Christmas telly in those days was a special event. Something to really look forward to, I really miss those days.

@gregmcfarnon1140

3 жыл бұрын

Remember getting the bumper edition 2 week Christmas Radio Times.

I remember buying the Radio Times and TV Times and excitedly marking all the stuff to watch. It felt like every day was Saturday.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

Indeed so too!!

Christmas telly in those times was brilliant, great programs, some really great shows,... and wonderful entertainment for all the family,.......today's tv is boring and dull by comparison,...Christmas Telly was always a special time, a real look forward highlight of the whole year......miss those great times

@hicksteriatv1239

2 жыл бұрын

It was if you were actually born then... 10 year olds of today will probably be saying the same about 2022 in 40 years time.

@what-uc

Жыл бұрын

There is definitely the nostalgia factor, but what made Christmas TV so great was that media was limited, a bit boring sometimes and most people didn't even have video recorders. So having the schedules packed with special shows and films for 2 weeks was amazing.

@hicksteriatv1239

Жыл бұрын

@@what-uc Yet, without the internet technology, you wouldn't have been able to write what you've just written. I'm glad things are different now though, because if everything stayed the same, we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.

@BruceDanton-xw6eg

3 ай бұрын

Ceefax with music great really too.

Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that Gone with the wind had its first uk TV showing in ‘81

Which we could turn the clock back, when we were all hear.

Lovely stuff! Takes me right back to being 8 years old! Loved the Ceefax Christmas tree at the beginning! I remember our first telly which had Ceefax and Teletext.. I thought we were dead posh! 😅

Give me Larry or Bruce's Generation Game over ruddy X factor any day. That kids weather picture was good, had worse hung on my wall 😀

@dawnfinch8232

4 жыл бұрын

How right you are stephen

@joannesaltfleet2071

4 жыл бұрын

The x factor is a load of crud!

@thirdratecontent585

4 жыл бұрын

X factor isn’t even relevant anymore and it sucked even when it was🤦‍♂️

Can remember getting tv times radio times me and my sister looking through it marking out good stuff 4 channels

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Same here but only three channels:) in fact BBC2 hardly counted then anyway

@debragreiff1102

2 жыл бұрын

Three channels surely?

@alanhowe5813

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry my error Cham 4 not until nov 82

Sheer nostalgia!

Thankyou David for this trip down memory lane

Christmas with Charlie Brown and Snoopy….bliss!

Thanks David for another good watching post of yours

Great memories and true likable talented celebrities and music, not like the last 10-15 years. It is painful now to watch...big time!!!

Great to see the old Look North crew & set, with an EMI 2001 camera thrown in for good measure!

The funniest thing about this video is the recycling of the same Christmas trees.. 10:28 note the Dolly trolley under the trees.. then also note it’s the same one in both shows. The tree decorations are identical lol.. 😂 of course it makes sense why though! Just first time I’ve noticed it.. 🤣 not like now, each show seems to have their own trees in the background. Guess they cared more about wasting money back then! I was 13 when these aired, damn were did those 42 years go 😆 but it has to be said they ALL created original content especially for Christmas, not like now where it’s mostly repeats! You only have to look at the number of R’s next to the listings!

It's like a completely different world.....

It’s Christmas every day on tele now. You can watch what you want when you want. Such a special time of the year back then

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

40 years today that Spain’s parliament got invaded and BBC more bothered about what date the boozers will open

Yarwoods lat show for the BBC. By 81 his star was waning but made a mistake by leaving the BBC

Just after 14 minutes to one o’clock.......very Alan Partridge....

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

It’s always been annoying when they put up a clock and THEN tell you the time. The BBC news channel keep giving name checks as if it matters whether you could care less who’s on the screen.

@janeokeeffe5297

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

I was eleven and in my first year at senior school. Better quality with just three TV channels - now we have so many and such rubbish!

Its great having unlimted tv and on demand stuff ,but there was something special about christmas tv and you dernt miss the big movie you might have to wait for it to be again in a couple of years

End of term disco! Lol ahh memories! Now known as the expensive American rip off that is a prom! Funny to see del and Rodney hidden away at 10pm! A modern day blankety blank would be full of 'star's I've never heard of, nobodies from reality telly.

Those were the years when the BBC didnt feel it had to be our moral compass

2:27 - a very short weather forecast! "Very chilly".

Funny seeing future Christmas Day's giant of the festive season Only Fools and Horses first Christmas special on the Holiday Monday

When TV was worth watching never watch the tripes they show on tv now

@peterdockrill9653

2 жыл бұрын

The only programme I watch now is the Chase.

Little did we know what was to come.

A bit nightmarish from 9.26. reminds me of the shining. Great video though

The national anthem at closedown, the past is a foreign country.

That look north thing was just plain weird, i was sitting there thinking WTF.

@zetametallic

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I thought it was a clip off a horror film actually🥵especially the bear just sitting there. 1981 was my favourite Christmas ever, I was 5 and ran downstairs to see a mound of presents like nothing before or since. All my 4 Grandparents visited and we watched cine films on the projector- I will never forget it. My mum is 80 now and my dad is 79, almost the same age as they were. Time passes so fast, saviour the moment. X

That's going back Grange Hill. Just like the school I went to!

Doonican with Dickie Henderson.... Dickie Henderson..!

