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The Cup Winners ident as it appeared on BBC One Scotland.

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BBC One Wales' version of the 'cup winners' café ident.

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Another festively branded promo for Channel 5's daytime lineup for New Year's Day 1998. And almost in a throwback to their Spice Girls launch again, the afternoon selection is being branded up as 'girl power'.

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Another festively branded promo for Channel 5, this time providing a rundown of shows on the channel for New Year's Day 1998 with the decorations having been retained past Christmas itself.

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The short version of the Channel 5's 'blue' Christmas ident for 1997.

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The long version of the 'blue' Christmas ident for Channel 5 in 1997, once again featuring a rotating 5 logo with Christmas lights, before briefly changing to a Christmas tree style partway through.

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The short version of Channel 5's orange/black ident from Christmas 1997. Complete with a festive movie rating graphic again.

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For Channel 5's first Christmas in 1997, two festive idents were added to the channel each with longer and shorter variants for a total of four. The style of these was similar to the regular idents, just with the addition of lighting. The longer version of the 'orange' ident here, followed by a movie rating with festive background graphics matching the style in use on trailer endboards and next slides that year.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's variation on the 'Cup Winners' café ident, with a longer playout here revealing more of the outside.

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In another ident first introduced from April 12th 2022, the BBC Three hand characters all take turns to interact with a microphone.

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The third April 2022 addition, introduced from the 11th, featured ominous hats surrounding the BBC Three hand characters.

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In another BBC Three ident introduced from April 10th, the hand characters meet with a bunch of giant feet which may have escaped a Monty Python sketch.

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The next batch of idents to be added to the BBC Three set were released over a few days at the start of April 2022. First aired on April 7th, this ident features the hand characters interacting with a keyboard.

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Stephen Fry and Naomi Campbell have a dinner party with a selection of historical figures, all in order to promote After Eight chocolates.

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In the final variation on the 'café' setting, a sports team celebrate a cup win in the venue. Introduced on May 10th 2022.

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BBC One Scotland's variation on the café / builders ident, introduced from May 2022.

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BBC One Wales first aired the builders version of the café ident on May 10th, at the same time as the other nations this time. A later airing is shown here.

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The café / builders ident as it appeared on BBC One Northern Ireland from May 2022.

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BBC One Wales was the only nation not to first air the cafe / first date ident into the 7.30pm junction on May 9th, with it instead appearing a little later.

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The second version based in the café featuring builders sat eating first aired on May 10th 2022.

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BBC One Scotland's variant of the outdoor pool / clowning around ident, used from late April 2022. Complete with an overrun of the continuity in this airing.

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The clowing around pool ident, as used on BBC One Wales.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's variation on the Clowing Around pool ident, introduced in late April 2022.

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In the third BBC One ident set by the outdoor pool, someone jumps into the pool in the evening to splash some other people sitting by the edge.

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The pool party ident as used on BBC One Scotland from late April 2022.

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BBC One Wales' version of the pool party ident.

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The pool party ident, as edited for BBC One Northern Ireland.

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In the next ident set in the outside pool, a party is taking place.

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The first airing of the café / date ident on BBC One Scotland into the 7.30pm junction on May 9th saw an extended playout, allowing a peek at the outside portion of the ident not seen in the other nations.

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The 'Café / First Date' ident as it appeared on BBC One Northern Ireland.

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The next new ident added to the set first aired into the 7.30pm junction (in most nations) on May 9th 2022, and featured a café location panning round from the inside to the outside, though the outside portion would often never be seen in shorter junctions. In this version, a couple are on a date.

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The Scotland variant of the Swim Squad ident for BBC One, used from April 20th onwards as with the other nations.

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The Swimming Pool/Squad ident as it appeared on BBC One Wales from 20th April 2022 onwards.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the 'Swim Squad' ident, in use from April 20th 2022.

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The first new ident to be added to the 'lens' set followed soon after launch on 20th April 2022. Featuring a pool setting, once again three more scenes feature at different points of the day. Here swimmers use the pool, pretty much exactly as you'd expect them to for swimming.

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BBC One Scotland's variation on the sky / evening ident, used from April 2022.

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BBC One Wales' variation on the serious 'evening sky' ident.

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The 2022 evening sky ident, as it appeared on BBC One Northern Ireland.

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The serious/news safe 'sky' ident appears here in the early evening too, shown here from network.

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Joanna Lumley features in this advert for Mellow Birds. Entitled 'Straw Hat', the advert had first appeared in 1983 and was still in use here some 5 years later.

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Those super pin-sharp Epson printers work to everyone's advantage, as a second advert in the 'cat' series demonstrates...

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Forgotten to feed your cat today? Well you'd better hope you don't own one of the latest Epson printers in 1997 with pictures so pin sharp you wouldn't know they weren't the real thing...

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BBC One Scotland's variation on the farmland / ramblers ident, used from April 2022.

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The ramblers ident as it appeared on BBC One Wales.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's variant of the 2002 farmland with ramblers ident. Complete with both a date and timecheck from the CA here, as had been done on the main network script for this junction too.

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In the third ident from the farmland setting, ramblers can be seen passing by in low light.

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BBC One Scotland's version of the 'Bench with Teens' ident, introduced in April 2022.

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The 'Bench / Teens' ident, as it appeared for viewers on BBC One Wales.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's variant of the 'Bench / Teens' ident, used from April 2022.

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The bench features in another ident for BBC One, this time set in the early evening with teenagers making use of the location.

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An example of the next slide from Channel 5's first Christmas on air in 1997. Similar in style to their regular slides of the time, just with some additional festive decoration added to the background.

