What a Christmas in 1984 as a 7 yr old. Remember watching the box of delights and got to stay up to watch One of our dinosaurs is missing...my favourite film for years as a child.

I love watching all these old 80's BBC Christmas ads for shows, Kaos looks crap though & I can't imagine them ever showing One of our Dinosaurs is Missing ever again

The BBC1 closedown as the snowmen spin & the national anthem plays and it fades to dark, but the moon is still there whilst the snowmen continue to dance - Absolutely Brilliant!!

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

A handful of people like me care about their Xmas idents. It is an upgrade from 1983, and came before 1985's... ugh... Monstrosity

So many memories

Noel’s Christmas presents was one of the great programmes on Xmas day.

Picture quality is amazing on this recording

Ahhh Christmas 1984. I recorded The Top Pop Videos of '84 (ITV/Thames) & the 2-part TOTP hits of that year I remember Escape To Victory being premiered on BBC ONE along with The Deer Hunter on BBC TWO & Superman II on ITV on New Year's Day One final memory, I also remember watching the abysmal "Live Into '85" at my relatives house on New Year's Eve. That was a shocking disaster for BBC Scotland with Tom O'connor virtually running out of ad-libs !

I love how the Christmas edition of Blue Peter was the same *every* year. Coat hanger advent calendar, a couple of donkeys and a massive choir!

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Probably still like it now

@AlisonBryen

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin I'd like to think so! I hope they still do the appeals too. I spent months crushing empty cans of pop for Romanian orphans one year!

@EmoTioN77359

Ай бұрын

@@AlisonBryen👏👏👏

When was the last time they ever repeated the Box of Delights?. Why don't any of the freeview channels we have like ITV3, Drama, Yesterday etc (all mostly appealing to the 80-90-yr old target audience) show these old TV shows?. It's always Porridge, Summer Wine, Allo Allo and Minder and modern-ish stuff like Midsomer Murders.

Thanks so much David for these uploads

6:07 Jesus! That model of Snowpeople is spinning so fast that I'm impressed that they managed to stay on!

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Yes one of them really is a snow-woman thanks to Michael Grade

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin I noticed. I really like the idents backgrounds, too. At least it gives off a bit of variety from the past 2 years, which both involve Snowflakes for BBC1 and Xmas Trees for BBC2.

Nice of Noel to give RTÉ viewers a welcome!

In 1984 I was well versed in getting pissed thank god for that it eased the visual pain

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

flat eman same here. I set the video, went to pub with the intention of watching stuff later and 40 years later......

Ahhhh great times before reality tv and x factor shit

I must confess my ears did prick up at Ghostbusters on TOTP at 2 o’clock.

Amazing quality recordings still. Must have kept those tapes safe and sound somewhere... an intriguing archive!

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Alexander I recorded loads of material with a view to watching when I had time - which never happened so a lot of the tapes were brand new with only one recording. Plus in those days it was at standard speed so the quality was better

@stevenoneill7166

6 ай бұрын

​@bdavebaldwin I started using High Grade tapes that year. The best one I used (at the time) was the Sony UHG hi-fi cassette. Even better were the Scotch EXG hi-fi tapes that were introduced the following year & I finally got to use the PRO grade tapes which were, by VHS standards, excellent

Noel Edmonds Christmas Mornings as a family we all stopped to watch, Oh when BBC Christmas was Fantastic Viewing

I forgot that Wogan finished hosting Blankety Blank as long ago as 1983

Thanks for sharing this, lovely to watch

Let's see, Kaos on BBC2 or Raiders Of The Lost Ark on STV. Trying to work out the better choice.

@EmoTioN77359

Ай бұрын

😂

You look and see just the two white cars in the bbc television studio car park on Christmas Day from the Ariel views and you kinda feel sorry for the two mugs that are keeping everything ticking over on the day by just watching the automated system and announcing programs lol…

Robert Maxwell, he was a great magician, watch that pension money disappear!

Robert Maxwell, performing we are sailing?

@Robert_Manners

4 жыл бұрын

He was at least twice I believe. He must have been a fan of the magic show

@naysmith5272

3 жыл бұрын

@4:16 "How did my pension dissapear?" - "That's Magic"

Robert maxwell, he's gonna find out how to make people's money disappear....

BBC2 should have shut down playing Christmas music every year, that a perfect example (they didn't do it in 1985).

Loved Christmas tv back in the day,...and looking at some of the things that were on ,...I certainly over indulged in the turkey.....and not just the edible variety

That kaos looks brilliant ..erm ..

@KevinM913

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I bet BBC2 viewers were splitting their sides all over the country during that!

Gutted I forgot to tape Kaos!! Must of cost the bbc all of a fiver to buy that from Azerbaijan or wherever it’s from.

@bdavebaldwin

3 жыл бұрын

I think that Christmas I got ‘locked in’ a pub on Christmas Eve, got home at 6am on Christmas Day and went to bed. Most of the wiz bang don’t miss stuff….. I missed

I WAS 7 MONTHS OLD WHEN THIS AIRED.

@stevanwarburton5501

3 жыл бұрын

okay don't rub it it, I was 16

great days.......long gone... ..

So Escape to Victory was premiered in Christmas 1984. Suspect that it will be on a FTA channel this year..

@evonne_

8 жыл бұрын

I was so wrong. Do hope it is shown on FTA soon

Pop Quiz Christmas Spesh , Brilliant.

Robert Fucking Maxwell.

Do you have full closedown of bbc1 from december 23rd and boxing day?

@bdavebaldwin

8 жыл бұрын

amazingly according to the tape listings ..... yes.

how ass does that raven film look?

Kaos looks like chaos or maybe the writer was off his head on drugs, I think the latter of the two.

Bring back the 80s for christ sake! The world we live in now is utter shit!!

@jamesupton4996

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't have KZread in the 80s.

@Mike-vd7ee

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesupton4996 what's that got to do with it..?..another bleeding liberal

And the ident turntable is going too fast!!!!

@joannegray5138

7 жыл бұрын

Those poor snowmen must have got motion sickness, lol!

@davidprice5563

4 жыл бұрын

Double lol.

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

*Ahem* One of them was a woman.

I don't think the christmas tree was necessary during Michael Fish's forecast

@MusicFurler

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think the weather forecast was necessary!

Robert Maxwell indeed

@bdavebaldwin

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly could make money vanish

"We're all going to get wet, for a time"...I love how stuffy Brits are, yet the innuendos are obvious.

@Tmuk2

4 жыл бұрын

Obvious to you, at least

DREADFUL!!!!.

@bdavebaldwin

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry I'll try harder if I'm ever unfortunate enough to be sent back to this hole of a planet in another life.

@Robert_Manners

4 жыл бұрын

@@bdavebaldwin I think it's the content that was available to watch during this festive period on BBC 1, not your efforts to record, archive and make available material for 35 years ago.

@lucaschapman2188

3 жыл бұрын

Michael fish! Nearly 3 years before the Hurricane debacle 😀🤘🏻

@Alola_Hanna-Barbera_TMS_Fan

3 жыл бұрын

Face it. The best part of 1984 was the idents they used of the snowpeople