Trailers, Testcards and 1st transmission of the idents. (Which took place in the early afternoon on Christmas Eve - meaning I finished up recording every programme junction from 9am)
The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river
Thanks for the great memories , I was 16 and got a portable black and white tv for my room and my mum bought me that very double issue radio times , so I could tick off what I wanted to watch on tv, a tradition I still do today I’m 53! My mummy had sadly gone now but little Christmas traditions carry on
For me Christmas started whe my Dad would come home with The Radio Times and the TV Times double issues. Marker pen all the great stuff. I remember one year BBC 1 was showing all the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan's each morning, Heaven. Also one year they would show the Buster Crabb Flash Gordon serials. I'm a bit older than you and really loved them times. I have all the Tarzan movies and the Flash Gordon's now but it's understandable that it's not the same. I think I was about 16 when I had a portable TV for Christmas and I loved it in my bedroom especially, The BBC 2 horror double bills. "Infinity" magazine is an absolute joy concerning old TV shows and I rush out to buy it every month. I nearly cried when I read your reply because I remember the joy of the TV guides and remember simpler and lovelier times.👍👍
Wow, I miss old TV 📺, and remember when you get your first digital alarm radio lolz ,waking us up for work with that awful buzz buzz buzz, I was amazed with the red digital read out and buttons 😀 FANTASTIC days ❤🇬🇧💯🙏😎
@johnbarry1965 so agree They were much simpler Happy times although there was mass unemployment people seemed more content with there lives Christmas 1982 and 1983 were favourite Christmases for me plus 1983 was a good year
Same here. Me and my sisters would then go through every day of the 2 weeks and circle what we would watch for every minute. Was easier when there were only 4 channels to worry about
I would have been 12 (you are the same age as my brother Anthony). I well remember the Falklands War and the arrival of Channel 4. Takes me right back.
I remember falling asleep and waking up to ceefax and Oracle in the middle of the night. I can't put my finger on why but TV seemed much cosier back then. I suppose it's because I was a kid. Seems their are too many PPI and litigation adverts now though.
It was so much less sophisticated and slick back then, and the ‘on tonight’ schedule made it feel way more intimate. Nobody was trying to sell you a lifestyle or an agenda, and the end of the schedule the continuity announcer would bid you goodnight and that was that. If you were reckless enough to be staying up beyond that then you were on your own.
It was simpler. It didn't treat people like children (even at xmas). There was a programme called "The World of James Joyce" on Xmas Day. Then Burden of Dreams!!
I was 5 and getting very excited for Christmas! I hate to be all 'kids these days...', but it just seems like they don't really experience it like we did. Of course our parents thought the same thing and that TV was ruining us 😁It's hard to describe that feeling of a dark winter's night outside, Christmas tree lit up bright with big multi-coloured lights and lots of enticing presents under, looking longingly wondering if your 'big present' was what you hoped it was. Strings of cards hanging from the walls. Quality Street and Roses on the coffee table next to the bumper TV and Radio Times. Bottles of Cherryade, Irn Bru and R Whites in the kitchen. Mum baking mince pies and sausage rolls listening to Jimmy Young on the radio... It's all gone now, but the memories and the feelings remain! How lucky we were!
I remember the strings of cards on the wall, and anytime one of us would close the door a little more swiftly the resulting waft of air would have them scattered across the carpet! lol good times
I was brought up in a strict Catholic family. We had to go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day so when Christmas landed on a Saturday it meant we also had to go on Boxing Day as that was a Sunday.
At the time of Christmas 82 I was six years old, and I clearly remember a great deal of this. Thirty-seven years have passed, and it's strange how when I was young - like at the time of Christmas 82 - if anything had been shown on TV from thirty-seven years previously (1945)... it would've been in black & white and seemed very dated indeed. Yet now, thirty-seven year old television footage has the effect of appearing recently made: with minimal adjustment, Christmas 82 is interchangeable with Christmas 2019.
I'm transported back to my childhood again .......fond memories of golden times spent with loved ones , sadly passed now , ....but still very much alive in my thoughts,....wonder times , ...my eyes sting a little ,....and not an onion in sight ....nostalgia can be painful and a joy all at the same time...
