BBC1 Christmas Eve 1982

[@estherlane7498]

My last innocent Christmas. I was 13. ...14 end of January. My mother died 10 march 1983. ......life became very very grey. Never recovered fully from the trauma and the tsunami on my life. She was a fabulous mother. This has made me so melancholy

[@markhurley253]

Bless your mum ❤️

[@jakmak1199]

Well it sounds like she's in your heart forever, she will be happy to know that.

[@deancox8634]

God bless you Esther. Your Mother wouldn't want you to be sad. Merry Christmas to you.

[@toffeeman8208]

I can relate to this sadly, my sympathies to you Esther.

[@estherlane7498]

What lovely people you all are 💗❤️

[@zapfrisco72]

Will never have Christmas like those ever again something magic is lost these days

[@alanseward4979]

Waiting for the big Christmas films and specials where the whole family sat down to watch together. Such a shame such simple times have gone. Forever😢

[@adrianparker-e9f]

Christmas was the only time we got the Radio Times ( the local paper had the day's telly in it ) I used to like reading everything in it. Funnily enough i found the radio programme listings of interest, with little descriptions of the programme and the occasional 'picture', which often seemed to me to be something strange, like an illustration in a 'psychology magazine'. I was born in 1968.

[@alanseward4979]

Yes,Radio times,tv times. Jason and the Argonauts on the tv

[@mikjon67]

Christmas in the late 70's early 80's was always magical... You watched nearly everything but The Morcombe and Wise Christmas Show was the cherry on the cake...

[@zeddeka]

Let me guess - you were young then. TV back then was very regularly criticised, and the Xmas lineup especially because it was very often padded out with large numbers of repeats and sub par stuff. There wasn't much else to do so if the TV was bad, everybody felt it much more so than they do now.

[@johnstannard8366]

Got nothing to do about being young. Life in general was better then. ​@@zeddeka

[@leeannmansfield5254]

Tv was brilliant back then from early morning the snowman right through to late evening. What I didn't watch as I played with my sindy house in the corner. I could still hear the instrumental sounds in films. When I hear old films I'm literally back to 1980s. Happiness warmth and sadness. Family times gone. Shops open from boxing day.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

​@@johnstannard8366Maybe for you. Not for me. We had less money and was in a battered wives home over Christmas 1982. Even when we were with my father we had little money, no car, no phone, no holidays. Life is much better for me now. Cheers.

[@BLUEBOY69-yl9cl]

The lineup is nothing but repeats now​@@zeddeka

[@stephentrudgeon2646]

Reminiscing back to when i was a kid, tv seemed more innocent, we were satisfied with four channels, proper presentation with proper celebrities. Days long gone.

[@insertnamehere5146]

I was not happy with 4 channels as a kid there was sod all on the TV. it was grim.

[@stephentrudgeon2646]

@@insertnamehere5146 With 100 channels there's still sod all on to watch.🙄

[@insertnamehere5146]

@@stephentrudgeon2646 agree but i do love youtube :) imagine having youtube in the early 1980s

[@alanculbert5146]

@@stephentrudgeon2646 absolutely. It's all woke shite now and all about image and judging programmes. So bland and boring!

[@blazer666del]

What like Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Stewart Hall... Yeah good times.. The 80s were crap.. and the 70s even worse..

[@LaosFarang]

A real treat for those of us with fond memories of this time.

[@bobshrubb3067]

Absolutely, what a magical time to be a kid

[@azamshahuddin781]

Khun Lao pai Lawndawn(London) laew mai?

[@markhurley253]

Wishing us all many more 👍🎄

[@stephensimpson4022]

I remember those Christmas’s so well. It was a big deal back then and remember them with great affection.

[@GriefTourist]

Who would have imagined that the world and Britain itself would become the grim places they are in 2024. Thank god I was young then and god help anyone born in the 21st century.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Behave. We've never had it so good in general and far less pollution around now. People now are richer, live longer and have more options and freedoms.

[@bmac5085]

You are absolutely 💯 correct. Things were a lot simpler then. 2024 is like the novel 1984. Anyone that says otherwise must be a true communist that loves whats happening now or have a very low IQ.

