Saturday 18th January 1969 BBC1 - Lulu - Saturday Thriller - Morecambe And Wise - Rare Recording 

In fairness, we've had proof it was used in junctions for over 20 years.

@@dunebasher1971 yes that’s right, but you know what the doubters are like. 🤣

@@benwesley1899 when it was new it was used at every opportunity. It was still going in 1970 and I think started in 1968.

I remember these tapes passing through my hands at the BBC Archives when we were still in Brentford. They were Sony format, I seem to remember them as being 405 line. Definitely off air as you can see by the multipath reception.

@@edwinparsons7929 Maurice Gibbs CV2000 recordings that Lulu still had ( she was married to Maurice at the time) she donated them in 2008/9 I believe . One episode of TOTP miraculously turned up.

Lasted from 1966-1969

They're based around the notes B, B and C, like the call sign used many years before (and on some BBC world service intervals).

It was also used with the testcard,certainly in the early 60's between music tracks.

Plus the BBC World Service and maybe a BBC Local Radio Station as well depending on where you lived.

According to TV producer Richard Marson on Twitter, it's the end of the Lulu recording, from her own personal collection.

@@paulhayes5724 correct! 😊

@@paulhayes5724 Wasn't it made by Maurice Gibb on his CV2000 video recorder? He recorded a TOTP that Lulu had as well. Think Lulu donated them in 2008/9?

The previous year, towards the end of Rediffusion (?) 's tenure as the contractor, Hendrix had appeared in 'It Must Be Dusty', with Dusty Springfield and, by all accounts, given it the works - complete with a duet spot and a rendition of then-brand-new song 'Voodoo Chile' . Footage is on lots of people's wish list but there is audio - and they bang it out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cSFipavMgoM.html

Spool forward to 4th January 1969, and perhaps Jimi's a bit less willing to play by the rules of Light Entertainment - though Lulu's soon-to-be-husband Maurice Gibb was, reputedly, a friend to pretty much everyone on the 'serious' music scene as he was, by all accounts, A Very Nice Guy Indeed who would invite all of the rockers of the day, over to his place for 'a smoke' - wafting the tell-tale aroma of wacky-backy out of the room, before his new wife returned home . Lulu was, it seems, rather straight-edged but there are reports of her being quite laid-back, amused even, about Jimi's rebellious approach to the script and being quite happy to see him make up his own ending to the show. Meanwhile, some accounts of this event have the B.B.C.'s Stanley Dorfman losing his temper as Hendrix disobeyed his instructions but other versions of the story have him buying Hendrix a pint after transmission and thinking it was all tremendous fun. Both may well be true. Either way, I reckon it was a great performance - which was nearly lost to The Big Magnet.

The plot thickens - I took a look at Genome and there were only two episodes of Happening For Lulu - the first was at the end of 1968 and Hendrix appeared on the second and last one. The following week, the show had been renamed to A Song For Europe, i.e. the search for the UK's song for the Eurovision Song Contest, which Lulu was to sing there. On Lulu's Wikipedia page, it is suggested that she had little say in the matter ; she recollects that Bill Cotton informed her, through her manager, that 'I'd like her to do the Eurovision Song Contest, on the series' (sic). At the time, the BBC held the exclusive right to represent the UK in the contest, which arguably explains why an artiste, presumably under contract, could be 'assigned' to the task, seemingly without having made themself available for it. Cotton was not head of BBC light entertainment at that moment - in that role was Tom Sloan, who is remembered for his connection to the comedy of the era - but also to the Eurovision. He had just received an OBE in the New Year Honours. Tom Sloan sadly passed away, in role and at a relatively young age, in May 1970 . Bill Cotton was then entrusted with the job.

Yes, it is a missing episode. The tape contains the first approximately 90 seconds of the program and this footage is available on the "Morecambe & Wise - The Lost Tapes" DVD release as a bonus feature.

I thought one of the reasons Morecambe and Wise left ATV was because they wanted to make shows in colour which at the beginning of 1969 would mean having them shown on BBC2 only.

@@trevordance5181 Notice the vertical sync jump between the BBC1 globe and the start of M&W? That is most likely due to the 405-line BBC1 switching to a 625-line (converted) source in order to show the programme. I think that episode had more than likely already been shown in colour on BBC2 but got a B&W BBC1 repeat. My belief is that during 1969, BBC1's network control got upgraded to 625-lines, and was originating everything in 625 including the Black & White globe shown here, and then all was converted back to 405-lines for 405 transmitters, but sent 'pure' to the 625 transmitters. There was a short time in mid-1969 when the 625-line service was already transmitting before the official colour switch-on, with Black & White presentation and idents but some programmes in colour.

Sounds like John Edmunds to me.