★ BBC-1 first Breakfast Time | Monday 17 January 1983
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The BBC is first first first with breakfast television, not at all in a spoiler attempt for TV-am (due in May, launched in February in response) that was entirely successful and crushed the commercial opposition utterly. Listen to Frank Bough's introduction as he positions the BBC's new programme against what TV-am had been promising and rehearsing for months. And he was right: the public preferred a lighter breakfast; and, when it came down to it, commercial TV could go lighter than the BBC could bring themselves to manage and would thus win in the end.
Of particular interest are the various breakfast shows around the world (USA, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan) wishing the BBC well to varying degrees of success.
May we recommend 'Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television' by Ian Jones? amzn.to/1jbSS13
For me, the Breakfast Time logo is perhaps one of the most iconic logos of the 1980s. Always loved that rotation.
@mrandrewbowden - Agreed Andrew! I still remember watching that first episode, admiring the introductory imagery, and the title music.
From memory, I think the BBC had only just started to adopt the new visual imagery 'program', which I believe they nicknamed the "tumbler" machine.
I wish it was 1983 again I like television when it was like this.
Same here.
Totally agree with you TV not the same now
No programmes for hours was better.
I would have been not yet thirteen and in my second year at senior school in 1983. The General Election Day fell on my thirteenth birthday! Takes me right back to childhood memories.
So agree with you. Loved 1983 a favourite year of mine can't believe this was 40 year's ago still remember it as if it was only yesterday. Much Happier times
I remember when I was 14 getting up on this winter morning early to see this first ever broadcast of Breakfast Time. Did the same for TV-Am.
Peter Peter I did exactly the same! :-)
Me too.
I did!!
Me too
I did the same... I was 16 at the time. We need to go back to the 80’s and purge ourselves of this current madness.
This has been shown on Breakfast this morning on Tuesday 17th January...
Happy 40th Birthday BBC Breakfast Time!
Whatever Frank did in his private life he was a thoroughly professional and accomplished broadcaster.
Er, what did he do in his private life? I’m scared.
@@TomRipley7350 Cocaine & Prostitutes.
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A lot of dressing up in lingerie and auto-flagellation, I think.
Happy 40 th Birthday BBC Breakfast. Was such a unique show in its heyday ❤️🍺
I was 7 years old and remember this watching in my parents room on the black and white portable tv before school.
Selina was absolutely gorgeous. Frank was a brilliant, unflappable front. He made it look effortless. He, Harry Carpenter, David Coleman and Dickie Davies set an incredibly high benchmark in presenting.
exotic stuff, Im of the generation when off sick from school counted down the dots on the ITV ident clock to the next schools programme. Picture box terrorised kids back to school...
I can't remember watching this, but I know I did. I set my alarm. I was working for Alpine Soft Drinks at the time.
Ey up, lol. Yep, we got up especially to watch it. I remember it quite well.
40 years ago today.
I was in the 1st year at Secondary school. I’d get up around 06.20 and remember putting the tele on to watch a little of this before leaving to do my paper round. Great times.. would love to go back to those easier times
Same here. I really would.
I was not yet thirteen and in my second year at senior school, so the year above you. A less complicated era!
Oh God, this gives me flashbacks of getting out of bed in the freezing cold and dark to get ready for school!
Unforgettable year not the same now unfortunately. I was 17 years old and carefree!
Yes I was the same just turned 17 I remember this day so well and watching BBC Breakfast time start at 6:30am on that cold January Morning way back in 1983. Much happier times for us all. The world was a very different place back then for the better
I am about four years younger than you, because I turned 13 on the day of the 1983 General Election. Admittedly, the lack of intrusive Social Media helped!
In January 1983 I was in my first year at work having left school in May 1982. I was on a Youth Opportunity Programme working for British Airways at Gatwick so would watch this before going to work and I remember that first day. Compared to today its not really to sophisticated but was great having breakfast tv at last back then. I love the way that the lead story in the news is about a plane crash that killed 40 people and is hardly of any consequence when today they would probably have a live report from the scene of the crash .Weatherman Francis Wilson looks like he really doesn't want to be there.
I live in Australia now and those two presenters on Good Morning Australia from 1983 Mike Munro and Kerri Ann Wright are both still involved in tv journalism today.
In January 1983 I was in my second year at senior school. Three years later I became a YTS trainee on leaving school after my O Levels! The YTS was the successor to the YOP.
I was not yet 13 when Breakfast Time started. But I remember watching it and being excited.
I like the slow musical build-up to the screen logo, during the opening sequence!
There’s a clip of David Frost and the TV-am cronies smirking at this. The smile was soon taken from him as were his viewers and near bankruptcy
Francis Wilson and his .. fluffy bits...who remembers that'
I do. My mum had a crush on him!
