The Ultimate LWT Website - Continuity

	LWT CONTINUITY

Startups - 1960s & 70s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s & Final Day

The 1980s
	Senior announcer Peter Lewis plugs Seagull Island before gently reproaching the producers of the comedy show End Of Part One. (Right) Keith Martin with a quick voice only announcement reminding us that we're tuned to our weekend ITV.
	Announcer Pam Rhodes is full of the joys of spring as she leads in to a Sunday morning edition of Stingray and (right) trails Weekend World.
	Pam Rhodes voices over the station clock. It's 12 Noon and time for Weekend World with Brian Walden. Right, not to be out-done by Channel Four's 'revolving blocks', LWT invests in a 3D ident to accompany its voice-only announcements. Here, Peter Lewis leads us into Thames Weekend News.
	Peter Lewis with a snippet of Christmas continuity from 1983.

A great line-up from London Weekend Television in a continuity promotion from around 1983. Click on the image for a video. Copyright LWT/ITV plc.

		Peter Lewis warms us up for another celebrity-studded edition of the Saturday evening gameshow The Pyramid Game. (Right) Announcer Keith Harrison doesn't sound that excited about the return of Airwolf for a new season.
		Another 'coming soon' announcement, this time from Peter Lewis plugging Danny Baker On Fame. (Right) Keith Harrison with the London News Headlines. Newsreading was part of the duty announcer's job on LWT in the 1980s.
		Announcer Trish Bertram informs us of the imminent arrival of the evening's main ITN News bulletin. (Right) Peter Lewis prepares the ground for Shaw Taylor's crime-busting Police 5 series ... after the break.
		It's time for Friday evening's News at Ten, and we're treated to a time-check from Peter Lewis and the station clock. (Right) Peter Lewis again - this time he's getting into the spirit of things before The A-Team.

Announcer Sue Peacock makes the most of a few free moments to trail LWT's major 1984 mini-series, The Winds of War. (Right) Peter Lewis dons his weather forecasting cap for the area weather bulletin.
The first part of a double-helping of Sue Peacock announcements. Here, she introduces Night Thoughts. (Right) And here is Sue in-vision with the London News Headlines.
We're mid-way through the decade in 1985. Peter Lewis voices a trail for the next PD James mystery over an 'LWT-The Entertainers' slide. (Right) It's Peter Lewis' turn in the newsreader's chair.
A fresh new look for LWT in 1986, but Night Thoughts is still going for the time being. Here, announcer Ruth Anders introduces this evening's epilogue. (Right) Peter Lewis trails Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right.

		Ruth Anders whets the appetite of viewers for an upcoming edition of The London Programme. (Right) LWT's night-time service, Night Network, started in 1988. Peter Lewis gives it a plug in this announcement.
		LWT marked its 21st birthday in 1989 with special programmes. Announcer Trish Bertram voices over this anniversary ident. (Right) Trish encourages us to stay tuned for 21 years of memorable moments from LWT's South Bank Show.
		As we reach the end of the decade, LWT has adopted the 1989 ITV corporate identity. Continuity and presentation remained local, though, and in case we were in any doubt, here's Trish Bertram to prove it.

An LWT continuity link from October 1990, towards the end of the station's use of the ITV corporate identity introduced the previous year. The announcer is Glen Thompsett. Click the image for a video.