I absolutely love this.Brings back so many sweet memories of when Christmas was truly magical, exciting,happy......I was born in 1973 so do remember quite a few of these......aah.... television was so so good in those days....3 channels.....and we were happy....not 400+ channels like today!!!
I agree. The Oneness idents are boring, sterile and soulless like everything else about culture in the 21st century. The soul of beauty died in the mid 1990s.
The first one I actually remember is 1973, but (unbelievably) we had a black and white TV until about 1975. My grandparents had a colour TV long before that, and from what I remember the colour was very very bright. Much more vivid than what we would want or expect now.
In 1977, the “snow adorned background” is a warped “house of mirrors” reflection of the Christmas pudding. You can even see a warped holly leaf moving by on the brandy and sauce/snowy background.
Nothing beats the 1977 ident for me, it's such a clean and well proportioned design that exudes Christmas while completely avoiding tackiness. In general I prefer the less cluttered ones, there's something very elegant and appealing about '82/'83 even if they're conceptually simple.
1986 was actually based upon a CBBC competition to design the ident. I remember entering the competition. There was also an animated sequence that went with it to advertise Christmas programming.
The 1986 Ident was a Children's BBC competition to design it. In fact there were three winners which were merged to form one ident. The Star, the tree with a face and the marching holly. A similar competition happened again in 2004 on Blue Peter.
Nice video, although (this is a minor nit-pick) around the 14:20 mark, it's supposed to represent a partridge in a pear tree like in the 12 Days of Christmas
1976’s one is so pretty 1977’s felt so good to look at 19:78’s though… hmmmm… the text is nice but that Santa head… aren’t we supposed to be ENCOURAGING kids to go to sleep on Christmas night? Not keep them up all night with nightmares. I think it would be looked better if the head was more cartoony or they didn’t use it at all and maybe used something like a snowman or had used the rotating globe but also made it look like Santa was flying around it 1979’s is so much better, it just feels so heartwarming and charming 1980’s were so cute 1981’s was pretty 07:04 I think you were probably just hungry, I also think it just shows that you don’t always have to stick to red, green and gold for a Christmas theme, you can use other colours to compliment those main colours
1989 isn't a bauble spinning around, its a child's spinning top. 1988's animated Christmas logo is a Partridge in a Pear tree (Don't think you mentioned that) A nice review nevertheless.
I remember the Santa head logo. As a kid I just saw it as a model of Santa - it’s frankly nonsense to suggest that kids were scared by it, or that it would give them nightmares. You might as well say that a Christmas card with a picture of Santa on it would make kids say “Argh! Santa’s gone all flat!” 😄
In Scotland we had 2 from 1985 that I think are quite good the first one the 1985 globe becomes a box of delights the second one stars were added to the globe
Christmas pudding will always be the best 👍 Though I love the carol singers too. Took a dive when they went animated, couldn't even tell you what the idents were last Xmas (a month ago, says everything). Should rerun the classic idents, what better than nostalgia over Xmas?
There was even more animation for the 1986 trails with Santa hiking through the snow. Happy memories. To be fair, you need to have experienced these idents on a 20 inch tv or smaller to appreciate how festive they appeared to folk at the time. Lol.
The 1988 Christmas promo and idents were based on the theme of the 'Twelve Days of Christmas', and the animation of the BBC1 ident was of 'a partridge in a pear tree'.
TBH, the 1975 ident is a lot mote forgivable, since it was 1975, there was still a recession and an oil crisis, and mechanical models took a lot of money to make, no use throwing away a perfectly good one
Good video. 1976 is such a glowing opportunity for the youtubers who recreate idents. Surely someone could produce a decent recreation in high quality.
There was an animated sequence in 1985 that was a bit more polished than the model, which Noel Edmunds got to shoot on the Late Late Breakfast show! I think 1989 is my favourite, mostly because of the frog on the train.
Love the mix of the national anthem and some ridiculous scene in some of them! I'd assumed they'd used the normal clock out globe for the end of the night, but I assume these were filmed live to air so they probably took up the space of the normal ones for a bit.
There was a year in the early 90s where the ident was deemed too jolly to be shown during closedown so they played the anthem over a picture of the Queen!
@@MadGaz85 Yes, it was Christmas 1992. I personally believe that the regions (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) chose to opt out and use the Virtual LaserDisc globe at closedown instead. I'm not sure though!
The 80s really didn’t start until about 1985. Everything before that could just as well have been from the seventies. They didn’t really make it a point to be fashionable or avant with these things until nearer the end of the decade. But at the same time they also started to become more homogenously tasteful by the time the nineties rolled up.
I bet you're a young or youngish person, your voice sounds it anyway.....I reckon you find clowns disturbing, am I right that??? That rotating santa head, nightmares???? Really??????????? says it all really about the younger generations....I'm 53, people of my generation and older don't find things like this spooky or nightmareish, in fact I remember that santas head ident very affectionately..... As for the the two soldiers on skates you said children too????Those two children were in fact adults representing two couples enjoying romantic liaisons in eighteenth or nineteenth century polite society......
The music for the 1988 ident was awful. That cold, brittle sounding digital piano sounds miserable and even worse on playback from an old mono tracked VHS with ubiquitous wow and flutter. Painful. Nice artwork though. Deserved better sound.
