Editing Take Hart (section)

==Demise==
By the end of the eighth series in December 1983, Hart felt that the format of the programme, which essentially continued with much of the format of its predecessor ''Vision On'', had become somewhat outdated and routine. Despite the award of a [[BAFTA]] in early 1984, viewing figures for ''Take Hart'' by 1983 had gradually fallen since the series' heyday in the late 1970s. In an attempt to update the image of the series, ''Take Hart '' was dropped in December 1983, and replaced by the relatively more popular series ''[[Hartbeat]]''.

Some [[2 inch Quadruplex videotape]] master copies of ''Take Hart'' episodes were irretrievably [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|junked]] by Adam Lee of the [[BBC]] [[archives]] in 1993 on the assumption that they were 'no use' and that examples of some other episodes were sufficient. A few months later, access to the material was requested by the head of [[Children's BBC]]'s light entertainment department for a documentary on Tony Hart.{{Citation needed|reason=please list a source or origin for this story|date=May 2019}}