"announcer would say ""This is BBC Television."" while the globe spun. 1964 saw the creation of BBC1 and BBC2 brands, with the distinctive horizontal stripes across the screen. In April 1964, BBC2 was launched. Its logo was similar to that of BBC1, featuring the distinctive horizontal stripe, but with a large 2 in the centre with the BBC blocks beneath. As part of the publicity campaign for the new channel, artist Desmond Marwood created images of a kangaroo, named Hullabaloo with a baby named Custard in its pouch, to represent the new station. In 1969, when BBC 1 began broadcasting"
"BBC Two 'Cube' ident The Cube 2 was an ident used by BBC Two between 2 December 1967 and 28 December 1974. It featured a stylised '2' that rotated on screen. In 1967, BBC2 was the first UK television station to launch a full colour service on the UHF frequency band, and to mark the occasion a new symbol was launched. However, there is some confusion as to when the symbol was actually launched. Some colour programming was shown in the early part of the year, before the official date of 1 July 1967, but even the official launch date"
"BBC Two Launch ident The Launch ident was a television station identification used by BBC Two between their launch night in 1964 and the introduction of colour in 1967. BBC Two is the second BBC channel and the third channel to air in the UK. Following the success of BBC-TV, the third channel was awarded to the BBC. On 20 April 1964, BBC2 planned to launch an evening of programmes beginning at 7:20pm. However, 35 minutes before the new channel went on air, a power failure spread through most of London, affecting BBC Television Centre, where BBC2's programme control was"
"In 1963 a second mast was built alongside the existing structure. This was in order to carry the new BBC Wales 405-line TV service on Band III VHF channel 13, and entered service on 9 February 1964. It too remained on air until the closure of 405-line television in 1985. On 12 September 1965, a 625-line black and white television service BBC2 became available from Wenvoe on UHF. This new transmitter was capable of colour broadcasting from the start and was used for unannounced colour TV engineering test-transmissions from that point onwards. In September 1967 BBC2 officially launched a colour"
"Matilda (mascot) Matilda was the mascot of the 1982 Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane, Australia. Matilda was a model of a kangaroo built on top of a forklift. Standing over 13 metres tall and weighing six tonnes, it could turn its head, its ears could wriggle, and eyes could wink and blink. Its pouch doubled as a door, which opened during the opening ceremony to let out 20 children, dressed as joeys, who ran out two by two for a trampoline display. After the games, it ended up at the entrance to Cade's County Waterpark on the Gold Coast. In"
"Also, under-logo lines were added to the logo for the first time. These lines were coloured blue, red, green to reflect the flags of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland respectively (an ""English-bias"" has always been a criticism of the BBC), as well as the three phosphors of colour television. These appeared on the BBC national-region identities from the identities' debut in 1988 and its gradual television debut over the period 1989–1991. Previously, in 1986, the electronically generated BBC2 logo was updated. The number 2 was replaced with the word TWO. The letters were white, 3D letters on a white background"
"who are haunted by the memories of their experiences. Lancasters feature in the 2011 novel ""Dambuster"" by Robert Radcliffe. The Avro Vulcan enjoyed generous screen time in the James Bond film ""Thunderball"" (1965). Parts from two scrapped Vulcan bombers were used to make the set of the spaceship ""Nostromo"" from Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"". The spaceship HMS ""Camden Lock"" in the 2006-2007 BBC2 comedy series ""Hyperdrive"" bears the serial number ""XH558"". The set and prop designer, model-maker Andrew Glazebrook, stated ""its registration number ""XH558"" is actually that of the Royal Air Force's ""Avro Vulcan"" bomber and was suggested by"
"theme. Following the 1962 Pilkington Report that suggested that the third television station be awarded to the BBC, the BBC launched BBC2 on 20 April 1964. In preparation to this, all 'BBC TV' branding had to disappear from the presentation of the soon to be called BBC1. The Globe was made smaller, surrounded by a thich black circle and encompassed in a large white box on a grey background. There was also a slanted BBC logo in the bottom right corner. The lack of on screen branding is unusual, but as this ident began its life on BBC TV and"
