TV-am Great Storm 1987
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2014
- The morning after the night before. TV-am came on the air at 6am from Thames' continuity studio, their own Camden Lock studios out of action at the time, in any case they weren't broadcasting to London anyway.
This recording comes from about the time power was restored at TV-am beginning with a bit of the the Thames service, I've cut out the adbreaks although to lead into the adverts a TV-am logo which looks suspiciously like a scan of a videotape label. I've also cut the interview with Elton John which padded out most of the morning.
Anne leaves Richard Keys at Thames but they don't quite get things going for the news at 7am so Gordon Honeycomb appears at 7.10. Kay Burley also features having a bit of phone trouble and the late Trish Williamson gives a good explanation of what has happened.
They manage to get some storm pictures for the news at 8am but not long after that the power goes out again, the recording stops there too. - Розваги
TV-am came under a lot of criticism for it's news service not being up to standard. But let's be fair, there's no denying the quality of delivering one of the biggest stories of the decade in a Bugs Bunny jumper.
Damn, watching it again what the hell happens to old Bugs when she gets into the TV-am studio?! Same jumper but the wascally wabbit is no more!
97channel this was mentioned on some clip show recently - Anne said she realised she was doing one of the biggest stories of the decade with a Bugs Bunny jumper on, and all she could do was wear it back to front for the rest of the show!
I don't know which is worse actually, covering a major news story in a Bugs Bunny jumper or covering a major news story in a back to front Bugs Bunny jumper. Lol, only at TV-am. It's relieving to learn that Anne has publicly acknowledged what the heck happened to the jumper mid way through the broadcast, I figured it must surely have been turned back to front, as it's so unlikely that there'd have been a completely identical one without Bugs just lurking around in wardrobe.
...Just dug around a little and found this.
bbc.co.uk/blogs/annediamond/2012/10/the_storm_that_felled_my_astro.html
I wasn't even born at this point.
Thanks so much for uploading this! I often wonder if it wasn't for people like you that these clips of nostalgia could be lost forever. They truly are pieces of history. All the best for 2022.
I remember that night/morning in the TVam studios in Camden. It was one of the station's best ever efforts in its all-too short existence. And the lion's share of the real nuts and bolts work of getting the programme to air that night was done by a bunch of reprobate, scruffy freelancers: John Cookson, Gérard Williams, Simon Walton and some other biker-jacketed itinerant whose name escapes me. A much lauded programme at the time, but not a word of thanks from the high-ups, who were all tucked up in bed while it was going on. But we were mercenaries and they did pay us handsomely so: Happy Days!
Well i suppose the big pay you got was their way of saying thanks
Well done to all of you, and thanks from twelve-year-old me.
I can't believe that Trish Williamson passed away 10 years ago this year (2007). Still deeply missed.
I remember this happening even though I was only 3 years old at the time. I remember my mother tucking me into bed and said there's gonna be a storm tonight. I remember sometime later I could hear the wind rustling badly and other things which scared me as I was trying to get to sleep. When I woke up in the morning my mum took me into the garage and showed me the damage the storm had done. It had blown down part of our garage wall.
Joe Bugner in the Frank Bruno report was in that awful Street Fighter film with Jean Claude Van Dame, but he redeemed himself in 1988 winning the IBF Heavyweight title before retiring after his last fight and only ever title defence which he won.
I was 7 at the time and went without electric for a week. We spent the time cooking food on the Camping Gas stove, played charades and had the radio on all the time!. Toast was cooked on the log fire.
Thanks so much for posting this, after the storm recently, I’ve been trawling UA-cam to see what TV reporting on the storm was like that I missed in 1987!.
When you're seven, this sort of thing is such an adventure!
Living in Essex, this happened on a Thursday night and school was shut the next day. By the Friday morning it was relatively calm.
Saw trees with 30CM trunks twisted and snapped half way up.