[@Dbdbe1]

Oh please. If you were black, gay, or unemployed in 1982, you were having a very shitty time in Thatcher's Britain

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@Dbdbe1 It was worse in the 1970s.

[@tayler034]

@@lyndoncmp5751 09:24 is a case in point. That's pretty damn disturbing in retrospect. A tax payer funded pick'n'mix for the likes of Saville, Harris, Denning, Hall etc

[@alm5966]

I was 13 and waiting for what I hoped was a ZX Spectrum. Definitely one of the best Christmas hols ever and hearing Madness with Our House takes me right back as my little brother played it constantly.

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been 12 at the time and remember those days well (second year at senior school). My brother, who was fifteen then, had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and played games on it. More innocent days growing up!

[@starman1900]

Lol I was 12 omg where did the last 40 years go.

[@markhurley253]

I was 18 and living in plumstead South London such special times, wishing everyone many more Christmas wishes 40 years on 🎄🙏

[@rucus247]

I also lived in Plumstead in the 80s I lived on ceres Rd just off Plumstead High St

[@markhurley253]

@ I know ceres rd I lived in bannockburn and went to school there as well,best wishes and happy Christmas 👍🏻

[@TheTigersbay]

I want my country back. God bless 🇬🇧and 🇮🇪

[@quokkapirquish6825]

The immigrants have hijacked the television schedule now have they?

[@ChenQuiYakShiMash]

I was 6 years old and a magical time of my life. Pure Heaven.

[@TeddyBoy7796]

I was 5 so basically the same age as you, they really were brilliant times 👍🏻

[@sammyb1651]

@@TeddyBoy7796 Same. Absolute joy to see. 👍

[@npr1300A8]

I was almost 20 in December 1982. Seeing this has left me feeling super nostalgic for those wonderful days. I cannot imagine someone uploading Christmas Eve 2024 in 42 years' time.

[@chippyflippy]

I was 6. That hit me reading 42, where did the time go......

[@zeddeka]

@@npr1300A8 My grandparents used to say something similar in the 80s. I guess people just become grumpy as they age! Let's be honest - if we take the rose tinted glasses off, TV in general and especially Xmas TV was often bloody awful back then. It was regularly slaughtered by the reviewers as it was padded out with large numbers of repeats and sub par stuff. As the theme tune to "Why Don't You" used to say, "Why don't you switch off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead?"

[@npr1300A8]

@zeddeka I hear you. It's down to personal taste, of course.

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been twelve and in my second year at senior school back then. Takes me back to childhood memories!

[@npr1300A8]

@angelacooper2661 1970. The beginning of the fab music. We are the fortunate generations.

[@rupert-j8f]

Great video and definitely better times. I was 8 and loved being off school and the whole build up to Christmas surrounded by family members long gone. Great times, there was just enough technology but it didn't take over everything like it does now.

[@shine01120]

So nostalgic. I was 9. The tree still seemed huge, Woolworth Pick & Mix were the best, and the table groaning with food. Every Christmas we'd get the Radio Times and TV Times and first of all go to the Christmas Day pages to see what the big films were, then go through all the days marking what we wanted to watch.

[@lxsapphirexl]

Werent they just the best days?! Loved growing up in the 80s, feel very blessed and grateful for the memories

[@hopebgood]

I was 17 in 82. But me and mum & dad would go to my Uncle Pete's (mum's brother) huge house in Guildford every Christmas from when I was about 7 onwards. It was always a three or four day stay. At 17 I was your normal stroppy teenager but every year there'd be about 20+ family members there and it was always a good laugh. I miss those Christmases.

[@angelacooper2661]

I was 12 1/2 at Christmas 1982. A less complicated era without cyberspace and social media to intrude in our lives!

[@alanculbert5146]

Great comment. Yeah I loved it too. It's just crap now isn't it?

[@susannetoon2709]

I enjoyed this so much.Rememberong when my daughter was very young and no matter how hard things had been we always had a big Christmas tree ,lots of Christmas music ,beautiful Pip and Grandad to Love us.Noel Noel.!

[@Grinchier]

8 years old, watching Battle of the Planets on Christmas Eve ... can I go back? had enough of all this being an adult stuff.

