Trailers, Testcards and 1st transmission of the idents. (Which took place in the early afternoon on Christmas Eve - meaning I finished up recording every programme junction from 9am)
The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river
I remember falling asleep and waking up to ceefax and Oracle in the middle of the night. I can't put my finger on why but TV seemed much cosier back then. I suppose it's because I was a kid. Seems their are too many PPI and litigation adverts now though.
It was so much less sophisticated and slick back then, and the ‘on tonight’ schedule made it feel way more intimate. Nobody was trying to sell you a lifestyle or an agenda, and the end of the schedule the continuity announcer would bid you goodnight and that was that. If you were reckless enough to be staying up beyond that then you were on your own.
Thanks for the great memories , I was 16 and got a portable black and white tv for my room and my mum bought me that very double issue radio times , so I could tick off what I wanted to watch on tv, a tradition I still do today I’m 53! My mummy had sadly gone now but little Christmas traditions carry on
For me Christmas started whe my Dad would come home with The Radio Times and the TV Times double issues. Marker pen all the great stuff. I remember one year BBC 1 was showing all the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan's each morning, Heaven. Also one year they would show the Buster Crabb Flash Gordon serials. I'm a bit older than you and really loved them times. I have all the Tarzan movies and the Flash Gordon's now but it's understandable that it's not the same. I think I was about 16 when I had a portable TV for Christmas and I loved it in my bedroom especially, The BBC 2 horror double bills. "Infinity" magazine is an absolute joy concerning old TV shows and I rush out to buy it every month. I nearly cried when I read your reply because I remember the joy of the TV guides and remember simpler and lovelier times.👍👍
Wow, I miss old TV 📺, and remember when you get your first digital alarm radio lolz ,waking us up for work with that awful buzz buzz buzz, I was amazed with the red digital read out and buttons 😀 FANTASTIC days ❤🇬🇧💯🙏😎
@johnbarry1965 so agree They were much simpler Happy times although there was mass unemployment people seemed more content with there lives Christmas 1982 and 1983 were favourite Christmases for me plus 1983 was a good year
Same here. Me and my sisters would then go through every day of the 2 weeks and circle what we would watch for every minute. Was easier when there were only 4 channels to worry about
I would have been 12 (you are the same age as my brother Anthony). I well remember the Falklands War and the arrival of Channel 4. Takes me right back.
I was brought up in a strict Catholic family. We had to go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day so when Christmas landed on a Saturday it meant we also had to go on Boxing Day as that was a Sunday.
It was simpler. It didn't treat people like children (even at xmas). There was a programme called "The World of James Joyce" on Xmas Day. Then Burden of Dreams!!
At the time of Christmas 82 I was six years old, and I clearly remember a great deal of this. Thirty-seven years have passed, and it's strange how when I was young - like at the time of Christmas 82 - if anything had been shown on TV from thirty-seven years previously (1945)... it would've been in black & white and seemed very dated indeed. Yet now, thirty-seven year old television footage has the effect of appearing recently made: with minimal adjustment, Christmas 82 is interchangeable with Christmas 2019.
I was 5 and getting very excited for Christmas! I hate to be all 'kids these days...', but it just seems like they don't really experience it like we did. Of course our parents thought the same thing and that TV was ruining us 😁It's hard to describe that feeling of a dark winter's night outside, Christmas tree lit up bright with big multi-coloured lights and lots of enticing presents under, looking longingly wondering if your 'big present' was what you hoped it was. Strings of cards hanging from the walls. Quality Street and Roses on the coffee table next to the bumper TV and Radio Times. Bottles of Cherryade, Irn Bru and R Whites in the kitchen. Mum baking mince pies and sausage rolls listening to Jimmy Young on the radio... It's all gone now, but the memories and the feelings remain! How lucky we were!
I remember the strings of cards on the wall, and anytime one of us would close the door a little more swiftly the resulting waft of air would have them scattered across the carpet! lol good times
I'm transported back to my childhood again .......fond memories of golden times spent with loved ones , sadly passed now , ....but still very much alive in my thoughts,....wonder times , ...my eyes sting a little ,....and not an onion in sight ....nostalgia can be painful and a joy all at the same time...
