Christmas 1982 on BBCtv

Trailers, Testcards and 1st transmission of the idents. (Which took place in the early afternoon on Christmas Eve - meaning I finished up recording every programme junction from 9am)

[@bubbasmoleyay9799]

Unexpectedly cried watchin this..reminded me of a world I used to know, a world I lived in, memories of people now gone and a person I used to be

[@solo-repair9374]

Fantastic days. Keep the sparkle within

[@pyeltd.5457]

But no smartphone, no WiFi and no fortnight or Xbox or grime tunes. How did people not end it all.

[@socialistvision2579]

The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river

[@valourexonerated7046]

It’s what made you and us the last

[@TheKonga88]

@@socialistvision2579 The ringing of the division bell had begun 🤓🤓🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍬🎃🎃🤡👩‍🦳👸🍭🍭🍬🍬🍬

[@cannonfodder6654]

Thanks for the great memories , I was 16 and got a portable black and white tv for my room and my mum bought me that very double issue radio times , so I could tick off what I wanted to watch on tv, a tradition I still do today I’m 53! My mummy had sadly gone now but little Christmas traditions carry on

[@johnbarry1965]

For me Christmas started whe my Dad would come home with The Radio Times and the TV Times double issues. Marker pen all the great stuff. I remember one year BBC 1 was showing all the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan's each morning, Heaven. Also one year they would show the Buster Crabb Flash Gordon serials. I'm a bit older than you and really loved them times. I have all the Tarzan movies and the Flash Gordon's now but it's understandable that it's not the same. I think I was about 16 when I had a portable TV for Christmas and I loved it in my bedroom especially, The BBC 2 horror double bills. "Infinity" magazine is an absolute joy concerning old TV shows and I rush out to buy it every month. I nearly cried when I read your reply because I remember the joy of the TV guides and remember simpler and lovelier times.👍👍

[@ianmangham4570]

Wow, I miss old TV 📺, and remember when you get your first digital alarm radio lolz ,waking us up for work with that awful buzz buzz buzz, I was amazed with the red digital read out and buttons 😀 FANTASTIC days ❤🇬🇧💯🙏😎

[@markdavies5933]

​@johnbarry1965 so agree They were much simpler Happy times although there was mass unemployment people seemed more content with there lives Christmas 1982 and 1983 were favourite Christmases for me plus 1983 was a good year

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

I was 23. Best Christmas ever and one of the better years of my life.

[@ranatangboo1185]

I was a teen then Remember the only time we would buy tv times..so not too miss anything..loved xmas then..miss my dad rip

[@KarmasAbutch]

I used to make my Gran save them until I’d checked for pics of David Bowie when I came over 🤣

[@lukesters7234]

Same here. Me and my sisters would then go through every day of the 2 weeks and circle what we would watch for every minute. Was easier when there were only 4 channels to worry about

[@darrenenever4662]

I was 15 by Xmas 1982 and it brings back wonderful memories. Things seemed more cosier with TV back then. How things have changed..

[@markdavies5933]

So agree life was so much simpler and happier in those days. Wonderful Memories

[@zetametallic]

I was 6. Although I saw things through a child's eyes it really was better. Feel emo watching this.

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been 12 (you are the same age as my brother Anthony). I well remember the Falklands War and the arrival of Channel 4. Takes me right back.

[@angelacooper2661]

@@zetametallic What's emo - a wrong spelling of Emu?

[@kirsty001]

Emotional

[@AchtungEnglander]

This is one of the best ways to revisit my childhood. Thanks

[@heighwaysonthewing]

yes me too , I was 14 that Christmas ..

[@Properbellend]

AchtungEnglander Just remember when you got bunmed. Take it you right back.

[@apodis4900]

I remember falling asleep and waking up to ceefax and Oracle in the middle of the night. I can't put my finger on why but TV seemed much cosier back then. I suppose it's because I was a kid. Seems their are too many PPI and litigation adverts now though.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

think the limited choice of channels made it feel we were all sharing an "experience"

[@oris247]

@@vincentdeguard4726 great point. I guess when you have too much of anything it loses its value.

[@SuperCholdi]

It was so much less sophisticated and slick back then, and the ‘on tonight’ schedule made it feel way more intimate. Nobody was trying to sell you a lifestyle or an agenda, and the end of the schedule the continuity announcer would bid you goodnight and that was that. If you were reckless enough to be staying up beyond that then you were on your own.

[@pyeltd.5457]

SuperCholdi they still say goodnight.