That was how Christmas telly should be, saving the festive indents until Christmas Eve - not like now when the Christmas logos are foisted upon us on December the 1st until the 2nd week in January.
In the 1970s it was just adding a bit of glitter to normal surroundings (as you do at home) in fact the first BBC1 Christmas ident was used for EIGHT years after 1976 it just got more excessive by the year
I agree Joanne, they flog it so much beforehand that it has lost its novelty by the time Christmas comes. Thanks for putting these up David, it takes me back to some great times.
Happy days. I was 12. I seem to remember Death on the Nile being bloody repeated every Christmas throughout the 80s. Also, Morecambe & Wise had switched to ITV years before, but still leaving a gaping hole on BBC1 Christmas Day schedule.
Now that's dedication! I did a similar thing on the day the BBC idents changed in February 1991 and also in September 1997 but not quite as completely!
This was my first Christmas on planet earth, I was exactly 3 months old here. Needless to say, I don’t remember any of these tv adverts and programs. 😃
I love watching TV commercials from this era. They are soft, well spoken, not rushed, not in your face, quieter, relaxing, warm and comforting vice announcers. They seem less *cold* than adverts today which are hard, loud, common (some times more ghetto sounding due to diversity quotas) fast paced, slap bang wallop editing, in your face, full on CGI effects, tense, rushed and as a result just so so *cold* just like today's world. So I switch these on for some comfort and reassurance.
Sancho O'Dell big time. Adverts then were just like ‘Hey, look at this thing. It costs five pounds, please buy one’. These days I’m supposed to ‘engage’ with a ‘narrative’ and give a shit about how wonderfully diverse the message is. End result? It’s utterly unrelatable and so it passes me by entirely. I’m almost glad though, it means I’m practically ‘advertising proof’ now.
In the 1970s the version was REALLY slow. The local film society used to play it after a film once a month and people used to try and get out before it started. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XoJvgqK06bw.html
Very brief excerpt at the end of It came upon a midnight clear by the Singers Unlimited from their 70's Xmas album. Beautiful album, well worth tracking down.
Always came in handy working at Curry’s in the 80s. Ask the customer on the phone to hold a moment and turn up the volume of the nearest tv with testcard and Christmas music.
I especially liked the part where the plastic dolly from outer space was stealing the frogspawn from the pond. 😂😂😂😂👴👴👨👩👨🙋🙋🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸👽👽👽👽👽🐸🐸🐸🐸🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎃🎃🎆🐻
Probably the last least complicated year of my life....To follow, girlfriend's, work, mortgage, consumerism, Internet, and COVID.., if its the last thing l do.....I am returning to 1982, I have a home, a dog, and a girlfriend.....
Nice to David Icke here, I have alot of respect for him, very brave man who has done a great deal of work over the last 30 years trying to wake people up.
2.10 I love the way the continuity announcer specifies that Elton John will be “doing his thing, musically” in case anyone thought he was going to get his tallywhacker out or something
A lot of the people in these programs are no longer with us, but just remember this was almost 40 years ago, where will you be in the next 40 years? probably i will be dead, they were not better times but they were different times, just reminds us all of family members that are no more and friends long gone. Don't live in the past, it will not make you happy.
Wednesday evening looks lit af Ceefax was like a video game you couldn't play 😂 Ohh matron noohhhh ! I was 6 this year and my birthday is on Christmas Eve
I saw The Kids Show International when I was vacationing in London during the Christmas of 1982.I want to see it again for nostalgic reasons-is there a rerun of this show anywhere in RU-vid?
Just a minute, the BBC just showed a trainer unleashing a hungry tiger onto a merry Christmas pony, for human entertainment, at prime time?!? I forgot how dark the 80s were. I was 11. This could be why I've been vegan all my life 0.0
They used to call it ‘testcard music’ usually rights free that they bought to use on test cards and trailers that wouldn’t cost them every time it was played.
On the Christmas edition of Crackerjack in which the opening titles are shown here the celebrity guests were Su Pollard & then Saturday Superstore presenter Mike Read & they both got gunged on the ’Take A Chance‘ part of the show & Stu Francis got away with it.
