BBC2 Continuity January 1984

A junction between Daytime on 2 and Ceefax, with programme rundown and clock. A couple of wrong buttons pressed as well along the way....

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• bbc
• bbc2
• clock
• ceefax
• blooper
• continuity
• tv
• presentation

[RobinCarmody]

Well, that shows how much less Americanised Britain was even then compared to now.

[PagesFromCeefax]

A fantastic genuine clip. Many thanks for taking us back to this classic era when the pace of life was so much more relaxed and the licence payers did not mind paying to watch 3 hours of Ceefax in the afternoon! Those were the days....

[brucedanton]

Thank you for the clip here-and how much I agree with all of the correspondents here.

I wish that today's tv in the daytime had Pages from Ceefax, but sadly of course, it does not. But the 1980s were the best times for it by far!

[scottvideos100]

I remember the good old day of the BBC2 in the 1980's, they use to show old classic black and white American comedy Buster, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy. They use to appear after selection pages of Ceefax or sometime after the testcard. TV stations was so expensive to run compare today Quailty programmes. I wonder what those tv announcers got upto in there spare time. probably playing packs of cards. lol

[JFredUK]

@compboy1 This is in the days before deregulation. The BBC were only allowed to show so many hours of television per week. And, BBC2, not being the main channel used to have long periods of, 'nothing', showing. Although, there are those who would argue that the, 'nothing', of then is much better than the, 'something', of now! 24 hour day TV is a hungry beast and it gets filled up with practically anything. At least the programmes then were, generally, worth watching. Quality over quantity.

[cwilliams1976]

So would BBC1 for the same reason, from 14.00 until 15.52 or 16.17 dependant on what programmes were on.

[GiggityGiggityGoo22]

BBC2 would show Ceefax accompanied by music from 15:00 until around 17:20 unless there was sport or the budget on.

[cwilliams1976]

By the way, the piece of music which accompanies the BBC2 clock into CEEFAX is the start of the second Falklands tape, Mon Bijoux, which was due to leave service within six months.

[RobinCarmody]

No doubt about the date here - Tuesday 17th January.

[Rillington2000]

It did then. Daytime television on the BBC didn't start until october 1986 with BBC2 not launching a full daytime service until the end of the eighties.