A rare Thames Television endcap with the copyright in it in 1986 (MCMLXXXVI), as most programmes made by Thames had the copyright included in the end credits by then.
A local vagrant,a curly-haired Irishman with one working eye,who I used to chat to sometimes sadly froze to death in the January 1985 one,I learned shortly afterwards.
Couldn't they find a better Elvis song for his anniversary? Jailhouse Rock or That's all Right Mama or something rocking like that, not the soppy Hawaii stuff.
I'd find it hard to believe that any February was as cold as the one in the legendary freeze of 1962-63. I wasn't born yet then,but that one and the 1946-47 one were the ones that all the older folk used to talk about. I think February 1979 and February 1985 could have given this one a run for its money,too.
February 86 is not one of those spells that sticks in peoples minds mainly due to the fact that it was often sunny, snowfall not hugely disruptive and a fairly dry month. What was notable was the persistence of the cold right from the 30th of January until the 2nd of March without a single break. I believe London’s maximum temperature during that spell was just 4C and sea ice formed on some of our coasts. As someone that worked outside during it, it was incredibly cold.
@@simonvalibor498 That's true,good observation. There were roofers working on a house near us at the time and they must have had a time of it. I remember quite a number of sunny blue sky days then despite the cold.
As a kid back in the eighties I well remember how Francis used to play the “predictive sequence”, something you don’t ever see today. Also I found it funny how he’d always end the forecast with “Summary chart, there you are.” 😀😀 And Michael Fish in the days before he made that infamous forecast on 15 Oct 1987.
Wow brilliant memories of summer holidays. No Loose Women This Morning and all current stuff these days. When ITV cared for viewers around all regions and ages
A legendary newsreader he religiously greet you with Hello Good Afternoon on News at 1. Leonard Parkin was such a true professional and immediately made a point of welcoming the younger viewers as well as adults
Sesame Street on ITV, a COMMERCIAL network? How did that air on ITV? "Sesame Street" here in the U.S. was on PBS, a noncommercial network similar to the BBC with no adverts.
Basically the BBC didn't want it. They resented the very notion of Sesame Street muscling in on their unrivaled childrens television output mixed with a great sense of middle class snobbery (dismissing sesame's very american nature). ITV were admittedly in a similar frame of mind but being commercial were more receptive to taking it on. Though at first only in a handful of regions. It took almost 10 years for the entire network to show it! (ending with Yorkshire and Tyne Tees as the very last)
The March average temperature is colder than October and November despite the UK being closer to the sun in March than in October and November. In most years March comes in colder than the preceeding November. I highly doubt this March will turn out to be a warmer month overall than November 2017 either.
Not at all. In December 1890, Scotland averaged 1.2˚C, England and Wales combined -0.9˚C! Even in that February 1986 - a similarly cold and very dry and quiet month with nothing more the cold high pressure day after day - Scotland was warmer than England and Wales by 0.2˚C, and Lerwick in the far north was probably the warmest place in the UK on average, if not to the same extent as December 1890. More recently, Scotland was warmer than England in February 1993, January 1997 and February 2012.
"it just goes to show how warm our winters are now" Haha I guess this was written in 2008 when this video was uploaded. Winter 2009 and especially the month of December 2010 were colder than this.
God, they were still showing Fireball XL5 in 1985? It couldn't really have been a "full colour" service then despite their claim! XL5 was new when I was little, in the good old black-and-while days of 1963...
Of course Jeremy is innocent. Recently uncovered evidence proves this on many counts. The truth is now revealed, all backed up by police statements. It's no longer a case to be argued...the cover up is now clearly exposed.
There's nothing on Muppet Wiki, but I'm assuming the episode of Sesame Street at the end of the clip (1713) probably aired for the first time in the United States on Wednesday, 1 December 1982, since 1710 aired Friday, 26 November.