Jane Pauley on British television?!? I'm impressed! 🇺🇲🗽📺👍😁
0:05 - 1:51 = Canto de Ossanha, from Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes. Best and beautiful Brazilian bossa-nova music.
"As you can see its very informal..." Says the guy wearing a tie...
Wow, excellent quality !
I remember when I was minus 11 years old watching this. Good times.
Thank you so much. They are showing a re-creation of the titles on today's BBC Breakfast, just not the same as the originals.
"You can see our home is very very relaxed and informal!" Sounds like Alan Partridge in his mock-up home in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule.
Happy 30th birthday Breakfast Time!
I was 7 and a half at the time and remember this. The intro music was lovely - hope they bring back the tune one day!
happier times... Ahh so many good memories :-)
What I like is how all the breakfast shows had really nice easy listening themes, and then Japan; seemingly reinforcing every stereotype about the Japanese culture, have a synthpop jingle.
And it's not just any synthpop, it was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
@@AaronSmart.online I did not know this. And I am a YMO fan
I remember watching as a kid
懐かしいNHKニュースワイド［1980〜1988］
I can't understand why we were decades behind other countries with breakfast shows...
+digitalmediafan As seen by TV-am's dramatic financial collapse after a few months, there was no money in breakfast television right up to the end of the 1980s. Not enough viewers (due to the strength of ILR and BBC radio in the mornings - both are still huge even now), not enough advertisers, expensive start-up costs... it wasn't an appealing prospect for investors. The same applied - applies now, actually - to 24 hour television. There's almost nobody watching between about 3am and about 5am - you wouldn't get tired from counting the viewers if you asked them to put up their hands. So none of the 5 main channels bother (1: News 24, 2: off-air, 3: nightscreen, 4: repeats and burnoffs, 5: betting/teleshopping).
Netherlands was very late too
K. Voskuyl So was Canada with the launch of CTV’s Canada AM in 1972; it lasted 44 more years.
Back here in the States...ABC would join the party with AM America in early 1975; low ratings against Today and Captain Kangaroo led to the creation of Good Morning America.
Some would say that CBS still suffers the curse of the Captain, No other early morning show has done well. However CBS This morning is the best out of the three national breakfast shows.
This video on UA-cam is officially 10 years old now, incredible
Came here off the back of the behind the scenes video uploaded today to the BBC Archive channel
I need that breakfiller music from the start of the video...it's so catchy!
A more innocent time
No David Icke? Shame, I wanted to know how the Silurians got on in the Football against the Royal Family and whether Repton won the snooker. A wonderful, wonderful clip - many thanks!
Love that they felt they had to justify the idea of breakfast TV!
Jeepers, imagine waking up with Selena and Debbie? We were so lucky.
Always loved Adrian Mole's diary entry for this day.
Adrian Mole wrote extensively about his crush on Selina Scott!
@@Thomas828 And he had one on Pandora too.
Adrian Mole was six months older than my brother Anthony, and so would have been the school year above him. Adrian is also three years older than me!
OMG I was born in the wrong generation everything looks so calm and cool
I can just about remember this type of television from when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It was much better than today's TV.
@@ajs41 I remember it well.
I must have been born in the right generation, as I was 12 when it started (13 on General Election day that year) and remember watching it before going to school. Second year at senior school, by the way!
Thank you !! I look forward to seeing similar material if you have it??!!
I remember the event (inc. the adrenalin) very well. I did have u-matics of the show (before I loaned them out, never to be returned)!
Thanks for this upload
Mike Munro went from strength to strength down here in the Antipodes, reading the news, doing current affairs and hosted This Is Your Life.
As for Kerri-Anne...well she was with GMA the entire run until Bert Newton took over, but she found herself doing Midday for many years (oh and a lot of cabaret shows). Only finished on TV recently on Studio 10.
happy 40th birthday BBC breakfast time 🎂🍾🎈🎉🎊🥳🥳🥳
Go easy on the noise reduction guys :)
Sorry! The videos were being processed with the default settings in Final Cut Pro by a partially deaf person who didn't know better! We've since improved the sound quality on later uploads (although the deaf guy is still doing them!)
BBC to be proud of not anymore I'm afraid
My Goodness, I've never seen Mike Munro that young... Or Kerry Ann with her maiden name.
Looks like the BBC got the feel right from day one for a morning show, the format really hasnt changed that much.
Except when it became a formal news show in 1986.
11:18 Good Morning Hong Kong (which started in 1981 and airs on TVB Jade in Cantonese) and 11:44 NHK News Wide from NHK Japan
This isn't the 1980s Breakfast Time theme tune I remember… I'll keep searching! :-)
I cant believe its 40 years ago
It's a shame the audio sounds like it's had so much NR applied.
Very sad to read Frank Bough has died
I remember getting up specially.
