Following a 'request' for the intro into Charlie Browns Christmas, here is an idea of how things used to be when you didn't know when the Christmas ident would appear. You sat around recording bits and bobs until it turned up.
My last innocent Christmas. I was 13. ...14 end of January. My mother died 10 march 1983. ......life became very very grey. Never recovered fully from the trauma and the tsunami on my life. She was a fabulous mother. This has made me so melancholy
Reminiscing back to when i was a kid, tv seemed more innocent, we were satisfied with four channels, proper presentation with proper celebrities. Days long gone.
Christmas in the late 70's early 80's was always magical... You watched nearly everything but The Morcombe and Wise Christmas Show was the cherry on the cake...
I was 13 and waiting for what I hoped was a ZX Spectrum. Definitely one of the best Christmas hols ever and hearing Madness with Our House takes me right back as my little brother played it constantly.
I would have been 12 at the time and remember those days well (second year at senior school). My brother, who was fifteen then, had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and played games on it. More innocent days growing up!
I enjoyed this video so much. Made me quite emotional actually. I was ten and I remember that Christmas Eve and the TV really well. I was sent to bed at nine o'clock ha ha to wait for Santa.
I used to hate been sent to bed early, knowing I would be up much earlier than my mother and father who would of course want a lie-in due to the fact they of course went to bed 🛏 late. I don't know 😏
I was nine at the time and remember it well as it was the year I got big trak for Christmas lol. I loved that thing but it did use up a lot of batterys though.
@@areyouserious3092 I got a big trak for Christmas on Christmas day 1982. I always remember when my dad got it in the toy shop, another boy asked his mother for one. "Oh no that will be to big to fit in Santa's present bag" She told him to avoid getting him one. Luckily the bag he used to bring my presents was big enough so I got one 😉
@@areyouserious3092 Did you get the trailer to? I always want that, however it was never in stock plus the silly old ladies in presusirs toy shop didn't have any idear what they actually sold. When all the transformers came out a few years later, I remember having to explain to them what a customer wanted to buy as they did not know one from the other 🙄
@@Robert_Manners no the trailer was very hard to come by unfortunately shame because I always wanted to deliver a Apple to my dad like the kid in the ad did lol but alas it was never to be instead he had to do with 6 blasts from the very loud blue light or should I say super lazer blaster as I probably liked to think of it.
Great video and definitely better times. I was 8 and loved being off school and the whole build up to Christmas surrounded by family members long gone. Great times, there was just enough technology but it didn't take over everything like it does now.
I enjoyed this so much.Rememberong when my daughter was very young and no matter how hard things had been we always had a big Christmas tree ,lots of Christmas music ,beautiful Pip and Grandad to Love us.Noel Noel.!
So nostalgic. I was 9. The tree still seemed huge, Woolworth Pick & Mix were the best, and the table groaning with food. Every Christmas we'd get the Radio Times and TV Times and first of all go to the Christmas Day pages to see what the big films were, then go through all the days marking what we wanted to watch.
I was 17 in 82. But me and mum & dad would go to my Uncle Pete's (mum's brother) huge house in Guildford every Christmas from when I was about 7 onwards. It was always a three or four day stay. At 17 I was your normal stroppy teenager but every year there'd be about 20+ family members there and it was always a good laugh. I miss those Christmases.
Im 14 i wish i could go back to the 70s for a day and see what everything was like i will be constantly throughout my life wanting to experience the past when i didnt exist
It was the most exciting evening of a child's life- the BBC idents,not really liking Val Doonican but knowing it meant there wasn't long to go,the decorations put up,worrying if Santa would come,the carols,the big film premiere,scoffing chocolate coins.
Even though I'm, well, much older ;-) I still have a chocolate coins stacked-up as I sit on the sofa and watch something Christmassy each year - great memories.
Thanks for all your archived telly David. You know, I moved away from home, hearth and country over 30 yrs ago. Watching these telly clips is like coming home at Christmas to where I lived all those years ago.
I did the reverse- spent some time in Spain really liked tve ident. Decided to go back later and record it ... and they changed it...and no one appears to have recorded much of it...spent years gathering all the clips I needed to reassemble it.
It certainly was, I’m writing this August 27th 2020, now we are constantly told by our pathetic media that we should be ashamed of ourselves and that there’s nothing good about our history, it’s tragic. I’m just pleased I lived through much better times.
My friends round the corner only just purchased a TV and yes it was Black & white, they didn't go colour until 1984 in their house. Surprisingly no one wanted to go to their house to watch TV 📺
As a fourteen year old back then I didn't watch much TV, but Christmas did drag me to the box. Not many fourteen year olds have that inclination nowadays...
I'd have been 9......and full of joy and happiness..... looking forward to getting some Star Wars toys,an Oor Wullie or The Broons annual....and the proverbial Selection Box!.....aah....and all my grandparents would have been alive and well then.....brings a proper tear to the eye....a happy kind of sadness.....l😢....life was definitely simpler and much happier then I do feel....I'd go back tomorrow
I'm so glad this posted thankyou sooo much ceefax and so much more I love it ...and the graphics or the lack of lol how innocent and advanced we thought it was 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏🙏
The european teletext cards with greetings were a nice touch including a suprise appearance from Janos Kadar's Hungary.......Note too that yankee 1978 charlie brown craze was still around ...
