I'm certain that if there was a TV channel that played the daily TV schedules from the 70's and early eighties that millions would watch . Its just so varied and relaxing
Agreed. Imagine if they preserved the days broadcast exactly as it went out - ads, news broadcasts and all - and played it in sync with the current day (so for instance, today would play 16th January 1983 for example) Bliss.
i remember 2001 a space odyssey, capricorn one and close encounters 3rd kind having their tv premieres over this xmas period...first xmas we had a vhs video recorder!... our CE3K copy still plays well to this day!
It’s not just that, it’s the warm fuzzy idents and ads the Beeb used to show. The whole broadcasting style is warmly nostalgic and the dated feel takes us back to far simpler times in this world.
Have them all on DVD - far more convenient and never in fear of not being able to watch them if they weren’t renewed on Gold. So many classics from the Beeb back in the day.
The ident they used this year was VERY Colorful. It looks like a solar system of colored globe ornaments hanging right before our eyes. Altho the logo at the bottom seems like the logo of an Italian Restaurant
I was eleven and a half, in my first year at senior school. Life was less complicated back then - kids like myself could just enjoy being young without pressures from social media. No cyber bullying or mobile phones to pester us.
I was 10 years old. Christmas to me was just toys, family opening presents under the tree and the xmas telly. I had no other worries. I miss those days too.
If only that were true; There was plenty of REAL BULLYING around back in 1980. I know. I experienced some of it. It is possible to switch off your phone.
That's really looking through the world through rose tinted spectacles. I lived through those days myself and The early 80s in particular were pretty grim - horrible times in many ways. I always remember kids in my school going round singing racist songs their parents had taught them. God forbid that you were in any way 'different' because the level of face to face bullying you'd get was off the charts. Kids were much more physically aggressive then too. Britain wasn't the country with the highest levels of violent crime in Europe in the 80s for no reason. All eras have their good and bad points, but it's true what they say ' "The older we get, the better the past becomes in our minds".
@@darrenc2721 You were a kid, and looking at the world through the eyes of a child. Kids in any era don't have worries. The odler we get, the better we imagine the past was. If we actually think about it, we can remember our grandparents and parents moaning back then about how bad things were then compared to their day. I don't know sometimes whether it's that people actually want to be childlike at times, or whether they are simply terrified of ageing so retreat into a semi imagined past.
I’m going to save this for ‘later’ because I always work out how old I was that year and some I can remember what gifts I got and then we do a memory deep dive and cry🥹🥹 Christmas was about the only time everyone was happy and nice to each other😭
Not only that, but no kids broadcasting like we used to have. Used to love getting up on Christmas morning (usually a good hour before the parents), seeing all the presents under the tree and putting BBC One on to watch the cartoons. Switch it on now and you have cooking shows on in the morning instead. No Christmas Day Top of the Pops either.
Funny that the Terry and June clip mentioned Lassie as "The Magic of Lassie" premiered on BBC1 on Boxing Day afternoon that year! Thanks for uploading these, they are great.
I'm sure the globe at 3.09 is the same one used in the Doctor Who story Earthshock. I have a feeling it also appeared on ToTP for Duran Duran's "This is Planet Earth".
@@bobrew461 there’s definitely a quota game going on now though. There has to be representatives from people of colour and things culturally appropriate to them now, otherwise you’ll get the PC brigade up in arms. Don’t pretend it isn’t true. The shift in programming on the BBC is clear to see…
That's a god-awful line-up! Hi-De-Hi, Two Ronnies and all that sitcom crappo! The only saving grace was Kenny, but his Thames / ITV show were tons better than the Beeb's. ITV was the place to be at Christmas! :-0
12.00 Film : The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) starring Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire 1.45pm A Wedding in the Family an unusual view of this year's royal wedding 3.00pm The Queen 3.15pm Film : Dr No (1962) starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman 5.15pm This Is Your Life presented by Eamonn Andrews 5.45pm News from ITN 5.50pm Film : The Muppet Movie (1979) with Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, James Coburn and Telly Savalas 7.40pm Game for a Laugh with Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy and Jeremy Beadle
@@bdavebaldwin You proved my point! I just checked my copy of the TV Times from December 19th 1981 to January 1st 1982. With Harry Secombe on the cover dressed as Santa, with a glass of something strong in his hand. There were better shows on ITV, not just "Christmas" editions of the same tired old sitcoms - To the Manor Boring, etc. There was only a "Wurzel At Christmas" special on ITV at 9am, with Babs Windsor (RIP). PLUS...ITV showed adverts!
