News at 545 with Leonard Parkin (1979) Part 1

[Feisty1967]

Is that reporter wearing make-up? The one in the red tie?

[RonicW]

I'm willing to think the ITV personalities were relieved to return to their jobs after 8 weeks in limbo.

[Feisty1967]

This was in the same year when Pink Floyd said:"We Don't Need No Education..."

[usenetposts]

Funny how exactly the same airline stuff is still going on today and still not really resolved today. But if passengers then knew that in 2011 they would not be able to take their own scissors or bottled water onto a plane and that they would get their balls fondled before getting on, they'd be shocked. Same as we'd be shocked now if someone told us we'd be going through metal detectors to go on trains in 5 years from now - but the way things are going, don't be surprised.

[RonicW]

@usenetposts I consider the option of plane travel to be inhumane...tis why I like taking the train! =)

[hombrerelents]

The titles need some kind of techno remix.

[LollieSmith]

''As cheap as taking a train to Scotland'' LOL ... Cheap? Train? YEAH YEAH! Bring back British Rail!

[darrowby1972]

Thats one HELL of a hair do there on the late great Leonard Parkin

[Feisty1967]

I want to fly Laker, those fares are really cheap!!

[TheDustpile]

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[cisco9x]

I never knew Leonard was a Pakistani

[maxy123101]

leonard parkin is my grandpa!!!!!!

[michtyme3]

@maxy123101 It was from Leonard Parkin that I discovered that Elvis had died. On The One O'Clock News in 1977

[TheWhitehall]

@michtyme3 I heard the awful news re Death of Elvis...on Tuesday 16 Aug 1977.The News at Ten was just about over when news reader Reginald Bosanquet read the "NewsFlash" " Unconfirmed reports are coming in from Memphis Tennessee that Elvis Presley has died".

[Tripp1993]

That was 22 years before the King of Pop's death was a news flash.

[TheWhitehall]

@Tripp1993 32 years. Both legends. Both died too young. EP at age 42 and MJ at age 50. Their music and legacy live on.

[Feisty1967]

@michtyme3 I remember I first heard the announcement on News at Ten, it was Sandy Gall, we just got back from holiday in Bournemouth, Im sure it was News at Ten.

[HitMeQuick]

Those planes are aimed straight at Parkin's head. Very alarming.

[TheDoctor001]

30 years today since the strike ended.

[ernestlmt]

Chairman Hua lives in our memories

[krakenwave]

0.55 - "it will be as cheap to get a plane to the continent as it is to get a train to Scotland"

30 years later and its a quarter of the price.

[Flickyhecky]

It's exactly 30 years ago today that ITV went on strike!

[airscrew1]

I remember it exactly as I was working in my first job on British Railways in 1979. When I got home there was a screen up on ITV saying We're sorry we can't bring you any programmes at the moment, we will give you more information when we can.

[GAZZA251170]

This meant "Ludvig The Egg" or Rhubabrb & Custard had just finished!!!, & your parents saying "Shut Up" I'm trying to listen to the news", History repeating itself, "But your not watching Spongebob I want to watch the news!!!"

[krakenwave]

They hadn't even begun - Ludwig and Rhoobarb were on BBC and started at 5.55, just before the 6 o clock news...

[airscrew1]

Don't know about Ludwig but you're right about Rhoobard.

[crusher19860138]

The News at 5.45 music reminds me my dad will soon be home from work,and mom is getting the dinner ready!!Happy times.

[maverick16cuthberts]

@crusher19860138 thats how i remember .... happy days ,wish i could go back there..

[Feisty1967]

@crusher19860138 If your British it's mum, not mom. Thankyou.

[airscrew1]

@crusher19860138 Good post. My Dad used to get home at about 7.30 in 1972 and on a Thursday he always had a big bag of sweets for us kids as it was payday.

[markrskinner]

children's programme's

childrens' programmes

[cartoonfan1920s]

I love 1970s British TV, It's so much interesting than the USA telly of today. Fox News has no idea of how to do charming graphics like BBC or ITV. Don't you hate the annoying 3D animation TV promos use now? It's distracting and ugly IMHO.

[crusher19860138]

Thats when ITV was at its best!

[ah1701]

Yes of course - this was the first program after that blasted ITV strike.

RIP Leonard Parkin. The news at 5:45 basically signalled the end of children's programme's - including John Craven's Newsround on BBC1 - and the start of "serious news."

[thefrecklepuny]

Look at 4:10. Not a single PC in sight!!! Wonder how modern studios and offices would cope without them!!!

[Tripp1993]

Back then there were no PC's, no Internet, no Ipods. Those were primitive. Nowadays, we have those.

[BNCA70]

I remember the ITV strike. The screen just had a message on it for weeks saying about industrial action. I was 9. Then, when ITV returned, there were little promos with voices singing "welcome back to ITV!". Unfortunately Crossroads hadn't improved.

[airscrew1]

I was such a tit I took a photograph of that industrial action notice in 1979. I've still got the negative somewhere.

[Hoddersrevenge]

At 3:35 we see a younger Trevor McDonald, who was sports correspondent at the time.. I think.

[pb99]

!!! I used to sit it & watch it with my great aunt !

