News at Ten
1967–ITVDocumentary
The Big Ben bongs, and the first British bulletin long enough to report a story rather than announce it.
One opening sequence is catalogued for News at Ten, covering season 1.
It arrived on ITV in 1967, when The Sooty Show, World of Sport and Ivor the Engine were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip placed. ITV News posted the current titles themselves but dated them only as new, and the programme has run under three separate incarnations since 1967.
More documentary opening titles from the 1960s
2 sequences
Top of the Pops
Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.
- Season 1
- Seasons 18–20
1 sequenceUniversity Challenge
College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTomorrow's World
Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.
- Season 29
1 sequenceReady Steady Go!
"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorld of Sport
ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.
- Season 20
1 sequenceSportsnight
The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.
- Season 26