BBC1: continuity and Evening News with Peter Woods - Christmas Day 1978 

The here and now is all there is , we are like the needle on the record.

Must have been great working at TV Centre in those days, un like the mess the BBC is now.

Yes, and he sounded more aristocratic than the Royal Family!

The drink by all accounts. He was drunk on more than one news bulletin according to Michael Buerk.

A basic winter BBC Saturday in the 1970s was mile better than Xmas Day now.

I thought Woods was about to say the captain had both arms ripped off, so when he said they'd been broken it was something of an anticlimax! Still, it was pointed out that the seamen were given Christmas Dinner (with the captain, I presume, being fed by the 'captain's mate').

YOU are joking?!

Well, the sombre type of joking: sighing.

lol

I was 8 this Christmas. Would have scared me to death

As a bit creepy. I remember it.

​@@colinjennings3661You are therefore the same age as me, because I was eight and a half- six months older than you!

He must be leading them away from the church

Because Ozzy Osbourne and John Wayne Gacy were not available. It was 1978, they were big.

Absolutely right. I remember a few years back being on a BA flight to the US in December and one of the video options was “Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 1973”. I thought “great - this will be perfect!” So I watched it, expecting to think “they don’t make em like this anymore!”. The reality? It was incredibly mediocre and dull, I changed to another program halfway through. You think things were better years ago (especially Christmas entertainment) largely because you were a kid back then and didn’t know any better.

Better than the endless slurry of reality crap today.

I guess when it was brand new in 1978 it had an edge. It also helped that I was 7 at the time.

Lol

I was eight and at junior school then. Remember Are you being Served well and enjoyed it, even though the double entendres didn't mean anything to me back in those days!

Sadly…. So has society..

​@@Bambisgf77the two are not connected. Diminishing influence of the Christian myths is a good thing.

​​@@graemestarkey7524Sorry, Graeme, I must respectfully disagree. Christianity is not full of myths, even though I was eight at the time and not a Christian then. If people turn their backs on God and his ways, society's foundations crumble. God has created everyone for relationship with him and we abandon his blueprint for life at our peril. Nothing and no-one can fill the God-shaped void except Jesus Christ!

@@angelacooper2661 Well said 👏 ✝️