BBC1 Continuity May 1988, Neighbours, BBC 6 O'Clock News

[darren2514fv]

The 1988 repeats of both Steptoe And Son and later that year Fawlty Towers on BBC1 were both getting 15 million+ viewers

[noveltybobel]

@darren2514fv These were the days when people only had four channels thats probably why. Not much in the way of choice on tv back then.

[Visonu]

Just one day after the six o clock news was invaded

[vania1013]

i was 18 and had my life ahead of me now im 41 unemployed bald skint and single with 41p in the bank

where did it all go wromng

[Scrabbler27]

@vania1013 I was 8, I am 31 now. I really wish we could go back in time to this period and know what we do now back then. Maybe things would be alot better.

[iamwhoiamwhoiammark2]

I used to come home from school, watch Childrens BBC then Neighbours then used to bugger off when the news came on haha

[TheAlexa1978]

was guy peace was he in this please

[Maundervision]

Lotsa nice stuff there - I think those Steptoe repeats were pulling in something like 15 million viewers (still got some recordings of that run). Also, is it me, or has Sue got her eyebrow pencil on a bit skew-whiff on her left brow?!

[Meanmanmartin2007]

@Maundervision I recently acquired a tape which has several Steptoe episodes but also has the 1986 season finale of Neighbours(the episode where Clive gets knocked out during a boxing match and dreams about a pantomime being performed). This episode would have been around this time period so I'm guessing that the Steptoe episodes were also recorded then.

[SirCliveCalculator]

Mobile phones were crap then. an computers.

[AidanLunn]

@SirCliveCalculator Compared to today's stuff, they were, but back then they were the height of computer and phone technology!

[SirCliveCalculator]

@AidanLunn i dont fink so, dey sucked back then in the 70s

[AidanLunn]

@SirCliveCalculator Oh yes they did.

just as people in the 2050 will look back on today's computer technology and will say it's rubbish!

[SirCliveCalculator]

@AidanLunn nahh man, people thought there mobile phones were rubber bricks and dey h8ted dem 4real lol

[AidanLunn]

@SirCliveCalculator Are you here to cause trouble, or are you so up your own arse that you don't read the replies of people who are actually right (i.e. myself)?

Just you watch. Your children/grandchildren will look at Toy Story and will laugh at it! They'll look at something recorded on blu-ray and say how c**p it is.

[SirCliveCalculator]

@AidanLunn ... I'm here to cause trouble.

[MrMcb1990]

Although I can easily understand why, the Grundy logo isn't as catchy when the diamond isn't spinning.

[MrSyrett]

Very Dramatic music accompanying South Today. 30,000 hippies indeed

[RussWWFC]

That news into was the best ever. I only remember it as I was young and HATED my dad having the news on as I found it boring at that age!

[jonnyhaw]

They've never bettered that Six O Clock News music and title sequence.

[neillwates]

BA in profits? I bet they're dreaming of the 80s

[Jamie10004]

bloody hell, I can't wait to tune in.

[karatebuff]

SPORTSNIGHT NUFF SAID

[amberdixon]

I was able to hum that news tune *immediately* - it was buried deep somewhere in my memory!

nice tune. better than BBC's current news song.

[Foebane72]

DID SHE SAY "HIPPIES"??

[totalbroadcast]

Yea that was a good news sequence. and Sue Lawley was hot!

[skimshanks]

It must have been May because England wouldn't have played a home cricket one day international in April.

And the only way to find out about away fixtures in those days was carrier pigeon.

[Runrome]

why can't BBC news take the same trouble these day's with it's them tune and class of presenter's they all seem so hyper these day's and talk with a dozen plum's in their mouth. These were the day's what's the point in 24 hour news over a decade on and it has played no vital part in history major news can easly be conveyed through bullitin they way it had been done for over sixty years prior to sky. Now day's the majority of new's chanel's are no more then tabloid thrash

[nicenac]

2:46

[nicenac]

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[theeddielang]

Everything about this version of the Six O Clock News theme is fully sick......and bring back International Pro-Celebrity Golf!!

[nicenac]

this is a better news tune

[nicenac]

good news tune

[DaveDaRave1980]

Didn't one of the Neighbours cast also go on star in "24" as well?

