BBC1 Christmas Eve 1982
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2016
- Following a 'request' for the intro into Charlie Browns Christmas, here is an idea of how things used to be when you didn't know when the Christmas ident would appear. You sat around recording bits and bobs until it turned up.
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My last innocent Christmas. I was 13. ...14 end of January. My mother died 10 march 1983. ......life became very very grey. Never recovered fully from the trauma and the tsunami on my life. She was a fabulous mother. This has made me so melancholy
Bless your mum ❤️
Well it sounds like she's in your heart forever, she will be happy to know that.
God bless you Esther. Your Mother wouldn't want you to be sad. Merry Christmas to you.
I can relate to this sadly, my sympathies to you Esther.
What lovely people you all are 💗❤️
Christmas in the late 70's early 80's was always magical... You watched nearly everything but The Morcombe and Wise Christmas Show was the cherry on the cake...
Reminiscing back to when i was a kid, tv seemed more innocent, we were satisfied with four channels, proper presentation with proper celebrities. Days long gone.
I was not happy with 4 channels as a kid there was sod all on the TV. it was grim.
@@insertnamehere5146 With 100 channels there's still sod all on to watch.🙄
@@stephentrudgeon2646 agree but i do love youtube :) imagine having youtube in the early 1980s
@@stephentrudgeon2646 absolutely. It's all woke shite now and all about image and judging programmes. So bland and boring!
What like Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Stewart Hall... Yeah good times.. The 80s were crap.. and the 70s even worse..
I was 13 and waiting for what I hoped was a ZX Spectrum. Definitely one of the best Christmas hols ever and hearing Madness with Our House takes me right back as my little brother played it constantly.
I would have been 12 at the time and remember those days well (second year at senior school). My brother, who was fifteen then, had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and played games on it. More innocent days growing up!
Lol I was 12 omg where did the last 40 years go.
I remember those Christmas’s so well. It was a big deal back then and remember them with great affection.
A real treat for those of us with fond memories of this time.
Absolutely, what a magical time to be a kid
Khun Lao pai Lawndawn(London) laew mai?
Wishing us all many more 👍🎄
I was 18 and living in plumstead South London such special times, wishing everyone many more Christmas wishes 40 years on 🎄🙏
tear in my eye
same :(
Christmas TV seemed more of event then than it does these days.
Yes you are right there really somehow too-odd though it may seem-more of an event if you like too really I guess!
8 years old, watching Battle of the Planets on Christmas Eve ... can I go back? had enough of all this being an adult stuff.
Lol I agree being a adult sucks big time I just want to play Atari again.
@@areyouserious3092 Definetly agree. Being an 80s kids was awesome...take me back !! ha ha
@@JayJay3D lol Yep a one way ticket to 1982 please lol
These were the best times as a kid. Try and tell a kid what ceefax was and they laugh at you.
Is that before or after they call you old man 🧓
I was twelve and in my second year at senior school. Ceefax started when I was four and ceased when I would have been 42!
Great video and definitely better times. I was 8 and loved being off school and the whole build up to Christmas surrounded by family members long gone. Great times, there was just enough technology but it didn't take over everything like it does now.
I enjoyed this so much.Rememberong when my daughter was very young and no matter how hard things had been we always had a big Christmas tree ,lots of Christmas music ,beautiful Pip and Grandad to Love us.Noel Noel.!
So nostalgic. I was 9. The tree still seemed huge, Woolworth Pick & Mix were the best, and the table groaning with food. Every Christmas we'd get the Radio Times and TV Times and first of all go to the Christmas Day pages to see what the big films were, then go through all the days marking what we wanted to watch.
Werent they just the best days?! Loved growing up in the 80s, feel very blessed and grateful for the memories
I was 17 in 82. But me and mum & dad would go to my Uncle Pete's (mum's brother) huge house in Guildford every Christmas from when I was about 7 onwards. It was always a three or four day stay. At 17 I was your normal stroppy teenager but every year there'd be about 20+ family members there and it was always a good laugh. I miss those Christmases.
I was 12 1/2 at Christmas 1982. A less complicated era without cyberspace and social media to intrude in our lives!
Great comment. Yeah I loved it too. It's just crap now isn't it?
I was 8.... Innocent memories of a much happier world.
Absolutely :(
So agree 1982 and 1983 were happy years for me wonderful times and great Memories Of much happier times
So agree totally how I wish we could go back to those times
I enjoyed this video so much. Made me quite emotional actually. I was ten and I remember that Christmas Eve and the TV really well. I was sent to bed at nine o'clock ha ha to wait for Santa.
