[James2001]

The Thames situation is always confusing when it comes to frontcaps and endcaps, as they've quite often changed them for repeats and DVDs.

For example the Dangermouse and Duckula DVDs have the skyline frontcap on all episodes, even though as CITV shows, Dangermouse wouldn't have had it after the fourth series, and Duckula never would have, and the last 2 series of Dangermouse and all but the first series of Duckula were shown after Thames changed their logo. Plus there's no endcap on any episode, which there was on the original broadcasts.

And mid-90s CITV repeats of Spatz and early 00s Granada Plus showings of French Fields had the skyline endcap (and I guess it's possible the frontcap was on the tapes, but not broadcast by them), even though both shows were made after they stopped using that logo.

And of course under Pearson and in the early Fremantle days, the endcaps on repeats and home video releases were usually replaced with the current Thames ones (even when the frontcap was kept.. or put on something it wasn't on in the first place)- even though it's mostly stopped, these copies still pop up from time to time, for example with Strike It Lucky on Challenge (where they also edited the openings of the first 2 series to hide the animated transition from the frontcap).

When UKTV Play put up the earlier episodes of The Bill a few years, they had the original frontcaps up until the end of 1992, but during 1993-98 episodes, they used copies with the 1997 Pearson Thames frontcap (with the exception of a few 1996/97 episode which did have the original Thames/Carlton endcaps), seemingly Fremantle still don't want to leave in the mentions of Yorkshire and Carlton. When they reached the point in 1998 where the show was no longer commissioned though Carlton, they went back to the original endcaps (with the ITV URL clumsily blanked out).