In 1984 I was 10. I'll be 49 this year. Its gone too quickly and it feels like its getting faster. I cant go back but I would if I could. I'd like to climb trees again and ride around on my Grifter aimlessly. I'd like to hang out with friends without needing to synchronise diaries and allocate a time slot. Most of all I'd like to be young again and not be on this never ending treadmill I have unwittingly found myself on.
I know it's a cliche, but our television particularly at Christmas seemed far more personal and very British then. Nowadays it feels very synthetic, fancy graphics over actual content and faux American.
*Sort of agree.* Especially with the 70s/80s Christmas TV schedules/presentation. Kind of ended in around 1991, when satellite TV and other alternatives *really* started taking off. Not to mention the 1990 Broadcasting Act.
I was 14 then, so the same age as you. A good time to be an adolescent with no intrusive cyberspace or social media. Better quality of programmes with four TV channels than today's rubbish and multiple channels!
Back when there were just 4 TV channels, radio and cinema/theatre *if* they happened to be open. Otherwise, play games, read a book, chat or end the day by going home or to bed. No such things as VCR, video games, multi-channels, social media etc. Sometimes, *less really is more!*
I was a tender 18..great memories, especially the jingles, but the sight of Noel Edmonds camping it up as a fairy cannot now be unseen! Not to mention that bloody awful duck thing Orville. And how many variety performances, i.e. random dance troupes in garish leotards throwing themselves around a BBC studio to a few Xmas standards, did we have to put up with 35 years ago? It all seems so innocent looking back!
I was 14 then!!!!. The best days of my life.. great memories of my Nan and Christmas was a nice time..now things seem so intense.. you can’t do this or that.. if you say this or fart on just breath you will upset someone or something.. I just hope one day we can all start to relax again
I was 13 and still remember this day, for some reason the christmas song resonates in my head. I miss it terribly. Both my parents passed away 18months ago.
@@darrenc2721 Very sorry to hear of your loss Darren.. We lost our mum just before Christmas.. Nan went a few years ago now.. but you have your memories of those better times
I was 6 and remember this Christmas well. These xmas bbc trailers used to get me excited as a kid. I can remember watching One of our Dinosaurs is Missing on Christmas eve, and the TV premiere of Mary Poppins in Christmas Day.....and The Two Ronnies, if course. The idents of the turning models look like something from 1954 instead of 84 however 😂
Omg 12mins in the national anthem comes in. Flash back to a night probably the same year and hearing the anthem played. There was a family debate as to whether the Queen stayed up every night to check they played it. 😁😁
Hope you jumped up and drank a toast to her majesty and her thicko son who would give an interview to a broadcaster guaranteed to be drilling on about it for the next forty years
Best time to comment on Christmas stuff like this is December 20th, but anytime of year now will bring back memories of long forgotten times.... all those Christmas memories just locked up in youtube or in the back of our memories..... this stuff will be regarded as great social history, we hope.... in 50 years time....
How many people, these days, would take offence at Noel Edmonds camping it up and dressing as a fairy ?. It might not have been particularly funny but we could laugh at ourselves back then !.
Loved Xmas TV As a Nipper, Now I Cannot remember what programs If any I Watch on Terrestrial TV. Maybe put all the great xmas programs from the 70's and 80's on a Channel on Sky, I'd certainly watch it lol
Poor BBC do try to be correct. Nick Witchell keeps trying with Catherine. Unfortunately Harry prefers his nick-name whereas Catherine prefers her full name.....can't win.
Unfortunately that was the year of the disastrous "Live Into '85" Hogmanay show that was only surpassed (in terms of mediocrity) by The 1989 Brit Awards hosted by Sam Fox & Mick Fleetwood
That bumper Chrismas Radio Times will be listed for around 30 quid now on ebay lol. Who are the idiots selling these old magazines for at those ridiculous prices? no normal person is going to pay that.
Can I have 40 years of licence fees refunded? No wonder there was so much excessive drinking in those days. Is there room in the gas oven for both the turkey and my head?
I'm sure I watched that Keith Harris show. Ah, when there was actual things on. Makes you wonder I'd there were still only 4 channels now and nothing else, what would you watch? It really isn't all that good.
Probably worked better as it was compressed into three (occasionally four) days. Now it’s a little spread over a long time - after the second week you’ve had enough
I expect this year we will have films 70 years ol sit coms 40 years old and of course Morecome & WIse AGAIN the rest of the programmes wil be looking around other peoples houses. paint a wall, or planning a garden withthat boring Swift guy, Me I`ll buy a couple of bottles of wine and pass out until Christmas day is over
@@duffymoony what on earth are you talking about? Genuine question! Of course Harry is a diminutive of Henry. It's like Jack is John. It is just what it is, it's not speculation. Please look this up, maybe on Google or something and you will see this is true.
All these clips from 1983 to 84 only reminds me how dull TV was back then. And how many convicted paedophiles are in these clips? Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall of it's a knock out and Rolf Harris. Shame on the BBC.
