Thames Television

Thames Television was the weekday ITV franchisee for the Greater London area and was formed from the joint venture of British Electric Traction (BET) and ABPC (later Thorn EMI) which replaced both Rediffusion and ABC Television (UK) as a company and Rediffusion as a weekday franchisee.
==1968–1989 (primary), 1989–1992 (secondary)==
===1968–1969===
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===1969–1989 (primary), 1989–1992 (secondary)===
Thames-bw1983.jpg|Black & White version
File:Thames (1969) Print.svg|Print variant seen on promos and holding slides
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Thames-ident1988al.jpg|1986-1989 version
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Thames-ident1978night-al.jpg|Nighttime variant
Thames1980s-intonight.jpg|Into The Night
Thames1980s-night-fear.jpg|Appointment with Fear
Thames1980s-night-holl.jpg|The Hollywood Movie
Thames1980s-night-murder.jpg|Murder Mystery Suspense
Thames1980s-night-tough.jpg|The Tough Guys
Thames from.jpg|Black & white presentation (non-ITV production) endboard
End1970-thamesprodbw.jpg|Black & white production endboard
Thames69 end.jpg|Colour presentation (non-ITV production) endboard
Thames70s end.jpg|Another colour presentation (non-ITV production) endboard
Thames70s end3.jpg|Colour production endboard
Thames70s end2.jpg|Another colour production endboard
End1978-thamescolourprod4.jpg|Another colour production endboard
Thames night.jpg|Nighttime variant colour production endboard
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Paulies.png|Pauline's Quirkes variant where Pauline Quirke, dressed as King Kong smashes London and then eats it.
Thames-ident1979-kennytits-s.jpg|Kenny Everett variant in 1979.
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P 20181201 123618.jpg|At the end of owl tv UK from 1989
The arguably most famous Thames logo was created with the switch to colour in 1969 by Minale Tattersfield. It remained in use for twenty years with only minor changes.
==1989–1990==
Thames-ident1989-21al.jpg|A special 21st anniversary ident, with 'XXI' donating '21' in Roman Numerals
End1989-thamesproductionl.jpg|1989 endcap
End1989-thamesproductionitvl.jpg|1989-1990 endcap
In late July 1989, to commemorate its 21st anniversary, Thames' famous logo recieved a CG makeover.
===1989-1990 (ITV)===
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==1990–1992==
Having lost the weekday London Channel 3 licence in 1992 and replaced by Carlton, Thames Television continued as an independent production company.
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===1990-1991 (ITV)===
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End1990-thamesproductionl.jpg|1990-1992 endcap
==External links==
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