The tenth anniversary of BBC2 was also that year, and so a new ident would have been greatly appreciated to celebrate the station.
The ident itself featured a numeral 2 made out of discs of alternating colour of white and light blue.
The ident was commonly believed to be caused by two rotating cylinders, however they were in fact formed by 23 stacked discs, each with a different line drawn on the outside.
A clock accompanied the look and featured a light blue face and hands with a white corporate BBC2 logo.
The face included a "polo mint" centre circle from which the hands radiated out of, and counters that got progressively thicker the further round the clockface.