What a fantastic vintage find, so typical of that early 1980s era. The TV basically shut down for half the day at this time, but later on that year Ceefax would expand to fill pretty much most of the schedule. The accompanying music sounds as though it is by the Trevor Lyttleton Orchestra.
About time things returned to a maximum of 3 or 4 programme on BBC1 before 4pm during the day and nothing on BBC2 before 7.30pm. The Mid-day News, the diamond and the dots, plus great music tor hours on both BBC1 and BBC2 without any singing for 99% of the tracks, accompanied by the girl playing noughts and crosses with the clown.. Classic TV in my book.
@@dvidclapperton 1970s and 1980s were the heyday of British television, there was less on TV, technology was a lot more basic, yet the quality, effort and production of programming was (mostly) much better, with very high viewing figures to go with them. Just flip through old radio times listings and see how cram packed most evenings were with amazing programmes, not just popular programming, but also more culture, education and documentaries.... and presenters took care to pronounce things properly, so everyone could understand
Thanks for sharing this, Neil, blimey, that really takes me back, although my playschool era was mid 70's, it still looked much the same here, superb 'through the square window' film clip of the family going camping, with the blue Austin Maxi, we had one exactly the same colour, back in the 90's & also towed a caravan with it! 🚐 Also quite often after the pages from Ceefax, at 11:30 they would often broadcast transmitter & engineering information, about new relays & aerial groups etc, although this wasn't listed in the programme schedule.
Just one programme before 7.30pm on BBC2 was a truly wonderful era. When Schools and Colleges was not on air, BBC1 never had many programmes on air before 4pm either, apart from the mid-day news, pebble mill at one and an infants programme, possibly also a repeat of Sunday. night's Songs of Praise on Mondsy afternoon. But that was your lot when it came to daytime programming on the BBC, it was good music plus the test card the whole of the rest of the way.. That was good telly in those days.
@@dvidclapperton I remember there was often a pop music medley involving The Monkees and ABBA alongside the girl playing noughts and crosses with Bubbles the clown.
Back in the day when BBC2 would literally closedown, as in switch off the signal. They'd be back on transmitting about 3pm, though. With the PM5544 test card and the, 'Bread', tape if we were lucky! Although, if this were June 1983, we would have just missed out as they stopped that particular tape at the end of May that year. More's the pity. Mind you, it had a good run from November of 1979.
Yes that is right as it was then at the time too. From 20 January 1975-which was my 7th birthday by coincidence when the BBC decided to cut costs and not show the test card all day long. This lasted until 19th September 1983 when Daytime on Two started taking the schools series that had before been on BBC1, meaning that BBC2 was then on air all day. When that was not on it would be Pages from Ceefax instead at the time too. Thank you!
This is also part of an episode originally from 1982 which is “ missing “. Only the Wednesday edition of this particular week exists in the archives. Only 54 episodes remain from 1982.
Lovely bit of late seventies early eighties nostalgia there. Liked the family caravaning. I especially liked the man with the comb-over. You don't see that much these days, pity really, because it was always funny.
Nice bit of background analogue "picture ghosting" going on there.... probably due to the roof antenna being in a very urban area, surrounded by substantial tall buildings not too far away causing signal reflection... aaah, those were the days of analogue imperfections in an analogue world
BBC Two was always hampered with a lack of money. They would have loved to have been on the air more, but there was just no money, and so they had to close down for long sections of the day.
so ceefax pages till close at 11;30 am and play school starts at 10 15 from next week i assume it was moved to the 1 pm slot in the autum because of bbc schools move
Didn't Play School move over to BBC1 when schools programmes moved to BBC2. Interesting that day that BBC2 was closing down at 11:30, as i seem to remember around that time the 11:30 close wasn't always adhered to and sometimes ceefax and music would continue all day.
@@jasondarcy605 I'm assuming that BBC2 Switch off it transmitter and didnt come back on air until around about 4 oclock. as there were no window computer to keep the station on air back then and also to save electricty.
Do you have a recording of a BBC2 opening from before Play School any of the following dates 14-01-83, 20-05-83, 30-05-83, 16-06-83, 22-07-83, 26-07-83 or 19-08-83 when a synthesizer nursery rhyme medley comprising Over The Hills, Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Jack and Jill was played?