@@bobrew461 I’ll be honest I have so many good quality recordings of those Christmas periods because I was working and expected to watch things later …. Never happened. Doesn’t matter which channel it’s all strange to me.
Far better than the trash that’s served up on BBC and ITV now. Strictly Come Dancing? I’m a Celebrity? The Masked Singer? Ant and Dec? Not to mention it’s the same schedule from the last 20 years with barely any variation. At least back in the 80s the BBC knew the value of a good British sitcom and what the value of a good laugh was. Now we’re too caught up on reality TV shows. Not all of us likes to watch singing and dancing every Saturday night.
If you have no interest in celebs (if you can call them that) dancing and singing, you’re fresh out of luck. Those shows seem to be cheap to produce and unfortunately get the viewing figures, so the Beeb and ITV wont provide anything else. But you’re right - the variety of comedy and entertainment back then was staggeringly good; it almost seemed that the BBC knew that comedy was a ratings winner and kept on putting out great sitcom after great sitcom. Nothing like that nowadays.
@@andyc6542 if you watch the Max Bygraves New Years Eve programme it still stands well now. The downside would be mainstream tv probably could neither afford to mount something like this - nor repeat older ones due to royalties on main tv channels.
I'm certain that if there was a TV channel that played the daily TV schedules from the 70's and early eighties that millions would watch . Its just so varied and relaxing
why up till early eighties...why not rest of the eighties?
I totally agree.
@@rehan2118 I think it changed late eighties and became more commercial.
@@zamiadams4343 that's two of us then🤣
Agreed.
Imagine if they preserved the days broadcast exactly as it went out - ads, news broadcasts and all - and played it in sync with the current day (so for instance, today would play 16th January 1983 for example)
Bliss.
Brilliant. Nostalgic and when xmas was really magical
Sure was .i bought my 1st house that year ,1st mortgage and my daughter was born feb. next year .son year after . Kenney Everet -brilliant !
80's TV nostalgia, love it.
i remember 2001 a space odyssey, capricorn one and close encounters 3rd kind having their tv premieres over this xmas period...first xmas we had a vhs video recorder!... our CE3K copy still plays well to this day!
I wish I had a time machine, I would go back like a shot.
Wish I Could go back in time, Christmas TV Back then was Quality
It’s not just that, it’s the warm fuzzy idents and ads the Beeb used to show. The whole broadcasting style is warmly nostalgic and the dated feel takes us back to far simpler times in this world.
And now nearly 40 years ago, all those comedy shows can be seen on UK Gold over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Have them all on DVD - far more convenient and never in fear of not being able to watch them if they weren’t renewed on Gold.
So many classics from the Beeb back in the day.
Oh wow it's good to see this, as Xmas 81 for me was one of the best!! :)
BBC1 1981 Christmas music is by The Nuptown Keys if anyone is interested! Now on iTunes!
The ident they used this year was VERY Colorful. It looks like a solar system of colored globe ornaments hanging right before our eyes. Altho the logo at the bottom seems like the logo of an Italian Restaurant
wanna go back to those days...
I was eleven and a half, in my first year at senior school. Life was less complicated back then - kids like myself could just enjoy being young without pressures from social media. No cyber bullying or mobile phones to pester us.
