tomorrows world review of the 70's

[@zombienation68]

Worst TV decision ever was to end this programme...watched it from about 1974 (Judith Hann started on the show) to its end in 2003...thx for uploading these gems :)

[@Pwecko]

The presenters talked to you as if you were an intelligent adult. What a relief.

[@Pwecko]

Being an ex-Blue Peter presenter helps you to get a job on certain programmes as well.

[@gavinward1758]

mdcs1992 Yes, for me what this programme was really missing was lots of self-filmed close-ups of Stacy Dooley's almost tearful face, telling us how all of these new inventions make her feel. She wouldn't have liked that nuclear power station at all, for instance.

[@evonne_o]

This was the ONLY good things about the 70s and into most of the 80s as well

[@evonne_o]

@Steve Barclay Sadly I have to agree.

[@mikiex]

"As if you were" :)

[@maruboron]

70's in my mind : around 30 years ago 70's in reality : around 50 years ago

[@DiscoMatty79]

Same! 1978 still feels like 20 years ago.

[@purple.requiem]

Even 1991 was 30 years ago geez

[@jaynestag95]

Me too😂

[@nathan1459]

Oh shit.

[@bogeydope3022]

@@DiscoMatty79 Of course. It's the curious feeling that something since 2000 just doesn't feel right. Maybe it is the crazy all around us that gotten overhand.

[@easydrive3662]

The one thing that was good about the 70s was the quality of presenting, very detailed, lots of tech information and clearly explained

[@JulieWallis1963]

And that beautiful style of speaking. Proper BBC English, none of that “you nah wadda mean bro innit, he is hench she is peng innit” interspersed with a grunt or two. Give me Raymond Baxter and his charming RP any day.

[@channelclosingastrollshave9447]

Clearly as in like to a 5yr old loooooool

[@ShamrockParticle]

For kid shows, they seemed to treat kids differently too.

[@Cellsolid]

The young man in the wheelchair - Toby Churchill - is 73 today and very well respected for his entrepreneurial work.

[@Veeger]

I have a friend who needs to use a Lightwriter to be able to talk. He would be locked in his shell without it. How many people have had their ability to easily communicate given back to them by this device? This man deserves a Queens Honour.

[@stewartmcneill2262]

A true Brit total respect

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

@@Veeger definitely more deserving than millionaire footballers.

[@shibolinemress8913]

Yes, he's amazing!

[@phily8093]

That car can't be legal?

[@patrickgraham6786]

Worked once with Judith Hann on a Panorama programme - she handled a naive and clueless director with incredibly clever professionalism and probably stopped him from having his budding career cut short, gently mentoring him towards common sense decisions. A great presenter but also much more than that.

[@MrDaiseymay]

go-on, who was it ?

[@patrickgraham6786]

@@MrDaiseymay as a sound recordist I rarely followed careers of folk like that - never tracked him, nor came across him again - so he didn't become a major player - or I would.

[@jackwatson3944]

@@patrickgraham6786 has Judith retired?

[@10MinuteGuitarJams]

She was great, fond memories of Tomorrow's World growing up.

[@marcusharmon8389]

I Fancied her when I was 7 lol 😂

[@willmason7812]

I love the way they start with a story about getting to France quickly via the tunnel, then immediately follow with a story about a guy who became disabled after catching a serious illness in France...

[@billyaitken7461]

True story….. 2002 we emigrated to Australia. My son mentioned in class that he’d been on the Channel tunnel to France. ………..his teacher told him off in front of the whole class for lying and making the story up about their being a tunnel to France. 🇦🇺😮🤔🫢

[@jamesmason8436]

@@billyaitken7461 that doesn't surprise me at all since I've witnessed similar stupidity recently. I mentioned catching a train to Paris and someone, who actually thought they were being clever, looked at me as if I was crazy and said in a condescending tone, "did you? And how does that work?" This person, though not British, has lived here for years.

[@billyaitken7461]

@@jamesmason8436 🙄😵‍💫 it’s crazy how ‘insular’ some school systems are in some countries. My wife’s cousin did a school exchange in the late 70’s to the USA and someone asked her “So, you guys have TV right?”

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@billyaitken7461 What’s the answer?

[@billyaitken7461]

@@garyfrancis6193 teach kids about other countries, other cultures.

[@MagicRat2010]

This makes me misty eye'd for what the BBC used to be. It's gone horribly wrong now :-(

[@foljs5858]

​@Peter Sokol He's talking about the programming, in case that's not evident, not whatever their stars did on their own time (which current stars might as well do now, or worse)

[@malcolmabram2957]

The BBC then was literally the centre of British media. Now it is a pebble on a beach of stones. The licence fee should be made defunct.

[@jesso777]

@Peter Sokol its even worse now.

[@jonnamechange6854]

@@malcolmabram2957 Aww... Pebble Mill at One might return!

[@dtz1000]

Yes, they're actually using long words, not dumbing things down as they do now.

[@terrypussypower]

I used to love Tommorrow's World! It was one of those "must watch" programmes.

[@mqbitsko25]

"You can be in France in an hour! And now: A man who lost his power of speech to a mysterious French disease."

[@mandh14]

Legendary transition!

[@jackshit3355]

A mystery French disease shall we call it the European Union

[@stephencassano6117]

He is still alive! 72 years old and still pushing his lightwriter 😁👌

[@Isochest]

@@jackshit3355 Unfortunately with all the whores in Parliament it'll take more than a shot of penicillin to shift that!

