ITV In the Face Episode 6: Anglia
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- Made in 2015 to celebrate 60 years of ITV, a look back at a time when it wasn't a single channel but a conglomerate of regional channels, all with their own idents and identity: occasionally bizarre, often charming, this is the show that looks the history of ITV in the face.
Episode six: Anglia. The Wales of the East, starring Aubrey Buxton, Nicholas Parsons and some sort of puppet cat.
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How could anyone dislike The Anglia Knight? He was iconic!
Anglia House is still going strong today in Norwich. Officially, it's listed as ITV 1 studio. Yet the lettering on the front of the building says Anglia Television in that old Times New Roman font.
Another fun fact. Anglia Television Ltd was only desolved at companies house as recently as 2017. From 2006 until then, the entire ITV Network was officially listed as Anglia Television Ltd.
And BC is still in the window looking out at the people of Norwich.
As a tiny child I genuinely thought the ident was the intro to a TV show about a metal knight called Anglia who rode a silver horse and got up to all kinds of metallurgical medieval shit. I was constantly dismayed that it didn't go on to show metal knight killing bronze goblins or rescuing copper princesses. Instead it went straight to 'Gambit' or the terrifying intro sequence to 'Tales of the Unexpected'. My mother tried to explain on more than one occasion the knight was an ident, but I wasn't a very bright child nor was I prone to being satisfied with reasoning.
Survival, Sale of the Century, Knightmare. I thought that was it, but from reruns on Sky Arts I found out they also gave us another gem, Tales of the Unexpected, which I would have been sure was by Granada. It attracted the kinds of big names you would expect of a Granada or a Thames.
I was at university with the son of Steven Chambers, the late Anglia continuity announcer. We even got him to wear the university tie one night when he was doing the in-vision linking!
Neat thing is that Anglia hasn't moved their studio ever since and still have the knight on display in their offices!
I lived in Scunthorpe in the 70s and remember the switchover from Anglia to Yorkshire. Despite what some say both were good. Better than the generic shit we get now.
The statuette was beautiful in real life, but much smaller than it was imagined from the TV.
Anglia also took ownership of Cosgrove Hall Films, after Thames lost its franchise.
In the Anglia area - BBC Television launched from Tacolneston transmitter from 1st February 1955. ITV through Anglia Television aired from the Mendlesham transmitter from 27th October 1959.
The woman witth long hair at 9:37 is Katie Glass and co-starring with BC at 10:35 is Helen McDermott. I wonder where they are now?
"WoUlD yOu LiKe A MiNk CoAt ElIzABeTh?"
iT cOuLd Be MaDe To FiT yOu
@@betaman7988 Elizabeth ....*scilience*
No
12:59, 19:48
If I remember correctly, the Anglia knight was commissioned as a prize for a falconry competition by HM the King of the Netherlands - a prize he was competing for and that he hoped to win. It clearly didn't happen. The knight's pennant was modified to display the Anglia name.
I read that somewhere, too. If it was HM the King of the Netherlands, the silver knight must have been crafted somewhere between the 18th and 19th Centuries. This is because, for the entire 20th Century, there have been queens - Queen Wilhelmina (who reigned from the beginning of the century as a girl up to her abdication in 1948), Queen Juliana (1948 - 1980) and Queen Beatrix (1980 - 2013?). It is only now the Dutch have a king: HM King Willem-Alexander.
Great memories❤
Anglia= The major minor
Yorkshire= The minor major
I would say, in my opinion granted, that with exception to Thames & ATV, they were both major players. Anglia had it's fair share of actors willing to appear in their dramas or narrate "Survival" documentaries.
The Anglia flag ident sting was reputedly written by Lord David Dundas if I recall correctly.
Growing up in the Anglia region in the 1970s through to the early 1990s, I remember that pre-Anglia flag ident era, when Anglia produced programmes were shown we didn’t get the short Anglia Knight ident, instead we got an "Anglia Presents" caption board in blue with Anglia logo & text in yellow and a cut out photo of the Anglia Knight.
Feature films and shows imported by & shown on Anglia also had a similar "An Anglia Presentaion" end caption board and just before Birthday Club there would be an "Anglia Presentation" caption board.
I think the Anglia Knight is the perfect channel mascot for Talking Pictures TV.
Anglia was good defentily when tales of the unexpected started in 1979-1988
Knightmare was the greatest show to ever come out of Anglia. In the words of Treguard, they "came an awful cropper"
Naaaaastyyyyyy! 😉
Plot twist: the knight in the intro sequence is the Anglia Knight in his prime
All that, and Knightmare too.
And of course Gambit & Lucky Ladders.
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RIP Mr Parsons
Like I said earlier, Anglia ranks right in the middle of the ITV regions in terms of size, population and ad revenue (8th of 15, between HTV and Scottish)
George Frideric Handel Water Music suite no. 2 alla hornpipe was originally theme tune ident of ITV Anglia from 1950's and 70's
BC is a leopard.
I only know this because through work in radio we did a _do you remember_ type review of him. To clarify this was far an East Anglian station.... This was in September 2019.
I contacted a few bods at the vestigial Anglia studio who confirmed he is a leopard and he now resides in a display case in the foyer, I also believe the Knight model is displayed alongside him.
