TV-AM Good Morning Britain Opening Titles

[midev]

Really puts me back to getting home from my paper, used to see this just before getting ready for school. Wincey WIllis on the weather and Anne Diamond and Mike Morris. How they did these opening titles as well. The pigeons look great as MORNING!

[theatrepaul]

Takes me right back hearing this theme tune to school days, waking up to Anne and Nick. Loved it :-)

[spacefan1962]

What was the name of the news show that used to come on BEFORE "Good Morning Britain"? It was (I think) about an hour long and started earlier than the BBC's Breakfast show. It didn't last long and was soon absorbed into tv-am. But I can't for the life of me remember it's name. Probably because I was 90% asleep when it was on!

[davewilko11]

@spacefan1962 it was called Daybreak, dont think it lasted more than a year

[spacefan1962]

@davewilko11 Yes, I remember now. Thank you. Strange to think they went back to the same title!

[claphamdaniel]

if tv-am had still going to day it wont have been in hd like daybreak is because it was made in anaugle televison digitial came out in 2009 2008 but tv-am might be in hd if they kept in on air long for time then gmtv wont of had changed to broadcast in 1993 from daniel clapham

[Thebustermann]

@claphamdaniel Could you actually use sentences please, so we understand what the hell you are talking about.

[acesigma06]

And it was saved by Roland rat..lol, ITS A PUPPET

[simonjharrisson]

Britain had aircraft carriers back then haha!!

[67psych]

Bloody hell! I can remember this,i use to watch it for the cartoons they sowed before i went to primary school! Im getting Old!! 36!!

[2008Sameoldfitup]

roy west

[simplyeightiesdotcom]

Roland Rat saved TV-AM!

[X24RIDER]

When breakfast TV was worth getting up for, worth watching and most of all would put you in a good mood for the rest of the day :)

Unlike the utterly LAME, BLAND AND BORING Daybreak which makes ya wanna throw a brick at the TV screen because it's SO BAD !!!!!

[ft0mpch]

I remembered getting up especially early to see that on its first day :-)

[mrmalade]

jeff wayne wrote the music

[TheMessiah79]

ITV need to get shot of Daybreak and BRING THIS BACK!!!

[LondonladUK]

A brilliant tune. 

[saraomidvar]

I was not born in the 80s or know this show, but it is really interesting to read all these comments. I like how many good memories it is bringing back for people . and I also like how everyone would watch this while i getting ready for school :) However, can't you be happy for what you have now too ? <3

[jadenet05081891]

This was brilliant to wake up to in the 80's, not like the sanitised, politically - correct GMTV rubbish that, thank god,is finally being disbanded soon!

[cjbristol]

I was in the second O of Good (0:27). I was 7 or 8 at the time and it was filmed in Bristol. Never knew I would've been on the telly every day for so many years, where did it all go wrong! Good times and 'Good Morning Britain' to you all!

[mrmister102]

these were the days folks better than that gmtv rubbish

[Insolution55]

Remember watching this before going to school in the 80s, never got up so early again in my life since 1988 life has turned to complete fucking shit nowadays

[voon100]

My days of getting up in the morning for school.

[abigail730435]

i remember getting up for school to this

[rightfredsdead]

welcome to TV AM. your choice for hard cocks...

boop boop booooo..boop. PHEEP.

and cut. its a wrap...

[Aaronator19842009]

TV-AM really is the best Morning TV ever.

[kevw73]

This reminds me of getting me hair brushed in front of the electric fire, half asleep, before i went to school.

[Scrabbler27]

I prefer to live in the 1980's and live to watch tv in that decade. They were they best!

[Markjuk]

The old TV-AM studios are still there in Camden Lock, now the MTV studios complete with intact TV-AM era eggcups on the roof!

[1997larsson]

this theme should have been itv s football theme

[LIVERNIL723]

god, invent a time machine - put me in the 1980's - p.s. would struggle without the internet as my disposal !!! ;-)

[TheMessiah79]

I'd love to see ITV ditch GMTV and bring this show back with new presenters

[Sjofugla]

Oh man. You are so right!!.

I wish someone would add up the amount of time that GMTV spend on adverst.

"When we come back", "right after this break", "time for a commercial break".

I've just watched 3hrs of commercials and weather reports...

[Sjofugla]

Blimey, that was a blast from the past!.

Where has life gone?!. It's very interesting though because the catchphrase/film "Good Morning Britain" is quite nationalistic but in a good way.

