Includes: End of Parkinson Weather forecast with Bill Giles Slide - BBC2 Midnight Movie - 'Five Graves to Cairo' Slide - Sunday on BBC1 Clock & National Anthem Announcer: Richard Straker ANY AND ALL COPYRIGHTS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
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Bring back the old magnetic symbols. The BBC the only ones that did a proper weather forecast with the weather map and meteorologists invision back then. Over on ITV at the time they did far inferior weather forecasters with a graphic still flashing up straight after the ads after the ITN News saying STV Weather or Tyne Tees Weather e.g.. and the local continuity announcer giving only a brief summary of tonights and tomorrow's local weather. Why was there no ITV UK National Weather forecast before 1989?
+Vincent 79 A simpler time where channels were not on air 24/7. Overnight Closedowns on BBC1, BBC2 and ITV, plus off air most of the day on BBC1 and nothing on BBC2 until 7.30pm apart from one programme about 11am during the week way back then was marvellous
And also Michael Fish and Ian McCaskill were still presenting forecasts in the 1990's. Used to love those biting northerly winds back in the 1970's and 1980's. Not quite so much horrible wet southwesterly stuff when they were using the magnetic symbols to produce the forecast way back then.
@Big Valerie Yeesh. No need for that sort of thing, I just don't think the 80's was a bad decade. I don't think any decade is strictly good or bad, they've all had good things and bad things in them. Were you especially offended because I linked you that John Cena meme?
in the old days there was no back projection - the map was actually behind the presenter and not on a blue screen - note the shadow, no longer present in today's forecasts. the symbols were magnetic and sometimes they slipped down the map and the presenter trying to put them back in place but failing. the national anthem playing and the white dot and the 'tone'.
I remember one instance of the weather map having the F that was part of FOG fall off during the broadcast, with the presenter saying at the end, 'Sorry about the F in fog.'
Or, actually have it go back to what it was once renowned for. i.e. actual quality programming rather than endless repeats and mediocre shows with z-list, 'celebrities', in them that haven't changed for the last 2 decades. Also cut the number of broadcast hours down to when the majority of people are actually in a position to want to watch television. Get rid of the 24 hours a day with the licence fee being spent on decent prime-time shows that have people who actual talent on them. If they can't do that, then it's time to close down for good.
It's a reference to one of the guests on the preceding edition of Parkinson - hypnotist Martin St James. I'm guessing the lady sitting on his lap at the end was one of his victims (who in their right mind would willingly sit in Parky's lap, for God's sake?!).
I think the BBC had less annoying mish-mash of ident strewn, overhyped back-patting hullabaloo. Much better with a more straightforward style back then which had more quality and memorable moments and at least it didn't stretch out shite at night like a long skid mark like it does now.
Well, it may have been after Christmas but these days, around that same time, BBC1 still uses its Christmas ident, what the fuck for I don't know - I think that technically December 29 is the fifth day of Christmas, although to be fair it never FEELS like Christmas.
Hi, to give you a little detail, BBC One Christmas idents in the 1970s and 1980s, and yes into the 90s, would only be unveiled on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and would remain until closedown on Boxing Night. I remember a closedown from 1991 where the announcer said take a last look at our Christmas idents as we will be packing them away for another year after tonight, and that was Boxing Night in 1991. I think it was only in the 2000s that the Christmas idents stay up longer, and only since the 2010s have they been launched earlier and earlier.
One of the guests that evening was a hypnotist, Martin St James, so I'm guessing it was probably one of his 'victims'; after all, who would ever do such a thing willingly?!
The BBC1 logo shown on the title slide didn't appear on the globe until 1981. Interesting that it's used here nearly two years sooner than that. Also, this is the dying few days of a pretty awesome decade. The 80s were mostly crap, especially 1980-1984 or so.
No doubt a, 'job lot', of idents they had done at the same time BBC2 went with the, 'stripes', idents. but were held in reserve on the main globe/clock captions until 1981, for some reason.
