tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

[smiles7964]

Hi

Wondering if anyone else remembers a particular symbol that a channel showed early morning before the programmes started. Think it could have been bbc2, I could be totally wrong. It was a very basic computerised picture of a tv in a living room, in about 4 colours. I remember getting up very early one Saturday and seeing this on the screen, I thought it was cool because it looked like a computer game-so much so that I got a box, drew buttons on it in felt tip and sat there pretending to play a game-how sad! This was before my household got a games console! It would've been mid-late 80's : )

[Trickyvee]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Was it one of the Ceefax pages? Somehow I remember seeing something like this on Ceefax but the memories are very hazy.

[smiles7964]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Maybe it was, I thought it was on the actual tv though, because I remember waiting for the programmes to start and it then vanishing, but as it was so long ago I might be getting mixed up! It looked like a ceefax type image to be fair!

[Trickyvee]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Sometimes they used to put up Ceefax pages on normal TV before the programmes started so it might have been.

[mazzer]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

My favourite pre-programme symbol was the Channel 4 figure coming together, then playing that daaa daaa da daaah electronic tune for 5 minutes or so before the schedule started. For me that tune is synonymous with the 80s, along with the Brookside theme.

[ayrshireman]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86_TLuI51w

[ayrshireman]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

The full 'Forescore':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xr8MgDiVyw

[mazzer]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Thanks for those, ayrshireman! Are you actually from Ayrshire then? Near my home town of Dumfries!

[ayrshireman]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Yes.

Irvine born and bred.

[mazzer]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Well howdy neighbour! (even though I now live at the other end of the country!)

[Markxist]

Re: tv symbol before progs started, 1980's

Composed by David Dundas, who had a hit with Blue Jeans in the 70s and scored Withnail and I