I love watching TV commercials from this era. They are soft, well spoken, not rushed, not in your face, quieter, relaxing, warm and comforting vice announcers. They seem less *cold* than adverts today which are hard, loud, common (some times more ghetto sounding due to diversity quotas) fast paced, slap bang wallop editing, in your face, full on CGI effects, tense, rushed and as a result just so so *cold* just like today's world. So I switch these on for some comfort and reassurance.
Sancho O'Dell big time. Adverts then were just like ‘Hey, look at this thing. It costs five pounds, please buy one’. These days I’m supposed to ‘engage’ with a ‘narrative’ and give a shit about how wonderfully diverse the message is. End result? It’s utterly unrelatable and so it passes me by entirely. I’m almost glad though, it means I’m practically ‘advertising proof’ now.
This was my first Christmas on planet earth, I was exactly 3 months old here. Needless to say, I don’t remember any of these tv adverts and programs. 😃
That was how Christmas telly should be, saving the festive indents until Christmas Eve - not like now when the Christmas logos are foisted upon us on December the 1st until the 2nd week in January.
In the 1970s it was just adding a bit of glitter to normal surroundings (as you do at home) in fact the first BBC1 Christmas ident was used for EIGHT years after 1976 it just got more excessive by the year
I agree Joanne, they flog it so much beforehand that it has lost its novelty by the time Christmas comes. Thanks for putting these up David, it takes me back to some great times.
Nice to David Icke here, I have alot of respect for him, very brave man who has done a great deal of work over the last 30 years trying to wake people up.
I especially liked the part where the plastic dolly from outer space was stealing the frogspawn from the pond. 😂😂😂😂👴👴👨👩👨🙋🙋🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸👽👽👽👽👽🐸🐸🐸🐸🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎃🎃🎆🐻
Very brief excerpt at the end of It came upon a midnight clear by the Singers Unlimited from their 70's Xmas album. Beautiful album, well worth tracking down.
Always came in handy working at Curry’s in the 80s. Ask the customer on the phone to hold a moment and turn up the volume of the nearest tv with testcard and Christmas music.
Now that's dedication! I did a similar thing on the day the BBC idents changed in February 1991 and also in September 1997 but not quite as completely!
Probably the last least complicated year of my life....To follow, girlfriend's, work, mortgage, consumerism, Internet, and COVID.., if its the last thing l do.....I am returning to 1982, I have a home, a dog, and a girlfriend.....
Happy days. I was 12. I seem to remember Death on the Nile being bloody repeated every Christmas throughout the 80s. Also, Morecambe & Wise had switched to ITV years before, but still leaving a gaping hole on BBC1 Christmas Day schedule.
2.10 I love the way the continuity announcer specifies that Elton John will be “doing his thing, musically” in case anyone thought he was going to get his tallywhacker out or something
Great TV Christmas, when people actuall liked the BBC, now they are hated by alot of people, which is not surprising given they are the biggest propaganda machine ever invented (and I think Mr Icke would agree), but I have to amit they made Christmas back then really special. Now TV has gone woke and political correct, plus there is just no warmth and soul in the idents and contunity, trails etc, just soulless computer generated graphics and titles and boring voice-overs, yes we have high definition like 1080p and 4K, but those things make TV viewing very clinical.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is actually the biggest propaganda machine ever invented as it pretty much determines who wins elections not only in the UK but also in the US (as well as other nations where it has a presence). It's also a privately-funded company so doesn't have any responsibility whatsoever in its bias - unlike a publically-funded broadcaster such as the BBC.
In the 1970s the version was REALLY slow. The local film society used to play it after a film once a month and people used to try and get out before it started. ua-cam.com/video/XoJvgqK06bw/v-deo.html
Just a minute, the BBC just showed a trainer unleashing a hungry tiger onto a merry Christmas pony, for human entertainment, at prime time?!? I forgot how dark the 80s were. I was 11. This could be why I've been vegan all my life 0.0
Dunno what you are on about. Just because the country is multi cultural doesn't mean Christmas is any different. In fact we embrace the celebrations of other cultures and still make Christmas a huge deal.
