I was 10 years old. I think I had a Spectrum computer that year. I loved playing the hundreds of games that came with it and stuffing my face with sweets, chocolate, crisps and bottles of pop lol. Good times :)
I was sixteen then. My brother Anthony, who would have been nineteen at the time, possessed a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which he used to play games on. That was a few years previously!
It's a shame that there were a few dodgy characters on TV back then (like Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall), but apart from those wrong-uns, I agree, this was a great era for TV, especially around Christmas.
Thank you for this. This was a great line-up. Christmas TV felt more special back in the day (even though I was only 7 during Christmas 86, and I likely would have been in bed long before any of these programmes aired, although weirdly enough, I do remember the Educating Rita trailer). Maybe it's because we only had four channels.
I liked when all-night TV was a novelty on ITV full of weird stuff, interspersed with movie reviews, 60s Batman episodes and The Hitman and Her, rather than the blandness and sameyness of 24-hour news and shopping/gambling shows.
I was sixteen at the time and prefer a less complicated era (simpler pleasures without the intrusion of social media and cyberspace). Four TV channels with more quality than the rubbish on the numerous channels of recent vintage!
No doubt it would all be accused of being too white and too male, and perhaps it was, but I do appreciate how polite it was, as you say. There was something very soothing about it.
@@edmund184 'Calmer'. Good word. Yes, it was. It was less in-your-face and more relaxed. I rather miss those days (which is not to say I miss everything about that era). And there was some cosy about the likes of Russell Harty and Val Donigan.
