The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
It's admirable how each announcer isn't even taken aback just "ah ffs we've a prob here. sorry lads it'll be a sec" casual af the Star Trek one is gold.
As someone who lives in the US where they just put up a bumper that says "Technical Difficulties. Please stand by" I always find the way British TV handled things like this to be much more classy and formal. Cool stuff.
There's definitely a difference in culture there. While "formal" in style, British television presentation is much more "off the cuff" with their announcers being much like the TV equivalent of DJs on the radio. Some would even appear on camera and were local celebrities in their own right. This was much more common with the ITV stations; the BBC got rid of on camera announcers relatively early, opting for a clock ID or an eye catching logo animation like the famous BBC1 Globe. American television prefers pre-recorded announcements, and I can't think of any case where an American TV announcer appeared on camera outside of MTV's "VJs" back in the 80's. Any time we would get an "up next" announcement, for example, it would usually be done dryly over the closing credits of a show. Today, we don't even get that. Usually the end credits are squeezed to the side as a promo runs on the other side of the screen. I think the only time American TV came close to "British" style continuity would be the bumpers before network and local TV station movie presentations, where the announcer would give a brief synopsis of the upcoming film, usually over a title screen for the umbrella movie program (e.g. like ABC Monday Movie, CBS Late Movie, Million Dollar Movie, etc..).
@@superjamie1247 As much as I prefer the British style of continuity, it would never catch on here in the United States, sadly. British TV doesn't have the glut of commercials us Americans are used to seeing, where U.S. TV seems to sacrifice continuity for as much ad time as possible. I don't know if there is a government regulation limiting ads on TV there or if the commercial broadcasters in Britain run a limited number of ads as a precedent. For that matter, the BBC doesn't even run commercials at all being a public broadcaster. The difference in style of presentation comes the way the British and American broadcasting systems started from the beginning. Broadcasting in the United States has long been dominated by advertising, something the early radio stations formed the National Association of Broadcasters to lobby for in the 1920's. At the same time across the Pond, the British started up a government chartered monopoly called the British Broadcasting Corporation as a noncommercial entity to run their radio stations. The precedents would continue as TV developed in the 1930's. Commercial television did eventually come to Britain in the form of ITV in 1955, but even then it was at first closely watched by the British government to avoid becoming what commercial broadcasting was like in the United States, something they deemed as an immoral monstrosity.
On a stormy day in January: "Well we're sorry but we seem to have lost No Time To Die, our transmitter did have time to die. However we'll be back with Mr. Bond as soon as we possibly can."
The star trek one is an interesting story: Shipping from the US to the UK was a little risky, and the film actually snapped in two! They had to put it back together very quickly so the show could get back on the road.
I can only imagine a similar snafu must have occurred from time to time when PBS used to run "Doctor Who" from the BBC on this side of the Atlantic. ;-)
Fun fact. According to the announcer of 1996's "Heaven Can Wait" They just had the new tape machine installed. Unfortunately the new machine was munching said tape and made it impossible to fix because it was automated.
Heaven Can Wait had also failed during a 1992 showing - well, not on BBC1 England, but the nations lost feed of it about 1/4 of the way through and didn't get it back, having the slide and music for the rest of the time. Somebody, somewhere (up there?) didn't want this film to get out.
The 1982 one on BBC 2 was especially interesting because they informed the viewers what they were doing to fix it, nowadays when stuff goes wrong its just "sorry, here's some music I guess"
@@Sheffield_Stevewhat? But it’s what they did with pretty much every other one in this video. Also, the chances of this even happening is low, and it’s for a small period of time, so who cares?
once you understand what's the fault, MOST OF THE TIME it's faster to just fix it and go back to broadcast. It wasn't the case here, but that's what you can imagine on most failures.
First fault included a head clog and perhaps some further servo trouble. Second one seems like some playback (either VT or telecine) not starting. The ITV "faults" because of the strike were widely publicized even in Germany. The Baboushka was probably some amplifier deciding to oscillate instead of amplify, that can happen, and it's a common joke among electronics engineers that "all your amplifiers oscillate and all your oscillators amplify". The 1982 fault might have been a problem with one of the telecine machines or the switch between them. Rolls of film typically just hold part of a film, and when showing them you need to switch between the rolls) In the 1985 StarTrek fault, there probably was a similar problem. There should have been a switch to the next roll of film on the other telecine machine, but that didn't work. 1985 warning shot seems to be the same issue. One should note that until the 2000s broadcast technology was fairly unreliable. This was because it was essentially pushing the limits of what was possible. Professional VTRs were the most advanced ways to store data, so much so that in 1989 you could buy VCR tape changers (or spot players as they were also called) that could record 3 Terabytes of data on it's set of tapes.
