Scottish Television STV Adverts & Continuity 1983

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks.

[@Spookieham]

Arnold Clark even bigger and still going strong today.

[@williammackie4816]

The music for the rundown was the theme of hospital watch on bbc1

[@prd1073]

Ooo had such a crush on Bryce Curdy and his hair do at this point.

[@AllenJeremy]

That sounded like Kenny Everett in the Goldbergs commercial.

[@pak8606]

Closedown on the night of Tuesday 29th/Wednesday 30th November 1983. The early hours of St Andrew's Day.

[@BelfastGav]

I thought the lack of any mention of them being into the early hours of St Andrew's Day more than a little strange!
In addition to the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra at 10.45, peehaps the 'Bevin Boys' programme on the programme rundown was being shown as a nod to St Andrew's Day?
One thing BBC NI and UTV always did from as far back as I can remember is acknowledgment of St Patrick's Day - if not as much as some people would like (though probably more than some people would like, too, such is the nature of this part of the world).

[@pak8606]

@BelfastGav Maybe they saved it for the day? No idea whether STV or Grampian acknowledged it a lot.

[@martinwalsh3228]

Great footage.

[@pak8606]

What is the music playing over the programme menu?

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

It's La Serenissima by Rondo Veneziano. Or some re-done version of it.

[@pak8606]

@80sandretrogubbins25 I remember it being played on local radio in the 1990s/early 2000s.

[@BelfastGav]

​@80sandretrogubbins25 ITV used the music as their Autumn 1983 theme music, going so far as to show the animation video/music as a break-filler - a fairly regular thing in the Ulster region.

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

@@BelfastGav Yes, I know.