BBC Breakfast : 40 Years Breakfast Time Celebration - 17 January 2023

Jon Kay and Sally Nugent presenter BBC Breakfast on BBC News and BBC One 17 January 2023 06.00 - 09.15BST

[@stevenbeaven1]

83?!?! The Green Goddess is 83!?! Now I wish I'd done all those exercises all those years! She looks fabulous!

[@Ioniq5N-Gaming]

4:27 the fact that they STILL had the original audio even after moving studios is IMPRESSIVE!!

[@laser738]

I remember watching the first BBC Breakfast Time. I can't believe it's 40 years ago! It was really exciting, watching the TV start while having breakfast. Prior to that, there wasn't even a test card...just static on the TV at that time of morning. A very exciting time to be around, back in the 1980's! Thanks for such excellent memories!

[@chrisdawson6156]

I'm 40 in July so I wasn't born when this programme first aired but happy birthday BBC Breakfast

[@KevinM913]

Thanks for posting. I remember the first Breakfast Time. Very sad that within a few years the BBC got ‘cold feet’ and changed to a very formal format which was not a success with viewers handing the ratings battle to ITV.

[@EurEvansIsh]

It felt good to hear how passionate Francis feels about the processes in forecasting way back when. It seems magical now but physically picking up papers at Imperial College to creating a picture of the weather for the day ahead in two or three hours feels like something to be admired on top of everything else! The humble shyness he seems to have for it is sincere and charming. It's good to know Carol has been involved with Breakfast Time/BBC Breakfast from the start too 🙂

[@drmal]

Francis trained and worked as a meteorologist and listening to him it clearly shows. His enthusiasm for the weather shines through (pardon the pun). Today, I believe those that present the weather are just presenters with a touch of training in meteorology. They couldn't present a forecast with the depth on knowledge and explanation that you saw from Francis in that clip.

[@markgenner1747]

2:18 BBC Breakfast Turns 40 Years.

[@sharekeogh8658]

Thanks for the memories 🇨🇮❤️👍🌈

[@ianhalsall-fox]

Let us not forget that Debbie Greenwood''s husband's voice was the first voice of Channel Four!

[@stephenduncan3605]

You mean Paul Coyer?

[@ianhalsall-fox]

@@stephenduncan3605 Yes, Paul Coia. Still does shows on BBC Radio London.

[@christopherwilliams2093]

@@ianhalsall-fox In September 1983 he left Channel 4 to join BBC2's schools programme Zig Zag and eventually co-presented BBC1's Pebble Mill at One then Catchword for BBC2.

[@hugoboss5895]

Every where I turn there’s reminders I’m getting old😂

[@angelacooper2661]

Well, I was not yet thirteen when Breakfast Time started and remember it very well. Liked the weather jumpers on the programme. I turned 54 last weekend!

[@ianhalsall-fox]

This is just wonderful!

[@lja8857]

46:44 I love how they clapped at the end. Hope they do the cake again for the 50th anniversary

[@frglee]

"I've had lots of messages from wellwishers - wishing I'd jump down a well" (😀Ken Dodd, c.1967)

[@NewRepublicMapper]

For me, it feels like they will revive the Logo since it can fits well with the Adaptive BBC Blocks

[@glassowlie]

They didn't and the identifiers are for the services only.

[@JKMMOC]

They couldn't persuade Selina Scott to turn up or at least make a contribution? That is surprising and indeed disappointing, especially as she seemed keen to tell the media all the problems she experienced at the time. I note that Russell Grant doesn't mention that later in the year he jumped ship and left Breakfast Time for more money at TVam and of course, there's no mention of the much publicized rift between Debbie Rix and Selina Scott who apparently couldn't stand each other. Rix complained openly about her frustration about not moving on from behind the news desk onto the show proper. According to the tabloids, Fern Britton and Debbie Greenwood came on board to Rix's fury while she never progressed. She quit and went to LWT to co-host 'Game For A Laugh' and was never heard of again.

[@oneurope]

Apart from Nick Ross is clearly all over the video from 10:00 to 11:30. I think that classifies as a contribution

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

I saw this exact style of sofa on EBay UK just in the last month, a very long row of it, just like on the show, funny name, maybe Italian & they wanted £10k+ for it.

[@MultiVince95]

Tuesday 17th January 2023

[@marcelmyricktv]

2023-1983 = 40. Happy 40th to BBC Breakfast! Formally Known as Breakfast Time and Breakfast News on the BBC. 4 decades as their came on the air for the first time.

