BBC1 Closedown, Tuesday 14th January 1992

This closedown you may have seen before (when AidanLunn snatched it from me at the MHP Private Parts), but it's at High Quality this time. Anyway on this cold looking evening BBC1 Closes down at 11.55pm after a late scheduled edition of Match Of The Day, followed by a programme menu, the Weather, a PIF and Richard Straker wising us a very goodnight.

This is probably one of the last pre-Midnight closedowns, they were rare during the 1990's.

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[Thesurus02]

My family always turned the electric off when they went out. My father said 'It'll cost us more on our electric bill'

Tight old man.

[steviegTVreturns]

My Gran still unplugs everything at night (including her Freeview box) still thinking the old way of if you leave it on, it may blow up! aww bless..

[Halfbricktv2]

Lol we used to do that, Put the light on to make them think your in, well the hall light anyway. Liked the bit were the announcer said 'That was a party (laughs) a public information film.'

[steviegTVreturns]

Going back I'm sure we used to do that, on one occassion we left Countdown on the TV whilst we nipped off to the Spar shop! How times change...

[AidanLunn]

I read on another of CentralSouth's videos (before the YouTube fascists took it down) that the last pre-midnight closedown was in January 1994.

The commenter didn't mention the date. And Ive seen some other early 1990s closedowns and most of those were pre-midnight closedowns. Maybe They were common in the very early 1990s but became rarer as the early 90s progressed?

[steviegTVreturns]

That seems to be the case, usually Mondays-Thursdays it would be like 12.00am-ish, but as this edition of MOTD was on at the last minute, I guess closing at 11.55pm was sensible. I taped a few closedowns in 1997 (although I since taped over them) and they were usually after 2.00am on most nights, only one occassion I recall there was a closedown before 1.00am.

[ekhornbeck127]

smerts sportsnight? is that an evening of sports for snerts?

party broadcast for the criminal party???

bad night for him all round wasn't it.

god save our gracious queen, she isn't really mean, god save the queen, and her corgies, grandma victorian, fire place edwardian, blimey where have my panties gone, god save the queen !

one thank you.

[crazymatthew53]

It's time to wish you a warm and peaceful good night, and we hope you join us again tomorrow. Goodbye for now!

[godofthedevil]

i remember that PIF from years and years ago.. nicely uploaded as per :-)

[eltonator]

One of my favourite PIFs here :)

[brucedanton]

I remember a rather early closedown sometime in January or February 1994. It was a Sunday night, and it was listed in the Radio Times as 11.35-11.40pm Weather, followed of course by Closedown.

I think indeed, that this was one of the very last finishes before Midnight.

After that, BBC1 introduced a late film seven nights a week, and Closedown was much later than before I believe.

[MattTheSpratt]

@MattTheSpratt Sarcasm aside, I've never seen a closedown live since I was too young to be up that late. .___.

[MattTheSpratt]

oh man smortsnight is the best show ever oh my god

[Whovian92]

@AidanLunn yeah sorry about that the computer kept refreshing the page

[AidanLunn]

@Whovian92 Yes, you said that twice, we only need to know once.

[Whovian92]

and fifteen hours later i was born

[202Hunter]

TV should be still like this was much better than the crap of today!