3rd December 1982 Close of Look North, Nationwide - Hugh Scully & Frank Bough Franks last day and the obligatory 'surprise' at the end. Breakfast Time was 6 weeks away and within 9 months Nationwide had ended.
RIP Michael Barratt 1928 - 2022, underrated perhaps but superb in a live context staying effortlessly in control at all times. Like all the best, he made it seem so easy.
Yes when Nationwide ended in 1983 it was replaced by the short lived Sixty Minutes on BBC1 at the time. This was not really a comparison and viewers did not take to it so well. It ended in 1984 and in September that year the Six O Clock News started followed by the Regional News; as it still is today of course.
And, according to Fern Britton, what he did AT his place of work. She said that when she was filling-in on Breakfast Time, he said it was a shame she didn't fancy him because he had, in his own words, " an enormous c*ck". So, like the rest of them, people at the BBC knew about "Uncle Frank". Nationwide finished less than a year later, to be replaced by Sixty Minutes, presented (initially) by Desmond Willcox, old Rancid's hubby. She set up Childline to protect more than the poor kids.
And the first sighting of Titchmarsh on a 'general' assignment film report? Great upload David. Many thanks. But what's the rap /drill music all about, around 17.30 in?
@@bdavebaldwin yes indeed, even as a child I spotted it all: Bough combovers, lemon squeezers, cheap fabric desk cladding. Some may have called me a ‘sad nerd’ but I prefer the term ‘enthusiastically over-attentive’.
@@bdavebaldwin Thanks again for these videos of BBC past. A great celebration made available permanently in full on the net which I have really enjoyed reliving.
