Central - ITN Newsflash & World of Sport - 1985
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- 29th June 1985 - A heck of a lot packed into this clip - some promos for Saturday night on Central, adverts including a rather unsettling Public Information Film about water safety, some IVC with Gary Terzza, a newsflash from ITN with Trevor McDonald and finally Dickie Davies with World of Sport
This is fantastic. I could watch this all day. I wish I could time travel back to 1985! I was 11 and loving life with my parents.
I'd been trying to get a job for a year. The recession hit my hometown very badly. Yet somehow I still have nostalgia for that time. Nothing beats the sound of racing on TV on a Saturday afternoon.
What the hell happened?
You are a bit younger than me, but I totally agree with you. What a different world it was. I would say that 75-90% of living was so much better. How sad is that to say for kids today….
I loved being with my parents back then. Life felt so safe and reliable. Not like now. Take care everyone.
The 80’s, the best time
I could happily sit and watch the next 6 hours of this. Even though it was nearly 32 years ago.
Old adverts are terrific. Could watch this for hours on end. Brilliant era.
I was 17 in 1985 and grew up in the Central TV region. What great memories. Thanks for uploading this.
What? No reality TV? No X-Factor? No endless copies of Big Brother? No Kardashians???
Get me a time machine! :)
The 80s were full of nasty quiz shows
@@jhibberd6290 like now you mean
@@steunited1969 The 80s were full of American formats. Not one was an original British format. At least now, we are producing our own format and other countries are taking our formats. For some reason we couldn't do that before
@@jhibberd6290 Bullseye wasn't American
@@steunited1969 I just thought about Bullseye about 3 seconds after my post. Bullseye was British AF. I liked Bullseye.
Even people who weren't around in the 80s miss the 80s i am so glad i grew up during them
Love the 80s ads... Especially the grim public information films. Happier times.
I know how to swim, but don't know how to lifesave.
This advert from nearly 40 years ago may prompt me to learn.
It was the playing on the train tracks one for me 🥺🫣
I’ll be back.. ack..ack…ack..
@@rovingenglishman classic 😂
jeez, as a child of the 70s and 80s, whenever there was 'we interrupt this programme to bring you a Newsflash' there was a real sense of dread that i would later, as an adult, quantify as 'what the f@ck's happened!!!!'
Wow awesome memories of how great weekend tv was. Even though being in London Region I always remember World of Sport on at lunchtime and CHIPS on after although I know each region showed them at different times or day but whatever it was. I always remember being at my grandparents house every weekend and World Of Sport with Dickie Davies was cool and after results time for A Team or CHIPS etc. This was real tv unlike now so miss those times
TV uis rubbish these days ,too many channelos n a newsflash doesnt have the same impact as 24/7 news....people are almost willing something to happen with these news channels :/
Well hang around, Trump could be leading us into a nuclear war :(.
@@jellycat2444 Yup. Remember those mushroom clouds, springing up all over the UK, after his deceleration of war? Absolute madness so it was. Like a real life Threads.
I love that Greavsie Ad for Dextrosol! :)
What is supposed to have happened when the javelin is fixed to his head? 🤣
Used to love watching It's A Knockout with my mum and dad.🍻 Should bring it back great family viewing.
You may want to pause and remember who it was that hosted it.
@@TonyEnglandUK that doesn't stop it being redone and rebranded. Man's practically dead now.
@@sinbin001 I thought you meant "bring back the old shows as repeats", sorry
@@TonyEnglandUK I defo get where you coming from there tho. 👍
The scariest thing about this is that the released hostages were taken somewhere safe - like Damascus!
These days they'd be released from a scary place like Damascus and sent to Beiruit!
And look at the miserable sods from 4:34 they could at least cheer up a bit, they've just been released. Some people are never satisfied.
@@TonyEnglandUK They hadn't been released at that stage, from what the commentary said. Not sure who was treating them to the "farewell feast"
@@RockyRoader I'm beyond bewildered why you took my comment seriously
Used to love the ITV live Athletics. Also the Frosties advert brings back memories.