The Star Trek one is a little crazier than that, the shipping from America to the UK wasn't the best for the reel and the film actually snapped in half during the playing of it and they had to repair the reel real fast to keep airing it
Looked like with star trek the film actually fell off the real and the camera somehow caught the edge of the film sprocket holes Quite interesting seeing film snap live on air
iirc, a different comment from a similar video said the Baboushka sound error wasn't caused by the amplifier, but rather the tape or film player's audio feed looping into itself. Nonetheless, some people who were up at the time watching Baboushka might have been scared to death when that sound blared.
@rondonnis6588 Ok then why did you reply to this comment I was just saying what happened after I listened to that and you’re saying this? Very negative I suggest you reply on every comment saying that for Star Trek 😊 Also delete the comment
There was an 'end of reel' dot marker just before it happened. There was supposed to be a changeover to another telecine to show the next reel of film.
@@johnr6168That changeover would've been done automatically, because the two reels were actually stuck together. But they weren't held together very well leading to the sudden snapping happening.
Most of the issues here seem related to videotape faults. For sure you would see a lot of people screaming and running from one room to another trying to fix it.
Bet it was annoying at the time, in a world where you watched things live or not at all, but I used to quite enjoy the chaos of things falling apart. Such a rare sight to see these days
The ITV industrial dispute was more than a bit temporary. In the Yorkshire tv region they had the same blue screen but carried contact details for West Yorkshire police for anyone who may have had information to help with the Yorkshire Ripper case. To this nine year old latchkey kid who would’ve been on my own (cue violin) it certainly helped loosen my bowels.
im a non native english speaker. I am sure my grammar and everything is correct, however my vocabulary is a bit finniky in some places. I hardly understand all of the other sentences but the first one
@@sudormrf Generally, ITV had regional blue Yorkshire (violin) during the police dispute, only difference being the information for anyone 9 year old could help ripper bowels "temporary".
This happened a few years ago on E4 during a Friends episode when it stopped and a message came up saying that they don’t have the rights to show this footage. I was thinking, “they lost the rights to Friends half way through an episode?”
@@kaitlyn__L It wasn’t since a few minutes later someone came on to say that it was some technical fault and they do indeed have the rights to air it. He sounded very perplexed
21:39 So you're telling me that BBC, a TV station in the UK switched to 16:9 widescreen in 2000, but GMA, the biggest TV station in the Philippines, only switched to widescreen in 2023? bruh we're literally 23 years behind of UK
You might see a news anchor react to these sort of on-screen glitches in the US, but it’s definitely nothing like this. It’s really cool to me that they have an announcer for all programs, not just ones with hosts or anchors.
I seem to remember technical faults like this happening a lot back in the days of analogue TV. I guess much of it must have been due to video tape machines breaking down or failing. Nowadays we don't see these temporary faults happening anymore. I guess technology and equipment has got a lot better now it's all digital broadcasting.
I remember seeing that in the 70's and 80's with an Australian tv channel GMV6 and AMV4. they would always put up the amv4 logo or the 6 in a tv like rectangle and say we apologise for this break in your viewing enjoyment but will return as soon as possible. well something like that and it would eventually come back a few minutes later.
We have a lot of issues with digital in the US (few weeks ago I saw audio of a Disney XD ad play behind a Covid vaccine ad which was pretty funny) but they're ignored. Even in the analog days they've never been treated this politely, just an error until it's fixed.
Indeed. Things they would carry on a flimsy film on a cargo ship back then could be sent from a board of microscopic light switches via a giant underwater pipe to a big magnetic plate.
Question: How did somebody manage to pretty much perfectly record what was on their television in 1978 & how did they know there would be technical difficulties?
Betamax was already around by 1978, though VHS was just making inroads around that time as well. The VCR had yet to become as common of an appliance as a washing machine at that time, but they were available. My father bought his first VCR, a top loading VHS machine from RCA, in 1978. Of course, he was living with my grandparents at the time and saved up his spending money from his welding job to buy one. This was the VCR my family still had when I was a little kid.
Ok, so in 1996, for the film "Heaven can wait," They just installed a new machine. The only problem? It was munching said tape, causing the people at the BBC to not find it.
the older ones looked so much spookier, honestly. the new ones feel, idk a bit more light in terms of the screens, feels more settling than the older ones.
