[James2001]

It was on the final series of Chain Letters as well, which Challenge repeated a few years back.

[nwtv2003]

I uploaded the YouTube clip of The Wingless Bird intro, with endcap and to add to confusion the VHS sleeve had Granada Media branding on it. The end of the tape had no endcap (it was a long drama), but it was credited to Tyne Tees Television, like all other C3NE era programmes.

I’m not sure if my mind is playing tricks, but I’m sure Chain Letters had C3NE branding on the question cards the host read.

[Michael Kenchington]

Does anyone remember the shortlived Central animated endcap from 1988?

Here it is: www.youtube.com 

This is taken from Challenge airings of 1988 and 1989 episodes of both Bullseye and Family Fortunes, but it also used to be on the 1988 series of Blockbusters, as well as original 1989 airings of Huxley Pig (Season 1 only) and Bangers and Mash, and both Woof! and Press Gang (Season 1 only) as well. This also appears on God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) as well, among many others.

The 1988 animated Central endcap exists as both filmed and videotaped versions, a still version which is seen on Drama and 1997 UK Gold airings of some episodes of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, a version with "Central Production" which was seen at the end of Central programmes from 1988 and 1989, another with just "Central" which was seen on movies and imported programmes not made by Central, and another version with the words "A Central Production for Channel Four" which might be from programmes produced for Channel 4 by Central which is on TVARK's Facebook page.

[Neil Jones]

Does anyone remember the shortlived Central animated endcap from 1988?

This is taken from Challenge airings of 1988 and 1989 episodes of both Bullseye and Family Fortunes, but it also used to be on the 1988 series of Blockbusters, as well as original 1989 airings of Huxley Pig (Season 1 only) and Bangers and Mash, and both Woof! and Press Gang (Season 1 only) as well. This also appears on God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) as well, among many others.

Well it will do, because Central stuck it on everything they made at that time. It's only remembered because it survives on the reruns of Family Fortunes and Bullseye (nobody would have remembered it on most other stuff and if Challenge/Carlton/ITV had hacked it off).

Pretty sure it probably ended up on a few home video/DVD releases too pending on which prints the distributor of said media were using.

Central were using that animated endcap as an ident as well:
www.youtube.com 

[James2001]

Scottish had an animated endcap too- it was on the first series of Fun House when Challenge showed it. There's an animated 21 years Yorkshire Television endcap that's on the August 1989 episode of Emmerdale Farm that's on ITV Hub.

Then the generic look killed animated endcaps stone dead until 2004 (bar a short lived Carlton UK Productions/Central one, which is on the final season of Bullseye-quickly replaced with a static one).

[Michael Kenchington]

Also, check this out: (around 8:43): www.youtube.com 

[Si-Co]

Does anyone remember the shortlived Central animated endcap from 1988?

This is taken from Challenge airings of 1988 and 1989 episodes of both Bullseye and Family Fortunes, but it also used to be on the 1988 series of Blockbusters, as well as original 1989 airings of Huxley Pig (Season 1 only) and Bangers and Mash, and both Woof! and Press Gang (Season 1 only) as well. This also appears on God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) as well, among many others.

Well it will do, because Central stuck it on everything they made at that time.  It's only remembered because it survives on the reruns of Family Fortunes and Bullseye (nobody would have remembered it on most other stuff and if Challenge/Carlton/ITV had hacked it off).

Pretty sure it probably ended up on a few home video/DVD releases too pending on which prints the distributor of said media were using.

Central were using that animated endcap as an ident as well:
www.youtube.com 

Central actually re-edited the animated endcap onto some of their older programmes that were repeated between late 1988 and August 1989 (or in some cases, played it in live). I noticed the endcap on both new and repeated schools series shown on Channel 4. 

I believe animated endcaps were no longer allowed after the 1989 ITV rebrand - at least initially.

[Neil Jones]

Of course Bullseye had a sort of hybrid animated endcap as well of its own, albeit it just a zoom into the corporate one, this example from 1985:
youtu.be 

(from 2:15)

[W. Knight]

Anglia had one briefly in 1989 as well, as did Granada (of all stations) - they were experimenting with several endcaps at the end of This Morning, and one of them had a shimmering metallic effect. Neither of these seem to have resurfaced online. 

Tyne Tees had played around with the idea a couple of years earlier - a few regional programmes, and "Razzmatazz" featured a zoom of the logo in a box that wiped outwards to show the full static end cap. Later on they would generally use some sort of video effect to bring the endcaps on-screen, especially network stuff which was unusual within ITV, and I'm sure was against some network decree somewhere...

Thinking about it, it's a bit odd that companies that had at one point been members of the boring brigade (having static frontcaps - Granada, YTV, TT, STV) were going the other way at this point - whereas, other than Central the flashier companies didn't bother.

To be fair, TVS had a special one at the end of Bobby Davro, putting the endcap in a living room corner setting:
youtu.be 

HTV Wales also had one for S4C, albeit just zooming out plus a reflection on the symbol (as HTV Cymru):
youtu.be 

I'm thinking the Anglia flag billows like their ident for their animated endcaps - was that the case?

[Nini]

Here's Scottish's very shortlived (and rarely seen) "animated" endboard

www.youtube.com 

Anglia's animated endboard was a short ident, nothing too special.

www.dailymotion.com 

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