Christmas 1981 on BBCtv part 2
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- Further intros and trails from one of the longer holiday periods. The Look North Fancy Dress item at the end (I don't think the idea - or the clip - was ever repeated) featured Ken Cooper, John Thirlwell, Judith Stamper, Brian Baines and Mike Smartt.
Christmas telly in those days was a special event. Something to really look forward to, I really miss those days.
Remember getting the bumper edition 2 week Christmas Radio Times.
I remember buying the Radio Times and TV Times and excitedly marking all the stuff to watch. It felt like every day was Saturday.
Indeed so too!!
Christmas telly in those times was brilliant, great programs, some really great shows,... and wonderful entertainment for all the family,.......today's tv is boring and dull by comparison,...Christmas Telly was always a special time, a real look forward highlight of the whole year......miss those great times
It was if you were actually born then... 10 year olds of today will probably be saying the same about 2022 in 40 years time.
There is definitely the nostalgia factor, but what made Christmas TV so great was that media was limited, a bit boring sometimes and most people didn't even have video recorders. So having the schedules packed with special shows and films for 2 weeks was amazing.
@@what-uc Yet, without the internet technology, you wouldn't have been able to write what you've just written.
I'm glad things are different now though, because if everything stayed the same, we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.
Ceefax with music great really too.
Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that Gone with the wind had its first uk TV showing in ‘81
Lovely stuff! Takes me right back to being 8 years old! Loved the Ceefax Christmas tree at the beginning! I remember our first telly which had Ceefax and Teletext.. I thought we were dead posh! 😅
Can remember getting tv times radio times me and my sister looking through it marking out good stuff 4 channels
Same here but only three channels:) in fact BBC2 hardly counted then anyway
Three channels surely?
Sorry my error Cham 4 not until nov 82
Which we could turn the clock back, when we were all hear.
Give me Larry or Bruce's Generation Game over ruddy X factor any day.
That kids weather picture was good, had worse hung on my wall 😀
How right you are stephen
The x factor is a load of crud!
X factor isn’t even relevant anymore and it sucked even when it was🤦♂️
Thankyou David for this trip down memory lane
Great memories and true likable talented celebrities and music, not like the last 10-15 years. It is painful now to watch...big time!!!
Thanks David for another good watching post of yours
Sheer nostalgia!
Christmas with Charlie Brown and Snoopy….bliss!
Great to see the old Look North crew & set, with an EMI 2001 camera thrown in for good measure!
It’s Christmas every day on tele now. You can watch what you want when you want. Such a special time of the year back then
40 years today that Spain’s parliament got invaded and BBC more bothered about what date the boozers will open
Those were the years when the BBC didnt feel it had to be our moral compass
Yarwoods lat show for the BBC. By 81 his star was waning but made a mistake by leaving the BBC
Just after 14 minutes to one o’clock.......very Alan Partridge....
It’s always been annoying when they put up a clock and THEN tell you the time. The BBC news channel keep giving name checks as if it matters whether you could care less who’s on the screen.
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It's like a completely different world.....
I was eleven and in my first year at senior school. Better quality with just three TV channels - now we have so many and such rubbish!
The funniest thing about this video is the recycling of the same Christmas trees.. 10:28 note the Dolly trolley under the trees.. then also note it’s the same one in both shows. The tree decorations are identical lol.. 😂 of course it makes sense why though! Just first time I’ve noticed it.. 🤣 not like now, each show seems to have their own trees in the background. Guess they cared more about wasting money back then!
I was 13 when these aired, damn were did those 42 years go 😆 but it has to be said they ALL created original content especially for Christmas, not like now where it’s mostly repeats!
You only have to look at the number of R’s next to the listings!
Its great having unlimted tv and on demand stuff ,but there was something special about christmas tv and you dernt miss the big movie you might have to wait for it to be again in a couple of years
2:27 - a very short weather forecast! "Very chilly".
When TV was worth watching never watch the tripes they show on tv now
The only programme I watch now is the Chase.
Funny seeing future Christmas Day's giant of the festive season Only Fools and Horses first Christmas special on the Holiday Monday
That look north thing was just plain weird, i was sitting there thinking WTF.
Me too. I thought it was a clip off a horror film actually🥵especially the bear just sitting there. 1981 was my favourite Christmas ever, I was 5 and ran downstairs to see a mound of presents like nothing before or since. All my 4 Grandparents visited and we watched cine films on the projector- I will never forget it. My mum is 80 now and my dad is 79, almost the same age as they were. Time passes so fast, saviour the moment. X
End of term disco! Lol ahh memories!
Now known as the expensive American rip off that is a prom!
Funny to see del and Rodney hidden away at 10pm!
A modern day blankety blank would be full of 'star's I've never heard of, nobodies from reality telly.
Little did we know what was to come.
The national anthem at closedown, the past is a foreign country.