Known as "technical difficulties" in the U.S. For several years until 1986 when ownership transferred to Fox and its call letters switched to WNYW, up-until-then Metromedia-owned WNEW-TV (Channel 5) in New York was so laden with such moments (which veteran announcer Tom Gregory designated "operating difficulties"), that the joke among technical staff was that the station's calls stood for "Where Nothing Ever Works."
It's because when they tried to switch to another Tape scene on the other telecine, it didn't work. So then the tape from the current telecine Flew off.
They were also used while describing a programme to be shown later. They would be kept nearby until after the programme was shown just in case of a fault.
Oh! I saw that weather fault in 2000 as a kid! (Or a similar one around the same time.) I remember laughing when he came back to read out the weather like it was the radio.
Everyday we saw these having *movies and stuff* , but having a *technical difficulties/technical fault* may seem to a bit *more challenging* in some of the *clips* from the *British TV* in *UK* . But, we’ll doing understand what’s some *errors* (especially the *tape machine* ) or having the people at home *watching* , mostly even *BBC1/BBC2* still doing it’s *own best* just for *entertainment purposes* in order to have regain *information* with everyone, *great stuff* 😊👍🏻
Anyone have the technical fault from 3rd or 4th Jan 2003 on bbc1 during an FA Cup game. I still have the fault music in my head to this day. I remember thinking the scene was so iconic of the time and it personified the feeling of another new year venturing in to the 21st century. The visual backdrop was the cart wheelers on the roof of a skyscraper as a still image from the ident. If anyone can ever find that and upload it i'd be very grateful! Thanks
I'm not gonna lie. Some of these would actually scare, if not horrify me if I saw them live. Specifically the ones for "Blake's Seven", "Baboushka", "Star Trek", "Waterloo Bridge" and whatever the channel 4 one was.
I remember a repeat broadcast of Spike Milligan's 1982 series, 'There's A Lot of it About ' in 1985 where, on one episode, the videotape jammed. They rewound to the same spot where the tape jammed again at the same point. They couldn't show the rest of the episode.
One thing I do mention about the fault screens is they use still bumpers. Especially because this is around the timeframe of CRT TVs. Have they ever heard of burn-in? Unlike the modern Plasma/LCD screen TVs, burn-in is really bad on CRT TVs. CRT burn-in is visible when powered off.
Plasmas burned-in way worse than CRTs at the time! Just a few minutes could get burn-in on a plasma of the time, but a CRT would need hours without changing to begin to retain it permanently. That’s why burn-in was most commonly seen with word processors, arcade cabinets, and restaurant TVs which showed the news all day (from the text banners)
They were usually used while giving advance notice of a programme, e.g. the programme after the one about to be shown. They were on 35mm film slides and put in a 'slide scanner'. This was much more efficient than using a standard TV camera and took up less room.
As an ancient I can remember a break in the ALLY Pally days when it all went horribly wrong. Up on vision comes Silvia Peters "Sorry about the break, I should go and make a cup of tea if I were you!"
I remember in the early 1990s a repeat of an episode of Just Good Friends was interrupted by the machine playing it suddenly going into fast forward! Around the same time a report on ITN did the same!
Probably had an issue with the electrical current to the building, if the frequency somehow increased it would often lead to the tapes playing faster due to them using the 50hz frequency as a sort of clock.
So what happens when there’s issues with the film and audio and the channel since it doesn’t play any advertisements I believe. What happens to every other program and how do they catch up on schedule?
Probably just cut the next live show short and reduce the promo videos in between shows. Also on commercial TV they might be able to cut out ads if needed.
Does anyone remember a fault during the National Lottery, somewhere between late 2005 to mid 2006? I think it might have been because someone tried to 'stage invade' the show.
Analog signals seemed to be far easier to disrupt and interfere rather than digital signals. Tech problems today are much more rare than it was some 50 years ago
The 80s-90s one with thst girl in the middle used to scare me as a child. Think because of the beeping and the uncannyness of a girl thats playing noughts and crosses with a toy clown in technically a liminal space
i like how the first temporary fault fades out at "among us", the internet completely corrupted this phrase
Don’t fucking say that now I can’t un hear
Yes, that is kinda...
Nope, I'm not going to say it.
Sorry, I must...
s u s
a m o g u s
You are a very s u s human
S U S-
We apologise for the temporary fault. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
Top tier comment 😂
Isn't this a gag from a VT Christmas tape
For anyone wondering, this is a reference to the start of "Mont Python and the Holy Grail"
The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasti
4:37 “Well Im sorry about the. Star Trek has seem to disappear in to the space for a bit there.”
