's one way of describing a particular spoken section, but I would hope that we all get tongue-tied at times, and are not all perfect in everything we do, every time we do it.

Winter weather should indeed be cold and crisp, or else it's just not cricket.

[623058]

@DELTIC1976 BBC Scotland announcers always seems to be more relaxed, and cheerful then the Dour london ones. ( I bet I mis-spelt that great Scottish word Dour)

Also did anyone eles catch the half second of the network clock around 1m 18sec. it seems to look just like the Scottish one.

[DELTIC1976]

Some of them are, even nowadays, but there are many who just try too hard at speaking properly, instead of as they would do normally.

As stated, the BBC1 network clock is digital, but the BBC Scotland clock is analogue. As the first clock is on view for such a short time, look at the centre of both versions to see an instant difference.

[623058]

@DELTIC1976 I see the middle of it now. I never caught it first time around.

[DELTIC1976]

Congratulations! You win, er, the coveted title of, er, being first to win. Well done and all that.

[RobinCarmody]

"The Treasure of of Abbot Thomas"!

Although I prefer some of the other, rawer (Van der Graaf equivalent, heh) 70s ghost stories, the scene featured in the trailer always reminds me of "In the Cage" by Genesis - a December 1974 contemporary - which is a very good thing, though it jars as dramatically with this trailer (the sound and style of throwing the post-war state on the fire, distinct from trailers of even a year earlier) as that song does with "That's All".