Sheer nostalgia. Another example of TV done much better then, than it is today. Great title sequence, great theme tune, great presenters.

@Glenn1967ful

4 ай бұрын

BBC Brekafast is still quite professional and has the mix of national and local news, weather, interviews, sport and lighter features that made the original so good. I'm not saying Breakfast is brilliant and Naga Munchetty can be annoying and condescending, but compared with the competition ridden, rather low brow alternative on ITV it's so much better. Viewers agree and Breakfast has twice as many viewers as Good Morning Britain.

@georgeholland2934

4 ай бұрын

@@Glenn1967ful I think the best BBC Breakfast presenter of the current day is Charlie Stayt. He is a consummate professional. I agree with your remarks regarding Naga. She interrupts and cuts across her interviewees and has quite an irritating broadcast voice.

Bring back the BBC1 globe

I remember getting up to watch this. A herculean effort for an 11 year old.

@mrs_devere

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, also 11 at the time!

@johnboy8696

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, except I was a surly grumpy typical 18 year old teenager! I remember the chills going down my spine!

@cliveevans3328

3 жыл бұрын

Ask my mother!!!!

@cliveevans9795

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

I was twelve years and seven months at the time. Unforgettable, especially Selina Scott!

I always liked the little clock in the lower right, very handy in the morning.

@christopherhulse8385

4 жыл бұрын

It seemed more relaxed than today's equivalent.

The man who launched Britain's first ever regular breakfast television programme BBC Breakfast Time has died on Wednesday 21st October 2020 aged 87. RIP Frank Bough.

@freddysquirenaranjo4859

2 жыл бұрын

Grandstand and others programmes, RIP Frank Bough

@ivandinsmore6217

Жыл бұрын

He would never be selected for this programme now.

@ivandinsmore6217

Жыл бұрын

Amazing how strongly Selina Scott resembles Prince William. She could be his sister.

@jacksugden8190

Жыл бұрын

I was never keen on him after watching him on boring-stuffy Grandstand.

@tristanthomas5006

Жыл бұрын

RIP to an old perv who? Who sexually harrased Selina and was a chauvinistic hypocrite when it came to sex workers? Sure.

Loved Breakfast Time.

I would have been 10, still in primary school and look I know the 80s were tough on folk both in politics and employment BUT for me there is always that real sense of joy, and hope This intro is so simple yet just wonderful, a sun rising .. a new start etc. A great time to be a kid what with BMX ATARI/Commodore 64, great movies, breakdancing and so much more ... Wonderful times

Whatever You think of Frank Bough, he was a natural consumate professional presenter/broadcaster.

@johnking5174

3 жыл бұрын

The man who launched Britain's first ever regular breakfast television programme BBC Breakfast Time has died on Wednesday 21st October 2020 aged 87. RIP Frank Bough.

@kunle1928

2 жыл бұрын

Professional on screen - not off

@Glenn1967ful

Жыл бұрын

@@kunle1928 What he did was between consenting adults and he was outed by someone wanting to make a quick buck from the News Of The World. It destroyed Bough's career at the BBC, although he did sort of make a comeback on LBC and ITV for a time.

@kunle1928

Жыл бұрын

@@Glenn1967ful He was also caught snorting cocaine and made unwanted advances and unflattering comments towards females at work, hardly professional.

@stephenmcconnell1000

Жыл бұрын

@@kunle1928 Fern Britton has said that he once whispered in her ear: 'how long do you think it will be before you and I are having an affair?'

I remember the day this started as a kid in school

I was twelve at the time and in my second year at senior school. Remember it very well.

Wow, that view of London... no London Eye, no Shard... looks so nice!

I find this so cool because my dad would probably be having breakfast and getting ready for school while watching this

@Sebadee80

Жыл бұрын

LoL, I don't have children so didn't think of it like that, but you just made me feel my age with that comment since I was born 1980. 40 years is a long time, seeing it wrote down brings it home harder😆 Thank for that, I'm not egotistical at all so appreciated the comment, Take care and stay safe to yourself and family over the holidays in these tough days👍👍👍

This seemed so exciting at the time..........

Today is Thursday 17 January 2019 - 36 years a go today this first aired.

Happy Birthday BBC Breakfast Time 👍

That theme echoing up the stairs ment it was a school day and it was time to get up.

40 years ago tomorrow.

I liked this rather 'cozy' format that breakfast TV adopted in the early days. I suspect this being more of an American idea imported but used around the World. The fake living room and soft lighting and furnishings all added to that ambience. Short of the presenters actually having mugs of coffee and tea, or drinking orange juice and nibbling at pieces of buttered toast. You got that breakfast time vibe.