Got me dead laughing.
Such a good joke
4:17 I laughed at this 😂
It's admirable how each announcer isn't even taken aback just "ah ffs we've a prob here. sorry lads it'll be a sec" casual af
the Star Trek one is gold.
Even back then they got frustrated 😂
As someone who lives in the US where they just put up a bumper that says "Technical Difficulties. Please stand by" I always find the way British TV handled things like this to be much more classy and formal. Cool stuff.
Work as a tech producer and tell them to do stuff like that
There's definitely a difference in culture there. While "formal" in style, British television presentation is much more "off the cuff" with their announcers being much like the TV equivalent of DJs on the radio. Some would even appear on camera and were local celebrities in their own right. This was much more common with the ITV stations; the BBC got rid of on camera announcers relatively early, opting for a clock ID or an eye catching logo animation like the famous BBC1 Globe.
American television prefers pre-recorded announcements, and I can't think of any case where an American TV announcer appeared on camera outside of MTV's "VJs" back in the 80's. Any time we would get an "up next" announcement, for example, it would usually be done dryly over the closing credits of a show. Today, we don't even get that. Usually the end credits are squeezed to the side as a promo runs on the other side of the screen. I think the only time American TV came close to "British" style continuity would be the bumpers before network and local TV station movie presentations, where the announcer would give a brief synopsis of the upcoming film, usually over a title screen for the umbrella movie program (e.g. like ABC Monday Movie, CBS Late Movie, Million Dollar Movie, etc..).
@@superjamie1247 As much as I prefer the British style of continuity, it would never catch on here in the United States, sadly. British TV doesn't have the glut of commercials us Americans are used to seeing, where U.S. TV seems to sacrifice continuity for as much ad time as possible. I don't know if there is a government regulation limiting ads on TV there or if the commercial broadcasters in Britain run a limited number of ads as a precedent. For that matter, the BBC doesn't even run commercials at all being a public broadcaster.
The difference in style of presentation comes the way the British and American broadcasting systems started from the beginning. Broadcasting in the United States has long been dominated by advertising, something the early radio stations formed the National Association of Broadcasters to lobby for in the 1920's. At the same time across the Pond, the British started up a government chartered monopoly called the British Broadcasting Corporation as a noncommercial entity to run their radio stations. The precedents would continue as TV developed in the 1930's. Commercial television did eventually come to Britain in the form of ITV in 1955, but even then it was at first closely watched by the British government to avoid becoming what commercial broadcasting was like in the United States, something they deemed as an immoral monstrosity.
@@krisstarring do i need that?
@@krisstarring if you're a kid in the USA and sees a black screen then the technical difficulties screen, it will scare the s**t out of any kid.
On a stormy day in January:
"Well we're sorry but we seem to have lost No Time To Die, our transmitter did have time to die. However we'll be back with Mr. Bond as soon as we possibly can."
That continuity announcer is awesome.
XD
The star trek one is an interesting story:
Shipping from the US to the UK was a little risky, and the film actually snapped in two! They had to put it back together very quickly so the show could get back on the road.
That is some interesting Information
Didn't the BBC used to clip out the opening titles and stick them in front of the cold open on those 16mm prints?
@@sayhibobbi i honestly have no idea
@@superjamie1247 thank you
I can only imagine a similar snafu must have occurred from time to time when PBS used to run "Doctor Who" from the BBC on this side of the Atlantic. ;-)
Fun fact. According to the announcer of 1996's "Heaven Can Wait" They just had the new tape machine installed. Unfortunately the new machine was munching said tape and made it impossible to fix because it was automated.
Heaven Can Wait had also failed during a 1992 showing - well, not on BBC1 England, but the nations lost feed of it about 1/4 of the way through and didn't get it back, having the slide and music for the rest of the time. Somebody, somewhere (up there?) didn't want this film to get out.
Ah. I thought it was a problem with the film. It kinda was (if only because it was on tape).
It seems like Heaven really *can* wait.
@@tristanraine (no pun intended)
@@neptune8thplanet*no p unintended
The 1982 one on BBC 2 was especially interesting because they informed the viewers what they were doing to fix it, nowadays when stuff goes wrong its just "sorry, here's some music I guess"
Bulb probably failed on the projector.
Total lack of care & standards these days. Disconcerting for the viewer but who cares about them, eh?!
