Brian Walden's final Weekend World

[nickthelick]

I was only a kid when this was on but I remember being totally mesmerised by theme tune (Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride, of course!)... I also remember the titles before these ones, so that means I must've been 3,4, or 5 years old (cos these titles are from 86). Jeeze! What was I doing watching a political program at that age!! LOL! Well, must've been the music I guess. And of course I remember Brian Walden too... I've a pretty good memory of my early years - I'm 33 now... =O)

[Ferrari312pb]

Christ, remember watching Uruguay v Denmark.

[xwingclass]

unfortunaly now we have 5 bins.

[caxtonman]

OMG - 'The Coconut Men' !!!!! Try doing that in Britain now!

[keef71]

christ almighty were channel 4 ever more smug that that? eurgh

[mkbuddy]

U would never get this sort of show on ITV now

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

Brian's going after 9 years! You would have thought that as a leaving present, there would be a large bottle of 35 year old single malt on the table for Brian and David Steel to get stuck into to celebrate!! And why has David Steel been miniaturised at the begining of Weekend World?

[RUSS9992006]

Loved Walden. One of the straight guys in politics and he'd grill all his guests with an impartial, unbiased view.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[RobW581]

@RUSS9992006 Yes I liked him and he was brilliant when he interviewed and grilled politicians.

[AndrewJimScott]

smarmy england

[terawattz]

this man used to verbally murder politian them

[ptaaffe]

Thank you for posting. I grew up watching Brian Walden on Sunday mornings, and thought of him as a much older man. Seeing this again 25 years later, I have aged, and he doesn't look old at all... in fact it looks like he retired early.

[BaronVerulam1618]

Its Woy Hodgson, pre- Fulham

[thisisverytrue]

Also went on to do a great series of biographies on famous 20th c. figures (a la: Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and so on) in half-hour chunks for BBC at some point. Riveting stuff -made AJP Taylor look like a stuffed ventriliquist's dummy.

[welshnick300365]

Brian Walden was the first man to get me interested in Politics, and I vote conservative !!

[sirtinycreep]

Walden always reminded me of Ian Brady!!

[tallblondguy99]

With the theme tune there was more rock and roll on weekend world than most music shows today!

[DUMBARTON1RANGERS0]

LOL I remember this especially the theme tune.

[tsangari]

Oh my god I totally remember this period of time! I was aged 6 and used to record this american family serial called "Small Wonder"! I remember the dates very clearly and the World Cup advert jogged my memory!

[7Network]

Looking around the net, the date of this is Sunday, 8 June, 1986. Re: the LWT blinds, as has been mentioned, they were brough in at the launch of the new Autumn season in 1986. What great TV days these were.

[GuyAwoke]

Woah, I didn't think i'd seen this final edition of his but I definitely remember it now. Where does the time go....

[ryanfrombrum]

Good health to you Brian ! :-)

[HellzDelight]

Bwian's pwogwammes were wealy intewesting , did anyone see the show when he spoke to Wonald Weagan . . he was Pwesident of Amewica at the time !

[m1s73r4nd3rs0n]

Has anyone got any of the footage where walden succinctly and scathingly dumbfounds thatcher, this has got to be british journalism at it's pinnacle and the only one that comes close to decent, honest journalism and any amount of integrity these days is paxman.

[Rawlinson18]

Where's Brian now?

[chatham43]

....ITV then, compared to it now....it makes you want to weep....

[scarletharlot69]

surprised it was only 9 years.. seemed to be an institution.....

[giftedandtalented]

That dog at the start was Pippin from the CBBC show: Come Outside! I loved that show when i was little! Anyway can anyone answer what TVS was? Sorry im only young!

[sandyx74]

TVS was a regional channel for the south on the itv network from 1st January 1982 - 31st December 1992 after tvs lost its franchise and meridian took over.

[giftedandtalented]

Thank you!

[diddydeltic]

Big upto LWT !!

[spittingimage4005]

The nutters. LOL

[agfagaevart]

How appropriate.

[darrenpollard1st]

Well, woopee doo, that was a waste of space, 5 mins of waffle. If your politics is anything like this vid then god help GB!

[thedj2471]

was it really that long ago

[DiseaseShaker]

I love that theme tune!!

Also it was great to see that Mexico 86 trailer at the end and to hear that theme tune! Denmark thrashed Uruguay 6-1 as I recall...

[natechillin1986]

Brian Walden, a terrific man. What was that great thing he once said? 'I counted them all out, and then I counted them all back in again'. Good old Brian. Three cheers for Walders!

[giftednumber10]

That was Brian Hanrahan in the Falklands War

[VirgLondon]

Mexico 86, if my knowledge serves me right, Denmark turn them right over

[eamonnca1]

I seem to remember they brought him back later with a show just called "The Walden Interview" and later just "Walden." The theme for "Walden" was pretty intense, showed him tearing his victims to shreds to the tune of an omninous classical score. Has anyone got it?

[mcgigglish]

wow great to have this video, and through YouTube chat I find the answer to another mystery I thought would elude me forever - what on earth that music was - Thankyou agfagaevart if that's you're real name! Prob not

Shame about the video though - we get less than a minute of the wonderful Brian Walden (we need more of him pulverizing politicians in that slow relentless way), and 3 minutes of awful adverts and 80s TV rubbish! Whyyyyyyyy????

[matelot95]

Peter Jay did Weekend World before Brian Walden.

[agfagaevart]

The theme was 'Nantucket Sleighride' by Mountain. When did LWT stop using the river ident?

[RobinCarmody]

It was last seen on 24th August 1986. This is 8th June 1986.

[DaveDaRave1980]

The river ident was dropped at the end of 1985, and replaced by the "ventian blinds" ident form January 1986

[agfagaevart]

thank you.

[RobinCarmody]

Wrong. The dates I gave above are correct (and I have the recordings to prove it, heh heh heh ...)

[tsangari]

Reckoning of the teletext charcters I bet ;-) My top technique.

[DaveDaRave1980]

Sorry my bad.

the info I provided wa based on Wikipedia but that's not always right

[hairynews]

Always loved the theme tune to WW, although I used to swith over once this music had stopped! Also great to hear the late Brian Moore on the Mexico 86 trailer at the end. Any more Mexico 86 trailers ??