Monday 23rd December 1974 BBC1 - Christmas Eve - Closedown - Christmas Symbol - Rare Recording

23rd December 1974 - BBC1
Channel: BBC1
Date: Monday 23rd December 1974
Time: 12.15am approx. (24th December)
Continuity Announcer: Roger Maude
Trail Voice-Over: Unknown
• Continuity: Christmas Eve trail
• Continuity: announcement and closedown
• Continuity: National Anthem over Christmas Globe

[@roverboy4244]

I'm still watching the Likely Lads every Xmas eve

[@ysgol3]

Me too!

[@ravenhill-the-hospitaller-1968]

The BBC then had a certain class.

[@bertcert991]

Good grief Christmas Eve 1974 I seem to remember being drunk most of the day I was 19 happy days!

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been only four and a half at the time - Play School age!

[@jayrox40]

Still better than todays BBC xmas line up.

[@angelacooper2661]

Shame - as I was only four and Play School age then. Too long past bedtime in 1974!

[@rabbit64sj91]

How lovely! 😍 I was ten years old, my last Christmas in primary school. I remember it well, super memories. 💞

[@bernadettemurray8260]

As a 10 year old our telly was glorious b&w 😂

[@SimonCharman]

BBC1 not BBC2 as per the title :)

[@janinefarnell8570]

My first Christmas

[@englishteadrinker736]

And mine 😊

[@williamevans9426]

These continuity recordings bring back memories of many happy childhood Christmases. Thank you so much!

[@Glenn1967ful]

My grandparents always stood at the end of the day's programmes, as they would in a cinema then when the national anthem was playing. You were conditioned to this as a mark of respect for your country.

[@williamevans9426]

@@Glenn1967ful Have you seen the episode of 'Dad's Army' in which the platoon visit the cinema? As the National Anthem begins there's a rush for the door and Mainwaring is trampled underfoot!

[@archibaldchuff3557]

And an interesting fact here about the BBC announcer Roger Maude. As an announcer he is unique. The only out-of-vision announcer I know who can 100% be identified before he has spoken even a single word. Every time. Without fail. I noticed this when I was younger. Any ideas? Post your thoughts. No prizes except a hearty pat on the back from fans of continuity everywhere and especially from me. Lovely clip by the way. Thanks.

[@ffibnogab7644]

Merry Christmas. All you've got to go on is the length of the pause before he speaks and the intake of breath - so it must be that.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

@@ffibnogab7644 ... and happy new year to you too. Well, you are very close to the answer here. You just need to add the characteristic tongue click from the roof of his mouth on inhalation before starting speaking and you have the full answer. I really should have got out more when I was younger. I read from another announcer that Roger Maude was the calmest and most laid back of all the announcers he worked with. Nothing fazed him apparently. I do miss the old team of network announcers, most of whom have now shuffled off this coil. If I had my way, I would reintroduce the old globe, complete with font and curved mirror. Doubt it will ever happen though.

[@ffibnogab7644]

@@archibaldchuff3557 I'll be listening out for the 'Maude Click' from now on : )

[@andrewswift9039]

Roger Maude was an announcer until 1995

[@andrewswift8139]

Peter Brook and Bruce Hammal were the BBC announcers you could never fail to identify. I've mistaken Roger for Mike Gamble and vice versa in posts on KZbin

[@fruitking6916]

My first Christmas, 7 months old 😊

[@carlh429]

God I remember the 1974 Christmas ident 😮

[@lisagriffiths4102]

My first Christmas ❤

[@laj68]

Do you realize December 23 fifty years late is going to be a Monday as well.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

A very tasteful BBC-1 seasonal globe.

[@timdowns7937]

Brilliant I would have turned one year old two days previously on the 22nd. Thanks for sharing 🤗

[@grahampearson5670]

The Futura typeface would debut on the regular BBC1 globe and clock at the end of December in 1974.

[@PC-lu3zf]

nearly 50 years ago

[@smithpm81]

wow i remember that with ice station zebra, i was 9

[@Bruce-vq7ni]

I recall watching that showing of "Ice station zebra" - But iv no memory of the rest of that Xmas nonsence.. 🎅 -

[@angelacooper2661]

I don't actually remember this as I was just four and a half at the time. Bedtime would have been hours before this!

[@Tripp1993]

And it's days before BBC 1's logo got a new look that would last for seven years, and during that time, a new season of _Doctor Who_ would begin... with Tom Baker as the star, with the first part of _Robot._ The life of that incarnation of BBC1's globe would last for the whole _seven-year run_ of the Fourth Doctor. For fourteen years, I've been interested in the transition of ITV stations in 1981-82, and 1992-93, just to name a few. I've been interested in British television for that long. One of my planned screenplays, which I'll _at least try to get started_ is about the 1992-93 ITV transition. Still... love this video! Thank you!

[@archibaldchuff3557]

Interesting stuff Tripp1993. Unlike the current month-long outings for Christmas symbols, we could only enjoy these idents from Christmas Eve until Boxing day. Wonderful stuff.

[@Tripp1993]

@@archibaldchuff3557 They _were_ good days, huh?

[@kamil9803]

BBC1

[@TheWillsy]

Wonderful.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

As Christmas day fell on a Wednesday, I think the new BBC1 globe appeared on 27th (Friday).

[@GrahamPearson-oo4uy]

I believe so.

[@andrewswift8139]

If that was the case Wikipedia and nearly ever other source is wrong.

[@johnbuggy9121]

How on earth was this recorded? VCRs weren't available in the early 70s.

[@tsmith7146]

@GoHomeAndGetYourFuckinShineBox More likely to have been a Philips N1500 - the first "consumer" VCR format (still massively expensive though at the time). Umatic was always a more semi pro / pro format.

[@christopherhulse8385]

The wealthy and some schools had early VCRs.

[@dantebrooklynavenue4462]

Probably might be a Reel to Reel Video Tape Recorder.

[@mharris5047]

@@tsmith7146 I can vouch for VCRs being terribly expensive back then. I had a Umatic, IIRC it cost over $4,000 US in 1976 (I was a university professor and needed one for that job). Blank tapes were terribly expensive as well, there was virtually no pre-recorded material for the format. The N1500 was a UK centric thing. I can't speak to the N1500 but I saw Umatics still in use well into the 1990's. I bought my first VHS VCR in about 1980 for $1800 US. Thankfully, prices came down -- the VHS VCR currently connected to my computer monitor cost me about $50 US in the early 2000's.

[@limeyosu2000]

Wow I was two when these shows ran!

[@angelacooper2661]

I was four and a half, so two years older than you!

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

BBCI

[@hackertot2ndaccountrodrigo478]

Worst BBC1 Ever

[@devinttrobloxforroblox2242]

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