I loved and miss Christmas in the 80s as a kid in the U.K.!! Now living in the U.S. as an adult, I spend every Christmas Day watching 80s Christmas movie reruns on DVD that I watched as a kid or British Christmas comedy specials on TH-cam. I care for nothing whatsoever on today's tv. Someone should bring out a retro Christmas TV channel. I bet we would all watch that!!
This was the first christmas after our dad left us. Mum invited all of our friends who would have spent christmas alone. It was the best christmas ever.
I was fifteen at the time and remember it well. No social media to intrude or gadgets that people take for granted then. I grew up in a less complicated era!
There seemed a real magic about Christmas in those times,.....it was so much better, ...and as a kid growing up , Christmas in the 70s and 80s was such a fun packed exciting time watching great telly with all the family.....Great memories
A time when tv actually drew you in and entertained, at Christmas they made an effort and the day felt special, as a kid I'd scan through The Radio Times in December and used to highlight all the good programmes I wanted to see right into January and couldn't wait, I'd actually run down the stairs when they were about to start. Now its all contests and overbearing, overpaid celebrities and loud noisey programmes, totally unwatchable now and I couldn't care less about any of them.
Buying the Radio Times double edition just to find out what was on over Christmas and the New Year. There was always something worth watching on Christmas night.
I remember a little before this, mid 70s, my Dad would come home with the double edition Radio Times and the double edition TV Times. My sister would take one, I'd take the other, we'd each go through it highlighting shows, then swap.
I remember watching that, at the time I was 13, and it was creepy. I watched it again last year and it wasn't that good. Strange how that can sometimes be the case.
@Andrew Johnston Now we have rape gangs, acid attacks, teen knife and gun crime, BLM and taking the knee. Oh, and Lewis Hamilton. Haven't we come a long way.
Did you actually bother to watch the video? Repat after repeat after repeat. It had all been on 400 times previously. Perhaps your idea of fun is to watching glowing shapes, as they made a while programme out of it with the Golden Oldie Christmas Show
@@angelacooper2661except there wasn't at all. It was packed with repeats, as you can clearly see in this video. That's why people back then used to criticise TV so much.
Christmas telly was always a real treat and the highlight of the year,...all the family favorites Morecambe & wise,..only fools and horses, Minder,..generation game and many others,...one particular cherished memory I have is Christmas day 1978 at my gran and grandads ,while playing with my new Action man , the classic film The sound of music was the big Christmas day film that year,....great times, great memories
All of which had been repeated about 500 times previously. Everyone always moaned about it at the time and rightly so. Every era has junk TV and the 80s were no exception.
You do realise that everyone said the country was going to the dogs in the 80s? And how much better it was in the 60s? And in the 69s how much better the 30s were... it's just we are older and OUR lives were simpler. Life wasn't.
I'm half and half on this one; yes the country was going to the dogs... however (and it's a cliche) we still seemed to have some pride about ourselves... and knew how to enjoy ourselves a bit too, compared to the doom and gloom on TV nowadays, especially at Christmas (three hours of soaps on Christmas Day... torture!)
Ah, Christmas television that you actually looked forward to and would sit and watch with your family. There was always a certain amount of homeliness and comfort from the way the presentation of, not only the programmes themselves, but also the continuity between them.
Great to see just sad at times when you realize the happy times you had with your parents and family members who are no longer with us and this was the year as a young lad with my beautiful girlfriend who again is no longer with us x
@@SpeccyHorace no, I grant you that one, but you know what I mean. These days we are flooded with so much tv on hundreds of damn platforms. Not like the old days, 3 channels, and excited to see something special. 😀
@@infinity4066that's the excitement of being a child, nothing whatsoever to do with the 80s, which were absolutely grim. Just because we are clueless naive children does not mean that the era we were clueless naive children in was better. It absolutely wasn't.
No, they weren't simpler or happier whatsoever. Unemployment through the roof, crime massively higher than today, strikes, threat of nuclear war, AIDS, social attitudes that would curdle milk. If you think the 80s were "happier" or "simpler" then you weren't there.
