@keith4291 Pretty much the same here mate, although we weren't big on porridge at our house. But yeah, it would be frosty outside, sun coming up, I'd have a big bowl of Frosties and a cup of tea, and Jeff Wayne's music was the soundtrack to all our breakfasts back then.
Firstly, did someone really video tape this is 1984? Also John Stapleton has used the same toupee for pretty much the last 25 years. It looks just as ridiculous then as it does now.
The TV-AM fire will always keep burning................ The music is taking me back to the days when I had the responibilities of a postage stamp. What an anthem hey????
i remember this getting ready for my paper round sat there with my dad who was getting ready for work such a good bit of music to start the day, gives me shivers hearing it again.
Stirring music that brings back good memories of getting ready for school in 1984. Fantastic to hear this one again, very memorable show (even for Roland Rat!), with no "lets-play-up-to-the-Goverment" agenda that GMTV seemed to display over the recent years...
Those were the days! If only tv was like this today. It takes me back to the winter of 1984, cycling to School in the snow to do my mock 'O' levels, then coming home and listening to Culture Club. Great days.
Never liked TV-AM as a programme apart from Frost on Sunday and Even on Sunday. But TV-AM theme was brilliant. BBC Breakfast was always far better, especially during the first gulf war.
@Aaronator19842009 God, I remember as a kid, waking up and putting the TV on and listening to this music over and over, the the intra to TV-AM came on (The pigeons, Ark Royal & Dover cliffs) then watching Lizzy, Wincy Willis, the travel show with Enya's Orinocoa flow as it's theme.
Oh and childrens TV from 3 pm- 4pm, then big kids TV (Grange Hill etc) from 4pm - 5pm.
@Aaronator19842009 God, I remember as a kid, waking up and putting the TV on and listening to this music over and over, the the intra to TV-AM came on (The pigeons, Ark Royal & Dover cliffs) then watching Lizzy, Wincy Willis, Russell's star signs, the travel show with Enya's Orinocoa flow as it's theme.
Oh and childrens TV from 3 pm- 4pm, then big kids TV (Grange Hill etc) from 4pm - 5pm.
If you're 26 now, cloverfield911, you were born approx 1983 and only a teenager between approx 1996 and 2002!! Not during the 1980s, certainly not in1987 when i became a teen!
All ITV companies had to go through a very formal start-up routine. It was just part of the way the IBA ran things. TV-AM's was less formal than most.
It would be great especially if they could get Nick, Anne Diamond and the rest.
I remember going downstairs and switching the TV on and seeing those opening credits with the message saying "TVAM will being at 6:25" then the people and pigeons etc.
OMG.. This brings back memories of me sat in my school uniform having my breakfast before heading off for school. The world's a very different place now!
I think that quite largely depended on the transnitter in a particular area, as the ETP-1 testcard was usually transmitted from the transmitters directly.
Just6 to inform you all, the IBA ETP-1 testcard used to come on the air at 0530, followed by this caption with music (from about 1986 onwards TV-am used their own captions rather than the IBA's) and, I believe, for a time in 1987, ORACLE pages were shown in-vision on ITV before programmes began.
God,i remember being a kid waking up early on school days and switching on the tv and seeing that boring blue screen and waiting for tv-am to start.Great days!
god haven't heard this in twenty odd years. its actually a fantastic theme come to think of it. whatever happened to the talent black hole that was Mike morris?
