Thames Television station on-screen graphics
Thames Television prided itself on presenting a majestic and authoritative image to its local viewers and, importantly, to the rest of the ITV network.
Thames Television's famous London skyline ident soon became an icon, both the distinctive, animated production ident, or 'frontcap' and the static image used after Thames Television productions naionally and internationally, and also for local presentation and continuity.
To start-off our collection of Thames Television presentation graphics, here is a selection of 'endboards', the production caption which appeared after each broadcast Thames Television programme.
We'll be adding to this collection of the on-air graphics used by Thames Television over the next few months.
Thames Television production 'endcaps'
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| Thames Television production end board and caption from 1968. |
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| Thames Television 'From Thames' endboard, usually used after imported black and white films and programmes. |
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| Thames Television production board from 1972. |
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| Thames Television production board from 1982. |
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| Thames Television production board from 1991. |
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| Thames Television production board from 1991. |
Thames Television station clock
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| Thames Television's station clock, used throughout the 1970s until 1989, when Thames used the 'ITV corporate' version of the station clock. The design is simple but effective. |
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| Thames TV's impact on global television was confirmed when long-running aimated American comedy show The Simpson's featured a cartoon version of the Thames TV ident before a Britcom on the PBS network. Of course, the British comedy was suitably mocked by The Simpsons. |