I saw The Kids Show International when I was vacationing in London during the Christmas of 1982.I want to see it again for nostalgic reasons-is there a rerun of this show anywhere in UA-cam?
David Icke, eh? What happened there then? Love those little continuity displays done by having physical models on a turntable. :) I was 16 in '82. Nostalgia to the max. One thing though - the TV wasn't much cop back then either!!!! Only joking - a lot of filler but the Christmas Specials and the new films were always the highlights and you just don't get that any more. We used to be entertained by millionaires back then - now the millionaires sit back and laugh at poor people trying to get famous on TV in reality shows now. The camera has been turned around and no-one seems to have noticed.
Doesn't sound quite right.... a very posh English voice announcing Grease. (l am English) Guess now its regional or easy going polite accent. I probably never noticed back then.
A lot of the people in these programs are no longer with us, but just remember this was almost 40 years ago, where will you be in the next 40 years? probably i will be dead, they were not better times but they were different times, just reminds us all of family members that are no more and friends long gone. Don't live in the past, it will not make you happy.
Wednesday evening looks lit af Ceefax was like a video game you couldn't play 😂 Ohh matron noohhhh ! I was 6 this year and my birthday is on Christmas Eve
Unexpectedly cried watchin this..reminded me of a world I used to know, a world I lived in, memories of people now gone and a person I used to be
Fantastic days. Keep the sparkle within
But no smartphone, no WiFi and no fortnight or Xbox or grime tunes. How did people not end it all.
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
It’s what made you and us the last
@@socialistvision2579 The ringing of the division bell had begun 🤓🤓🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍬🎃🎃🤡👩🦳👸🍭🍭🍬🍬🍬
I remember falling asleep and waking up to ceefax and Oracle in the middle of the night. I can't put my finger on why but TV seemed much cosier back then. I suppose it's because I was a kid. Seems their are too many PPI and litigation adverts now though.
think the limited choice of channels made it feel we were all sharing an "experience"
@@vincentdeguard4726 great point. I guess when you have too much of anything it loses its value.
It was so much less sophisticated and slick back then, and the ‘on tonight’ schedule made it feel way more intimate. Nobody was trying to sell you a lifestyle or an agenda, and the end of the schedule the continuity announcer would bid you goodnight and that was that. If you were reckless enough to be staying up beyond that then you were on your own.
SuperCholdi they still say goodnight.
@@SuperCholdi so true..😢
Thanks for the great memories , I was 16 and got a portable black and white tv for my room and my mum bought me that very double issue radio times , so I could tick off what I wanted to watch on tv, a tradition I still do today I’m 53! My mummy had sadly gone now but little Christmas traditions carry on
For me Christmas started whe my Dad would come home with The Radio Times and the TV Times double issues. Marker pen all the great stuff. I remember one year BBC 1 was showing all the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan's each morning, Heaven. Also one year they would show the Buster Crabb Flash Gordon serials. I'm a bit older than you and really loved them times. I have all the Tarzan movies and the Flash Gordon's now but it's understandable that it's not the same. I think I was about 16 when I had a portable TV for Christmas and I loved it in my bedroom especially, The BBC 2 horror double bills. "Infinity" magazine is an absolute joy concerning old TV shows and I rush out to buy it every month. I nearly cried when I read your reply because I remember the joy of the TV guides and remember simpler and lovelier times.👍👍
Wow, I miss old TV 📺, and remember when you get your first digital alarm radio lolz ,waking us up for work with that awful buzz buzz buzz, I was amazed with the red digital read out and buttons 😀 FANTASTIC days ❤🇬🇧💯🙏😎
@johnbarry1965 so agree They were much simpler Happy times although there was mass unemployment people seemed more content with there lives Christmas 1982 and 1983 were favourite Christmases for me plus 1983 was a good year
I was a teen then
Remember the only time we would buy tv times..so not too miss anything..loved xmas then..miss my dad rip
I used to make my Gran save them until I’d checked for pics of David Bowie when I came over 🤣
Same here. Me and my sisters would then go through every day of the 2 weeks and circle what we would watch for every minute. Was easier when there were only 4 channels to worry about
I was 15 by Xmas 1982 and it brings back wonderful memories. Things seemed more cosier with TV back then. How things have changed..
