BBC Video: Fawlty Towers (1995)

Another BBC Video ident here, this time from a Fawlty Towers video, which was re-released in 1995, also includes a couple of slides for closed captioning, which meant that if you had a special decoder connect to your VCR you would be able to recieve Subtitles on the video.

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Entertainment

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• BBCVideo
• BBCTV
• BBC
• 1995
• FawltyTowers

[chao772]

I have the Closed captioning Slides/Screens on my Disney VHS tapes

[steviegTVreturns]

I think most Disney tapes had these slides, although it was unusual for them to appear on BBC Video releases, they're usually only kept to Films. Although I don't know anyone who actually owned one of the decoders, I suppose DVD subtitles killed it off.

[MattWindsor91]

oh dear lord this was scary back in the day

[devvomashup]

@Coolhaksta2010 Yeah, on Warner tapes. They were introduced in mid-1993 on Buena Vista tapes. Calafornia Man, from May 1993 (if I'm correct) has the CC screens.

[Coolhaksta2010]

@devvomashup closed captions screens were inroduced september 1993

[devvomashup]

@Coolhaksta2010 And so does Falling Down, which is from December 1993. Most WB rental tapes from '93 didn't have Closed Captions though.

[Coolhaksta2010]

@devvomashup under siege is from 1993 and that has CC

[devvomashup]

@Coolhaksta2010 No, only ones released in and after 1994.

[Coolhaksta2010]

@steviegTVreturns most warner tapes had cc

[Coolhaksta2010]

@areyouakegger what trailers are on that?

[Coolhaksta2010]

thats rare 2 see closed caption screens on a BBC Video release

[lascowiec14]

I watched an old BBC VHS in the dark at midnight... when that ident came on I nearly had involuntary bowel movement

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

@MattWindsor91

It's weird how practically the whole thing is quiet and then you get

DEE DEE DEE

DOO DOO DOO

DEE DEE DEEEEE...