never produced anything that was ever remotely interesting. I would personally press the detonator on the two grinning waxworks who present 'Wales Tonight' and who ask us 'for our thoughts' about the new refuse collection rota in Gilfach Goch.

Tony Wilson wasn't the only apprentice of the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the North West, Bob Greaves. So was Anna Ford.

Tip: Skip the first one minute as it's introduction cobblers.
And the idents finish at 3.40.

My favourites:
Anglia
Thames
LWT

But why do I know the HTV one so well? I've hardly spent any time in Wales.

ident at the start and then if and when the programme got distributed around the country their ident stayed.
So you may well have seen a few HTV produced programmes in your time Lucas.
I think that's how it worked anyway.

I'm sure that's right. An impossible request, but anyone know of a (probably children's) TV programme in the late '70s that may have carried this ident?

(my region) who commentated on the local football years ago and may well have spread his talents further I don't know.
Has anyone else heard of him?

Anyway there would always be a terrible game of football between Norwich City and Stoke or someone on a Sunday afternoon.
I would have my roast dinner on my lap (we were classy in my house ok?) and watch the match.

For some reason there was always a blinding sunlight on the pitch that made it look like the local park.
And the players possessed absolutley no skill whatsoever. They used to just bang the ball about and run around and fallover and do that thing where they keep heading the ball back to each other in midfield from the goalkick.

But Gerry must have had something going on because I remember him to this day.

...playing a round of golf with my Dad, when Rose was a 15 year old prodigy. Maybe not yet a legend, but might well be soon.

Did a series of bands playing before a studio audience in the 70's. I got a free ticket to see Argent. My first lig! I also watched a recording of 3-2-1 and N.U.T.S. + had a part of an extra in In Loving Memory at YTV.

Wierdest one was the YTV Pop Quiz hosted by Mike Read. They filmed a disco scene for a Christmas special and asked questions of guests like Jonathan King, Wreckless Eric, John Cooper Clarke, Les Gray from Mud, etc, but YTV engineers went out on strike halfway through and it never got shown. Or was it just a very bad dream..?

Not a great loss as DH says for Londoners bland local news and the odd history programme hosted by suggs seems to be the limit of their output.
Two: Highlights
Tiswas was like punk for 6 years olds in our house it was so submersive to my eyes I used to hide behind my hands adult throwing buckets fo water, kids with the pants on their head, they had odd band on but it was vastly better than swop shop I think central made it.

The other event (on Yorkshire)was during the Mod revial in 80's I was at home during the day and for some reason they showed a Secret Affair video, (this when videos were rarely seen apart from TOTP and before domestic video recorders)
The next day i was briefly the "Ace Face" at our school as I recounted the details of this promo,even big lads from higher years came and talked to me . Sadly a week later totp had a two tone special and my brief "fame" disappered over night.

All on Granada/ATV/LWT:

Lift Off with Ayesha
Marc (Bolan)
Supersonic

All featured major acts like Bowie and Chaka Khan/Rufus fairly regularly, probably in the coveted just-before-Magpie slot.

Fondly remembered by me (and no-one else it seems) is the band Animal Kwakkers who, dressed as animals (lead singer was Rory the lion) used to pound out their own version of glam rock classics. Glaminal rock, if you will (snort)on childrens ITV.

But, which is more, without regional LWT show Police 5, we wouldn't have been introduced to Shaw Taylor and the subsequent Crimewatch phenomenon.

Oh, and The London Weekend Show gave us Janet Street-Porter. That aside, it was a regional magazine show that opened up my suburban young eyes to punk and I think, the wonderful Danny Baker. You may scoff but DB has proved to have more staying power than Wattie or Charlie Harper.

...they did 'Robin Of Sherwood' in the 80s which I like a lot (much better than the BBC's attempt!) but that old HTV logo I find a bit creepy, for some reason!

The great Colin Weston on Granada, who at Christmas was visably pissed with his paper hat on at a jaunty angle and a "shit eating" grin all over his ruddy face. And the gorgeous Pamela Dodd who would announce the arrival of Tiswas/The Chart Show with the look of somebody cleaning up dog vomit.

... of regional TV was the fact that the general Londoncentric-ness of popular culture was even clearer than it is now. I remember all through the 70s, living in Liverpool, seeing and hearing references to something called "Police 5" on sitcoms, sketch shows and what have you, and not having a clue what they were on about until I visited my cousin in Barnet and seeing it on ITV.

Similarly, when Pamela Stephenson started doing her Janet Street Porter impression on Not The Nine O'Clock News, nobody outside London had ever heard of JSP and had no idea what she was doing. We all assumed that JSP was some grotesque comic character that Pamela had made up.

Did anyone else get music videos shown on their regional ITV between the kids shows in the 80's?

On HTV West, a weird mix of music vids were shown as filler inbetween programmes, and what a rum bunch they were. A limited selction of promos for records that had already been in and out of the charts were played repeatedly - videos by Cliff Richard, Dana, and most memorably The Damned singing I Just Can't Be Happy Today.

I also remember a colour promo for Apache by The Shadows that looked like it was shot in the 70's involving Hank and the Shads dressed up as Indians, and looning about with bows and arrows and stuff getting played a lot too.