How right you are! This 1974 schedule is way better than today's so-called television, particularly on a Saturday. Give me these programmes rather than Strictly Come Dancing and Casualty any day! Thank you for the posting though-well done!
Kingofpunk Saturday night television is really riveting nowadays, talent contests, reality trash, lottery games, You've Been Framed. Give me that schedule from 1974 anyday.
Haha in the bit with Petula Clarke I was expecting the table to tilt and the bottle of wine to start sliding, as in the famous Morecambe and Wise sketch with Shirley Bassey.
Real 70s t.v. nostalgia here.Thanks.'Kojak' was the BBC Saturday night big draw until 'Starsky & Hutch' took over for the rest of the 70s.(After the tv cop show came 'Match of the day' & 'Parkinson').
Actually, they were introduced to broadcasters in 1956! Domestic VTRs were available to (rich!) consumers in the 1960s! Home VCRs didn't take off until the late 70s / early 80s! I got my first VHS VCR in 1981!
A bit difficult for me to evaluate that observation, because I was only four and Play School age. Too young to understand or remember that period first time round!
really enjoyed this. the BBC in the 70's was in its hey day in my opinion. lovely scren cap for cannon and that news intro music took me back. 'saturday night at the movies season' too!! do you know who the continuity announcer is here. thanks atvmidlands
Because there was only three channels, no videos, no internet, no internet, so the only alternative would probably be the radio. Oh and I forgot there was only four radio channels in those days and Radio 1 closed at 7pm.
I remember the party political broadcasts being aired simultaneously on all 3 channels, back then. And that they would always remind you of the fact by stating as much, meaning you weren't able to turn over to watch something else. As a youngster, at the time, I remember switching between channels anyway to try and see if they were properly synchronised or not. They generally were, although, on the set we had at the time, there was a split second of static when switching channels and unless you caught it just right, it wasn't always clear if it was or not. I remember the scheduling pretty well for Saturday nights, back then. Prior to the Generation Game, they'd have Basil Brush and/or Doctor Who, as well as the early evenings news. All of which followed an afternoon of Grandstand. After Kojak, they'd have Match of the Day followed by Parkinson. Although, I'd have been tucked up in bed by then.
@lndac02 Such was entertainment in those days, although is it any worse than the X Factor? Yes there was some almighty tripe around but this era produced some fantastic sitcoms, ITV wasn't Chav TV and we still had far higher standards of presentation.
Going back to what I put a few hours ago Radio three sometimes either ended at 10pm or sometimes 11pm but I can remember when sometimes Radio 1 & 2 and Radio 3 & 4 combined during the day as I use to listen to Radio 2 it always started at 5am then Radio 4 at 6am Radio 1 at same time Radio 4 came on Radio 3 came on at 7am
Fascinating slice of presentation history there. It'd be interesting to see the PEB in full too. Did they really take all 3 channels off schedule for those back then?
@SeventiesMania ILR only really existed in the big cities and Luxembourg's reception was always terrible. Until ILR expanded again in the eighties, the BBC had a monopoly on the radio in two thirds of the country. I can still remember after 7pm when Radio 1 and BBC local radio closed down, only having three radio stations.
I can remember during the week day Radio 1 went off the air at 10pm to hand over to Radio 2 until Radio 2 went off the air at 2-230 am Radio 3 was only on for a few hours a day and Radio 4 finished at midnight or midnight 30 Radio Sheffield and Leeds finished at 11 Radio Hallam went on till 2-3 am Pennine and Trent ended at 1am those were the days
Was the BBC operating under some sort of severe budgetary constraints at the time? This whole thing looks amateurish even by 1970's standards It's utterly remarkable that anyone with even a basic camcorder or any reasonably modern video recording device could pretty quickly put something together that would put this broadcast to shame.
Talk about right-wing bias at the BBC, that Labour broadcast lasted about three seconds, did they do this to the Tories LOL? Actually I'd love to know what that announcer would be saying when the microphone goes off about Labour, as he sounds very blue and upper crust.