[@olivebattesby8335]

Free

[@morganjohannisson2789]

What a refreshing view into the past future ☺️ I have a tip about stammering: my mother, who was born in 1943, had a terrible problem with stammering as a child. Her parents took her to see the doctor, who advised that she should sing the words when speaking, assuring them it would improve her ability to speak clearly. They tried this, my mother remembers how she would speak in a melodious hip hop kind of way for a period of time. The treatment worked, and her tendency to stammer went away. I hope this is helpful.

[@gaiuscaligula2229]

Wow I just googled Toby Churchill and his dad was an SOE operative in WW2 and his mother was cryptanlsist at Bletchley park. The disease he caught is called Encephalitis and he is still alive today and is apparently a quite successful entrepreneur.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Just did the same. Still with us happily.

[@MrDaiseymay]

What a great story---great family too.

[@acciid]

Encephalitis isn't a disease; it's a condition that can be caused by a virus or bacteria or other things. I spent a month in hospital after suffering encephalitis and they never found the cause. I was lucky; while it came close to killing me, I survived mostly intact. It's been a long road to recovery though.

[@menguardingtheirownwallets6791]

In the 70s, there was so little in the way of new 'electronic' technology, that we were 'hungry' for more. In the 80s and then the 90s, we got what we wanted and we were happy. Then in the 2000s and 2010s, we got so much electronic technology that it overwhelmed us, and now in the 2020s we are over-dosing on it, it is hurting society.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I can only say how funny it is. You wanted, and you received, and you lost everything you ever cared about.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Erm excuse me Atari kids would totally disagree with you

[@nataliep.9047]

Who was ever "hungry" for more electronic technology besides a few tech geeks? Most normal people just adopt new technology as it comes out. In the past century, there has never been a period barren of tech development. It has been a continuum.

[@kmully8873]

Complete rubbish. The 1970s had MASSIVE leaps forward in electronics, if only you bothered to educate yourself.

[@johncostello3174]

Yep too many apps, too much choice, too much of a chance to get scammed. A simpler life would be better.

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

This is so refreshing to watch, despite being 40 years old. The presenters talk to you like adults, they're not hyperactive and there's no flashing graphics to try and keep your attention. Good isn't it? Why can't they make shows like this now? Why do they have to appeal to the lowest denomination?

[@cigmorfil4101]

It's because the attention span of the average viewer these days is ...

[@bremCZ]

It's still like that in most countries.

[@rogueuniversities6866]

@@cigmorfil4101 I think KZbin had a lot to do with that

[@TheHypernaught]

Then it was education until the Illuminati puppets took over to dumb us all down

[@Agent-ie3uv]

@@rogueuniversities6866 tiktok*

[@davidmacgregor5193]

Tomorrow's World's main presenter Raymond Baxter was a Spitfire fighter pilot during WW2, he was a real gentleman on the screen, who always made the topics he introduced most interesting indeed.

[@gdfggggg]

I used to love Tomorrow’s world as a kid.

[@hiccacarryer3624]

Me too - often wonder why theres no modern version - practically every other TV format's been recycled to death

[@millertas]

But do you love Today's world as an Adult?

[@martinlewis1015]

millertas what....robot wars or the real thing

[@digitalmediafan]

Yes ditto. Quality programming the beeb did so very well and for so long

[@gdfggggg]

@@digitalmediafan and now they've screwed it all up.

[@christianblake3997]

I was born in 1970 and understand that many people who lived through the 70’s as adults would not like to revisit this era like the strikes and the power cuts, I remember my mum keeping candles in the kitchen drawers for when the lights would start to blink then everything went dark! TV would go off just in the middle of me watching the sweeney !!! yea tell me about it...lol!!! But now as a Father with kids of my own I can tell you all this with my hand on my heart, I would go back to the 70’s in a heart beat if purely just so I could bring my kids up in a more morally stable Britain where they could play in the streets with no fear or go scrumping or play football or wash peoples cars for spare change play knock down ginger or make their own gocart with their mates, instead of where we are today, stuck on their mobile phones or talking to complete strangers on their Xbox everyone in this world is desperately sad and unhealthy both physically and mentally we need to get back to smelling the flowers now and again😃😃😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@larz101a]

We didnt know how good we had it! Walking to school alone and going to the park where your biggest real fear was treading in dog toffee!

[@visionist7]

@Hugh Jones lmao it was knocking on people's doors and running away. We still played it in the late 90s

[@dynamitedave1438]

Thank you all, nice blasts from the past :-)

[@MrJulianbowden]

I was born in 69 and agree 100%

[@sahhull]

Born in 69. I remember the power cuts and the strikes. I was a council estate kid, we were poor but happy. I remember my growing up years with fondness and no one had a mobile phone with a camera so theres no evidence to the contrary

[@brianarbenz7206]

I just stumbled upon Tomorrow's World tonight, across the Atlantic, and 40 years in the future. I am impressed. I don't know if it is a tribute to British broadcasting, or that era's quality, but this was superbly done. Intelligent, straightforward and fun.

[@AngelWingzzz]

British tv has always been high quality. The exception is almost anything made by Thames TV. Please ignore and pass on any 70s tv comedy not made by the BBC. Try the Good Life and Butterflies....you will love them.

[@MrDuncl]

@@AngelWingzzz Remember the Muppets were rejected by the American studios and ended up being made by ATV here in the UK. Maybe not to your taste but a must see programme for us.

[@MrDuncl]

If you like Tomorrow's World check out The Computer Programme kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH-4oWCGnrShqrs If it wasn't for that series the ARM processor used in most phones might never have been invented.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Repeat that, only louder, there's some deaf dumbass idiots on hear that think it's crap.

[@jamesmason8436]

We have our trash TV as well these days, but even large segments of it today are what they once were exclusively in the 70s and 80s: educational, informative and entertaining.