Tiles, glass, overhead power lines arcing in the road place looked like a war zone.
i remember the great storm, i was 12 at the time, we moved to Wales from Essex 10 months before, I don't remember TV-AM using the Thames Studios, going off subject a bit I do remember one day back in 1992 at 6:00am there was a technical fault with the switching at BT Tower, for about 15 minutes or so some area's got a colour bar test card with THAMES-3 superimposed on it, HTV Wales was one of the regions affected but HTV West was not affected,
Very rude of the chief inspector to fart down the phone at 26:48!
Hahaha
MrWeekendoff Well it was a windy morning!!
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Lol
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I remember the storm very well and that same morning school was canceled. Interesting times. Under the circumstances, TV Am did a good job keeping things going with a skeleton crew.
Skeletons, now I'd get up to watch a breakfast show hosted by skeletons
@Rex Rampage: I remember it well too, we were living in Seaford at the time and there was a real mess of debris lying in the road when we got up that morning. It was quite unusual for the UK and in particularly the South and South East to be hit with a Hurricane or at least the tail end of one.
I remember when we eventually came back and for show and tell had to tell the class what each of us did during the storm. All I remember saying was “We had a Fisher Price sing along battery operated radio!”.
Kay Burley, before she was a viper.
@Albie Stainer: She was just as bad then as she is now, people never change.
I remember seeing this when I was very young. I remember the storm too, we took the dog for a walk when it was just getting going and then sat around the fire in the dark after the power went out.
I wasn't born until 1989 so I didn't live to see this. The first time I remember any knowledge of it happening is when the BBC filmed the 10 year anniversary episode Lifasavers in 1997. We recorded it on VHS so must have it somewhere. Parents were on holiday in Spain during the great storm. Came back to find nothing damaged at the house (Hertfordshire) - so no gripping stories from me!
I was living in North London at the time; I woke up with electricity, but nothing on the TV! I did manage to retune and find a very faint image from somewhere else that let me know what was happening. Multiple trees down on the walk to the Tube, which wasn't running, so that was my meetings cancelled for the day!
irrelevantdotcom If you lived in North London you would have got television from the Crystal Palace transmitter which would have been knocked off air with the power cut at around 4.30am that morning so there would be no television signals from Crystal Palace transmitter until power would be restored I think around 8.00am. When you returned you probably got another transmitter which was working but far away from you in North London as not all areas were affected by power cuts.
He may have been pulling in a signal from as far away as Membury or Sandy Heath on that day.
I remember listening to LBC that morning and they were broadcasting from a trailer.
I love the Weather Girls warning. If you moving around in the dark please be careful. If they were in the dark they would not have the telly on dear.
Andrew Scott 😂
Lol
I didn't get to see this Broadcast as all four tv station was off air at the time as the Sandy Heath tv transmitter was down, I wonder if the tv enginner couldn't get to the transmitter site as their was a fallen tree in of them, I had no power cut, But the tv was down.
That warning is absolutely glorious. I don't know if Trish was thinking of portable televisions (i.e the sort that were about 3 inches across and ran on batteries), which where almost certainly a thing by 1987, or whether it was just a huge clanger tbh. All of the presenters are obviously under a lot of pressure here, as they have the dual pressures of things changing all the time (due to power supply problems, continually breaking news etc) and the need to also conform rather strictly to 'public service' ideals, in terms of facial expression, tone of voice, and the way they phrased things. The IBA had been critical of TV-AM's ability to respond to major news events prior to this, so they would have be doing their upmost to be as 'public service' as possible here, despite being quite 'light entertainment' on a normal morning, and despite being beset with technical problems at the start. Anne Diamond in particular excels here, coming across as resolutely in control and determined to provide the service, even though you can bet behind-the-scenes was chaos. Most of the other presenters have a certain amount of fear in their eyes when they are on, and I'm fairly sure that Gordon is working off handwritten notes being thrust to him just below the camera's view (that could have been normal for Tv-Am for all I know...). Also Trish in particular looks and sounds like she is at gunpoint throughout, but I guess as resident weather presenter during the biggest weather news story of the decade you would be pretty concious of making sure you didn't mess-up, and that would make you less natural than you normally would be. I just hope that the producers bought every presenter and member of the crew a bottle of their favourite spirit afterwards, given how loyal they were to a) turn up to work during a freaking hurricane and b) keep a true public service running more-or-less continuously throughout their entire timeslot, despite what essentially was a national weather emergency.
