BBC1 Closedown - 8th September 1982

[@kathgarvey72]

Seems like a life time so long long ago!!!!!. This was aired 3 dsys before my 10th Birthday and now im the ripe old age of 50!!!!!!!. Where the hell did the time go???.

[@MarkPMus]

I remember that drama, Claire. Does anyone know if it’s still available anywhere. People watching in 2022 will mark 8th September 1982 as exactly 40 years before the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

[@ravenhill-nightchill-1968]

love this closedown, 82 was a great year for us.

[@matthewdavidcurry9810]

Thank you for posting this. It's a fascinating piece of history.

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for this-wonderful really too!!

[@mattgibb1310]

This was from just over a month before I entered this world. Great piece of history this, how things have changed now with 24/7 tv

[@Tmuk2]

Matt Gibbon This was the day I entered the world!

[@darren2514fv]

The film was Dirty Harry

[@javiergomez9970]

Announcer is Malcolm Eynon

[@jamezpipe]

BBC1 Closedown - 8th September 1982

[@ajs41]

You wouldn't guess that John Humphries was only 39 years old.

[@ajs41]

@@masmas6463 Fish is one year younger than Humphreys so he was 38 here.

[@ajs41]

Michael Fish is 38 and John Humphreys 39.

[@bilalahmed2123]

Not so independent since Global took over ! Why don't these stations just stay the way they are not sold out to the big guy ?

[@ivankolev4669]

Your announcer is Malcom Eynon

[@gookey9924]

BBC hinting "well now the times approaching midnight. so......GET TO BED "

[@peterpeterxxo]

its not even midnight and all the telly has finished.

[@cormacdoheny470]

+peterpeterxxo It probably would have been midnight by the time the transmission finally did end.

[@marnanel]

@@cormacdoheny4706:50 was 11:59:45, so 7:05 was exactly midnight

[@essvee86]

Nobody in these days would be caught wearing that type of blazer!

[@jamezpipe]

The red guy is coming to bbc news in 12th of march this morning and i am really nice of u all but this is the programme now this is the videotape version

[@igolfjtweetler4097]

better days

[@jamezpipe]

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[@johnking5174]

6:09 - WOW! 11.58pm closedown. That is early! In 1982 in the US, for example on NBC, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show was on the air from 11.30pm-12.30am followed by Late Night with David Letterman until 1.30am. NBC News overnight would then air until 2.30am when most NBC stations would "sign off" or closedown until 6.00am. Different world in 1982 between US and UK TV.

[@bilalahmed2123]

John King that's the way life was ! More simple ! Quality television

[@teguhistianto6032]

God Save the King

[@debbieparkes3588]

God Save The Queen.

[@amybaccellini5438]

​@@debbieparkes3588god does not won't to save satanic paedophile freemasons

[@gallitron7803]

Dang, I was 11. Now I’m 50...

[@herschell64]

I remember these weather boards, any idea what happened to them? Or did the BBC scrap them?

[@stephensnell5707]

It basically changed with time and the weather maps eventually became computerised and more understandable and modern weather maps unlike the early day ones can show all of Europe whereas the early ones could not

[@kernals12]

i wonder if tom brokaw knows that he has a british cousin