[@purpleonmymind]

@@SuperCholdi so true..😢

[@S7EVE_P]

Back then the ident graphics were so much more Christmassy. Good times

[@ianmangham4570]

We loved all the TOY adverts, all that goodness is now lost 😢

[@watchmanuk74]

i miss this era so much

[@purpleonmymind]

Christmas WAS cosier then..will never be the same, times have changed😕

[@lauracandykiss]

I agree completely

[@gregmcfarnon1140]

What do you think has changed?

[@theborobuzzard9533]

Oh the memories, when Ceefax was the closest thing we had to the internet ☺️

[@richardupton3323]

Yeh, good times though.

[@frazzleface753]

I was 5 and getting very excited for Christmas! I hate to be all 'kids these days...', but it just seems like they don't really experience it like we did. Of course our parents thought the same thing and that TV was ruining us 😁It's hard to describe that feeling of a dark winter's night outside, Christmas tree lit up bright with big multi-coloured lights and lots of enticing presents under, looking longingly wondering if your 'big present' was what you hoped it was. Strings of cards hanging from the walls. Quality Street and Roses on the coffee table next to the bumper TV and Radio Times. Bottles of Cherryade, Irn Bru and R Whites in the kitchen. Mum baking mince pies and sausage rolls listening to Jimmy Young on the radio... It's all gone now, but the memories and the feelings remain! How lucky we were!

[@this_is_a_tiny_town]

I remember the strings of cards on the wall, and anytime one of us would close the door a little more swiftly the resulting waft of air would have them scattered across the carpet! lol good times

[@markdavies5933]

Yes they were Happy times people were more content with life even though there was massive unemployment. People knew how to enjoy Christmas back then

[@FrankTownsend]

Everything seems so comfortably and beautifully ordinary!

[@kelvinmarshall9108]

Why did things seem better back then ...they really did .do we all have to much now ...

[@edmund184]

It was simpler. It didn't treat people like children (even at xmas). There was a programme called "The World of James Joyce" on Xmas Day. Then Burden of Dreams!!

[@snedgers8748]

When Christmas was AMAZING!!

[@bdavebaldwin]

They’ve never understood that a lot crammed into three days IS special and a little spread over a whole month IS NOT

[@snedgers8748]

Absolutely David...

[@Chimp981]

It still is, life is what you make it and choose how to live it and not follow the herd 🎡🐰🤴🏻➕🥳🥳

[@michelleholme2777]

If only time travel was possible ..I would happily travel back. Good Christmases with all the family, childhood what good days.😢😊❤

[@ianmangham4570]

Take me with ya shelly mate, I miss the Toy Adverts 😢 ACTION MAN 👨, I was 12 💯🙏👍❤🤣🇬🇧 FANTASTIC TIMES

[@bvseediermedia6]

I remember cycling to buy that very edition of Christmas Radio Times.

[@johnhuggins1394]

I remember Christmas 1982,as it fell on a Saturday,and was extra special as it made the holiday longer.I was 13.

[@gregmcfarnon1140]

I was brought up in a strict Catholic family. We had to go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day so when Christmas landed on a Saturday it meant we also had to go on Boxing Day as that was a Sunday.

[@barryleslie7727]

My god, I was 7 years old and about to get a BMX for Christmas. What happy memories. Thanks for posting

[@lauracandykiss]

Absolutely wonderful to see. A world now so changed . Alas.

[@hubertlane-nicholson8954]

At the time of Christmas 82 I was six years old, and I clearly remember a great deal of this. Thirty-seven years have passed, and it's strange how when I was young - like at the time of Christmas 82 - if anything had been shown on TV from thirty-seven years previously (1945)... it would've been in black & white and seemed very dated indeed. Yet now, thirty-seven year old television footage has the effect of appearing recently made: with minimal adjustment, Christmas 82 is interchangeable with Christmas 2019.

[@ianmangham4570]

Omg the memories are flooding back 💯👍

[@garryfwright]

Loved this, feels like seeing an old but not forgotten friend. Thanks for posting.

[@peterregan339]

When TV was good at Christmas

[@JonnyInfinite]

Are you sure

[@user-gi5nh6ng7g]

I think that Wednesday night line up looked shite.

[@chrisevans5259]

Wonderful memories of Christmas time in the 1980s....great times

[@davids8449]

One year after this I unplugged my Television For Good.... apart from watching my collection of 350 DVDs....The best thing I ever did ...

[@chrisevans4123]

I'm transported back to my childhood again .......fond memories of golden times spent with loved ones , sadly passed now , ....but still very much alive in my thoughts,....wonder times , ...my eyes sting a little ,....and not an onion in sight ....nostalgia can be painful and a joy all at the same time...