[@areyouserious3092]

Lol I agree being a adult sucks big time I just want to play Atari again.

[@JayJay3D]

@@areyouserious3092 Definetly agree. Being an 80s kids was awesome...take me back !! ha ha

[@areyouserious3092]

@@JayJay3D lol Yep a one way ticket to 1982 please lol

[@Ian.eastwood5457]

Battle of the Planets was the best during the Christmas holidays thank-you for the reminder

[@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893]

Me too!

[@fatbelly2438]

tear in my eye

[@lxsapphirexl]

same :(

[@tallisstrecker2530]

I enjoyed this video so much. Made me quite emotional actually. I was ten and I remember that Christmas Eve and the TV really well. I was sent to bed at nine o'clock ha ha to wait for Santa.

[@Robert_Manners]

I used to hate been sent to bed early, knowing I would be up much earlier than my mother and father who would of course want a lie-in due to the fact they of course went to bed 🛏 late. I don't know 😏

[@areyouserious3092]

I was nine at the time and remember it well as it was the year I got big trak for Christmas lol. I loved that thing but it did use up a lot of batterys though.

[@Robert_Manners]

@@areyouserious3092 I got a big trak for Christmas on Christmas day 1982. I always remember when my dad got it in the toy shop, another boy asked his mother for one. "Oh no that will be to big to fit in Santa's present bag" She told him to avoid getting him one. Luckily the bag he used to bring my presents was big enough so I got one 😉

[@Robert_Manners]

@@areyouserious3092 Did you get the trailer to? I always want that, however it was never in stock plus the silly old ladies in presusirs toy shop didn't have any idear what they actually sold. When all the transformers came out a few years later, I remember having to explain to them what a customer wanted to buy as they did not know one from the other 🙄

[@areyouserious3092]

@@Robert_Manners no the trailer was very hard to come by unfortunately shame because I always wanted to deliver a Apple to my dad like the kid in the ad did lol but alas it was never to be instead he had to do with 6 blasts from the very loud blue light or should I say super lazer blaster as I probably liked to think of it.

[@danps7167]

These were the best times as a kid. Try and tell a kid what ceefax was and they laugh at you.

[@Robert_Manners]

Is that before or after they call you old man 🧓

[@angelacooper2661]

I was twelve and in my second year at senior school. Ceefax started when I was four and ceased when I would have been 42!

[@paul-t-geist4245]

More entertaining than now at Christmas, with TV over run by depressing soaps.

[@higsterful]

I'd have been 9......and full of joy and happiness..... looking forward to getting some Star Wars toys,an Oor Wullie or The Broons annual....and the proverbial Selection Box!.....aah....and all my grandparents would have been alive and well then.....brings a proper tear to the eye....a happy kind of sadness.....l😢....life was definitely simpler and much happier then I do feel....I'd go back tomorrow

[@hypercc1]

Christmas TV seemed more of event then than it does these days.

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes you are right there really somehow too-odd though it may seem-more of an event if you like too really I guess!

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Christmas TV in recent years has been absolutely woeful. Almost literally nothing I actually want to watch because it's mostly Christmas specials of shows I don't watch anyway. There might be a movie or three, but that's about it. They don't even show The Great Escape anymore ffs.

[@Richard-fv7rq]

Nostalgia is a massive, often overlooked and wonderful thing. Early 80's in the UK was SO different to these days. Being a teen in the 80's was an experience todays kids will never appreciate. Simple times but absolutely fantastic.

[@t1000eg]

Best days of my life nine years old, Christmas, battle of the planets on TV I miss them days so much x

[@davetourle4250]

I was 8.... Innocent memories of a much happier world.

[@lxsapphirexl]

Absolutely :(

[@markdavies5933]

So agree 1982 and 1983 were happy years for me wonderful times and great Memories Of much happier times

[@markdavies5933]

So agree totally how I wish we could go back to those times

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been twelve and in my second year at senior school back then!

