Christmas 1981 on BBCtv part 2 

Christmas telly in those days was a special event. Something to really look forward to, I really miss those days.

I remember buying the Radio Times and TV Times and excitedly marking all the stuff to watch. It felt like every day was Saturday.

Christmas telly in those times was brilliant, great programs, some really great shows,... and wonderful entertainment for all the family,.......today's tv is boring and dull by comparison,...Christmas Telly was always a special time, a real look forward highlight of the whole year......miss those great times

Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that Gone with the wind had its first uk TV showing in ‘81

Lovely stuff! Takes me right back to being 8 years old! Loved the Ceefax Christmas tree at the beginning! I remember our first telly which had Ceefax and Teletext.. I thought we were dead posh! 😅

Can remember getting tv times radio times me and my sister looking through it marking out good stuff 4 channels

Thankyou David for this trip down memory lane

Which we could turn the clock back, when we were all hear.

Give me Larry or Bruce's Generation Game over ruddy X factor any day. That kids weather picture was good, had worse hung on my wall 😀

Sheer nostalgia!

Thanks David for another good watching post of yours

Christmas with Charlie Brown and Snoopy….bliss!

Great to see the old Look North crew & set, with an EMI 2001 camera thrown in for good measure!

It’s Christmas every day on tele now. You can watch what you want when you want. Such a special time of the year back then

Great memories and true likable talented celebrities and music, not like the last 10-15 years. It is painful now to watch...big time!!!

It's like a completely different world.....

Just after 14 minutes to one o’clock.......very Alan Partridge....

Yarwoods lat show for the BBC. By 81 his star was waning but made a mistake by leaving the BBC

Those were the years when the BBC didnt feel it had to be our moral compass

I was eleven and in my first year at senior school. Better quality with just three TV channels - now we have so many and such rubbish!

The funniest thing about this video is the recycling of the same Christmas trees.. 10:28 note the Dolly trolley under the trees.. then also note it’s the same one in both shows. The tree decorations are identical lol.. 😂 of course it makes sense why though! Just first time I’ve noticed it.. 🤣 not like now, each show seems to have their own trees in the background. Guess they cared more about wasting money back then! I was 13 when these aired, damn were did those 42 years go 😆 but it has to be said they ALL created original content especially for Christmas, not like now where it’s mostly repeats! You only have to look at the number of R’s next to the listings!

Its great having unlimted tv and on demand stuff ,but there was something special about christmas tv and you dernt miss the big movie you might have to wait for it to be again in a couple of years

2:27 - a very short weather forecast! "Very chilly".

When TV was worth watching never watch the tripes they show on tv now

Funny seeing future Christmas Day's giant of the festive season Only Fools and Horses first Christmas special on the Holiday Monday

End of term disco! Lol ahh memories! Now known as the expensive American rip off that is a prom! Funny to see del and Rodney hidden away at 10pm! A modern day blankety blank would be full of 'star's I've never heard of, nobodies from reality telly.

That look north thing was just plain weird, i was sitting there thinking WTF.

Little did we know what was to come.

The national anthem at closedown, the past is a foreign country.

That's going back Grange Hill. Just like the school I went to!

A bit nightmarish from 9.26. reminds me of the shining. Great video though

What was Bungle doing in the Look North studio?

Doonican with Dickie Henderson.... Dickie Henderson..!

Silly question. Why did you stay up in 1981 to record this? Genuinely interested

I'm not sure what that is called at the beginning, but great idents from both BBC1 and BBC2!

I'll take Grandad's paint-stripper any day over K9 and Company! Lord love them all

9:48-9:55 Judith Stamper of Look North

Can you post the full bbc1 christmas eve 1981 closedown?

Don't you have any old crimbo telly from ITV??

Where is part 1? I'm sure it used to be about with the Doctor Who team saying Happy Christmas from the Earthshock set.

What is ceefax?

JEAN AND JOHN

It makes me laugh when people say "the good old days"... But, back in 1981 itself, people were probably saying the same thing about 1941. People of 2022 will probably be pining for 2022 in 2062, etc... Times have to change, and we should be glad they do, otherwise we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.

Will dig the tape out and see what's there

Well; you wouldn't get "Songs of Praise" now or folks singing "White Christmas". It would be bound to upset some snowflake or terrorist.