[720p/50p] ITV Thames | closedown | 3rd December 1979

© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1980

End of Hitler - The Last Ten Days
Thames optical slide: Top Secret
Adverts
Thames IVC (David Hamilton): Close (Thames)
Thames IVC: closing announcement
Thames clock (12:29am)
Switch off TV warning
Black screen and silence

Adverts:
Timex Quartz
Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits album
JVC Hifi
Dubonne
The Puzzler Magazine
Lentheric Panache
Moulinex hairdryers

[stevengn]

Ah this is so brilliant. Thanks a million for the upload. Lovely memories of the analog era

[LeighRichards]

I'll bet younger folk brought up on round the clock programming (and multi channels) wud find it incomprehensible that there was no telly after 1am! Always loved the reminder to "turn off your telly" lol.

[kwameaboagye-clme]

David Hamiton did his DJ job at BBC Radio 1 & 2 in the weekday mornings.
Then he does his evening slot at Thames Television since 1968.

[Jozman]

Great to see a Thames Diddy closedown, worth the wait…

[Scatscar]

Going by The TVRDb, this actually December 1979! "Top Secret" reunited everyone's favourite family-friendly predator with the producers of brilliant "I Spy" no Robert Culp this time sadly.

[Sheffield_Steve]

Ah well, only another 22 days before Xmas ads are over and then it's time for a holiday and cut out the coupon in the TV Times or call for a Hoseasons brochure? 🤭

[videonut]

This was before "CLOSE" got rebranded into "Sit & Listen".

[DanielMullins-cs]

Officially the oldest VHS footage you've found so far! Whoever owned these sure looked after the tapes well.

[britishnewsremixes]

Even does not have a transmitter shutdown

[britishnewsremixes]

Is that in-vision continuity with David Hamilton

[jasejj]

You watch Diddy in his pomp at Thames and you realise just how much Bill Steel ripped off his style while the two were at ABC - right down to the little asides about the staff...

Of course the two knew each other going way back: Bill will have been his TC at TTT in the '60s.