I used to hate been sent to bed early, knowing I would be up much earlier than my mother and father who would of course want a lie-in due to the fact they of course went to bed 🛏 late. I don't know 😏
I was nine at the time and remember it well as it was the year I got big trak for Christmas lol. I loved that thing but it did use up a lot of batterys though.
@@areyouserious3092 I got a big trak for Christmas on Christmas day 1982. I always remember when my dad got it in the toy shop, another boy asked his mother for one. "Oh no that will be to big to fit in Santa's present bag" She told him to avoid getting him one. Luckily the bag he used to bring my presents was big enough so I got one 😉
@@areyouserious3092 Did you get the trailer to? I always want that, however it was never in stock plus the silly old ladies in presusirs toy shop didn't have any idear what they actually sold. When all the transformers came out a few years later, I remember having to explain to them what a customer wanted to buy as they did not know one from the other 🙄
@@Robert_Manners no the trailer was very hard to come by unfortunately shame because I always wanted to deliver a Apple to my dad like the kid in the ad did lol but alas it was never to be instead he had to do with 6 blasts from the very loud blue light or should I say super lazer blaster as I probably liked to think of it.
A more innocent country back then. There are no words to say how missed it all is
Agree 100%
Well said 👍🎄
Absolutely so agree it was a simpler time but people seemed more content and happy back then
Best days of my life nine years old, Christmas, battle of the planets on TV I miss them days so much x
Ah nostalgia is a wonderful thing..... Great and fond memories come back of Christmases long gone.........but remain priceless in the heart
Lovely stuff! My 9 year old self definitely would've been up for Charlie Brown's Christmas and proper looking forward to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!
Im 14 i wish i could go back to the 70s for a day and see what everything was like i will be constantly throughout my life wanting to experience the past when i didnt exist
More entertaining than now at Christmas, with TV over run by depressing soaps.
Superb. Very good memories seeing those colourful pages from Ceefax again. Great times! I loved this era.
So many wonderful memories this was Christmas when it was Christmas
It was the most exciting evening of a child's life- the BBC idents,not really liking Val Doonican but knowing it meant there wasn't long to go,the decorations put up,worrying if Santa would come,the carols,the big film premiere,scoffing chocolate coins.
Even though I'm, well, much older ;-) I still have a chocolate coins stacked-up as I sit on the sofa and watch something Christmassy each year - great memories.
I was 6 years old and a magical time of my life. Pure Heaven.
Love this. The background hum on the teletext pages almost makes me feel like I’m back in 1982!
Thank you indeed of course!!
Thanks for uploading this. This was my first Christmas on planet earth. I was exactly 3 months old.
Would love to see the Old Grey Whistle Test from Dec. 24 1982 with Elton John.
Lol used to love Why Don’t You, would have been 14 in 1982 so would have watched this… 😂
Wow fantastic memories of a fantastic era ,these times were priceless
Thanks for all your archived telly David. You know, I moved away from home, hearth and country over 30 yrs ago. Watching these telly clips is like coming home at Christmas to where I lived all those years ago.
I did the reverse- spent some time in Spain really liked tve ident. Decided to go back later and record it ... and they changed it...and no one appears to have recorded much of it...spent years gathering all the clips I needed to reassemble it.
Ahhh the memories i was ten in 1982 ,christmas was a magical time, only a few tv channels but was always something to watch
I'd have been 9......and full of joy and happiness..... looking forward to getting some Star Wars toys,an Oor Wullie or The Broons annual....and the proverbial Selection Box!.....aah....and all my grandparents would have been alive and well then.....brings a proper tear to the eye....a happy kind of sadness.....l😢....life was definitely simpler and much happier then I do feel....I'd go back tomorrow
Some of us were still using B/W tv's back then let alone cuttting edge ceefax and videorecorders.
My friends round the corner only just purchased a TV and yes it was Black & white, they didn't go colour until 1984 in their house. Surprisingly no one wanted to go to their house to watch TV 📺
I remember having a rented TV with a 50p coin slot on the back. I think you got 2 hours for 50p but it was colour though lol.
As a fourteen year old back then I didn't watch much TV, but Christmas did drag me to the box. Not many fourteen year olds have that inclination nowadays...
I was the same age then too-well until the 20th January when I was 15 at the time!
I was 11 and I moved in with my dad this very day. My big present was a Tomy Tron electronic game. Great times
Christmas Ceefax! Many thanks for uploading, nice to remember life before COVID
My neighbours have Christmas decorations in their garden NOW - in the last few years tv has a lot to answer for.
Christmas always seems to be a great time in Britain.
It was.
Agree - it WAS..................
Yep this country now is just all about what it used to be!! Very sad
It's almost like we invented Christmas back then, it was much more fun than today.