You've just finished watching CHiPs, and now you know Battle Beyond The Stars is coming up this afternoon. What a time to be alive :)
CHiPs was seriously crappy.
R.I.P The Legendary presenter of World of Sport 🙏❤️
I was young and remember when this was filmed and of course have fond memories, like the youth of today they'll look back at these times now in years to come and romanticise.... RIP Dickie...
That PIF at 2:53 onwards is spectacularly grim. Blimey!
It's nothing compared to the one that featured The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water voiced by Donald Pleasance. The stuff of nightmares. I loved it when I was little. Yeah, I was _that_ kid.
Yep, I grew up in the 70s/80s and along with dire warnings about safety from our parents and PIFs, we had it covered! I think there's a place for PIFs on TV and social media today.
The one about not playing on train tracks is even worse
Absolutely. One I feel is much needed is about use of smartphones - watch the street not your phone.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Absolutely, that faceless monk scared the bejesus out me.......
The Frosties ad.. I remember getting that pack including the car!
The good ol days, god I miss them ☹️
On Saturday 29th June 1985 it is the day when my nana passed away that day i remember my cousins watching russ abotts made house when she passed away that darkest Saturday in 1985 i was not born that day and I remember my auntie telling me the story when she died rip nana Joan 1933 until 1985 😢😢😢😢😢😢
I'd forgotten all about Battle Beyond the Stars.....that was an epic movie!! I was 13 in 1985.
I was 25! What a decade to be in your 20s. Was probably down the pub on a Saturday afternoon though
yeah i was 21 ,when weekends were week ends maybe a bit of overtime on a saturday , but more likely in the pub
@@davewright8206 When ALL footy matches were on at 3pm on Saturday afternoons!
I remember watching Chips while eating my Saturday lunch (after No 73 or course). 1:01 Ultra Quiz '85 - the Reality TV of its day. 1:30 I am surprised that they put an advert with Greavesie so close to the spot that he would appear with Ian St John on Saturdays - I can understand though. 2:50 Don't remember that PIF, but I do remember them being shown on Saturday mornings on Central, such as the Snatch of the Day one. 4:00 Very scary to have a Newsflash so soon after a PIF - I thought being a Saturday in 1985, that it was something to do with Bradford City, but thankfully not in this case.
I thought it was Saturday nights when Chips was on.
Was that Jimmy Greaves ad an early clue by ITV to tell us that World Of Sport was ending soon?
I wouldn't have imagined that World of Sport would end years before the US equivalent did.
thankyou so much.God look at us now, it does not bear thinking about.
Steve Ovett, unbeaten on ITV this season, I never realised he was that good.
Zola Budd, I wonder what become of her..
Tony Ross Last time I have heard Zola was living in South Africa again.
The World of Sport theme sounds like a cross between War of the Worlds and Terrahawks - it was done by Jeff Wayne.
Ultra Quiz - gosh, takes me back
Kellogg's Frosties: different name, same Tony.
Great channel lad👍👍
Wow!! Great TV viewing. Love the Sugar Frosties commercial.
Back in 1985 full employment was achieved by giving everyone a typewriter and desk...
I think you'll find the national unemployment rate in 1985 was still pretty high following the recession and mass unemployment of the early 80s
In 1985 the UK unemployment rate was 11.375%, or roughly three times what it is now.
Irony is lost on some people. Good joke btw!
"Battle Beyond the Stars", with "our hero" Richard Thomas??
That's right. John Boy Walton saves the universe.
A cheapo rip-off of Battlestar Galactica, so quality was assured.🤨
@@bobrew461 which was a rip off of seven samurai
Those who hated must had been born after World of Sport was axed
The newsflash about the release of the hostages in Beirut was big news back then. The Chuck Norris film Delta Force is based upon the story of that hijacking.
Roger Corman's'Battle Beyond The Stars' is a good watch.
Great film with great cast and James horner score epic
I prefered the WOS theme tune that was used when the planes flew the titles on banners.
Trevor McDoughnut , itn , Baghdad.
