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* Station ID: On a white background, the word "TWO" emerges from the wall as segments coloured in white. Red fades onto the second part of the "T", and green and blue fades onto the first two parts of the "W". Despite the "TWO" in the ident, the channel was still officially called "BBC 2".

* Accompanying clock ident: The clock has the logo below, and the hours are bars emerging from the background. The hands are in the red/green/blue colours as well.

** Christmas 1986: Snow constantly covers and uncovers the "TWO" in waves going left to right.

** Christmas 1987: A transparent ball hangs in front of the camera as two people throw snowballs at each other with backgrounds of trees. The ball then pans up to reveal an all-white "TWO" logo, with a red dash above and a large green triangle stretching the entire length of the TWO above that.

** Christmas 1988: A white-powdered person with green hair in the style of a Christmas tree cuts to a picture of a green and red "TWO" with the sections separated and frozen in ice.

** Christmas 1989: Three figures seemingly made of wrapping paper move the sections of the "TWO" into position, which themselves seem to be made out of wrapping paper in the logo colours. The end board is accompanied by a synthesised nursery tune and rotating sheep in the background.

** Christmas 1990: An upside-down triangle, square and circle burst open to reveal the letters "TWO" made out of items such as crackers, wheels and other assorted materials, accompanied by a soundtrack of two notes, the final note being dragged out for the length of the announcement. These idents were designed to follow on seamlessly from a similarly styled promotional trail.

* '''Special idents:'''

** A "TWO" ident recoloured blue and red, with occasional powdered colours of blue and red, was used to mark a series of programmes on the French Revolution.

** A version with the letter spelling "THE" was used before the first episode of ''The Late Show''.

** A spoof version of the logo, spelling "THREE" was used on BBC One prior to their showing of ''Roland Rat: The Series''.

** This ident was remastered in HD for BBC Two's '80s season in 2010 alongside the 4th logo. It was also used for BBC Two Northern Ireland's Afternoon Classics strand from 2013-2016.

'''Technique:''' Computer animation by Alan Jeapes, the same designer responsible for the iconic title map of ''EastEnders''.

'''Audio:''' An airy choir composition with reverberated clangs. Most of the time, a continuity announcer is heard instead.

* The Christmas variants had their own jingles, and the 80's season variant used the Christmas 1987 jingle.

* The Christmas 1987 jingle also appeared for Afternoon Classics in 2015.

'''Availability:''' Used on BBC2 until the next idents made their debut in 1991.