I cant belive this was so long ago, i used to watch this before school. Time gos so fast.
si4106 1 month ago
@keith4291 Pretty much the same here mate, although we weren't big on porridge at our house. But yeah, it would be frosty outside, sun coming up, I'd have a big bowl of Frosties and a cup of tea, and Jeff Wayne's music was the soundtrack to all our breakfasts back then.
gullivera 4 months ago
Think it's a case of being proud to be British also bringing poeple together.
age1965uk 4 months ago
breakfast tv never been the same since
massivley 5 months ago
Firstly, did someone really video tape this is 1984? Also John Stapleton has used the same toupee for pretty much the last 25 years. It looks just as ridiculous then as it does now.
blueknightuk 5 months ago
Bring back TV-AM, Daybreak Sucks
FutureSimpsons 5 months ago
Is this from the strike, when it started late and finished early? Hasn't it always started at 6am otherwise?
jamesmt142 6 months ago
@jamesmt142 No, Good Morning Britain, always started at 06.25
acesigma06 5 months ago
Back in the days when you were jealous of Scotland having lots of snow, nowadays you think "rather them then me!!"
thesnowdens 6 months ago
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The presenters can't stand each other, hilarious
kinder7 9 months ago
What did IBA stand for?
mistofoles 1 year ago
@mistofoles Independent Broadcasting Authority
Gray2057 1 year ago
Independent Broadcasting Authority
Gray2057 1 year ago
The TV-AM fire will always keep burning................ The music is taking me back to the days when I had the responibilities of a postage stamp. What an anthem hey????
d902amo 1 year ago
The days when morning TV didn't have people in bloody business suits.
nakedmambo 1 year ago
so hauntological
seagbb 1 year ago
cor anne diamond. i would've
mrmalade 1 year ago
This takes me back to my pre-school days!!!
JamaicaUK 1 year ago
i remember this getting ready for my paper round sat there with my dad who was getting ready for work such a good bit of music to start the day, gives me shivers hearing it again.
markzilla6969 1 year ago
I wish TV-am would return... even if it went to another channel to broadcast.
I miss it. A lot of people do!
GMTV was crap throughout it's entirity and Daybreak is the same.
geography27 1 year ago
It all looks very grey and dull znd boring. An on comes Wincey in her ridiculous jumper!
DJgaZman 1 year ago
Stirring music that brings back good memories of getting ready for school in 1984. Fantastic to hear this one again, very memorable show (even for Roland Rat!), with no "lets-play-up-to-the-Goverment" agenda that GMTV seemed to display over the recent years...
jadenet05081891 1 year ago
Bring back Anne & Nick in the mornings as they were the best morning presenters
dweyn34 1 year ago 3
BRING BACK RUSTY LEE KITCHEN GODDESS
mrmister102 1 year ago 3
Hello, did you miss me? What an ego she's got, and where is she now? Eh?
Feisty1967 1 year ago
Those were the days! If only tv was like this today. It takes me back to the winter of 1984, cycling to School in the snow to do my mock 'O' levels, then coming home and listening to Culture Club. Great days.
Feisty1967 1 year ago 3
Crikey, I've just noticed how much Nick Owen looked like Tony Blair.
97channel 1 year ago
I remember this music damn! LOL!
mrperfect1879 1 year ago 2
Theres something strangely comforting about the tv am theme.
paul45862 2 years ago 8
Never liked TV-AM as a programme apart from Frost on Sunday and Even on Sunday. But TV-AM theme was brilliant. BBC Breakfast was always far better, especially during the first gulf war.
ThePompeymale 2 years ago
"Porn pictures of Edward Heath". Thanks for that mental image, Stapleton. Stanks.
ClockworkVocoder 2 years ago
if there's one thing that totally takes me back to the 80s, being a kid, getting ready for school, it's the TV-AM theme tune.
techguruuk 2 years ago 6
i remember that clock in the corner that is very old school
russ7510 2 years ago 3
Or Debbie Greenwood.
747piIot 2 years ago
Whenever I heard this tune I knew it was time to turn over to BBC1 Breakfast Time to watch Selina Scott, and have my morning wank.
747piIot 2 years ago
brings back memories. When ever I heard this tune back then I knew it was almost time to go to school :o( lol.
Sipie007 2 years ago 3
me too love it xx
morrisgal31 2 years ago
ahh LOL LOL at the nurd. Oh that songs my q to go to school.
c0011y5383 2 years ago
actually the opposite! It is why I put the :o( a the end of my comment. Not a happy face is it lol. So how about you read my comment properly!
