God I miss TVS. Back in the days when we actually had regional commerce broadcasting. Now it's just a one size fits all. The Imaging for Coast to Coast - titles etc - was the the best, it would still look fresh today, it's not aged at all. The opening C2C Animation from the station Ident into the titles, with the logo transitioning into the map of the south was and remains the best opening anywhere.
Fionia Armstrong. Still going strong at 60. As she once rilly said.Have I been asked I would make a good Arm Wrestler because of my ser name.No she said. Except for the one thousand times before! Lovely Woman.
Good to see *some* objection to the M20 - I had always suspected that a lot of the anti-HS1 protesters ignored it because it wasn't a railway and didn't link directly to continental Europe, so didn't wave two Thatcherite red rags ... The surname Codling has May 1991 resonances for me which I won't go into. I know a lot of the names and places here but, living only just outside the M25, we got London ITV (though TVS was also within reach) and Mike Debens is unfamiliar - he seems rather smarmy.
Those Caravanning ads must be the last ever not for a specific brand, surely. We have an example in the main Coast to Coast story of how embedded the underclass culture in much of Kent was and is, worse than in most of the places to which The Sun and the Daily Mail would have had and indeed would still have us believe it is confined, and institutionalised by the retention of grammar and secondary modern schools. Having lived there at the time I know of which I speak ...