@malcolmbrewis5582

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, it was easier to generate and communicate a friendly cosy ambience when the presenters wore casual attire.

Selina Scott 😍 wow! And of course nick "don't have nightmares" Ross!

this gives morings a lovely feeling

I was born in summer 1980, so was still only 2 years old when this aired, but I can still remember these credits because it was on every morning, they didn't change the visuals for a few years, although the music and visuals got better when it changed. This is so nostalgic, takes me back to old Atari's and He-Man, hard to imagine we only had 3 tv channels in those days. Being so young back then, this reminds me how innocently I viewed the world, thanks for this trip down a very distant memory lane, when life was more simple👍👍👍 PS, I didn't notice Nick Ross sitting there when I wrote the above, that's a man I have little respect for since he said he " would watch kiddie porn if given a chance ", and he was a face on Crimewatch, a little reminder to me of the sickness at the BBC which has washed away some of the nostalgia I felt, suddenly I'm wishing for the ignorance of youth lol. What a dichotomy to experience in a couple minutes.

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

I would have been twelve and so ten years older than you (53 in June!) In my second year at senior school at the time.

Can this really be over 40yrs ago?

I,was nearly 8 years old,nearly 50 now,lol.

I was twelve years old at the time. Totally forgot that it started on that day.

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

Same age as me then. I was in my second year at senior school and not thirteen until the summer (which actually fell on General Election Day that year!)

Happy 40th Birthday!! I was 21 and I can remember getting up specially to watch it. Where did the years go?

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

I would have been twelve and in my second year at senior school then (now aged 52!) My brother Anthony also watched it - he would have been fifteen (55 now).

1:25 Breakfast Time Teaser From 6:30 To 9 O’Clock Only here on Breakfast Time

I can remember this show with Richard Whitmore among others

What they say ....there's no such thing as bad publicity? Try telling that to Frank boff- he was ahead of his time. These days folks who dress up like he did and do the things he did are protected minorities.

R.I.P. Frank Bough

How did it go from this to the full boring rubbish from Salford every day.

What a beautiful manner the girl presenter has and gorgeous accent and pronounciation! Wow, I wonder why that style has disappeared? Can't think of anyone on television now who actually sounds like that. Strange huh?

@theglumrant9477

2 жыл бұрын

Too white, too middle class, too English, too “entitled”, too “privileged”, too “posh”

@ljclark2177

2 жыл бұрын

@@theglumrant9477 :(

34 years of breakfast time and still going strong.

@Glenn1967ful

Жыл бұрын

BBC Breakfast still has elements of the original programme, presenters on a sofa, a mixture of serious and lighter articles, regional news and a strong female presenter alongside a male presenter.

@matthewpayton

Жыл бұрын

@@Glenn1967ful Breakfast time will be 40 years old in just over 3 months time.

35 years today....

It was all downhill after this.

I was hoping you were going to have the worldwide greetings, never mind!

@JasonC1782

7 жыл бұрын

Look for 'Transdiffusion Breakfast Time' and you'll find a fuller clip which features them.

@the_tv_museum

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah we try not to go over 2-3 minutes for clips other than in exceptional circs.

I was born on this Day

And 3 weeks later TV AM launched

@robertcomer2767

2 жыл бұрын

Not so much breakfast television more like car crash television.

0:16 What BBC Announcer is this?

They needed Ron Burgundy.

Pretty Selina certainly helped the extra early morning dose of propaganda go down. More TV really wasn't good for anyone, but back then, I lapped it up like a simpleton, imagining it was progress.

Selina Scott disses the idea 🤭🤭

Five years later, Frank Bough's career would be in ruins due to certain ladies who like to be called mistress and a white powder. He tried to make start again on ITV, making a big comeback on the rugger world cup in 1991, but again his extra curricular activities caught him out and it was curtains forever for Frank.

The BBC's first day was far more interesting than TV-am's letting David Frost prattle on to Norman Tebbitt for 20 minutes. No wonder if nearly went bankrupt.

@nottmjas

Жыл бұрын

Frost was always full of his own self importance

sadly nearly evryone on this show is now dead

Didn't Guy Michelmore write this jingle?

@johnking5174

5 жыл бұрын

No, he wrote Newsroom South East theme from 1989 I think.

yep

Not a morning person then

In my head, TV-AM was the colour show full of fun and this was the boring BW programme. Am I just remembering things back to front or did I just prefer iTV because of Timmy Mallett and the Transformers?

R.I.P. Frank Bough