[@boycie18]

"its even got an adjustable screen" - screens completely loose.

[@teekey1754]

Extreme adjustability.

[@shibolinemress8913]

They forgot the magnifying glass you need to read that screen! 😆

[@ministryoflies1344]

QVC style salesmanship

[@smallstudiodesign]

When thinking about the future gave one a sense of optimism.

[@photopete7903]

Concorde is still more beautiful and sophisticated than any passenger plane produced since. It is the only plane that I can remember causing people to stop in the street and point when it flew overhead. A true engineering gem which would stand out in any decade, not just the 70’s.

[@greenaum]

Yeah, just didn't make economic sense. After the novelty wore off, it just wasn't worth paying way more money just to shave a bit of time off a flight. Instead, flights got more luxurious, with the 747 having a bar upstairs for first-class ticket purchasers. It's similar to zeppelins of the 1930s. Couldn't do much about the speed, so instead they upped the luxury. Or indeed, passenger liners, before commercial flight was affordable enough to be popular. Even in it's last days, Concorde was really just a novelty. Of course it had luxury too, it had to, though I Imagine they did it in as lightweight a way as possible. Still it was something people would make a big deal out of flying on. Nobody's time was that precious all the time. You could spend an hour wasting time in New York or London that could otherwise have been spent flying on an ordinary, much cheaper plane. I can't see these "space planes" taking off (boom! boom!) for the same reasons. Once rich people have had the novelty of maybe floating about a bit in a very crowded cabin, they won't bother doing it again. However fast it is. Incidentally it's the same sort of "weightlessness" you get in a falling lift. You're still just as much affected by gravity. It's just that the plane is falling back to Earth, as are you, as is everything around you. So you appear to be floating for a while. It's the same for astronauts in orbit. They're constantly falling toward the Earth. But their forward momentum means that for every metre they fall, they travel forward enough that the Earth beneath them is a metre further away. Well, sort-of. It all balances out if you do the trigonometry. The "zero G" is really just freefall. You're falling towards the Earth, and missing, all the time. Your forward velocity keeps you from getting any closer to the ground, even as you fall, and gravity keeps you from zooming off into infinity. It's like the opposite of tying a rock to a string and spinning it round your head. Gravity is very much there, and it annoys me when films, and especially when it's people from NASA, talking about zero G. It's bollocks, it's absolutely 1G, or perhaps 0.999G. Otherwise it wouldn't work. It's you, the spacecraft, and everything in it, all falling together. Just like a falling lift. From your point of view, you're floating, but to an observer elsewhere, you're falling. Sorry that went off on a tangent a bit eh? Still, apart from being able to see the sky go dark in the daytime, if you want "zero G" you'd be better off hiring one of those planes that gives you the experience, they go into a freefall-ish dive for a minute or so, and everything floats. They use them for training astronauts but private individuals can book a ride. It's an ordinary airliner but with the inside emptied out and covered in crash mats. You get a few goes at the plane diving, then coming back up again. Bet it's much cheaper than giving Branson money to take you up to the Mesosphere in a glorified firework.

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

@@greenaum Wow, you certainly had things to get off your chest! :) Interesting reading nonetheless, thank you for taking your time.

[@greenaum]

@@user-yc5um2pl5v Sorry, Tomorrow's World sets me off!

[@anth7354]

Absolutely loved this programme as a child

[@davebirch1976]

Late 1979-"in the future we will be confined to our homes and then Prestel will become more vital" early 2020- we are confined to our homes and the internet became vital.

[@pommiebears]

Funny, because it was the internet that confined us to our homes. No way we’d have been locked up before the internet, and covid.

[@id70b40]

Just love the “BBC” English accents of the presenters .... I remember avidly watching Tomorrow’s world as a kid in the 70s and 80s

[@indieshack4476]

Lord Reith wouldn't have been amused by Kieran Prendiville's "regional" accent!

[@SO_DIGITAL]

This show didn't mince words. If something was expensive and rubbish, they said so.

[@chriswilde7246]

Well, Toby didn't mince words! He couldn't speak!!! :0l...

[@bryanleigh6497]

Yes, this often is surprisingly aggressive in its relentless criticism. Reality had let Tomorrow's World down! Lol

[@flyingphobiahelp]

American telly-everything is fantastic

[@metalmorgan]

Haha 'and another disastrous balls up by our incompetent ministers.....'

[@robertstewart239]

Thursdays in the mid 70s. Tomorrow's World, TOTP, the Good Life and It ain't half hot mum.

[@blazer666del]

Fridays - Are you being served ITV and Dad's Army

[@percyveere8400]

Robert Stewart How I loved Thursday evening TV back in those days!

[@MegaDeansy]

Totally agree - when mainstream TV was actually good viewing !. Now, thanks to 'Reality TV' and a constant stream of so-called 'Talent'(???) shows, it's horrendous !

[@anth7354]

Spot on Robert, favourite day of the week

[@robertoneill1979]

I'd get packed off to bed the moment Sgt. Major Williams shouted "SHUT UP!" Fondest memories 😊

[@michelvanbriemen3459]

"Thankfully only in one area; telecommunications have intruded into our lives, but not for political purposes" Yeah, times have changed a lot.

[@carlhartwell7978]

For those confused as to why the prediction of _The Channel Tunnel_ was insinuated as being a mistake by Judith Hann at the beginning, the idea itself has had a VERY checkered history. There was a project begun in '74 but in effect it was abandoned by Britain a year later. It wasn't until '85 that construction of the project that eventually lead to the finished tunnel was started. So essentially, at the time of this broadcast, _The Channel Tunnel_ was...well, dead in the Channel... And it's no wonder Judith ends the segment on a positive note, by this time the Tories had gained power and Thatcher was a big fan of getting the project started again, which she did.