RIP Trish, I love her warning also, but maybe battery operated portable handheld TV sets were popular back then.
9:42 - Not broadcasting in London meant that the Crystal Palace Transmitter was off air, as there was no power in London, and so Crystal Palace would not work until power was restored by mid morning.
The commander presenting the weather forecast is so bizarre! It’s akin to WWII announcements.
Jeff Clarke at 43:10… He was the newsreader for BBC South East at one point and Meridian before that. Like Richard Keys, he was also on Sky Sports.
I remember as a 10 year old when the wind was so strong. The power cut of around 3.30am. Didn't go school either until Monday. If I remember 10am power was restored
Good old TVAM - strikes and storms couldn't stop them. They found a way to keep going as long as they could :)
And to think the only studio Thames could give them was the continuity studio. Good old TV-am news, pictures of reporters holding a telephone!
Thames had two studio bases - Euston Road studios was where they did their continuity and news programmes - Teddington Studios were too far away and had their larger audience based studios - Thames at Euston had a back up generator, TV-am also had one, but there was a problem with it, and couldn't come on air until later on when the generator was fixed
I was only 2 years old when this storm happened. My mother told me that my dad was on a night shift. He worked for Group 4 Security and was on a night shift that night from 10.00pm - 8.00am, and he said it was horrible weather and very frightening. Mum remembers hearing the winds howl through our avenue - thankfully mum said the power supply remained on all the time - they must have been one of the lucky regions to have kept power on?
Remember attempting to get to work on my bike, never got there, too many fallen trees blocking the road, I was 17 at the time.
My father's employer, in October 1987, issued a statement commending all those who went to work in spite of the aftermath of the Great Storm and told those who had not come to work because of the aftermath of the Great Storm that the day they had not turned up for work would be deducted from their annual leave entitlement.
Where I lived in New Milton,we were cut off for 17 days. So even though I am 49 years of age this is the first time that I have seen this coverage. All of the Power Lines were down and all of the Local animals,including our dear late Sheepdog called Shep had to be put indoors to stay safe! TV am [In this instence] did a good job! Thank You for this video. Do you have the same moring coverage from BBC Breakfast Time? GOD BLESS
Where I lived in Manor Park (London E12) just the edge of zone 3, we lost power in the early hours, we lost landline phone at 9am and listed to LBC radio. So seeing this for the first time too, it's interesting but we got more info than TV-AM were putting out by listening to people phoning in to the talk shows.
Yes here in the U.K. In The New Forest our Local Radio Station was 2.C.R. Two Counties Radio. [Founded by the former B.B.C. Radio Solent presenter and reporter Tim Piper. 2.C.R. was on through the night. The D.J.*s at 2.C.R. had to switch to Emergency Battery power and switch studios at Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth to keep the station on the air. They knew the Great Storm of 1987 was coming because they had read out the French Radio Report 7 hours before. We were with out power for 17 days. We had a working farm then and we had to make sure our sheep dog [called Shep] was on a leash because the power line was right in the middle of the road. Shep he was called. In the end we went down to The Hampshire Shopping Centre in Chritschurch to get heat hot food and watch some T.V. Sadly all of our family are dead and gone now. Just myself and my brother. Myself and my brother were carers for our lovely Mum for the last seven years. Sadly our Mum passed in March of this year. My brother now has a non-cancerous tumour. Local radio is at it*s best in times like this. With Trump as president. We may need Radio at the very end. Thank You for replying to me. 2.C.R. was first taken over by the ocean Radio group which in turn was taken over by Capital [As in Capital Radio] in 2001.From The New Forest GOD BLESS!