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A bright street scene features in another ident for Drama introduced in April 2022.

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A night time police chase in the rain features in this Drama ident, introduced from April 2022.

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In late April 2022 a small set of extra idents were added to Drama. All featuring scenes depicted in slow motion, they were initially mixed in alongside the existing ident set for the channel. Blossoms fall in the garden of a manor house in the scene for this ident.

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BBC One Scotland's copy of the sky ident in the daytime. Complete here with... an unusually paced... continuity announcement.

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BBC One Wales' version of the daytime sky ident.

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The daytime sky ident, as seen on BBC One Northern Ireland.

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Another shot of the sky for use before more serious programming, this time set in the daytime.

Finally BBC One Scotland shows us their variation on the warehouse and drawing/art class ident.

BBC One Wales' variation on the Warehouse art class ident, used from April 2022.

The warehouse / drawing ident, as it appeared on BBC One Northern Ireland.

The warehouse location is turned into a place for an art class in this ident for BBC One.

The refreshed titles for BBC Points West from April 2022, bringing the updated BBC logo to the news output.

The graphics for all news output from the BBC was refreshed in April 2022 to introduce the new BBC logo that had first began appearing the previous October. The refreshed version of the BBC North West Tonight titles.

The BBC London titles were refreshed in April 2022 as part of an introduction of the new BBC blocks logo to all news output.

BBC One Scotland's variation on the marketplace aftermath ident.

The 'aftermath' version of the market ident, as it appeared on BBC One Wales.

BBC One Northern Ireland's variant of the Market / Aftermath ident, used from April 2022.

The third ident set on the marketplace scene features the location after hours, where things are being tidied up.

BBC One Scotland's variant of the field and livestock ident, in use from April 2022.

The Welsh variant of the Field / Livestock ident for BBC One.

The field with livestock ident as used on BBC One Northern Ireland.

Another ident set in the farm field, this time during the day with sheep visible.

The NCT Hall ident in its BBC One Scotland variant.

BBC One Wales version of the Hall NCT ident, used from April 2022.

The NCT hall meeting ident, as aired on BBC One Northern Ireland.

A National Childbirth Trust meeting takes place in the Hall setting in this version of the ident.

BBC One Scotland's variant of the Bench with Family ident.

The family bench ident, this time as shown on BBC One Wales.

BBC One Northern Ireland's variant of the daytime bench ident featuring a family and lots of passers by.

The bench setting sees a much more vibrant daytime setting, with a family sitting on the bench and lots of other people passing by.

The market calm ident, as used on BBC One Scotland from April 2022.

The BBC One Wales variant of the 'Calm' marketplace ident.

The calm marketplace ident, as aired on BBC One Northern Ireland.

The marketplace features in another ident, only this time at a much calmer point earlier in the day.

Another Halifax advert with people coming together to make a building from 1997. This time round using the song 'Consider Yourself' from the musical Oliver!

For a time in the late 90s, Abbey National took on Alan Davies as the leading face of the bank. Here he appears alongside a cat and a group of bikers in a rural pub.

A cover of Gloria Gaynor's classic 'I Will Survive' forms the basis of this 1997 Weetabix advert, featuring the trials of a countryside vet. This followed on from the previous advert set to the same song and based around a driving instructor.

Initially at launch, Channel 5 was the first of the main terrestrial channels not to have a commercial service provided by Teletext Ltd, with BSkyB providing content instead. The service from December 1997 here still in the first year of the channel remains very similar to how it had been from launch, just with some tweaked festive graphics on the main index page. With it being the end of the year, news focuses heavily on New Years Honours too. The ancillary service for 5 can also be found in the 500s, although visually there was a lot less distinction between the commercial and ancillary services in the BSkyB days of the service.

A Christmas 1997 Channel 5 promo, with a slight twist. Ever ones for getting their money's worth in the early years this trailer had actually originally aired as part of the pre-launch build up for Channel 5 in March 1997 for their one off and less-than-critically-acclaimed medical comedy 'Hospital'. Here, as part of their New Year 1997/1998 programming, they repeat not only that show but use the exact same trailer from before launch just with the endboard updated to add in festive graphics and a new date. Even the TV shot in the middle still shows shots of from the original extended pre-launch 'swinging TV' promo for the channel.

One of the 'blurred-timelapse' style Channel 4 Connections idents, this time using a park setting.

A woman and child appear in the foreground in yet another mundane scene for this Channel 4 ident.

Another advert from the 'Not Everything in Black and White Makes Sense' Guinness campaign from 1997 Guinness features various absurd statistics, before concluding with Vic Reeves stating that '88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot'.

The daily routine of a man who remains positive as his house is a moment away from collapse is shown in this 1997 Barclaycard ad, complete with the slogan 'Don't put it off, put it on!'.

In the early days of Big Brother airing in the UK on Channel 4, the station were keen to lean on the success wherever possible. Here a somewhat tenuously-linked promotion for their then-subscription channel FilmFour, bringing in both the familiar show theme and the voice of Marcus Bentley, who became synonymous with the programme over its years on the air. As well as featuring housemates giving their views and providing links on some films to feature as part of a special 'Double Take' event.

The night sky ident in its BBC One Scotland variant.

The night sky ident, as it appeared on BBC One Wales. Shown here from a different junction to that of the other nations.

BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the night sky ident.

Filmed at a slightly higher angle to that of the bench ident, the sky ident for BBC One presents an even calmer scene at different times of the day, shown here at night.

A promo for Channel 4 in 2000 taking a look at some of the darker crimes on the still fledgling internet... and you won't find them much different to those of now!