Take Three Girls - promo and episode 1 closing credits (1969)

Here's a pre-debut promo for "Take Three Girls", which aired on BBC1 some hours before the first episode aired.

Note the announcer gets Liza Goddard's name wrong!

Then, there's the closing credits from the first episode...

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• Take Three Girls
• BBC. Liza Goddard
• TV
• television
• drama
• Britain
• UK
• 1969

[Matt571]

How come the end titles are in black and white?

[Conniptions886]

@Matt571 - Shouldn't really need explaining - off-air recording from the original screening, no colour video-recorders back then...

[dergrossen]

@TheMarkXIV  I never understood why Angela Down did not achieve more than a role in Howard's Way. The way she comes out with that cockney voice and attitude here is really, in my view, excellent from a young actress.

[dergrossen]

I saw this when it was broadcast. Now if you were a boy in a one child family this was spell binding. The continuity announcer sounds contemporary. He claims Angela's surname is Durham here. In those days the BBC mopped up the kids from the private schools and many of them were barely literate. Contemporary staff are better but number and maths still alludes them.

[dergrossen]

@gazzah54 Nah..they were just not very bright. Most of 'em below the top jobs still are.

[brainsurjonify]

I adored this series

[TheMarkXIV]

Jameson is James Bolan's wife, yes. And the credited scriptwriter for this episode, Hugo Charteris, was Ian Fleming's brother-in-law. (He was a good novelist too. Completely forgotten now. They got very good people to script BBC and ITV drama from the 60s to the 80s.)

[westersprings]

james bolan wife

[yumyummoany]

I loved this series so much, watching this brings so many memories of hopes, failures and achievements.

[dunebasher1971]

@terryjohn This is actually part of the BBC's own official posterity recordings of the first week of BBC-1 colour broadcasting. Ironically, the recordings were made on B&W 16mm film because all their colour VT machines were busy making or transmitting the programmes, they didn't have a spare one available to record BBC-1 output. These recordings "escaped" from the BBC archive many years ago and have been circulating among collectors ever since.

[juliaagordon]

Thank you!!! Been trying to remember who they were....

[SenhorBundy]

@MrDayday58

I take it you were/are rich? Not being picky or anything, it's just that virtually no-one had a video recorder full stop in the mid-1970s, let alone a colour one.