BBC2 junction (21/03/1978)

Featuring a slide for The Vet, then a rundown of programmes on Wednesday evening (22/03/78).

7.05 Mr Smith Propagates Plants
7.30 Newsday
8.10 Brass Tacks
9.00 Call My Bluff
9.30 Play of the Week
10.50 Arena: Cinema
11.25 Late News on 2
11.35 Simple Faith?

Then we're told what is on BBC1 at the moment, then we see the opening titles of Pepple Mill Showcase.

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• pebble mill showcase
• bbc 2
• bbc2
• continuity
• 1978
• 1970s
• bbc

[davidgbarron]

Love the fact at 2.38 that there was someone prompting the audience to clap.

[davidgbarron]

@JHollowayNetwork They were still using BBC COLOUR when showing replays of the following year's Cricket World Cup. Mind you 1978 was the year that the BBC went fully went into colour when the BBC Bangor Film Unit finally went into colour.

[TheWillsy]

Sounds like Bruce Hammal.

[JHollowayNetwork]

I didn't know the BBC COLOUR endboard was still in used in 1978.

[honkiplex]

Robert Robinson is still with us, and has only very recently retired as host of " Brain of Britain" on BBC Radio 4.

[Glamagal20091]

All those famous old faces here...sadly no longer with us.

Robert Robinson, Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell (Call My Bluff) and Norman (Ooo Roses grow on you) Vaughn (Pebble Mill).

[bern444]

We didn't always animate the symbol. It was generally done over silence so the junction would therefore be longer. It you didn't want to hang around, you wouldn't animate.

Bernie (BBC2 network director 1978)

[thelyniezian]

I dare say it's no less exciting than Gardener's Question on Radio 4... which, er, isn't very exciting. (Me who wished there was more amusing stuff on Radio 4 on Sunday afternoons to while away the time at uni.)

Of course for keen gardeners it's a different story...

[millingpebbles]

The Pebble Mill showcase, from the BBC TV Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, London...a great Midlands TV production there...

[dianamagupayo]

Oh, I get it. That's why this mechanical rotating discs was definitely a still version. Have a good day to you! Diana M. May 9, 2009 P.S. No spammers, please!