So agree life was so much simpler and happier in those days. Wonderful Memories
I was 6. Although I saw things through a child's eyes it really was better. Feel emo watching this.
I would have been 12 (you are the same age as my brother Anthony). I well remember the Falklands War and the arrival of Channel 4. Takes me right back.
@@zetametallic What's emo - a wrong spelling of Emu?
Emotional
This is one of the best ways to revisit my childhood. Thanks
yes me too , I was 14 that Christmas ..
AchtungEnglander Just remember when you got bunmed. Take it you right back.
I remember cycling to buy that very edition of Christmas Radio Times.
I remember Christmas 1982,as it fell on a Saturday,and was extra special as it made the holiday longer.I was 13.
I was brought up in a strict Catholic family. We had to go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day so when Christmas landed on a Saturday it meant we also had to go on Boxing Day as that was a Sunday.
Back then the ident graphics were so much more Christmassy. Good times
We loved all the TOY adverts, all that goodness is now lost 😢
Why did things seem better back then ...they really did .do we all have to much now ...
It was simpler. It didn't treat people like children (even at xmas). There was a programme called "The World of James Joyce" on Xmas Day. Then Burden of Dreams!!
My god, I was 7 years old and about to get a BMX for Christmas. What happy memories. Thanks for posting
At the time of Christmas 82 I was six years old, and I clearly remember a great deal of this. Thirty-seven years have passed, and it's strange how when I was young - like at the time of Christmas 82 - if anything had been shown on TV from thirty-seven years previously (1945)... it would've been in black & white and seemed very dated indeed. Yet now, thirty-seven year old television footage has the effect of appearing recently made: with minimal adjustment, Christmas 82 is interchangeable with Christmas 2019.
I was 5 and getting very excited for Christmas! I hate to be all 'kids these days...', but it just seems like they don't really experience it like we did. Of course our parents thought the same thing and that TV was ruining us 😁It's hard to describe that feeling of a dark winter's night outside, Christmas tree lit up bright with big multi-coloured lights and lots of enticing presents under, looking longingly wondering if your 'big present' was what you hoped it was. Strings of cards hanging from the walls. Quality Street and Roses on the coffee table next to the bumper TV and Radio Times. Bottles of Cherryade, Irn Bru and R Whites in the kitchen. Mum baking mince pies and sausage rolls listening to Jimmy Young on the radio... It's all gone now, but the memories and the feelings remain! How lucky we were!
I remember the strings of cards on the wall, and anytime one of us would close the door a little more swiftly the resulting waft of air would have them scattered across the carpet! lol good times
Yes they were Happy times people were more content with life even though there was massive unemployment. People knew how to enjoy Christmas back then
Oh the memories, when Ceefax was the closest thing we had to the internet ☺️
Yeh, good times though.
Christmas WAS cosier then..will never be the same, times have changed😕
I agree completely
What do you think has changed?
Everything seems so comfortably and beautifully ordinary!
i miss this era so much
I'm transported back to my childhood again .......fond memories of golden times spent with loved ones , sadly passed now , ....but still very much alive in my thoughts,....wonder times , ...my eyes sting a little ,....and not an onion in sight ....nostalgia can be painful and a joy all at the same time...
I was 23. Best Christmas ever and one of the better years of my life.
Thanks David Baldwin for these great clips. Put the whole tape on!
+Derek Tweedie I'll be having a look through to try and pull something together for this Christmas. (1982 was a bit of a lean year for some reason)
+David Baldwin hooray
If only time travel was possible ..I would happily travel back. Good Christmases with all the family, childhood what good days.😢😊❤
Take me with ya shelly mate, I miss the Toy Adverts 😢 ACTION MAN 👨, I was 12 💯🙏👍❤🤣🇬🇧 FANTASTIC TIMES
One year after this I unplugged my Television For Good.... apart from watching my collection of 350 DVDs....The best thing I ever did ...
