Anglia Tv Xmas day 1985. 

There’s a peculiar sense of comfort in watching these old clips. Feels less stressful than today. Happy days

So many great memories,...from a time when telly at Christmas was a total delight, and a real treat, ..with so many great programs on.......miss those wonderful times,...🎀 merry Christmas to all watching in 2019 🎀

The Anglia knight on horseback and that theme music are such a part of my childhood.

RIP Carol Barnes, a beautiful newsreader,

All these years and I never got to see Marmalade The Cat's little dance!

I like the comment on "Anglia staff down the pub". Now's here a true story. That's exactly where the Anglia staff where. The Anglia TV continuity announcer in clip is the late great Michael Speake. As a train driver in Norwich in the eighties I & my mates used to hang out in Ritz'ies night club after a late evening shift; which was half way between Anglia House and the Anglia TV Theatre Studios in Anglia Square, Norwich. Michael used to flit out between shows to the club for a few bevies before rushing back to the studios to do his continuity bit. Anglia was the pioneer of 24 hour TV. He was great. Now Westward TV viewers will know about Gus Honeybun the birthday bear. When colleague Helen McDermot moved from Westward to Anglia she brought the idea with her. Anglia already had a birthday club but expanded it by creating BC (Birthday Club Bear). They could not copy Guys for obvious copyright reasons! Unfortunately for Michael as in Anglia tradition as news reader, continuity and any other job that needs doing presenter he got the job of birthday club presenter during kids hour late afternoon; and had to work the puppet. You can imagine the stick he got in the club about having his hand up the puppet's you know what! Thing is Michael dressed in his trade mark upper class coat suit and bow tie took it all in good faith. He was the true epitome of local TV. He would pop back between shows and buy us a drink. We thought we'd meet stardom! Well not really but he was accepted as one of the Ritz'ies gang. Bet club go'ers outside ITV London Studios don't get that nowadays? Bring back local TV or is it to late?

what a great year that was. :-)

life seemed so much easier make in the 80s.

2:02 Anyone else think the number of puppets made for this commercial is a bit extravagant?

22:54 "Andy's Night Out With The Girls" takes on new meaning these days...

A very young Phil Davis in the Panama cigar advert.

Love the cheesy synth tones on the news :D

Wednesday 25th December 1985.

R.I.P carol barnes

Very sad this along with the News the late and great Carol Barnes reading the news. She was heartbroken [I believe when her daughter died in a parachute accident.

22:56 The Panama advert - It looks like we very briefly see the Daily Mirror front page for the Tuesday 18th September 1984 issue. The headline was: "Andy's Night Out - with the girls", referring to Prince Andrew during his pre-Fergie relationship era. Also, it mentions that the Daily Mirror still costs 16p etc. However, the "page six" featured in the advert was a spoof page that wasn't in that day's issue - (page six in that issue was a full page advert for Raffles cigarettes). Anyway, how can that be page six when it would have been an odd numbered page on the right of the newspaper when it is opened? And the date above "page six" seems to read Thursday ? September 1984. I wondered whether the Daily Mirror made a special spoof page for the makers of that advert to use? None of the "names" of the horses come up in the UK Press Online search!

In the days when ITV was a regional network However in 1985 we had TVS so they had there own programme promotions with the TVS logo replacing the ITV Network PRO MOs. TVS [Especcially for the first three years had a lot of its own progrrammes instead of ITV Network Proggramming. Like nu. 73 replacing TISWAS for six weeks. Have you got any thing from TVS? GOD BLESS!

Well, I declare, Lionel Blaire with auburn hair!

It is indeed 1985, if you look closely at the end of the WHISKAS ad, it says COPYRIGHT 1985 in small letters at the bottom of the screen.

17:04 when you're having a bit of trouble with a gas appliance call the gas people. We have a COMPUTER !!!!

5:41 AND NOW, FROM NORWICH ITS THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK

What advert is this at 16:28?

Cute cats & a woman wearing Hunter wellies in the Whiskas commercial.

Phil Davis in the Panama Cigar advert?

Good old Anglia.

Your information noted 197s when it IS actually 1985.

Lovely cats

RIP Lionel Blair

@5:15 is that Emile from the wild geese???

i was 9 in 1985, do we think things were better then in general or am i wearing rose tinted glasses?

17:30 why is there snow on his van? How long has he been visiting?

How come "GREGORY'S GIRL" was on so late? It's a family film, isn't it??

Rose tinted glasses come to mind if people thought the 1980s were better times 😂

Bowie giving it all the large there with Tina..go'on

They used to advertise cigars on tv??

3:15 that cat is definitely dead now.

15:21 No expense spent on CGI 15:51 People now talk about Global Warming. Bull! Tobacco ads.

back in the 80s

LOL at the cat food advert. She says the cat must like it, cos she licks it all up. The fact that this is what its been given to eat and if he didn’t eat it it would starve didn’t seem to have crossed her mind.

Startling contrast between Max Headroom and the Anglia carriage clock and Handel here. That Carpet City ad is horrible, horrible, horrible - the implicit anti-urbanism and the tone of the "you got it" seem to sum up a lot of the things I don't like about the region (no need to mention *that* character). Three tobacco ads and Fresh Fields being on Christmas Day are even more antediluvian though.

That fireman went on to become a gay singer

Blimey, I don’t remember Christmas Day TV being THIS bland back in 1985 at least with ITV. Not very festive was it. We were clearly more easily pleased back then, lol.