26 January 1979 - BBC1 closedown

An old fashioned BBC1 closedown following the late movie in 1979.
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[@billywhitewolf]

"Jimmy Saville fixes it for some more lucky children" that aged like a fine wine that did.

[@collmac1974]

Rot in hell you sick 😷 bastard of a human being , this is so fucked up watching this as put this on to remind me of growing up as a child in the 70s, still getting goosebumps at the national anthem being played at the end of the night lol 😝 good 👍 time’s still exists

[@amybarrick2634]

😂

[@imransyah]

😂😂😂😂

I miss the old BBC. They seemed more comforting back then. No nonsense approach with everything prim and proper.

[@wuloki]

It was the same thing in Germany... Our public channels had a serious/no-nonsense style which was oddly comfortable, up until about 1995, when they started to mimic the style of the private stations. I miss the old times. This is the same year, 1979... the closedown of ARD for the night: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWqoqpmOorxop80

[@rachelpirtavon7447]

What Jimmy Saville being on tv the next day is comforting

[@jp_ribeiropena]

This is comforting. It's like if the BBC knew they were guests at people's homes, and didn't want to bother with loud music and announcers at late night, because they knew somebody might be sleeping.

[@kubabryczynski6653]

I am stretchy like Mister Fantastic!

[@AndrewSpencer69]

It's incredibly relaxing. I really miss TV finishing like this.

[@nicolaiqbal6823]

I am watching something on the Internet which makes me yearn for life without the Internet.

[@davidtownson1476]

This classic version of the National Anthem is still used when Radio 4 closes down at 12.59 am just before the World Service takes over 'thru' the night

[@Tiffany.1970]

Love listening to radio 4 great radio station 😃😁🔥

[@andrewguest6941]

Back when The BBC was actually a British channel it's awful now

[@underneonloneliness2]

It’s all woke, PC and anti white now. I can’t stand watching the crap anymore and I’m just 26

[@andrewguest6941]

And everyone so offended programs come with warnings

[@underneonloneliness2]

@@andrewguest6941 Modern day leftists expect the world to be all flowers and butterflies but the reality is it’s not!

[@harleyhartley3168]

@@underneonloneliness2 all anti straight now, the last season of line of duty seemed to put gay agenda first, plot second!

[@alexv3375]

TL;DR: *WOKE BAD STOP REMINDING ME MINORITIES I HATE EXIST, REEEEEEEEEEE*

[@RyansColoradoRailProductions]

RIP Queen Elizabeth II. Well wishes from America.

[@keithmartin2334]

A few years before Peter joined the vast team at Television Centre of Narrators (yes folks for a long time we were not called announcers!) Peter was an in-vision presenter/announcer with Southern Television - along with me too at both places:)!.

[@duncanbull959]

The BBC should still close its daily broadcast with the National Anthem.

[@harleyhartley3168]

But now they won’t because it will offend the gays!

[@its-me7824]

@@harleyhartley3168 how would this offend the gays. I’m not offended by the national anthem

[@joebirss6179]

GBN is going to start doing this :)

[@tomthomassony8607]

When they played the National Anthem at the cinema, everyone would run out. My Dad used to always turn the TV off before it started - and he was on the Atlantic convoys in WWII.

[@GG-hi5if]

@@harleyhartley3168 Oh bore off here, gay here and agree GSTQ should be the BBC sign off at the end of daily programming.

[@stephensimpson4022]

It's strange to remember when tv actually closed down for the night,that following Saturday night looked good.

[@landnanners2011]

Well apart from the saville bit.

[@stephensimpson4022]

Very true.👍

[@madamx7422]

Saturday night with Tom Baker is never boring!

[@johnking5174]

Saturday nights were big ratings winner for BBC One, whereas ITV always tried to have a decent line up, but often failed, due to the fact advertisers hated Saturday nights as no shops were open on Sundays back then for the public to buy their products, so ITV went cheap and cheerful approach to Saturdays.

[@garytwinem5275]

Doctor Who-The Armageddon Factor, a meh ending to the season long quest for the Key To Time.

[@ianfryer8386]

Young Man of Music was the British release title of Young Man With a Horn. Not surprisingly it was changed from the US release for us mucky minded Brits!

[@neilpower60]

Back to Saville again

[@ITVWeatherFans]

Quite a rare example on KZbin of announcer Peter Brook identify himself during the closedown. In many other examples, particularly from mid-80s onwards where Peter was announcing, he would not say his name and usually close with "Good night from BBC 1/2."

[@AceBanana100]

For the day that was a cracking line up of Saturday night TV - Please don't bleat on about JS, we didn't know then!