"filmed elephants in Tanzania, and in 1969 he made a three-part series on the cultural history of the Indonesian island of Bali. For the 1971 film ""A Blank on the Map"", he joined the first Western expedition to a remote highland valley in New Guinea to seek out a lost tribe. BBC Two had been launched in 1964, but had struggled to capture the public's imagination. When Attenborough arrived as controller, he quickly abolished the channel's quirky kangaroo mascot and shook up the schedule. With a mission to make BBC Two's output diverse and different from that offered by other"
"on-screen from January 2000. Two of the idents from this set, Predator and the Christmas 2000 ident, were put back in use in 2006 but were withdrawn in February 2007 due to a rebrand. From July 2014, due to the 50th birthday of the channel, multiple idents from the series were put back in use. They replaced the main ""Window on the World"" package, initially in tandem with the 50th Birthday idents. On 27 September 2018, BBC Two received a rebrand, with the sans-serif '2' symbol being retired after 27 years; a new set of idents featuring a curve motif"
"contemporary showings on satellite station Boomerang and BBC Two. The characters from the show (all the cats and Officer Dibble) were used in 2016 as part of a UK television advertisement campaign for the Halifax bank. ""Top Cat"" (""Turpi úrfi"") was one of the first American cartoons premiered on Hungarian television channels in 1969. It also broadcast later with ""The Huckleberry Hound Show"", ""Tom and Jerry"", ""Looney Tunes"", ""The Flintstones"" and ""The Jetsons"" on Magyar Televízió from 1985 to 1990, and tv2 from 1997 to 1999 (together with ""Wacky Races"", ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" and ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo""). From 2012"
"the Channel 4 comedy ""Spaced"" (Season one, Episode 4: ""Battles"") in a flashback as Tim is chased by a pack of dogs, and also as Daisy chases the pack itself. Roobarb and Custard were used as mascots for the PDSA charity in the UK. Roobarb Roobarb (commonly known as ""Roobarb and Custard"") is a British animated children's television programme, created by Grange Calveley originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on 21 October"
"at loss-making clearance prices. By 1966 Pye was in such difficulties that they started to reduce their manufacturing capacity with closure of the EKCO factory in Southend-on-Sea. Philips attempted to buy out the ailing Pye in 1966. The Trade Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn determined that a complete sale would create a ""de facto"" monopoly so he permitted the transfer of only a 60% shareholding, with an undertaking that the Lowestoft factory would continue to manufacture televisions. On 20 April 1964, BBC2 was launched, broadcasting entirely on the new television standard of 625-line UHF, but BBC1 and ITV would remain in"
"licences were offered. Originally, the mirror globe had a blue logo and landmasses to enhance the clarity of the image on black and white screens. In January 1972 the BBC1 ident was revised with the ""Colour"" identification being italicised. On 28 December 1974 the mirror globe was altered to a much friendlier blue and yellow on a dark blue background and the BBC1 logo was changed to Futura Bold typeface. The ""Colour"" identification was removed from the name. The trailers around this time changed as well to incorporate the Double striped BBC1 logo, which would later become part of the"
"specially produced idents to highlight particular shows or programming strands. Examples included an updated dog 2 to advertise the channel's ""pedigree comedy"" trailers while previously withdrawn idents have included ""Predator/Venus Fly Trap"" used to introduce the Chelsea Flower Show, as well as the Christmas 2000 ident which resurfaced to introduce coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. In celebration of the channel's 40th anniversary in 2004, a special ident combining glimpses of previous BBC2 idents was used. The BBC Radio 4 logo introduced in 2001 was quite similar to what could be seen in these idents, with a white 3D number,"
"were later revived in July 2014, to commemorate the 50th birthday of BBC Two. They replaced the 'Window on the World' idents and were broadcast until the early hours of 27 September 2018. The newly recruited BBC2 controller, Alan Yentob, noticed that the then-logo for the channel, which featured the word 'TWO' in red, green and blue within a white background and the 'O' being white, was affecting the reputation of BBC2. Surveys commissioned realised that most viewers thought the branding was ""dull"" and ""worthy"". He then decided to commission a worthy successor capable of displaying the personality of the"
