BBC Scotland on 2 closedown - New Year's Day 1996

Another timely upload, this example being from my own personal VHS collection. This is the Hogmanay/New Year's Day closedown from BBC Scotland on 2, from sometime in the early to mid-nineties. The final broadcast before the clock appears was the film, Imagine. Note that the optics ident does not fade out with the BBC2 Scotland text at the end, rather it stops completely, is removed immediately, and the text remains for a second or so...remarks: could do better! [Apologies for the ripples and noise bars at certain points.] ANY AND ALL COPYRIGHTS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.

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[RobinCarmody]

This is from the last night of 1995, or the first hours of 1996.

[DELTIC1976]

Have had similar thoughts as yourself, just recently...if the likes of ITV were to bring back it's night time service as it was in it's early days, then at least there would be a broad spectrum of not bad quality programming to choose from. Even in my area, up until about the turn of the century, Scottish Television would have endless repeats of it's own archive series Weir's Way, which, on it's own, was worth staying up for and/or time shifting. Closedowns were friendly, and are sorely missed.

[Jimwoodward1212]

Time: 02:39

Annoucer: Graham Anderson

Optics Ident

[adamswapitshop]

Very good quality clip of the optic ident you have there - possibly the best quality on youtube since most of them aren't that good.

And the /B/B/C S C O T L A N D title was generated by a laserdisc that was overlayed over the ident footage. Over the 1991 - 1997 years there were many errors when idents would come on with no /B/B/C/ logo at all. This didn't happen so often after '97.