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Bumper: On a blue or black background or simply the still image of a BBC programme, we see the title of the BBC programme.

Variants:

  • On BBC Children's Video releases or some releases, the title cards are customized and animated.
  • On Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, the background has a still image from the short and the text is in shades of blue and in a Brush Script Font.
  • On pre-1987 VHS releases of such programmes as Hancock's Half Hour (later shortened to just Hancock) and Steptoe and Son, original transmission bylines appear below.
  • On Doctor Who: The Five Doctors: Special Edition, "Presented in" and the Dolby Surround logo are below.
  • On Mr. Blobby, the card appears in a sphere with the trail of pink dots and extends itself to reveal "Mr Blobby" in a brown drawn curly font and Mr Blobby himself underneath it. After the montage of clips, the title card forms back in the sphere and flies off.
  • On The Greatest BBC Children's Video Ever!, it has many Children's BBC characters on-screen, the Spider from Spider! drops down in its animated form, and the title appears in stamp form.
  • On BBC Television Children's Favourites, the title transitions in from a BBC Video Slide on the same background.
  • On BBC Children's Christmas Cracker, the title is in a green font over a snowy background (the footage from Noddy and Father Christmas).
  • On the 2000 promotional VHS of BBC Children's Favourites with Toybox Magazine, various BBC children's videos, CD-roms, books and magazines appear in the centre of the screen, then, one by one, quickly zoom out to various parts of the screen before quickly moving out. The title logo of the tape moves down and settles in the middle as the merchandise moves around and reappears around the title logo, which then moves up to exit after a couple of seconds.

FX/SFX: None. Sometimes It can be animated.

Music/Sounds: None. Sometimes it can have music or soundtrack related to the program. On BBC Children's Favourites with Toybox Magazine, a female announcer is heard over the music saying, "All your children's favourites from the BBC to enjoy again and again, on video, books, magazines and audio tapes. Available from all good retailers!"

Availability: Seen on many BBC Video tapes from the era.

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