BBC Two 50th Year Presentation

Original 60s BBC2 Ident just popped again before "An Adventure in Space and Time"
https://twitter.com/BBCTwo/status/503649168418942976

And how lovely it is! Does anyone remember ever seeing it first time around? Makes you wonder what else was rarely/never shown.

And I take back what I previously said, seeing Paul's montage from the overnight footage shows that actually there is a half decent selection. Maybe it's just me being unlucky generally seeing Swan.

Still jealous of NI though

It was on tonight as well!

BBC TWO Northern Ireland showed the second Dalek symbol before its transmission at 11.05pm

http://theident.gallery/bbc2-2014-special-2.php#1408918456

Just to be clear, though, Dr Who ident ('Dalek' version) was first shown on NI on 22nd Aug, before Two Tribes.

Ah! I only managed to catch a glimpse of that sting on the 22nd

Is there a video of that sting around anywhere?

Sub sting (the other edit, where the 2 drops below the surface at the end) shown on NI, before Russia's Lost Princesses

I wonder how much this is setting them back compared to what a new set of idents would cost, given how timeless and popular the classics are proving to be?

I doubt it costs very much at all to add an updated logo to clean versions of the 1991-2001 idents. It's not as if they're making new ones.

Does it cost anything to get clean copies of the idents without the 1997 branding? Will the BBC have them or will they have been sourced from Lambie-Nairn etc.?

The BBC had clean copies of the 1997 idents so they could make regional versions, so they presumably still have these.

If no one has notice BBC Scotland has been doing its own CA since 3pm this afternoon, Swam not appeared... Woodpecker just has, so Scotland deffo has not in regular playlist now.

The reason being Scotland needed to run 4-5min faster so a Ref YES broadcast could be made at 17.55.