"broadcast on Monday 6 July 1964 at 6.35 p.m., featured The Animals, Lulu & the Luvvers, and Millie Small. The show was broadcast on Mondays, with Saturday repeats during the middle of the run. The final show was shown on 29 January 1965. There was a 75-minute New Year's Eve special in 1964, Beat in the New. Tapes of all but one of the programmes were later destroyed. The only remaining programme (originally broadcast on 5 October 1964) held by the BBC featured Tom Jones, Julie Rogers, The Kinks, John Lee Hooker, and The Syndicats. This was repeated on BBC4"
"'2' logo and spot located at the bottom left of the image, with a Colour legend below the 2 and programme information to the right of the 2. Due to lack of video recordings from this era, and due to the common broadcasting practice of wiping old tapes for reuse, very few examples survive of this era. Examples, therefore, of special idents are almost non-existent. BBC Two 'Cube' ident The Cube 2 was an ident used by BBC Two between 2 December 1967 and 28 December 1974. It featured a stylised '2' that rotated on screen. In 1967, BBC2 was"
"the soft toys during the opening of Blackpool Illuminations and named Pudsey Bear as the official mascot of the BBC Children in Need appeal. In 1986, the logo was redesigned. Whilst retaining the concept of a teddy bear with a bandana over one eye, all other elements were changed. Specifically, the triangular elements of the underlying design were abandoned, as well as the corporate identity colour scheme was changed. The new bandana design was white with red spots, one of the buttons was removed and the logotype now appeared as building blocks, which spelled out ""BBC CHILDREN IN NEED"" in"
"as the green and gold ""Sporting Kangaroo"", and is highly popular with cricket crowds and international sporting events which feature Australian participation. ""Matilda"", the mascot at the 1982 Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, was represented by both a cartoon kangaroo and a 13-metre high (42 feet 8 inches) mechanical kangaroo (which winked at the spectators during the opening and closing ceremonies). The 'medal', which was worn by both the cartoon and mechanical versions of ""Matilda"", features the 1982 Commonwealth Games logo — a representation of a kangaroo bounding (in ""flight"") – similar to the of the kangaroo featured"
"presenters were Christopher Trace, an actor, and Leila Williams, winner of Miss Great Britain in 1957. The two presenters were responsible for activities which matched the traditional gender roles. As broadcasting historian Asa Briggs expressed it in 1995: ""Leila played with dolls; Chris played with trains"". They were supported on occasion by Tony Hart, an artist who later designed the ship logo, who told stories about an elephant called Packi (or Packie). It was broadcast every Thursday for fifteen minutes (17.00–17.15) on BBC TV (which later became BBC One). Over the first few months more features were added, including competitions,"
"Roobarb Roobarb (commonly known as ""Roobarb and Custard"") is a British animated children's television programme, created by Grange Calveley originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on 21 October 1974. The theme is that of the friendly rivalry between Roobarb, a green dog with an overactive imagination, and Custard, the mischievous laconic pink cat from next door. The narration of the series was provided by the actor Richard Briers. On 17 February 2013,"
"consortium of regional companies, was launched. In 1964, the BBC launched its BBC2 service on UHF using only a 625-line system, which older sets could not receive. For several years BBC1 and ITV transmitted using the 405-line and BBC2 the 625-line standard; the only way to receive them all was to use a complex ""dual-standard"" 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. The introduction of colour on BBC2 in 1967 necessitated an even more complex dual-standard set to receive all three channels. In November 1969 BBC1 and ITV also started broadcasting in 625-line PAL colour on UHF. As their programming"
"in Great Britain was a conventional 26-meter-diameter paraboloid. Telstar 1 relayed its first, and non-public, television pictures—a flag outside Andover Earth Station—to Pleumeur-Bodou on July 11, 1962. Almost two weeks later, on July 23, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, it relayed the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal. The broadcast was shown in Europe by Eurovision and in North America by NBC, CBS, ABC, and the CBC. The first public broadcast featured CBS's Walter Cronkite and NBC's Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC's Richard Dimbleby in Brussels. The first pictures were the Statue of Liberty in New York"
"from abroad from France (Mr Horne), Dutch East Indies (Mr Cronin), Romania (Mr Smith), and Greece (Mr Hurle). In 2012 Bulldog Licensing, the brand licensing agency for Roobarb & Custard, pledged a long-term link with PDSA to help raise £1m. The characters have already appeared on a range of PDSA T-shirts, modelled and supported by singer and TV presenter Alesha Dixon. In 2005 the PDSA launched its Pet Fit Club competition, in order to help battle the problem of pet obesity. The annual contest sees a group of overweight dogs, cats and rabbits embark on a strict six-month diet and"
