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Bumper: On a dark blue or a custom colored background, we see either Video tapes, books or merchandise from the BBC, The text is seen below either reading "Also Available from BBC Video" or "Also Available from the BBC".

Variants:

  • Sometimes, the text can be in a different font.
  • On BBC Television Children's Favourites, the video tapes are Pingu 4 and Watch with Mother. The Slide can transition to the title card.
  • On Fireman Sam 3: Sam's Day Off, the green background with the video tape Fireman Sam: The Hero Next Door slides in and the video tape Fireman Sam 2: Lost Cat fades in and the background slides out into the title card.
  • On Fireman Sam 4: Snow Business, the orange background fades in and the video tapes slide in one at a time.
  • On Doctor Who: Logopolis and Castrovalva, Last of the Summer Wine: A Quiet Drink and Fawlty Towers: The Germans and The Psychiatrist, the text types in "Also available from BBC Video".
  • On Doctor Who: The Daemons, the video tapes are Spearhead from Space, The Claws of Axos, The Pertwee Years and The Time Warrior, which zooms out on the background and the text types in "Also available from BBC Video".
  • On Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity, the video tapes are The Day of the Daleks and Pyramids of Mars, The Ark in Space video tape flips in and the text types in "New Versions as Originally Transmitted".
  • On The Animals of Farthing Wood: The Challenge of Winter and Tom's Midnight Garden, the video tapes fades in one at a time and the text fades in "ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BBC VIDEO".
  • On The Animals of Farthing Wood: Friends and Enemies and New Beginnings, the books and an audio tape fades in one at a time and the text fades in "ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BBC BOOKS & BBC YOUNG COLLECTION".
  • On Doctor Who: Ghost Light, the video tape Dragonfire slides in and zooms in a bit, and the text fades in "Also available from BBC Video".
  • On Doctor Who: The Android Invasion, the video tape is Red Dwarf: The Smeg Ups, and the text types in "Red Dwarf Series I-V and Red Dwarf: The Smeg Ups".
  • On Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out, the background is blue and purple gradient, the text reads: "Coming soon from BBC Video...", "The Wrong Trousers" and the image of Wallace and Gromit (in their 1989 form) on the left with "The Adventures of" above and "Wallace & Gromit" below.
  • On Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, A Grand Day Out title card zooms out anti-clockwise slightly until it reaches its position and "ALSO AVAILABLE ON BBC VIDEO" is shown at the bottom-right corner on a blue background.
  • On Steptoe and Son: 65 Today, the text slides in and out "ALSO AVAILABLE ON BBC VIDEO - STEPTOE AND SON: THE STEPMOTHER".
  • On Steptoe and Son: The Stepmother, the text slides in and out "ALSO AVAILABLE ON BBC VIDEO - STEPTOE AND SON: 65 TODAY".
  • On Steptoe and Son: 65 Today and The Stepmother, the 6 video tapes of Steptoe and Son slide out and 3 video tapes of Hancock and Dad's Army slides in and the text fades in "ALSO AVAILABLE ON BBC VIDEO".
  • On Red Dwarf IV videos, the 2 videos of Red Dwarf II slides down and left, the text types in "Also available on BBC Video" and 2 videos of Red Dwarf III slides up and right.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Usually none.

Music/Sounds Variants:

  • On Fireman Sam 3: Sam's Day Off, the wave whooshes in and a stoic man says "You can also see Fireman Sam on 2 other videos, Fireman Sam: The Hero Next Door and Fireman Sam: Lost Cat", and the waves whooshes out into the title card.
  • On Fireman Sam 4: Snow Business, the wave whooshes in three times and a different stoic announcer says "You can also see Fireman Sam's other three videos, The Hero Next Door, Lost Cat and Sam's Day Off".
  • On Playdays: Days on the Move, Sophie Aldred says "Also available from BBC Video, Playdays: Days By the Sea".
  • On Playdays: Days By the Sea, Sophie Aldred says "Also available from BBC Video, Playdays: Days on the Move".
  • On some tapes, the slides are backed by the 1988 logo's music (e.g. Fireman Sam 5: Norman's Pitfall, Fireman Sam 6: All in the Good Cause, Watch with Mother: The Next Generation, Watch with Mother 2, Bill and Ben Flower Pot Men, Bill and Ben 2: Tales from the Bottom of the Garden, Rupert 2: Rupert and the Runaway Dragon)
  • Sometimes, the end of the 1990 BBC Video "Streaks of Doom" logo's music is played.
  • On rugby titles, we hear the beginning of BBC Rugby theme music.

Availability: Seen on BBC Video tapes from the era.

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