Bring back just the handful of daytime programmes on the BBC. The programmes the BBC show, during the dsytime on BBC1and BBC2 today.instead of nothing in the past are truly awful.
Hamble always looked grumpy and pissed off, as though someone had pinched her half lager. I read something once which said the Playschool toys were each chosen to represent a sector of society; Hamble, the downtrodden working class and the Teds representative of the upper class, etc. Interesting that they only introduced a ethnic doll in the late 80s/early 90s.
I remember watching something where the past presenters admitted they all hated Hamble mainly because she wouldn't sit up without falling over. Carol Chell I think it was actually confessed to sticking knitting needles up her bum to make her more rigid for sitting down
@@stephenmcconnell1000 Not exactly too surprised, give me Humpty or Jemima to do a routine with, who knew what kind of Child's Play stuff Hamble could've gotten up to when the cast and crew went home. Also, I think it was Chloe Ashcroft you're talking about.
@@stephenmcconnell1000 For some reason, my dad does the same thing as well except he tends to confuse Ashcroft with Toni Arthur. Still though, both Ashcroft and Chell were brilliant presenters. My dad was the one to introduce me to Play School when I was younger, I'm 16 now, and I still think the UK Play School and presenters will always top the Aussie Play School, as well as a majority of their presenters. Benita Collings, whilst a great individual, good at what she does, cannot even hold a candle to legends like Brian Cant
@@RandomGuy-qh7tl Yep, Brian Can't should have had a knighthood but it's too late now. Now you mention Toni Arthur, I was also always confusing her with Atarah Ben Tovim. Your dad probably knows the name even if you don't as I'm probably his age.
Just wondering how many more people use these video's with say "BBC Genome" or "radiosoundsfamiliar" to track down these old shows and adverts, and along with Neils videos (and others) create whole days worth of TV from the 70s / 80s. I do it because TV now is total crap, it's celebrity this and celebrity that, and adverts today are pure brain damage. IE. The show before this was "Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack" it's only been up a week, so DL before it goes. ua-cam.com/video/znMzDw3zosY/v-deo.html
Good God, what a depressing set of abodes to teach kids about people’s homes. You can tell it’s the 80’s, all drab and grey with a scent of menace about them.
You think the 80s were depressing..look around the uk today, totally depressing, another world now ,not a day goes by without a stabbing or shooting and society has gone down hill , rapidly.
Thank you for this of course and well done too!
What a fantastic vintage find, so typical of that early 1980s era. The TV basically shut down for half the day at this time, but later on that year Ceefax would expand to fill pretty much most of the schedule. The accompanying music sounds as though it is by the Trevor Lyttleton Orchestra.
About time things returned to a maximum of 3 or 4 programme on BBC1 before 4pm during the day and nothing on BBC2 before 7.30pm.
The Mid-day News, the diamond and the dots, plus great music tor hours on both BBC1 and BBC2 without any singing for 99% of the tracks, accompanied by the girl playing noughts and crosses with the clown..
Classic TV in my book.
Hear hear David. Loved this golden era. I should have appreciated it more at the time.
@@dvidclapperton 1970s and 1980s were the heyday of British television, there was less on TV, technology was a lot more basic, yet the quality, effort and production of programming was (mostly) much better, with very high viewing figures to go with them. Just flip through old radio times listings and see how cram packed most evenings were with amazing programmes, not just popular programming, but also more culture, education and documentaries.... and presenters took care to pronounce things properly, so everyone could understand
Yes you are so right there of course indeed too as well!@@clavichord
and after 48 years I still can't predict the flippin window!!
..but the Harp music guaranteed
You can never have enough Play School.
Thanks for sharing this, Neil, blimey, that really takes me back, although my playschool era was mid 70's, it still looked much the same here, superb 'through the square window' film clip of the family going camping, with the blue Austin Maxi, we had one exactly the same colour, back in the 90's & also towed a caravan with it! 🚐
Also quite often after the pages from Ceefax, at 11:30 they would often broadcast transmitter & engineering information, about new relays & aerial groups etc, although this wasn't listed in the programme schedule.
Just one programme before 7.30pm on BBC2 was a truly wonderful era. When Schools and Colleges was not on air, BBC1 never had many programmes on air before 4pm either, apart from the mid-day news, pebble mill at one and an infants programme, possibly also a repeat of Sunday. night's Songs of Praise on Mondsy afternoon. But that was your lot when it came to daytime programming on the BBC, it was good music plus the test card the whole of the rest of the way..
