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The BBC One Scotland version of the Big Day sting.

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Remember kids, it's fine to kiss a random and clearly uninterested lady, after vandalising some art exhibits on display, just as long as you've eaten a tasty potato snack first. More lessons that were fine in the 80s here, courtesy of animated dog Colin who today is visiting an art gallery.

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One of several short segments scattered throughout the Sky News schedule geared around the advertising sponsorship attached to it, rather than the news. Here in 2011, Dial A Flight sponsor the 'Destinations Report' by Nazaneen Ghaffar - essentially someone standing in front of the weather screen to promote a particular holiday location. Well, it helps pay the leccy bill for those big video walls!

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The top of the hour sequence from Sky News in 2017. After showing some clips of the website, they cut to the studio for the headlines, which today include police announcing they are carrying out an investigation into Conservative behaviour in the 2017 election, a report on how Ian Watkins could have been caught much earlier, and Texas bracing itself for severe storms and an update on a day of special Ocean Rescue reports from the channel.

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An updated BBC News countdown to mark The Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018. Aired here into the 4pm top of the hour on 17th May.

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A long 1989 advert promoting the rail industry in 1989, featuring footage shot around the country. A fun game is spotting how many of the same trains can still be seen in use 30 years later.

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Cinema From 3 Continents was a special set of branding used to lead into foreign language films on Channel 4. Dating here from 1990 and highlighting a movie from Peru.

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The next slide style for BBC2 introduced with the '2' rebrand of 1991. Here being used to mention shows elsewhere in the schedule (or not at all in the first case), as well as giving a chance to see the variation in placement of the 2 logo in the top left from one slide to the next.

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The corporate BBC sport ident from the early 90s. A simple affair where a powerful piece of music accompanies a logo which may have escaped from a box of Ariel Automatic.

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Gelsen Kirchen is looking for a place to become twinned with, but the deciding factor is the beer. The actual Gelsenkirchen in Germany has been twinned with Newcastle Upon Tyne since 1948. Newcastle Exhibition was originally brewed within the region, but production was moved with sales and mergers of the breweries in the 2000s.

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The forward-facing version of the TWO ident, with the letters appearing from white.

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Happily challenging the DVB video compression once more, the Pick break bumper based upon the Police ident.

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A third style to the ECP for Pick, this time using a red colour off to the right hand side.

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The Pick break bumper based upon the 'Cat' ident.

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A closeup on just the wheel of a car, as it spins at speed, casting rocks across the screen.

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An all-purple version of the ECP, here promoting shows entirely on Pick.

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Some macro lens filming of popcorn features in this Pick ident. And we're not even going into a movie.

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A wine glass flies through the air before smashing, in the most dramatic fashion possible.

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End Credit Promotions on Pick often trail shows both on Pick itself, and on some other channel from the Sky stable - here promoting a show on Real Lives. Several variations on the ECP colours exist, here with a turquoise tinge to the right hand side.

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A ginger cat pounces across the screen, in an ident which looks like it may have escaped out of the final batch for BBC HD.

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What G is The Milky Way is the opening clue for this Challenge break bumper.

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An opening teaser break bumper for Challenge asking What H is the Eve of All Saints Day?

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Another challenging Challenge word teaser to lead in to a break, and this time it's a word beginning with Y.

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A bumper into another break on Challenge, this time with a clue around 'What U'.

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Another 'What Word' break from Challenge, this time asking What J is to deride or scoff at?

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Another type of challenge on the break bumpers consists of a clue for a word beginning with a certain letter. In this case, "What K is a small hill or mound?"

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For the opening bumper this time, the word 'Bullet' has a sudden bite removed from the corner.

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Away from the programme slogans, one of several 'catchphrase' style break bumpers from Challenge. The opening part to 'First Aid' here.

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Revealing the anagram to be OUTLINING on the other side of the break for Challenge.

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The catchphrase this time shows the word 'Boots' being filled up. As Roy Walker would say, Just say what you see...

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The words regularly spoken by Hugo Myatt in his role as Treguard in Knightmare appear in this Challenge bumper.

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Another phrase out of Robot Wars in this break bumper.

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A white version of the Challenge ECP. Here in its native 16:9 aspect ratio as it is aired over the end credits to an episode of newer ITV gameshow The Chase. A show which has become the staple filler for much of the Challenge schedule now.

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Another variation on the orange end credit promotion, with travelator obstacles placed around the edge of the screen. Shown here over the end credits to a mid nineties edition of Catchphrase with Roy Walker.

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A grey ECP with LED signs placed around the edges with a very generic pre-recorded announcement. Played out here in 4:3 over the end credits to an episode of the Scottish Television production Wheel Of Fortune.

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A second ident, this time featuring Ninja Warrior, Robot Wars and Total Wipeout. With some specially pre-recorded continuity from Chris Tarrant to promote airings of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

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End Credit Promotions on Challenge use the main channel brand colours, with various rendered elements animated oround the times. As well as promoting the shows coming up on Challenge, they'll often give nods to shows on other Sky channels. Most commonly this tends to be on Sky's other Freeview channel Pick, however other channels from their broad collection can appear.

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Although the idents are very limited in number, the overall presentation package is bolstered with a very large variety of break bumpers. All featuring simple text elements in the channel's brand colours, they are grouped into ones featuring well known sayings from shows, and ones featuring quizzes or challenges. Looking first at the saying bumpers, "Say What You See", Roy Walker's famous Catchphrase words feature here.

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Pat Sharp's well known phrase from Fun House appears in this break bumper.

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Another WWTBAM phrase in this bumper, asking if you'd like to Phone a Friend?

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Words frequently uttered by the contestants on Wheel of Fortune appear in this bumper.

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The late Jim Bowen's words from Bullseye are immortalised on this Challenge bumper.

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Reminding us that "It's Your Show" for this Challenge break bumper.

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An accompanying Late Zone break bumper from speechbubble era.

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Bold colours, and a speechbubble logo made up the 2011-2013 look for Challenge. Late in this era, some slightly different dedicated branding for the late night slot was introduced branded as 'Late Zone'. A blue ident, with specially pre-recorded continuity provided by Pat Sharp of Fun House fame.

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First transmitted in 1989, an animated Red Car and Blue Car have a race. Red eats everything he sees, whilst 'smart' Blue only eats a Milky Way, as he knows it won't spoil his appetite for dinner. The advert was so well remembered, it was brought back again 20 years later in 2009 (see the Comeback Ads page), albeit now updated to remove any reference to someone eating chocolate being 'smart' and to it not ruining your appetite.

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In the early 90s, Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer, originally written for Miami Vice, found itself being used for a series of campaigns for Natwest. In this one, a small business adviser reminisces about how his father made many mistakes as a small business owner, with his greengrocers ultimately being replaced by a video shop. They'd not quite predicted video shops would soon be replaced by the internet at this point!

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A quick view of the 1989 festive clock from Granada, leading in to the news. Clocks were to be dropped completely from Granada not long after this.

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Celebrating 25 years of KFC in the UK in 1991, with a special offer meal from the Colonel.

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An advert for electronics and white goods chain chain Comet from 1991, with the logo 'clicking' into place. Comet fell into administration in late 2012, with all the stores closed not long afterwards.