[James2001]

The Backstage Tour video posted in the Brookside thread showed Channel 4 Video did much the same.

[Neil Jones]

Back in the days when the ITV companies made home videos, I wonder how many of the home video idents were identical to the ident they were using on ITV at the time, and also how many of them were rejected programme endboards or idents.

Central used one of their cake idents from the time with the word Video slapped on top in a nasty font.

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You' d have thought Central would have come up with better for Central Video than... that. Seriously?

But elsewhere, BBC Video had this, which was 95% the same as the main COW ident:
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[W. Knight]

Back in the days when the ITV companies made home videos, I wonder how many of the home video idents were identical to the ident they were using on ITV at the time, and also how many of them were rejected programme endboards or idents.

Central used one of their cake idents from the time with the word Video slapped on top in a nasty font.

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Thames' first foray into home video was as hasty, if not more so:
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[AaronLancs]

Central used one of their cake idents from the time with the word Video slapped on top in a nasty font.

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Thames' first foray into home video was as hasty, if not more so:
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Woah, The Benny Hill Show had a video release?

[Neil Jones]

Thames' first foray into home video was as hasty, if not more so:
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Woah, The Benny Hill Show had a video release?

Read the description. "The Best of the Benny Hill Show", so probably just a compilation. It was 1981 apparently, Hill had only been at Thames for a decade or so at that point, having pottered around between the BBC and two ITV companies in the 60s for some reason.

The Thames episodes were later released on DVD by Network and somebody else (it says here) released what still existed of his shows on the BBC in America. Hill had a stint at ATV as well, but probably safe to assume those episodes had an accident with a charged magnetic eraser head in a video machine somewhere.

[Michael Kenchington]

Back in the days when the ITV companies made home videos, I wonder how many of the home video idents were identical to the ident they were using on ITV at the time, and also how many of them were rejected programme endboards or idents.

Central used one of their cake idents from the time with the word Video slapped on top in a nasty font.

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Which variant of the 1988 Central ident music is it used for the 1991 Central Video logo? Does anybody know? Is it the same one that was used for Central's 1989 ITV Generic ident?

[Spencer]

Central used one of their cake idents from the time with the word Video slapped on top in a nasty font.

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Which variant of the 1988 Central ident music is it used for the 1991 Central Video logo? Does anybody know? Is it the same one that was used for Central's 1989 ITV Generic ident?

Yes, they did use that version of the music over the generic ITV ident. 
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It was used on several others as well, but the only examples I can find on YouTube appear to have been websnatched.

[Steve in Pudsey]

I knew that Yorkshire liked to morph their frontcap ident into the titles of programmes (321, First Tuesday etc) but this Celebrity Playhouse is a new one on me -

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even taking the ident sonic logo into the theme tune!

[Matt79]

I have recently seen a Dixon of Dock Green episode that was transmitted around November 1971. I was very surprised to see that the BBC TV logo on the end had "colour" underneath in the same font as the late 60s channel IDs. I know the BBC Colour logo started to be used in late 1971 (I have also recently seen Play Away episodes with the familiar "BBC Colour" on the end that were from late 1971), and dates started to be added in early 1972, but this "BBC TV Colour" on the Dixon of Dock Green episode is something I had never seen before.

I know roman numerals started to be used on copyright dates in late 1976 (I remember mentioning this on the TV Forum), but "colour" didn't disappear from the copyright dates until a year later, although oddly the Ronnie Corbett comedy Sorry had "BBC Colour" on the end credits for its third series, even though the first 2 series had the regular BBC copyright

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[Si-Co]

I knew that Yorkshire liked to morph their frontcap ident into the titles of programmes (321, First Tuesday etc) but this Celebrity Playhouse is a new one on me -

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even taking the ident sonic logo into the theme tune!

Ragdolly Anna used to appear from behind the YTV chevron during the first series in 1982. 

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One of the first programmes I remember where the chevron morphed into something else was Under The Same Sun in the late 1970s. From what I remember the programme was similar to Storybook International with tales from across the world. The chevron turned into a Sun which which stayed on screen during the opening titles. Sadly I can’t find any footage.