@@Sheffield_Stevewhat? But it’s what they did with pretty much every other one in this video. Also, the chances of this even happening is low, and it’s for a small period of time, so who cares?
once you understand what's the fault, MOST OF THE TIME it's faster to just fix it and go back to broadcast. It wasn't the case here, but that's what you can imagine on most failures.
I'm so glad they let everybody know that it's a _temporary_ fault. Wouldn't want people to think it's a permanent probem, right?
Unlike heaven can wait
I know. And they're so apologetic about it. Very professional.
Heaven can wait: OH REALLY!?!?!?
@@TStudiosIncwhat do you mean?
nvm i get it. i can't edit my reply for some reason so i'm just replying to it.
First fault included a head clog and perhaps some further servo trouble.
Second one seems like some playback (either VT or telecine) not starting.
The ITV "faults" because of the strike were widely publicized even in Germany.
The Baboushka was probably some amplifier deciding to oscillate instead of amplify, that can happen, and it's a common joke among electronics engineers that "all your amplifiers oscillate and all your oscillators amplify".
The 1982 fault might have been a problem with one of the telecine machines or the switch between them. Rolls of film typically just hold part of a film, and when showing them you need to switch between the rolls)
In the 1985 StarTrek fault, there probably was a similar problem. There should have been a switch to the next roll of film on the other telecine machine, but that didn't work.
1985 warning shot seems to be the same issue.
One should note that until the 2000s broadcast technology was fairly unreliable. This was because it was essentially pushing the limits of what was possible. Professional VTRs were the most advanced ways to store data, so much so that in 1989 you could buy VCR tape changers (or spot players as they were also called) that could record 3 Terabytes of data on it's set of tapes.
Yes, I noticed on the Stat Trek failure the film sprocket holes appeared briefly on the right hand side.
That is so fascinating, thank you!
The Star Trek one is a little crazier than that, the shipping from America to the UK wasn't the best for the reel and the film actually snapped in half during the playing of it and they had to repair the reel real fast to keep airing it
Looked like with star trek the film actually fell off the real and the camera somehow caught the edge of the film sprocket holes
Quite interesting seeing film snap live on air
iirc, a different comment from a similar video said the Baboushka sound error wasn't caused by the amplifier, but rather the tape or film player's audio feed looping into itself. Nonetheless, some people who were up at the time watching Baboushka might have been scared to death when that sound blared.
We apologise for the tinnitus you may be suffering during the fault on "Babouska"
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4:35 "Well I'm sorry, Star Trek seemes to have disappear into the space for a moment."
IT GOT ME LAUGHING-
@rondonnis6588 Ok then why did you reply to this comment I was just saying what happened after I listened to that and you’re saying this? Very negative I suggest you reply on every comment saying that for Star Trek 😊 Also delete the comment
@rondonnis6588 im not laughing at it loud so get your rude self out of here pls
@@TYLERSHAWNTHEGAMERI mean, no reason to get mad. It was the 1980’s and jokes have changed since then. Not everyone has the same sense of humor.
I like how the film just fucking derailed during the Star Trek episode.
Yea
It really did! I heard it just snapped the hell in two!
There was an 'end of reel' dot marker just before it happened. There was supposed to be a changeover to another telecine to show the next reel of film.
@@johnr6168That changeover would've been done automatically, because the two reels were actually stuck together. But they weren't held together very well leading to the sudden snapping happening.
Came here for the technical faults, stayed for the fast-forwarded music. Instant hit!
I was always really intrigued by these videos and always wanted to see behind the scenes of faults and see why they happen.
Most of the issues here seem related to videotape faults. For sure you would see a lot of people screaming and running from one room to another trying to fix it.
Gotta love the one during 2000 that's like "well, can't show you the news but to be polite I'll tell you the important stuff like the weather"
Nice youtube username
Bet it was annoying at the time, in a world where you watched things live or not at all, but I used to quite enjoy the chaos of things falling apart. Such a rare sight to see these days
The ITV industrial dispute was more than a bit temporary. In the Yorkshire tv region they had the same blue screen but carried contact details for West Yorkshire police for anyone who may have had information to help with the Yorkshire Ripper case. To this nine year old latchkey kid who would’ve been on my own (cue violin) it certainly helped loosen my bowels.
im a non native english speaker. I am sure my grammar and everything is correct, however my vocabulary is a bit finniky in some places. I hardly understand all of the other sentences but the first one
It was very scary indeed. Imagine your favourite tv chanel only showing the police contact info for information for a murderer in your city
Do you perhaps have a link to a recording of it?