What.was the program at the beginning that was going off
Did the girl in the public information film fall off the suspension bridge at Dinckley on the river Ribble near the de Tabley?
Any cup soccer this weekend Dickie? #RIPDickieDavies
The good old days!
The newsflash was about the TWA airliner hostage release
Amazing.....pretty sure I was at that Athletics fixture in Gateshead
Happy days.
No, World of Sport mate...
I remember Chips
Where the hell was Central? Birmingham I assume?
That advert was a bit traumatising 😂😂😂
That was part of the point.
Haven't seen battle beyond the stars in years 😂
Bring back Saturday afternoon wrestling!
Music by Jeff Wayne at all?!
Yes.
Bruce Penhall - World of Sport AND CHiPS!
Rip dickie Davies
A news flash with Cleveland brown
Was that a young Kathy Burke in the trailer for Russ Abbott's madhouse?
Nope, Susie Blake - was also in Victoria Wood as the snobby continuity announcer
Trevor Mc Doughnut 🍩
Wow.Chips.Now repeated on forces tv
Trevor McDonut.
I knew his daughter!
How was that a news fladh
Lenny? Is that you?
If it's a news flash then did they have to continue with the adverts and continuty announcer talking about an upcoming programme should have just gone straight to the news flash
The "News Flash" warning was flashed to all ITV regions around 5 minutes before transmission, to give continuity in each region enough time to opt into the network feed from ITN in London.
ahhh proper regional TV :) anyone ever get the glitch where instead of anglia news or whatever yours was you got the next one like essex or greater london? then someone would flick a switch n back to tractors :D
Hedgehog = Punk Rabbit is pretty funny.
Chips...wow
Fuck me, the news flash could be from.2020
I find myself offended by that water safety ad with its reinforcement of outmoded patriarchal family gender stereotypes, the insidious mansplaining tone of the voiceover and the non-diverse racial and ethnic representations on display. This was the 1980s, not the 1780s, so no excuses.
🤣
And?????
Wut wut what happened here today?!
When sports were sport not money washing for Qatar and Saudi Arabia!
I still have my kellogs, frosties, psychedelic card 😂... What I liked about tv then was the political impartiality. Plus, the lack of pandering to the over sensitive types who probably need an increase on their medication. More channels now but far less entertaining.
Big Daddy
great days free of wokery nonsense
Sport: the epitome of switched-off, asleep-at-the-wheel-consciousness diversionary fodder.
Couldn't agree more.
Very much like Brexit.
@@stuartd9741 And that vile EU
tv was better then
now it’s sh!tt
There is a lot of shite these days, but there's always been a lot of shite with a few gems
You can see why everyone watched the BBC on Saturday nights.
Tee hee!
Correct. I could just about tolerate Cannon and Ball and Russ Abbott's Madhouse but otherwise ITV a graveyard.
Topgeartaxisw
RIP Dickie Davies. You'll be sadly missed.
Very sad news.
But still, bring back world of sport.
RIP adverts, how I miss them, now so called Diversity stuffed down our throats 24/7.
Don’t worry, there’s always Gary Linek…oh, hold on…🤔😏
@@mucy2807 🤣🤣😂😂
Yes, a very comforting presence back in the day. Late Saturday afternoons right before the Football Results. Very evocative.
Happy days.
When did we stop using the term. 'Newsflash.' and replace it with the awful Americanism, 'Breaking News'?
Also I noticed in the Jimmy Greaves advert that the gum was available in chemists as opposed to what most youngsters refer to as a pharmacy today.
@@Cosford869 They weren't gum, they were weird pieces of virtually pure dextrose that almost instantly turned into mush in your mouth. Their selling point was that your body started absorbing the sugar instantly, even before swallowing.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Sounds nasty mate!
@@zacmumblethunder7466 I always thought they had a liquid centre, that’s what it felt like
Preferred the original theme tune to world of sport
Living and growing up in Northern Ireland, we had News Flashes like this one, but we also had 'Police Messages' voiced over by the local continuity announcers. They were usually concerning bomb scares and went along the lines of 'The Police request that key-holders in the town centre of ....., return to their premises at once...'