Sipie007 2 years ago
Chill out dork I was just taking the piss
c0011y5383 2 years ago
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Sipie007 2 years ago
ok well I think I got that haha. Think we are old enough and past that age where we call each other names like Dork haha oh wait .....
Just kidding lol.
Sipie007 2 years ago
nick looks like alan partridge
davidsan01 2 years ago
AH-HA!!!!
weds9994 2 years ago
I'll bet Nick was one of the inspirations, remember the time he asked Joanna Lumley if she wears any knicker?
emmyjo720 2 years ago
I remember TV-AM when I was little and I'm now 25.
Still TV-AM is way better than GMTV.
Aaronator19842009 2 years ago
I miss TV-AM,
Anyone else here miss TV-AM?
Aaronator19842009 2 years ago 45
@Aaronator19842009 hi i do brings back lovely memories xxx
morrisgal31 1 year ago 2
@Aaronator19842009 Yeah I do!
PinkFloydFan74 1 year ago 3
@Aaronator19842009 God, I remember as a kid, waking up and putting the TV on and listening to this music over and over, the the intra to TV-AM came on (The pigeons, Ark Royal & Dover cliffs) then watching Lizzy, Wincy Willis, the travel show with Enya's Orinocoa flow as it's theme.
Oh and childrens TV from 3 pm- 4pm, then big kids TV (Grange Hill etc) from 4pm - 5pm.
Classic childhood TV.
kpsuk 1 year ago
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@Aaronator19842009 God, I remember as a kid, waking up and putting the TV on and listening to this music over and over, the the intra to TV-AM came on (The pigeons, Ark Royal & Dover cliffs) then watching Lizzy, Wincy Willis, Russell's star signs, the travel show with Enya's Orinocoa flow as it's theme.
Oh and childrens TV from 3 pm- 4pm, then big kids TV (Grange Hill etc) from 4pm - 5pm.
Classic childhood TV.
kpsuk 1 year ago
@Aaronator19842009 Now that I'm hearing this tune again after so many years. I certainly do!
Cerebralator 9 months ago
well im 40 and remember this, miss it, arrrrrrrrrr those were the days
leap2jump 2 years ago
i'm 33 and remember this, feel like i'm little again :) thanks
Mustang169th 2 years ago
How i soooooooooooooooooo miss being a teenageer and skinny in the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
cloverfield911 2 years ago 5
i sooo agree i feel the same
morrisgal31 2 years ago 4
If you're 26 now, cloverfield911, you were born approx 1983 and only a teenager between approx 1996 and 2002!! Not during the 1980s, certainly not in1987 when i became a teen!
joshuatrees 2 years ago
26 now?? i wish...lol
I think i lied about my age .....lololo
cloverfield911 2 years ago
Well will you be more carfull filling in these fields its very important we know exactly how old people is!!!!!
c0011y5383 2 years ago
I was about 4/5 lol with nice and straight normal hair and happy go luck :-)
LIVERNIL723 2 years ago
I would like to ask this because I wasn't alive yet that time...
Why is TV-am required to have the blue slide on-air before it signs-on?
GuienGarma 2 years ago
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michaeltidd 2 years ago
All ITV companies had to go through a very formal start-up routine. It was just part of the way the IBA ran things. TV-AM's was less formal than most.
northernanorak 2 years ago
@northernanorak Because TV-am held the national breakfast franchise.
cwilliams1976 1 month ago
John Stapleton sitting there with Nick. John is still presenting breakfast TV 25 years later! Saw him on GMTV the other morning.
Markjuk 2 years ago 2
LOL you he does omg
LateNiteNathan 3 years ago
LOL Nick looks like Alan Partridge!
davidsan01 3 years ago
I remember this when I stayed at my Nan's house and I woke up and put the telly on.....so long ago...ahhh memories!
barkingmadplymouth 3 years ago
Anyone tell me if this is a Jeff Wayne composition please???
