Franchise: North-East England
Companies: Tyne Tees Television
Provides examples of:
- Fun with Acronyms: "Tyne, Wear and Tees Television" would have had the initials "TWaT TV" had the ITA not rejected the name for being too long.
- Network Sign Off: Inverted when the episode discusses Tyne Tees' first startup sequence. This involved playing the channel's theme tune, "The Three Rivers Fantasy".
- Shout-Out:
- The episode opens with a snippet of "Big River" by Jimmy Nail over some Stock Footage of the Tyneside shipyards.
- "The Three Rivers Fantasy" is a classical suite made up of several Geordie folk tunes, including "When the Boat Comes In" and "The Blaydon Races".
- Gunsmoke apparently featured heavily in Tyne Tees' early schedules.
- "And now you know the rest of the story" gets quoted in the section that mentions Trident being an early investor in the satellite TV network which was later sold to Rupert Murdoch and went on to become Sky.
- Crosswits, Chain Letters, Super Gran, Catherine Cookson adaptations and The Tube are listed as examples of programmes produced by Tyne Tees.
- The music video for "We Call It Acieed" by D Mob is used a bit of visual shorthand to represent the second Second Summer of Love.
- The Credits Montage is set to "Going Home (Theme from "Local Hero")", the unofficial Geordie national anthem (tied with "The Blaydon Races", of course).
- The Stinger: A clip of Geordie stand-up comedian Bobby Thompson.
