The BBC test card

Posted by Clive on October 18, 2010
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Decade: 1980s   Location: United Kingdom   Category: TV Channel Identifier  
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Do you remember the days before 24 hour TV? Here's what the BBC used to put on when it shut down for the night.

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November 5, 2010 - 4:42pm

that doll thing on the right used to freak me out when I was a kid. There's something very "Stephen King" about it. Actually, the girl used to freak me out even more. Both perfect products of a country that had most of its kids TV producers high as a kite in the 1960s and 1970s.

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