[codyw1]

Yup, Alan Dale again. He's everywhere these days!

[100atw100]

Great night on the box

[oiefees]

When the Six o' clock news (nowadays the BBC news at six) turns 25 years or something, they could use this old theme in their broadcast.

[AidanLunn]

A news programme wouldn't celebrate something like that. It's the news and there are far more important things for it to do. That's why they don't put christmas decorations up in the news studios at christmas time.

[xxxKINGFROGxxx]

1:02 the Grundy logo always reminded me to watch the Crystal Maze later that night on Channel Four!

[kalkrazy2084]

3:01 "The six o'clock news from the BBC". very well introduced back then.

[neilrwilkinson]

quite a good night in on bbc1 that night!

[Glenn1967ful]

@neilrwilkinson

Vastly better than now and notice you only got brief highlights of a football international then, not the live match, football haters like me had it a lot easier in 1988 LOL.

[morgansifer82]

Remember this version of the Six o Clock News as clear as a bell!

[liaminpreston]

"Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock"

We wouldn't be so formal nowadays....

[bus140808]

Sally Taylor STILL does South Today!!

[bus140808]

Looking at the end credits of 'neighbours' think about how many people still have careers! Anne Charleston - Emmerdale, Peter O'Brien - acts in a number of things, Kylie Minogue - international superstar, Alan Dale - Ugly Betty, Stefan Dennis - still in neighbours!, Jason Donovan - still a much loved singer, Guy Pearce - Hollywood actor... what a springboard this soap was for these people's careers!!

[mpwheatley]

Alan Dale is also HUGE in Lost, a fantastic presence in that show.

[daveevans1000]

30,000 hippies to march on Stonehenge!!

They'd get stoned and fall asleep after a few yards.

[ccccrsraasfsdf]

yeah! I used to love the six o'clock news theme too - first time in 20 years that I've heard it!

[nastyashman]

God Tuesday evenings were shit, with an evening's line up like that and only three other channels from which to choose!

My favourite 6 o'clock news theme. Only 'cos I remember that the most when I was 7!

[timbawundakin]

fuckin hell!!!!!!!lmao

turkey drummers, mash and beans for tea anyone ?

lol

[AdzeeT]

I was only 5 in '88 but I do remember the opening of the Six o'Clock News

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Ah, yes, the days when the BBC really knew how to entertain the viewer.

[perksperksperks]

With Neighbours?

[ee61wi]

Holy crap! I can actually remember those snippets of Thora Hird and Barry Norman with Palin and Idle!! My 10th Birthday way at the end of May '88.

Neighbours back then was a real hotbed of Talent - not just Kylie, but Guy Pearce and Jim Dale :)

[jonescrusher1]

Alan Dale not Jim Dale, funny though, i've always got the two mixed up. Great memories.

[Durbs75]

That's not really 20 years ago surely??

[WorldNews92]

I don't know why, but I have a feeling this is from April 1988 for some reason, as Sue Lawley was wearing that same outfit when she announced the death of Kenneth Williams.

[mpwheatley]

It was certainly recorded in May rather than April - perhaps Sue wore the same outfit a month later?

[sapphiresanchez]

I remember that neighbours theme tune! I like the 6 o clock news tune better than the modern theme tune

[deselmes]

24 May 1988. England and Colombia drew 1-1 with Gary Lineker scoring.

[KevCityboy]

Loved that BBC News ident!

[Ferrygirl82]

I loved the old Neighbours theme tune!

[angelicMisha]

wow how long is the end credits for Neighbours? :P

[wayzotoichi]

I think the Thora Hird clip was from an Alan Bennett book.

[mpwheatley]

You are right, the Thora Hird clip was off of the Alan Bennett TV play 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee', it is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. Thora Hird won the Bafta Best Actress award for this programme.

[wayzotoichi]

cheers mpwheatley I thought so, my class studied TALKING HEADS in the late 90s for GCSE english literature c/work. :)

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Hi.

I don't suppose you can tell me, what episode is this taken off of?

[Visonu]

In those days, Going for gold was shown after neighbours in the afternoon. Do you remember?