[@Wagoo]

I suspect some crazy stuff is going to happen in the 80's, I can't wait!

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

The New Romantics?

[@MrDuncl]

@@commandingjudgedredd1841 Backed by Music Synthesizers played by computers. Tomorrow's World predicted that one correctly by featuring Kraftwerk :-)

[@Beery1962]

New Wave and big hair! It's gonna be awesome.

[@JuanCastillo-gz2es]

rubix cubes and Nintendo

[@ShahulHaq]

😁

[@jofeeney]

Just imagine being in that place again and having the whole of the 80s and 90s to live through all the amazing Music the rave scene what it would be like to just have a clean slate

[@jamesmason8436]

The 70s weren't too shabby on the music front.

[@CraigMansfield]

I used to like watching Tomorrow's World. So intelligent and well spoken. TV's full of mongs, these days.

[@zetetick395]

Mongs, munters and mingers, from here to eternity

[@Julian2Sounds]

Damn Mongolians

[@99fruitbat]

I loved this programme when I was a kid . I remember the episode where they predicted being able to record your favourite TV programmes and play them back later ! My parents were like ' Nah ! That's never going to happen ! ' . 🤣

[@Flappatackle]

Can you imagine crossing the road and heading towards you is Toby, seemingly sitting in the passenger seat with nobody driving! 😱

[@pommiebears]

😂😂😂 That made me laugh more than is kind to do when speaking of an unfortunate situation.

[@m9mike9]

"You could be in France in like 1 hour!" Very next item is a man who lost his speech due to a mystery illness he caught in........France!!

[@johnlratcliffe]

No one ever said 'like'

[@jonnamechange6854]

@@johnlratcliffe Northerners say 'like' a lot. Check out Fred Dibner.

[@zetetick395]

@@jonnamechange6854 "Lahhk, ye knowh..." - My Grandma; ending every second sentence, bless her. 💖

[@markharrisllb]

The 70s took me from age of 9.5 to 19.5, an amazing decade to be a teenager. None of the other reporters had the same gravitas as Raymond Baxter.

[@bryanburnap4537]

Great time to be alive ! Least that is what I think

[@stephielulu9096]

Aaaah, beautiful Concorde💖 Wish I had a go on one 😢

[@robwatts4988]

I was lucky enough to fly in it at yeovilton air station during the fleet air arm display just a shame it took off from yeovilton air station only to land back at yeovilton air station was bloody great sat in that lady of the air Concord .

[@paulanderson79]

Look at The BBC when it was impartial. Can you imagine BBC slagging off British govt now? Not a chance.

[@catalyst8]

@union310 "[...] the educated southern softies who have turned this country into a joke [...]" You're saying that education's a bad thing &, by direct implication, that it's a good thing you're uneducated. It may take a while, but let that sink in...

[@andyaim4764]

You lot seem surprised that a broadcasting company puts out propaganda 😂 wake up.... it’s been going on all round the world for decades

[@grahamariss2111]

What drugs are you on, the BBC does nothing but challenge the British Government! The problem the BBC has is covering Brexit, on one side you will have a Nobel Prize winning economist telling you Brexit is a bad idea, and you have on the Brexit side a libertarian fundamentalist like John Redwood or IDS saying it will be all good in the end. This is problem, impartiality is about reporting the facts, and when it comes to facts a Nobel Prize winning expert has far more credability than a believer in myth and magic, so the BBC has to say as the experts call it, Brexit is bad for the UK economy. The same is true for Climate Change, Evolution etc, where on one side you have scientific consensus and the other a mixed bag of fraudsters, conspiracy theorists, Religous fundamentalists and the easily deluded.

[@TheLinkoln18]

It has never was never and will never be impartial... It was still is and continues to be state run programming.

[@monkeymox2544]

The BBC literally always criticise the government, what planet are you on?

[@adrianmorris3772]

Horrid brown suits. Flared trousers. Stupid hair do's. Anyway enough about me.......😆

[@gripplehound]

Adrian Morris hahaha! Actually laughed out loud! Thanks! I needed a giggle today 🤩

[@zoolook3264]

LOL that made me laugh :)

[@amandaa5104]

Lol

[@gabbycattell9030]

lol

[@syntaxerror8955]

Ridiculous yellow, smiling faces. Just look at that! Anyway, enough about my opion about the first three decades of the 21:st century. /Greetings from 2048

[@gvigary1]

"We WILL be confined to our homes in the future" - correct, just not because of petrol shortages or unemployment. Absolutely loved this programme. Also: "Missionaries and Cannibals". Innocently racist days!

[@standupstraight9691]

Acknowledging the existence of cannibals isnt racist.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

we will be confined due to the huge increase in temperature. also we will all he nocturnal due to having yo work at nights.

[@davemitchell8756]

Concorde - amazing engineering, fast, beautiful unsurpassed even today. We had the pleasure of looking inside the test plane at Duxford . Passengers sipping champagne as they fly faster than a bullet 👍⚡️❤️

[@sawyershin5406]

is it just me or do i feel like the 70s wasnt that long ago

[@guglielmomarconi9942]

@CHIGGS 58TH Time is a notion invented by our minds. Rocks don't tell the time.

[@splo1nger909]

Guglielmo Marconi quartz helps tell the time. 🧐

[@leifvejby8023]

Was quite recently - I still have shirts from the 70s!

[@Chipchase780]

It’s not just you mate, I’ve still got my burnt orange platforms at the back of the wardrobe. If I dig deep enough my cool turned up flares might be there too.

