Central Closedown 11-05-1983 (VHS Capture) 

This was 11th May 1983. Mike Prince mentions Aberdeen won that night's European Cup Winner's Cup Final, the only time they did so when Central were using that blue background closedown slide was 11th May 1983: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_European_Cup_Winners%27_Cup_Final

"The short film has been postponed" - in other words the ACTT union members said "no" to the offer of overtime pay! Unusual practice of music over the continuity!

In fact, Mike Prince says that the film began at 10:30pm, so yes, their schedule would have actually been: 7pm: football match 10pm: News at Ten 10:30: Domino Principle 12:25am: closedown (usually the time listed is the start of the closedown procedure, rather than the time of the fade out). It was originally scheduled to be this: 7pm (all regions): football match (kick off at 7:15, with extra time from 8-8:15, match scheduled to finish at 9pm and then 15 minutes of punditry on ITV) 9:15 (all regions): Film: The Domino Principle (as seen finishing at the start of this clip) 10pm: News at Ten 10:30 pm (all regions): Domino Principle continued 11:40 (Central only): Green Shoes So an extra 45 minutes would have meant Green Shoes starting at 12:25am and finishing at 12:55am, taking the technicians past their overtime period by 25 minutes. As I said in a previous comment, I don't know whether the decision not to go into overtime was taken by the technicians locally or whether it was a national decision, so I don't know whether the other regions broadcast their last scheduled programmes or not.

I've looked this up on the The Guardian Digital Archive, Central were supposed to show that short film Green Shoes at 11:40, but the match overran by 22 minutes. Incidentally, Green Shoes was only half an hour long and was only being transmitted in the Central region - interestingly all ITV regions were to go to their own half hour programmes or short films at 11:40pm before being scheduled to close down at 12:10am. So the original schedule was like this: 7pm (all regions): football match (kick off at 7:15, with extra time from 8-8:15, match scheduled to finish at 9pm and then 15 minutes of punditry on ITV) 9:15 (all regions): Film: The Domino Principle (as seen finishing at the start of this clip) 10pm: News at Ten 10:30 pm (all regions): Domino Principle continued 11:40 (Central only): Green Shoes Instead, the football match went into 22 minutes of extra time, then on top of that, let's assume another roughly 5 to 10 minutes of extra punditry and comment on top of that already scheduled just to speak about the events in extra time. So by this point there is already a half-hour overrun. ITV technicians overtime for those in programme playout on Mondays to Thursdays began at 12:30am, I believe. So because of the half-hour overrun, the schedule on all ITV regions would have looked like this: 7pm: football match 9:45: Domino Principle 10pm: News at Ten 10:30: Domino Principle 12:10am closedown Or like this (if they just bridged that extra 15 minutes between 9:45 and 10pm with 15 minutes of even more punditry and waffle) 7pm: football match 10pm: News at Ten 10:30: Domino Principle 12:25am: closedown (usually the time listed is the start of the closedown procedure, rather than the time of the fade out). So Central actually closed down at some point between 12:10 and 12:30am. Whether the other ITV companies decided to close down late and show their last programme late, I don't know.

It's Because of the scary GOOD NIGHT screen.

Christ! TV-AM must have been *really* desperate for guests if they invited Enoch Powell. Think I'd stick with the Beeb that morning.

This must have been 1982 or early 1983 owing to the blue background on the Central closedown slide.

Another mention of the ITV1 button for TV-am, this didn’t seem to last long. Enoch Powell on Good Morning Britain, no thanks. Very unusual to see a Central closedown like this, almost like LWT minus the national anthem. Fairly certain that the powers that be didn’t want to pay overtime, hence the last film not being shown.

Think I am right in saying that neither ATV or Central ever did In Vision closedowns?