I'll take Grandad's paint-stripper any day over K9 and Company! Lord love them all

9:48-9:55 Judith Stamper of Look North

@paulstevenson6975

3 жыл бұрын

Most beautiful woman of all time

@joannesaltfleet2071

3 жыл бұрын

She was great on look north was Judith Stamper and Harry Gration!

What was Bungle doing in the Look North studio?

@bdavebaldwin

7 жыл бұрын

I don't remember them doing anything like this before (or since), probably a 'good idea at the time'

@danwoodhouse9290

5 жыл бұрын

that wasnt THE bungle - wrong shape

I'm not sure what that is called at the beginning, but great idents from both BBC1 and BBC2!

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Teletext in vision - a cheap fill of time

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin thanks, good buddy. The Globle Ornaments is good. The Neon Candles and Holly is my favorite bbc2 christmas ident

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan I like the 1976 snowflake one

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin altho footage was only shown at low quality. Still good. Even had it's own holiday clock ident similar to 1983's snowflake. What would be your least favorite xmas ident? Mine is DEFINITELY 1978.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan The Blue Peter one (86.?) The 1976 one I sat with a cine camera to record the globe they used every year … and they changed it. Luckily I kept going as that is the only recording of the snowflake

Can you post the full bbc1 christmas eve 1981 closedown?

@bdavebaldwin

9 жыл бұрын

Adrian Bargiel I've checked back and all I have is as shown. I set the recorder to capture both close-downs only to get home to find programmes were running late (as was usual then). So I stayed up long enough to record the full idents then went to bed.

JEAN AND JOHN

It makes me laugh when people say "the good old days"... But, back in 1981 itself, people were probably saying the same thing about 1941. People of 2022 will probably be pining for 2022 in 2062, etc... Times have to change, and we should be glad they do, otherwise we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

In those days they could repeat a programme up to 2 years after first transmission. Then there was about 30 hours per channel for out of time (I.e. more than 2 years old). But any archive reshowings had to be renegotiated- - based on the current rates. So a lot of the 80s stuff wasn't expected to be seen again. Hence the mass junking of material over its repeat date.

@hicksteriatv1239

2 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin I always found it quite strange that TV companies would wipe or throw away material... Then, decades later, the same organisations launch campaigns for that material to be returned.

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

@@hicksteriatv1239 even more strange. They had Poldark in the vaults, stopped anyone watching it... then made it again. On the other side of the coin, folk go running around trying to find editions of Points of View that wouldn't make a lot of sense to reshow even if they found someone to watch them.

Where is part 1? I'm sure it used to be about with the Doctor Who team saying Happy Christmas from the Earthshock set.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing it out TOTP intro upset someone - so I rewrote history

@cuedotfilms4427

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin Oh yes I see it now, thanks very much.

@cuedotfilms4427

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin PS. Is all of this from your own personal video collection? Thanks very much for putting them up for us. It's good to see how the history TV has changed over the years. I've always been very interested in it.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@cuedotfilms4427 used to be manager of a bingo hall so I recorded loads on the off-chance I’d watch it later. That never really happened :)

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@cuedotfilms4427 I had to redo 1980 as well - The Beatles clips have caused all sorts of headaches

Will dig the tape out and see what's there

Don't you have any old crimbo telly from ITV??

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Where I’ve found some I’ve put it in the relevant years. I only captured a lot of BBC stuff because of the change of ident each year. Itv never really went for that YTV altered their logo about 3 times in 10 years for Christmas. Trailers were a bit thin because all the regions (apart from Christmas Day) either showed programming at different times or different editions of a programme. We could pick up both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees and some days it was like having another channel.

@bobrew461

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin Aaah... Point taken. But in the London region, we sometimes saw different Xmas idents over the years, depending on what day the 25th fell on; If it was a week day, Thames idents, if it was on the weekend, LWT idents for xmas...

Silly question. Why did you stay up in 1981 to record this? Genuinely interested

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

Burntwood76 I was working at a Bingo Hall seven days a week at the time so I think I recorded stuff on the off chance I’d be able to watch it at a later date (wrong)

@TheGava4

4 жыл бұрын

David Baldwin you probably had NO idea this would be so great for nostalgia in 2019? I’ve still got “The Shining “ on VHS when I recorded it off ITV in 1992. But I don’t have a VCR or a connection to a modern TV set, to watch it.

What is ceefax?

@Bruce-vq7ni

6 жыл бұрын

Ceefax was ITV's version of BBC's Teletext. Both were turned off around 2012 with the ending of analog tv in the UK.

@TheKonga88

3 жыл бұрын

It was a good way for doctors to send patients their cervical cancer test results by fax.

@CooMalou

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I’m old.

@cameronbeattie3087

3 жыл бұрын

@@CooMalou sorry, I was born in 2002 haha

@bobrew461

3 жыл бұрын

@@cameronbeattie3087 It was also a kind of precursor to the internet: you could read the news, check you stock prices, and even buy stuff on it.

Well; you wouldn't get "Songs of Praise" now or folks singing "White Christmas". It would be bound to upset some snowflake or terrorist.

@neilpower60

4 жыл бұрын

Songs of Praise is still on a Sunday, not that I'm into that sorta thing

@johnc2000

4 жыл бұрын

Actually you would and do. We snowflakes love Christmas.