[@TechNed]

I have hand made boots from the '70s though I don't wear them often.

[@mattjcole908]

Surely that must be the first instance of online shopping. I love that she went for two cases of wine 🍷

[@GazGuitarz]

When Prestel went down you couldn't order a few cases of wine. No big deal! If today's banking systems go down (which they have and continue to do) we're all stuffed.

[@darylsprake5110]

Back then people wanted to know about the future because most people thought the future would be better . Such a program wouldn't work now because most people fear the future.

[@pigknickers2975]

@Yama Satru yep, everyone wants a time machine now.

[@buggerlugz6753]

That's because the future is now very bleak.

[@pigknickers2975]

@@buggerlugz6753 no kidding, but tbf I've felt like that for nearly 20 years

[@pigknickers2975]

@Yama Satru spot on

[@zetetick395]

Many ppl feared the future then as well, just not on this show. (many thought the future was mushroom cloud shaped)

[@flybobbie1449]

I had a trainee pilot who had a stammer. It went away when he wore a headset in the aircraft.

[@scifidesign2]

'Only one of Orwell's predictions have come true.' Fast forward 37 years to 2017 and you'll find most of Orwell's Predictions have come true.

[@ewaf88]

It's now probably far worse than even Orwell predicted.

[@vinesauceobscurities]

The screen has also ironically become smaller.

[@baldieman64]

Orwell could never have imagined that unlike the citizens of Oceana who had telescreens installed by the state, the citizens of the western world would buy their own with brand names like Samsung and LG and willingly not only have web enabled cameras and microphones spying on them in every room of their homes but would carry them everywhere with them as well. Similarly, he could never have imagined a world where there was every chance that nobody was watching the feed from the telescreen, we would develop AI's capable of monitoring every word and every message to alert the state of wrongthink.

[@ewaf88]

@@baldieman64 Right thinking will be rewarded - wrong thinking punished. Poor Captain Pike

[@yawnguy94]

No

[@BoyzInTheHoo]

"At the end of the decade we're still sitting in our conventional cars in our conventional petrol burning traffic jams" . .and four decades later...😕

[@JuanCastillo-gz2es]

it wont be fully electric till 2030.. petro is dying

[@zetetick395]

But where is the electricity coming from?

[@hackedagain3421]

Toyota hybrids, lgp and engines switch off at standstill, computerised vehicles (back then you could buy books about your car and it's engine)

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

@@JuanCastillo-gz2es because the elite want more control.

[@kjamison5951]

This was groundbreaking television. A live show every week and things did go wrong. It was must-see television, every Thursday, right after Nationwide and right before TOTP. When they chose to ‘reboot’ TW with Peter Snow and Philippa Forrester, the BBC had really dumbed it down too far. I miss the original members - one of whom was James Burke and who could forget Howard Stableford?

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Things have been going wrong ever since this show aired.

[@lazybelphegore6748]

It would have been funny if that guy in the second segment typed “Don’t go to France”

[@mcleanization1540]

😄👍

[@extradimension7356]

I was thinking exactly the same thing - Totally deliberate Segway. [Severely debilitating ] "Mystery illness" caught in France ... "And now to the progress on the channel Tunnel ..."

[@zetetick395]

Hahaha! 🤣

[@teekey1754]

He didn't ?

[@chrisliddiard725]

This program , along with a few others like Dr Who and That's Life!, was one of my favorite programs growing up. Good to see this reminder of the visions we had for the future, at least we use to dream of the future..

[@Zikar]

I always think it's amusing how older style presenters always sound like they can't quite be bothered to be enthusiastic about anything. It certain contrasts with today's presenters who are almost hyperactive with over enthusiasm.

[@AnthonyCook78]

Because today's generation has the attention span of

[@honkhonk8009]

@@AnthonyCook78 exac

[@FullersDuck]

I'd rather be informed by the likes of Michael Rodd, Raymond Baxter and Glynn Worsnip (I think that was him !) than have my ears assaulted by the arseholes infesting the tv today.

[@malcolmbrewis5582]

Though an early teenager in 1971, my favorite presenter was Raymond Baxter. He possessed the ability to present information with an appropriate combination of seriousness and joviality. I can still recall him being balanced in that tall stool. Thankfully, William Woollard, James Burke, Judith Hann and Michael Rodd were competent presenters. The greatest detriment suffered by Tomorrows World was the loss of Raymond Baxter. It was particularly during the 1980s when it ceased to be as informative and critical.

[@Jehannum2000]

British reserve. Long gone.

[@Davewise1965]

I was born in 1965 I am 53 years old now. I remember every bit of the 1970's they were the best years of my life.

[@michaellangridge7679]

Ditto

[@johnb4306]

And I remember the 90s being the best time of mine, could that happen to be that we just remember when we were young and had less responsibility?

[@elastronaute1198]

but you were only 5...

[@robheath7789]

And mine, things went very wrong from 79 on, leading us to where we are now.

[@leeriches8841]

@@elastronaute1198 you can't remember life as a 5 year old? I can remember nursery at 3!

[@sarwagyaraj]

"We will be confined to our homes in the future. It is then that the presto will be far more vital. " Just like the smartphones and internet were during 2020 pandemic.

[@torresalex]

Amazing to watch, bewildering to think how long ago it was and how recent it can seem to some of us...

[@missredumbrella]

Alexander Torres oh yes...

[@johnkeane1419]

Alexander Russell true

[@tvsinesperanto7446]

Damn, even now that joystick control for the car is awesome!

[@Lensman864]

Piloted by WWII Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter.

