I'm sat at home with Covid. I was a 9yo in 1983. I miss those gentle times and the family members I have lost. Christmas was magical, everything was closed and roads quiet we didn't have much but we spent Christmas together and it was cosy

Love this stuff,reminds me of being a kid again.

I was an 80s kid. I think the 1980s were the last time Christmas had the magic for me. As an adult Christmas is just suddenly here and just as suddenly over again. Its stress and a rush. When you're a kid the buildup to Christmas lasts ages and the excitement is immense, especially Christmas eve. Now being self employed I usually work right up until the last minute and back to work day after boxing day. Maybe it would be different if I had a few weeks off, but as it is I could do without it....just feels like sentimentality and chasing after something that can never be rekindled.

@Embracing01

8 ай бұрын

They make people want Christmas today very early, and yet when Christmas actually comes it's over in no time. I've noticed lots of people in November buying stuff already, I went out for a drink at the weekend and the pubs already had Xmas tinsel over the bar area, someone across from me alrwady have their tree up lol. This was never like that 20 plus years ago. I think advertising is making people do these things, it's all about fleecing people of their money. They corporations and busineses don't care about the Christmas a christining event (and I'm not religious) they don't care about using it to make a profit.

I remember watching Flash Gordon on Christmas eve 1983.

@ciaran6171

4 жыл бұрын

Raised eyebrows all round our front room on seeing Peter Duncan in that.

@rach5516

3 жыл бұрын

I do as well, I was 11 at the time. Such a vivid memory.

@Robert_Manners

3 жыл бұрын

@@rach5516 Back then when home video was still new, it still felt special when a new film was shown on terrestrial TV 📺

@rach5516

3 жыл бұрын

@@Robert_Manners I remember my older brother coming home with the tv and radio times and sitting marking off whst we would watch. I am going to do it this year just to feel nostalgic. We have instant gratification now with everything. I remember the 'who shot JR' saga and the build until the next series. It just isn't the same.

@bganonimouse2754

3 жыл бұрын

@@rach5516 My father used to come home with the radio times I think he got hold of most copies free of charge since he worked at BBC World Service, Bush House and we used to encircle what we would watch. I too watched Flash Gordon that year. Loved the movie especially the "Flash Gordon approaching" dialogue and good old Brian Blessed leading the charge!

Loved All Creatures Great And Small.

Ian McCaskill...."Hello!"

You know that in Dec of '83, Ch4 was only a year and a month old, (seems some ITV slipped in too).

Love watching these... thank you for sharing 👍

Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile..... merry Christmas boys and girls

@garethdevlin5399

4 жыл бұрын

to look back now dear god in that time you would never believe it

@TromaDogg

4 жыл бұрын

'Christmas entertainment for all the family!' 😂

The 1983 Christmas edition of Blankety Blank would be the final Christmas Special to be hosted by Terry Wogan as Les Dawson became the host the following year.

@alexrobinson3970

3 жыл бұрын

which e l to the g cs c ever in 1989

@andyc6542

Жыл бұрын

Wogan, Dawson, Cannon & Ball, Forstyth, Edmonds…There were so many all round entertainers back then, all on screen at the same time hosting different things. Now all we see is the same recycled tosh on BBC and ITV, with the same tired hosts dragged out year after year. None of whom are as talented or entertaining as those who came before them…

Another great post of yours David . Thanks

Thankyou for sharing these

Thanks David. This is priceless. I think Christmas tv back then measure up pretty well against today's offering, although there was always family inspired filler progs like Val D to put up with.

thanks for upload

0:26 And Now on BBC one, CH4.

@gollycom

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🐸🐸🌕🌝🦸‍♂️🦸‍♂️🧨🤡🤡🤡

Keep them coming.

@alexrobinson4802

8 жыл бұрын

+SuperTed19021 i argee

Jimmmy saville AND Rolf Harris- our cup runneth over. And at 12 years old, I'd no doubt have been right up their street!

@zetametallic

4 жыл бұрын

*shivers* sadly yes!

@misterchippie

4 жыл бұрын

AND Stuart Hall on Radio 2!

@andyc6542

Жыл бұрын

Think highly of yourself, don’t you… …think you would of probably been too old for the pair of them…! 😉

I Love BBC1 The Best 👍👍👍👍

Jimmy savile and rolf Harris. Scary.