Wonderful to see this - we recorded this exact broadcast of The Fog on our very first VHS videotape (still got it, with the little stickers we applied on it 'Tape 1') and after the film, the recording ended just as the Vera Lynn show was starting, so it's great to see the context here of the full schedule! I always loved the Santa walking in snow Christmas ident and music from that year, so memorable to me! 1985 was an amazing year.
I remember that first EastEnders Christmas episode. Very enjoyable in a traditional old fashioned way compared to the fireworks of Den & Angie in 1986 🤯
Blimey, where's the time gone? This all still seems weirdly recent to me, rather than a third of a century ago! Especially the animation of Santa trudging through the snow, dropping the present. Mr Benn at 1.45.. Taping that! :D
Believe it or not Easter Parade was something of a regular .... on Easter Sunday. For some reason they used to repeat the Morcambe and Wise Christmas show in the summer
The BBC used to show tonnes of movie premieres until fairly recently, but they're getting fewer and fewer every year. I know most of these big film premieres are available on streaming services or Sky within months, even weeks, of their theatrical premieres, but there's still something magical about a big movie premiere on BBC1 or ITV.
How sad am I! I knew the identity jingle before it started... Must have been a memorable Christmas. I remember watching The Fog! John Carpenter. Great film :)
Heaven 7 ironic isn’t it. In those days we used to wait and wait for three special tv days and wish it could go on longer. Now it all kicks off on tv at the end of November and we’re glad when it’s over.
I take it that the holidays were a big thing for programming in the UK... over here in the states all the shows would go into " hiatus " until january and all we would get were tired reruns. still the same thing even now.... 300 channels and nothing to watch.
A lot of effort used to go into the Christmas schedule in the UK. Personally I think that Christmas TV isn't as good as it used to be in the 80s/90s when I was growing up. There were only 4 channels back then and a decent Christmas special could bring in 15 million viewers. Having said that there were still repeats back then and conversely there's still some effort to produce "Christmas Specials" of the big TV shows even today. What I miss most is the big film premieres we used to get on the BBC over the Christmas season. By the time films are shown on BBC these days we've already seen them on Netflix, Amazon Prime or on Sky Cinema.
The British are smart to make the day after Christmas a legal holiday. Everybody is so wiped out & partied out the next day & presents all over the place I always end up taking the day after Christmas off.
According to the BBC it came from the 1800's when servants were given a day off the day after Christmas day, and given a box of gifts by their masters hence the name boxing day🎄🎅🤶❄☃️⛄
There were quite a few stereo simulcasts on BBC TWO that year. As featured, Radio 3 linked up with the channel for the La Traviata film &, on New Year's Eve, Radio 1 provided stereo sound for the Live Aid highlights, half a dozen videos played on Whistle Test that year & a live gig by Madness On New Year's Day, there was the live classical concert from Vienna & a recording of a Paul Young concert albeit on BBC ONE
Christmas always was a time for repeats. The only adverts itv could find were usually sales and holidays so they rarely used to fling cash at it. BBC only started banging at Christmas to sell colour licences in 1969. The season of family and goodwill was long forgotten.
Blimey, BBC 2 didn't exactly seem to be pulling out the stops film-wise (though in fairness the bigger, newer films would have been saved for BBC 1). But a fairly decent year for comedy on BBC 1 (look how many there were back then!), including the first feature-length 'Only Fools and Horses' with 'To Hull and Back' (actually my family didn't particularly enjoy it, feeling the stretched format didn't work; the series learned how to do longer episodes well in later years), and feature-length 'Last of the Summer Wine' with 'Uncle of the Bride' (broadcast New Year's Day), which introduced new third man Seymour (never liked him as much as Foggy!) and a host of new characters that would become familiar favourites in the series. It's odd, we might have infinitely more channels now, but it seemed strangely comforting to know the whole country was pretty much watching the same things back then. And much more light-hearted, too.
BBC1 had the bigger films, like Gandhi, Rocky 2 and the 1981 Clash of the Titans. But the BBC2 line-up is excellent if one is into more 'art-house' fare. Tess and Ragtime were particularly well-regarded recent movies, and Diva was a huge French New Wave sensation.
