Play Your Cards Right Opening Titles 1986

Opening titles and a little bit more of Play Your Cards Right. This is from Friday 29 August 1986 and would have been the first airing of the new LWT ident on the ITV Network. The continuity comes from a youthful Julian Simmons of Ulster Television.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Play
• Your
• Cards
• Right
• 1986
• London
• Weekend
• Television
• LWT
• ITV

[agfagaevart]

The original theme tune! So much better than the last one.

[morgansifer82]

The LWT ident doesnt seem that dated, considering it was over twenty years ago. Would it look too out of place today? (if ITV hadn't have become one single brand that is)

[DANWOODHOUSE]

Why did they have 4 dealing girls for just 2 card decks in those days?

[623058]

@psammiad Borders, Tyne tees still had in vision CA until 1995/6. Grampian had them until 1997. STV, Thames, Anglia still had until the start of 1989. only central, LWT and tvs had them gone by 1986. Yorkshire never had them,

[MrDan2593]

The guy at the start was so nervous he nearly exploded.

BRUCE FOR SYTH

[imcadam121]

Nice clip.love those old itv regional idents.

[HodmoxTheCritic]

@psammiad Well incidentally the continuity is from UTV [Ulster Television], and in 2011 they STILL have in-vision continuity, I guess not being part of ITV plc has its advantages.

[97channel]

We all remember Bruce Fer-syth with play YOUR cards... riigghht.

[psammiad]

Funny its such a 70s sounding intro tune, it was dated even at the time! It's funny to see an actual continuity announcer too, I'm sure that had already been done away with on English networks by 86.

[dalekboy1]

Very 80's. Nice wig

[bilkyasko]

@morgansifer82 It would - the non-descript smattering of a grey background, the faux-3D animation, and the horrid drop-shadow would just look shit.

[UKArchiveTV]

oh man that's the one. LE doesn't get better than this. The devastating opening sequence and a bunch of pretty girls escorted onto the stage by a handsome man (not Bruce).

And what's at the end? From the ghosting it looked like the little clips of key parts were edited at the time. Is that a collector's record?