Yeah, the music is "New Day", track 5, the final one in the first section of the Ceefax tape "Butterfly" . Track by Pierre Porte and his Orchestra (the BBC cue sheet credits the vocals to Lilianne Davis).
The tape was in use on BBC2 from 25/02/85 - 21/09/87, and had a spell on the BBC 1 Ceefax AM rota too.
Schools programmes moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in September 1983 and with this the dots clock was phased out in favour of a daytime variant of the stripey =2= logo and announcement into the programmes
It's a fact that schools programmes moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in September 1983 and that meant the morning showing of 'Play School' moved the other way. Ceefax would been shown on BBC1 in the gap between 'Breakfast Time' and 'Play School' but it would be another three years before BBC1 gained a proper daytime schedule because of funding constraints
Science Topics had the best theme music of any schools programme, used to play the air guitar to it until the teacher stopped me. It made up for having to watch the programme, take notes then write about it. Mind you I never took notes and it didn't do any harm as I managed to blag a grade B at GCSE Science!
He says "Hweels". A modern announcer would say "weeyuwz". When did TV announcers stop being a bit posh? I reckon it all snowballed with the new "Channel Five" and its trendy news.
I believe I have another Daytime on Two clip from about 1983 which goes into the same episode of Science Topics. There's not quite so much of the programme on that tape though, so nice to see this :)
In real life, it WAS 1983. On Monday, September 19th, 1983, schools programmes moved to BBC 2. They were billed under the heading "Daytime on Two" and instead of a countdown, a daytime version of the BBC 2 symbol appeared ten seconds before each programme. With no Schools, BBC 1 closed down after Breakfast Time and started up again for Play School, which had also switched sides. It would be some years before BBC 1 would get its own Daytime schedule in 1986.
i love the synth music on that one too..the same oerson who made that piece does others that were used in adverts in the 80s and one of them is on the andrex ad...lol..good stuff.
Ceefax/Oracle was like the internet before we had the internet. I live in the US now and apparently they never had the equivalent of Ceefax.
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Yeah, the music is "New Day", track 5, the final one in the first section of the Ceefax tape "Butterfly" . Track by Pierre Porte and his Orchestra (the BBC cue sheet credits the vocals to Lilianne Davis).
The tape was in use on BBC2 from 25/02/85 - 21/09/87, and had a spell on the BBC 1 Ceefax AM rota too.
ceefaxfreak09 9 months ago
yo wtf did i click on ????? lol
tybisha 1 year ago
Schools programmes moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in September 1983 and with this the dots clock was phased out in favour of a daytime variant of the stripey =2= logo and announcement into the programmes
GiggityGiggityGoo22 1 year ago
BBC2 became the permanent home for schools programmes from September 1983 so the person who said 1984 you are sadly wrong.
GiggityGiggityGoo22 1 year ago
It's a fact that schools programmes moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in September 1983 and that meant the morning showing of 'Play School' moved the other way. Ceefax would been shown on BBC1 in the gap between 'Breakfast Time' and 'Play School' but it would be another three years before BBC1 gained a proper daytime schedule because of funding constraints
GiggityGiggityGoo22 1 year ago
Science Topics had the best theme music of any schools programme, used to play the air guitar to it until the teacher stopped me. It made up for having to watch the programme, take notes then write about it. Mind you I never took notes and it didn't do any harm as I managed to blag a grade B at GCSE Science!
JohnnyTheWolfLupino 2 years ago
He says "Hweels". A modern announcer would say "weeyuwz". When did TV announcers stop being a bit posh? I reckon it all snowballed with the new "Channel Five" and its trendy news.
equin0x80 2 years ago
and david allan is the announcer
knicksfan89 3 years ago
I believe I have another Daytime on Two clip from about 1983 which goes into the same episode of Science Topics. There's not quite so much of the programme on that tape though, so nice to see this :)
presheaven 4 years ago
Can't be 83. Schools didnt go to 2 til 84 IIRC
Hoddersrevenge 3 years ago
No, it was Sept 83 for sure :)
presheaven 3 years ago
I wasn't born then so unsure. Thanks for clarifying.
Hoddersrevenge 3 years ago
In real life, it WAS 1983. On Monday, September 19th, 1983, schools programmes moved to BBC 2. They were billed under the heading "Daytime on Two" and instead of a countdown, a daytime version of the BBC 2 symbol appeared ten seconds before each programme. With no Schools, BBC 1 closed down after Breakfast Time and started up again for Play School, which had also switched sides. It would be some years before BBC 1 would get its own Daytime schedule in 1986.
Tripp1993 3 years ago
i love the synth music on that one too..the same oerson who made that piece does others that were used in adverts in the 80s and one of them is on the andrex ad...lol..good stuff.
therezabizarre 4 years ago
And oh, the APT ... if only! If only! This was still being shown in 1992, unbelievably.
RobinCarmody 4 years ago
David Allan announcing here.
RobinCarmody 4 years ago
It is 1986. The TWO ident came about later that year though.
far78 5 years ago
thanks for correcting me!
benriggers 4 years ago
this isn't from 1986! in 1986 the TWO Ident was about!
benriggers 5 years ago
The clip is from 1986. The TWO indent replaced =2= on easter Monday 1986, around a month after the date of the clip uploaded here.
Rillington2000 4 years ago
@benriggers The TWO ident was not introduced until 31st March 1986 so until then the stripey 2 was still in use
cwilliams1976 1 year ago
Music used by the BBC here comes from 2 Pierre Porte albums some of his music from the same albums were used on channel 4 testcard
sppider77 5 years ago
I actually meant 1985 - 1990. Soz
robertclark1000 5 years ago
I remember this music! It was one of just two that had vocals, in this case going la la la throughout! Dates from 1895-1990
robertclark1000 5 years ago
The music is called New Day by Pierre Porte according to my album copy
sppider77 5 years ago