would give anything to back to the way things were in 84.....damn...it hurts...

In 1984 I was 10. I'll be 49 this year. Its gone too quickly and it feels like its getting faster. I cant go back but I would if I could. I'd like to climb trees again and ride around on my Grifter aimlessly. I'd like to hang out with friends without needing to synchronise diaries and allocate a time slot. Most of all I'd like to be young again and not be on this never ending treadmill I have unwittingly found myself on.

Omg how lovely ... I was 10 yrs old ... puts a lump in me throat

@samanthacampbell5048

3 жыл бұрын

Me Too

Ahhh Pebble Mill...prime "off sick from school" TV!

I know it's a cliche, but our television particularly at Christmas seemed far more personal and very British then. Nowadays it feels very synthetic, fancy graphics over actual content and faux American.

@dawnfinch8232

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree

@amfwelsh

Жыл бұрын

We all remember fondly but in reality it was shite

@SuperTed19021

Жыл бұрын

*Sort of agree.* Especially with the 70s/80s Christmas TV schedules/presentation. Kind of ended in around 1991, when satellite TV and other alternatives *really* started taking off. Not to mention the 1990 Broadcasting Act.

Oh my god! Take me back I was 14yrs old and had a fab childhood.. 2020 and my life ruined

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

I was 14 then, so the same age as you. A good time to be an adolescent with no intrusive cyberspace or social media. Better quality of programmes with four TV channels than today's rubbish and multiple channels!

god what happened back when TV was Brilliant now we have repeats of Britains got Talent and Big Brother miss the 80's so much

@rickyj5547

3 жыл бұрын

You can buy the DVDs

A simpler and happier time.

@SuperTed19021

Жыл бұрын

Back when there were just 4 TV channels, radio and cinema/theatre *if* they happened to be open. Otherwise, play games, read a book, chat or end the day by going home or to bed. No such things as VCR, video games, multi-channels, social media etc. Sometimes, *less really is more!*

Shakespeare and Ingmar Bergman on mainstream broadcasts. When the BBC took its charter seriously.

Watched none of this. Too busy playing on my new Commodore 64

It's really sad to see that a good few of these line ups have now sadly passed away 😢

Great tv, far better than today's. Noel Edmonds was a prat back then too.

I was 14 then!!!!. The best days of my life.. great memories of my Nan and Christmas was a nice time..now things seem so intense.. you can’t do this or that.. if you say this or fart on just breath you will upset someone or something.. I just hope one day we can all start to relax again

@darrenc2721

2 жыл бұрын

I was 13 and still remember this day, for some reason the christmas song resonates in my head. I miss it terribly. Both my parents passed away 18months ago.

@darrengrimmer8541

2 жыл бұрын

@@darrenc2721 Very sorry to hear of your loss Darren.. We lost our mum just before Christmas.. Nan went a few years ago now.. but you have your memories of those better times

@dawnfinch8232

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more Darren

@dawnfinch8232

2 жыл бұрын

@@darrenc2721 so sorry

Aww. I was just about to finish work to have my first baby. Such very happy memories.

When xmas tv was still magic.

I was a wee 9 month old babe Christmas 84, I wish we still had Christmas’s like this with movies and specials.

I was 6 and remember this Christmas well. These xmas bbc trailers used to get me excited as a kid. I can remember watching One of our Dinosaurs is Missing on Christmas eve, and the TV premiere of Mary Poppins in Christmas Day.....and The Two Ronnies, if course. The idents of the turning models look like something from 1954 instead of 84 however 😂

I was a tender 18..great memories, especially the jingles, but the sight of Noel Edmonds camping it up as a fairy cannot now be unseen! Not to mention that bloody awful duck thing Orville. And how many variety performances, i.e. random dance troupes in garish leotards throwing themselves around a BBC studio to a few Xmas standards, did we have to put up with 35 years ago? It all seems so innocent looking back!

Paul Coia getting hyper there at Pebble Mill!!!! Actually I remember this, I loved this year as my sister Louise was born!

Omg 12mins in the national anthem comes in. Flash back to a night probably the same year and hearing the anthem played. There was a family debate as to whether the Queen stayed up every night to check they played it. 😁😁

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you jumped up and drank a toast to her majesty and her thicko son who would give an interview to a broadcaster guaranteed to be drilling on about it for the next forty years

'The Hot Shoe Show' and Bonnie Langford. Was there ever anything worse....