[@michaelhutin5451]

You know why it didn't go into production, insurance.

[@emmanuelwolf6568]

A world that is unrecognizable anymore,its great to see these videos to remind us how sane the world used to be.i for one long for days like this to be here again, but im afraid the world has changed not for the better.

[@weejim48]

What a great time it was back then. The 70’ is when things really started to move with the world. But people were happier, friendlier & more content back then. Nowadays people have less respect & consideration for others. Can you imagine how great it would be today with what we have now with the values of the 60’ & 70’. 👍

[@TheHorseOutside]

Cant imagine it would be a great place for the like of Alan Turing

[@greenaum]

Well, unless you were black, or gay, or any of a dozen other things.

[@nataliep.9047]

@@greenaum ; Yeah. Now being black, gay, or a dozen other freak special interest groups is a free pass. My how much progress there has been.

[@markrainford1219]

Yeah, yucky music, terrible fashion, oil crisis, never ending strikes. Good riddance I'd say.

[@goldcd]

Are you delusional? Just putting aside the "prejudice" and "winter of discontent" I'm a child of the 70s and had a lovely conversation with my mother more recently where she shared her entirely reasonable response to "protect and survive" was that she would smother us and not make us suffer the fallout of a nuclear war.

[@johnsbox]

Prestel was a kind of early internet...and she was right, that people would be working and shopping from home.

[@harryprice1935]

We had Prestel in 1983. I used to use the chat room there. Only about 20 people on it.

[@carlhartwell7978]

19:56 It was clearly still too early to tell in the closing days of '79, but Orwell got more than just telescreens right!

[@lemmy6782]

The decade when a Vesta beef curry was classed as exotic 😊

[@Lensman864]

Sad but true. A gruesome packet of salt.

[@deanj.w.ferris123]

Still eat them 😂

[@misst.e.a.187]

Vesta Chow Mein was my fave 😂

[@deanj.w.ferris123]

@@misst.e.a.187 Crispy bits are the best haha

[@YvonneWilson312]

Vesta Chicken Supreme was my favourite back in the day.

[@peterjames7073]

I was Glued to this in the 1970's and 1980's . . . Now we got the " Gadget Show " , which I nearly watched for almost 11 minutes once. . . and BBC's ' Click' is quite good at getting me to sleep.

[@wilsonbriggs1614]

I used to love this show, I can remember them showing the compact disc and to show how durable it was they ate their dinner off one. Shame that's not what was priduced as one tiny scatch could ruin a cd.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yeah, I remember idiots spreading Jam on them and stamping their shoes on 'em

[@cigmorfil4101]

I remember them covering the top of a cd with something (honey?) and being "amazed" it still played [ignoring the fact it was the bottom it played off]. The also demonstrated a cd with radial cuts still playing. What they failed to mention is that a scratch in a direction around it makes it fail to play: with a radial scratch there is a very small amount of data which gets corrupted and can be error corrected, but with a circumferential scratch much more gets corrupted and error correction fails.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Error correction failures being dependent on the angle of scratch prevailing, at least the bottom of the disc could be covered with wax or polished down if the scratch was not deep enough. The top side of the disc is far more fragile as the data is stored on a thin layer that isn't protected beyond a label. Hold a disc to the light, if you can see through a scratch then the disc is irreparable. If not then it can possibly be saved if the plastic bottom is polished

[@benfoster4271]

If mankind invented the time machine today I'd be back in the 70's by yesterday's dinner time. A friendly and carefree decade and 10p would get you pocket full of sweets 👏

[@danielporter7773]

almost impossible, the energy required is not present on this earth maybe the universe but so far away man cannot reach it, travelling to the future easier

[@nigelwillson8000]

Ben Foster and the music was /is far better

[@fuzzywzhe]

Having existed through the 1970s, trust me, you really don't want to go back to that period. It's the only period where standard formal wear has become an completely acceptable Halloween costume.

[@splo1nger909]

And try it in belfast

[@evonne_o]

@@fuzzywzhe As someone who was born in 1975 I only experienced the last 2 years of the 70s and I agree it wasn't a nice time. There was the winter of discontent and remember the smells from the bins that wasn't collected on my way to nursery and even then felt unsafe as a non white. It got better in the 80s. It is a shame that the country is feeling unsafe for non whites like me again.

[@WhosAGoodDogue]

God Bless Prestel, Oracle, and Ceefax! I used to sit for hours scrolling through their pages. And I used to hold a tape recorder up to the television to catch some excellent music they played whilst showing the pages. All instrumental music, it was played on a loop, so if I didn't catch my favourite tune first time round, I could sit for about an hour and wait till it came round again. Brilliant!

[@Chris_34]

I Google'd the disabled inventor from the beginning of the program - Toby Churchill - and he's 75 and still going strong💪

[@gerRule]

If concord turned people away because it couldn't carry a full load then why not take seats out and give the passengers more space

[@phill633vgs]

Thursday evenings have never been the same.

[@Vizzo69s]

What a woke joke the BBC is now. A British diamond smashed to pieces...

[@themadplotter]

Oh fuck up

[@richardhince9764]

Well that was a heck of an interesting programme. I was 18 years old in 1979 and massively into technology in any form (still am in fact, as I work in electronics and software). It isn't until you look back into things like this that you realise how far we've come in such a short time. In particular, the piece here about Prestel (which I worked with in 1980, as an installer of the technology for consumer use) foreshadowed in some way the arrival of the internet - not so much in the form that it would be with us, but in terms of the benefits that would be available to us. Possibly the most society changing of all inventions ever, at least, I believe it will be seen as such in the future.