That was good telly in those days.
@@dvidclapperton I remember there was often a pop music medley involving The Monkees and ABBA alongside the girl playing noughts and crosses with Bubbles the clown.
Back in the day when BBC2 would literally closedown, as in switch off the signal. They'd be back on transmitting about 3pm, though. With the PM5544 test card and the, 'Bread', tape if we were lucky! Although, if this were June 1983, we would have just missed out as they stopped that particular tape at the end of May that year. More's the pity. Mind you, it had a good run from November of 1979.
Yes that is right as it was then at the time too. From 20 January 1975-which was my 7th birthday by coincidence when the BBC decided to cut costs and not show the test card all day long. This lasted until 19th September 1983 when Daytime on Two started taking the schools series that had before been on BBC1, meaning that BBC2 was then on air all day. When that was not on it would be Pages from Ceefax instead at the time too. Thank you!
This is also part of an episode originally from 1982 which is “ missing “. Only the Wednesday edition of this particular week exists in the archives. Only 54 episodes remain from 1982.
Thank you xx
"Join us today while we watch a full grown man playing with a little girls doll"
hahahahaha the good old days when guys played with dolls on telly
@@adamstamps3568 you'll be laughing out of the other side of your face on that one if you ever become a dad.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Jokes on you. He will be a shit dad who never plays with his kids.
jeffrey44 You get arrested for doing that.
I remember both Sheelagh and Stuart as Play School presenters.
Hippopotamus!
Love the brass on the closing titles always makes me laugh when I hear it
It reminds me of The Flumps.
I wonder if it’s George Chisholm playing here, who did play the trombone on the Flumps theme.
@@KevinM913 it probably was.
ive got some ceefax pages with music from 1984 and 1985 plus the 1 from november 85 mentions comets and stars
Guessing which window started my gambling addiction!!
I would have definitely said the square window then?
Goodness, we were pushed academically. I would have seen this aged 4. Did I know a detached house from a semi. I hope so, by the time I was 16 :)
Lovely bit of late seventies early eighties nostalgia there. Liked the family caravaning. I especially liked the man with the comb-over. You don't see that much these days, pity really, because it was always funny.
Wow that is a hell of a comb-over
That family was just like us! Except i was a sulky little sh*it
Yeah, you don't see the, 'Bobby Charlton', look, anymore.
Hanbel gives me the chills!
she was clearly a manly bitch of a doll
Never noticed before but Hanbel has got the Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt hairdo spot on!
@@nokes22 and she looks hard as nails.....don't mess with her!
@crazyclive don't mess with Hamble.
@crazyclive she looks a tough bitch bitch......
Creepy humble was the original cabbage patch mutant
Nice bit of background analogue "picture ghosting" going on there.... probably due to the roof antenna being in a very urban area, surrounded by substantial tall buildings not too far away causing signal reflection... aaah, those were the days of analogue imperfections in an analogue world
Saying its time for us to go now was acceptable back then.
Why isn't it now?
Hunter's Gold was a great series.
Isn't that the guy who played Atlas in It Ain't Half Hot Mum?
Yes it is the same fellow as in that series of old too.
Can remember the Austin Maxi. Why did they never do the Booted Allegro and the Princess as hatchbacks???
Torcars in devon used to do a hat hatchback conversion of the princess :)
Hatchback Princess - Ambassador
Mmm, Sheelagh Gilbey! ❤
When BBC 2 CLOSES DOWN at 11.30 What did the announcers do head to the pub?
BBC Two was always hampered with a lack of money. They would have loved to have been on the air more, but there was just no money, and so they had to close down for long sections of the day.
Not for very long if they did. Pubs had to close in the afternoon back then.
Grab some lunch, I imagine. Or record trails.
so ceefax pages till close at 11;30 am and play school starts at 10 15 from next week i assume it was moved to the 1 pm slot in the autum because of bbc schools move
Didn't Play School move over to BBC1 when schools programmes moved to BBC2. Interesting that day that BBC2 was closing down at 11:30, as i seem to remember around that time the 11:30 close wasn't always adhered to and sometimes ceefax and music would continue all day.
