ITN News at Ten (1st March 1978), with Reginald Bosanquet. Also featured are TV advertisements, and a UEFA Cup match trailer of the game between Aston Villa and Barcelona. Johan Cruyff's last international game in the UK.
When we heard the ITN news at one signature tune it meant we had to get back to school & when we heard the ITN news at ten signature tune that meant get off to bed. It's school tomorrow lol
Thanks, a real gem when a news readers job was to sit in front of a desk to clearly and consicely tell the news - not like today where there's three of them sitting on a couch forming their own opinions among themselves. Modern news programs have turned half chat show.
And here's IMO, a really well-done example from across the pond from you: ABC's World News Tonight from 1989, w/the great, late Peter Jennings reporting on the George Bush inauguration-- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mWuLfoJCsC4.html
yes....that and the stupid virtual studios...and computer graphics....and the so called newsreaders "ACTING"...at the camera..playing a character...like they ALL do now.......everyone wants to be a BLOODY CELEBRITY.....instead of just getting on with the bloody job.....WITHOUT the Theatricals..... they ALL bloody do it.....and it pisses me off to the point...i no longer watch ANY NEWS at all..
@@ushoys they're talking about how news is presented, not the content. They used to tell you the stories and let you make your own judgements. Now news programmes tell you how you should be feeling, reacting, thinking.
News at Ten.. .. Dad gets up and puts kettle on, tea and toast for Mum before she heads up, Dog is back in and we settle down to watch the footie.. .. .. . what I would give to have those simple days back.
Yes studio days were much more serious back then, if you made a mistake you were treated in a manner where you new your peers were not impressed. Today everyone is to busy laughing and joking to even notice.
In 78 you could have three pints in the pub £1.08, a bag of nuts 12p, 50p in the slot machine at 2p a go, 20p return bus ticket to town, 50p in to the Locarno night club, 4 beers at 40p each, a game of pool 10p, and a hot dog on the way home 15p. So Saturday night was about £3,80 + a drink for any girl you may have met, if you won on the slot machine it was even better.
I was earning £35 a week in 78 for my main job (40 hours) and £14 take home for a 15 hour weekly bar job which was average money. A pint of beer was 36p so £3000 for that Capri was equ £27,000 in today's money.
The London of your childhood doesn't exist any more...the sweeney, the professionals, even only fools and horses. That London has gone. When I see TV programs made in the London of the 70s, 80s and 90s it's actually quite a shock. It's like I'm looking into the distant past rather than a few decades ago.
@@myutuber100 The Genie is out of the bottle and will never go back in. Enoch and countelss others warned you and your luvies who lived in totally Englsih suburbs, just wanted more migrants, would come in digging thier gardens, plastering and painting at £1 per hour. They want the 3 punnets of corrinander for £1, the Chicken Tikka Massala, their son to marry the Indian female GP but woe betide if thier daughter dates the Indian Consultant! You have a big problem and this is why the Hindus, Sikhs have all gone home, or to NZ, Austrailia, Canada, USA. It will be Black and Muslim Britain and the BBC have tried to cover up the issues. Muslim Grooming gangs, Knife crife, most are black perpetrators. Just watch every ad has to have a black person. Oh what shame. Sure I got told to go home and I did! When I visit the UK every place has Mosque, all the meat is Halal. Cars parked everywhere. The only civilised people are the ones in the villages and they are not happy with it. But alas you allowed this! A nation of sheep beget a govt of Wolves and alas your now off to the slaughter house a Halal slaughter house!
Aaaah the unmistakable voice of Patrick Allan on the Capri ad. Provider of many a voice over back in the day. Also heard Richard Briers on the Stork ad.
I'm shocked! Where was the invitation for me to text in my vitally important opinions on the news stories? Where were the swirling background graphics?Why was the presenter not seated on a sofa?? Thanks for posting. Good ads. Was the fellow in the Stork margarine ad the same one who was on "Blake's 7"?
I still lived in bubble back then. The world seemed a lighter. brighter and happier place. You could go on holiday without fear of getting blown-up, kidnapped or hijacked...even ride with the Captain on the flight-deck if you asked nicely . which I did on numerous occasions. It was a more innocent time.
