LOL! Chris Peacock – or Crispy Cock. The man forever remembered as famously being admitted to the A&E Dep't of Southampton General Hospital with part of an electric toothbrush inserted into a place where parts of electric toothbrushes should normally never venture regardless of tartar – obviously trying to give someone the brush-off! Then there's Veronica "Ronnie" Charlwood – had a wine drinkers palate but also a beer drinkers consumption. Knew how to blow into the bag if you catch my drift.
I think people are judging this through modern-day eyes. Watching this I see no difference in style with my local news programme Calendar. That was regional ITV news back then. TVS did do better but they benefitted from the boom in ENG over film. Day by Day was consistently voted the best regional ITV news programmes in the 1970's by viewers questioned by the IBA so they must have done something right.
Southern TV was very poor quality really, if you think about it. I think peoples memories are clouded - the only thing they had were the personalities.
@DN21Media This certainly does look as though it was recorded in someones garage rather than a television studio! However, I'm not sure that Southern was particularly cheap or poor quality. They made some very good programmes, with high production values (Worzel Gummidge, Runaround, How, Out of Town). They're a product of their time really, and certainly by todays standards, it all looks pittifully cheap! It's a shame that so much of their programming was wiped after broadcast.
@DN21Media Yes, you'r e right about that. TVS was far superior with regional programming/news. Southern was awful in that area. I still miss both stations. Such a great shame that they were ever lost. Not even the studio complex exists anymore. :o(
This is surprisingly (and amusingly) camp by today's standards, but, if this programme were on the air today... I'd watch it!
ericdn62782 4 weeks ago
@ericdn62782 Check out my Sarah Kennedy-presented Day by Day for high camp!
TheMeakers 4 weeks ago
They must have got a lot of change out of £5 for that set.
mcrtrumps 1 month ago
Cheap-looking set. But a nice looking cheap set.
MattTheSaiyan 3 months ago
What a superb theme song
IATM29 5 months ago
LOL! Chris Peacock – or Crispy Cock. The man forever remembered as famously being admitted to the A&E Dep't of Southampton General Hospital with part of an electric toothbrush inserted into a place where parts of electric toothbrushes should normally never venture regardless of tartar – obviously trying to give someone the brush-off! Then there's Veronica "Ronnie" Charlwood – had a wine drinkers palate but also a beer drinkers consumption. Knew how to blow into the bag if you catch my drift.
Texbaslery 5 months ago
@Texbaslery Having watched this why does that not come as any surprise to me. And to think the girl who lived next door to me had a crush on him ;o)
mcrtrumps 1 month ago
1980...incredible how things have changed in that time...
Stereolabdream 5 months ago
So how did that work? Cliff Michelmore was the presenter but the programme is opened by Chris Peacock from the same desk/seat?
LuthansaTerminal 6 months ago
I think people are judging this through modern-day eyes. Watching this I see no difference in style with my local news programme Calendar. That was regional ITV news back then. TVS did do better but they benefitted from the boom in ENG over film. Day by Day was consistently voted the best regional ITV news programmes in the 1970's by viewers questioned by the IBA so they must have done something right.
yellowbelly06 7 months ago
Southern TV was very poor quality really, if you think about it. I think peoples memories are clouded - the only thing they had were the personalities.
DN21Media 11 months ago
@DN21Media This certainly does look as though it was recorded in someones garage rather than a television studio! However, I'm not sure that Southern was particularly cheap or poor quality. They made some very good programmes, with high production values (Worzel Gummidge, Runaround, How, Out of Town). They're a product of their time really, and certainly by todays standards, it all looks pittifully cheap! It's a shame that so much of their programming was wiped after broadcast.
Rassilon72 7 months ago
@Rassilon72 Yeah I agree with that, I think what TVS had was it's commitment to regional broadcasting that it seems Southern really didn't have.
DN21Media 7 months ago
@DN21Media Yes, you'r e right about that. TVS was far superior with regional programming/news. Southern was awful in that area. I still miss both stations. Such a great shame that they were ever lost. Not even the studio complex exists anymore. :o(
Rassilon72 7 months ago
Crispy Cock.
jeffrey44 11 months ago
Supern shot of Fred Dinenange in the opening sequence - wearing his Union Jack beret whilst playing golf!
jamestheposh 1 year ago
Love the theme music and Cliff at the end there looking like he was going to throttle a member of the crew for playing the VT late. Great stuff.
putthetellyon1 1 year ago
@putthetellyon1 Telecine in those days. No VT on Day by Day!
TheMeakers 1 year ago 2
I wonder what Chris is doodling in the opening shot. Nice glasses though.
elahneb 1 year ago