"massive power failure in west London. The channel's first logo was an animation where white and grey stripes flew in from the left and right before a ""2"" and the BBC corporate logo flew in from the top and bottom. The jingle that accompanied the ident was a fanfare based on the morsecode translation of 'BBC TWO', composed by Freddie Phillips. This logo lasted three years until the introduction of colour to BBC2. Along with the ident, there was also a flip card with a larger 2 on it that was used as a sting in many ways. Continuity was"
"were also transferred with both featuring the deep blue of the logo as the only variant. The idents themselves were also changed, with some dropped (namely ones where the '2' did not stay intact and full on screen), and the remaining idents altered so that the BBC Two logo was transferred to the right of the 2, and was present at the beginning of the ident, but faded out before the end. A second refresh took place to coincide with the launch of BBC Two HD, replacing the BBC HD channel. All idents were updated with new soundtracks, with some"
"onwards. The launch identity consisted of cartoon characters climbing 'ladders of learning' between clouds against an orange background. Illustrator Michael Sheehy designed the idents. A white, BBC logo with 'Knowledge' after it in capital letters was located at the bottom of the screen. The ident image would also be present in the background of the end promotions, channel menus advertising upcoming programmes, and in video links presented by members of the public. In addition to this, a DOG was used on the channel, located in the top left of the screen, which displayed the web address for the channel, linking"
"of the three mascots chosen for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The other mascots were Millie the Echidna and Syd the Platypus. In William Arden's 1969 book, ""The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow"", (one of 'The Three Investigators' series for young readers), the laughing kookaburra is integral to the plot. The children's television series ""Splatalot!"" includes an Australian character called ""Kookaburra"" (or ""Kook""), whose costume includes decorative wings that recall the bird's plumage, and who is noted for his distinctive high-pitched laugh. The call of a kookaburra nicknamed ""Jacko"" was for many years used as the morning opening theme"
"the years including Bill Haley rocking around the clock, Chubby Checker who introduced the ""new dance"" the ""Twist"" to the country with a whole stage full of people dancing the Twist and Sammy Davis, Jr. met the Tiller Girls in 1961. Other star guests included: Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, Petula Clark, the Seekers, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Italian mouse puppet Topo Gigio came back a number of times. The Beatles' publicist Tony Barrow said that after the band's first appearance on the show on 13 October 1963, Beatlemania took off in the UK. The show"
"to the studio where the presenter would 'grill' a leading politician on the same issue. A long-standing segment of the show was a political sketch presented by John Cole. The programme's mascot was a crocodile, based on a British House of Commons gargoyle and the ""Big Ben"" Clock Tower, and fashioned from plastic, glue and leather. For the title sequence of the first five series the crocodile marched across the UK; from 1993 onwards, the crocodile marched around Europe. Both sequences were shot in stop-frame animation by 3 Peach Animation. During 2000, the then BBC Director General Greg Dyke ordered"
"British version of the show. The original Spanish version had a pumpkin as a booby prize. Sunderland's concept for the shows' original titles, which were shown on the original series, included the birth of the bin. The character came to life as YTV's chevron logo falls to earth after shooting up into the sky like a rocket above the studios, exploding in a dustbin standing by the studios stage door. The bin contained a clown's costume, parts of which become one with the bin, bringing it to life as the character Dusty Bin; part dustbin, part clown, part enduring iconic"
"still used, with TC9 being used for links on BBC One and Two, and the CBBC channel using TC2, however the set was changed to vivid backgrounds with blob shapes on, often with the idents playing in the background. Promotions also changed so branding only occurred at the end, at which a wavy blue banner at the bottom would flow it with programme details on, usually with a blob looking in from the side of the screen. The new channel also had a DOG featuring the BBC logo, with a Blob containing the 'C' only in front. The DOG was"