"Retro" BBC1 Ident (Life on Mars)

The BBC has not wavered from their 70's theme when its comes to the promotion of Life on Mars which started its second and final season in the UK.

While the beeb recently relaunched its BBC One idents, they took the ingenious step of having you "tune in" to the BBC of the 1970's, idents and all, for their broadcast of the premiere episode.

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• bbc
• ident
• logo
• life
• mars
• retro

[Janlari584]

i wonder if they are going to do something like this when Life on mars comes to the US

[Psychotronic42]

I'd like to see some vintage ABC idents used on the US version of the series. That would be cool.

[Psychotronic42]

Wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

[erikfloan]

What a voice...

[djouroboros]

I think the voiceover is Bill Nighy.

[TheCottonClub]

@9acmotoko9 That's no Scientist, that's Barry Took :)

[9acmotoko9]

anybody know who that scientist is who briefly appears for not even to milli-seconds? xD

[AlexOnTheBus]

... and now I realise they do - if you call the 'retro breaks' part of the promotion.

[AlexOnTheBus]

Right you are. Slight confusion on my part.

[MissSkymin]

He's talking about ABC in the US.

[LeeJTurnock]

It does have that old-school BBC voice-over feel about it.

[deaconredwhiteandblu]

cool, reminds me of monty python

[AlexOnTheBus]

While ABC1 didn't do anything special when the original series was shown in Australia, Ten has at least brought back (a version of) the TEN-10 Sydney logo for the US series. If only they went the whole hog and played Macarthur Park as well...