ABC at Christmas
A festive gallery of ABC Christmas presentation.
ABC’s Christmas ident, 1967
ABC opens on Christmas Eve 1967 with a piece of James Last (there was no requirement to display a tuning signal or other technical matter over Christmas and Easter)
ABC North’s Christmas-adorned clock in 1967. For this start-up sequence, they switched from the ident to the clock over the last verse of the James Last music
Special occasions saw ABC North using two continuity announcers – here, David Hamilton and John Duncanson. Behind them, the usual cyclorama studio wall is covered in viewer Christmas cards
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The Christmas Start-up music here was also used by Thames Television in London in the eaarly 70’s. I remember it well!