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'''Nicknames:''' ''The Blue Globe'', "Mirror Globe", "Mirror Globe I", "The Globe V", "BBC 1 Globe IV", "NODD (Nexus Orthicon Display Device) "

** In Wales, the text is stacked to the right of it, and has both the name in English and Welsh.

**Christmas 1983: A giant holographic snowflake shines in rainbow-colours with a "BBC1" caption on the centre. Was accompanied by a snowflake clock.

'''Final Note:''' This logo was retired because of the fact it was the only live mechanical model used by BBC1 by 1984, and the regular maintenance and calibration required was making it tiring and a hassle to use; even this logo could not help much in soothing common difficulties such as bad positioning, odd colours, etc. The globe was also becoming old-fashioned, due to its long service since the invention of colour, as well as the CGI revolution, which ironically began with sister channel BBC2, with their stripped "2" ident. The NODD system was abandoned with the globe, as all idents and clocks were now electronically generated. Programme slides remained the exception; they were still optically developed until the late 1980s when the programme slides became electronically generated with the quantel paintbox. The logo's last appearance was 5:35pm on Monday 18 February, introducing a new series of ''Grange Hill''. London viewers would see it one more time, before ''London Plus'' at 6:35pm.

** 1988 - The globe is seen as usual, then a red {{Font color|red|red}} nose is attached to it, and the BBC1 affix is covered over with a piece of paper reading "Comic Relief".

*Another variant exists when the globe stops its spin for the introduction of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Also, one variant has the globe doing unusual tricks.

**Christmas 1989 (Wales): A spinning top spins and spins for 20 seconds while pictures of Rudolphs, Santas, and penguins appear on the top. Then afterwards, the top zooms in and the BBC1 Wales Cymru logo (in the same typeface as the normal idents) appears on the bottom. BBC2 used the exact same ident that year as well, but with a daytime background and a different logo.

**There were two variants of the clock design. The first variant, used from 16 February 1991 to mid-December 1991, had a larger design to fit the screen best, and looked more like a crystal ball. However the size contrast between the clock and the globe resulted in difficulty at closedown, as the two do not fade easily. The second variant, used from mid-December 1991 to 4 October 1997, had a smaller clock (to allow a smoother transition to the globe) and had a brighter background.

**Christmas 1994: The figure ‘1’ is a Christmas present with a snowman either side of tipping their hats. This ident was unusual in that it had three different variations. In the run up to and on Christmas Eve it was neatly wrapped, on Christmas Day it was unwrapped by the snowmen to reveal a shining gold numeral and on Boxing Day and onwards the wrapping remains had been removed to display the gold numeral ‘1’. The Christmas Day version was occasionally used on and after Boxing Day. Due to it also being deemed "Too Jolly" to be used against the National Anthem (as with the 1992 ident), the normal idents were used for closedown.

**Hogsmanay 1997 (Scotland): In a dimly lit room, 2 candles and some overhanging lights illuminate the BBC Scotland logo, which is an abstract representation of Scotland using 3 different parallelograms, one shorter than the other (This debuted with their news program, Reporting Scotland, and is still used to this day in a modified form), and has them dressed like traditional Scotland garb, the top and bottom ones are male, and the middle is female.

'''Editor's Note:''' A boring but well made logo for it's time.

* London Docklands (where not only this is the officially last ident used from this era, but the globe is also not at flight.)

*To celebrate the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, a variation was used. It nearly the same as original version, but the balloon was seen flying above the Sydney Opera House, while an athlete shone a flaming torch in its direction.

*To welcome the new CBBC channel in 2002, a bug from that service's branding at the time peaks in for a bit.

**Christmas 2001: Three toys interact and fly around a room as they float around on helium balloons, with a Christmas tree on the side. We move to the window, where we can see the BBC 1 globe in the sky. The toys each represent something on the Christmas Day schedule. The Dinosaur represents the terrestrial premiere of ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park''. The Trotters Van represents the ''Only Fools and Horses'' episode "If They Could See Us Now", the first to air of the series since 1996, and the robot dog represents the terrestrial premiere of ''Toy Story''. This ident package was produced by [[Aardman Animations (UK)|Aardman Animations]].

* Hip-Hop: Filmed on a basketball court, this ident shows three basketball players dancing in their wheelchairs. The dancers are all dressed in red, with matching accents on their wheelchairs. The lead dancer is Adrian Adepitan, a British paralympic basketball player, and presenter of the CBBC programme Xchange. The dance is made up of different wheelchair-basketball moves used in the game. Also known as "Basketball".

*Maasai: This ident was filmed on an African Savanna. It features nine native Maasai tribesmen dancing in the centre.

*The Channel 4's cable channel, E4, has a version that combines the 3 dances. The BBC One logo is also replaced by a purple box containing the E4 logo.

'''Availability:''' No longer current. Was last seen on 7 October 2006, but you may still find these idents on old recordings of BBC One programmes from 2002-2006

'''Availability:''' No longer current. But may be seen on recordings of BBC One programmes from 2006-2017

'''Trivia:''' The BBC has commissioned Martin Parr, one of Britain’s leading documentary photo­graphers, to create 24 images and short films on the theme of “oneness”.

*Ten Pin Bowlers, Hockley:A group of ten pin bowlers are ready and waiting to knock down some skittles by using a ten pin bowl. Filmed in Hockley.

'''Editor's Note:''' Oneness is often agreed to be BBC idents at its laziest and are showing of no charm or value that previous ident branches had shown. It is often compared unfavourably to the Rhythm & Movement idents from 2002. The later 2021 version just feels like a placeholder until a new ident package in 2022.

'''Availability:''' No longer current. Can be seen before every BBC One programme before 19 July 2021. The first ident, "Tea breaks", started broadcasting before the news at 6pm on April 30, 2020 on BBC One Yorkshire, and more idents would appear in May of the same year. These idents were retired on 19 July 2021 due to the UK lifting it's COVID-19 restrictions, with "Cat Naps" the last one shown at 1:05am.