bbc1 1974 news and campaign report

[StanPomeray]

You can see why people went out more in the 70s cant you! LOL

What a pile of crap!

[agaichapter25]

@StanPomeray agree with you..watching people peeling oranges on generation game...rivetting.

[RodCow]

Is that a young Jimmy Woods in Kojak?

[JHollowayNetwork]

Yay! the 1960's BBC News theme, in the 1974 BBC News Election Report.

[UKSazzy67]

How was this video recorded? was it on VHS or another format such as VS2000, Phillips. Am fascinated.

[alijanlondon]

I'm pretty sure the announcer was Colin Ward-Lewis

[JFredUK]

I wish that all Election/Party Policital Broadcasts shown on TV, back then, were all that short. Quality Saturday night broadcasting, there.

[Kevo00]

Shame the election broadcast was cut, that would have been interesting!

[kalsolarUK]

who the hell owned a video recorder in those days? lol.

[StephenHP62]

Any chance of posting the deleted Labour Party election broadcast?

[UKSazzy67]

Was this the Feb '74 election or the Oct '74 election? Could somebody please clarify that?

[SgtPeppersRevolver]

"The next programme will also be shown on BBC2 and ITV. So don't bother changing the channel."

[Glenn1967ful]

Because there was only three channels, no videos, no internet, no internet, so the only alternative would probably be the radio. Oh and I forgot there was only four radio channels in those days and Radio 1 closed at 7pm.

[marklavar]

That explains why couples had more babies then!

[SeventiesMania]

@Glenn1967ful there was Radio Luxembourg and BBC and Independent Local Radio by 1974

[Glenn1967ful]

@SeventiesMania

ILR only really existed in the big cities and Luxembourg's reception was always terrible. Until ILR expanded again in the eighties, the BBC had a monopoly on the radio in two thirds of the country. I can still remember after 7pm when Radio 1 and BBC local radio closed down, only having three radio stations.

[Glenn1967ful]

I would love to know what that announcer said off mike about that Labour PEB as the BBC was more right wing then. Bloody commies seems to come to mind.

[stevee989]

Wasnt that James Woods on the phone in Kojak ?

[ColonelRoss111]

it was indeed, playing a character called Caz Mayer

[Glenn1967ful]

Kingofpunk

Saturday night television is really riveting nowadays, talent contests, reality trash, lottery games, You've Been Framed. Give me that schedule from 1974 anyday.

[kingofpunk1967]

More cheese on a Saturday night in 1974 than there was on my knob!

[jeremyj887]

Do you have any BBC or ITN bulletins from the 1970s? If you do I would love to see them. Many thanks

[UKSazzy67]

And you're right TV WAS total crap in the '70s.

[UKSazzy67]

There's that old wino Peter Woods co-presenting the news. I had no idea when I was a little girl in the 70s that the Scary monster Peter Woods was actually inebriated during every bulletin, as he was fond of a drink or 2 in the BBC Club Bar. That just adds to my childhood fear factor.

[darkarts59]

@UKSazzy67 how dare you besmirch Sir Peter's character inferring he had a drink problem you lower class lout. I demand an apology.

[bailorg]

Was the BBC operating under some sort of severe budgetary constraints at the time? This whole thing looks amateurish even by 1970's standards

It's utterly remarkable that anyone with even a basic camcorder or any reasonably modern video recording device could pretty quickly put something together that would put this broadcast to shame.

[lndac02]

Yeah i agree, I don't know how old you are but things were like that in the 70s. BBC1 used to close down for 2 hours plus every afternoon on weekdays every afternoon. Summer holidays were a nightmare TV wise, neither the beeb or ITV catered for the kids and put on any programmes, other then a old robinson crusoe series every bloody year. I was a kid in the 70s & yes TV was awlful then. I gotta say its more polished now but hey there is still a lotta rubbish on it..some things never change LOL

[Glenn1967ful]

Quite like that remarkably cheap war film where the sub looks like a kid's toy.

[lndac02]

Hi can I ask how you managed to get this on video. I dont remember video recorders being around until the very early 1980s . wasnt TV awlful in the early 1970s, The idea of Petula clark warbling to a lardy peter Ustinov thanks for posting anyway PS did anyone notice a very very young James wood in the Kojak segment

[ahd2006]

VCRs were around from about 73/74 I think - Umatic and Philips N1500 machines. Prior to that, you had reel to reel machines like the Sony CV2000 which were available in the late 60s.