[agfagaevart]

Fantastic picture! I remember coming home in the evening, switching on the TV, and seeing a slide which said something like "Due to industrial action by technicians, blah blah no telly on ITV tonight mate." And it went on for months too!! Hard to believe it happening now...Well, it wouldn't.

THANK GOD FOR YOU TUBE

It enables us to see full length clips like this, without post-moronic dribbling comments from the likes of Colin McConie.

[gculloty87]

You Mean Stuart MacConie and Andrew Collins?

[agfagaevart]

Yeah, him an' all! thanks.

[dunkiep]

I know what you mean. They get C list celebs to watch the clip first, then pretend that they can 'remember' obscure details about the clip, which makes it look like they have 20 year memories.

[agfagaevart]

Made me laugh, when I saw a 20 something year old singer talking about something from the early '80s. I thought to meself: "Hang on! You weren't even born in 1982 as yet. So obviously faked. (It may have been Rachel Stevens) Ugh!!

[bigbreadeaterellis]

oh those were the days indeed!

how i longed for a my parents to buy a vcr back then!

but alas it was to be many more years later b4 one was purchased but i have fond memories of watching the news at 5.45 back in the 70s.

[TRUMPER007]

It was like going back in time - clarity is superb - keep posting - you are a saint!

[worcesterwombat]

here here, excellent quality!!

[oldsierra]

I had forgotten about Leonard Parkin! What happened to him? (I agree with Rumpio)

Keep up the good work :)

[jbeaver12]

Leonard Parkin died after a brave battle with Spine Cancer

[worcesterwombat]

:-(

[Rumpio]

The picture quality's very impressive. This is how ITV news should be done, instead of focussing on D-list celebrities and banging on and on about the royals.

[geraint0808]

Ian Smith will never come back to Twickenham again!!

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

Sir freddie was 25 years ahead of his time trying to introduce cheap flights, only to be forced into bankruptsie by the likes of Britishairways and other majour airlines who wanted us all to pay through the nose for air travel...

[RobinCarmody]

Indeed. He was a proto-Thatcherite who came along just too early. Peter Cadbury of Westward Television was very similar.

[RobinCarmody]

I mean Freddie Laker of course, not Ian Smith!

[worcesterwombat]

ahhh!! Westward TV - those were the days!!lolol

[JoeScaramanga]

Ol' Lenny was probably the first newsreader I was aware of.

"Right, let's get on with it!"

[alephnaughtpix]

Is it me, or did Kenneth Kendal do a little sneer at the end of that BBC report on ITN before carrying on with the next item?

[everton198485]

Really like your 1970's TV recordings

Have you got the 1979 General Election?

[Flickyhecky]

Did someone switch over to BBC1 five minutes into the ITV news on here?

[maviscrow]

This is the day before my birth-date! nice to see what was going on as I entered the world!

[ATVmidlands5581]

good to see this again. this was just after the 1979 ITV strike. ITV news today is just horrible. too tabloid and to americanised. just like television overall today, it treats its audience as though it has a learning difficulty. cheers.

[obiwan521]

I suspect many people at ITV have learning difficulties....

[Hoddersrevenge]

ITN was miles better, I'm inclined to agree. This is why iw atch Channel 4 news.

[1218174]

Love the music lol

[LIVERLADD]

He was right about how bunking school would effect society.

[Richardpd16378]

The late Freddie Laker was ahead of his time with his ideas for stripped down flights.

[LyndonSoulGroove]

Well Funny Love nastalgia ! ,I remember this News reader and the theme music , not seen this for nearly 30 Yrs years.And seeing this again triggers other things in my memory from this time, when i was a kid

it shows that a whole generation has been influenced by TV , you cannot escape it !

[MancScum4Life]

If only ITV brought back ITN News at 545

[25AUG1968]

If only ITV brought back entertainment. Remember entertainment? apparently it used to be very popular! Mike S.

[25AUG1968]

If only ITV brought back entertainment.  Mike S.

[KevCityboy]

Totally agree. If only ITV brought back everything from those days! What I remember from 1987 - 1992 was brilliant (I wasn't born until 1985 so I missed out on a lot of greatness sadly)

[25AUG1968]

ITV was great in 1985 certainly and it was up until the 1990 Broadcasting Act eventually turning it into the equivalent of hospital food - bland and tasteless. The one hideous factor about 1985 was having Maggie Bloody Thatcher as PM and the other was Dire Straits. Mike S.

[LIVERLADD]

nothing wrong with Dire straits

[rajaboy]

I liked it as News at 5.45 and News at One brings back happy memories for me when I'd come home for lunch and finish school

[oashmole]

From what I read somewhere that Thames TV did the 1st link from London for the whole ITV Network after the strike, The Thames Clock was altered to show ITV at the top. The announcer is Peter Marshall.

[oashmole]

After watching the 2nd part it looks likes Thames TV must have done the announcement for the rest of the week, i wonder if LWT were used over the weekend?.

[gazuky]

The ATV ident was for the Muppet Show, not the broadcast region. ATV made the Muppets.

[palaciego]

The first clock is the Thames clock! In ATV? Strange.