You wouldn't be allowed that now though:(.

[identlover]

Indeed, where has time gone

[TheFirecogicuk]

That what I keep asking myslef affter seeing these old school programes.

[TheFirecogicuk]

Why not this show was filmed in Britain we are British so therefore the goo morning Britian titles shoule no offend no one. Am I right?

[Sjofugla]

Yes, yes my friend!. I was refering to the politically correct gub that we have to live with now.

Any talk of sticking up for Britain is frowned on now:(

[TheFirecogicuk]

I,m a Brittish citizen and I expec any one who live and work here to stick up for our country. If I go to the USA I also expect our friend accross the pond to stand up for their country. You know the saying when you're in rome do what the romans do. My Grand parents and many west indian of thier generation did. Some of them were in the ww2. They were tought that Britain is their mother country. P.S I also disagree with some of the political correctness as it takes away freedom of speach,

[RSLICKER]

ah remember breakfast tv seemed a good idea at the time only most people dont have time to watch tv before they go to work, i dont have time to eat breakfast

[LIVERNIL723]

This brings a tear to my eye - what is happened to Britain today - I hardly recognise it anymore :-(

[j4wn]

@LIVERNIL723 It's called " The New World Order".The Fascist E.U is just the tip of the iceberg.Strangley enough this Political subversion was going on right under our noses even when we were kids,we are just seeing the fruits of it's labour now.The perceived freedom you have been carefully given since the end of WW2 has all been disraction from the Treasonist, Traitorist reality that is life today.Sadly,I still look back with fondness like you do.Psychology and fashion are very powerfull tools?

[banneradders]

At 0.27/29 - look at the O in 'morning' and see the forgetful guy race across to where he should be in the M

[LollieSmith]

I knew i had stayed up too late when i heard this music

[RedHeadVicky]

Ah pan-pipes, it's a classic sound.

[jboyle4eva]

Is it me, or is the "TV-AM" melody very similar to the sount you'd hear when switching on a phone or computer? :P

[leap2jump]

And what a great wake up call it was, I dont know it sort of made you feel good, what went wrong

[joshuatrees]

That was what getting up for school in the morning sounded like for kids in the 80s!!

[nikkijscraig]

aboslutly it was

[hombrerelents]

And during the holidays while we waited for Timmy Mallet and episodes of Transformers.

[Hologhoul]

@joshuatrees yeah!! actually I remember it as quite uplifting - that weather chap, the goddess woman...good stuff...

[Fenner1976]

@joshuatrees This is very true. I remember it well. Counting down the clock when I had to drag myself off to school (which I didn't really like one bit!). Regardless I loved the 80's. Things are not so great nowadays. Things are way too PC and common sense is rapidly becoming extinct! The 80's also reminds me of people in my family who are no longer around. Part of me wants to go back.

[cableguy786]

@joshuatrees spot on!!!

[CHANNELMICHAEL]

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[QuikSnaps]

Sigh. Those were the days where British people were welcomed in the morning before going out to their work. Thanks to that fucking corrupt satanist Gordon Brown, all people want to do is sleep in. KICK BROWN OUT - GET BRITAIN BACK!!

[mikey0000]

@QuikSnaps, Brown became PM in 2007. So, in a matter of 2-3 years he single-handedly destroyed Britain, and millions of people who once worked decided life was better sitting at home. Funny, because it was under Thatcher that unemployment sky-rocketed - and that's from a document from the House of Parliament research library. KEEP TAKING THE HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS!

[GCarty80]

@mikey0000

I blame greedy Daily Mail reading Home-Owner-Ists who were willing to let the economy go to hell just as long as the house prices kept going up and up and up. Unfortunately both Thatcher and Blair (but not -- to his credit -- Major) pandered to them at the expense of the real economy.

[SuperWarrior786]

@QuikSnaps No, it was Thatcher and her greedy and selfish tax cutting cronies which did that. Brown tried to fix it but without putting up taxes to 50% for the well off in the first place, it was a no win situation.

[aeronuk1]

@SuperWarrior786 go stick your pro-brown views up your stupid ass hole! they ain't wanted here

[SuperWarrior786]

@aeronuk1 Your one moronic voice against millions pal.  You ain't wanted here!

[jonnyf1970]

@aeronuk1 Speak for yourself, moron.

[feltum]

I was one of the pigeons at the bottom of the 'I' in 'MORNING!!'

[DistantCousin]

LOL!!!

