Favourite TV interludes

I do miss a good interlude on TV nowadays, and if we like Breakdowns thus many of use must surly like a good interludes

If I'd ever seen one before I might have a favourite. Did many regions have things like that?


I associate the word interlude with those old BBC classics like The Potters Wheel

There is a clip of Anglia Interlude from 1990 on one sunday morning at the end.

The nearest thing I can think of from an interlude that I've sene in my lifetime is the old ITV Schools rotomotion.

You are Christopher Williams and I claim my £5

Only if it's a static caption for 25 minutes.

And here's some moozik.....

I remember interludes on afternoon BBC2 as recently as about 1991-2 - I have a distinct memory of a slide saying "LANDMARKS.... follows shortly...."

RTE 1 used to have an interlude every weekday for years at 1.30pm for about 10 minutes. This was after they started a 1.00 News Bulletin around 1989. Eventually, someone had the bright Idea to show Aertel Financial pages after a year or so in the gap.

It was also not unusual for them to start up some days in the 80's and then announce that programmes wouldn't be starting for another 10 or 15 minutes. Obviously, they would have a legitimate excuse when it was a live event, but occasionally this wasn't the case.

https://youtu.be/0ecoRlvKBig?t=8m12s

I remember the days of BBC TV menu interludes. Mainly seemed to be at startup after Pages from Ceefax and before the first programme of the day. Example of a Saturday menu startup from 1991 here:

Also of course there were interludes between schools programmes on both BBC and C4 where we heard these classics!

Also plenty of them during Open University slots where one announcer would run both networks.

We are currently discussing these (in passing) in the Breakdowns thread, but Channel Four’s break-fillers between 1982-1992 could be quite elaborate, which is surprising in a way because in theory these were only a sustaining feed which, if sufficient ads were sold by the regions, viewers would never see!

Water Birds:



Train Driver’s View:



It’s Chrisssssst-masssss!!



4-Tel/Oracle programme promotions:



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