[@jamescoburn6789]

Spotted Rolf lurking next to Paul Daniels.

[@yandan7010]

Waw! David Icke's went up in the world. Good lad.

[@sanchoodell6789]

I love watching TV commercials from this era. They are soft, well spoken, not rushed, not in your face, quieter, relaxing, warm and comforting vice announcers. They seem less *cold* than adverts today which are hard, loud, common (some times more ghetto sounding due to diversity quotas) fast paced, slap bang wallop editing, in your face, full on CGI effects, tense, rushed and as a result just so so *cold* just like today's world. So I switch these on for some comfort and reassurance.

[@SuperCholdi]

Sancho O'Dell big time. Adverts then were just like ‘Hey, look at this thing. It costs five pounds, please buy one’. These days I’m supposed to ‘engage’ with a ‘narrative’ and give a shit about how wonderfully diverse the message is. End result? It’s utterly unrelatable and so it passes me by entirely. I’m almost glad though, it means I’m practically ‘advertising proof’ now.

[@christianyellic3394]

Thank you for that touch of nostalgia. I’d like to say, from a less divisive time, but there’s no such time. It’s was just less saturated with crap.

[@rebeccahattoninteriors8360]

Brilliant, thanks for sharing our TV heritage

[@joannegray5138]

That was how Christmas telly should be, saving the festive indents until Christmas Eve - not like now when the Christmas logos are foisted upon us on December the 1st until the 2nd week in January.

[@bdavebaldwin]

In the 1970s it was just adding a bit of glitter to normal surroundings (as you do at home) in fact the first BBC1 Christmas ident was used for EIGHT years after 1976 it just got more excessive by the year

[@apodis4900]

I agree Joanne, they flog it so much beforehand that it has lost its novelty by the time Christmas comes. Thanks for putting these up David, it takes me back to some great times.

[@johnnypig7378]

Couldn’t have said it better myself!!

[@DeprogrammedMedia]

More like by October

[@bens1972]

Joanne Gray the Tv programmes were awful though

[@UsyksmashedFurytopieces]

This was my first Christmas on planet earth, I was exactly 3 months old here. Needless to say, I don’t remember any of these tv adverts and programs. 😃

[@Kevin-yi8fd]

Lovely to see i wish i could go back to then when both my parents were both alive and most of my family was alive i miss them all.

[@mikeevers9079]

Happy days. I was 12. I seem to remember Death on the Nile being bloody repeated every Christmas throughout the 80s. Also, Morecambe & Wise had switched to ITV years before, but still leaving a gaping hole on BBC1 Christmas Day schedule.

[@angelacooper2661]

Same age as me, then.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

I used to love Christmas Engineering Announcements. They were the best bit of Christmas as a kid.

[@blazer666del]

Thanks David Baldwin for these great clips. Put the whole tape on!

[@bdavebaldwin]

+Derek Tweedie I'll be having a look through to try and pull something together for this Christmas. (1982 was a bit of a lean year for some reason)

[@alexrobinson4802]

+David Baldwin hooray

[@colinthomas5462]

Loved the national anthem being played at shut down. Bring back national pride in our country.

[@bdavebaldwin]

In the 1970s the version was REALLY slow. The local film society used to play it after a film once a month and people used to try and get out before it started. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqCtp5qngJVpmNk

[@angelacooper2661]

The vicar at my church who arrived in 1986 and stayed 20 years was named Colin Thomas! Alas, he died 12 years ago.

[@bluthebeast3132]

Falklands war year, a year I'll never forget.

[@miscellaneousstuff1155]

The fact that I’m searching KZbin for eighties tv says it all about the stuff that’s aired these days.

[@bdavebaldwin]

By the time they start saying nice things about todays tv fortunately I’ll be too dead to tell them that they were totally WRONG

[@blackhand8903]

40 years ago next year………enjoy yourselves, it’s later than you think

[@stevenpeck7635]

Great memories,better days and good tv

[@TheKonga88]

I especially liked the part where the plastic dolly from outer space was stealing the frogspawn from the pond. 😂😂😂😂👴👴👨👩👨🙋🙋🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸👽👽👽👽👽🐸🐸🐸🐸🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎃🎃🎆🐻

[@gollycom]

🤗🤗🤗🤗🐸🐸🤭🤭🤭

[@YllaStar95970]

Probably the last least complicated year of my life....To follow, girlfriend's, work, mortgage, consumerism, Internet, and COVID.., if its the last thing l do.....I am returning to 1982, I have a home, a dog, and a girlfriend.....