It certainly was, I’m writing this August 27th 2020, now we are constantly told by our pathetic media that we should be ashamed of ourselves and that there’s nothing good about our history, it’s tragic. I’m just pleased I lived through much better times.
Nice touch with the international teletext greetings, especially the Hungarian one as they were still part of the Warsaw Pact back then.
Indeed so too I guess!
I love the old Ceefax graphics. Like trying to draw curves with an Etch A Sketch.
I was aged 11 then. I miss the 80's and having no responsibilities as a child
I'm so glad this posted thankyou sooo much ceefax and so much more I love it ...and the graphics or the lack of lol how innocent and advanced we thought it was 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏🙏
I was seven and a half (very important back then 🤣). Very bittersweet for me. Wish I could go back
The year I was born. 😊
Back when the BBC was worth watching.
Thank you for this
The european teletext cards with greetings were a nice touch including a suprise appearance from Janos Kadar's Hungary.......Note too that yankee 1978 charlie brown craze was still around ...
I think Charlie Brown usually got stuck on BBC2 … so American it deserved a minority audience. Still baffles me now.
Excellent! really like the broadcasters messages, nice touch.
10:05 BBC promoting a “Carry On” film wow. Imagine if they did it in 2019😂😂
Best Christmas ever. I was 23.
Love these . I was 14
So was I at the time too!
back when britain was a 'normal' country and britain felt like britain.
Great times these , I remember seeing the cambridge buskers on TV at xmas then as well.
Interesting to see that the Christmas BBC One ident, the snowflake, only makes it appearance later on in the day of Christmas Eve, and would have been taken away by the end of Boxing Night. Two and a half days and that was it. In 2015 BBC One launched their Christmas ident on 1st December and kept it on air for 31 days. How times have changed.
Try BBC2 1989 - Due to transmission of OU programmes all afternoon on Christmas Eve the ident didn't appear until after 6pm and things were not much better on Christmas Day. Add in the number of ballets, films etc you won't find many copies of that years symbol.
In 1982, Christmas Day was a Saturday, the 26 December was called Christmas Sunday (not Boxing Day), and Monday 27 December was called Boxing Day. I think there was a Bank Holiday Tuesday on 28 that year, because 25 and 26 December were Saturday and Sunday respectively. So I think they kept the Christmas symbols on thorough 27 and possibly even 28 December that year.
These days the decisions which are made in TV scheduling are probably made by the same overgrown kids who put their Christmas trees up the moment Hallowe'en is out the way.
Happy days
My first christmas
Christmas Eve was and still is a normal working day for lots of folks. When on a weekday, anyway.
In Scotland Christmas Day itself wasn't even taken that seriously until the 1970s or so.
Fantastic
Nothing says Christmas quite like Tarzan And The Leopard Woman!!!
the only time we got a Radio Times or TV Times was at Christmas! looking through the programmes to see what was on during the day, when mum & dad weren't so fussed for the TV and around this time my sister got a 12" b/w portable TV in her room!!!! hahaha
I was 10 then. Back in those days TV especially at Christmas time was a huge thing, as well as VHS video recorders which felt like owning your own private cinema. We didn’t have so much in those days, and so modern technology was still a strange and wondrous thing for us. Nowadays we have too much choice and so much newer technology that it’s all become rather “meh”.
only one kid on our street had a video player so we all used to pile round his :)
Ok firstly I was born in 95. Secondly this is making me feel so Christmassy though it’s June and thirdly I love watching old telly adverts
The festive BBC1 logo wasn't unveiled until early afternoon by the way.
Now it's revealed on the 2nd or 3rd of December and ends on New Year's Day.
I cannot understand that as New Year's Day is still part of the Festive Season.
Was it the snowflake which they used for 2 years running?
Yes it was used on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and back to the globe the day after.
The models usually took up a fair bit of space in Pres B, which was the small studio usually used for weather forecasts, The Old Grey Whistle Test, and Rutland Weekend Television.
The internet from the early 80s.
It was amazing time
Impressive how the print of Charlie Brown here has the original credits audio, which has been silenced in most modern prints.
I was 7 years old...
When they showed good stuff in the morning, not the normal programmes like they do now, buying houses and stuff. Real care for the viewers.
Of course at that time outside of the Festive season, BBC1 would either have been showing Schools series or if not Test Card F or Ceefax at times. This all altered in 1983 when Breakfast Time started on the 17 January and later that year on the 19 September when Daytime on Two started on BBC2; also in May that year when both channels started showing Ceefax more than Test Cards F or G at the time too.
Does anyone else remember the CEEFAX advent calendar? Quite a novelty in those days!
I think it involved pressing reveal to see each day. I know there are people that can still decode ceefax from old vhs tapes
@@bdavebaldwin Yes, you're quite right! (You must have a fantastic memory!)
