Some BBC Television Christmas programme trails and Christmas Morning with Noel Edmonds clips from 1988. Copyright the British Broadcasting Corporation 1988.
I remember stocking on blank VHS tapes to record all the great films that were shown (including Back to the Future). Amazing times, sadly not to be repeated 😞
Christmas felt like Christmas then ..good times , England was England..TV was good ..we was all in same boat not a pot to piss in but it always felt magical..I'd give anything to go bk too that time , it felt like a big hug that era 🥺
3:00 - Noel said they were in Studio 3 at the BBC Television Centre in London. Now in December 2021 that studio is the permanent home to ITV Daytime programmes Good Morning Britain & This Morning. BBC in 1988 would never have imagined two ITV shows permanently occupying one of their television studios!
It’s sad that they left Television Centre. The development looks really smart now but it’s a pity the BBC could n’t sold part of the site and still retained a presence there.
@@KevinM913 Kevin, the BBC are there. Their commercial subsidiary BBC Studios owns and operates Studios TC1, TC2 and TC3 at Television Centre. ITV Daytime do not own the studios they use. They simply hire them from the BBC, a fact which ITV loves to gloss over and ignore in their publicity of their daytime shows Kevin.
@@KevinM913 When Ant and Dec produced their Saturday Night Takeaway from Studio TC1, all publicity boards which had BBC STUDIOWORKS logo was covered in black bin bags when Ant and Dec wandered the corridors. That is how much they never wanted the public to know. Embarrassing a bit, using your arch rivals TV studios. ITV should never have closed down The London Studios on the south bank. At least the BBC kept three of the original eight TV studios in operation. ITV dumped the whole lot, including the famous Studio 1 with the well known audience seating structure.
Love the stock laughter effect after Les Dennis' Santa joke. I first heard that in Danger Mouse back in the 80s as a gag. "Steven Spielberg's Back to the Future". Hmmm.
Yeah it wasn't remotely funny that joke. And I never found Russ Abbott funny, but at least he was entertaining and not vulgar. Yeah they clearly didn't know that Back to the Future was a Robert Zemeckis film not a Speilberg film, though Speilberg was executive producer or producer.
I was 5 at this time, and up until about about 2000, tv was amazing, especially at Xmas. I think from about 2000 onwards, I just watched sport or was out getting drunk. Nowadays, I dont even have a tv subscription! Just watch streaming services and youtube.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's the same things every Christmas day on BBC 1. I looked up the schedules online, and for the last decade, every single Xmas day they've shown, Call the Midwife, strictly come dancing and Mrs Brown's Boys. That's got to be a record. They don't try so much now, maybe because there's too much competition from hundreds of channels etc?
I can’t believe how times have changed so much. I know it’s a cliche, but tv WAS so much better quality back then (apart from Les Dennis maybe 🤣) Even watching this now brings back those magical Christmas vibes from the past.
Yes this was my early teenage years as I was 14 years old in 1988 and you are correct in that people really did look forward to the Christmas TV 📺 shows and the many Christmas 🤶 special as some of the nations favourites had reached their peak 🗻 of television excellence during the mid 1980's. I never really thought of them as the good times as to me it was just everyday life back then, however now over 30 years on I can see why you feel that they were indeed 'Good Times' indeed, Happy Christmas 🤶