[@Embracing01]

Nice to David Icke here, I have alot of respect for him, very brave man who has done a great deal of work over the last 30 years trying to wake people up.

[@billdoor3140]

Errr...he literally said he was Jesus 😅...people telling others to "wake up " whilst being a sandwich short of a picnic 😂

[@Embracing01]

@@billdoor3140 You reckon?. Have you actually looked at what he is doing now?. The man is no loon.

[@giles901able]

I remember that years crimbo edition cover of the radio times: the commemorating of the raising of the Mary Rose. How time flies!

[@ei4kc]

brings back great memories ,I was 8 then 😀

[@carlesq.]

hahaha lots of great nostalgia there thankyou David,i was 12 that Christmas,in 2 days im 48

[@smogmonster1876]

It’s Carol Hersey’s birthday on 25 November. She will be 61 this year (2019).

[@securityrobot]

Are you going to send her a card?, a Test Card.

[@smogmonster1876]

@@securityrobot 😂😂😂

[@angelacooper2661]

My father's birthday fell on 25 November. Unfortunately he died in August 2012, being exactly 22 years older than Carole Hersee!

[@utrapzab]

Lol, Christmas day telly with david icke, id pay for that these days

[@sandiesmith5972]

I was convinced they gave up their Xmas to record these shows just for us.

[@bdavebaldwin]

Sandie Smith so did I until artists (usually the comedian) would make some crack to the audience about it being July

[@dawnfinch8232]

Thankyou for this blast from the past

[@andrewhills9746]

Oh how i miss cefax

[@maxmattt]

I was born four days after this aired.

[@Andy-bl2oq]

So

[@VIP-rp3oq]

OMG this is brilliant

[@charlierumoldboi3939]

Very brief excerpt at the end of It came upon a midnight clear by the Singers Unlimited from their 70's Xmas album. Beautiful album, well worth tracking down.

[@bdavebaldwin]

Always came in handy working at Curry’s in the 80s. Ask the customer on the phone to hold a moment and turn up the volume of the nearest tv with testcard and Christmas music.

[@paulinegenner2588]

December 1982 🎅🎄⛄

[@mbvideoselection]

Now that's dedication! I did a similar thing on the day the BBC idents changed in February 1991 and also in September 1997 but not quite as completely!

[@marcoabellan4192]

When we were happy and free.

[@stkenno8758]

Back when tv was entertainment, not constant propaganda.

[@jayrox40]

Cheers David, great memories.

[@wutang6020]

When we were free and innocent and our country was home and ours!

[@jamesupton4996]

Where do you live now then?

[@wutang6020]

@@jamesupton4996 Ulster

[@stevenc5227]

A lot of the people in these programs are no longer with us, but just remember this was almost 40 years ago, where will you be in the next 40 years? probably i will be dead, they were not better times but they were different times, just reminds us all of family members that are no more and friends long gone. Don't live in the past, it will not make you happy.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

2.10 I love the way the continuity announcer specifies that Elton John will be “doing his thing, musically” in case anyone thought he was going to get his tallywhacker out or something

[@rbrb288]

Ah the good old days at the beeb , saville , Rolf, Stuart hall, glitter , Jonathan king , great times

[@billdoor3140]

😦

[@juliemullen4507]

Bring it all back please

[@outsidersongs2682]

Just a minute, the BBC just showed a trainer unleashing a hungry tiger onto a merry Christmas pony, for human entertainment, at prime time?!? I forgot how dark the 80s were. I was 11. This could be why I've been vegan all my life 0.0

[@RockDove5212]

I know, it was horrible to see , poor horse 😤

[@SuperCholdi]

It’s important that you shoehorn your veganism into the 1982 BBC Christmas schedule...🙄

[@pyeltd.5457]

I got a iPhone that Xmas. God how times have changed.

[@rach5516]

I hope that horse was ok!

[@jasonwashere8016]

Yeah what was that?That did not look safe.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

agreed...must been one tame tiger to manage filming that

[@allanbyallas7546]

When l would watch the BBC!

[@williamgreen8330]

Those were the days Christmas WAS Christmas ...no EastEnders no Dr Who no American movies about Xmas filmed in June!!! 😃

[@pyeltd.5457]

William Green blame America.

[@pyeltd.5457]

There was EastEnders and Doctor Who in 1980s and American films

[@davidbrooksbank7444]

Even then we knew that much of Christmas TV was cheesy but mist of it was still better then we have today. Simpler more stylish times.

[@MrJonno85]

13:04 I think this was the first UK TV showing of Grease - certainly the first time I saw it

[@csb7376]

1:12-1:18 The programme Alan Partridge would have pitched to Tony Ayres.

