405 Alive Issue 4 (December 1989)
| Page | Title | Summary/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | BBC-2 And Those Wonderful Trade Test Colour Films. Malcolm Batchelor |
Trade test transmissions on a typical day in 1968. |
| 15 | BBC Test Card Music – Part 3. Paul Sawtell |
Covering the period from 1973 when there was a switch from half hour to one hour tape recordings. |
| 18 | Christmas On BBC TV. | A selection of the special Christmas test cards from the 1980s. |
| 24 | The Story of G3CTS. Andy Emmerson |
A history of one of the few licensed private television stations, operated by the Television Society from 1953. |
| 26 | Extracts from Memoirs Of A Telecommunications Engineer. W. J. Bray |
Extracts focussing on early post-war television including a link to South Wales, balloon-supported repeater aerial and 1952 TV receiver detection van. |