I love watching TV commercials from this era. They are soft, well spoken, not rushed, not in your face, quieter, relaxing, warm and comforting vice announcers. They seem less *cold* than adverts today which are hard, loud, common (some times more ghetto sounding due to diversity quotas) fast paced, slap bang wallop editing, in your face, full on CGI effects, tense, rushed and as a result just so so *cold* just like today's world. So I switch these on for some comfort and reassurance.
Sancho O'Dell big time. Adverts then were just like ‘Hey, look at this thing. It costs five pounds, please buy one’. These days I’m supposed to ‘engage’ with a ‘narrative’ and give a shit about how wonderfully diverse the message is.
End result? It’s utterly unrelatable and so it passes me by entirely. I’m almost glad though, it means I’m practically ‘advertising proof’ now.
Spotted Rolf lurking next to Paul Daniels.
Waw! David Icke's went up in the world. Good lad.
When TV was good at Christmas
Are you sure
I think that Wednesday night line up looked shite.
This was my first Christmas on planet earth, I was exactly 3 months old here. Needless to say, I don’t remember any of these tv adverts and programs. 😃
When Christmas was AMAZING!!
They’ve never understood that a lot crammed into three days IS special and a little spread over a whole month IS NOT
Absolutely David...
It still is, life is what you make it and choose how to live it and not follow the herd 🎡🐰🤴🏻➕🥳🥳
That was how Christmas telly should be, saving the festive indents until Christmas Eve - not like now when the Christmas logos are foisted upon us on December the 1st until the 2nd week in January.
In the 1970s it was just adding a bit of glitter to normal surroundings (as you do at home) in fact the first BBC1 Christmas ident was used for EIGHT years after 1976 it just got more excessive by the year
I agree Joanne, they flog it so much beforehand that it has lost its novelty by the time Christmas comes. Thanks for putting these up David, it takes me back to some great times.
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!
More like by October
Joanne Gray the Tv programmes were awful though
Nice to David Icke here, I have alot of respect for him, very brave man who has done a great deal of work over the last 30 years trying to wake people up.
Errr...he literally said he was Jesus 😅...people telling others to "wake up " whilst being a sandwich short of a picnic 😂
@@billdoor3140 You reckon?. Have you actually looked at what he is doing now?. The man is no loon.
brings back great memories ,I was 8 then 😀
Wonderful memories of Christmas time in the 1980s....great times
I remember that years crimbo edition cover of the radio times: the commemorating of the raising of the Mary Rose. How time flies!
I especially liked the part where the plastic dolly from outer space was stealing the frogspawn from the pond. 😂😂😂😂👴👴👨👩👨🙋🙋🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸👽👽👽👽👽🐸🐸🐸🐸🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎃🎃🎆🐻
🤗🤗🤗🤗🐸🐸🤭🤭🤭
Very brief excerpt at the end of It came upon a midnight clear by the Singers Unlimited from their 70's Xmas album. Beautiful album, well worth tracking down.
Always came in handy working at Curry’s in the 80s. Ask the customer on the phone to hold a moment and turn up the volume of the nearest tv with testcard and Christmas music.
Loved this, feels like seeing an old but not forgotten friend. Thanks for posting.
Falklands war year, a year I'll never forget.
40 years ago next year………enjoy yourselves, it’s later than you think
Now that's dedication! I did a similar thing on the day the BBC idents changed in February 1991 and also in September 1997 but not quite as completely!
Great memories,better days and good tv
I was convinced they gave up their Xmas to record these shows just for us.
Sandie Smith so did I until artists (usually the comedian) would make some crack to the audience about it being July
Back when tv was entertainment, not constant propaganda.
Probably the last least complicated year of my life....To follow, girlfriend's, work, mortgage, consumerism, Internet, and COVID.., if its the last thing l do.....I am returning to 1982, I have a home, a dog, and a girlfriend.....
