[720p/50p] ITV Thames | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 26th July 1982

© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1982

End of The Hill
Adverts
Thames IVC (Tom Edwards): Slouch Down And Ignore with Fred Trueman (he's wrong: Stainton is nowhere near the southern tip of South Yorkshire! It's close to Rotherham. I'm from the area that's the genuine southern tip of South Yorkshire!)
Thames IVC: Weather forecast
Thames IVC: closing announcement
Thames slides: Tuesday evening with "Light Birds" by Shakatak
Thames clock (12:51am) with "Light Birds" by Shakatak
Switch off TV warning
Black and silence
Loss of sync at 37:05 (those coloured patterns are from my capture card)
40:40 - transmitter shutdown (the sound stages seemed to close before the vision stages!)

Adverts:
Knowing the kind of people he had in mind, old "Now, then, now then, jingle jangle jewellery, jewellery" was probably thinking of a rather dfferent kind of party he could be attending!
Abbey National
Fosters
ShowerElectric
Minstrels
Ribena
Cornetto
Flat-Tel