It's a shame that there were a few dodgy characters on TV back then (like Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall), but apart from those wrong-uns, I agree, this was a great era for TV, especially around Christmas.
I was 10 years old. I think I had a Spectrum computer that year. I loved playing the hundreds of games that came with it and stuffing my face with sweets, chocolate, crisps and bottles of pop lol. Good times :)
I was sixteen then. My brother Anthony, who would have been nineteen at the time, possessed a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which he used to play games on. That was a few years previously!
Thank you for this. This was a great line-up. Christmas TV felt more special back in the day (even though I was only 7 during Christmas 86, and I likely would have been in bed long before any of these programmes aired, although weirdly enough, I do remember the Educating Rita trailer). Maybe it's because we only had four channels.
I liked when all-night TV was a novelty on ITV full of weird stuff, interspersed with movie reviews, 60s Batman episodes and The Hitman and Her, rather than the blandness and sameyness of 24-hour news and shopping/gambling shows.
No doubt it would all be accused of being too white and too male, and perhaps it was, but I do appreciate how polite it was, as you say. There was something very soothing about it.
I was sixteen at the time and prefer a less complicated era (simpler pleasures without the intrusion of social media and cyberspace). Four TV channels with more quality than the rubbish on the numerous channels of recent vintage!
@@edmund184 'Calmer'. Good word. Yes, it was. It was less in-your-face and more relaxed. I rather miss those days (which is not to say I miss everything about that era). And there was some cosy about the likes of Russell Harty and Val Donigan.
![[720p/50p reupload] BBC1 | final 405 line closedown | 2nd January 1985](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OYj6MtXbl6U/mqdefault.jpg)
Happy, happy days I foolishly took for granted and miss so much .
Thinking about that years Christmas, my Commodore 64 would have have been wrapped up ready under the tree. Happy days.
And you would open it,
put the cassette to load the game and then Boxing day you actually play it. 👍
Miss the 80's
That was a strong line up for Christmas day. No strictly or bake off specials to bore us to tears
oh my do i miss this era of television, the bbc heydays.
It's a shame that there were a few dodgy characters on TV back then (like Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall), but apart from those wrong-uns, I agree, this was a great era for TV, especially around Christmas.
I was 10 years old. I think I had a Spectrum computer that year. I loved playing the hundreds of games that came with it and stuffing my face with sweets, chocolate, crisps and bottles of pop lol. Good times :)
I was sixteen then. My brother Anthony, who would have been nineteen at the time, possessed a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which he used to play games on. That was a few years previously!
This was telly in its heyday, great programs these were more fun, simpler , and better times
Thank god for the vhs
Yes for sure too!!
Simpler times when BBC1 was actually entertaining and not so obsessive about "oneness" or trying to tell you how to run your life.
Indeed so too really-alas?!
Yawn.
Christmas TV what a joy it was all them years ago 🎅🤶🧑🎄
Thank you for this. This was a great line-up. Christmas TV felt more special back in the day (even though I was only 7 during Christmas 86, and I likely would have been in bed long before any of these programmes aired, although weirdly enough, I do remember the Educating Rita trailer). Maybe it's because we only had four channels.
You're very welcome!
"Happy Christmas Ange"
I was 2 and a half hours old when this aired!
Blissful innocent happy days... Life was so much easier and happier then... And telly was so much better the further you go back...
I bought the Verdict dvd after seeing a clip of it on here , good film !
I always took my dogs walking when eastenders was on Christmas day
'Enders wasn't so bad back then. They seemed to have proper writers, and didn't feel the need for sensationalist tripe four or five times a week.
I have the recording of Educating Rita from this day on Betamax!
Wonderful days.
When TV and life was just so much better.
When television had class
I love the cartoon!
No all night BBC news back then that takes you through to 6am
I liked when all-night TV was a novelty on ITV full of weird stuff, interspersed with movie reviews, 60s Batman episodes and The Hitman and Her, rather than the blandness and sameyness of 24-hour news and shopping/gambling shows.
I loved that Christmas tree ident.
Such a polite closedown
No doubt it would all be accused of being too white and too male, and perhaps it was, but I do appreciate how polite it was, as you say. There was something very soothing about it.
I was sixteen at the time and prefer a less complicated era (simpler pleasures without the intrusion of social media and cyberspace). Four TV channels with more quality than the rubbish on the numerous channels of recent vintage!
You are so right on that indeed-definitely for sure!!
You're lucky to have existed around that time.
Clock 12:40am
I went on a big search trying to find these 3 animated ident characters names, and I got nowhere.
Do any of you know what they are?
Nameless
LoL Its British Sujiou
My country tis of thee
Celebrations? Den giving Angie divorce papers and Arthur’s breakdown!
Russell Harty and Val Donican. And people are nostalgic for this shite?
it's a point. Allo Allo and Bergerac were shite too. It's just that TV was calmer then.
@@edmund184 'Calmer'. Good word. Yes, it was. It was less in-your-face and more relaxed. I rather miss those days (which is not to say I miss everything about that era). And there was some cosy about the likes of Russell Harty and Val Donigan.