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Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. Thames Television broadcast from 09:25 Monday morning to 17:15 Friday afternoon (19:00 Friday night until 1982) at which time ...
Jun 9, 2014 · 10/06/14 - 01:27 #3. Best: the iconic ATV in Colour and Thames Television's 'reflected river' Worst - Thames and London Weekend's original black & white idents - simply the names on a still, thankfully both very short-lived. (Thames also used a smaller black & white version of what became their iconic ident for some programmes thankfully - the ...
Thames Video was the home video imprint of Thames Television, the weekday franchise holder for ITV in London. The division was founded in 1978, and later merged into newly-founded distributor The Video Collection in 1985, reducing the Thames name under a label titled Thames Video Collection. The label later reverted back to Thames Video in 1991 ...
- Background
- 1st Logo (1978-1982)
- 2nd Logo (1982-1992)
- 3rd Logo (US only) (1988-1992)
- 4th Logo (UK only) (1990-1999)
Thames Video was the home video imprint of Thames Television, the weekday franchise holder for ITV in London. The division was founded in 1978, and later merged with newly-founded distributor The Video Collection in 1985, reducing the Thames name under a label titled Thames Video Collection, which later reverted back to Thames Video in 1991, which ...
Logo: Just a still image of the 1969-1989 Thames logo, while the cursive white text "Video" fades in below. There are lines that extend to each side of the screen connected to the word.
Technique: The text fading in.
Music/Sounds: Silence, but the show's theme could play before the logo fades out.
Availability: Extremely rare.
•This was used as a placeholder before the 2nd logo was created.
•Found on a Betamax of The Best of The Benny Hill Show Vol. 1.
Logo: Against a dark blue background, we see a "V", curvy, with two white stripes and a thinner black stripe, turning in sync with the curve, looking like a road. It then pans out, forming a V with lines on the sides, and then an all-white view of London (with Big Ben, the Telecom Tower, St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge) pops up into view on top of the V. Then, an outline of the London skyline on the V zooms out, which then morphs into "THAMES video" on the view of London. The view of London then "shines" on top. Afterwards, the background darkens a little.
Variants:
•On all tapes which were released after Thames Video merged with The Video Collection in 1985, the word "Collection" is written in the Brush Script font below the view of London, along with an extra five-pointed star-shaped flash behind it when the logo glows. The background also darkens a lot more as the background changes from dark blue to black.
•A still version of this logo is seen at the end of certain tapes (other tapes show the closing seconds of the logo instead).
•This logo could also be seen as a precursor to Thames' "21st Anniversary" ident, which was used from July to September 1989, and survived into the initial version of their "ITV Generic" ident (introduced later that year).
Technique: Everything happening in this logo, including the later addition of "Collection" writing itself in after the VCI merger in 1985. Pretty cool for 2D effects.
Logo: Against a bright red background, two silver beams of light point upwards. The beams then lower to the center of the screen, one pointing each way. The lights seem to dispel, the background turning a deep blue, and form the words "THAMES VIDEO COLLECTION", with "THAMES" coming from the middle, "VIDEO" from the left, and "COLLECTION" from the right. The three words set into the middle of the screen as two silver bars appear from both sides, resting at the top and bottom of the wording, with the finishing touch being a black marble version of the famous skyline logo topping the logo.
Technique: The shining lights, the words and the skyline.
Music/Sounds: A fairly ominous-sounding six-note jingle, with the last few notes held out a bit longer.
Availability: Seen on later Thames Video releases distributed by HBO Video.
Logo: On a black background, we see three inverted triangles (one in red/gold, a second in blue/red, and a third in gold/blue), with a view of London (again, featuring Big Ben, the Telecom Tower, St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge) and "THAMES VIDEO" on them, flying by, then a gold version of the logo is created, then the background changes from black to navy blue.
Trivia: This logo is based on Thames Television's final ident, which was used from September 3, 1990 to December 31, 1992.
Variants:
•At the end of videos of certain shows like The Bill, Mr. Bean and Rainbow, among others, a still version of this logo is seen instead of the usual Thames Television endboard, with the final seconds of the show's theme being heard in place of the fanfare.
•The videos of Truckers (which edited the thirteen episodes together to form a movie) and Victor and Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (which only contained three episodes from the first series of 1991) also featured this logo at the end, instead of Cosgrove Hall's third logo.
Technique: The three differently-colored versions of the logo flying by to reveal the gold one, and the background changing from black to navy blue.
May 18, 2020 · Also, for the first time, the famous Thames ‘Sky-Line’ station ident was incorporated in the livery in a stylised version in black, surrounded by a black or blue border. Unit 1 in the new livery with the skyline logo in black on each side.
Jan 15, 2013 · Thames launched in 1968 broadcasting to ITV London weekdays, and from the very start the famous jingle and skyline animation appeared – all be it in a simpler black and white form.
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Thames Television's most famous skyline ident consisted of a selection of London landmarks reflected over water. This was to last the station over 20 years and, due to it being so recognisable globally, is still generally applied to all archive material sold by FremantleMedia, even productions dating into the 90s.