I was a year behind you Angela, last year of junior school. And I absolutely agree with you. Simpler and more innocent times...
I was 10 years old. Christmas to me was just toys, family opening presents under the tree and the xmas telly. I had no other worries. I miss those days too.
If only that were true;
There was plenty of REAL BULLYING around back in 1980.
I know. I experienced some of it.
It is possible to switch off your phone.
That's really looking through the world through rose tinted spectacles. I lived through those days myself and The early 80s in particular were pretty grim - horrible times in many ways. I always remember kids in my school going round singing racist songs their parents had taught them. God forbid that you were in any way 'different' because the level of face to face bullying you'd get was off the charts. Kids were much more physically aggressive then too. Britain wasn't the country with the highest levels of violent crime in Europe in the 80s for no reason. All eras have their good and bad points, but it's true what they say ' "The older we get, the better the past becomes in our minds".
@@darrenc2721 You were a kid, and looking at the world through the eyes of a child. Kids in any era don't have worries. The odler we get, the better we imagine the past was. If we actually think about it, we can remember our grandparents and parents moaning back then about how bad things were then compared to their day. I don't know sometimes whether it's that people actually want to be childlike at times, or whether they are simply terrified of ageing so retreat into a semi imagined past.
Thankyou when Christmas t.v. was good
I’m going to save this for ‘later’ because I always work out how old I was that year and some I can remember what gifts I got and then we do a memory deep dive and cry🥹🥹 Christmas was about the only time everyone was happy and nice to each other😭
Great memories. I remember watching the Poseidon Adventure that year on Christmas Eve I think.
you did wow
So did I. I remember going to bed that night absolutely gutted that Gene Hackman did not survive to the end (SPOILERS!).
@spig021 it was. I watched it & then, at 10 pm, watched & listened to Toyah in concert on BBC TWO & in stereo on Radio 1
Then Festive television was home grown family entertainment, now its blockbuster films and Soaps full of death and disaster. How times change.
Not only that, but no kids broadcasting like we used to have. Used to love getting up on Christmas morning (usually a good hour before the parents), seeing all the presents under the tree and putting BBC One on to watch the cartoons. Switch it on now and you have cooking shows on in the morning instead.
No Christmas Day Top of the Pops either.
PS: 10:30 "The Belstone Fox" looks like a live-action Fox and the Hound, which would have been in cinemas at around that time.
I Lol'ed at 0:15 "Are you suggesting that I am on the flddle?? " , Mr Peacock: "No but you could be tuning up" - Classic
Hahahaha yeah
Happy holidays from all of us on Mash! 😊
"Happy Holidays"??? I remember when we use to say *Happy Christmas!*
Funny that the Terry and June clip mentioned Lassie as "The Magic of Lassie" premiered on BBC1 on Boxing Day afternoon that year!
Thanks for uploading these, they are great.
He Said "Lassie Come Home". A much Older Film with a Young Elizabeth Taylor.
I wondered how Jim fixed it for so long
Love the Christmas idents
The simple ones were always the better ones.
Send me back to that time
I'm sure the globe at 3.09 is the same one used in the Doctor Who story Earthshock. I have a feeling it also appeared on ToTP for Duran Duran's "This is Planet Earth".
The BBC with their big signing from ITV and Thames Kenny Everett
4 weeks till Christmas!
1 week 'til Christmas!
great
2:02. "P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the RADIO TIMES"
1:27 Doctor Who's Christmas message
I was anticipating the nonce
Aug 2022
better times
People keep commenting “rose tinted specs” now we’re told the best 2020 can offer is 5.4 million viewers for Call the Midwife
Who the hell was the woman always shrieking on the canned laughter tracks?
lol 11:44 ....MOVE! .... :-)
should it. still be allowed to show clips of that horrible man
Who? Jinxed Sadic? Rotten Horrendous? Scary Horrific? Or Someone Else?
