Just to round things off, here's the end of the Asterix tape, taking us to about five to six in the morning, just in time for TV-am. Oh, if only there'd been a bit more tape. We could have seen the start of Good Morning Britain uncomfortably grinning out its last few days of life. Robin Carmody has pinpointed this at December 22nd, 1992, so this really is the end times for TV-am, along with Thames, TSW, TVS and joy.

Oh, well. What we have instead is an ITV Night Time closedown, which you don't see very often. Apparently this is how that went: with the logo rather painfully squished to the side to reveal the sun finally rising to a slightly more optimistic section of "Unseen Danger". Meanwhile, that shadowy cat has probably gone in for its breakfast. Then Jim "the" Pope introduces the news from ITN, which is introduced with that timeless prappa-pa-pa-pa-PAAAA, presented by a Vulcan ambassador and gets as far as the first headline before dying. So that's nice. Note how empty the chromakeyed ITN office is at five to six. No wonder news programmes don't do that anymore. It was always an uncomfortable glimpse into other people's nine-to-five lives, but with the advent of 24-hour television a few years before this went out, it's starting to become a tad creepy, looking at the barren wasteland of unplugged Macintoshes and abandoned desks. You almost expect the newsreader's voice to echo.

Sorak here probably doesn't need as much sleep as us humans, of course.

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