Lol, Christmas day telly with david icke, id pay for that these days
Oh how i miss cefax
Thank you for that touch of nostalgia.
I’d like to say, from a less divisive time, but there’s no such time.
It’s was just less saturated with crap.
Happy days. I was 12. I seem to remember Death on the Nile being bloody repeated every Christmas throughout the 80s. Also, Morecambe & Wise had switched to ITV years before, but still leaving a gaping hole on BBC1 Christmas Day schedule.
Same age as me, then.
TV is pure garbage now. Total waste of time and money.
OMG this is brilliant
It’s Carol Hersey’s birthday on 25 November. She will be 61 this year (2019).
Are you going to send her a card?, a Test Card.
@@securityrobot 😂😂😂
My father's birthday fell on 25 November. Unfortunately he died in August 2012, being exactly 22 years older than Carole Hersee!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing our TV heritage
2.10 I love the way the continuity announcer specifies that Elton John will be “doing his thing, musically” in case anyone thought he was going to get his tallywhacker out or something
When we were free and innocent and our country was home and ours!
Where do you live now then?
@@jamesupton4996 Ulster
Bring it all back please
Great TV Christmas, when people actuall liked the BBC, now they are hated by alot of people, which is not surprising given they are the biggest propaganda machine ever invented (and I think Mr Icke would agree), but I have to amit they made Christmas back then really special. Now TV has gone woke and political correct, plus there is just no warmth and soul in the idents and contunity, trails etc, just soulless computer generated graphics and titles and boring voice-overs, yes we have high definition like 1080p and 4K, but those things make TV viewing very clinical.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is actually the biggest propaganda machine ever invented as it pretty much determines who wins elections not only in the UK but also in the US (as well as other nations where it has a presence). It's also a privately-funded company so doesn't have any responsibility whatsoever in its bias - unlike a publically-funded broadcaster such as the BBC.
Lovely to see i wish i could go back to then when both my parents were both alive and most of my family was alive i miss them all.
Loved the national anthem being played at shut down. Bring back national pride in our country.
In the 1970s the version was REALLY slow. The local film society used to play it after a film once a month and people used to try and get out before it started. ua-cam.com/video/XoJvgqK06bw/v-deo.html
The vicar at my church who arrived in 1986 and stayed 20 years was named Colin Thomas! Alas, he died 12 years ago.
Sorry, one of the worst BBC1 Christmas ident of the 80s, but lovely to see vintage TV, without “celebrity does...”/Ant and Dec or Simon bloody Cowell”
Omg the memories are flooding back 💯👍
Just a minute, the BBC just showed a trainer unleashing a hungry tiger onto a merry Christmas pony, for human entertainment, at prime time?!?
I forgot how dark the 80s were. I was 11. This could be why I've been vegan all my life 0.0
I know, it was horrible to see , poor horse 😤
It’s important that you shoehorn your veganism into the 1982 BBC Christmas schedule...🙄
Those were the days Christmas WAS Christmas ...no EastEnders no Dr Who no American movies about Xmas filmed in June!!! 😃
William Green blame America.
There was EastEnders and Doctor Who in 1980s and American films
I hope that horse was ok!
Yeah what was that?That did not look safe.
agreed...must been one tame tiger to manage filming that
When l would watch the BBC!
I used to love Christmas Engineering Announcements. They were the best bit of Christmas as a kid.
1:12-1:18 The programme Alan Partridge would have pitched to Tony Ayres.
4:58 Not "Carry On ... Don't Lose Your Head" ?
Back to a time where things were still traditional and Christian here in Britain.
Thankfully we've moved on and most of us have escaped the racist imperialist past of Britain and are proud to be multi-cultural.
Dunno what you are on about. Just because the country is multi cultural doesn't mean Christmas is any different. In fact we embrace the celebrations of other cultures and still make Christmas a huge deal.
@@_B.M_ it's all commercial now and going through the motions, tradition has been lost.