I would like to see some of those programmes all the way through.

8 years old and I loved it princes progress as well

Best time to comment on Christmas stuff like this is December 20th, but anytime of year now will bring back memories of long forgotten times.... all those Christmas memories just locked up in youtube or in the back of our memories..... this stuff will be regarded as great social history, we hope.... in 50 years time....

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, thanks to Google that won’t be the case. Two years of inactivity gets you deleted. So after I expire some time afterwards so will the account.

My first Christmas

I was born in the December in 1984. Interesting to see what was on the telly when I was a baby.

John Craven. Not a paedo. Thank God!

How many people, these days, would take offence at Noel Edmonds camping it up and dressing as a fairy ?. It might not have been particularly funny but we could laugh at ourselves back then !.

@bryanpartington3260

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely , it would be classed as homophobic or transphobic .Ironically it would be the BBC that would be banning it .

@scottandrewbrass

3 жыл бұрын

@@bryanpartington3260 It's political correctness gone mad. We can still take offence at Noel Edmonds so that's okay.

There is now a Dental hospital where the BBC pebble Mill studio's use to be.

@SpeccyHorace

3 жыл бұрын

Thats ironic because watching it was like having your teeth pulled.........WAYHEY

7.10.....Prince HENRY. Mandela effect

@dbrooks76

Жыл бұрын

How? Its his name.

Oh how i miss pebble mill at one

Hands up if you only watched pebble mill if you were off from school poorly😂

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

I had to watch it. My lunch hour was 1 - 2 it was either that or Crown Court, and there wasn’t a lot between the two

Unfortunately that was the year of the disastrous "Live Into '85" Hogmanay show that was only surpassed (in terms of mediocrity) by The 1989 Brit Awards hosted by Sam Fox & Mick Fleetwood

Thought i had a mandela effect when i heard about prince henry? Then i googled it.

Hark the Herald Angels sing. I am drowning, I can't swim! :)

Loved Xmas TV As a Nipper, Now I Cannot remember what programs If any I Watch on Terrestrial TV. Maybe put all the great xmas programs from the 70's and 80's on a Channel on Sky, I'd certainly watch it lol

I WAS 7 MONTHS OLD WHEN THIS WAS BROADCAST.

@bdavebaldwin

9 жыл бұрын

Many happy christmases

@matthewpayton

9 жыл бұрын

+David Baldwin I can't wait.

@bdavebaldwin

9 жыл бұрын

I might do one more year of idents then i'm retiring

@matthewpayton

9 жыл бұрын

David Baldwin I can't wait for part 2.

@k.avilla8061

6 ай бұрын

Yes ....and ???

1984 i was 11 now a proud grandad

So when did we give up and start calling him Harry?

@bdavebaldwin

9 жыл бұрын

Poor BBC do try to be correct. Nick Witchell keeps trying with Catherine. Unfortunately Harry prefers his nick-name whereas Catherine prefers her full name.....can't win.

@jackiemuir3117

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. I didn't even know he's officially Henry lol

Give that BBC1 festive ident that year a break!

A ultra rare Breakfast Time credits!!!

CEEFAX Page 270

That bumper Chrismas Radio Times will be listed for around 30 quid now on ebay lol. Who are the idiots selling these old magazines for at those ridiculous prices? no normal person is going to pay that.

My mum was at that Barry Manilow concert. It was a Christmas show that had actually been held in the middle of Summer!

I'd forgot how grim it was back then on telly.

@xboxgamer7453

3 жыл бұрын

@Christy Moreland How so? We have so much more choice today...If you prefer going back to 3 or 4 channels then you're crazy...

@Kaytee48

Жыл бұрын

@@xboxgamer7453 The main difference is back then we had 3 or 4 channels of rubbish, now it's dozens of channels of even worse rubbish.

@xboxgamer7453

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaytee48But if you'd rather not watch the additional crap now, you can still return to the rubbish from 30 plus years ago.

@Kaytee48

Жыл бұрын

@@xboxgamer7453 we are spoilt for choice.

What's f'd is that that year ITV had the big film fir Christmas Day, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Think they gave up after that.