5:34 rape joke...and at Christmas too!!
Wow, when British programs actually had British people in them. Stop The Great Replacement. #Generation Identity.
They still do. Don't be ignorant.
@@bobrew461 there’s definitely a quota game going on now though. There has to be representatives from people of colour and things culturally appropriate to them now, otherwise you’ll get the PC brigade up in arms. Don’t pretend it isn’t true. The shift in programming on the BBC is clear to see…
What the fuck was going on in Poland??????
That was the start of their freedom fight against communism
Language. Your comment makes you look like an uneducated oik dragged up on a council estate.
@@andyc6542 I take it the C stands for Cunt😘?
its happy Christmas & it always will be not happy holidays.. none of that pc crap.
Dead.... dead..... prison..... dead..... XD
Was enjoying this immensely, until Saville appeared!! 🤢🤮
A lot of dead people!
That's a god-awful line-up!
Hi-De-Hi, Two Ronnies and all that sitcom crappo!
The only saving grace was Kenny, but his Thames / ITV show were tons better than the Beeb's.
ITV was the place to be at Christmas!
:-0
12.00 Film : The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
starring Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire
1.45pm A Wedding in the Family
an unusual view of this year's royal wedding
3.00pm The Queen
3.15pm Film : Dr No (1962)
starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman
5.15pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews
5.45pm News from ITN
5.50pm Film : The Muppet Movie (1979)
with Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, James Coburn and Telly Savalas
7.40pm Game for a Laugh
with Henry Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy and Jeremy Beadle
@@bdavebaldwin
You proved my point!
I just checked my copy of the TV Times from December 19th 1981 to January 1st 1982. With Harry Secombe on the cover dressed as Santa, with a glass of something strong in his hand. There were better shows on ITV, not just "Christmas" editions of the same tired old sitcoms - To the Manor Boring, etc. There was only a "Wurzel At Christmas" special on ITV at 9am, with Babs Windsor (RIP).
PLUS...ITV showed adverts!
@@bobrew461 I’ll be honest I have so many good quality recordings of those Christmas periods because I was working and expected to watch things later …. Never happened. Doesn’t matter which channel it’s all strange to me.
@@bdavebaldwin
You had a VCR back then??
We still had our only black & white telly!
You were obviously well heeled.
:-0
@@bobrew461 used to work in a pub lit with gas lights. No tv, no jukebox, no fruit machines 😀😀😀
Horrible. Thank god we're in the post TV age. Whew.
Agreed.
Complete shite!
@@bobrew461 and yet you're here seeking out or watching all these clips and commenting on them repeatedly.
I'm watching the TV in 2022. What are you on about?
Far better than the trash that’s served up on BBC and ITV now.
Strictly Come Dancing? I’m a Celebrity? The Masked Singer? Ant and Dec? Not to mention it’s the same schedule from the last 20 years with barely any variation.
At least back in the 80s the BBC knew the value of a good British sitcom and what the value of a good laugh was. Now we’re too caught up on reality TV shows. Not all of us likes to watch singing and dancing every Saturday night.
Comedy was massive on BBC along with quite a bit of sport, so what do we pay our licences for these days? 🤔 As the BBC has neither 😳
TV centre was an entertainment factory. Now BBC is just a buyer and reseller.
If you have no interest in celebs (if you can call them that) dancing and singing, you’re fresh out of luck.
Those shows seem to be cheap to produce and unfortunately get the viewing figures, so the Beeb and ITV wont provide anything else.
But you’re right - the variety of comedy and entertainment back then was staggeringly good; it almost seemed that the BBC knew that comedy was a ratings winner and kept on putting out great sitcom after great sitcom. Nothing like that nowadays.
@@andyc6542 if you watch the Max Bygraves New Years Eve programme it still stands well now. The downside would be mainstream tv probably could neither afford to mount something like this - nor repeat older ones due to royalties on main tv channels.