RIP Frank Bough.
The BBC were way too quick to ditch the original format of Breakfast Time. I think it had a strength which could work well even today. Sure, things have to change and evolve, but they ended up with a dull, weak, heavy news format which was miles behind the successes of its rivals for well over twenty years. It was only when ITV gifted them the audience by ditching GMTV for the problematic Daybreak, that it regained the dominance it had right back in 1983. But I'd much rather have the Breakfast Time magazine mix, than the straight forward rolling news on a sofa format of today. It's okay, it's functional, and it's certainly way better than the painful Breakfast News of the 90's. But with ITV also now in the heavy news format at breakfast, there's a huge gap in the market for something with a wider mix of items, such as Breakfast Time and TV-am used to be good at. I know that TV-am, in particular, was always criticised for being too populist, but I don't see why news cannot co-exist with lighter content.
Absolutely, this format was superior to everything they attempted later.
TBS. You missed Good Morning Australia from Australia.
Francis defected from Thames that year. In return BBC gave them Jack Scott
FYI, Sunrise in Australia has been on air since the early 90s
Happy 40th Birthday for today 🎉🍺
Does anyone know the title of the music at the very beginning?
Canto de Ossanha. The original was written by Vinicius de Moraes and performed by Baden Powell.
I used to have a crush on Debbie Rix, she was lovely.
Isn't that just the most beautifully early 80s thing ever, wits all those earth colours, glass and chrome and all the cheap synths. And don't forget that vaguely Nationwide knock-off logo...
Aliens 36 lightyears away are watching this transmission as we speak.
I really enjoy the song from 0:04-1:52
BBC600 It's a version of Canto de Ossanha - Vinicius de Moraes.
hi usuariodgusstavo, do you know the track before 'canto de ossanaha' ( track 2 on 'somewhere downtown' ) is called please & who it's by please, i'd be very grateful if you could tell me either way please.
Didn't even know it was on.
6:52 and wow what a humdinger of a 1st headline, nothing like a fatal plane crash to start the day off right!!!
I googled it, it was Turkish Airlines flight 158 that crashed on the previous day!
Although no one would know it, towards the end of this year the world would come dangerously close to neuclear war on Two occasions.
January? That's before TV am!
That really awkward moment when Frank touched the Debbie the newsreader on the shoulder just before she told us of the plane crash and dead people!
Now, I'd like to see the first edition of "BBC Breakfast Time" from 17th January 1983 in full. Now is there anyway in which you could upload that?
I did have it on U-matic (lo-band). I loaned it out and never got it back!
excellent great memories bring back frank...............selina scott corrrrrrrrrrrr david icke on sport
Breakfast time theme looks like TV am
Even using the original clock (from 8.37 onwards)
I remember the first episode, I was 15 years old and I fell in love with the weatherman Francis Wilson. I thought he was sooooo sexy!!!
The presenters from Hong Kong were definitely looking creepy there...
1:55 What BBC announcer is this???
11:59 - Japanese in English
30,000th view on the 32nd anniversary!
TVB Good Morning Hong Kong!
that's kinda the point, showing you the world....
My bible camp should play this when breakfast time is in 2 minutes!
Someone should call that phone number!
Well, *there's* another reason to celebrate (or _have_ celebrated) Martin Luther King Day: have another country get inspired from our breakfast TV to create their own show.
How did you manage to get this from the archives and have you got the complete broadcast from start to finish?
We recorded it off-air at the time, and yes, we have (most) of the edition still on tape.
Well, a new channel that would air classic tv programmes would be great. At least as a part of iPlayer.
,6.30,?I'm still in my pit.. getting up at the very last minute much to my parents dismay
love the clock! v informal you'd not get away with no suit now
Didn't know it was on. Preferred tvam
Somebody had to, I suppose...
8:33: for those of you watching from the future, the map doesn't need to be pixelated: they did it that way because it looks hi-tech.
Is this of VHS or Beta.
It's VHS
What's with the watermark??
I WAS A TV-AM VIEWER BUT THE BBC GOT THERE FIRST.
Anyone notice the symbolism in the phone number Nick Ross reads out at 5:11?
Legend has it this music is still played today in indian call centers whilst you are on hold, and theyre trying to scam you.
Oliver Long, The reason Frank Bough left the show was revelations about him at sex and drugs parties.
Actually he left Breakfast Time before that. He was presenting the Holiday programme at the time of the revelations.
Selina was just. Lush.
The notorious Frank Bough 😂
Wow they got Jane Polly from NBC cool, to bad the today's show is now trash that airs for four hours.
As is FOX and Friends on FOX "News"-- political outrage, whether right-wing or left-wing, is not something I'd care for in the mornings.
The women back then were just so feminine looking and acting. Gentle. A world away from today's tiresome tattooed tinder trollops.