i was living in poole town.....working in westover road bournemouth, in pizzaland, over the road from the pavilion..........when i finished at around 11-30pm, the trees in the pavilion were being blown almost all the way over.......i managed to get home, but didnt get any sleep, our old irish wolfhound was howling the whole night, we had a bunch of slates off the roof, and some of my neighbours had broken windows.............what a night...............
@garry simpson: We had Southern Sound [ later called Southern FM ] in East Sussex, I remember waking up in Seaford the road was a mess, debris from peoples roof tiles and chimney pots. East Sussex was pretty much the worst hit from this.
Its so surreal. Live TV as the storm is still happening
I walked to work from Bethnal Green to South Audley street, we had electricity. Park Lane resembled a park and Hyde Park looked grim.
Proper professional performance from TV-am. They should bring it back in it's original format
I miss the simple factual presentation of the news. No fear culture, no sensationalism, no polarisation. Please get us back to this style.
I swear we had a Haden
TV-am was not broadcasting in London at this time, as the Crystal Palace transmitter had no power to it. So in a strange situation, TV-am was being seen outside of London. This was done by the magic of the post office cable network and the still working microwave network which fed TV-am to all regions.
Is the first part of this emergency TV-am / Thames broadcast available anywhere please?
If you still have this footage to hand, I'd love to see and maybe upload the commercial breaks.
3 years later i might get around to doing that sometime soon.
@@vtrben meanwhile 7 months later.......... hahaha
My mum was 7 when this happened, I’ll have to ask her if she remembers this
interesting how he said 'dozens of people killed'...................
39:38 love how she hangs up still talking to him lol
I think this was the time when our U.K. climate shifted to milder winters and warmer summers. Until 1987, snow was more common and colder summers from time to time used to be frequent. The Great Storm of 1987 did seem to usher in a change.
I remember Christmas Day 1987 in London, and it was very sunny and very mild.
Absolute nonsense
I was 6 living in hawkhurst Kent we had 11 days with no power can you imagine that happening now a days
Yes.
I notice a few seconds after going back to Gordon Honeycombe, there's a non-sync cut and the clock disappears, I'm guessing that's the feed to the VTR being cut from what was coming from Thames to TV-am's own internal feed? From what I've read before, I think Thames kept feeding TV-am to the network that morning and Richard Keys stayed there in case power was lost at Camden again- which of course it was at the end of this video.
I'm guessing Thames weren't making a recording of what they were outputting (I guess things were hectic and they had other things to worry about that morning), so all we have is this which TV-am recorded during the times they had power. Unless someone happened to be recording from home that morning.
I remember in the 00s when Moving Image used to have a very detailed searchable database of their TV-am holdings, with absolutely LOADS of video clips, not just of programme content but also including several ad breaks and at least one of the IBA startup captions, and it was interesting to note what particular feed was recorded to the archive tape varied from day to day- sometimes it was an as-broadcast recording with the clock and ad breaks there, some times it would be a raw feed with no clock and staying on the studio or a VT clock during the breaks (one of the clips they had to view was Michael Parkinson talking to Raymond Burr during an ad break!), and there was at least one clip where we got the audio of the adverts but the vision from the studio, there didn't seem to be a consistent way of doing it throughout the station's life- even the clips they put up right until the end in 1992 varied from day to day in this regard.
I bought a VHS copy of the broadcast from the day I was born from them back before the archive was farmed off to AP and they still dealt with the general public (sadly, I no longer have the tape.... throwing it away is a decision I regret), and that particular one was as broadcast, with the clock and all the ad breaks (and TV-am colour bars popping up after they went off air).