@@drsteele and what's wrong with being proud of our glorious imperial past? The greatest empire after the Roman's.
@@_B.M_ Your stupidity is astounding..
hahaha lots of great nostalgia there thankyou David,i was 12 that Christmas,in 2 days im 48
Ah.... That's why I spent so much time in the pub! .... Nowt on telly! 😂
Since when was the test card or Carol Hersee the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire. 😂😂🤣
The fact that I’m searching UA-cam for eighties tv says it all about the stuff that’s aired these days.
By the time they start saying nice things about todays tv fortunately I’ll be too dead to tell them that they were totally WRONG
2.00. Nothing there worth setting the video for.
December 1982 🎅🎄⛄
I saw The Kids Show International when I was vacationing in London during the Christmas of 1982.I want to see it again for nostalgic reasons-is there a rerun of this show anywhere in UA-cam?
David Icke, eh? What happened there then? Love those little continuity displays done by having physical models on a turntable. :) I was 16 in '82. Nostalgia to the max. One thing though - the TV wasn't much cop back then either!!!! Only joking - a lot of filler but the Christmas Specials and the new films were always the highlights and you just don't get that any more. We used to be entertained by millionaires back then - now the millionaires sit back and laugh at poor people trying to get famous on TV in reality shows now. The camera has been turned around and no-one seems to have noticed.
Good point - and a sad one.
I was twelve and a half in December 1982; second year at senior school. David Icke in his pre-madness days was a sports presenter!
Classic footage from long ago now.
13:04 I think this was the first UK TV showing of Grease - certainly the first time I saw it
Oh good, Elton John on live tomorrow night, I hope he plays something from The Lion King.
Memory Warrior Impossible - out in 1994
I was born four days after this aired.
So
Doesn't sound quite right.... a very posh English voice announcing Grease. (l am English) Guess now its regional or easy going polite accent. I probably never noticed back then.
Is that Robert Glenister from Hustle TV Series!
Yes
C R believe so, you've just clarified it for me.
Back when they put some effort into making TV programs , it's just shit now
TV was so much better
those santas at the start are so depressing.. lol
I noticed k9 and company in the schedules, who else also noticed rolf on the magic show
I had no idea that David Icke was part of the Saturday Superstore presenting team.
97channel kids international??🤮
Nostalgia!😍
lol at the special effects!
Icke didn't lose the plot 'til circa 1994.
paulanderson79 he didn’t 😒
When we were happy and free.
Ah the good old days at the beeb , saville , Rolf, Stuart hall, glitter , Jonathan king , great times
😦
Remember being gutted because The Jam had just split up
A lot of the people in these programs are no longer with us, but just remember this was almost 40 years ago, where will you be in the next 40 years? probably i will be dead, they were not better times but they were different times, just reminds us all of family members that are no more and friends long gone. Don't live in the past, it will not make you happy.
Fucking hell, that horse was being eaten alive by a tiger. What a lovely viewing treat.
Wow xmass eve tv fuck all on then
good old teletext well thats what its called in australia
I was amazed to find that we still have it and people still use it!
What is the music that accompanies the Radio Times trailer, please?
I would guess - as it’s a trailer - it’s been composed for the occasion. It avoids the likes of me replaying it and costing them repeat fees.
Hardly saw a person of colour!
So K9 and Company was repeated. Thought it was not after it's 1st showing on Christmas 81...
So sad that both of the 2 Ronnies and Paul Daniels are all dead. RIP to all.
Didn't see it in 1981 as in the north of England there was a power cut it was repeated in 1982 then never again.
4:01 Four 'colly' birds?
Good old Auntie and her commitment to checking facts.
Before David Ike became a nut job and before this country lost its innocence
Wednesday evening looks lit af
Ceefax was like a video game you couldn't play 😂
Ohh matron noohhhh !
I was 6 this year and my birthday is on Christmas Eve
Haaaaa - Ceefax. The things we forget. X
They were not cheap. The cheapest ones cost hundreds of pounds, and that was in the early to mid 80s.
Ceefax was around till the mid 2010s or known as Teletext.