I would like like to say thankyou for Mr straker for helping me to feel calm when I was a little girl I have learning disabilities get very anxious and his voice seemed to calm me down hope he's doing ok he remind me of Paddington Bear as he sounds a bit like Paddington sometimes ,🌈🦁💖🦄⭐🐅🐯😾🐼🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈💖🌈💖🌈💖🌈💖🌈🦁🌈🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈💖🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁🌈🦁

There's a metaphor here. Just as telly wasn't relentlessly 24-hour, neither was life

i remembered and loved this closedown, stirs up deep nostalgia.

@HollomanUFOLanding

Жыл бұрын

Waking up in the chair to the BEEEEEEP noise.............

God Save The Queen in a very slow funeral version for the closedown on BBC1

I love watching this nostalgic TV

The weatherman effortlessly handled like a real pro what would have been an embarrassing mistake for anyone else

this version of the national anthem was played when diana princess of wales died

gpd with all the technology today. its lovely to go back thankyou brought back happy memories

@VincentRE79

7 жыл бұрын

+Dawn Finch Agree nice to look back on a recent more simpler time.

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

Bring back the old magnetic symbols. The BBC the only ones that did a proper weather forecast with the weather map and meteorologists invision back then. Over on ITV at the time they did far inferior weather forecasters with a graphic still flashing up straight after the ads after the ITN News saying STV Weather or Tyne Tees Weather e.g.. and the local continuity announcer giving only a brief summary of tonights and tomorrow's local weather. Why was there no ITV UK National Weather forecast before 1989?

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

+Vincent 79 A simpler time where channels were not on air 24/7. Overnight Closedowns on BBC1, BBC2 and ITV, plus off air most of the day on BBC1 and nothing on BBC2 until 7.30pm apart from one programme about 11am during the week way back then was marvellous

@sillygoose635

4 жыл бұрын

@@dvidclapperton no it wasn't.

@sillygoose635

4 жыл бұрын

@@dvidclapperton no, they shouldn't.

BBC1 seemed to have very chummy and happy weather people in this era...

@ajs41

9 жыл бұрын

Ken George Jones Bill Giles was still going in the 1990s.

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

And also Michael Fish and Ian McCaskill were still presenting forecasts in the 1990's. Used to love those biting northerly winds back in the 1970's and 1980's. Not quite so much horrible wet southwesterly stuff when they were using the magnetic symbols to produce the forecast way back then.

A slow version of The National Anthem. Used when members of The Royal Family pass.

@yobelkcip

6 жыл бұрын

So who died on that day, aka the date in which this continuity took place?

@stigwardduke7546

5 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the Queen's corgis popped their clogs on the night.

Goodnight Bill Giles! 0:18

@vladimircool1491

6 жыл бұрын

+

After this, there were just two days of the 1970s left to go!

@PanchamBro2

6 жыл бұрын

Cormac Doheny I didn't need to know that Sherlock.

@WillCWilson

3 жыл бұрын

@Big Valerie kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXx3k5RsYLLWf8o.html

@WillCWilson

3 жыл бұрын

@Big Valerie Yeesh. No need for that sort of thing, I just don't think the 80's was a bad decade. I don't think any decade is strictly good or bad, they've all had good things and bad things in them. Were you especially offended because I linked you that John Cena meme?

in the old days there was no back projection - the map was actually behind the presenter and not on a blue screen - note the shadow, no longer present in today's forecasts. the symbols were magnetic and sometimes they slipped down the map and the presenter trying to put them back in place but failing. the national anthem playing and the white dot and the 'tone'.

@j0hnf_uk

Жыл бұрын

I remember one instance of the weather map having the F that was part of FOG fall off during the broadcast, with the presenter saying at the end, 'Sorry about the F in fog.'

Memories. Phew! Jumpers for goalposts etc.

Weather in 1979: Tomorrow it will be minus 10 with 15 feet of snow, nothing to worry about carry on as normal.

at 6:06, the tell-tale loud tone can be heard telling you to "get to fucking bed!'

@konrafatv9853

4 жыл бұрын

This black screen squeaks

@j0hnf_uk

Жыл бұрын

Go to bed, spotty.

@dariowestern

Жыл бұрын

It means something really deep, man: no…….more…….telly.

