BBC1 junction - 23 Nov 1983

[hilarioph]

Thanks to up load this video

so that i know the history of BBC

[KingFahtah]

Well we did also come within a hair's breath of nuclear annihilation in around 1983, and Aids came into being around that time. Actually the more I think about, although we can look at the 80s in rosy memories now, the decade was kind of fucked in many ways even if tv was slightly more interesting

[Prolia13]

pero no el calentamiento global es una propaganda inventada por el imperialismo y por los criminales facistas multimillonarios ultra derechistas.

[ggagg123]

I was just speaking personally, growing up in the early 1980's seems better than todays society. Nostalgia perhaps but what's wrong with that. I'd hardly call today's world idyllic with climate change, Islamic terrorism, Iraq, Afghanhistan, Iran, credit crunch, recession, anti-social behaviour, yob culture, corrupt politicians, breakdown in trust of politics, 9/11, 7/7, global warming, I could go on and on.

[Prolia13]

@ggagg123 estados unidos es el causante del cambio climatico.

[Prolia13]

@ggagg123 al quaida, nato and cia authors of the 7 / 7.

¿el cambio climatico y el calentamiento global (causante:estados unidos) salio de las dos cosas?: una el evento tragico del septiembre 11 y otro la tala clandestina de bosques?

irak - agfanistan: la guerra de irak y agfanistan.

iran: programa nuclear irani.

[ggagg123]

I wish I could live in the early 1980's much better and less stressful than today's society

[JAYROX1969]

Happy days they were!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JonathanDParshall]

Other than the constant threat of nuclear demise. :)

[outofthegreenmist]

@ggagg123 LOL! I sympathise. Stop watching the news, throw away your mobile phone (if you have one), and use your computer ONLY to watch old shows on youtube - have NOTHING to do with email, etc.

[jeff61813]

@ggagg123 yes because the the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the economic recession of the early 1980's wasn't stressful at all. /s

[lndac02]

@jeff61813 well said jeff, I assume you also lived through this "stress free era" This is what happens when people get their opinions from watching old youtube clips of a period

[jeff61813]

@lndac02 No I'm a child of the late 1980s I just like history. I think my childhood (90s the US) was in one of the least scary parts of the 20th century. No USSR very little terrorism very few disease to be worried about .(even though bad stuff did happen like Rwandan and the Bosnian war).

[lndac02]

@ggagg123 1980s I assume you were not old enough to appreciate this era? This must be the case from making that sort of comment. The 1980s like the 70s before them are always better in hindsight and appreciated most by those who either never lived through them or old enough to understand them.

[MrXclio]

@lndac02 i have to disagree with that, i was born at the at the start of that era, and i would have those days, back, back then you knew were you stood, it's better than the, falsehood we have today. as time goes on things are getting worse. i fear for the next generation.

[lndac02]

I was old enough to fully experience the 1980s, in other words i was NOT born in that era.I can tell you that things were no better then they are now.In fact they were worse.The IRA was blowing up London,The falklands war.when conscription looked possible for a while.Greedy Yuppies and serious unemployment where manufacturing had been wiped out by Thatcher.It is the Folly of humans to always think the past was safer and a refuge.I don't doubt that in 20 yrs people will say 2011 was a fine time!

[The1985Channel]

@lndac02 Anyone who thinks that today's music is better than that of the 1980s needs to get help.

[dacrlit]

They don't show it, because the BBC in the 60's and 70's had the policy of junking old television programmes, because what they recorded it onto was expensive. ITV also did this as well.

[Visonu]

It was 8 days after John's death.

[joncfc1]

come on you lot, they were all rubbish! it was like sit comedy for kids

[Thesurus02]

Well now isn't better. With the same old rubbish piled in X Factor, Big Brother, TV has lost it's edge and these are the golden days of TV which we'll never get back.

[Treblaine]

Screw TV! We have the internet now!

[wildenfree]

And what are you watching on the internet??...Old tv clips..I rest my case.

[Treblaine]

touche.

But you should check out what I'm subscribed to, so many funny, entertaining and informative channels funded by donations and un-intrusive ads.

There is no out-of-touch executive trying to figure out what shows I want to watch, I find and subscribe to EXACTLY what I want and watch it when I want.

TV will soon go the way of radio, pushed to the periphery of media. We see it now with it desperately trying to find the lowest common denominator.

[wildenfree]

I agree up to a point, though I can schedule what I want more or less from 500 plus channels from sky and watch them when I want on sky planner, and I can cut out the ads. However I agree that years ago programme quality was so much higher than today, and that was with just 3/4 channels.

[Treblaine]

@wildenfree

I'd still rather have it all online as you have to notice a program of interest and set it to record BEFORE it is broadcast. I see the internet model of being far more like a library far superior, especially how a good but obscure production can spread in popularity as it is linked to and so on.

TV won't go away... but it just can't compete equally with the internet's full potential.

[wildenfree]

@Treblaine Maybe, though in this world now it seems to be quantity rather than quality.

[liverpool9009]

Thats actually one of my favourite episodes.

[b6gm6n]

These clips and all tv clips like this which have now merged themselves into the new medium as TV dies... the online age takes over... we are now in control...it's your tube now :)

[hugalove]

And in case you're all wondering, 24 years later, you can still watch Wogan The Wonga Waving Hypocrite pocketting another large BBC fee this Friday night, starting at 7.00. Children In Need? Celebrities In Need more like! Mike S.

[joncfc1]

dint he pay that back for the 2007 one?

[garethmarkwilliams]

A bit controversial, but point taken.

Sad that CIN and Comic Relief have been sabotaged by the z-list celebrity non-entities. I'd rather see what Joe Bloggs does for charity, not how many eggs can Jordan stick up her bleep in the name of 'charidee'.

[hydna1968]

fascinating to see these clips again, especially the announcement slides!

[elfmaiden]

John Le Mesurier was my first ever acting idol! His work and life story inspired me to want to become an actress and follow my ultimate dream! I still count him as my true inspitation as I have had many idols after him but he will always be the first!

[teaface1976]

Isn't that the radiophonic workshop type music on the children in need slide?

[jjcoole]

The announcer was a bit jolly hockeysticks

[RobinCarmody]

No, just formal. Only women can be jolly hockeysticks.

[RobinCarmody]

Actually, the date isn't quite right - it's Wednesday 23rd November 1983. It's the 7.05 pm junction, with Roger Maude announcing, and the programme ending at the start is Harty.

[AidanLunn]

exactly 14 years from the day that BBC1 went colour!

[col2006ie]

Didn't Children in Need back then only consist of short links between proper programmes on a Friday evening?

Thanks for the uploads so far Ollie, top quality stuff so far, please keep up the good work if you can.