Central - ITN Newsflash & World of Sport - 1985 

I'd been trying to get a job for a year. The recession hit my hometown very badly. Yet somehow I still have nostalgia for that time. Nothing beats the sound of racing on TV on a Saturday afternoon.

What the hell happened?

You are a bit younger than me, but I totally agree with you. What a different world it was. I would say that 75-90% of living was so much better. How sad is that to say for kids today….

I loved being with my parents back then. Life felt so safe and reliable. Not like now. Take care everyone.

The 80’s, the best time

The 80s were full of nasty quiz shows

@@jhibberd6290 like now you mean

@@steunited1969 The 80s were full of American formats. Not one was an original British format. At least now, we are producing our own format and other countries are taking our formats. For some reason we couldn't do that before

@@jhibberd6290 Bullseye wasn't American

@@steunited1969 I just thought about Bullseye about 3 seconds after my post. Bullseye was British AF. I liked Bullseye.

Is that Julie Walters at 3:29 ?

@@TonyEnglandUK No.

I know how to swim, but don't know how to lifesave. This advert from nearly 40 years ago may prompt me to learn.

It was the playing on the train tracks one for me 🥺🫣

I’ll be back.. ack..ack…ack..

@@rovingenglishman classic 😂

Very sad news. But still, bring back world of sport.

RIP adverts, how I miss them, now so called Diversity stuffed down our throats 24/7.

Don’t worry, there’s always Gary Linek…oh, hold on…🤔😏

@@mucy2807 🤣🤣😂😂

Yes, a very comforting presence back in the day. Late Saturday afternoons right before the Football Results. Very evocative.

Yes I remember them we don't sée them now I could not remember the last time I saw a news flash

Is it better now that The Troubles are over?

​@@Captain-Cardboard Haha

_"Excuse me, do you like Dextrosol? Just nick someone's then stick a javelin through their ear"_

@@TonyEnglandUK i think he was referring too ' learn to swim' .... ;)

@@monkee1969 lol so what, I'm not him. And I wasn't.

Not an advert as such, more a public information film, many of which were quite frightening. (I recall one such film, occasionally broadcast following the end of BBC1’s daily schedule, about the danger of rabies entering the UK). Their disturbing content might explain why films of this nature are no longer screened on mainstream television.

*to.

These days they'd be released from a scary place like Damascus and sent to Beiruit!

And look at the miserable sods from 4:34 they could at least cheer up a bit, they've just been released. Some people are never satisfied.

@@TonyEnglandUK They hadn't been released at that stage, from what the commentary said. Not sure who was treating them to the "farewell feast"

@@RockyRoader I'm beyond bewildered why you took my comment seriously

What is supposed to have happened when the javelin is fixed to his head? 🤣

TV uis rubbish these days ,too many channelos n a newsflash doesnt have the same impact as 24/7 news....people are almost willing something to happen with these news channels :/

Well hang around, Trump could be leading us into a nuclear war :(.

I'd thought CHIPS was Friday for us LWT types, but concede I could be wrong.

@@jellycat2444 Yup. Remember those mushroom clouds, springing up all over the UK, after his deceleration of war? Absolute madness so it was. Like a real life Threads.

You may want to pause and remember who it was that hosted it.

@@TonyEnglandUK that doesn't stop it being redone and rebranded. Man's practically dead now.

@@sinbin001 I thought you meant "bring back the old shows as repeats", sorry

@@TonyEnglandUK I defo get where you coming from there tho. 👍

R.I.P. Dickie Davie and Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.

CHiPs was seriously crappy.

No u dont

Much better times

This made me appreciate how much British athletes were household names back then.

There was one about shoes getting crushed in escalators that made me scared of them for years!

@@worldcomicsreview354 OMG! I forgot about that one. Or the kids playing in the quarry and death is following them around. (I think that is how it went). They certainly worked! I'm almost 50 and have never played in a quarry or tried to recover my frizbee from an electrical sub station either.

I think that PiF was called Dark Waters and was narrated by Donald Pleasence....truely terrifying!!

@@thetruthwillout3347 That's the one! Yes, certainly terrified me that's for sure.

*truly.

