Channel 4 Continuity - 7.9.1989

A Thames endboard,three Channel Four slides with continuity, adverts for PG Tips, Bananas, Prudential, Vax, The Kinks Ultimate Collection album and Freeman Hardy Willis.

Followed by a trail for "Racing Home", a programme about Racing Driver Calum Lockie, Channel 4 ident with Fourscore, and the start of the film "Another Way".

Copyright Channel Four Television

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Channel Four
• Thames Television
• Northern Ireland
• Calum Lockie
• PG Tips
• Bananas
• Prudential
• Vax
• Kinks
• Freeman Hardy Willis
• Fourscore

[col2006ie]

Through checking the date of transmission for "Racing Home" via the BFI online database, this clip comes from Thursday 7th September 1989.

[VintageContinuity]

@col2006ie Thanks so much for the info, which I've added to the title... that was about the only place I didn't check when looking for the date!

[geishagirl257]

used to love the freeman hardy willis advert. Haven't seen it for over 20 years!!!

[jmay291]

does anyone know where i can find footage from the 'Racing Home' programme if possible?

[armondtanz]

great seeing adverts you were brought up on, the prudential one plucks at my heart strings so so much.... todays adverts miss the point, they rely too much on fancy fx and big budget!... fantastic

[Visonu]

Announcer is Carol Bolt

[RobinCarmody]

Come to think of it, this was the very same week that Hungary, always considered the most liberal of the Eastern Bloc countries, opened its border to the West - an oft-forgotten starting point for the changes of the next few months.

Alan Freeman doing his usual turn for the Kinks, though it's endlessly depressing that several such obvious compilations charted in the UK in the 80s/90s whereas they made some excellent albums in the late 60s/70s that didn't.

[steviegTVreturns]

From a programme about Northern Ireland to a Hungarian Film, you don't see that on Channel 4 today. Quite interesting at the start of your clip, this obviously from when the Government blocked IRA members from speaking on British Television, henceforth why they used captions in that case, or more comically with the likes of Gerry Adams' voice being dubbed. I'd stab a guess of 1991 for this clip, very interesting indeed.

[VintageContinuity]

@ukgoldfan Part of my job involves transfers from old VHS tapes, so I'll be uploading any interesting continuity as and when I come across it!