CuteLittleBlackCat 3 years ago
it is jeff wayne
fahyforever 3 years ago
awesome
twolaneblacktop3000 3 years ago 3
fuckin brilliant typicall 80s tune! ha ha! yes!
creeball 3 years ago 6
Brilliant. I reckon if they brought this back and dumped GMTV to Channel 5 or something, the ratings of TVam would shoot up instantly!
KevCityboy 3 years ago 13
@KevCityboy
It would be great especially if they could get Nick, Anne Diamond and the rest.
I remember going downstairs and switching the TV on and seeing those opening credits with the message saying "TVAM will being at 6:25" then the people and pigeons etc.
Wincey Willis, Lizzie, Russell Grant
kpsuk 1 year ago 3
it was filmed in Camden studios where MTV is now
mraccobra 3 years ago
Nice jumper, Wincey - lol!
TigerWalrus26980 3 years ago
such lovely innocent days i relive the 80s anytime...
obrienle 3 years ago 6
me and my mate was just doing "air drums" to this music
okhdvgd 3 years ago
I say we all climb aboard Doctor Whos tardis and go back to the 8os and relive our lifes
charlieboy7t5 3 years ago 7
tv am was well better than gmtv! miss it 2
morrisgal31 3 years ago
i do miss it too
skodas 3 years ago
I wished that TV-AM was still around if it hadn't been for GMTV.
Aaronator19842009 2 years ago
OMG.. This brings back memories of me sat in my school uniform having my breakfast before heading off for school. The world's a very different place now!
hrhwhite 3 years ago 7
I do know there are rules about the startup music from the IBA what exactly are the rules?
daffybint321 3 years ago
. . . no vocals in start-up or interval music.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
wish the 80s could come back i miss them life was so much nicer back then..
obrienle 3 years ago 3
I think that quite largely depended on the transnitter in a particular area, as the ETP-1 testcard was usually transmitted from the transmitters directly.
cwilliams1976 3 years ago
Just6 to inform you all, the IBA ETP-1 testcard used to come on the air at 0530, followed by this caption with music (from about 1986 onwards TV-am used their own captions rather than the IBA's) and, I believe, for a time in 1987, ORACLE pages were shown in-vision on ITV before programmes began.
cwilliams1976 3 years ago
The IBA testcard would sometimes come on at
4am!
AnthonyUK 3 years ago
God,i remember being a kid waking up early on school days and switching on the tv and seeing that boring blue screen and waiting for tv-am to start.Great days!
CADAVERHUSK 3 years ago
god haven't heard this in twenty odd years. its actually a fantastic theme come to think of it. whatever happened to the talent black hole that was Mike morris?
bixieface 3 years ago
he went to Tyne Tees. Then he retired a few years ago.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
I think Mike Morris went to Tyne Tees
AidanLunn 3 years ago
He went to Yorkshire to present Calendar after Richard Whiteley left. Mike left YTV in 2002.
steviegTVreturns 3 years ago
CAMDEAM - london and its still there, as the MTV offices
623058 3 years ago
A breakfast show without the smug git Andrew 'how much do i love myself' Castle.
jaseywasey49 3 years ago 6
Watched John over forty years ago at Granada.
What a wyly old fox he still is at GMTV.
ivorbigunzz 3 years ago
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leepenfold 4 years ago
London. Never ever at Birmingham.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
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pebble mill was off the bristol road in birmingham
youre a fuckin foobar nugget
cheekyegg 3 years ago
So was ATV Centre/Central House. It was on Broad Street near Central Birmingham
AidanLunn 3 years ago
bbc pebble mill was in birmingham
cheekyegg 3 years ago
. . .and ATV Centre.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
Crikey, this WAS back in the day. Happy memories of the old TV-am studios in Birmingham's Broad Street! Well Done!
fergie8880 4 years ago
erm, TV-am was in London.
Your'e thinking of the old ATV centre/Central Television House studios.
AidanLunn 4 years ago
Good god the January 1984 snowstorms how I remember them.
pipoo1 4 years ago