Christmas felt like Christmas then ..good times , England was England..TV was good ..we was all in same boat not a pot to piss in but it always felt magical..I'd give anything to go bk too that time , it felt like a big hug that era 🥺

@Ladygaga4047

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

@SuperRocky74

6 күн бұрын

I couldn't agree more.

I remember stocking on blank VHS tapes to record all the great films that were shown (including Back to the Future). Amazing times, sadly not to be repeated 😞

@buy.to.let.britain

Ай бұрын

what about E.T. ?

I do remember "Back to the Future" being shown on Xmas day. Different times - but admittedly fun.

Decent tv programmes back then ,before the net took over so everyone watched a handful of channels!

OH for the brilliant Christmas TV on BBC we all wish TV would be like this once again

Take me back ffs

That was a good year for Christmas telly.

Simple times

Back when Noel Edmonds ruled the world!

3:00 - Noel said they were in Studio 3 at the BBC Television Centre in London. Now in December 2021 that studio is the permanent home to ITV Daytime programmes Good Morning Britain & This Morning. BBC in 1988 would never have imagined two ITV shows permanently occupying one of their television studios!

@KevinM913

2 жыл бұрын

It’s sad that they left Television Centre. The development looks really smart now but it’s a pity the BBC could n’t sold part of the site and still retained a presence there.

@johnking5174

2 жыл бұрын

@@KevinM913 Kevin, the BBC are there. Their commercial subsidiary BBC Studios owns and operates Studios TC1, TC2 and TC3 at Television Centre. ITV Daytime do not own the studios they use. They simply hire them from the BBC, a fact which ITV loves to gloss over and ignore in their publicity of their daytime shows Kevin.

@KevinM913

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. I didn’t realise. As you say, it’s never mentioned. I wouldn’t mind one of the apartments there myself.

@johnking5174

2 жыл бұрын

@@KevinM913 When Ant and Dec produced their Saturday Night Takeaway from Studio TC1, all publicity boards which had BBC STUDIOWORKS logo was covered in black bin bags when Ant and Dec wandered the corridors. That is how much they never wanted the public to know. Embarrassing a bit, using your arch rivals TV studios. ITV should never have closed down The London Studios on the south bank. At least the BBC kept three of the original eight TV studios in operation. ITV dumped the whole lot, including the famous Studio 1 with the well known audience seating structure.

The Internet killed the magic & people ..

Thankfully I have no memory of Wife Begins at 40, thanks brain!

I can’t believe how times have changed so much. I know it’s a cliche, but tv WAS so much better quality back then (apart from Les Dennis maybe 🤣) Even watching this now brings back those magical Christmas vibes from the past.

I was 5 at this time, and up until about about 2000, tv was amazing, especially at Xmas. I think from about 2000 onwards, I just watched sport or was out getting drunk. Nowadays, I dont even have a tv subscription! Just watch streaming services and youtube.

@benfisher1376

7 ай бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly. It's the same things every Christmas day on BBC 1. I looked up the schedules online, and for the last decade, every single Xmas day they've shown, Call the Midwife, strictly come dancing and Mrs Brown's Boys. That's got to be a record. They don't try so much now, maybe because there's too much competition from hundreds of channels etc?

When the news headlines came on at 8:28 it brought back to me what a dark and difficult time it was in late 1988.

I love these I have a few too

Love the stock laughter effect after Les Dennis' Santa joke. I first heard that in Danger Mouse back in the 80s as a gag. "Steven Spielberg's Back to the Future". Hmmm.

@Embracing01

7 ай бұрын

Yeah it wasn't remotely funny that joke. And I never found Russ Abbott funny, but at least he was entertaining and not vulgar. Yeah they clearly didn't know that Back to the Future was a Robert Zemeckis film not a Speilberg film, though Speilberg was executive producer or producer.

Les Dennis’ career is still a complete mystery.

@bryemycaz

4 ай бұрын

It was thanks to Dustin Gee.

0:21 - Hugh Laurie calls Rowan Atkinson 'Bladder' instead of 'Blackadder'. 😄

Look at the temps and they say there's global warming. 😊

Better that todays crap more funny then top of the pops were better then were did the good times go

@Robert_Manners

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this was my early teenage years as I was 14 years old in 1988 and you are correct in that people really did look forward to the Christmas TV 📺 shows and the many Christmas 🤶 special as some of the nations favourites had reached their peak 🗻 of television excellence during the mid 1980's. I never really thought of them as the good times as to me it was just everyday life back then, however now over 30 years on I can see why you feel that they were indeed 'Good Times' indeed, Happy Christmas 🤶

@steveespenell

Жыл бұрын

Probably the same place as your sense of spelling and grammar 😢

I used to cringe at Bread. And it contained a future Tory austerity MP.

@WillScarlet1991

7 ай бұрын

Who?

@bryemycaz

4 ай бұрын

@@WillScarlet1991 Giles Watling, who played Aveline Boswells husband Oswald.

@WillScarlet1991

4 ай бұрын

@@bryemycaz Thanks.

Footballer Warren Barton?

@naysmith5272

2 жыл бұрын

He was offering 2 Women and a BMW

@timthegallant

7 ай бұрын

​@@naysmith5272foresight to what his football career would bring him.

Wasn't it great when we used to watch quality programming full of kiddy-fiddlers. Rubbish nowadays, watching woke virtue-signallers.

@shazanali692

7 ай бұрын

Noel Edmonds, he is clean

@kevinbush4300

7 ай бұрын

@shazanali692 yes... granted. Always thought Noel Edmonds was a decent chap.