Yes it did move to BBC One, with the new look Play School launching on Monday 19th September.
@@stuartharris2165 I'm assuming the test card would have been shown with music if they didn't switch off Ceefax
@@jasondarcy605 I'm assuming that BBC2 Switch off it transmitter and didnt come back on air until around about 4 oclock. as there were no window computer to keep the station on air back then and also to save electricty.
Do you have a recording of a BBC2 opening from before Play School any of the following dates 14-01-83, 20-05-83, 30-05-83, 16-06-83, 22-07-83, 26-07-83 or 19-08-83 when a synthesizer nursery rhyme medley comprising Over The Hills, Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Jack and Jill was played?
Does the BBC still own this episode of Play School? Thousands of them were wiped in the mid 90s.
that’s a curious thing- play school followed by a closedown, late at night I guess?..
J0hNF_UK well I’m blessed! thanks for that
Bring back just the handful of daytime programmes on the BBC.
The programmes the BBC show, during the dsytime on BBC1and BBC2 today.instead of nothing in the past are truly awful.
No this was in the daytime then at the time, and they did so too on BBC2 until September 1983 oddly too.
RP continuity…trade test transmissions…Ceefax…. a better time.
Those kids are my age now ueah!
We weren’t dressed like that in the 80s?!???
Take the bad Hamble away mummy!!
Hamble always looked grumpy and pissed off, as though someone had pinched her half lager. I read something once which said the Playschool toys were each chosen to represent a sector of society; Hamble, the downtrodden working class and the Teds representative of the upper class, etc. Interesting that they only introduced a ethnic doll in the late 80s/early 90s.
At the start of the video, HOW DARE HE mistreat poor Hamble like that? She could have fallen apart!
I remember watching something where the past presenters admitted they all hated Hamble mainly because she wouldn't sit up without falling over. Carol Chell I think it was actually confessed to sticking knitting needles up her bum to make her more rigid for sitting down
@@stephenmcconnell1000 Not exactly too surprised, give me Humpty or Jemima to do a routine with, who knew what kind of Child's Play stuff Hamble could've gotten up to when the cast and crew went home.
Also, I think it was Chloe Ashcroft you're talking about.
@@RandomGuy-qh7tl I was always confusing Chell and Ashcroft even as a child.
@@stephenmcconnell1000 For some reason, my dad does the same thing as well except he tends to confuse Ashcroft with Toni Arthur.
Still though, both Ashcroft and Chell were brilliant presenters. My dad was the one to introduce me to Play School when I was younger, I'm 16 now, and I still think the UK Play School and presenters will always top the Aussie Play School, as well as a majority of their presenters. Benita Collings, whilst a great individual, good at what she does, cannot even hold a candle to legends like Brian Cant
@@RandomGuy-qh7tl Yep, Brian Can't should have had a knighthood but it's too late now. Now you mention Toni Arthur, I was also always confusing her with Atarah Ben Tovim. Your dad probably knows the name even if you don't as I'm probably his age.
Funny to see the two kids clambering into the back of the car without seatbelts... only the driver needed to wear a seatbelt in those days.
Just wondering how many more people use these video's with say "BBC Genome" or "radiosoundsfamiliar" to track down these old shows and adverts, and along with Neils videos (and others) create whole days worth of TV from the 70s / 80s. I do it because TV now is total crap, it's celebrity this and celebrity that, and adverts today are pure brain damage.
IE. The show before this was "Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack" it's only been up a week, so DL before it goes. ua-cam.com/video/znMzDw3zosY/v-deo.html
There is a problem now with radiosoundsfamiliar, as their TV Times archive and whole website is gone. Have you any ideas what happened?
You are so right there really too-alas of course though somehow too!
Funny that was no 24 hr tv back then
DONT SWING THE BABY LIKE THAT😡
0:00.1
Sam i wont you to move our
Good God, what a depressing set of abodes to teach kids about people’s homes. You can tell it’s the 80’s, all drab and grey with a scent of menace about them.
Ouch, I loved the 80s 😜
No/few daytime programmes were far betfer than a load of dreadful. daytime programmes.
You think the 80s were depressing..look around the uk today, totally depressing, another world now ,not a day goes by without a stabbing or shooting and society has gone down hill , rapidly.
@stevedickson5853 they're both terrible in different ways (and a few ways that are the same)