That's an uncannily early closedown for a Friday night - 12.08 according to Peter Lewis. It's so early that even UTV might've not quite gone off yet!!!
@@MovieVideo101 1983 and TV-am was a disaster. Most regions looked on it as a joke. They wouldn't take them seriously until 1985/86. Thames often did the same, only Tom Edwards ever bother to tell the viewers about TV-am, but even then he always got the name of their main programme wrong Good Morning Great Britain, instead of just Good Morning Britain, as a little tease to TV-am management, who hated him doing it
@@gavinn6905 This night the aired a pilot sitcom starring Peter Cook called The Two of Us at 11.30pm. LWT saving money, as ITV and Channel 4 were hit by an advertising recession in 1983-1984 and so they felt people were out partying so why not shut early. BBC 1 were on air a little bit more until 12.35am, BBC 2 on air until 1.30am for late night viewers and Channel 4 closed down this night at 12.40am