@@sudormrf Generally, ITV had regional blue Yorkshire (violin) during the police dispute, only difference being the information for anyone 9 year old could help ripper bowels "temporary".
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This happened a few years ago on E4 during a Friends episode when it stopped and a message came up saying that they don’t have the rights to show this footage. I was thinking, “they lost the rights to Friends half way through an episode?”
Could’ve been incidental music, or a movie or TV show, in a brief scene
@@kaitlyn__L It wasn’t since a few minutes later someone came on to say that it was some technical fault and they do indeed have the rights to air it. He sounded very perplexed
😂
@@thribseven the TV channels have DRM these days? Rediculous!
where can you find this on YT?
21:39 So you're telling me that BBC, a TV station in the UK switched to 16:9 widescreen in 2000, but GMA, the biggest TV station in the Philippines, only switched to widescreen in 2023?
bruh we're literally 23 years behind of UK
I distinctly remember the "star trek has disappeared into space" watching live as a child, wonderful to see it again here 38 years later!
I miss sometimes when the tv station had technical faults seeing the screen mess up
sometimes (in broadcasting) it does have screen messups
You might see a news anchor react to these sort of on-screen glitches in the US, but it’s definitely nothing like this. It’s really cool to me that they have an announcer for all programs, not just ones with hosts or anchors.
I seem to remember technical faults like this happening a lot back in the days of analogue TV. I guess much of it must have been due to video tape machines breaking down or failing. Nowadays we don't see these temporary faults happening anymore. I guess technology and equipment has got a lot better now it's all digital broadcasting.
I remember seeing that in the 70's and 80's with an Australian tv channel GMV6 and AMV4. they would always put up the amv4 logo or the 6 in a tv like rectangle and say we apologise for this break in your viewing enjoyment but will return as soon as possible. well something like that and it would eventually come back a few minutes later.
We have a lot of issues with digital in the US (few weeks ago I saw audio of a Disney XD ad play behind a Covid vaccine ad which was pretty funny) but they're ignored. Even in the analog days they've never been treated this politely, just an error until it's fixed.
Indeed. Things they would carry on a flimsy film on a cargo ship back then could be sent from a board of microscopic light switches via a giant underwater pipe to a big magnetic plate.
17:43 That is a long time to realise that it came back with no sound!
This randomly popped up as a recommended video. I am not disappointed. Thank you for this.
I'm obsessed with this video help
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2:31 "What Are you talking about"
BBC : TEMPORARY FAULT
Yes, it's true LOL
Well i mean the bbc did answer the question ;)
10:00 the Channel 4 temporary fault seems like a creepypasta
bbc one 2000 kept gradually loosing control of the broadcast until they had no power then just scraped it and went to the other studio 🤣🤣
Question: How did somebody manage to pretty much perfectly record what was on their television in 1978 & how did they know there would be technical difficulties?
Betamax was already around by 1978, though VHS was just making inroads around that time as well. The VCR had yet to become as common of an appliance as a washing machine at that time, but they were available.
My father bought his first VCR, a top loading VHS machine from RCA, in 1978. Of course, he was living with my grandparents at the time and saved up his spending money from his welding job to buy one. This was the VCR my family still had when I was a little kid.
@@krisstarring Phillips N1500 was available from 1973 for home use . Phillips N1700 long play was available from 1977.
They didn’t, some people just want to record their shows
VHS recording, and also they just recorded the shows. It looks so good because of AI Upscaling I assume
Sus
I also like how the guy talks like he's an airplane pilot talking to it's passengers
Presentation was more restrained at that time and gave a more relaxed viewing experience than now.
14:25 "Heaven will just have to wait, for the time being". 😁
I like how every time there's a temporary fault there's always music
It's to keep the folks occupied in a soothing way while the workers fix the issues
Or someone explaining the movie plot, what happened before the fault, etc.
Ok, so in 1996, for the film "Heaven can wait," They just installed a new machine. The only problem? It was munching said tape, causing the people at the BBC to not find it.
the older ones looked so much spookier, honestly. the new ones feel, idk a bit more light in terms of the screens, feels more settling than the older ones.
Known as "technical difficulties" in the U.S. For several years until 1986 when ownership transferred to Fox and its call letters switched to WNYW, up-until-then Metromedia-owned WNEW-TV (Channel 5) in New York was so laden with such moments (which veteran announcer Tom Gregory designated "operating difficulties"), that the joke among technical staff was that the station's calls stood for "Where Nothing Ever Works."