Apparently the ident got mixed to negative reviews with the crits, and I gotta say, it looks pretty crappy without the electronically generated backgrounds. The models were replaced by the Tree and his Marching Holly Squad. (Not sure who the names were of the 3 characters tho) Models would NOT Return until 1989 with the COW Spinning Top.
Thanks for Your Brilliant post . I see You worked well on this . I do have the first showing on British television of The Elephant man on Monday September 10th 1984 ( I wrote to the BBC to ask that date) . I haven't checked yet to see if that introduction on BBC1
I remember the Pain family on Telly Addicts. They got on my nerves because they won every week which meant they kept coming back the next week! But I am in awe of how good the picture quality is on this.
***** I was born in May, so I'm bedding into it. Being accused by my mum one day of having a grey hair has got me looking in the mirror with great anxiety.
Does anyone have any information on the music BBC1 used for its promos and trails? Was it a library piece or a specially commissioned. Christmas 1985 brings back magical memories, and I think time has been a lot kinder to the Robins ident than perhaps anyone thought at the time. Many thanks.
Real wholesome TV, that was fun, spontaneous and natural. Now it's all politically correct, woke, sanitised and unnatural. Video killed the radio star, woke crap killed the TV.
Was interesting at the time to see the size of the turn table which was dusted off every Christmas then. I don't remember any big deal about the ident - the only problem seemed to be the vibrations shifting the scarfs all the time.
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Ahh yes sitting there with my Radio Times and blank VHS tapes. What a wonderful time that was.
Happy days.
Bet you didn't tape much. What a load of crap.
Ahh christmas 85, the christmas that i ate a whole box of benedicts mints on Christmas eve and spent Christmas day throwing up . Happy times
I loved and miss Christmas in the 80s as a kid in the U.K.!! Now living in the U.S. as an adult, I spend every Christmas Day watching 80s Christmas movie reruns on DVD that I watched as a kid or British Christmas comedy specials on TH-cam. I care for nothing whatsoever on today's tv. Someone should bring out a retro Christmas TV channel. I bet we would all watch that!!
I certainly would ☺️
I'm with you it was a magical time back then it's all gone now
This was the first christmas after our dad left us. Mum invited all of our friends who would have spent christmas alone. It was the best christmas ever.
It makes me both happy and sad to see what we had... and what we’ve now lost. Magical memories and a wonderful upload.
Yes very nostalgic and emotional. Just feels like a year ago yet I was a child then and now I'm not whaaa whaaa
It was also the time when jimmy savile got away with his abuse of children
@@somethingbright4268 You would very naive to think 'people" are not doing it now, and others are not turning a blind eye.
well said, I feel the same.
🥹🥹🥹
It's amazing how magical even these previews were back then. It meant Christmas was near
Because you were young.
@zeddeka think it was more than that. Think the main channels tried harder
I was fifteen at the time and remember it well. No social media to intrude or gadgets that people take for granted then. I grew up in a less complicated era!
Yep I was fifteen too and full of hope for the future ! How ironic 😢
@angelacooper2661 the only "gadget" I thought about buying in 1986 was a CD player....& even that is considered to be obsolete today !
Apart from Saville popping up that was a lovely trip down memory lane,I remember Christmas 1985 very well.
Some really good telly.
This was my first Christmas as a teenager without my dad, it was the Christmas when Christmas changed forever for me. It ended my childhood.
Sorry to that ❤
That's the saddest thing I've read in many a year x
There seemed a real magic about Christmas in those times,.....it was so much better, ...and as a kid growing up , Christmas in the 70s and 80s was such a fun packed exciting time watching great telly with all the family.....Great memories
A time when tv actually drew you in and entertained, at Christmas they made an effort and the day felt special, as a kid I'd scan through The Radio Times in December and used to highlight all the good programmes I wanted to see right into January and couldn't wait, I'd actually run down the stairs when they were about to start. Now its all contests and overbearing, overpaid celebrities and loud noisey programmes, totally unwatchable now and I couldn't care less about any of them.
littlegee exactly what I used to do. There’s no TV specials anymore and the “big film” is utterly diminished by Sky, DVDs and streaming.
littlegee Humbug !
Buying the Radio Times double edition just to find out what was on over Christmas and the New Year. There was always something worth watching on Christmas night.
I remember a little before this, mid 70s, my Dad would come home with the double edition Radio Times and the double edition TV Times. My sister would take one, I'd take the other, we'd each go through it highlighting shows, then swap.
Silver Owl yes the tv and radio times comparison... looney tunes and laurel and hardy in the early morning....
Never thought I'd hear The Fog be called "harrowing drama" but here we are.
I remember watching that, at the time I was 13, and it was creepy. I watched it again last year and it wasn't that good. Strange how that can sometimes be the case.
I have no friends or family so I love watching these in September but I just try to sleep my way through the actual Christmas
Don't be alone, never feel alone 😊
1985 ! What a great year and great Christmas !!! Almost everything on television now is crass and brain dead !
@Andrew Johnston Now we have rape gangs, acid attacks, teen knife and gun crime, BLM and taking the knee. Oh, and Lewis Hamilton. Haven't we come a long way.
Yes, I remember it well and was just fifteen at the time. An adolescence without social media. Less channel quantity and more superior quality!
Did you actually bother to watch the video? Repat after repeat after repeat. It had all been on 400 times previously. Perhaps your idea of fun is to watching glowing shapes, as they made a while programme out of it with the Golden Oldie Christmas Show
@@gregmcfarnon1140and crime is significantly lower than it was back then. you're a russian troll. Back to Moscow with you.
@@angelacooper2661except there wasn't at all. It was packed with repeats, as you can clearly see in this video. That's why people back then used to criticise TV so much.
Everything seemed so much more "Christmassier" than they do today. Please take me back!
Christmas telly was always a real treat and the highlight of the year,...all the family favorites Morecambe & wise,..only fools and horses, Minder,..generation game and many others,...one particular cherished memory I have is Christmas day 1978 at my gran and grandads ,while playing with my new Action man , the classic film The sound of music was the big Christmas day film that year,....great times, great memories
All of which had been repeated about 500 times previously. Everyone always moaned about it at the time and rightly so. Every era has junk TV and the 80s were no exception.
Britain was such a great country in those days 😔
You do realise that everyone said the country was going to the dogs in the 80s? And how much better it was in the 60s? And in the 69s how much better the 30s were... it's just we are older and OUR lives were simpler. Life wasn't.
Britain was a country in the 80s? :D
hmm - the Jim'll fix it for Christmas special - yeah, great
I'm half and half on this one; yes the country was going to the dogs... however (and it's a cliche) we still seemed to have some pride about ourselves... and knew how to enjoy ourselves a bit too, compared to the doom and gloom on TV nowadays, especially at Christmas (three hours of soaps on Christmas Day... torture!)
You just miss being young
Ah, Christmas television that you actually looked forward to and would sit and watch with your family. There was always a certain amount of homeliness and comfort from the way the presentation of, not only the programmes themselves, but also the continuity between them.
Those were the days - used to actually look forward to it.
It's not their fault you turned into a grumpy old man.
Real christmas tv, unlike today's reality crap.
too true
you have got that right...
back in the days when Disgraced MPs went into the jungle
Totally agree with you there I've stopped watching TV all together cause of the rubbish on these days
Yes who need reality crap! 👎
How the BBC lost its way today?
Great to see just sad at times when you realize the happy times you had with your parents and family members who are no longer with us and this was the year as a young lad with my beautiful girlfriend who again is no longer with us x
OMG! Amazing! So many memories. Thank God you didn't bin your old VHS tapes. xxx
Simpler times and happier times.
Not for those kids with Savile.
@@SpeccyHorace no, I grant you that one, but you know what I mean. These days we are flooded with so much tv on hundreds of damn platforms. Not like the old days, 3 channels, and excited to see something special. 😀
@@infinity4066not just him was it? Bough, Edmonds, Everett. Pervs, druggies & weirdos. Rest years old repeats.
@@infinity4066that's the excitement of being a child, nothing whatsoever to do with the 80s, which were absolutely grim. Just because we are clueless naive children does not mean that the era we were clueless naive children in was better. It absolutely wasn't.
No, they weren't simpler or happier whatsoever. Unemployment through the roof, crime massively higher than today, strikes, threat of nuclear war, AIDS, social attitudes that would curdle milk. If you think the 80s were "happier" or "simpler" then you weren't there.
No mobiles or technology just a box of quality street and the tv mags
Wonderful to see this - we recorded this exact broadcast of The Fog on our very first VHS videotape (still got it, with the little stickers we applied on it 'Tape 1') and after the film, the recording ended just as the Vera Lynn show was starting, so it's great to see the context here of the full schedule! I always loved the Santa walking in snow Christmas ident and music from that year, so memorable to me! 1985 was an amazing year.
The 80s will never go and every few years it comes back. EVERYBODY LOVES THE 80s!
I remember that first EastEnders Christmas episode. Very enjoyable in a traditional old fashioned way compared to the fireworks of Den & Angie in 1986 🤯
How did we survive with out diversity and multiculturalism....it was hell.
It's good to go down memory lane every so often, if only to see how awful was so much of the tv!
Such a wonderful era
Watching Cristmas Eve 2018. I was 12 in 1985
Donna K Watching June 26th 2020! I was 18!
Always loved Christmas tv now it is not the same tv just feels like every other day
Now 2019 we'll probably have reality shows on over Christmas
@Jimmy Jams Looks like it's a TH-cam Christmas!
You can always look out for the box ticking exercises all over the telly instead.
Reality shows suck big time
Blimey, where's the time gone? This all still seems weirdly recent to me, rather than a third of a century ago! Especially the animation of Santa trudging through the snow, dropping the present.
Mr Benn at 1.45.. Taping that! :D
I remember those big films on at Christmas now with sky virgin and streaming you get Christmas films 24/7!
Believe it or not Easter Parade was something of a regular .... on Easter Sunday. For some reason they used to repeat the Morcambe and Wise Christmas show in the summer
The BBC used to show tonnes of movie premieres until fairly recently, but they're getting fewer and fewer every year. I know most of these big film premieres are available on streaming services or Sky within months, even weeks, of their theatrical premieres, but there's still something magical about a big movie premiere on BBC1 or ITV.
Thank you David Baldwin for these uploads. Great nostalgia :))
Please God. Let me go back. I'm done with this world now.
Wow brings tears to my eyes , fabulous memories
I was 10 this was the year my grandparents came to stay for Christmas my uncle as well was a great time
How sad am I! I knew the identity jingle before it started... Must have been a memorable Christmas.
I remember watching The Fog! John Carpenter. Great film :)
Me too. :)
I was same with the jingle, can’t remember one before or since. Must have got stuck in my head 34 years
I was 12 and remember my dad letting me stay up to watch The Fog. I was a lifelong John Carpenter fan after that!
@@JohnnyPaton Ditto.
The Fog, what a film. Still gives me the creeps now.
Great times. Loved the 80s❤
Just about to turn 3 in 1986 love it
Back when they showed decent stuff on bbc2
Gosh what naive, innocent, great tv and times!
Heaven 7 ironic isn’t it. In those days we used to wait and wait for three special tv days and wish it could go on longer. Now it all kicks off on tv at the end of November and we’re glad when it’s over.
Adverts started in early October this year,oh joy!
@@colinwilkes8957Christmas sweets in the shops in September this year. Ridiculous really.
Nice to look back on but you have to live for today and look forwards not backwards, it's much healthier for you.
Haha! My Fair Lady was also in this Christmas. This TH-cam video came to mind as soon as I saw it
wow !....what a time of night to show The Good Life....
People were so shit faced at that time they probably enjoyed it!
Superb!!!!! Great memories!!!!!
Out of interest, were all of these clips recorded on Betamax?
I take it that the holidays were a big thing for programming in the UK... over here in the states all the shows would go into " hiatus " until january and all we would get were tired reruns. still the same thing even now.... 300 channels and nothing to watch.
A lot of effort used to go into the Christmas schedule in the UK. Personally I think that Christmas TV isn't as good as it used to be in the 80s/90s when I was growing up. There were only 4 channels back then and a decent Christmas special could bring in 15 million viewers. Having said that there were still repeats back then and conversely there's still some effort to produce "Christmas Specials" of the big TV shows even today.
What I miss most is the big film premieres we used to get on the BBC over the Christmas season. By the time films are shown on BBC these days we've already seen them on Netflix, Amazon Prime or on Sky Cinema.
@@AlisonBryen You are so right on that may I say-thank you!!
1985, the last time East Enders didn’t visit doom and gloom on the nation.
Had started feb 85
@@antejl7925 kind of my point lol. Eastenders is an argument in the bedroom then argument in kitchen, argument in square, argument in pub..
1984 actually, but thank you of course anyway!!
EastEnders was only on Tuesdays and thursdays
It's xmass leg it
Eastenders is the most depressing show on tele.
See they were better times ;)
Still two days too many!
@@jackwatson3944 It is indeed really alas of course!!
The British are smart to make the day after Christmas a legal holiday. Everybody is so wiped out & partied out the next day & presents all over the place I always end up taking the day after Christmas off.
According to the BBC it came from the 1800's when servants were given a day off the day after Christmas day, and given a box of gifts by their masters hence the name boxing day🎄🎅🤶❄☃️⛄
Oh dear. Jim'll Fix It and all those kids :/
mat mells -- I'd say they are both as bad as each other...
@mat mells . You sad pervert.
Wasn’t here to defend in court , i’m not saying he didn’t do it just everyone has a right to a fair trial
@mat mells fukin prick are you insane man..fuk off
I dread to think.
Seems like only yesterday, were we ever so young? :o)
Excellent stuff. Love it!! Nice bit of seasonal entertainment for the kids on Christmas Eve. Jim'll Fix It.
That turned my stomach too....
When England was England
Well, you wanted to leave. So, yes, soon England will be in trouble. Gotta find that bulldog spirit again, mate!
As if brexit caused all our problems! Things have been going downhill long before that!
My first Christmas as a married man
odd to find an american show in the mix... I remember it well.
There were quite a few stereo simulcasts on BBC TWO that year. As featured, Radio 3 linked up with the channel for the La Traviata film &, on New Year's Eve, Radio 1 provided stereo sound for the Live Aid highlights, half a dozen videos played on Whistle Test that year & a live gig by Madness
On New Year's Day, there was the live classical concert from Vienna & a recording of a Paul Young concert albeit on BBC ONE
Rex Harrison was the inspiration for Stewie Griffins voice in Family Guy
Frank Bough looks like he might have started Xmas festivities a few days previously...
Christmas eve BBC 1 two repeats ! Nothing changes Lol!
Christmas always was a time for repeats. The only adverts itv could find were usually sales and holidays so they rarely used to fling cash at it. BBC only started banging at Christmas to sell colour licences in 1969. The season of family and goodwill was long forgotten.
Thanks for sharing this, lovely memories
the charismas when i got my Amstrad cpc464 lol what a charismas what a year
Haha! I had my ZX Spectrum
Oh - the hours it took to make these things... ahg!
I was three weeks old
Morecambe and wise repeats every year.
Blimey, BBC 2 didn't exactly seem to be pulling out the stops film-wise (though in fairness the bigger, newer films would have been saved for BBC 1).
But a fairly decent year for comedy on BBC 1 (look how many there were back then!), including the first feature-length 'Only Fools and Horses' with 'To Hull and Back' (actually my family didn't particularly enjoy it, feeling the stretched format didn't work; the series learned how to do longer episodes well in later years), and feature-length 'Last of the Summer Wine' with 'Uncle of the Bride' (broadcast New Year's Day), which introduced new third man Seymour (never liked him as much as Foggy!) and a host of new characters that would become familiar favourites in the series.
It's odd, we might have infinitely more channels now, but it seemed strangely comforting to know the whole country was pretty much watching the same things back then. And much more light-hearted, too.
BBC1 had the bigger films, like Gandhi, Rocky 2 and the 1981 Clash of the Titans. But the BBC2 line-up is excellent if one is into more 'art-house' fare. Tess and Ragtime were particularly well-regarded recent movies, and Diva was a huge French New Wave sensation.
When Britain was British!
10:37 - as soon as I saw that my brain said "there's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be..........."
It's weird, even with cheap decorations and mediocre graphics.. Christmas TV was so much more Christmasy back then.. Good times.
Days when you got your radio or tv times and circled the programmes u wanted to wztchnovet Christmas
I remember Noel Edmonds shooting the Christmas robins.
Apparently the ident got mixed to negative reviews with the crits, and I gotta say, it looks pretty crappy without the electronically generated backgrounds. The models were replaced by the Tree and his Marching Holly Squad. (Not sure who the names were of the 3 characters tho) Models would NOT Return until 1989 with the COW Spinning Top.
Thanks for Your Brilliant post . I see You worked well on this . I do have the first showing on British television of The Elephant man on Monday September 10th 1984 ( I wrote to the BBC to ask that date) . I haven't checked yet to see if that introduction on BBC1
I remember that date too actually-and you are so right on that. Thank you!!
I remember the Pain family on Telly Addicts. They got on my nerves because they won every week which meant they kept coming back the next week! But I am in awe of how good the picture quality is on this.
Yes i remember them too. not that it was rigged of course
Yeah, I remember they had the charisma of a wet lettuce!
I miss Terry Wogan!
Christmas Classic EastEnders 🇬🇧🎅🇬🇧🎅🇬🇧🎅
Classic ,and Eastenders in the same sentence,comedy gold!
Please let me wake up and it’s 85 again. And all this utter 💩that’s happening now ,has only been an Nast dream .
I miss seeing red squirrels
Actually, I remember a closedown where the Robins were replaced by the regular COW at the national anthem.
It was considered too festive to uphold the national anthem
Now uve done it , jim has fixed it for you and you and youuuou
Whatever Jim Fixed, Noel would Break
I remember the Payne family on Telly Addicts @ 7:55 thrashing everyfamily put before them
I didn't know Stewie from Family Guy worked as a continuity announcer on BBC in the 80's!!
I WAS 1 YEAR OLD WHEN THIS AIRED.
Matthew Payton It was the year I was born, and the Morecambe and Wise repeat they still roll out now was a mere 12 years old.
+Flossie1985 I was born in December of 85 still trying to get used to being 30
***** I was born in May, so I'm bedding into it. Being accused by my mum one day of having a grey hair has got me looking in the mirror with great anxiety.
***** Maybe, it's fashionable at the moment :)
+Flossie1985 I can't wait for some gray to appear in my beard.
Brilliant memories. Although I reckon the Jimmy Saville bit should have been cut out 😬
Breakfast Time Xmas titles at 9:00
I was ten, and there really is something magical about this. Christmas TV with all the specials was part of Christmas itself.
As kids, we didn't realise that 99% of the stuff on TV had already been repeated 500 times previously
Does anyone have any information on the music BBC1 used for its promos and trails? Was it a library piece or a specially commissioned.
Christmas 1985 brings back magical memories, and I think time has been a lot kinder to the Robins ident than perhaps anyone thought at the time.
Many thanks.
The Monday promo used Mike Oldfield's "In Dulci Jubilo"
Real wholesome TV, that was fun, spontaneous and natural. Now it's all politically correct, woke, sanitised and unnatural. Video killed the radio star, woke crap killed the TV.
@electricdreams1616 absolutely spot on with your comment
I think we can agree TV has always been crap. You just didn't have choice of streaming anything better back then.
OMG 😲...Jimmy Savile 😱
Ahhh it was still raining in 1985, lol
The following february was very cold
Yikes 10 years before I was born
I was 14😮
That's kinda sad to see the robins being destroyed. Why didn't people like them?
Was interesting at the time to see the size of the turn table which was dusted off every Christmas then. I don't remember any big deal about the ident - the only problem seemed to be the vibrations shifting the scarfs all the time.
Let's not forget the ident without the colored backgrounds. Ugh.
I'm surprised they were received badly. I like them - but this is my first time viewing.
2:52 Debbie Greenwood, your welcome :)
Hello David. Do you have the full length recordings at all?
Most of Christmas Day I think, not a lot of Christmas Eve a quite a lot of Boxing Day (well that’s on the listing anyway)
Much happier times TV isn't worth watching now
Reminds me of getting a lump of coal and a orange on Xmas morning 🤗
I was 17