8:58 Given that 2022 marks the centenary of the BBC and 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the first BBC ident, there is a chance we could see these idents again. Great episode, Adam! Nice to see the old Ident Review font again! By the way, if you go to the idents page on the History of the BBC website, you can see a clip of some in-vision continuity for BBC TV from the early 1950s. It includes the earliest surviving weather forecast from the BBC archive, a Bat's Wings clock and even a musical version of the Bat's Wings!
Great as always, Martyn! This episode was interesting, yet it's brilliant indeed. Those monochrome idents from the 1950s to 60s era of BBC Television/BBC 1 are interesting to look at. My favourite ident for BBC 1 would probably be the 1966 ident (being The Watch Strap one).
The globe #2 looks like a washing machine, and in the second watch strap variant the globe looks like the moon with the lack of border. Thanks for a look at some history 👍🏻
It'd be interesting if a modern version of one of the globe idents was made with the logo laid out similarly to now. BBC on the top of the screen, and One on the bottom of the screen as there's plenty of room to allow for that.
It’s episode 91 now. This actually makes me scared, because Adam ended TSCU after 100 episodes. I certainly hope TIR sticks around, and he doesn’t move to Doctor Who content full time.
Hmm just looked at the present BBC branding and it looks really similar to what was used on the watch strap idents. The BBC lettering with the gaps between! How much money was spent by the BBC to come up with the 2022 idents? Who thinks the BEEB should be made to reuse their older idents instead of shelling out millions on expensive re-branding. Just re-shoot the mechanical models in 1080P as a training exercise for inexperienced camera operators as a way of teaching new tech ....job done.