Ah yes I remember the Moving Image archive. That's where I originally got this recording from. I'm glad I did because this was such a unique situation where the broadcasts were affected by the news they were reporting on. I was also glad when longer recordings of how the BBC dealt with it surfaced more recently too.
I always intended to get the edition from the day I was born too but never actually got around to it. I seem to remember I got some money off for this recording because it was shorter too.
hi it is Scott here you said you have edited out the elton John interview which is said is a big part of the program so my question is did you upload the elton John interview which was in this program as I'm such a massive fan of elton John thank you also it was a sad time in 87 my friend Up in hospital have a time
I too am like Elton john rolling around hope your friend make it
there are other clips of the tvam elton john interviews with anne diamond on here - i watched them yesterday
You’ll notice it’s 7:27am and I’m afraid we can’t bring you Popeye this morning! 😂
hahaha lol 25:25
Ha haaaa! Just when I'd stopped laughing about the Bugs Bunny jumper!
That used to be my cue for getting my breakfast before getting ready for school. No school that day as the Merstham Tunnel was blocked at both ends.
No Batfink either?! Oh no!
I remember this I got day off school
I remember the lollipop lady (Whom lived up my road) popped round to tell me there was no school that day, do to the storm.
Storm Eunice could have similar traits to the October storm.
Well, I'd say Her Majesty was rather lucky not to have had to go through that storm.
I was 7 and remember this night in Norfolk.
Same age, I was in Wivenhoe, Essex, and we lost our bunnies 😢
@@terrybaker8156 that's sad 😢
@@notmanynamesleft well, it was 34 years ago. And some people lost loved ones, so...
An old folks home ??? You couldn’t say that today ! It’s called a carehome !
I was 19 floors up in London watching the destruction unfold beneath me,saw the lights go out across London and couldn't even make a cuppa tea 👍
Tragic
That must've been scary. (Not the tea part.)
@@marnanel it was crazy
I don’t suppose there’s any chance of getting a copy of the footage from 6 o’clock to 645 by any chance is there?
This is all that was recorded in the archives. Unless someone someone somewhere was recording that day, it seems unlikely.
Video Tape Review - Thanks I thought once I’d saw it ... 0600 to 0645 mostly Elton stuff that was posted but it disappeared very quickly .. maybe UA-cam copy-write thanks for getting back to me appreciated
@@vtrbenI'm sure *someone* was. I hope the tape surfaces eventually.
A school friend of mine played crazy golf in her garden, the ball smashed her dads new greenhouse window. That night the storm started and the whole thing crashed down 😂Needless to say she wasn’t popular for a long time.
Compared to today, there are very few video items, you have to imagine the news.
24:30 - Then as now, nobody really wanted to talk to Kay Burley. 😄
So TV AM used Thames Television studios for some reason. Why? It couldn't have been due to power outage as TV AM returned to their studios at Camden Lock and were running from their normal set I presume by generator power, so I wonder why they decamped to Thames for the first hour or so?
Here is a question for you: if this happened during a weekend, then would TV-am have used LWT's continuity studio in such circumstances?
I presume so as Thames would have been off the air and very little staff there over the weekend, so they would have gone to The London Studios on the southbank.
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@John King: Anne Diamond explains once she was back at Camden Lock Studios @ 20:00 that the whole of London suffered a black out in power, including its transmitter services due to the Great Storm. So because of that they had to broadcast from the Thames Television studios which the franchise had gladly helped them with whilst engineers worked to get their Camden Studios electricity etc back.
As I understand it TV-AM ran, not so much on a shoestring, as on a couple of mm of fibre extracted from said shoestring. As such it's likely they didn't have generator facilities in the first place (they could barely cover the mains electric bill, and had a Southern Electric man turn up to disconnect the supply for non-payment whilst they were on air one morning), and had to wait for some to arrive. Thames definitely had generators available as they were often responsible for national playout of prime time shows to the network.