When everything was still great , not totally bland and boring like now
You are so right. Everything is absolutely boring now. Television has been shite for about the last 10 years I'd say
Christmas even when I was 17 in December 1982 Christmas back then seemed to still have that Magic about
That is the poorest rendered Partridge in a pear tree I have ever seen.... AND I LOVE IT!!!
Me too 😀.... And it even said 'cooeee'... Hilarious 🤣
The guests on the Christmas edition of Crackerjack were Su Pollard & the DJ Mike Read both of them got gunged on the Take A Chance part of the show while Stu Francis got away with it.
Friday 24th December 1982.
It Was A Good Christmas Month?
god i remember midnight masses as well back then.
Fascinating video with a somewhat "different" feel though the programme I remember most was on BBC2 "Carols From Kings" the first one directed by Stephen Cleobury who recently retired I'm very high faluting you see...
PS shall I give it a Like? Yes! why not after all, it's (nearly) Christmas...
I was 12 if only you could get them days back so incent back then
the soundtrack for charlie browns christmas is on youtube
Terry and June was thin gruel, very hard going.
Try 30 minutes of it
Terry - You mean the vicar's here, my boss is coming to tea and I'm trying to fix the boiler in my underpants?
June - Oh, Terreeeey.
It always was.
You are being a bit harsh in gruel.
It seems as television stations in Britain no longer show chess tournaments.
When your new games console had the same graphics and resolution as Ceefax.
You should have seen the blank periods during the moon landings. It looked as if someone typed an update on a piece of paper then superimposed it over a picture of the moon.
Notice the first trailer? The Old Grey Whistle test simulcast in stereo from 1982
Christmas Ceefax in Vision Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982 and that was Joy To The World and the third Christmas festive tape in December 1975 on BBC1.
@5:20 very Sad reading CEEFAX about three deaths - a road accident on Christmas Eve '82, makes you want cry.
Does anybody know who the narrator was & what years he did this?
His voice evokes so many memories for me.
I’m about to turn 50 & this seems like yesterday.
My wife and I booked our honeymoon holiday through ceefax
It's Christmas Eve and the BBC1 ident isn't onscreen (at least, not at the start, is it).
The usual BBC1 globe appeared on Christmas Eve morning funnily enough but for the next 3 1/2 days the snowflake symbol is used.
I set the recorder on Christmas Eve to record every programme junction from 9am only to find the ident unveiled at about 13:45
@@bdavebaldwin Here in Wales we had a different Christmas logo to the network one which that year was a rotating Christmas star with a starry background with 'BBC Wales' underneath in bold orange lettering.
Radio times ....x
Were Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty The Snowman (the other three iconic Christmas specials) ever aired on BBC and/or ITV around Christmastime?
Take Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer as an example. Although made in the USA in 1964 it took until Christmas Eve 1965 for itv to air it. (The BBC were slightly snooty about U.S. tv then). Itv used it most Christmases then dropped it only for the BBC to pick it up again in 2003. There was a long period when it wasn’t on. But it only appeared at Christmas. The BBC used to drag a repeat from the Morcambe and Wise Christmas show the following summer …. Didn’t usually work very well.
@@bdavebaldwin So I would assume Frosty the Snowman and Grinch were also on ITV (here, Frosty has always been on CBS since its first airing in 1969 while Grinch bounced around many broadcast and cable networks since 1966)?
@@johnnyballenatl I can’t either remember (or actually find) anything about Frosty or The Grinch actually being shown on BBC or ITV. We only had 3 days of Christmas programming so gaps for non-uk additions were rare. In the states first NBC then in 1972 CBS aired Rudolph so it got a continuous run. In the 60s/70s itv found the Christmas period a flat time for advertising so tended to go for regular programmes with a few seasonal extras.
Just found Frosty - itv 1976
At 03:25 "Cincinnati" is misspelt.
Can anyone tell me who recorded the Xmas carol medley for soloists choir and orch that begins at 1.25? It is on Ceefax elsewhere but not complete. Loved this as a teenager in the 1980's.
I take a look and see how much is actually on the tape. Probably most or all of it as I had to chop it down a lot .
Ceefax. ..the proto Internet!
What's the first carol at 00:49 when the Ceefax page first appears? It's not one I recognise.
nostalgia overlod kids today dont know there born 4 channels no mobile phones ps4s or xboxes
This is for people who say Christmas TV on the BBC was better in the old days. And as for climate change, it was mild and wet on Christmas Eve 41 years ago. FA changes.
when there was 3 tv channels lol
I think I could explain Teletext to a young person, but I think I'd be met by a rather blank face ;-)
This is pre Breakfast Time