Tribute to Thames Television | Updates

Thames Television 'Today' Opening Titles, 1977

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:04:25 PDT

The opening titles to Thames Television's 'Today' local news magazine programme from the 1970s have been added to our Thames News page.

Thames Television Christmas Continuity 1984

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:05:33 PST

It's Christmas 1984 and Thames Television swaps out its familiar London skyline collage continuity backdrop for the homely look of a fireside armchair, repleat with everyone's favourite Christmas uncle, Philip Elsmore.

Thames Television Continuity Announcers

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:43:30 PST

A modest update to our section on Thames Television's continuity announcers. Feel free to contact us if you have any images or information about Thames announcers and what they're up to today.

Thames Television News Presenters

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:44:21 PST

Back on the site, our section covering Thames Television's news presenters.

Thames TV Ident From The Simpsons

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:44:41 PST

Thames TV's iconic London skyline ident, as featured on the long-running US comedy show, The Simpsons, in an episode in which Homer Simpson is caught watching a British TV show on the PBS Network without paying for the privilege.

Thames Television closedown with Victoria Crawford, June 1987

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sat, 21 May 2011 10:33:10 PDT

Thames TV continuity announcer Victoria Crawford is joined by a large, furry friend to close down the station in June 1987.

Thames programmes: Magpie Opening Titles, 1968

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:05:27 PDT

The first set of opening titles to Thames Television's long-running children's magazine programme, Magpie, have been uploaded to our Thames TV programmes section.

Memories of BBC TV's Play School

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:14:04 PDT

Thames News: opening titles from 1988

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:41:50 PDT

Update for our Thames News page with the opening titles for Thames News from 1988

Thames Television's final day on-air

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:12:56 PDT

The history page is now updated with details, video clips and images of Thames TV's final day on-air.

Thames Television continuity: closedown with Philip Elsmore (1986)

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:45:56 PDT

A Thames Television closedown from 1986, with announcer Philip Elsmore in the chair to bid us good night and look ahead to the next day's programmes. Copyright Thames TV/Fremantle/ITV plc.

Updates to the Thames News and Thames Continuity sections

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:54:21 PDT

Several updates today, including Robin Houston with the Thames News Headlines from 1991 and some examples of continuity with announcer Mark Lipscomb from the early 1990s.

Thames Television: announcers and continuity sections updated

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:27:16 PDT

We've updated the announcers and continuity sections, including new videoclips.

Thames Television special start-up during technicians' strike (1984)

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:33:45 PDT

An unusual and rather shaky start-up sequence from Thames Television, dated Tuesday 23 Ocrober, 1984. The shakiness is because technicians are on strike and management are running the show. Your duty announcer is Peter Marshall.

Thames News section online

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:10:43 PDT

Our Thames News section is back online today with video clips of Thames News opening titles from down the years.

Thames Television: Minder opening titles back online

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:40:02 PDT

The opening titles to Minder are now back on our programmes page, we're sorry about the long-standing broken link.

Thames Television: Morecambe and Wise Show opening titles (early 1980s)

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:53:48 PDT

Here are the opening titles to a special Christmas edition of the Morecambe and Wise Show from the early 1980s. Thames had controversially poached the legendary pair from their long running show on the BBC.Copyright Thames TV/Fremantle/ITV plc.

Welcome to the new-look site

noreply@blogger.com (A. Grahams) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:27:21 PDT

We've made a few changes to www.thames-tv.com, to improve the navigability of the site and to make videos easier to view.