To be fair, most actual news programmes still are presented by journalists. There aren't really any programmes like Nationwide any more that combine news and fluff, they're either one or the other.
In the video John Stapleton was a reporter for the feature 'Cause for Concern'', a predecessor to 'Watchdog'. In the late 1980's he presented 'Watchdog' as a separate programme
Thank you for uploading this. I remember watching some of it at the time. I noticed that on the Wednesday and Thursday (and Friday in another upload) editions, when Glyn Worsnip present the clips there are two logos - the then current logo and a black and white mandala with ten NW's around one big NW in the centre. Was this version of the mandala ever used? It doesn't appear in either of the black and white titles. It's a much simpler design than the two colour ones that were used with The Good Word and the late 70s theme.
The reduced logo must have been done for this feature. Because there was never any intention of keeping the programmes beyond transmission they used to take quite a few liberties. On edition 1000 they recreated the original broadcast startup pretending it was factually accurate (which it wasn’t).
@@bdavebaldwin Thank you for replying. At 36:23 there's the clip of Glyn Worsnip dressed for one of their pantos, and holding up a photo of an orange 1972-74 BBC1 globe. I'm guessing that the photo was of the actual globe model, which may have had an orange or yellow bulb inside. At the time (1983), as I'd never seen that globe symbol in colour, I assumed it really was orange when seen between programmes. It was only when there were Monty Python repeats that I discovered it was blue.
@@stevejones6521 on the Wednesday flashback it's stated that the titles are the first ones. I rang them and told them they were wrong. After I described the actual titles they said they'd sort it for the final programme and left me sweating. I was more bothered that if I blew this chance to get the original titles I'd never get another but, they were prepared to shove a mistake out.
@@stevejones6521 The panto was Christmas 1977 so the ident shown was out of daté anyway. Orange was used quite a bit in the Nationwide titles so that’s probably why they used it. The original globe was deliberately done in that almost tinted blue because not many had colour tvs and they didn’t want distorted effects on black and white tvs. If you’ve ever seen a Dr. Who where they’ve used the cso tv effect to replace the background, in b & w it put a shimmering white edge on screen which wrecked the effect.
Supposedly the London side of the programme would be recorded (in those days on a Phillips home type vcr) this was because as it was mainly live they needed a recording in case of a dispute afterwards. Apparently those tapes finished up at the BFI.