[@trevorcarr3418]

@@marcelmyricktv I watch your sky news breakfast paper reviews every week but you cut the first bit with Ashley on Sunday. I want to know what the presenter Vanessa had asked Ashley. If you still have the recording or if not please tell me what it was. Thanks

[@jeffsmith3392]

I LOVED BREAKFAST TIME... keep the analogue clock.

[@trevorcarr3418]

Have you got the whole 3 hours please as it has been removed from iPlayer

[@kurt479]

I actually think those logos and clocks look better in 2023 than the current ones. Although it would be too much effort now, everything is just typed on computers

[@jeffsmith3392]

Loved BBC Breakfast Time in the fake living room and the analogue clock. ⏰💯💯💯💯

[@johnjtm1097]

Ronald McDonald at 36:25!

[@Moviesxp]

i love anniversary stuff

[@brucedanton3669]

Breakfast Time was alright really from when it started in 1983 as others really have said too; up until later in 1986 when they altered the format somewhat. After that, it became too heavy and lost viewers really to the then of course TV-am on ITV. As we know in turn, TV-am ended at the end of 1992. In 1993, GMTV came on air on ITV instead, which lasted until 2010. BBC1's Breakfast did pick up later on though really, as it is now then I guess. Thank you though!

[@frglee]

I think TVam launched with a bit more pizzazz but ultimately breakfast tv was all a bit of a disappointment to many. By 1983 TVam only had 100,000 viewers, until the 'Roland Rat' children's glove puppet was introduced (described as 'the rat that saved a sinking ship'), increasing viewership to 1.8 million. The BBC's rather soporific effort with presenters in casual gear and supping at coffee mugs seems a bit cheesy to me 40 years on. One memory of the time is having that Frank Bough banging on my front door once looking for the prossy in the flat upstairs.

[@brucedanton3669]

Breakfast Time also later on of course became BBC Breakfast News in 1989; this too really was too heavy for the viewers really alas. It was a mistake to let the nice comfy cosy feel of the original series/show go really. The BBC did really go the wrong way in doing this so at the time somehow. When GMTV started in 1993 as we know on ITV, they too lost viewers really because they were not the same as TV-am which of course had just ended before. But they soon altered their style to one which was like theirs though too. Thank you!

[@pipoo1]

Once TV-am found its feet it went on to become one of the most profitable ITV stations until its demise at the hands of Mrs Thatcher. GMTV never managed to capitalise on its inheritance and within a year they too were cap in hand to the ITC asking for help. IIRC GMTV never made a profit the whole time it existed,

[@brucedanton3669]

@@pipoo1 You are so right there too of course!

[@salliewagenblatt5188]

Why did they drop time from the title.

[@ritz2467]

wonder why a certain sports presenter wasn't involved in the celebrations? lol

[@drmal]

Because he's a fruitcake?

[@foxyfazbear1380]

Dont Forget the Eggcups TV-AM

[@cteasdale1979]

Mad Lizzy on tvam

[@abhudson14]

Roland Rat on Breakfast time I thought it was Tv am he was on and was it Roland that saved Tv am

[@pipoo1]

It was and he did help save TV-am the BBC then poached the character for Breakfast Time initially before he was given his own tea time show at 5.35pm, the slot eventually occupied by Neighbours for 20 years.

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

I loved Selina Scott, I thought she was wonderful, so for her to s*it all over the show now like it was the worst thing to ever happen to her is really awful. She refused to have anything to do with the 40th anniversary, but she appeared at the 25th celebrations, so I guess her memory improved after 40 years but not 25?!? She should be proud of what she accomplished & just get over what she didn't like, I can see why people don't hire her, as she just likes to look for things to complain about, that gets around quick in industries like this. Funny how this is all coming up now, trying to rekindle herself with a bit of metoo probably, shame that ship has sailed Selina! Sorry about the rant, but I have very happy memories of the early show & she's ruined it for me.

[@pipoo1]

Have you seen the Saville documentary on Netflix? If not all I can say is Saville appearances on Breakfast Time and his behaviour towards Selina are enlightening to say the least. A lot has come out over the last 15 years.

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

@@pipoo1 Selina's complainants are related to Frank Bough. Anything else in nonsense, this was Selina's show, guests are there just for a moment & can't ruin you job, that's ridiculous & frankly pathetic. Don't buy into whinny babies moaning when nothing bad happened to them that would effect any normal person & who are highly over paid for this job.

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[@TheMoon_Follow]

"Umagang Kay Ganda" and "Ted Failon and DJ Chacha".. ah yes, those brings back memories -- altho the latter is still a thing on True FM- ~J

[@darrenvoysey7734]

except bbc breakfast didn't start in 1983...hmm