[@chrisevans5259]

Ah nostalgia is a wonderful thing..... Great and fond memories come back of Christmases long gone.........but remain priceless in the heart

[@hertor8803]

I was 10 at Christmas 1982. I can remember the excitement of getting the Festive Radio Times and going through it circling with a pen what I wanted to watch. I also remember advent calendars with nothing in, just a picture! But I loved searching for the right day each morning. I can remember those feelings but I've never felt like that again. A child at Christmas. I see people saying they were lucky to grow up in the 80s but then I see the same for people growing up in the 90s and 2000s. They can't all be golden ages. But then I realised its not the 80s or 90s that people miss, it's being young.

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Lovely stuff! My 9 year old self definitely would've been up for Charlie Brown's Christmas and proper looking forward to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

[@ceefaxbbctv8788]

Superb. Very good memories seeing those colourful pages from Ceefax again. Great times! I loved this era.

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Brings a lump to the throat l was 18. Today l often watch films from 60, 70s.

[@markhurley253]

@@bernadettemurray8260 I was 18 then as well ,happy Christmas to you

[@bernadettemurray8260]

@markhurley253 Thank you happy Christmas to you

[@robertwilson214]

It was the most exciting evening of a child's life- the BBC idents,not really liking Val Doonican but knowing it meant there wasn't long to go,the decorations put up,worrying if Santa would come,the carols,the big film premiere,scoffing chocolate coins.

[@abips2011]

Even though I'm, well, much older ;-) I still have a chocolate coins stacked-up as I sit on the sofa and watch something Christmassy each year - great memories.

[@_v-.]

Born in '71. Tarzan and the leopard woman im sure I remember watching that morning ❤

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I preferred reading the Tarzan books. Much better and very different to the films 😝.

[@brianday873]

I joined the army in June 82 and was on leave for this. On the 5th January 83 i started my first tour of Northern Ireland and my life changed forever

[@jimsimpson1006]

Love this. The background hum on the teletext pages almost makes me feel like I’m back in 1982!

[@UsyksmashedFurytopieces]

Thanks for uploading this. This was my first Christmas on planet earth. I was exactly 3 months old.

[@Custardpoint948]

Nice to hear Received Pronunciation by the presenters, miss that today

[@rach5516]

I miss that too. Reminds me of my childhood.

[@patrickryan5570]

This is cool - takes me back to my school days when we got excited about Xmas holidays and wondered what great telly shows would be coming our way - Getting the Xmas TV guide was a must.

[@PeterGrugel]

Makes me quite emotional, look what we had ,look at what we as a country have become,if only i had appreciated that time more.

[@seanmitchell1975]

So many wonderful memories this was Christmas when it was Christmas

[@ChrisKewl]

Would love to see the Old Grey Whistle Test from Dec. 24 1982 with Elton John.

[@duffymoony]

Thanks for all your archived telly David. You know, I moved away from home, hearth and country over 30 yrs ago. Watching these telly clips is like coming home at Christmas to where I lived all those years ago.

[@bdavebaldwin]

I did the reverse- spent some time in Spain really liked tve ident. Decided to go back later and record it ... and they changed it...and no one appears to have recorded much of it...spent years gathering all the clips I needed to reassemble it.

[@ianjd5193]

Born in 1982. Wasn’t life so much better back then.

[@carolinehops]

It was much better in so many ways.

[@maccagrabme]

Some of us were still using B/W tv's back then let alone cuttting edge ceefax and videorecorders.

[@Robert_Manners]

My friends round the corner only just purchased a TV and yes it was Black & white, they didn't go colour until 1984 in their house. Surprisingly no one wanted to go to their house to watch TV 📺

[@areyouserious3092]

I remember having a rented TV with a 50p coin slot on the back. I think you got 2 hours for 50p but it was colour though lol.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

My parents had a black and white portable (maybe 14"?) in their room until as late as 1995 or thereabouts. Can't remember the make or model but it was a white plastic case with a carry handle on top, and I think my mother had bought it during her student days in the mid-1970s. Even by 1990s standards it was pretty rough, the picture quality was noticeably worse than our modern Toshiba set downstairs and it took forever to warm up. I seem to recall it eventually died and they got rid of it.

[@lyndarainey3048]

I love the old Ceefax graphics. Like trying to draw curves with an Etch A Sketch.

[@robferguson8696]

Christmas Ceefax! Many thanks for uploading, nice to remember life before COVID

[@bdavebaldwin]

My neighbours have Christmas decorations in their garden NOW - in the last few years tv has a lot to answer for.

