Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Thames Television 'Today' Opening Titles, 1977

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


Friday, December 23, 2011

Thames Television Christmas Continuity 1984

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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.


Sunday, December 11, 2011

Thames Television Continuity Announcers

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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.


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Thames Television News Presenters

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


Saturday, November 5, 2011

Thames TV Ident From The Simpsons

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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.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Thames Television closedown with Victoria Crawford, June 1987

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


Sunday, October 31, 2010

Thames programmes: Magpie Opening Titles, 1968

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.


Saturday, October 23, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Thames News: opening titles from 1988

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


Sunday, August 1, 2010

Thames Television's final day on-air

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


Sunday, July 11, 2010

Thames Television continuity: closedown with Philip Elsmore (1986)

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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.


Saturday, June 26, 2010

Updates to the Thames News and Thames Continuity sections

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.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Thames Television: announcers and continuity sections updated

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


Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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

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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.


Monday, June 14, 2010

Thames News section online

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

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)

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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

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.