I completely agree with you Jason, plus music was better & more diverse with proper musicians, our outdoor playtime as kids was simpler yet way more fun, electronics were mostly made in Japan & made to a standard & NOT shoddily made to a price in China! There were only 2 'rush hours' per day instead of the whole day being a traffic nightmare! & on Sundays you could drive anywhere & see only a handful of cars on the roads instead of the Sunday 'rush hour' we have today & the joy of pulling into a petrol station without having to join a queue first. & best of all rip off companies like 'Lawyers4you' & 'Injury Lawyers' as a whole did not exist & accidents were just that...an accident & not something to instantly blame someone else for & therefore claim flippin compensation for everything! It was a more innocent & far nicer time.
@fifthof what utter nonsense: The 1970s were when hijackings were at their height! Entebee, springs to mind. Air travel was not as safe as it is today, despite the long queues we have now at security. "Society had yet to be split..." Really? What about the civil unrest that was going on? National Front marches? Strikes? Football hooliganism? The music WAS great! I'll agree with you on that. But there was some shite around too, but it could be avoided at least. Talk about rose-tinted...
As Reginald would be about my age now we lost a great News at 10 presenter at a early age, which was most unfortunate for everyone who knew and loved him
The wonderful , forever missed ,Reginald ( Reggie ) Bosanquet . A proper journalist editor, a highly respected diplomatic reporter and thence, news broadcaster of elegance , elan and intelligence . He raised the standards of news broadcasting in all manners. Nobody before him and decades later , still nobody to even come close to him. I still miss him to this day , decades later . I pity the public of today, so denied such excellence and as a man , he will continue to be missed by still many old friends , younger at the time , who are now themselves considerably older than he was when he died . Continue to RIP - you’re now very old friends will soon be there …… go and bag the table in the old favourite restaurant and prepare for a mighty lunch with hoots of laughter and discussion !
Again, watching this video - hard to believe how times have changed. Noticed in one of the adverts the Ford Capri. All our cars have gone, replaced by homogeneous, cheaply produced computer designed clones, that beep and flash annoying warnings at you if you don't what you're supposed to do. Our old British cars were like personalities... who can forget cars like the Triumph Dolomite, the Hillman Imp, the Maxi, the Wolseley 1300, the Land Rover series, Ford Cortina Mk II and Mk III, Morris Marina, and many more. All easy to repair to...DIY job most of the time. It's only forty years ago, but in that time, the Britain I knew and grew up in has gone...almost as if someone took it away. It's like we were denied the future we were promised.
DDandrums It had the same engine as the Morris Minor. It was a simple engine but I could fix anything on it. Same with the rest of the car - everything was dead simple to fix. Most parts were generic, and it was the same with the Marina.
I know what you mean Jason, my VW is so boring, the last one I had did 250'000 miles and didn't even need a clutch of exhaust, just started every morning for the 12 years I had it, no drama, nothing like the excitement of driving those old British cars you mention, when you would get in it in the morning with a rising sense of anticipation would it start or not, and if it started would it make it to where you wanted to go, I feel like I really missed out on all that, yes the poor people of today with their boring reliable cars, oh how they missed out of the fun of 70's motoring.
I think I prefer the old, unreliable 1970s, rather than the faceless, meaningless existence we live today. Your efficient car only serves to give you more to do in the same amount of time, instead of relaxing. Every "advancement" is like that. It's used to give us a competitive edge. Think about computers. Many people now spend most of their working lives glued to a computer screen. Life does not get easier. It gets more boring and repetitive.
If you look closely at his licence you'll see that the drink driver lives in Ipswich. Actually, based on the colour of the bus he missed and my local knowledge from living around there I think that's where the whole advert was filmed.
Ipswich not far from me, out of interest I checked out the DVLA registration region of the cop car. No doubt it was a film company car as VD is the number plate ID for Lanarkshire, not Suffolk. Got time on my hands tonight. Great clips from a bygone age.
6:03 "An astonishing and unwarranted slur" - didn't Reggie do that every time he read the news? Seriously, though, great TV, from the days when there were genuine characters on TV.