[@davidhodder9939]

Ahhh the memories i was ten in 1982 ,christmas was a magical time, only a few tv channels but was always something to watch

[@fookmyoldboots7208]

I was aged 11 then. I miss the 80's and having no responsibilities as a child

[@suemurton7942]

Magical times. Wish I could go back.

[@keef71]

the only time we got a Radio Times or TV Times was at Christmas! looking through the programmes to see what was on during the day, when mum & dad weren't so fussed for the TV and around this time my sister got a 12" b/w portable TV in her room!!!! hahaha

[@ticketyboo2456]

As a fourteen year old back then I didn't watch much TV, but Christmas did drag me to the box. Not many fourteen year olds have that inclination nowadays...

[@brucedanton3669]

I was the same age then too-well until the 20th January when I was 15 at the time!

[@joannegray5138]

Nice touch with the international teletext greetings, especially the Hungarian one as they were still part of the Warsaw Pact back then.

[@brucedanton3669]

Indeed so too I guess!

[@Spitfiregirl01]

Ok firstly I was born in 95. Secondly this is making me feel so Christmassy though it’s June and thirdly I love watching old telly adverts

[@jasecox3912]

Wow fantastic memories of a fantastic era ,these times were priceless

[@peter-coates]

Im 14 i wish i could go back to the 70s for a day and see what everything was like i will be constantly throughout my life wanting to experience the past when i didnt exist

[@angelacooper2661]

I lived through the 70s - born in 1970 and spent my first nine years during that decade! Life was easier without social media and mobile phones yet to be invented.

[@Nige1146]

​@@angelacooper2661simpler, not easier!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Dog shit, fag butts and chewing gum everywhere. Even on buses. Oh and ripped up porno mags stuffed in every hedge 😅

[@traffic71]

I would have been 11. I still remember the excitement as if it was yesterday. Breaking up from school on around the 20th and going round to my mates house on most of the days before Xmas day, playing with his toy cars and Lego. Those exciting thoughts….3 days till Xmas, 2 days till Xmas. Simple times but the best times.

[@alanrmurphy]

I was seven and a half (very important back then 🤣). Very bittersweet for me. Wish I could go back

[@BNCA70]

Ah Ceefax! Done with a BBC Micro Home Computer I think! I used to get so excited about those festive graphics! Just 3-4 channels back then. anything different was magic to a kid!

[@Djbangerz74]

I was 8... how did time fly so.fast? Im 50 now wtf 😂

[@gijoemolinaro]

I'm so glad this posted thankyou sooo much ceefax and so much more I love it ...and the graphics or the lack of lol how innocent and advanced we thought it was 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏🙏

[@MrDirkles]

I was 11 and I moved in with my dad this very day. My big present was a Tomy Tron electronic game. Great times

[@davidtaylor-hg2bz]

Loved christmas back then, the tv was for familys

[@bmac5085]

Here in November 2024. I was 15 then. A different world completely different from now. I look back and reflect with tears to what's happened to our country now 😢.

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you indeed of course!!

[@sdaonline]

Excellent! really like the broadcasters messages, nice touch.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Seems so long ago. Xmas was my favourite time of the year. Lucky to have so many great Christmases frim 70 to 88.

[@jacksullivan427]

Brings back the best memories of my childhood 😄 thoses were the days when Christmas was Christmas 🎁🎁

[@johnharkness2342]

I was 17yrs old 18 at the new year I remember they used to put on repeats “the tower of inferno”and “the Poseidon adventure” on at Xmas

[@MarkCasey65]

1965 child. Same as me. 😅

[@GP-pw5wb]

Ceefax, remember this so well. It seemed so amazing at the time. Felt like we had all the information we needed at a the push of a button, how times have changed.

[@fredgiles5768]

Back when the BBC was worth watching.

[@cannonfodder6654]

I was 16 Now 58 Times flies !!!

[@Kazuo1G]

Christmas always seems to be a great time in Britain.

[@roberthartlepool1756]

It was.

[@museonfilm8919]

Agree - it WAS..................