[acesigma06]

in the early 70's you had n1500's , n1700's then you had betamax as well so yes video recorders were about in the early 70's

[lndac02]

ah ok thanks. i don't remember owning a piano key type until 1983. I would imagine they must have been incredibly expensive in the early 70s

[Glenn1967ful]

@lndac02

Such was entertainment in those days, although is it any worse than the X Factor? Yes there was some almighty tripe around but this era produced some fantastic sitcoms, ITV wasn't Chav TV and we still had far higher standards of presentation.

[s00zster]

Love the Labour party election broadcast - pretty much sums them up, really. :p

[UKSazzy67]

I was 6 years old when this was first broadcast, I remember when the 9 O Clock News was like that with 2 presenters and the 9 O Clock News emblem in yellow in the corner. I always knew when this came on it was time for Dad to put me to bed.

[doubledeckers]

Haha in the bit with Petula Clarke I was expecting the table to tilt and the bottle of wine to start sliding, as in the famous Morecambe and Wise sketch with Shirley Bassey.

[orangefunk]

James Woods in Kojak? :-)

[timonline2000]

Interesting that the announcer will mention "ITV" on air.

[snazzzzz]

Its awesome that someone was able to record all this, i remember it all so well...

[DFORCE1969]

Peter ustinov glugging back the wine LOL;bring back cheesy Singer fronted shows!

[thecheesepriest]

If only all Party Political broadcasts were as short as that!

[borgduck]

No sign of Dr Who here.

[AidanLunn]

Nope - coz this was October 74. Doctor Who never ever ran all year round. The previous series (Jon Pertwee's last) finished in June that year with Tom Baker's first going to start that December.

[soapbox5]

Real 70s t.v. nostalgia here.Thanks.'Kojak' was the BBC Saturday night big draw until 'Starsky & Hutch' took over for the rest of the 70s.(After the tv cop show came 'Match of the day' & 'Parkinson').

[pubwebmaster]

Fascinating slice of presentation history there. It'd be interesting to see the PEB in full too. Did they really take all 3 channels off schedule for those back then?

[RobinCarmody]

I'm pretty sure that, quite often, they did.

[ATVmidlands5581]

really enjoyed this. the BBC in the 70's was in its hey day in my opinion. lovely scren cap for cannon and that news intro music took me back. 'saturday night at the movies season' too!! do you know who the continuity announcer is here. thanks

atvmidlands

[UKSazzy67]

Why does the screen go blank at 2.21 and 2.23 on the BBC News clip? Did somebody walk in front of the camera?

[ahd2006]

No, it's because it's at the end of my tape and the quality of the tape gets poor towards the end, so the picture rolls. The capture won't accept this kind of problem, so it just greys out the video whilst keeping the audio.

[UKSazzy67]

Thanks for that info.

[gary777777]

This was back in the day when BBC1 presented American imports.RIP Dick Emery, Pat Coombs, Telly Savalas and Peter Ustinov.

[hugalove]

Petula Clark sang "this is a lovely way to spend an evening" there. Well, that's exactly what British TV was in those days. In 2008, it's usually "this is a lovely excuse to go and mop the kitchen floor". Mike S.

[FrozenDoberman]

This video is quite rare! I presume it was originally recorded on U-matic tape. I know Keith Hamer (BBC Test Card Club) has a fairly extensive collection of 1970s BBC TV videos.

[ahd2006]

I've no idea what the original source would be, but a U-matic is as likely as any other format used in those days.

[RobinCarmody]

Friday 4th October 1974

[hugalove]

Those were the days! All this and no Strictly Come Dancing phone-in rip offs in sight. Mike S.

[hugalove]

Party Political Broadcasts. The only time when the BBC and ITV got on with each other. Mike S.

[JoeScaramanga]

James Woods in Kojak!

These are ace. Where did you source these from?

[ahd2006]

I just swap tapes of this kind of thing, and this was at the end of a 4hr tape of 60s stuff. The 60s stuff may already be on YouTube, I haven't checked.

[RobinCarmody]

What 60s material in particular? I suspect I've seen some of it, but I doubt I've seen all.

[olliedann]

Your 70s BBC clips are fantastic. Any more?