[hurricaneUK]

GMTV is so dumbed down it makes Roland Rat and Mad Lizzie look the height of TV sophistication.

[DistantCousin]

Indeed - it still amazes me in this day and age the sheer amateur-ness of many of the presenters, as well as the absolute banality of most of the features!

[GCarty80]

@DistantCousin:

Although most people these days have some kind of TV recording device (DVR, DVD recorder or good ol' fashioned VHS), they view and/or record at most two or three channels at one time. However, the number of channels being broadcast has increased massively thanks to digital and satellite TV. This means that each channel gets a much smaller share of the advertising revenue -- that's why the quality has declined so badly.

[imnaz83]

@GCarty80

Very well put. The TV Series in the 80s& Early Nineties were Great - I think compared to what we have now with the 200+ Channel the quality with just 4-5 Channels was much better back then!

[GCarty80]

@imnaz83

Actually, in the 80s only TWO channels (ITV and Channel 4) received advertising revenue in Britain: Channel 5 did not yet exist, and BBC1 and BBC2 were funded by the TV Licence not by adverts.

Since the early 90s, ITV has been ruined (I recommend the book "The Dream That Died - The Rise and Fall of ITV) by corporate asset strippers and cowardly politicians seeking to appease the Murdoch press.

[stevecoo13]

I was in the "R" in Britain on HMS Hermes top left hand corn...lol memories!

[feltum]

Such lovely memories of early mornings in the brilliant '80s. Makes me feel all warm inside!

[inga747]

nope as I child I would have videod snapshots of various "things of the time" such as top of the pops and the news and hoped to drag it out when I hit thirty. Now i've hit thirty and videos are obsolete,never would have thought there would be such a thing as "you tube" but thanks all the same, I used to wait for my dad to come home from the night shift whlist watching this!!

[Max404s]

AHHHH  NOO!!! Is it school time???

[ZAPTAPPER1]

I was one of those in the G of the opening, It was quite cold that day.

[thesimracer]

is that Clifton Down in Bristol?

[ZAPTAPPER1]

Yes it was Clifton down and it was a cold day. It also took 4 hours to film that little bit. It was fun never the less.

[Lauraloos1981]

really? that must have been quite a good job, did they just hire randoms?

[ZAPTAPPER1]

It was an add in a local news paper asking for any one to go to Bristol downs for the opening shot. It was unpaid but still good fun..

[Lauraloos1981]

yeh it sounds it!!

[goofee07]

As a child and an early riser I used to love the theme which is called Daybreak and this is the first 10 seconds of this video sends shivers down my spine its that precious but also because it takes me back to 20 years ago! I'm 31 now. Thanks Aurora Hazel. You have made me a happy chappy!

[gullivera]

I feel like making tea and a bowl of cereal and having this on in the background so i can pretend its the 80's.

Or is that too sad?

[NotATube]

If it was still the 80s, you wouldn't be able to indulge your nostalgia via modern technology like YouTube :)

[jamesriise]

God this makes me feel old, I remember the first day of TV-AM back in the 1980s.

Great Theme Tune, they don't make them like this anymore.

[Mellywelly29]

Sheesh....this reminds me of getting up and walking to school.....

Slightly depressing as someone else said...

Never will I get that time back :(

[dougiewhite778]

i love this too reminds me of cold mornings when all family together before everyone went diffrent ways... i never watched the bbc one. i loved roland rat and kevin , anne and nick rusty lee, diana dors and mad lizzy

[AllisonGrosser]

Great! I love this. It brings back happy memories.

[saturn1returns]

I wish I was back then, I really do, total happiness.

[blaster2012]

I used to watch this every morning before school.I´m now 38!!!it´s true what they say,time certainly does fly.

[morgansifer82]

I wonder what Wincey Willis is doing these days?

[tireoghainian]

Eh? Wincey Willis in a colourful pullover..'Will we have a cold start?'. A big angry face on the clouds saying its windy.

Anne and Nick on the sofa. Ulrika Jonsson being quite virginal (Thats some fucking goin' girl!).

It all reminds me of warm porridge and frosty morning heading to school. Great days!!

[j4wn]

Who can remember the clock in the bottom left hand corner? watching it count down to the time when you had to get your arse off to school.

[Cathain78]

@j4wn

Haha, so true.

8.30am and trying to hold down a jaffa cake because I was such a non-morning person that I could barely open my eyes far less eat anything when I was a kid.

[quigabyte]

@j4wn So true...

[quigabyte]

@j4wn hahaha so true.

