h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: The Private Life of 2 - A History of the BBC 2 Ident - A892370
Author: Witty Ditty: '...refuses to feel sorry for a man who eats borsht all day and wears a tea cosy.' - U173978

From functionality to personality, BBC 2's 2 gets eaten, roasted, and clears up the camera lens - here's a biography of the BBC 2 ident

All comments, as always, gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

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Utterly marvellous!

I'll comment more later (well, tomorrow), but... I really really love this entry.

Really good - I'd forgotten some of those.

Just love the domino one.

Glad you liked the entry My personal favourite is the Swan Going home ident, closely followed by Domino... its surprisng how a 2 that says nothing at all can say so much, but that's the beauty of little 2, I guess

Thanks again for reading

Any further comments, as always, gratefully received

Stay ,
WD (off to have a nice relaxing bath)

Added a few more idents and animations featuring little 2

Any comments, as always, gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

Nice entry. Consider putting in a link to http://tv.cream.org/arkbbc.htm then you can see them in the fles, as it were.

Thanks for reading the entry

I've slipped the link in as a small alternative to the RealPlayer links in the Further Viewing bit

Glad you enjoyed reading it

Any further comments, as always, will be gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

Hi,
Just an addenda... there was a 2 made for "Robot Wars" by one of the programmes' contestants.

This 2?

http://thetvroom.com/images-bbc-two/bbc-two-97/mis-phillipa.jpg

Do you know which team made it?

Stay ,
WD

Well Geoff, I've put in a link to the picture of that fearsome little 2

Thanks for reading

Any further comments, as always, gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

Brilliant as ever WD.

Just one very, very, geekish point. You describe the Star Trek 2 as "beamed up to a galaxy far, far away". The 'galaxy far, far away' thing is Star Wars not Star Trek. And if the 2 is leaving the Transporter Room then it's being beamed down, not up, to a planet, presumably.

Horribly sad and ish of me, I know.

*shuffs embrarassedly*

I'll just go and hide now.


Geggs

Awwwh - thanks Geggs! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it

Re the Star Trek ident thing - that was actually deliberate, a sort of tongue-in-cheek gaff at ".... night"s, but I'll reword it if it causes too much confusion

Oh, and don't hide - you'll only end up being lost down the back of the sofa or under the fridge

Thanks again for reading

Any further comments, as always, will be gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

This is really good. I will now go back to my Globes piece, and give a far fuller list of the places the balloon went to. Of course, for most of the time 2 had those wonderful 2s, 1 had that swirly globe-like whatsit.

*makes space amid the chorus*



I too approve most heartily, ! A really excellent entry, and a hot contender for pick of the day, to be sure an' it is!

A real pleasure to read, and one to send to your friends.

naturally it's a gimmee, they'll be fighting over who gets to pick it.


cya
spiff

just an idea, having just looked at the Globes entry (hi A leg, )...

would you consider ending with a link to the globes piece, and generously donate your final section to that entry? It may sound odd, but it would fit better in that entry, somehow. You could mention at the end of your entry that there are similar links available to the 1 ident at A......, and the two entries would make a beautiful couple, dontcha think, , .

Anyway, just a thought

Spiffy - you might be right, as the BBC 1 ident section at the end of my entry does look a bit tacked on, and doesn't give it justice, unlike the BBC Globes entry, in which the history of the BBC 1 ident is given its dues - I'll pop the coding into the other thread so that it's a simple case of cut and paste

Thanks for reading

And introducing....: Thanks for reading! As I've just typed, I'll be round to give you the GuideML code for the current BBC 1 idents as you cover that subject far better than my brief section And I like the globe - 2 may have been in many different forms, but One had continuity and constancy - so the two idents were good in their own right

I'll just pop on over to the other thread now

Stay ,
WD

Great entry WD not really a subject I'm an expert on but I love the current idents.

Z - glad you enjoyed reading it

Any further comments, as always, gratefully received

Stay ,
WD

Great entry Enjoyed it from beginning to end

I have two questions:

Do you reckon that the tvcream page of idents falls foul of the House Rules concerning unsuitable links, containing as it does, the f*** word? There's nothing specific about urls which contain words which would be moderated on h2g2, other than "...or sites which may offend our users."

And has the story of 2 really ended - "And so ends the story of ident 2", or does the entry simply tell the story to date?

Ummm... in case you're wondering why the entry's been hidden WD (and anyone else here right now), it's my doing

I asked TPTB about the tvcream link F47997?thread=229477&post=2694568#p2694568, and apparently it's not suitable

I'll get me coat.