Trails Of The Summer Wine

The animation for 1985’s Christmas on BBC One is lovely, and here’s the feature length episodes of popular shows you could have watched.

In 1989, the Christmas branding was even more delightful. You’ll recognise the end of this clip from a Texas Switch the other day.

Here’s another one, though I’m not sure from when. I’ll let you know once I reach this episode in my binge-watch.

The branding on this one, from 1988 for First Of The Summer Wine, seems to be channelling the BBC Sport identity for some reason.

See what I mean?

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