Interesting to see that the Christmas BBC One ident, the snowflake, only makes it appearance later on in the day of Christmas Eve, and would have been taken away by the end of Boxing Night. Two and a half days and that was it. In 2015 BBC One launched their Christmas ident on 1st December and kept it on air for 31 days. How times have changed.
Try BBC2 1989 - Due to transmission of OU programmes all afternoon on Christmas Eve the ident didn't appear until after 6pm and things were not much better on Christmas Day. Add in the number of ballets, films etc you won't find many copies of that years symbol.
In 1982, Christmas Day was a Saturday, the 26 December was called Christmas Sunday (not Boxing Day), and Monday 27 December was called Boxing Day. I think there was a Bank Holiday Tuesday on 28 that year, because 25 and 26 December were Saturday and Sunday respectively. So I think they kept the Christmas symbols on thorough 27 and possibly even 28 December that year.
These days the decisions which are made in TV scheduling are probably made by the same overgrown kids who put their Christmas trees up the moment Hallowe'en is out the way.
Christmas Eve was and still is a normal working day for lots of folks. When on a weekday, anyway. In Scotland Christmas Day itself wasn't even taken that seriously until the 1970s or so.
Now it's revealed on the 2nd or 3rd of December and ends on New Year's Day. I cannot understand that as New Year's Day is still part of the Festive Season.
The models usually took up a fair bit of space in Pres B, which was the small studio usually used for weather forecasts, The Old Grey Whistle Test, and Rutland Weekend Television.
the only time we got a Radio Times or TV Times was at Christmas! looking through the programmes to see what was on during the day, when mum & dad weren't so fussed for the TV and around this time my sister got a 12" b/w portable TV in her room!!!! hahaha
I was 10 then. Back in those days TV especially at Christmas time was a huge thing, as well as VHS video recorders which felt like owning your own private cinema. We didn’t have so much in those days, and so modern technology was still a strange and wondrous thing for us. Nowadays we have too much choice and so much newer technology that it’s all become rather “meh”.
You should have seen the blank periods during the moon landings. It looked as if someone typed an update on a piece of paper then superimposed it over a picture of the moon.
Of course at that time outside of the Festive season, BBC1 would either have been showing Schools series or if not Test Card F or Ceefax at times. This all altered in 1983 when Breakfast Time started on the 17 January and later that year on the 19 September when Daytime on Two started on BBC2; also in May that year when both channels started showing Ceefax more than Test Cards F or G at the time too.
Christmas Ceefax in Vision Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982 and that was Joy To The World and the third Christmas festive tape in December 1975 on BBC1.
Fascinating video with a somewhat "different" feel though the programme I remember most was on BBC2 "Carols From Kings" the first one directed by Stephen Cleobury who recently retired I'm very high faluting you see...
The guests on the Christmas edition of Crackerjack were Su Pollard & the DJ Mike Read both of them got gunged on the Take A Chance part of the show while Stu Francis got away with it.
@@bdavebaldwin Here in Wales we had a different Christmas logo to the network one which that year was a rotating Christmas star with a starry background with 'BBC Wales' underneath in bold orange lettering.
Can anyone tell me who recorded the Xmas carol medley for soloists choir and orch that begins at 1.25? It is on Ceefax elsewhere but not complete. Loved this as a teenager in the 1980's.
Were Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty The Snowman (the other three iconic Christmas specials) ever aired on BBC and/or ITV around Christmastime?
Take Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer as an example. Although made in the USA in 1964 it took until Christmas Eve 1965 for itv to air it. (The BBC were slightly snooty about U.S. tv then). Itv used it most Christmases then dropped it only for the BBC to pick it up again in 2003. There was a long period when it wasn’t on. But it only appeared at Christmas. The BBC used to drag a repeat from the Morcambe and Wise Christmas show the following summer …. Didn’t usually work very well.
@@bdavebaldwin So I would assume Frosty the Snowman and Grinch were also on ITV (here, Frosty has always been on CBS since its first airing in 1969 while Grinch bounced around many broadcast and cable networks since 1966)?
@@johnnyballenatl I can’t either remember (or actually find) anything about Frosty or The Grinch actually being shown on BBC or ITV. We only had 3 days of Christmas programming so gaps for non-uk additions were rare. In the states first NBC then in 1972 CBS aired Rudolph so it got a continuous run. In the 60s/70s itv found the Christmas period a flat time for advertising so tended to go for regular programmes with a few seasonal extras.
Does anybody know who the narrator was & what years he did this? His voice evokes so many memories for me. I’m about to turn 50 & this seems like yesterday.
This is for people who say Christmas TV on the BBC was better in the old days. And as for climate change, it was mild and wet on Christmas Eve 41 years ago. FA changes.