[@ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-1968]

Back to a time where things were still traditional and Christian here in Britain.

[@drsteele]

Thankfully we've moved on and most of us have escaped the racist imperialist past of Britain and are proud to be multi-cultural.

[@_B.M_]

Dunno what you are on about. Just because the country is multi cultural doesn't mean Christmas is any different. In fact we embrace the celebrations of other cultures and still make Christmas a huge deal.

[@ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-1968]

@@_B.M_ it's all commercial now and going through the motions, tradition has been lost.

[@charlierumoldboi3939]

@@drsteele and what's wrong with being proud of our glorious imperial past? The greatest empire after the Roman's.

[@gollycom]

@@_B.M_ Your stupidity is astounding..

[@MrJonno85]

4:58 Not "Carry On ... Don't Lose Your Head" ?

[@liamashley1894]

Wonderful quality, this must be beta

[@bdavebaldwin]

Vhs but the tapes were only used once

[@memorywarrior8752]

Oh good, Elton John on live tomorrow night, I hope he plays something from The Lion King.

[@adscri]

Memory Warrior Impossible - out in 1994

[@97channel]

I had no idea that David Icke was part of the Saturday Superstore presenting team.

[@emilywestwood7776]

97channel kids international??🤮

[@emilywestwood7776]

Nostalgia!😍

[@emilywestwood7776]

lol at the special effects!

[@paulanderson79]

Icke didn't lose the plot 'til circa 1994.

[@welshhibby]

paulanderson79 he didn’t 😒

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

I noticed k9 and company in the schedules, who else also noticed rolf on the magic show

[@debrarufini6906]

Haaaaa - Ceefax. The things we forget. X

[@davidallen7977]

They were not cheap. The cheapest ones cost hundreds of pounds, and that was in the early to mid 80s.

[@pyeltd.5457]

Ceefax was around till the mid 2010s or known as Teletext.

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Remember being gutted because The Jam had just split up

[@adamhamilton5294]

Wednesday evening looks lit af Ceefax was like a video game you couldn't play 😂 Ohh matron noohhhh ! I was 6 this year and my birthday is on Christmas Eve

[@slobodanreka1088]

4:01 Four 'colly' birds? Good old Auntie and her commitment to checking facts.

[@azamshahuddin2808]

I saw The Kids Show International when I was vacationing in London during the Christmas of 1982.I want to see it again for nostalgic reasons-is there a rerun of this show anywhere in KZbin?

[@davy_K]

David Icke, eh? What happened there then? Love those little continuity displays done by having physical models on a turntable. :) I was 16 in '82. Nostalgia to the max. One thing though - the TV wasn't much cop back then either!!!! Only joking - a lot of filler but the Christmas Specials and the new films were always the highlights and you just don't get that any more. We used to be entertained by millionaires back then - now the millionaires sit back and laugh at poor people trying to get famous on TV in reality shows now. The camera has been turned around and no-one seems to have noticed.

[@jamesupton4996]

Good point - and a sad one.

[@angelacooper2661]

I was twelve and a half in December 1982; second year at senior school. David Icke in his pre-madness days was a sports presenter!

[@ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-1968]

Classic footage from long ago now.

[@doubtingthomas736]

Ah.... That's why I spent so much time in the pub! .... Nowt on telly! 😂

[@welshaccenttutorials3104]

Good vintage

[@gameofthrows9357]

Is that Robert Glenister from Hustle TV Series!

[@MrJonno85]

Yes

[@bernadettemurray1515]

C R believe so, you've just clarified it for me.

[@terrencekelly1256]

TV was so much better

[@Doubleoseven502]

I miss Ceefax!

[@martynwyldbore5755]

My first Christmas, coolio

[@meme-ef2rm]

and in nearly every advert now....guess who?

[@michaelwest7874]

Madness wonder what happened to them

[@6611haggis]

2.00. Nothing there worth setting the video for.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

good old teletext well thats what its called in australia

[@mettainacan7813]

I was amazed to find that we still have it and people still use it!

[@evonne_]

So K9 and Company was repeated. Thought it was not after it's 1st showing on Christmas 81...

[@evonne_]

So sad that both of the 2 Ronnies and Paul Daniels are all dead. RIP to all.

[@kerry359]

Didn't see it in 1981 as in the north of England there was a power cut it was repeated in 1982 then never again.

[@IainLucey1972]

At 6:02 and 6:30 what are the pieces of music please ????

[@bdavebaldwin]

They used to call it ‘testcard music’ usually rights free that they bought to use on test cards and trailers that wouldn’t cost them every time it was played.