@andygoodtube8421

4 жыл бұрын

Also Stuart Hall mentioned!...The Radio Times should have been renamed as The Sex Register!

With additional Channel 4. I wonder if the myths were true that all Xmas programs were made in October?

I remember saying to my mum that I didn't ever want to meet Jimmy Saville. I always loved Rolf though.

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

And he would have loved you.

@rach5516

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass1931 perish the thought!

Little & Large....dreadful The Two Ronnies.....brilliant

so interesting, british christmas tv looks a lot more exiting than german christmas tv.

I was in a TV programme broadcast on Christmas morning that year (BBC1) named 'Away in a manger.' My parents still have the original VHS recording of it will have to upload as many children were interviewed across the UK. I really like the 'Little and Large' theme music sounds 70's but the content...no.

Good grief and I thought Christmas TV was crap now. Seems it's more of a tradition!

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

Alex Hudson in the 60s and 70s all the shopping had been done so the advertisers (and itv) never bothered. Plus Christmas used to be a time for visiting family, and the tv or radio would be turned off when visitors arrived. Unfortunately the BBC in its unending quest for increasing the licence fee decided IT rather anything else should be the focus of Christmas, stuck a bit of tinsel on some old crap and handed it over as a present. Probably got the idea off my relatives. It probably started the rather rude habit of people answering the front door with their mobile phone stuck in their earhole whilst continuing to talk to the caller.

@andyc6542

Жыл бұрын

Loved Christmas TV in the 90s. Nowadays it’s absolute pap. The Beeb and ITV have far too much to contend with and know they don’t have the budgets to go up against the big streaming services, so push out the same hosts, doing the same shows, all the time. Seems to be a real lack of quality control, and the films they show on the big day don’t really have that wow factor considering what you can watch on Netflix and/or Disney.

I love how at 12:59 that crafty snowflake isnt moving.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

It apparently stopped on its own. There was a story that the announcer didn’t dare try and start it in case the unions found out. He rang his boss who told him to give it a knock to see it if would move.

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin no offense, but that snowflake looks like it was made of glass. If it were to receive a hard enough knock, it probably would shatter. But interesting story, nonetheless.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan if you have a look at part one of this about 10:30 you can see the Perspex in all its glory

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin I noticed that during the ident, the BBC1 logo is at the center. But during the BTS look, it was replaced by a transparency showing the turning parts. I assume the BBC1 typeface was superimposed to the center of the snowflake.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan at the end of the 1985 clips is the turntable with the Robins - that looks terrible without the electronic colouring.

I was only 6 back then and don't remember 'Glitterball' but it looks like an utter pile of shite! Did they just stick a flashing light inside a bauble or something? 😆😆 These videos have bought back horrible memories of Val Doonican's Christmas Party that I've spent the last 3 decades trying to blot out as well 😂 Cheers for the upload though!

Midwinter climate in the UK 1983: 10 degrees C, rain. Midwinter climate in the UK 2019: 10 degrees C, rain. Yep, climate change is a pisser.

Channel 4 getting into panto mode there with their logo cockup. This is Channel 4" [film goes into reverse] "Oh no it isn't!" :)

03:38 Ian is lucky his kids gave him a Blue Peter badge not something from Mr Saville...

The quality is lovely! is it betamax tape?

@bdavebaldwin

5 жыл бұрын

Vhs but the tapes have only been used once

2:51FREADY Sprinkles snow on someone Ah Hahhahaha

Enoyed this and took me back until Saville spoilt it. Why wouldn't the evil Saville get away with what he did. Prime time shows on Christmas day shows how big he was at the BBC and why they turned a blind eye to his sick ways.

Christmas on bbctv...starts on channel 4🤔🤔🤔

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

If I didn't put it on here it would be in a skip (again)

@keithtaylor3940

4 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin 😂😂😂😂

I would of been at my Nans having a party. We went every Boxing Day so wouldn’t of been subjected to this rubbish lol

Rolf Harris + Jimmy Savile + Stuart Hall were frankly funnier than anything Kenny Everett ever did.

If there's stuff from ITV on here then you can't call it 'Christmas 1983 on BBCtv'...it's just not DONE.

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

If was left in to preserve the recording before the tape was chucked. When itv paraded an old Morcambe & Wise the other week I don’t remember much fuss being made about the fact it was a BBC recording they used.

More channels same old rubbish