[@rationalanalysis960]

This was when England was great and BBC was a "trusted institution" ... my god what have we let happen to our once great land and people.

[@neilpower60]

Worse to think everybody knew what that creature was doing but still the BBC kept it on air and supported it

[@bobbyald]

They would never read out the football scores during news but just display them after advising you to turn away first as "Match of the Day" was next. Hard not to look.

[@peterwilliamskelhorn6675]

+ Rob Aldridge i remember that. The sports news reader would say if you don't want to know the score look away now. Because match of the day was always on after the news on Saturday nights

[@christopherhayes2556]

yes i remember too they still say look way or leave the the room then blurt them out before you have risen from your chair just before motd is due to air amateur journalism

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Being first, I just want to say it's nice getting a BBC closedown (we'd call these sign-offs over here) from exactly 40 years ago!

[@johnking5174]

1979 would be a dramatic year for British television when our 3rd station ITV went off the air for over ten weeks during the late summer of 1979 due to a huge strike at the station. You must have read about it?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@johnking5174 Yes, I've heard of that strike. Must've been trying times for people stuck with only two channels to watch.

[@johnking5174]

@@ChristopherSobieniak Especially since the BBC didn't really bother with proper daytime television, especially during the summer months. ITV were the only channel which had a proper daytime schedule, kicking off at 9.30am every day during the year. The BBC, well ... I will tell you if you want, but if you are used to US daytime TV back then you might be surprised at how poor BBC TV was in the daytime back in 1979.

[@johnking5174]

@@ChristopherSobieniak They commenced their strike at the worst time for viewers and the best time for themselves. August was the height of the summer school holidays and with many kids off school, ITV was usually the place the parents would put their kids in front of. BBC One and BBC Two was just appalling in their schedules, with long gaps during the course of the day where there would be no programming. Would that have happened on US networks back then I doubt?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@johnking5174 I'm sure it was a test pattern with music!

[@rentonsadboy9366]

Jimmy Savile fixes some more children as a kid it was hard times back then I can tell you

[@holdenv81000]

How Very British.

[@johnking5174]

The Late Movie shown on this Friday night was the sci-fir horror classic "Village of the Damned" from 1960. The film started at 10.50pm and only lasted around 75 minutes, so not really a "late" movie, as it barely got BBC One passed midnight.

[@underneonloneliness2]

Unlike nowadays it’s all anti British and multicultural. It’s gone to the dogs

[@johnking5174]

1:15 - Friday 26th January 1979 would be the very last day BBC Radio 2 would be closing down at around 2.00am. Their usual 5.00am to 2.00am, 21 hour a day schedule would end and it would be a 24 hour a day schedule from Saturday 27th January 1979 onward.

[@johnking5174]

@Tomleç YT No just Radio 2. BBC Radio 1 always suffered from lack of budget and hours. BBC Radio 1 would not go 24 hours until 1991!!

[@johnking5174]

@Tomleç YT BBC Radio 3 went 24 hours in 1996. BBC Radio 4 started to simulcast the BBC World Service for their overnight schedules in 1995. Any other information you need, just ask.

[@johnking5174]

@Tomleç YT Just found from my notes - BBC Radio 3 started overnight broadcasting in the early hours of Sunday 5th May 1996, when at 1.00am "Through the Night" started airing classical music through the small hours

[@johnking5174]

@Tomleç YT That is right. Donald Macleod was the presenter

[@johnking5174]

@Tomleç YT BBC Radio had suffered in the 1975 cutbacks imposed on them for a three year period. It took many years for them to regain themselves. BBC Radio 2 was really badly affected in Jan 1975, when three hours per day of their schedule was axed to save money.

[@johnking5174]

0:01 - The Late Movie shown on this Friday night was the sci-fir horror classic "Village of the Damned" from 1960. The film started at 10.50pm and only lasted around 75 minutes, so not really a "late" movie, as it barely got BBC One passed midnight.

[@aramkimodo]

Quick question How the hell did you remember such specific details LMAO

[@johnking5174]

@@aramkimodo It is called "research" - BBC has an archive of TV and radio schedules which you can easily research by date

[@kowalski7086]

0:25 Interesting..

[@johnpettitt4388]

10-minutes of news...it's enough isn't it.....none of that 24-hour news rubbish.

[@jasonlam9017]

And what about the long beeeeep until Open University or whatever started up? Or was that later?

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

We must be subject to constant broadcasts of depressing news. That way, we will all be miserable.