I was exactly one week old...and in Australia - the grimy, run-down late seventies really does seem to have something of a 'lived in' feel about it, eh? ☺
part of the closing credits of 'Send In The Girls' can be seen at the start of the clip. I know this because I have every single copy of the TV Times from 1978-80 on cd and, by looking at the Anglia edition of the magazine from February 25 that year, I was able to deduce that 1 March fell on a Wednesday.
Anyone got a time machine? Is it only me who wants to go back to the 70's. Wouldn't be a kid today for anything. Love Reggie, no characters like him today, bland , self absorbed, opinionated news personnel. (They wouldn't call themselves news readers today.)
Julian Haviland was a class act. Well-spoken, his diction was a joy to listen to. Can you imagine an Eton-and-Cambridge-educated, upper-middle-class reporter today ? Frankly, I'd prefer to see more of them on television rather than the foul-mouthed louts we are subjected to now.
DDandrums I'm just using emotive language to register my disapproval of the rise in swearing and cursing in today's media, including on BBC Radio 4. Bill Grundy was sacked from Thames in 1976 for less than some of the words that are used on television and radio today.
@vtrevlyn39 In Steve Jones's autobiography he says Reg would read the news wearing rubber pants, and a wink to the camera would be directed at Jordan the SEX shop assistant to let her know he had them on.
Eric Morecambe did a great joke about Reggie - "I watch News at Ten. I like to bet on what colour Reggie's hair will change during the commercial break".
Pubs have virtually vanished. Saturday night's in my home time used to be full of people walking around...going from one pub to another, or going to the night club etc. Now the streets are dead at weekends, the pubs have all but gone, and all the youngsters meet in places like cafés or at the gym in the day instead.
There are still lots of pubs in my area but most of them have a crap atmosphere. I've never smoked myself but I think smoking used to give pubs a nice atmosphere in some ways. I say that as someone with asthma.
Did you see ITN's News at Ten from a couple of days ago reporting the bridge collapse in Italy? Absolutely dreadful, like something off Alan Partridge. Even Newsround used to be at a higher level by comparison.
The sight and sound of the post-war consensus unravelling ... And with ads like that, can we really be surprised that Mac Markets went under the following year? Elsmore in godlike form here, btw.
tuesday 16th of August 1977 i watched news at ten with my family in wales and i saw reginald bosanquet say that they think that elvis presley has died, and that they would tall us more after the break, when they returned after the ads he confirmed that elvis had indeed died, i wonder if anyone else remembers that!
Reggie Bosanquet was an old soak - well known for it, so was Sandy Gall. Reggie also wore a wig and was inspiration for one of the main characters in Drop The Dead Donkey. My parents liked him as a newscaster.
John Spartan The average wage was between £6,000 - £7,000 in 1981. Not sure if that was good value TBH. Now its about £20,000. What car can you buy now for 10 grand?
At the very beginning, one of the stills appears to be of Brian Crabtree standing over Giant Haystacks. I understand that ITN aired wrestling at the time but have no clue as to the context of that particular clip.
£3000 for a Capri was a great amount of money then (still is) new UK built cars were very dear until the rust bucket Datsuns came along I bought my 1st house the year after a semi for £11.700 Which means average semi today 2012 around 140.000 would equate house to car ratio in 1978 @ roughly 1/4 of the house price. So today a new Ford Capri would cost 35k lol Also there was 3 month waiting list for new cars! I know as we bought a new 1.6 white Capri with fully GRASS GREEN coulor interior!
It suffered a steady decline in sales and began to look dated against other high performance cars that were better i.e Volkswagen's stonking Golf GTI and Ford's Escort XR3/XR3i, Fiesta XR2, Sierra XR4x4 / XR4x4i and others.
Well remember Reginald Bosanquet who people used to say was always a bit drunk when doing the news infact is that Reggie like myself suffered from a mild form of epilepsy
The Ford Capri was a great car but by the 80's it was sadly being overtaken by much sportier hot hatches that were taking the glory and getting better sales figures. Reginald Bosanquet used to whisper sweet nothings to Anna Ford over the closing titles and music of NaT, often coming up with witty poems.
