BBC Nationwide - The Title Sequences
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2022
- Thanks to Marty for the mid 70s theme I didn't have.
The sound shouldn't be so variable now.
9.9.1969 b/w (UK map) 1970 Regional Presenters
1971 Colour - new theme 1972 inclusion of Frank Bough
1975, 1976, 1977 filmed off tv, then 1978 - 1983
Plus a final day reshowing of the 1980 intro with clips. 
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![TVam 1983 [ good morning britain] intro theme](/img/1.gif)
And today we have the one show that's how much standards have fallen.
Much better than the Cheesy One Show. I just turn that off! It is dire!
I remember as a kid watching Bob Wellings and a few others doing a stint of giving up smoking on Nationwide and Bob was caught on a hidden camera taking a crafty drag.
R I P Michael Barratt. Familiar for his gravelly voice.
I loved him as a punk newsreader on The Goodies episode "Rock Goodies" where he swore profusely and spat during his announcements. Hilarious!
the later version of the second theme with the bass line added, that was the best imo
RIP Bob Wellings. Good, relaxed anchor man who got fed up with the repetitive monotony towards the end of his stint which led to his departure from Nationwide. And then went on to present Open Air!
I’ll never forget him interviewing Chantelle Cuer (she used to do French language programmes). He had a persistent cough all the way through then came out with “sorry about this terrible frog” - being a BBC broadcaster she gave a half smile.
Yes of course that was so right then there too at the time. Open Air came later from BBC Manchester/North West on BBC1 at the time; along mainly with Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes. Janet Ellis and Natalie Anglesey also presented it. I used to see it then when it ran from 1986 to 1990 at the time?!
I gave up watching Television 39 years due to PR ......At the time I realised I was only watching the weather forecast
I LOVED THE THEMETUME ( THE GOOD WORD)
Great until they brought in Richard Kershaw and David Dimbleby, who decided to make Nationwide more like Panorama. No one watched Nationwide to hear about world affairs or union leaders arguing.
Bolton was probably added as producer to beef up the current affairs in advance of 60 minutes. But since the BBC must have known they would have problems pushing News and Current Affairs too close together - why bother?
You are indeed so right then there too alas? The series was alright up until then really?
Bolton eventually admitted he messed the whole thing up… but he’d already had a track record with ‘Tonight’ and Panorama
The 'Headlines' theme could be part of a full length piece of 3 minutes or more but I haven't found it yet. There is a full length version of "the good word' by Johnny Scott
Often wondered by it was axed. Seemed to have a bit more milage in it but maybe by 83 the 2off the wall style" was starting to look old fashioned but its hard news replacement 60 minutes was a complete disaster
Hilarious! I love the woman on the back of the bus, than naff crash zoom shots of high rises and followed by some dolly bird (actually, a very young Sue Lawley) flicking back her hair. Britain in the 70s was really going places! Broadly, every iteration of the credits was worse than then one that preceded it, and if you think that the clips chosen would have represented the highlights of previous programmes, you can imagine what a typical edition might be like!
How twee can a theme be but it was catchy (the later one). ITV usually had something millions preferred watching around that time and the BBC often didn't seem to care! So much was gotten away with in the 70s.
Michael Barrett went on to start up his own media training company
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This show was made for alan partridge.
The theme at 4:33 always sounded a bit discordant to my ears. And the animators at 5:03 seemed to be a bit off target which they rectified in the subsequent revamp.
I don’t know why they felt the need to change the theme and titles so much. The same happened with Tonight. Every year a revamp. Both Midweek and the original Tonight kept for the most part the same theme and viewers were comfortable with it.
@@bdavebaldwin I used to hate change. Was peeved when they ditched the Johnny Scott version which was the best imo. Quite like the later string version too though.
@@bdavebaldwin The fast moving visuals , though now admittedly dated, with Barratt / Bough etc are just superb, love the crash zooms etc.
@@bdavebaldwin BBC Northern Ireland used their own copy of the Headlines theme without all the regional programme names being shown, the titles only showed the name of their own local programme. They kept the intro mostly the same from the time the Headlines theme was adopted by the network, until the 1982 Nationwide theme was introduced, so in NI at least the titles stayed more or less the same for about 4 years. The discordant titles at 4.33 were not shown in NI who retained the older Headlines titles, though they did show them for one week when there was a special edition of Nationwide and they had to show the network intro which was the version at 4.33
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Don't remember the first one. Loved the second. Couldn't stand the third.🤣
Usual for BBC if it works okay change it
The series ran on BBC1 early evening weekdays after the main News from 1969 to 1983 when it was cancelled. It would mostly be at 5.40 to 6.40pm at the time of course. Michael Barratt; Frank Bough; Sue Lawley and others were then the main presenters at the time so too. In 1983 it was replaced by the short lived Sixty Minutes. When that ended in 1984 they then did the News at 6.00pm and then the Regional one at 6.30pm in most areas instead; just as they do now then really too?!
All of England had their local news at first at 6.30pm then. But Northern Ireland; Scotland and Wales at first had their news instead at 5.35pm for a number of years. However, they too later switched to the 6.30pm time instead?
Must say, I do not remember them changing the theme from the classic one to all those shitty 1980s ones.
I well remember the later theme tunes of Nationwide (being too young to recall the earlier ones as I was just pre-school age). Didn't like the 1981 version because of the horrible ending!
Completely unnecessary dropping of the definitive + best- remembered theme in 1977, it seems here it was straight after the jubilee, also happened to Top of the Pops + Animal Magic. It was the Great Theme Tunes Vandalism of 1977.
For what psychological purpose on the public? Take away a lot that had been familiar to the more liberated + hippie part of the 70s, now that a right wing backlash + harder tone had set in. Entrench + psychologically boost that shift, deliberately, by us no longer having the nicer era's familiar mood-signatures around us.
Here they seem to think new music and titles as a cheap way of pretending it’s something new (Coronation Street has survived well thanks to Granadas reluctance to chuck money around). In America the second series of H. R. Pufnstuff (sort of pre Swap Shop) suffered from keeping the same cast and sets. As the series could (and was) shown in no particular order viewers thought the new series were repeats and it got ditched. Add to your list Z Cars, Dr Who, Pebble Mill.
The version up to 1977 was The Good Word by Johnny Scott. The version from 1977 to about 1982 was called Headlines. For some reason the Headlines titles received a high profile in the final week of Nationwide when they were looking back. The Good Word was only played once that week and the final edition of Nationwide in August 1983 featured the Headlines theme both at the start and at the end. Like you I preferred The Good Word. In 1991 a retro Lets go Nationwide was shown by the BBC when Lime Grove Studio where Nationwide was transmitted from was being sold off, and this rightly featured The Good Word by Johnny Scott as the titles associated with Nationwide
@@Omnicient. license to print money (unquote) and judging by Granadas logo they weren’t spending a lot of it.
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