[@carla_sl]

Used to play the National Anthem at the cinema after the film till the 60s/70s. You had to run before it started playing, or stand still in the aisle if you were too slow....

[@jasonlam9017]

Similar to train fever?

[@rollsroycegriffon2375]

Well, at most you only have to stand still for almost a minute, not a loss for me.

[@l_j_c_5397]

0:27 poor kids

[@madamx7422]

BAD choice of words there

[@rajtheangrydj2711]

Your announcer is the late Peter Brook

[@danielladdingford2295]

any chance of finding BBC1 closedowns between 1968 to 1976?

[@muhammadrafiuddinbinmohmme6078]

@Tomleç There is. Christmas closedown in 1974, and BBC1 Northern Ireland in December 1973.

[@juanryansasaki5522]

I love tv cloce down at midnite... i dont like 24/7 air tv..

[@underneonloneliness2]

You shouldn’t need TV 24/7

[@stevealexR1]

Amazing how little TV, in terms of broadcast hours, there actually was when I was 14 in 1979!

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

I remember watching that Parkinson with Billy Connolly and Jimmy Reid

[@bugs7139]

Is me or does the BBC1 clock and globe look slightly lopsided up at the left and down on the right, but it's total televisual magic from an era where they could do a lot with a small transparent plastic ball, some metallic paint, a 9v bulb, a concave (curved mirror) and a simple transparency with the BBC1 logo on it, all in a contraption the size of an average shoe box I was 8 in 1979 and was always more interested in the BBC1 and 2 logos of the 70's 80's I preferred them more than actual programmes that proceeded them, at that age I always wanted to know how it was done and put on air, I always got excited at Christmas when the globe took a 3 day break and was replaced by a Christmas ident usually a model that had a spinning element towards it, my first memory of this was the spinning Christmas pudding of 1977, it replaced the globe, from then on I knew they changed the BBC idents for Christmas every year! Great memories! 😊

[@KingKenny.]

Back when the BBC was a treasured institution , now its just a woke box ticking obsessed mess !

[@paulmuaddib3470]

Pre woke BBC, respected and enjoyed 👍🇬🇧

[@MsPaintMr]

tbh I'd rather have woke BBC than pedo protector BBC. Check what was on at 5:50.

[@kddlb]

Snowflake.

[@michaelfortheloss292]

Thank god this was the newer anthem they had introduced a few years ago

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

0:51 0:52 0:54 0:54 0:55 0:55 0:56 0:57 0:58 0:58 0:59 0:59

[@Johnnyafc]

Crikey Saville

[@sarahhardcastle2433]

Johnnyafc _ yeh Jim fixes it for some lucky children couldn’t stop laughing at that.

[@Johnnyafc]

Sarah hardcastle Quite scary now knowing his history 😆

[@daverhodes362]

Three different logos for BBC1 in succession - the Digital Spy crowd would throw a fit! Love the menu style, of the kind that was often accompanied by 'details in Radio Times' at the foot of the caption.

[@keithcostello3560]

I miss the closeddown

[@mcmurdo75]

There is a few things missing from this 1 the fuzzy picture and white noise and then the little dot in the centre of the screen after the tv is turned off

[@skylined5534]

'Lucky' Children.

[@Saffrondarling]

This was on Andrew Ridgeley’s 16th birthday

[@the_tv_museum]

How important 😂

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

BBC

[@mikethemusicman1978]

Jim'll Fix It, seems painful now, knowing what we know now and how other presenters had followed suit

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

BBIC

[@trevorrandom]

When Dr Who was good ☺

[@stickytapenrust6869]

You're joking, aren't you? This was when Graham Williams was the Producer! And The Armageddon Factor was fucking awful!

[@harleyhartley3168]

@@stickytapenrust6869 absolutely, I don’t like the jodie era but at least I’m entertained, Armageddon Factor was nothing but long drag as were most of the episodes from Tom’s last few seasons

[@MarivelGicale]

1:51

[@adelalharbi6338]

Old is gold.

[@didiask4485]

This was four mouths before my dad was born

[@dod6031]

My God how young are you? 😂

[@oscarcrane1790]

Time 00:06 am Date 6th January early hours of 7th January 1979

[@quizmaster85]

"Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded."

[@BusterMoonAndSonicFan2022]

RIP Kirk Douglas

[@robertwhelan9132]

Incredible footage. This was broadcast two months before I made my appearance 😎 Good God, I feel old now 😂

[@robertwhelan9132]

(I was born in 79)

[@oscarcrane1790]

Clock 12:06 am.

[@TheRedandWhitehandItsbruttiyu]

😮