Franchise: East Anglia
Companies: Anglia Television
Provides examples of:
- Art Shift: The Knight ident was reshot when colour television came on the scene at the turn of The '70s, but it lost the moody atmosphere that the black-and-white original version had thanks to some rather flat lighting.
- Friend to All Living Things: Survival, Anglia's most successful programme, was the brainchild of channel head Aubrey Buxton, a dedicated naturalist (shortly after Anglia launched, he co-founded the World Wildlife Fund). He even got a Creator Cameo presenting the show's first episode on wildlife in urban areas.
- Mascot: The Anglia Knight, who ended up giving the channel something of an old-fashioned image by the mid/late-80s.
- Misblamed: No, the Anglia Knight in colour spinning around while Handel's Water Music played for almost a minute was not the ident for Anglia; it was the clip they played in the morning when the station began broadcasting. The actual ident (which featured a shot of the knight, which zoomed into the flag) was about 8 seconds long.
- Non-Human Sidekick: BC, a leopard who featured in the channel's "Birthday Club" slot.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: Anglia used Handel's "Water Music" as the soundtrack for the Knight idents.
- Retool: Lambie-Nairn were hired to completely overhaul Anglia's image in the late eighties, swapping out the knight for an impressive new flag-based ident.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode starts off with an audio clip of "And now, from Norwich...", the opening Catchphrase of the Anglia run of Sale of the Century.
- ITV's Play of the Week strand is mentioned as having been good enough to make The BBC start tugging awkwardly at its collar.
- The “boring” colour Knight ident is said to have turned up on Room 101.
- Harris mentions time creeping in its petty pace from day to day.
- "Sale of the Century" by Sleeper plays over the credits.
- The Stinger: A clip (with inverted colours and distorted audio) of Nicholas Parsons awkwardly badgering a shy contestant on Sale of the Century.
- Textual Celebrity Resemblance: Sharon Gray is described as strongly resembling Valerie Sinatra.
- Windmill Scenery: Some of Anglia's regional programming featured windmill-based logos, since the region is home to a number of historic windmills.