It's nothing compared to the one that featured The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water voiced by Donald Pleasance. The stuff of nightmares. I loved it when I was little. Yeah, I was _that_ kid.

Yep, I grew up in the 70s/80s and along with dire warnings about safety from our parents and PIFs, we had it covered! I think there's a place for PIFs on TV and social media today.

The one about not playing on train tracks is even worse

Absolutely. One I feel is much needed is about use of smartphones - watch the street not your phone.

@@zacmumblethunder7466 Absolutely, that faceless monk scared the bejesus out me.......

+Chris Rowl I'm from the North West and i still call our itv granada

I remember it being ATV before that.

I thought it was Saturday nights when Chips was on.

Was that Jimmy Greaves ad an early clue by ITV to tell us that World Of Sport was ending soon? I wouldn't have imagined that World of Sport would end years before the US equivalent did.

yeah i was 21 ,when weekends were week ends maybe a bit of overtime on a saturday , but more likely in the pub

@@davewright8206 When ALL footy matches were on at 3pm on Saturday afternoons!

Yorkshire or Border probably had to muck in and help.

The Athletics was produced by L.W.T. as was ALL I.T.V. Athletics coverage for the nine years that I.T.V. and Channel Four had the Domestic U.K. Athletics rights.The Tour de France was also on daily on Channel Four. I believe this was 1984 and not 1985. As there was no Wrestling. A great programme wish I could watch it again. These days each of those sporting events would have there own 4 hour programmes in their own right.. Probably on Satellite. Didn*t Jim Rosenthal look young! A former 52 disabled carer for my late and lovely Mum. From the New Forest. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

garry simpson it would have been 1985 - the LA Olympics referred to by Jim Rosenthal as being last year was in 1984. World of Sport finished in September 1985 so must have been one of the last editions.

Yes you are right! Thank You for your reply. HAPPY DAYS!

No probs Garry - all the best!

I watch a lot of old stuff and can't see the Thames TV ident without hearing "Here they are, now, Morecambe and Wise".

Being on Saturdays, in the London ITV region World of Sport would have been on London Weekend Television not Thames TV.

I wonder what he’s upto these days.

@@andydavis7254 He has a RU-vid channel offering newbies lessons on how to get into voiceover and encouraging them to work for low fees on platforms like Fiverr, much to the chagrin of many professional VO artists

@@andydavis7254 He’s doing voice over work and voice over coaching. He was my voice over coach!

Really? I groaned at the feebleness of it..at the ''punchline'', thought; 'Oh, they're meant to be 'punks', are they??!- this went out in 1985, remember, not 1976..

It was more like Grandstand that had endless horse racing

@@johncarroll772 I remember Grandstand had lots of rugby. When I was a child, I wondered why there was no live football on Saturday afternoons, as that was the sport that everyone I knew wanted to see. I had no notion of commercial contracts, etc

This was the year World of Sport ended.

They would call today's programmes World Of Shite

​@@bobgreen623 LOL..😅

Tony Ross Last time I have heard Zola was living in South Africa again.

That's why they were effective.

@@Flamboyant-randomist the fallout can be that kids grow up scared of water.

I think you'll find the national unemployment rate in 1985 was still pretty high following the recession and mass unemployment of the early 80s

In 1985 the UK unemployment rate was 11.375%, or roughly three times what it is now.

Irony is lost on some people. Good joke btw!

lol that still makes me laugh in 2023.

A cheapo rip-off of Battlestar Galactica, so quality was assured.🤨

@@bobrew461 which was a rip off of seven samurai

Only three series of Ultra Quiz were made - the first series was the most lavish - Michael Aspel in a studio, with an audience, and Leslie Crowther on location all over the world, series 2 eliminated the studio element and was made on film, with David Frost, from locations all over the world, and Series 3 was really cheaply made - they never went to anywhere outside of the entire area served by TVS (Hampshire to Kent) - on that basis, a fourth series could not have been made, as they wouldn’t have left the TVS car park - would have recruited contestants from the area and had two teams, one from near Southampton and one from near Maidstone! Unless another ITV region made it, like Thames or ATV - or it could have been an ITV Network Production, with contestants from all the regions!

Great film with great cast and James horner score epic