Yes ludensian i agree that wee do make a lot of fuss when a snowflake falls, but the winter for us in N.ireland in 2010 was epic most notably for the cold temps. For eg, i was out driving at 12.00 midday in my car and my cars temp gauge remained at -12 degrees mile after mile reaching a dizzing high of -10 at 3.00pm. this is unheard of. i'm 31 and never have experienced it so cold during the day. needless to say for the month i think the daily max was -3 degrees, at night it got as cold as -18.
LufthansaTerminal To be honest, that was the year it all switched to 625 lines... but then again the latest anyone got colour was probably Channel or TSW...
Anyone know any programmes they successfully networked?! I can't help thinking whenever I saw an extremely cheap and old fashioned programme it was usually followed by an Anglia or border production slide ! Bless em !
@@muk8804 they did quite a few quality networked programmes - Tales of the Unexpected, Survival, Knightmare, The Chief Also Gambit and Sale of the Century
@@Rexowogamer this is Partially correct. Westward (TSW) was late to the color party, only Getting Color in May 1971, Shortly after the 10th Anniversary of ITV in the Southwest. Westward did, However Beat Border and Grampian by a few months to color TV. Grampian was the last Mainland British Company to get Color Broadcasts in September 1971, compared to Border, who got it in August 1971 Channel Television was the LAST to get Color in 1976! Color Timeline: November 15-17 1969: Associated Television (ATV) Granada London Weekend (LWT) Yorkshire, Thames (NOTE: Thames went Color on the 17th, which was a Monday, given that the 15th fell under LWT's Contract, being Saturday.) December 13 1969: Scottish Television (Soon to be rebranded as STV in early 1970) Southern April 4 1970: Harlech (Rebranded to HTV on the same day, since the name HARLECH was alienating to viewers on the England side of the Bristol Channel) July 17 1970: Tyne Tees October 1970: Ulster Anglia November 1970: COLOR STRIKE May to October 1971 Westward (May), Border (August 31st) Grampian (September 30th) July 1976: Channel. 405 Line Broadcasts continued up until January 3rd-5th 1985 (Most sites say January 3rd, I added the 5th since there was a RU-vid Video on Winter Hill (LINK AT END) saying that Winter Hill (Granada, Channel 9) Went off on the 5th.) Source to said Winter Hill video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y89QX0i4td0.html and the January 5th 405 shutdown date is revealed at the 16 minute, 38 second mark. There is also a BBC teletext slide that said: "THE FINAL 24 405 LINE TRANSMITTERS LISTED BELOW WILL CLOSE BETWEEN JANUARY 2ND AND JANUARY 6TH" one of those listed was WINTER HILL, Ch 12, which was activated to help with BBC 405 line reception in areas in the Northwest who had Trouble with Holme Moss (Ch 2) Source: www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/tx_list.html Sadly, the exact teletext pages have NOT Been Discovered/RE-Emulated (AT LEAST NOT YET as of 4/16/22)
3:33 'Jeremy's deep grief '. Fortunately Jeremy was able recover enough to joke around at the reception & dine in an expensive resturant that night. A few days later he went on a drug buying trip to Amsterdam. In the next few weeks he would have his parents assets valuated,enquire about buying a porsche,attempt to sell nude photos of Shelia to the Sun newspaper and take a 2 week holiday to St Tropez. Yep looks like Jeremy was really cut up over the deaths of his family. ROT IN PRISON CHILDKILLER
There's a young man in Kent who was born in hospital during the snowstorms because his Mum was taken there by two Redcaps and a Bobby in a soft top army Landrover - which was all that could be found to move her in the atrocious conditions. I was so glad she held on. Scariest bit of soldiering I ever did!
@nicenac"British rail making that crap excuse in feb 1991 that it was "the wrong kind of snow" Yeah that's certainly gone down in the history of poor excuses...But...That snow in 1991 was dry and powdery as opposed to wet and sticky...It got sucked into the traction motors and burnt many of them out. The same happened last winter, except the snow had help being sucked into the works by cooling fans. Many modern trains self combusted quite spectacularly. Filters are now fitted to keep snow out.
