BBC1 1987 (1) (04.08.87)

Here is a clip from BBC1 on Tuesday 4th August 1987. It begins with the end of the Pink Panther Show, and follwes with a slide for CBBC, and the BBC South East news with Rob Curling and the weather with Bernard Davey. That is follwed by the BBC1 clock linking intio the 09:00 BBC News Update with Richard Whitmore.

This was found on the end of a tape, and the clip finishes when the tape stops.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1980s
• 80s
• 1987
• BBC1
• BBC
• 1
• One
• Continuity
• Junction
• News

[ludocrat]

The national news update contains nothing unfamiliar. Depressing.

Apparently, though, Buxted Park (local news item about a union buying it) is now owned by a company called 'Handpicked Hotels' - and has been 'lovingly restored'. Oh good.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

The news headlines here might reflect a case of "Plus ça change, mais plus c'est la même chose" (The more things change, the more they stay the same)?

[hammerman360]

was the lyrics change then like turtles or did persy say b-c instead of t-c

[AntarcticaTelevision]

No - in fact, the lyrics and dialogues were NOT changed!

[RobinCarmody]

Did you date this from the Queen Mother reference?

This was near the end of Richard Whitmore's BBC News career, when he was reading the short hourly bulletins and doing occasional weekend shifts, because he was seen by the nascent Birtists as an old-school actor-newsreader rather than a journalist. As it says on Wikipedia, Peter O'Hanrahahanrahan in The Day Today, as portrayed by Patrick Marber, looks oddly like him.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Yes, I dated this from the QM reference.

[putthetellyon]

Sometimes I swear Bernard Davey was the only weatherman the BBC had in the late 80s! lol. He's the only weatherman who keeps appearing on my VHS tapes.

[JubileePerson]

What a fantastic clip - Rob Curling has to be one of the best newsreaders ever, and made the old South East news what it was.

[RapierMedia]

@JubileePerson he should try and persuade a revival of turnabout.

[bedfordcrusader]

Words cannot describe how much my heart sank when i used to come home from school,put the tv on and find this pink panther crap on....

[admiralgustil]

pink pather classic!! another classic is top cat

[paulboy76]

Happy memories, when TV was worth watching! I used to like the weather bulletins told from the window-side. And Bernard Davey. BRING IT BACK!!

[capricious71]

The Pink Panther was one of the worst cartoons ever. Absolutely dire.