What is Test Card F?
'''Test Card F''' is a [[test card]] made by the [[BBC]] to be used on [[television]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. It was first shown on television on July 2, 1967. It was shown on television when no [[television program|shows]] were being played. The test card shows [[Carole Hersee]] playing [[noughts and crosses]] (tic-tac-toe) with a [[clown]] [[doll]] with many test signals showing. The test card was made by [[George Hersee]], Carole Hersee's father and a BBC [[engineer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1282160.stm|title=Test card special|date=April 19, 2001|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=May 12, 2020}}</ref> It was shown less in the 1980s because BBC started showing [[Ceefax]] pages more. After 1999, it was only shown by [[BBC Two]] for one minute. In the 2010s, the test card was used for [[List of HTTP status codes|HTTP errors]] on the BBC [[website]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/bbc-webiste-down-creepy-clown-5333053|title=BBC website down: Incredibly creepy clown in error message is freaking people out|publisher=Mirror|access-date=9 July 2015}}</ref> Test Card F made Carole Hersee the most shown face in British television.<ref>Paul Sawtell, ‘[[George Hersee|Hersee, George]] (1924–2001)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, January 2005</ref> In the 1990s, three [[wikt:version|versions]] of Test Card F were made, [[wikt:including|including]] Test Card J (which had small changes of Test Card F), Test Card W (a [[widescreen]] version), and a different widescreen version.<ref name=meldrum>{{cite web|last=Meldrum|first=Darren|title=BBC Test Cards|url=http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/bbc_test.html|work=MHP The Test Card Gallery|access-date=May 12, 2020}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{tv-stub}} [[Category:BBC]] [[Category:1967 establishments in the United Kingdom]]