Anyone have a full version of 20:20 ? Really groovy imo
EDIT: found it myself, it's "Against The Clock - Murray Munro"
4:14 it’s cool because you can see the tape reels. The tape may have dislocated off the read head or even broke.
It's because when they tried to switch to another Tape scene on the other telecine, it didn't work. So then the tape from the current telecine Flew off.
So, did they have to create a still placeholder image for each and every programme on the off chance it faulted?
They were also used while describing a programme to be shown later. They would be kept nearby until after the programme was shown just in case of a fault.
It was the best part of the evening's entertainment when programmes went off air due to technical problems.
I remember these use to really annoy my dad after a long day at work when he just wanted to sit in his chair and watch Star Trek
9:59 Channel 4: what a beautiful day. (Starts to corrupt- uh oh- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HELP
lol
2:00 my ears when im in a room thats too quiet
4:38 "star trek has seemed to disappear into space' 😂
I’m finding this video strangely fascinating. It’s like a trip down memory lane, remembering all the glitches! 😂
Oh! I saw that weather fault in 2000 as a kid! (Or a similar one around the same time.) I remember laughing when he came back to read out the weather like it was the radio.
The june 20 power outage is iconic
3:56 Ahh yes, the perfect commercial break: technical difficulties.
4:26 oh neat, you can actually see the film being moved around
0:35 i like the fast-forward music
*In the Meantime, Here's some Music.*
16:21 i like when everyone tumbles and then the station crashes
They shot the camera-
Roc and Raoul
Everyday we saw these having *movies and stuff* , but having a *technical difficulties/technical fault* may seem to a bit *more challenging* in some of the *clips* from the *British TV* in *UK* . But, we’ll doing understand what’s some *errors* (especially the *tape machine* ) or having the people at home *watching* , mostly even *BBC1/BBC2* still doing it’s *own best* just for *entertainment purposes* in order to have regain *information* with everyone, *great stuff* 😊👍🏻
Anyone have the technical fault from 3rd or 4th Jan 2003 on bbc1 during an FA Cup game. I still have the fault music in my head to this day. I remember thinking the scene was so iconic of the time and it personified the feeling of another new year venturing in to the 21st century. The visual backdrop was the cart wheelers on the roof of a skyscraper as a still image from the ident. If anyone can ever find that and upload it i'd be very grateful! Thanks
How about the 2000 power cuts and the BBC breakdown
And here it is: ruclips.net/video/G2HeZtCREDE/видео.html
I found this - it wasn't the FA Cup fault specifically but it should be the same music right? ruclips.net/video/ookYRc0FlzI/видео.html
Even better I found the HQ track on its own ruclips.net/video/1pAN61QyeIs/видео.html
"Heaven will just have to wait" As will the programme.
if you slow the video down to 0.25x speed in the fast foward parts, then its normal.
19:29 Man, what a great story.
🗿
💀
best story i've ever heard
I guess there was no story time. 😂
16:40 peak mic quality
Did they lose the tape for Heaven Can Wait or something? "We're having problems _finding_ our film"??
according to another comment, the new tape machine was munching the film
16:27 The camera got shot
4:18 The film just broke!!! 😱
I'm not gonna lie. Some of these would actually scare, if not horrify me if I saw them live. Specifically the ones for "Blake's Seven", "Baboushka", "Star Trek", "Waterloo Bridge" and whatever the channel 4 one was.
23:45 like how he described this episode
I remember a repeat broadcast of Spike Milligan's 1982 series, 'There's A Lot of it About ' in 1985 where, on one episode, the videotape jammed.
They rewound to the same spot where the tape jammed again at the same point.
They couldn't show the rest of the episode.
21:31 great background
That was retro!
One thing I do mention about the fault screens is they use still bumpers. Especially because this is around the timeframe of CRT TVs. Have they ever heard of burn-in? Unlike the modern Plasma/LCD screen TVs, burn-in is really bad on CRT TVs. CRT burn-in is visible when powered off.
Plasmas burned-in way worse than CRTs at the time! Just a few minutes could get burn-in on a plasma of the time, but a CRT would need hours without changing to begin to retain it permanently. That’s why burn-in was most commonly seen with word processors, arcade cabinets, and restaurant TVs which showed the news all day (from the text banners)
Interesting how they had title cards ready for some of the shows, I wonder what else they were used for
They were usually used while giving advance notice of a programme, e.g. the programme after the one about to be shown. They were on 35mm film slides and put in a 'slide scanner'. This was much more efficient than using a standard TV camera and took up less room.
