Something from my past

When I was young I never slept well, I remember sitting up through the night with the TV on letting it comfort me through the dark hours. In England cable TV didn't really hit properly till the mid 1990s and even then you only had it in the living room, so I had the choice of four channels, for those who aren't British back then the four channels that dominated the TV were BBC1, BBC2, (both are paid for with our taxes so we didn't have any commercials)  ITV (Channel 3) and channel 4 -which at the time was quite an arty channel, BBC1 and ITV were the main ones and for some reason I always seemed to have ITV on, I think BBC1 use to shut down about 1.00 am, every now and then I would flick to 4 to see if they had some art house film on as they always had decent sex scenes, for me channel 4 was only good on a Friday night when you had the power  house combo of Cheers and Roseanne which later became Fraiser and Friends, followed by a programe called The Word but more on that another time. So here I was stuck with ITV usually there was a movie on -see Vamp, and it was followed by American Gladiators, which to me sitting in my little surburban bedroom seem so exotic, I never wanted to travel to places like Australia or India, I wanted to go to the place in the TV where the gladiators were, everything was so bright and loud, everything seemed like it was awake 24-7 I now realise there is such a place and its my 24 supermarket called Tescos (if your Amercian think Walmart) Anyway as ITV was a commercial channel there were breaks and everytime you would get the ITV Night Time ident coming up. I don't know why but seeing the ident use to make me so excited, it was just a little clip showing a close up of some water, then some traffic over which a Night Time graphic was played along with some music and a weird alien like voice saying "niiight tiiiimme" I use to think it was showing the riverThames and London traffic, you could hear a sax solo playing it made me think of London (which at the time seemed so glamorous and far away -the reality was very different) and these wild people all up late partying, I can still remember the feeling of butterflies I use to get and I'd be thinking I will be there one day (what a little twat I was) anyway I managed to find it on youtube christ it really took me back, so please feel free to have a test drive of my memory......and look out for the sax!

http://youtu.be/dZDgniXutUw