The last Saturday of the 1970s

BBC1 Breakfast time

Saturday 29th December 1979 Blimey look at the weather charts back then 43 years ago now when this was Aired

0:17 i could hear someone clicking there fingers indicating to the weather man to wake up

@Maundervision

Жыл бұрын

It's a reference to one of the guests on the preceding edition of Parkinson - hypnotist Martin St James. I'm guessing the lady sitting on his lap at the end was one of his victims (who in their right mind would willingly sit in Parky's lap, for God's sake?!).

Wish BBC would close down for good..thx for posting

@stephensnell1379

3 жыл бұрын

The BBC IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR NEWS AND WEATHER

@dingopisscreek

2 жыл бұрын

were you born a misery or is it a trait you have developed???

@Ridersonthestorm8899

Жыл бұрын

@@stephensnell1379 Stop shouting and defund the overrated beeb!!!

@j0hnf_uk

Жыл бұрын

Or, actually have it go back to what it was once renowned for. i.e. actual quality programming rather than endless repeats and mediocre shows with z-list, 'celebrities', in them that haven't changed for the last 2 decades. Also cut the number of broadcast hours down to when the majority of people are actually in a position to want to watch television. Get rid of the 24 hours a day with the licence fee being spent on decent prime-time shows that have people who actual talent on them. If they can't do that, then it's time to close down for good.

Your announcer is Richard Straker

I think the BBC had less annoying mish-mash of ident strewn, overhyped back-patting hullabaloo. Much better with a more straightforward style back then which had more quality and memorable moments and at least it didn't stretch out shite at night like a long skid mark like it does now.

@meepymcmeep250

6 жыл бұрын

Debbie Wood-Holland Your comment nearly made me choke with giggles.....skid mark....

@capitalcities1996

5 жыл бұрын

Dear god, people like you should get paid for being professional whiners.

@dvidclapperton

2 жыл бұрын

I used to love those magnetic symbol weather fotecasts.

Why was the sombre, more slower version of GSTQ used here?

6:08 Why the black screen squeaks

@j0hnf_uk

Жыл бұрын

Someone forgot to oil it. Seriously, though, it's to tell you there's no more telly. Time to switch off and go to bed.

when did Bill first wore glasses?

Bill Giles is so handsome!

Hop

If this is from Christmas 1979, then where is the Christmas ident?

@RobTheEnby

7 жыл бұрын

Barbara Cortina this was after Christmas.

@barbaraannecortina7899

7 жыл бұрын

Well, it may have been after Christmas but these days, around that same time, BBC1 still uses its Christmas ident, what the fuck for I don't know - I think that technically December 29 is the fifth day of Christmas, although to be fair it never FEELS like Christmas.

@cormacdoheny470

7 жыл бұрын

+Barbara Cortina Usually, they stopped using them on St. Stephen's Day (as we call it in Ireland. I know that, in the UK, it's called Boxing Day).

@johnking5174

6 жыл бұрын

Hi, to give you a little detail, BBC One Christmas idents in the 1970s and 1980s, and yes into the 90s, would only be unveiled on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and would remain until closedown on Boxing Night. I remember a closedown from 1991 where the announcer said take a last look at our Christmas idents as we will be packing them away for another year after tonight, and that was Boxing Night in 1991. I think it was only in the 2000s that the Christmas idents stay up longer, and only since the 2010s have they been launched earlier and earlier.

@michaelbond4550

2 жыл бұрын

@barbara Who in the fuck cares?

The BBC1 logo shown on the title slide didn't appear on the globe until 1981. Interesting that it's used here nearly two years sooner than that. Also, this is the dying few days of a pretty awesome decade. The 80s were mostly crap, especially 1980-1984 or so.

@andrewswift8139

6 жыл бұрын

It was used as far back as May 1976 on the holding slides

@cormacdoheny470

3 жыл бұрын

The earliest footage of it I’ve seen is on the Christmas idents from ‘75.

@dvidclapperton

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewswift8139 Like on BBC Schools and Colleges before the screen with the dots appeared, counting down the last minute.

@j0hnf_uk

Жыл бұрын

No doubt a, 'job lot', of idents they had done at the same time BBC2 went with the, 'stripes', idents. but were held in reserve on the main globe/clock captions until 1981, for some reason.

Who was the woman sitting on Parkinson's lap.?

@Maundervision

Жыл бұрын

One of the guests that evening was a hypnotist, Martin St James, so I'm guessing it was probably one of his 'victims'; after all, who would ever do such a thing willingly?!

There's no buisness like snow buisness, lol!