[Former Member 443]

On the same subject, sticky tape and rust has just put up a complete episode of TT's 1979 show "Quest of Eagles" on YT. This went out after the strike, but TT were still using the static frontcap into what was (for them at the time) a pretty high-profile drama series. I find it strange that they would not re-edit this new show to include the confident new look for the 1980s - and it leads me to think that perhaps the "1979" ident didn't debut until early 1980?

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Yeah I think the chime came in around 1968. This is second hand information though!

It wasn't unheard of for regions to play a different frontcap on transmission. It used to happen particularly on programmes shot on 16mm film, they would substitute a higher quality copy frontcap from 35mm or VT then cut to the programme.

This was an off-air recording from LWT though (and definitely networked from Newcastle as it had an Allan Cartner back anno over the end credits complete with classic studio 5 clunk), so in this case I'd have expected any live edits to have been present. They also played out a recorded synopsis at the start so had plenty of opportunity to update/replace the ident at broadcast.

As for TTTV pres of all places playing out a "higher quality" version of their ident, <chortle!>

I get your general point though, and agree.