Until that point I had also assumed he was a bear.
I always thought the music at 14:23 came later and that there was different music in 1988. I lived in the Anglia region in the mid 1990s and this was the tune then.
You are correct
In terms of the 15 ITV regions, Anglia ranks 8th in size, which is exactly in the middle, right between HTV and Scottish.
For me Harlech Television were the least original region followed by Grampian Television
1 Thames Television
2 Anglia Television
3 Central Television
4 Granada Television
5 Yorkshire Television
6 London Weekend Television
7 Tyne Tees Television
8 Scottish Television
9 Meridian Television
10 Good Morning Television
11 Westcountry Television
12 Border Television
13 Channel Television
14 Harlech Television
15 Carlton Television
16 Grampian Television
@@dylanmorrissey7339 I was going by size of population.
Anglia was epic!
Alongside Aubrey Buxton, Anglia's other figurehead was film producer Sir John Woolf, who produced John Huston's The African Queen, before winning an Oscar for producing Oliver! It was Woolf's clout on both sides of the Atlantic that he was able to get big names to come to Norwich to appear in Anglia's television plays and even Orson Welles' Great Mysteries and Tales of the Unexpected.
My Region!
Yeah, I know. Northampton doesn't usually count as Anglia, but that's the way it is TV wise
We also got Central on cable - I think different parts of town recieve a different transmitter. Our status of being a county bordering loads of other more important counties is complete.
@@RatzaChewy we never WATCHED central though. No idea why.
No, Northampton is certainly part of the Anglia region, served by the Sandy Heath transmitter.
@@antster1983 i meant that census wise, we're part of the east midlands
"That's the way it is."
I mean, judging by ITV regions, half of the west country is part of Wales. (Not that I'm complaining, Hereford, Telford, Shrewsbury and Chester are basically ours anyway.)
Hey, how can you forget Anglia? They gave us Knightmare.
Excellent play out track
Paul Lavers was a legend on the night shift back then
16:47 Anglia won that auction by 3.7 Million pounds over Three East Television. CPV-TV also bid, but lost on Quality and had lowest bid. So, Anglia couldn't have bid much less than 15 Million Pounds and be safe.
13:28 😂
Also, 5:08... Very funny.
'AND NOW.........pissed from Norwich" - Ade Edmonson (Mr Jolly lives next door).
This is the region I grew up in... (I live in Cambridgeshire)
I wonder how many people over the years including Paul Merton on HIGNFY got it wrong quoting "Live, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week"?? 😂
*_W O U L D Y O U L I K E T O O W N A M I N K C O A T , E L I Z A B E T H ?_*
In G major!
Tales of the unexpected.
15:10 Paul Lavers (I stand corrected) who was caught out on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (or Charlie Broker as Mr Lavers pronounced his name), having an angry rant on QVC. 😉
Paul also had a rant about Victor Lewis-Smith.
@@ridbensdale Yep, as seen on the broadcast pilot of TV Offal.
Phil? It's Paul. At least that other commenter got it right!
@@reginahyde1488 Ooooh! Excuse me! Seeing as I'm from the YTV region I wouldn't know and also Mr Lavers, Phil or Paul got Charlie Brooker's name wrong he called him "Charlie Broker" if you watch the clip from Screenwipe, where he goes on a rant on QVC, so there!
Additionally, I might have typed my original comment when I was two parts pi**ed, so again I don't give a rat's a**!
By the way, Mr Lavers, where is he now? And how's Mr Brooker or Broker's career, eh?
sale of the century
And now.....from Norwich....it's the quiz of the week.
Let it go on the Yorkshire clip but the transmitter is BILSDALE not BLISDALE. 👍🏼
Good stuff though, apart from that.
Actually Anglia DID have fairly strong competition in 1991, inasmuch as a competing bidder had bid £14.078 million and had passed the quality threshold.
Still 2.something mil they could've used on something else
Exactly, compared to Central they had to pay a lot for the same rights and, in that example, fewer overall viewers.
@@TheGerkumanThis is what happens with sealed bids (unless the deal is that the winner pays the second highest bid).
Did you all know that David Dimbleby earned some work experience working as a cub reporter for Anglia News?
Why was this SO short?
How the hell did Anglia produce the career-rehab, Sunday replacement soap Where the Heart Is? It was even more Yorkshire than Heartbeat.
I'm betting it was offered to Granada, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees before Anglia took it out of sheer pity.
Anyone know what happened to the statue?
um it is with the Norfolk Museum Service and in the Bridewell, or as it officially known Museum of Norwich
2:46
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one minute to zero this is anglia television
10:30 Sonichu on the birthday card
Really interesting. Please get a better microphone
Why did you leave such a big pause between the line "photo booth" and the bit about B.C?
Because I'm the world's greatest editor.
@@applemaskSIKE!!
Was the post office gag deliberate, or by chance?
I can't even remember what it was.
@@applemask Said the announcers looked like they were in a photo booth at a post office. (Although I have no idea whether or not the Anglia continuity studio was actually ever in the old post office bit of their complex or not - probably not, but it still amused me!)
@@paulhayes5724 By chance.
Lol
indeed