[@esecallum]

me too i was

[@janfellstrom]

Loved this program. Never missed an episode😀

[@clemfandango7052]

Concorde truly was a thing of beauty.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Even at that, there realistically isnt even a present, just the past and the future

[@zafmo9829]

​@@AwesomeAngryBiker wrong. There is only the present. You are never in the past or future. Only the present.

[@niajchoudhury7085]

Love the bomber jacket she’s wearing , it’s in fashion again 2018

[@cptnoremac]

Wow. Even 40 years ago, professionals didn't know where to put the apostrophe in '70s.

[@richardeliott1131]

There is no apostrophe in 1970s, as it's plural but people still do it now. Like this: 1970's. WRONG.

[@miguelurdaci7884]

Hm. Tomorrow's World's '70's broadcasts were apostropherically challenged

[@octaviussludberry9016]

I've just put my foot through my telly screen and sent Judith Han the bill.

[@bryanleigh6497]

It's 1970s, or '70s. I have a PhD in English, so don't argue. And I don't care about you haters, because I'm a qualified grammar Nazi.

[@one2micreview846]

Bryan Leigh ... so if Invalid = Not valid & Inaccurate = Not accurate & Inside = No side... How does that work with Insurance??

[@flybobbie1449]

Thursday night tv was great in the 70's and 80's.

[@davidlewis1787]

fly bobbie yup Thursday evening was my favourite too...

[@flybobbie1449]

BBC 1Tomorrows World, TOTP, two half hour good comedies, BBC2Horizon or Fawlty Towers, then last hour down the local night clubs to see the girlies.

[@JeffDeWitt]

Especially the 80's. Here in the States we had Cheers and Hill Street Blues.

[@ericoconnor3660]

Is that James May of automobile hijinks fame discussing the paralyzed gentleman?

[@MrBlueSky474]

sickpuppy4711 You are showing signs of early dementia, the 70's were wonerful

[@MegaChris456]

Children's Games First game shown: "Missionaries and Cannibals" looooool

[@one2micreview846]

And she says.... “it’s a game you can play with children” and obviously knows something... because she can’t change the page quick enough.

[@OhEarchadha]

i remember watching this with me mum and a packet of Nice biscuits. its was on a thursday

[@stephenroche5107]

Gunner Highway That's nice.

[@jonnamechange6854]

What was the weather doing? Rain man.

[@HK_Musician]

Yumm

[@alistaircoulson1106]

Remember seeing Concorde taking off from Heathrow. Noisy? definitely, Pollution friendly? maybe. Magnificent? doesn't come close so the yanks spit their dummy out - SHAME!111111

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

I worked in Civil Engineering on approach to Heathrow`s Terminal 7? Main pollution I saw came from the huge plume of rubber smoke every time Concorde landed, not nice to be downwind of it. Seemed worse than the 747s.

[@mikehudson8884]

Great show, I only watched it because it was on before Top Of The Pops, I wonder if anyone else did the same.

[@andrewhillis9544]

BRING BACK BBC's 'TOMORROW'S WORLD' AND CHANNEL-4's 'EQUINOX' ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MrDaiseymay]

I prefered The science Series ''Connections'' headed by James Burke. He started in October 1978, but only made 3 series, but, of 50 episodes each. He showed how great inventions arround the world, were later connected to unlikely new ideas, which became huge game changes in our history. A brilliant series. I have the DVDs

[@matambale]

40 episodes total (10/20/10) unless I missed something. Burke's "The Day The Universe Changed" is also brilliant.

[@Irishandtired]

France was an exotic and dangerous place back then. Oh wait, Callais still is.

[@SarahJones-wy5us]

Irishandtired ,Calais..

[@FrankEdavidson]

Paris is, Nice is, Marseilles is. All the big cities are.

[@Juliukas101]

@@FrankEdavidson The poster was making a thinly-veiled dig at migrants.

[@FrankEdavidson]

@@Juliukas101 And?

[@BaddaBigBoom]

@@FrankEdavidson ...and it's hostile.

[@vooveks]

26:38 Love the proto-Alan Partridge-ness of this segment.

[@EnglishLaw]

LOL excellent find LOL

[@decrescsmith]

It's uncanny 😂😂

[@alastairmatheson3245]

Time for "Son of Tomorrow's World" to hit our screens . It was an absolute must watch back in the day and I'm certain that there would be a slot for it now.

[@g2macs]

Memories of the seventies..... totally electric house with single glazing on a Scottish hillside, power being turned off in our area 'cos of the coal strike (you got prior notice in the papers) House so cold (middle of winter)we all went to bed at seven with hot water bottles that only lasted a few hours. Fighting for a place in front of the electric heater when the power came back on at seven AM so you could warm up before walking to school. Ah......great times.....not!

[@hackedagain3421]

Polly materials under your body (layered or folded if needed) to keep warm.

[@homeoftheinepttulpagamer]

I can remember in Winter time when we'd regularly have power cuts that could last anywhere up to 2 weeks. Luckily we had a coal fire, which you could stick a saucepan of beans on and toast some bread, it was also fun as a kid wandering about the house by candlelight at 5pm.. With only 4 TV channels and no gadgets to speak of, it wasnt as though you missed much. Board games were fine and you could play outside in the day until you were blue, by then your mum had heated up water one pan at a time so you could have a bath! We didnt have duvets but about 400 sheets, blankets and covers - as well as a vest under your pjs. It wasnt all that bad at the time but I'd miss the comforts of today!