@Kaytee48

Жыл бұрын

My main memory of xmas TV back then was always star wars on xmas day and James bond new years eve.

What was the voiceover mans name?

Who is the voice-over guy?

07:28 Prince William and Prince Henry, was the other one replaced ?

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

That’s Harry’s correct name

I'm sure I watched that Keith Harris show. Ah, when there was actual things on. Makes you wonder I'd there were still only 4 channels now and nothing else, what would you watch? It really isn't all that good.

@bdavebaldwin

Жыл бұрын

Probably worked better as it was compressed into three (occasionally four) days. Now it’s a little spread over a long time - after the second week you’ve had enough

When england was england

@harleyhartley3168

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf does that even mean weirdo

@scottandrewbrass

3 жыл бұрын

@@harleyhartley3168 It means racist alert.

@harleyhartley3168

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass yep defo

@bobshrubb3067

3 жыл бұрын

@@harleyhartley3168 it means traditional British entertainment for the indigenous population,

@bobshrubb3067

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass nothing racist about remembering our country before it was prostituted out to every culture in the world.

What the hell was going on with the Pebble Mill intro?! I’m truly baffled.

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

SweetStevieAaron why baffled ... that was the Christmas party edition intro

The boy with the clarinet was told to what!?? 2:41

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunately Jim fixed it for him to have a clarinet

BBC2 even more art focused than it is these days 😁😁😁😁😁

@dlamiss

8 жыл бұрын

+Evonne Okafor The ONLY thing BBC2 does these days is cookery shows

@evonne_

8 жыл бұрын

+dlamiss And also a BBC1 lite 😉😉😉😉😉😉

@dlamiss

8 жыл бұрын

+Evonne Okafor Agreed Evonne

@Georgieastra

4 жыл бұрын

When I hear the word art I reach for my revolver...

The programs are mostly terrible, but I'm loving the different Christmas style BBC one and two icons.

Can I have 40 years of licence fees refunded? No wonder there was so much excessive drinking in those days. Is there room in the gas oven for both the turkey and my head?

good god i was 14 then

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

I was also 14 then! Takes me right back!

Let's face it, the best stuff this year is on Britbox.

I was 15! Omg

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Go back to 1980 you were probably doing a paper round:)

@chrismorris5608

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin no never did that, in 1977 I was doing technical lego lol

I expect this year we will have films 70 years ol sit coms 40 years old and of course Morecome & WIse AGAIN the rest of the programmes wil be looking around other peoples houses. paint a wall, or planning a garden withthat boring Swift guy, Me I`ll buy a couple of bottles of wine and pass out until Christmas day is over

@bdavebaldwin

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately BBC & Itv seem to start Christmas around 1st December so the repeats get older and the list of b & w films longer

Lol William and Harry , not Henry 7:04

@80sandretrogubbins25

4 күн бұрын

His birth name is Henry.

When did Henry become Harry ffs? Reverse Mandella effect.

@debragreiff1102

3 жыл бұрын

It's only like calling a person named Debra Debbie. Just a diminutive. Easily happens.

@duffymoony

3 жыл бұрын

@@debragreiff1102 You mean, such as calling Duffy Donny Debra? I don't think so.

@debragreiff1102

3 жыл бұрын

@@duffymoony what on earth are you talking about? Genuine question! Of course Harry is a diminutive of Henry. It's like Jack is John. It is just what it is, it's not speculation. Please look this up, maybe on Google or something and you will see this is true.

@duffymoony

3 жыл бұрын

@@debragreiff1102 Supply me with the empirical evidence Debs, a,link to the research experience that supports your thesis please. Luv n hugs to you!

I miss having a white christmas

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

50/50 chance you may be getting one this year (if you’re in the UK)

All these clips from 1983 to 84 only reminds me how dull TV was back then. And how many convicted paedophiles are in these clips? Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall of it's a knock out and Rolf Harris. Shame on the BBC.

@bobshrubb3067

3 жыл бұрын

How old are you?

Prince William and Prince Henry?????????

@80sandretrogubbins25

4 күн бұрын

Yes, his birth name is Henry.

the lack of diversity is perfect 👍🏻

I remember watching santa claus the movie when it was on in 1988.