title overlaid the bottom of the image. This branding preceded the inception of the new ident by several months, with slides featuring the striped '2' from as early as late 1978. The BBC2 special Christmas ident of 1978, featuring rotating buglers, also incorporated this version of the striped '2'. Regional variations of BBC2 featured the region name below the 2. A variation of the look was introduced on 19 September 1983 and was used during the Daytime on 2 strand. It featured the ident with an orange gradient background. Special Idents Some special versions were produced for public celebrations such as Christmas: Christmas 1979 - A revolving perspex snowflake rotates over a white version of the logo at the bottom of the screen. Christmas 1980 - Similar to the previous year, a more colourful perspex snowflake rotating above a Christmas BBC2 caption Christmas 1981 - Three red translucent candles spinning around with the caption Christmas 2 Christmas 1982 - Three green perspex Christmas trees with a hand-drawn, angular BBC2 caption. Christmas 1983 - Another similar theme to the previous year. Three metallic Christmas trees spinning against the Christmas 2 caption. Christmas 1984 - A pink bauble with the '2' on it remains stationary while a stylised ribbon spelling 'Christmas' rotating around it. Christmas 1985 - A blue tinted Christmas scene rotates around the '2'. Special uses The ident was reused in early 2005 for the opening continuity announcement in the second series of the period comedy Look Around You. It was reused again in May 2010, with a new soundtrack, as part of BBC Two's "80's Season", to celebrate events and features from the decade. It was then brought back twice in October 2012, with no soundtrack. It was shown nationally during the final evening hours of 21 October at 4:35am to lead into the final edition of Pages From Ceefax after 38 years on-screen across the BBC. On 7 October 2013, this (and its Christmas '79, '84 & '85 ident in England and Northern Ireland), along with others was brought back for BBC Two's "Afternoon Classics" block and last appeared in December 2016. It made its final appearance in 2017 to introduce the 80s-set comedy White Gold. References External links TVARK 1979 Idents and Continuity TV Room 1979 Idents MHP Ident Zone 1979 625:Andrew Wiseman's Television Room - BBC Logo Gallery Ident Gallery Special Pres 2013 BBC Two BBC