Southern Closedown - 13th February 1980 

When I think about the announcer telling us to switch off our sets on a blank television screen it's keeps me awake at night

I love the color bars! buzzzzzzzzzz!

This was recorded at Southern Television's Dover studios.

I thought the 1977 WCBS and the 1986 KCRA sign-offs were ridiculous, this one takes the cake!

Actually I think a lot of epilogues *were* pre-recorded, but were indeed treated as ephemeral and most were never archived. Though the BFI database does have an exhaustive list of (generally more secular) Thames epilogues from the 1980s, so maybe by that time Thames at least were keeping them.

@AndrewJimScott I can imagine that it is - being a live broadcast.

Were Closedown's on Southern always so quick and to me quite pointless, may have well just shown the clock and a quick goodnight.

How did Southern close down on the day of the Vrillon hijacking in November 26 1977?

I believe that St. Valentine, not Dan Cupid, should be the mascot for February 14th.

Nick Page and Roger Royle both at some point in their careers presented Radio 2's early Sunday morning heap of canting religion (which Don Maclean did for years after them and which Aled Jones does now). The "St" from St Valentine's Day seems to have gone the same way, and for the same reasons, as the apostrophe from Hallowe'en. And of course that incredibly slow and pompous version of GSTQ, much more so than any version ever used by the BBC.

I Don't Is Christopher Robbie Could Be On Southern Television This Year