[@cigmorfil4101]

@@homeoftheinepttulpagamer 4 TV channels? I remember when there were only 3 on UHF tv (625 lines: BBC1, BBC2, ITV) and only 2 of them available on VHF tv (405 lines: BBC1, ITV) - we had one vhf TV (our gran's rented tv) and one uhf/vhf tv (our owned tv) in our house. I remember the power cuts of the 70s sitting reading by the light of the gas fire in our bedroom.

[@Bolivar2012able]

And to think here I sit at a computer watching a tv show I use to watch as a kid. :)

[@99fruitbat]

🤣 Old lady here , loved this programme when I was a kid ! Now watching on my Tablet ! Don't even have a TV anymore !

[@tonybkent]

I'm watching it on a 4k TV controlling it with a phone that's connected to a server on the other side of the planet. Mad!

[@MrDuncl]

The funny thing is it has taken forty years to get from Teleshopping and huge TVs, to Teleshopping on your huge TV. Of course what was the reserve of 400 people (who were probably mainly BT employees) has gone to 80% of the population. A lasting memory of Tomorrow's World was seeing a demonstration of adaptive cruise control being developed by VW. About thirty years later it became an option on the Golf.

[@99fruitbat]

@@MrDuncl My lasting memory was when they demonstrated the possibility of one day being able to record your favourite TV programmes and watch them later . They did seem a bit doubtful , and as I have mentioned before , my parents totally scoffed at the idea !

[@MrDuncl]

@@99fruitbat In contrast my mother never learnt to drive as she thought everyone would have personal jet packs by the 1980s. Regarding home video, Philips who sold the first home VCR thought people would be more likely to buy Videodiscs so spent £millions developing those as well.

[@willmarcombe]

The game on the TV onTeletext - Missionaries and Canibals. Three missionaries are visiting a church in Borneo. Ensure they don't eaten by canibals. Brilliant!

[@one2micreview846]

And she couldn’t change the page quick enough....

[@tectorama]

I remember it well. How very English, and tewwibly tewwibly twee. Who can forget Prestel and Micronet on a dial up modem ?

[@fintimwhimbim]

tectorama you’re right, PC came much later, Amstrad made it all the more accessible! 😂😂

[@ballockybill2277]

Ceefax , the forerunner to the internet . What did we do at 5am before Ceefax, lol

[@stephen2583]

The biggest thing I miss about these types of programs is the accents. People who can speak the Queens English without soundling like they are about to steal your hubcaps or are walking around with a knife under their hoodie - innit bruv.

[@amethyst760]

6.02..Sex was an ingredient in petrol?!! Why did they take it out? It was the only thing that got my Morris Minor started on a cold morning.

[@leifvejby8023]

They took out the big cats too.

[@timhuggins1993]

Dogging car sex on the front drive every morning could be good now to work off overweight breakfasts ! Lol

[@girlinagale]

Put a tiger in yer tank!

[@Dave-ks9fi]

I think in my car it was refined to an energy saving wank.

[@leifvejby8023]

The cats only sold the fuel for the cars. (Put a tiger in your tank!)

[@sivoltage]

No TV show would dare question the government like these guys did. Brilliant!

[@SleepSerenityRelaxation]

Judith Hann presenting a segment on mistakes while standing in front of a giant, grammatically incorrect sign... Irony at its best.

[@comiskey2005]

Big Brother finally arrived and their names are Siri and Alexa.

[@AndRewUK24]

Also OK Google!

[@EnglishLaw]

And Google Assistant

[@djscottdog1]

Funny thing is i have no interest in the devices its a shit gimic

[@tma2001]

Apple 1984: And you'll see why 1984 won't be like _1984_ . Apple 2019: How can we help you crack down on HK ?

[@Gainn]

And you thought it was bad then..

[@tonystanley5337]

"Prestel will be more important when we are confined to our homes if there is an oil shortage"

[@justinthyme7275]

We will never be confined to our homes. Rumors like that can go viral...

[@tonystanley5337]

@@justinthyme7275 did you watch the video? It was just a quote from the 80s I thought was poignant for today. The internet was more important when we were confined during lockdown. They weren't talking about a forced confinement, more a lack of transport.

[@justinthyme7275]

@@tonystanley5337 I was just making a play on the word "viral".

[@DavidJCane]

Amazing to think that William Woollard could speak with such confident certainty that 1970s British Rail would be able to commission and construct a central London railway terminal, the infrastructure and a channel tunnel in just six years. There was no way that was going to happen with an organisation as poorly managed as BR.

[@pigknickers]

Austin Princess - Export model! Goawd, the state of it!

[@bryanleigh6497]

Hah! yeah, I had an Allegro. Joke car

[@ynotnilknarf39]

The product of a lazy, work shy, shoddy socialist workforce that destroyed British manufacturing. Too easy to blame the white collars when in fact it was the unions and the useless 'common man' that pumped out shite that the Japanese and South East Asians beat all ends up!

[@MrDuncl]

@@ynotnilknarf39 You might be right there. Look at Hyundai, whose initial management was disgruntled ex BL managers.

[@ewaf88]

I was 21 when this was made. Star Trek the Motion picture had just been released - smartphones hadn't even been thought of - the internet (Arpanet) was still the domain of the military - many British cars weren't that good - and you could have a real night out in London for about £10.

[@RobMacKendrick]

ewaf88 18 here. Seems long ago and far away.

[@paganphil100]

ewaf88: And you could get a night's B&B in London for just over £1 !!

[@ewaf88]

@@paganphil100 wow cheap

[@ianb6266]

Fantastic! I remember this well when I was a lad. Watched it every week. Loved the program. Its good to see how things have changed. Also what did not change.....

[@clemfandango7052]

Sending information from a computer at home to the office. That's insane. Can't believe they thought things like this would catch on.