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The Guest Room has been Prepared
As Blackadder said to Baldrick, "We're not at home to Mr Cockup"
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An IBA caption from the 1980s, used overnight by those ITV companies that were not broadcasting 24 hours a day. |
| From LWT's first attempt at an overnight service. |  |
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If all goes well, you never see this. The countdown clock, as found on all VT tapes used for broadcast. This one is for an episode of Neighbours! West One TV are an independent post-production facility, believed to be contracted to edit Neighbours for the BBC. |
| A BBC apology caption from
February 1997. Technical breakdowns are rare these days, but they do happen. Unlike the early days, all programmes now have a standby in case of failure. |
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October 1997 This was the first sighting of an apology caption since the change of BBC logo. If you've seen an on screen caption or other continuity cockup, let us know on mhp-chat |
| This is the BBC1 apology caption, seen in November 1997 when the late night film "Memphis" suffered crackly sound. It was a fairly long break, during which some music was played. This sound clip has been edited, to remove the initial long period of silence before the music started, and also to shorten the period of music. |  |
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Before we leave, we take a trip back to 1979, and the longest strike in British Television history, on ITV |
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computer generated captions were shown usually
accompanied by silence. Anyone got any memories of the strike? |
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ITV were not the only ones to have strikes. The longest BBC strike was prior to Christmas 1978, but they have had numerous short strikes in the seventies and eighties. |
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Last Updated 06 Apr 2000