Motorway Fog (1970)

UK public information film warning motorway drivers to slow down in foggy conditions.

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Entertainment

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• Public
• Information
• Films
• Fog
• Motorways
• Driving
• TV

[MarchingTwinkie3]

I could listen to Patrick Troughton's voice all day...

[RobinCarmody]

This was shown on BBC1 as recently as the night Michael Portillo returned to parliament (Nov 1999).

[sphereballs]

I never realised that was Patrick Troughton.

[sphereballs]

I love how cocky the man looks at the beginning.

[Applemask]

@RobinCarmody I don't know if it was the night of the Kensington and Chelsea by-election, but it's entirely possible. It was certainly a News 24 handover. The one I saw most often on closedowns in them days was "Cold Snaps". In mid-July even.

[RobinCarmody]

@Applemask I've also got a socially crippling condition. Can you tell?

[RobinCarmody]

@Applemask was that the night of the Kensington & Chelsea by-election? It was definitely shown then - by that time, BBC1 wasn't closing down as such, but some of the old ceremonial survived for the first couple of years of the News 24 handover. It's also on a November 1978 closedown I have. I'll also never be able to think of the 'Think Ahead and Break Gently' PIF without thinking of Callaghan's "there will be no general election at this time" speech, as it was on the closedown that night.

[Applemask]

@RobinCarmody I remember seeing it on a closedown around 99 or 2000 too. Stood out like a herring in a jockstrap. And it was vaguely spooky because Troughton was well over a decade dead.

[TaTgurl1003]

I love the begining with the animal spitting out the guy's bones. The guy reminds me of moon man, from the book moon man

[Feisty1967]

I remember this ad so well from when I was a child!

[Cool2BCeltic]

These public information films seem to have acquired a cult following in the 21st century..

[qgloscit]

sorry this version wasnt Richard Baker. He did do the original but another guy who did loads of pif voiceovers later revoiced it.