ITV returns after the 1979 strike

ITV (region unknown) returns after the long strike of 1979. As ever with really rare material, the tape is in a bad way but it's still vaguely interesting for people of a certain disposition. There's a much better quality Yorkshire TV version of this, including the start-up routine, on the web - I'm sure I've seen it on YouTube somewhere.

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Entertainment

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• ITV
• start-up
• strike
• 1979
• Philips
• N1500
• VCR

[pratt68]

For the first night of ITV's return in 1979, it was network continuity from Thames' Teddington studios. None of the regional stations did continuity that night and all the shows were networked with no regional opt-outs, if I remember rightly.

[emenveeuk]

The continuity announcer is Peter Marshall of Thames Television. The clock is familiar to Thames viewers during a lot of the 1970's & I think London Weekend Television sometimes used this clockface too.

[dunkiep]

I was born in 1971 - remember it well. TISWAS did a piss-take of that tune the next day.

[eekoutasignal]

Can't help but wonder if that lineup at 2:22 is imposed over an artcard with a shaky cameraman shooting it, or a wobbly bit of film.

[keithmcneill55]

That looked like a good nights entertainment on ITV that night, unlike most of the tripe we're forced to watch nowadays. TV was so warm and friendly back in the day. Now its just cold and clinical. Sad :(

[BBC600]

CBC NEVER SANG WELCOME HOME TO CBC! But only O Canada!

[docmartenialation]

is that a hanndmade "welcome home to ITV"? just so they could have those two little lights on?

[mu9cephei]

From the continuity announcement just before the news, this is a broadcast from the Thames region.

[digitalramyun]

It scares me to think I am just old enough to remember watching ITV return after the 1979 strike. I certainly recall the "Welcome Home" jingle very clearly - I was living in the HTV region at the time, so for all we know, I might have been watching this very transmission...

[deskpaperclips]

i miss the old days!