There’s absolutely tons of ancient TV continuity on YouTube, though unfortunately a goot 93% of it is just the old BBC2 ‘==2==’ logo fading to black just before a feature film comes on. In this one, though, you not only get the opening and closing titles with a smidgeon of cliffhanger from Derren Brown-favoured skateboard-heavy Child Detective Agency summer holidays mainstay The Red Hand Gang, and the ‘Tony Hart On Location’ opening titles of Hart Beat (and hands up who’d forgotten about his phwoarsome art postgrad sidekicks for that series?), but also a suitably scarlet-hued continuity slide for the aforementioned adventures of Li’l Bill and company, and a schedule rundown featuring a rare glimpse of that long-forgotten Broom Cupboard-prefiguring occupant of the role that Phillip Schofield would make famous, ‘Computer Graphics’. Anyone else remember the time they accidentally cued in the main ‘intro’ animation in the middle of an episode of Grange Hill? And speaking of that particular schoolbound series…
Posted by outonbluesix on February 12, 2009 in Lazy YouTube Embeds and tagged "look - it is scoffield from scoffield's europe!", "plays the pianner in the strangest manner - the tunes are right but the words are wrong", 'computer graphics', bbc micro, boomer the dog, children's bbc, colin bennet, derren brown, didn't he play one of the ones that went 'blind' (ie every single bloody character) in little house on the prairie?, finish that bloody article on 'shelving' aitchison!, grange hill, GRR GRR WHERE IS CP & QWIKSTITCH?, hartbeat, he was in that whizz kids thing that only danny from ladytron remembers too, here's boomer, IDEANTS!, james bond iii as 'doc', johnny brogna, jolie newman, jr miller, kwicky koala was wanker, matthew laborteaux, nele morrissey, phillip schofield's brother, the red hand gang, tony hart, who else wanted to punch 'doc' for looking so smug when he was dressed as a 'bellhop'?.