A bit nightmarish from 9.26. reminds me of the shining. Great video though
That's going back Grange Hill. Just like the school I went to!
Doonican with Dickie Henderson.... Dickie Henderson..!
What was Bungle doing in the Look North studio?
I don't remember them doing anything like this before (or since), probably a 'good idea at the time'
that wasnt THE bungle - wrong shape
I'm not sure what that is called at the beginning, but great idents from both BBC1 and BBC2!
Teletext in vision - a cheap fill of time
@@bdavebaldwin thanks, good buddy. The Globle Ornaments is good. The Neon Candles and Holly is my favorite bbc2 christmas ident
@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan I like the 1976 snowflake one
@@bdavebaldwin altho footage was only shown at low quality. Still good. Even had it's own holiday clock ident similar to 1983's snowflake. What would be your least favorite xmas ident? Mine is DEFINITELY 1978.
@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan The Blue Peter one (86.?) The 1976 one I sat with a cine camera to record the globe they used every year … and they changed it. Luckily I kept going as that is the only recording of the snowflake
9:48-9:55 Judith Stamper of Look North
Most beautiful woman of all time
She was great on look north was Judith Stamper and Harry Gration!
I'll take Grandad's paint-stripper any day over K9 and Company! Lord love them all
It makes me laugh when people say "the good old days"... But, back in 1981 itself, people were probably saying the same thing about 1941.
People of 2022 will probably be pining for 2022 in 2062, etc...
Times have to change, and we should be glad they do, otherwise we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.
In those days they could repeat a programme up to 2 years after first transmission. Then there was about 30 hours per channel for out of time (I.e. more than 2 years old). But any archive reshowings had to be renegotiated- - based on the current rates. So a lot of the 80s stuff wasn't expected to be seen again. Hence the mass junking of material over its repeat date.
@@bdavebaldwin I always found it quite strange that TV companies would wipe or throw away material... Then, decades later, the same organisations launch campaigns for that material to be returned.
@@hicksteriatv1239 even more strange. They had Poldark in the vaults, stopped anyone watching it... then made it again. On the other side of the coin, folk go running around trying to find editions of Points of View that wouldn't make a lot of sense to reshow even if they found someone to watch them.
Silly question. Why did you stay up in 1981 to record this? Genuinely interested
Burntwood76 I was working at a Bingo Hall seven days a week at the time so I think I recorded stuff on the off chance I’d be able to watch it at a later date (wrong)
David Baldwin you probably had NO idea this would be so great for nostalgia in 2019? I’ve still got “The Shining “ on VHS when I recorded it off ITV in 1992. But I don’t have a VCR or a connection to a modern TV set, to watch it.
Where is part 1? I'm sure it used to be about with the Doctor Who team saying Happy Christmas from the Earthshock set.
Thanks for pointing it out TOTP intro upset someone - so I rewrote history
@@bdavebaldwin Oh yes I see it now, thanks very much.
@@bdavebaldwin PS. Is all of this from your own personal video collection? Thanks very much for putting them up for us. It's good to see how the history TV has changed over the years. I've always been very interested in it.
@@cuedotfilms4427 used to be manager of a bingo hall so I recorded loads on the off-chance I’d watch it later. That never really happened :)
@@cuedotfilms4427 I had to redo 1980 as well - The Beatles clips have caused all sorts of headaches
Can you post the full bbc1 christmas eve 1981 closedown?
Adrian Bargiel I've checked back and all I have is as shown. I set the recorder to capture both close-downs only to get home to find programmes were running late (as was usual then). So I stayed up long enough to record the full idents then went to bed.
Don't you have any old crimbo telly from ITV??
Where I’ve found some I’ve put it in the relevant years. I only captured a lot of BBC stuff because of the change of ident each year. Itv never really went for that YTV altered their logo about 3 times in 10 years for Christmas. Trailers were a bit thin because all the regions (apart from Christmas Day) either showed programming at different times or different editions of a programme. We could pick up both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees and some days it was like having another channel.
@@bdavebaldwin
Aaah...
Point taken. But in the London region, we sometimes saw different Xmas idents over the years, depending on what day the 25th fell on; If it was a week day, Thames idents, if it was on the weekend, LWT idents for xmas...
JEAN AND JOHN
What is ceefax?
Ceefax was ITV's version of BBC's Teletext. Both were turned off around 2012 with the ending of analog tv in the UK.
It was a good way for doctors to send patients their cervical cancer test results by fax.
Wow, I’m old.
@@CooMalou sorry, I was born in 2002 haha
@@cameronbeattie3087
It was also a kind of precursor to the internet: you could read the news, check you stock prices, and even buy stuff on it.
Will dig the tape out and see what's there
Well; you wouldn't get "Songs of Praise" now or folks singing "White Christmas". It would be bound to upset some snowflake or terrorist.
Songs of Praise is still on a Sunday, not that I'm into that sorta thing
Actually you would and do. We snowflakes love Christmas.