Antiques Roadshow
1979–BBC OneDocumentary
Valuers in a marquee on a country-house lawn, running since 1979 and copied worldwide.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Antiques Roadshow, covering season 1.
It arrived on BBC One in 1979, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept. The one upload of the titles carries no date, and this catalogue places a sequence against the season it ran in. The only dated copies are from 2025, forty-six years after the season this entry is filed at.
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