Our flick through the double-issues continues! Today, there’s so much more…
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- 1967 – This year’s cover star: That lamp!
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- 1968 – Christmas with baby
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- 1969 – Sez Des!
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- 1970 – Early sighting of TV Times curated ‘Christmas on ITV’ logo
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- 1971 – Glittering entertainment
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- 1972 – Hmm
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- 1973 – Cor!
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- 1974 – And Christmas means ITV
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- 1975 – With Sooty pumping up the balloon
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- 1976 – A victory for the stock shots department
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- 1977 – Would that this were an actual episode
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- 1978 – Dr A-Ho Ho Ho!
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- 1979 – Christmas With ITV now rendered in stain glass
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- 1980 – “Well, I’ve certainly pulled a few powerful women, but pushing one?”
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- 1981 – Lime green
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- 1982 – Look-in illustrator Arthur Ransom gets to draw for them upstairs
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- 1983 – Big-heads-on-little-bodies
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- 1984 – Fairy feller’s master stroke
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- 1985 – Wow, Daley branded cigar
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- 1986 – Bolero augmented by Dumbo inclusion
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- 1987 – “Yes, Dr Lowther”
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- 1988 – Free zodiac birthsign pendant
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- 1989 – Sez Des II
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- 1990 – The “Christmas pudding club”?
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- 1991 – Inevitable “Perfick” deployment
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- 1992 – First sighting of Generic snowman
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- 1993 – First sighting of Generic Santa
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- 1994 – Second sighting of Generic Santa
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- 1995 – The magazine with the BIG TV stories
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- 1996 – A new dominant force emerges: Cracking
Tomorrow: La-la-la-la-la-Look-in!
Also:
- Snow On The Logo pt 1: Radio Times
- Snow On The Logo pt 2: TV Times
- Snow On The Logo pt 3: Look-in
- Snow On The Logo pt 4: The Beano
- Snow On The Logo pt 5: Buster
- All-New Snow On The Logo pt 1: 2000 AD
- All-New Snow On The Logo pt 2: Eagle
- All-New Snow On The Logo pt 3: Beano Annual
- All-New Snow On The Logo pt 4: The Dandy
- All-New Snow On The Logo pt 5: Potpourri
Rick
December 6, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Am I correct in thinking the 1968 baby grew up to be Ben Fogle?
David Smith
December 7, 2016 at 9:56 am
Seems he wasn’t born until 1973, so presumably a younger sibling.
Glenn A
December 8, 2016 at 8:33 pm
I reckon the best one is the one from 1967. All the others, barring Sooty in 1975 and the 1980 Roger Moore cover, seem to be adverts for ITV stars and the 1981 one with Harry Secombe is sinister. Radio Times always was better and, of course, BBC 1 flattened ITV on the big day for years, probably why they pushed their stars so hard on the cover of the TV Times.
Glenn A
December 10, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Going through these again, the Julia Foster with baby, who is probably the same age as me now, is excellent, the Morecambe and Wise with James Bond cover is amusing and I quite like the illustrated 1982 cover. However, the 1993 and 1994 covers are cheap and nasty and look like a bad Christmas card.
Des E
December 10, 2016 at 2:06 pm
I reckon the 1995 cover is cheaper and nastier – and scarier, too.
The folks at TVT must have been very low on ideas that year – a close-up of Santa and nothing else. And did the artist not think of the children at any stage – particularly when he drew Santa’s molars?
Glenn A
December 11, 2016 at 5:37 pm
Another contender for awful covers, 1976, with a creepy looking Hughie Green in a santa suit among the cheap mug shots. As in most years in the seventies, ITV knew Christmas Day meant BBC1, so the cover was a damp squib, same as for many years before it was an ITV star in a red hood. Mind you, when they really tried to beat the BBC in 1978 and 1980 with a mixture of Bond, Morecambe and Wise and Janet Brown, the covers were so much better- 1980’s is excellent.
THX 1139
December 11, 2016 at 10:09 pm
Am I right in saying the 1980 cover was shot before Janet Brown was filmed at the end of For Your Eyes Only, the jokey coda? Very prescient, if so – did it give Cubby a smashing idea?