[ukfairsontour]

@j4wn lol that was me !!!

[cevaer1979]

@j4wn UNfortunately I still find myself doing that 20 odd years later, having to get my lazy arse off to work!!!

[j4wn]

@cevaer1979 Me too, but a lot earlier, unforunately.

[M374EVL]

@j4wn i still got that clock lol

[darrenmarc78]

@j4wn lmfao yes mate sure can lol

[okhdvgd]

Looking at this after so many years..is a good laugh...although theres something very oddly eerie about these opening credits...kinda made me go cold..with that distinct 80s synth tropical sounding music and those visuals. Funny how this makes the mind turn all the way back to then.

[NotATube]

I never saw it that way, but now that you point it out I can kind of understand why someone might think that.

Did you know that it was apparently written by the same guy who did the musical version of War of the Worlds?!

[standardshigh]

That comment below was for TheRetroDude on his earlier comment.

[chemicalgonads]

This might sound odd but that opening scared the crap out of me when I was a kid :S

[dyingfly]

Look at the final Good Morning Britain at 00:28 Look at the gap between the M and O of MOrning. You can see someone leg it from the O to the M - Lol.

[geography27]

They filmed that bit in Bristol. Apparently that person is John Lydon from The Sex Pistols, well, I remember him on Good Morning Britain saying it was him. Who knows, but the person it was! :-)

[dyingfly]

If this was so popular then why did TVAM lose the franchise to GMTV?? - I can remember MIke morris saying "I am gutted...."

[swaddon1903]

Because GMTV had more money.

[NotATube]

The 1992 ITV franchises were supposedly blind auctions, and GMTV bid much more than TVAM.

[Striplight1980]

Who could forget that little analogue clock in the corner that never seemed to move...lol!!

[bagpussey]

The music is so cool, oh i miss the 80's

[riffster007]

OMG this makes me feel old!!!

[ziggypop79]

this really depresses me. seems like 100 years ago now.

[053bss]

Music composed by Jeff Wayne, the guy behind the Musical Version of the War of the Worlds!!

[billyeuph]

Pan pipes rock!

[TheRetroDude]

u remember the eggs at the end wit the years on?

[standardshigh]

I'm so glad you mentioned that!

From what I can remember it was done with graphics, with a series of eggs in blue (grey?) egg cups with the years written on them (although '1986' is the only one i can actually remember).

Also, I remember Timmy Mallet doing a spoof of the end credits once--he stuck a picture of his HEAD on top of one of the eggs!

I dont suppose anyone remembers THAT particular episode, do they?

[TheRetroDude]

ARRRGH that tune used to tell me its time for SCHOOL!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[1969speedbunny]

Reminds me so much of watching the telly through eyes that were still virtually closed,before going to school.Thanks for uploading!;)

[geography27]

TV-am and it's programmes should be back on our screens the way TV was back then. I'd watch it!! How about TV-am (the co. still exists) starts producing programmes again, including Good Morning Britain, but produced say for Channel 4 instead? I'm sure it'd be more popular than sh*t like GMTV!

[TigerWalrus26980]

Me too - I'm never usually awake before 6.00am, but this would give me a good reason to do so!

[NotATube]

The last time I saw GMTV (which was admittedly years ago), it wasn't *that* much different to TVAM. My gut reaction was that if TVAM had still been going it would be somewhat like that.

Does anyone remember how GMTV started out looking a bit different to TVAM, and within a fairly short period had reverted to being a very similar copy? Either that was a cynical short-term move to justify their franchise or they realised that the formula TVAM had eventually got right was what people liked.

[anthony100uk]

o wow i remember this

[drvkv]

does any one know when I can get that from as a ring tone?

[christmt]

has any one got a full program of tv-am or know where i can download it. please can any one help been looking every where for one but cant find it, it doesnt matter which one as long as it starts from opening music to end credits. ;-)

[maxdog1967]

Hey Chrstmt, I have the very last episode from start to end on VHS and can get it to you on DVD if it would help

[christmt]

hi there mate, that would be great if you could put it on dvd for me been looking for to get a full episode. if you can just drop me an email will chat more that way if ok with you.

[joshuatrees]

The sound of breakfast before going to school in the early 80s.

[KevCityboy]

Aah that music!

[mercdriver]

Reminds me of switching on for the news and weather after just getting home from a night shift.

[ic1male]

Thanks for posting the clip - good quality, too! This reminds me of all those mornings getting up to go to school.