[@juliemullen4507]

Yep this country now is just all about what it used to be!! Very sad

[@Robert_Manners]

It's almost like we invented Christmas back then, it was much more fun than today.

[@edwri9759]

It certainly was, I’m writing this August 27th 2020, now we are constantly told by our pathetic media that we should be ashamed of ourselves and that there’s nothing good about our history, it’s tragic. I’m just pleased I lived through much better times.

[@duneideannaer5990]

I missed this as I was at the ABC cinema in Edinburgh watching E.T. Special and magical times for a child back then......😢

[@johnstannard8366]

Best decade by a mile.

[@grahampearson5670]

The festive BBC1 logo wasn't unveiled until early afternoon by the way.

[@darrenplumpton8900]

Now it's revealed on the 2nd or 3rd of December and ends on New Year's Day. I cannot understand that as New Year's Day is still part of the Festive Season.

[@KevinM913]

Was it the snowflake which they used for 2 years running?

[@christopherbusby1726]

Yes it was used on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and back to the globe the day after.

[@nowster]

The models usually took up a fair bit of space in Pres B, which was the small studio usually used for weather forecasts, The Old Grey Whistle Test, and Rutland Weekend Television.

[@lindathomas5500]

Lol used to love Why Don’t You, would have been 14 in 1982 so would have watched this… 😂

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Why don't you switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead!! Or something like that. 😊

[@lindathomas5500]

@ lol… yep still remember that song too! Damn I’m feeling old.😂

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@lindathomas5500Me too. But I hope you really DID switch it off and go and do something less boring instead 😂

[@lindathomas5500]

There wasn’t a kid in the UK who wasn’t out at the crack of dawn summer time in the 70s & 80s, and only briefly home for lunch and dinner, before out again until the street lights come on! 🤣🤣😂. Kids nowadays don’t know what life is like, they all seem to be stuck behind screens! Sad really…

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@lindathomas5500 Too true. I used to make camps with my mates and even bow and arrows ha. Yeah nowadays it's all mobile phones and computer games. Or smoking a joint 😂.

[@johnking5174]

Interesting to see that the Christmas BBC One ident, the snowflake, only makes it appearance later on in the day of Christmas Eve, and would have been taken away by the end of Boxing Night. Two and a half days and that was it. In 2015 BBC One launched their Christmas ident on 1st December and kept it on air for 31 days. How times have changed.

[@bdavebaldwin]

Try BBC2 1989 - Due to transmission of OU programmes all afternoon on Christmas Eve the ident didn't appear until after 6pm and things were not much better on Christmas Day. Add in the number of ballets, films etc you won't find many copies of that years symbol.

[@TumbleTower]

In 1982, Christmas Day was a Saturday, the 26 December was called Christmas Sunday (not Boxing Day), and Monday 27 December was called Boxing Day. I think there was a Bank Holiday Tuesday on 28 that year, because 25 and 26 December were Saturday and Sunday respectively. So I think they kept the Christmas symbols on thorough 27 and possibly even 28 December that year.

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

These days the decisions which are made in TV scheduling are probably made by the same overgrown kids who put their Christmas trees up the moment Hallowe'en is out the way.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

Best Christmas ever. I was 23.

[@williamevans9426]

Does anyone else remember the CEEFAX advent calendar? Quite a novelty in those days!

[@bdavebaldwin]

I think it involved pressing reveal to see each day. I know there are people that can still decode ceefax from old vhs tapes

[@williamevans9426]

@@bdavebaldwin Yes, you're quite right! (You must have a fantastic memory!)

[@ravenhill_of_midsummer_1968]

back when britain was a 'normal' country and britain felt like britain.

[@goodwolfbadwolf2844]

I was 10 then. Back in those days TV especially at Christmas time was a huge thing, as well as VHS video recorders which felt like owning your own private cinema. We didn’t have so much in those days, and so modern technology was still a strange and wondrous thing for us. Nowadays we have too much choice and so much newer technology that it’s all become rather “meh”.

[@davidpinnock4227]

only one kid on our street had a video player so we all used to pile round his :)

[@wayneranicar8530]

I feel sorry for the kids of today I was born in the early 70s being a kid then was amazing we are the last of the best proper generation 😢😂!!!

