52 years ago today:
UFO
S1E23: The Sound of Silence
A UFO hides in a lake on a country estate of a well-known equestrian, and the equestrian himself vanishes. When SHADO tracks down the UFO and manages to destroy it in an exchange of pot-shots, the UFO breaks up and leaves a thing floating in the water. Treated as if it is a bomb, it is brought back ...
Airdate: 1971-07-17
https://themoviedb.org/tv/2560/season/1/episode/23
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ATV Colour Production endcap in black (1979).

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An ATV Advertising Magazine endcap from 1959.

( Wiki will do for the time being for an overview of what they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admag )

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ATV endcap with a copyright date, 1963 in this case.
Not a usual practice until c. 1975.

From the remaining copy of Nigel Kneale's The Crunch (original tx 9/1/64). Probably dated due to being made for export, and, as usually happened in these cases, the remaining copy that has survived.

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ATV endcap with a copyright date. Not a usual practice until c. 1975.

From the remaining copy of Nigel Kneale's The Crunch (original tx 9/1/64). Probably dated due to being made for export, and the remaining copy that has survived.

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Rare red ATV still ident frontcap, as seen before "An Unfashionable Tragedy", broadcast #OTD in 1975, in which John Pilger went to Bangladesh.

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But so as not to feel too depressed as to the ITV franchise changes; this year also marks the 2̶0̶t̶h̶ 3̶0̶t̶h̶ 50th anniversary of Pipkins, which was first broadcast #OTD in 1973.

Although only two episodes seem to still exist of the first series, entitled Inigo Pipkin, and starring George Woodbridge in the leading rôle, only he passed away later that same year.

This episode, the earliest to survive, original tx 4/7/1973.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJxyohnAhI

But so as not to feel too depressed as to the ITV franchise changes; this year also marks the 50th anniversary of Pipkins, which was first broadcast #OTD in 1973.

Although only two episodes seems to still exist of the first series, entitled Inigo Pipkin, and starring George Woodbridge in the leading rôle, only he passe away later that same year.

This episode was originally tx 4/7/1973.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJxyohnAhI