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.
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!!
@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.
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.
@@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. 😀
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!
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
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.
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!)
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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
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, 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.
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🎄🎅🤶❄☃️⛄
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
***** 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.
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.
In the description, it says that the snowflake (1976), the pudding (1977), and double-faced Santa (1978) idents were not shown at closedown. They were replaced by stills. What did they show during the closedown in Christmas 1976, 1977, and 1978?
@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan Which is ironic, considering BBC1 played the 1986 Christmas ident at closedown, despite that ident being as jolly as the 1992 ident. And yes, the photo of Queen Elizabeth II was used during the 1992 Christmas closedown.
@@Tanzim-Kazi I also agree with your claim that 1978 was pure nightmare fuel. At least 1979 with the Carolers and Musicians was more calm. The reason why the Robins weren't shown at closedown was not only because of Noel, but the ident was ALSO too Jolly to Uphold the National Anthem. And let's be honest here, the ident looks terrible without the background. Although the ident used for 1986 is by far, my favorite Xmas Ident, I STILL do not know the Names of the Tree, Star and Marching Holly Squadron.
Great TV.Shame about Saville.In those few seconds,I cringed when he was sitting right next to those kids.The ones who were sitting right near him,years later discovering he was a serial paedo.Bet it made them shudder when it all came out in 2012.Pity they could not have edited that bit out.
Why does the BBC show The Fog on Christmas eve? - they did it a couple of years ago too and it puzzled me then. Not that I'm complaining, it's a great film, it just doesn't seem particularly festive.
As much as all the commentators have suggested how wonderful the 80s first of all we had Margaret Thatcher no comment secondly we had the AIDS pandemic I'm one of them one of the voiceovers one of the programs refer to people with special needs as handicapped children unfortunately due to illness I am now wheelchair user and I am definitely not
It seems to happen with each decade. Those that lived through the seemingly never ending industrial action of the 1970s would probably say that was the worst decade. A lot of people in the early 80s said we needed someone like Thatcher - then changed their mind after their memories faded.
The Christmas carol thing featured a young Gary Barlow. Can remember being rather puke about it even 31 years later 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
One of those very rare times the turntable has been seen. It was always a problem with the Christmas ident that since the camera was sometimes used for other things then put back the idents could never been linked together as the zoom was always different
I expect this year we will get selling house barging hunt Road trip films from the 1930s more repeats of Morecambe and Wise 1986 show for the umpteenth time and of course Bing in White Christmas for the 65th time running. I think the only new show on BBC for 2019 is Gavin and Stacy after that forget it the rest is all junk. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 1932 movies.
Ahh yes sitting there with my Radio Times and blank VHS tapes. What a wonderful time that was.
Happy days.
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.
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!!
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.
🥹🥹🥹
Everything seemed so much more "Christmassier" than they do today. Please take me back!
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!
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.
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
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. 😀
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 !
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
The 80s will never go and every few years it comes back. EVERYBODY LOVES THE 80s!
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....
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
Never thought I'd hear The Fog be called "harrowing drama" but here we are.
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
OMG! Amazing! So many memories. Thank God you didn't bin your old VHS tapes. xxx
Apart from Saville popping up that was a lovely trip down memory lane,I remember Christmas 1985 very well.
Some really good telly.
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.
Watching Cristmas Eve 2018. I was 12 in 1985
Donna K Watching June 26th 2020! I was 18!
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
Such a wonderful era
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 ❤
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.
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.
Thank you David Baldwin for these uploads. Great nostalgia :))
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.
I was 10 this was the year my grandparents came to stay for Christmas my uncle as well was a great time
Wow brings tears to my eyes , fabulous memories
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!
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!!
Just about to turn 3 in 1986 love it
How did we survive with out diversity and multiculturalism....it was hell.
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!!
My first Christmas as a married man
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!!
Superb!!!!! Great memories!!!!!
Out of interest, were all of these clips recorded on Betamax?
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
Haha! My Fair Lady was also in this Christmas. This TH-cam video came to mind as soon as I saw it
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!
Rex Harrison was the inspiration for Stewie Griffins voice in Family Guy
wow !....what a time of night to show The Good Life....
People were so shit faced at that time they probably enjoyed it!
I remember that first EastEnders Christmas episode. Very enjoyable in a traditional old fashioned way compared to the fireworks of Den & Angie in 1986 🤯
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.
odd to find an american show in the mix... I remember it well.
Frank Bough looks like he might have started Xmas festivities a few days previously...
Seems like only yesterday, were we ever so young? :o)
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.
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 - the hours it took to make these things... ahg!
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!!
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.
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
*and a Happy Hanukkha to all*
I was three weeks old
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..........."
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
Thanks for sharing this, lovely memories
Morecambe and wise repeats every year.
the charismas when i got my Amstrad cpc464 lol what a charismas what a year
Haha! I had my ZX Spectrum
I think we can agree TV has always been crap. You just didn't have choice of streaming anything better back then.
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 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.
I miss seeing red squirrels
Days when you got your radio or tv times and circled the programmes u wanted to wztchnovet Christmas
Now uve done it , jim has fixed it for you and you and youuuou
Whatever Jim Fixed, Noel would Break
Christmas Classic EastEnders 🇬🇧🎅🇬🇧🎅🇬🇧🎅
Classic ,and Eastenders in the same sentence,comedy gold!
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.
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!!
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"
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.
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)
Yikes 10 years before I was born
How the BBC lost its way today?
In the description, it says that the snowflake (1976), the pudding (1977), and double-faced Santa (1978) idents were not shown at closedown. They were replaced by stills.
What did they show during the closedown in Christmas 1976, 1977, and 1978?
Tanzim K pictures of the Queen. In 1977 (jubilee year) tv centre with the jubilee crest on the roof was shown as a still photo
@@bdavebaldwin Well, it's a good thing the 1978 Christmas ident wasn't used at closedown because that ident is a nightmare fuel.
The last time I think the picture was used was in 1992 because the Toys ident was considered too Jolly to uphold the National Anthem.
@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan Which is ironic, considering BBC1 played the 1986 Christmas ident at closedown, despite that ident being as jolly as the 1992 ident. And yes, the photo of Queen Elizabeth II was used during the 1992 Christmas closedown.
@@Tanzim-Kazi I also agree with your claim that 1978 was pure nightmare fuel. At least 1979 with the Carolers and Musicians was more calm. The reason why the Robins weren't shown at closedown was not only because of Noel, but the ident was ALSO too Jolly to Uphold the National Anthem. And let's be honest here, the ident looks terrible without the background. Although the ident used for 1986 is by far, my favorite Xmas Ident, I STILL do not know the Names of the Tree, Star and Marching Holly Squadron.
Breakfast Time Xmas titles at 9:00
Great TV.Shame about Saville.In those few seconds,I cringed when he was sitting right next to those kids.The ones who were sitting right near him,years later discovering he was a serial paedo.Bet it made them shudder when it all came out in 2012.Pity they could not have edited that bit out.
OMG 😲...Jimmy Savile 😱
Rex Harrison Hate the man he left carole landis to Died in 1948
Savile even managed to pollute Christmas.
Why does the BBC show The Fog on Christmas eve? - they did it a couple of years ago too and it puzzled me then. Not that I'm complaining, it's a great film, it just doesn't seem particularly festive.
Lots of red blood Santa likes red!
I think there's a bit of a tradition of ghost stories at Christmas on the BBC.
It wasn't Christmas Eve. It was Monday 23 December. It premiered a few years earlier (i.e. 1983) on 21 December.
Ahhh it was still raining in 1985, lol
The following february was very cold
As much as all the commentators have suggested how wonderful the 80s first of all we had Margaret Thatcher no comment secondly we had the AIDS pandemic I'm one of them one of the voiceovers one of the programs refer to people with special needs as handicapped children unfortunately due to illness I am now wheelchair user and I am definitely not
It seems to happen with each decade. Those that lived through the seemingly never ending industrial action of the 1970s would probably say that was the worst decade. A lot of people in the early 80s said we needed someone like Thatcher - then changed their mind after their memories faded.
Yuck seeing Jim'll fix it, leaning back amongst all those little girls, turned my stomach.
there was something magical even though it was all fucking shite
Unfortunately, that monster, Jimmy Saville, among others, destroyed nostalgia.
no wonder why we used to do so much Charlie in the 80's, that tv line up was so depressing.
The Christmas carol thing featured a young Gary Barlow. Can remember being rather puke about it even 31 years later 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
My 17th Christmas, what a load of shite.....
You must be the same age as I am, as I was 17 at Christmas 1985, then 18 in January 1986, and I do remember this time very well. Thank you!!
I don't remember The Littlest Hobo being on BBC
The littlest hobo was always on BBC during The school Holidays usually after why dont you!!
We had to switch of the tv cause that show was terrible.
@@SwordInTheStorm It did air on ITV in the early 90s.
11:49 sinister and unfortunate
12:52
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KFR, Anyone?
The Tree used the next year for christmas: Oh, Me Me Me? Can my star have some too!
Even the intro's were great. ... give ragtime a miss but would give tess one though
Say what you like about Polanski but he made some great films,this was my favourite version of Tess.
Was thinking that myself you couldnt say handicapped nowvdays
Noel shoots the dreadful BBC1 ident at 12:34
One of those very rare times the turntable has been seen. It was always a problem with the Christmas ident that since the camera was sometimes used for other things then put back the idents could never been linked together as the zoom was always different
This was not the only time this happened. 1983 had the same thing
I expect this year we will get selling house barging hunt Road trip films from the 1930s more repeats of Morecambe and Wise 1986 show for the umpteenth time and of course Bing in White Christmas for the 65th time running. I think the only new show on BBC for 2019 is Gavin and Stacy after that forget it the rest is all junk. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 1932 movies.
Well said Andy,thought I was alone in despising this little(!) turd!
Is that Nick Jackson doing the V/O at 4:13?