[@zactheminiom2007]

l wasnt born then when l was cefax was on its way out but when i saw the band back in 2018 they had it on before the show started

[@markdillon5494]

They were simpler times but I do know that Im looking back through rose tinted glasses. We had hard times as a family in those days. High unemployment, massive interest rates making mortgage payments unbearable. Even as a kid (I was 7 in 1982) I knew times were hard. But I do remember the good times too - especially xmas.

[@coltmanneil]

Great times these , I remember seeing the cambridge buskers on TV at xmas then as well.

[@geoffjoffy]

Brings back happy memories.

[@CoreyHopkins-vp1lv]

Thank you for this

[@1ATV]

When everything was still great , not totally bland and boring like now

[@alanculbert5146]

You are so right. Everything is absolutely boring now. Television has been shite for about the last 10 years I'd say

[@markdavies5933]

Christmas even when I was 17 in December 1982 Christmas back then seemed to still have that Magic about

[@ghostbison1]

The year I was born. 😊

[@garrymartin6474]

That was my 21st Birthday ! Unfortunetly I had a terrible migraine attack and spent most of the afternoon and evening laid on my bed in the dark ! My friends enjoyed celebrating without me !

[@antejl7925]

The european teletext cards with greetings were a nice touch including a suprise appearance from Janos Kadar's Hungary.......Note too that yankee 1978 charlie brown craze was still around ...

[@bdavebaldwin]

I think Charlie Brown usually got stuck on BBC2 … so American it deserved a minority audience. Still baffles me now.

[@Tiffany.1970]

Ah the good ole day's when watching TV was fun n enjoyable especially ceefax n page the Oracle n teletext miss the old day's 😁👍

[@Slip_Digby]

Life always seems better in retrospect, possibly because it was.

[@frasernicholson9555]

Memories unlocked.. Happy times. I was 7. Peak Christmas excitement

[@grindle1234]

used to get the radio tv times and at the end of christmas look back through them wishing it was still those dates and christmas wasnt really a whole year away

[@cormacdoheny470]

It's Christmas Eve and the BBC1 ident isn't onscreen (at least, not at the start, is it).

[@dukeofdevon5608]

Ceefax was an absolute essential part of my growing up especially for the football results

[@johnnyballenatl]

Were Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty The Snowman (the other three iconic Christmas specials) ever aired on BBC and/or ITV around Christmastime?

[@bdavebaldwin]

Take Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer as an example. Although made in the USA in 1964 it took until Christmas Eve 1965 for itv to air it. (The BBC were slightly snooty about U.S. tv then). Itv used it most Christmases then dropped it only for the BBC to pick it up again in 2003. There was a long period when it wasn’t on. But it only appeared at Christmas. The BBC used to drag a repeat from the Morcambe and Wise Christmas show the following summer …. Didn’t usually work very well.

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@bdavebaldwin So I would assume Frosty the Snowman and Grinch were also on ITV (here, Frosty has always been on CBS since its first airing in 1969 while Grinch bounced around many broadcast and cable networks since 1966)?

[@bdavebaldwin]

@@johnnyballenatl I can’t either remember (or actually find) anything about Frosty or The Grinch actually being shown on BBC or ITV. We only had 3 days of Christmas programming so gaps for non-uk additions were rare. In the states first NBC then in 1972 CBS aired Rudolph so it got a continuous run. In the 60s/70s itv found the Christmas period a flat time for advertising so tended to go for regular programmes with a few seasonal extras.

[@bdavebaldwin]

Just found Frosty - itv 1976

[@Strawberry_pjs]

When they showed good stuff in the morning, not the normal programmes like they do now, buying houses and stuff. Real care for the viewers.

[@brucedanton3669]

Of course at that time outside of the Festive season, BBC1 would either have been showing Schools series or if not Test Card F or Ceefax at times. This all altered in 1983 when Breakfast Time started on the 17 January and later that year on the 19 September when Daytime on Two started on BBC2; also in May that year when both channels started showing Ceefax more than Test Cards F or G at the time too.

[@carltonholmes8061]

The good old days. 😢

[@Queeniebrass]

1983 when we still trusted Michael fish to predict the weather