We had no electricity until 2.30 that afternoon.
“Old folks’ home” 😂
This could have been the very first experience of rolling news
Watch out for a young Adam Boulton reporting from Vancouver.
How big was them telephones?
They're at Thames Television at the start
Up in Scotland we have one of these storms every year or so but they are never reported. Sad really ☹
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Fanks 4ur suppott 2b onist thay fink thay r breeding uz out its haf tru due 2 al the east europ taking our housez the skum koodnt do it but dening us houses by i r a supporters is as bad NS GSTQ PAF FGAU.
@Dark Light West Ham stands Loyal we kair ICF FUCK THE IRA.
Thanks 4 ur Support the skum say thay will bread uz out and along with east europ i fink it may happen we kant get a home 4 eez send em aw bak PAF. GSTQ. FGAU.KKK.RFC WHU WATP. NS
The Scottish highlands doesn't have billions of pounds of real estate and is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Europe. A powerful storm hitting idle acres with one man and his sheep is not going to be as newsworthy than the same storm hitting the most densely populated and developed part of the UK with tons of stuff to wreck with millions of people using the transport network daily, and billions in damage, basic common sense really.
I was only two years old, so don't really remember the storm. My mum tells me we were cut off till midday
I was 6 when this happened and remember it well, I'm sure if you were 3 you would of remembered more
Everything goes to pot, but for some reason the adverts were still to hand!
TBF the adverts would have been the easy part.
Even 30 years ago Kay Burley had no personality
Shes a news reader not a general practitioner
i was there
Storm Ophelia (2017) is Similar to the Great Storm of 1987, Which is Red Weather Alert
What’s with the phones...
Big chunky 80s phones. :D
You use them to talk to people who aren't physically present? :)
any joy with the first part? Ta
Presumably Fred Truman lived in Camden...
Kevin Tennent He lived in a cunt😉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Weather person saying if your walking around in the dark at home.... er if that's the case you wouldn't be seeing TVam or the weather report.
13:21 is this where Operation Yewtree originates from?
nearly 30 years ago I was 17
BANTER
Martin Frizzell husband of Fiona Phillips
38:18 women's look if I ring them lol
Trish Williamson... No relation.
So why comment?
A real shame the uploader chose such poor sound quality.
This must of been how you of watched it
To be fair its from 1987, its not like you could get HD footage back then
Nicam Stereo wasn't available everywhere back in 87, and Nicam Compatible VCR's were very expensive when they were released so not everyone could afford them.
The picture and audio were being routed through emergency back-up systems that day to get a broadcast on air at all, given the power cuts, transmitter problems etc. Add to that the miracle that someone made a recording and that the VHS survived more or less 30 years to be uploaded on youtube, and in that context the picture and sound quality don't seem too bad (certainly my parents' TV, with its dials and clunky knobs, would have shown a 4 year old me a worse picture and sound at the time than what is preserved here).
06.45.45 Richard's demonic hand signal
80s
@amy clarke: October 1987 to be precise.
(1:55) Well, brother, just you wait a few years and then try and tell me again just how much you want things to get back to normal again. ;)
25:27 there's no what this morning? it sounds like she said "popeye" as in the cartoon character. why in the world would a morning show air cartoons
Yes you heard correctly, Popeye was a staple feature on TV AM for most of its ten year history.
TV AM always had budget problems, especially from 1983-1988 and so cartoons where a cheap way to fill air time, were popular with kids who were up at that time of day. Remember over on the BBC their breakfast show by 1987 was a boring news programme.
@@johnking5174 Also if the breakfast franchise could attract kids to watch then it literally trebled its viewing figures (and for the first half of its existence TV-AM needed every viewer it could get to justify its existence) as the one adult adult viewer per household got joined by, on average, two children.
The guy looks weird... just plain weird
You should see his hands
Bloody Fiji, sod em
Kay Burley was attractive?
eddie lasowsky nope
yes
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