BBC1 Christmas Continuity | BBC News | Weather News | Boxing Day 1985

[@chap666ish]

Such strong memories of being with my mum and dad and being warm and dry and well fed and glued to the TV. I so wish I could go back to those days.

[@spig021]

Animate Charisma didn’t go quite right transitioning back to the weather map instead of the ident at the end.

[@GregOrCreg]

Thanks for this. I'd say it was nostalgia, but I think I'd have been way too young to remember any of this. Also, this clip makes it look like Santa Claus: The Movie was one of Barry Norman's Films of the Year. LOL. Which I suspect was not the case (as fun and underrated as that movie is).

[@melgrant7404]

1985 was a bad year for me due to the loss of a family member .can't look back with good memories

[@cerneuffington2656]

Julie Marchant ❤

[@neilogden]

That year BBC1 changed its globe to an electronically generated one for the first time. Interesting that they still stuck to a mechanical model for the Christmas ident.

[@alastairhopkins245]

"Who's Seymour"??? They all knew him in First of the Summer Wine!!!

[@Clyde7709]

I was a young child in 1985 and when I see the BBC clock I can smell cigarette smoke. Different times.

[@davecorry7723]

Ahhh, the Christmas jingles. Another time ...

[@benfisher1376]

Very nostalgic. I was 7 and remember this well.

[@markb3915]

Proof that things weren’t always better in the past 😂😂

[@ChesterMeadows]

It was always shite lol

[@m9saville]

That Headline news happens daily these days and won't make the news.

[@arcadian78]

I loved growing up in the 1980’s except for 1985 as my parents divorced…bloody awful Christmas and the worst year of my life😢

[@David-nm4yc]

Everton won the league lad. What's the matter with you?

[@louiseb3491]

I was 10yo

[@utrapzab]

me too, christmas was brilliant back then

[@gazza1196]

Hated last of summer wine.

[@tuborice4571]

Fox hunting a sport my arse

[@dacrlit]

Great telly, not so great News.

[@GregOrCreg]

True, but reading up on the siege, it looks like the police did a good job for once. They couldn't stop the first murder which I believe occurred before they got involved, but they did at least save the two young girls caught up in the siege *without* killing the hostage-taker, who went on to stand trial and go to prison.

[@russellford5597]

Today, the shooter would of course be charged with racially motivated attempted murder. ​@@GregOrCreg

[@kevinshave7082]

The usual suspects waving knives about even 40 years ago.

[@Scott-up3bq]

Shite tele