Yes I remember them we don't sée them now I could not remember the last time I saw a news flash
Is it better now that The Troubles are over?
@@Captain-Cardboard Haha
A time before I was born. But looked like better times than today
No big daddy and giant haystacks on world of sport? That’s a rarity.
R.I.P. Dickie Davie and Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
this footage is gold - tells you everything you need to know... worth preserving
Is that Julie Walters at 3:29 ?
@@TonyEnglandUK No.
Bring back the Newsflash. They were exciting.
Oh my god the memories flooding back makes me very emotional sad and happy I can still recall all those TV shows. Although some of the stars abused their fame not all will have happy memories
I remember this day, it was my 18th birthday!. Actually, I don't remember it because I was drunk. :-D
I forgot how brutal adverts were back then.
_"Excuse me, do you like Dextrosol? Just nick someone's then stick a javelin through their ear"_
@@TonyEnglandUK i think he was referring too ' learn to swim' .... ;)
@@monkee1969 lol so what, I'm not him. And I wasn't.
Not an advert as such, more a public information film, many of which were quite frightening. (I recall one such film, occasionally broadcast following the end of BBC1’s daily schedule, about the danger of rabies entering the UK). Their disturbing content might explain why films of this nature are no longer screened on mainstream television.
*to.
i miss the 80.s 😢
No u dont
Much better times
Dickie a Legend👏👏👏👏
Racing at Newcastle and Athletics from Gateshead - testing Tyne Tees' OB capacity to its limits!
Yorkshire or Border probably had to muck in and help.
The Athletics was produced by L.W.T. as was ALL I.T.V. Athletics coverage for the nine years that I.T.V. and Channel Four had the Domestic U.K. Athletics rights.The Tour de France was also on daily on Channel Four. I believe this was 1984 and not 1985. As there was no Wrestling. A great programme wish I could watch it again. These days each of those sporting events would have there own 4 hour programmes in their own right.. Probably on Satellite. Didn*t Jim Rosenthal look young! A former 52 disabled carer for my late and lovely Mum. From the New Forest. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
garry simpson it would have been 1985 - the LA Olympics referred to by Jim Rosenthal as being last year was in 1984. World of Sport finished in September 1985 so must have been one of the last editions.
Yes you are right! Thank You for your reply. HAPPY DAYS!
No probs Garry - all the best!
TV seems so much more tolerable/watchable in them days compared to today.
I still call it central even tho it’s been itv for years
+Chris Rowl I'm from the North West and i still call our itv granada
I remember it being ATV before that.
Good ole British 80's when athletes don't look like they'd seen a gym never mind steroids when footballers would rather smoke than eat an orange at halftime, and corporations could not buy Zola Budd's feet to sponsor. 🤩
Another quck of the this line up is not everyone took that film at 17.05, STV, TVS, LWT grampian and Anglia couldn't since there were still trying to clear off Connections and the fillers at 17.35 were regional. Central were one of a few station we had Chips on at 11.15 on Saturday to clear off the series.
Imagine being excited about 2 javelin throwers going head to head. But we were. It was great
This made me appreciate how much British athletes were household names back then.
Fuck me, ITV was worth watching back then!
If they made that “Learn to swim” advert now, the mum and dad would be filing the drowning daughter on their phones and posting it to Facebook.
Tony the FRosties tiger now has diabetes.
The public service adverts were always bloody scary! I was 12 years old at the time this was broadcast and remember many shows on this video.
There was one about shoes getting crushed in escalators that made me scared of them for years!
@@worldcomicsreview354 OMG! I forgot about that one. Or the kids playing in the quarry and death is following them around. (I think that is how it went). They certainly worked! I'm almost 50 and have never played in a quarry or tried to recover my frizbee from an electrical sub station either.
I think that PiF was called Dark Waters and was narrated by Donald Pleasence....truely terrifying!!
@@thetruthwillout3347 That's the one! Yes, certainly terrified me that's for sure.
*truly.
Just love watching these.. I would have been 8 years old and probable watching this