Simon McLean
@simonmclean
Currently on the wireless in various places, occasionally voiceovering
The original release cover doesn't suit it either, but in completely the opposite direction
I'd love to know who she was, and how she managed to look so deliriously thrilled about everything
True fact about this sketch - the letter about sewing a pocket into the inside of your coat was a real letter to the Dear Miriam page of the TV Times in December 1989
Southern's clock from 1964-76 appears to be a very stylish off-the-shelf Solari Ciffra 5 from Italy - buy one and you too can be Brian Nissen doing a link into First Report
And here's your answer - the opening credits of the edition broadcast on 13th Dec 1977 has a very brief clip of the sequence in question, so it must have come from a show shortly before that date. I don't know if the whole show exists, but at least there's a bit of evidence!
The source of what I believe to be one of the greatest pictures ever taken