This reminded me of the 26th of September 2021 when all 4 and 4 HD channels broke down and also channel 5 did as well
That was due to the Red Bee Media fire alarm incident
I love when At 16:27 the fault came at the right time when the gun was triggered
Great collection... Would have liked the music not to have been shuffled forwards though!
Might be due to RUclips music algorithm tbh, another RUclipsr I watch that does these idents has been hit by the algorithm and copyright claim.
These clips show as the years roll, especially into the 2000s on that how much the viewing audience are given scant concern.
As an ancient I can remember a break in the ALLY Pally days when it all went horribly wrong.
Up on vision comes
Silvia Peters "Sorry about the break, I should go and make a cup of tea if I were you!"
20:50 I remember seeing the bbc1 hot air balloon during that year 2000
I remember in the early 1990s a repeat of an episode of Just Good Friends was interrupted by the machine playing it suddenly going into fast forward! Around the same time a report on ITN did the same!
Probably had an issue with the electrical current to the building, if the frequency somehow increased it would often lead to the tapes playing faster due to them using the 50hz frequency as a sort of clock.
@@DigitalBroomstick or someone could have accidentally pressed fast forward
21:23 I remember the power failure on bbc1 when I was 3 years old in the year 2000
9:59 channel 4 you ok?
*channel 4 seizure*
16:44
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE AUDIO?
TV Bug
Sound like a bad microphone or a messy signal. Other than that, no idea.
So what happens when there’s issues with the film and audio and the channel since it doesn’t play any advertisements I believe. What happens to every other program and how do they catch up on schedule?
Probably just cut the next live show short and reduce the promo videos in between shows. Also on commercial TV they might be able to cut out ads if needed.
8:58 it certainly is a bad start
5:25 It kept on playing when the screen was off
⚠️ 2:01⚠️ The high pitched sound.Headphone users
Radal with babushka be like
@John Dexter Cruz GTE MK5
2000 is a horrible year for the BBC studio
20:23 that’s one of the flags I think from the old 1997 News 24 countdown
The Blake's 7 clip is from the episode Mission To Destiny. The Star Trek Clip is from the episode The Return Of The Archons
0:18 last words: among us
Good
4:26 i love how it shows the sheet of frame at the corner of the screen
Does anyone remember a fault during the National Lottery, somewhere between late 2005 to mid 2006? I think it might have been because someone tried to 'stage invade' the show.
What do you mean by stage invade? Like to interfere with the network?
@@minix07 it's literally someone trying to go into the studio itself.
@@yabe-kfptentacultist oh I'm stupid, I thought it was something else because it was in quotations
I remember that one! Presenter was Eamonn Holmes, and it was a protest of some sort
I found it. It was a Fathers for Justice protest. ruclips.net/video/BFxSEIExAsw/видео.html is the link
5:59 Makes somebody taste a baaaallllll--
I liked the BBC-2 ident with the 2s pecking like woodpeckers and the sound like woodpeckers!
With 2000, was there a thunderstorm that caused the power failure
never, tvc at that time had a crappy grid unlike BBH.
5:59 slowdown effect
sherlock
16:28 someone shot the camera :(
10:00 that is kinda weird but it also makes sense because this was played on VHS tapes
No. TV stations used U-Matic or Betacam for their broadcasts
Or more likely 2" quad, 35 or 16mm film, later 1" C format tape,
The the fun factor dissappeard and it all went digital.
@@foco5657 thank you for telling me that! I did not know those existed till now
@@johnrhodez6829 Yeah it could've been quad but definitely not film since the fault looks like a video signal fault more than a film/telecine fault
Funny because we never seem to have temporary faults anymore
It mostly happens now due to bad weather.
Analog signals seemed to be far easier to disrupt and interfere rather than digital signals. Tech problems today are much more rare than it was some 50 years ago
During the Wales v Iran game there was a quick fault
4:18 uhhh Star Trek-you there? Of course it had a telecine problem. Cuz the film went to space-
Movie Tapes, love it?
Yea.
someone is amongus.
-bbc1
The 80s-90s one with thst girl in the middle used to scare me as a child. Think because of the beeping and the uncannyness of a girl thats playing noughts and crosses with a toy clown in technically a liminal space
btw it's called test card F ^^
15:34 Sped up version of Against the Clock
20:19 IT RETURNS! And at NORMAL SPEED!
Why is it that when they play music to fill up the time that it always seems to be speeded up?
Oh, I get it. The video maker is speeding it up during the wait time! Never mind.