TV-AM Opener 1984

[@districtline]

It's July 2022 and I'm listening to this & wishing we could all go back in time for good.

[@tld7195]

me too

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

Modern era sucks big time!!!

[@MrFreakMeister]

I was there amongst the crowd on the Downs, Bristol, from what I can remember I was part of the "O" in Morning.

[@yellowbelly06]

What a coincidence. I was one of the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, I was in the first N in morning.

[@TheMadmagik]

do you know who was in the wrong letter?

[@darrensmith2734]

Fantastic memories great theme tune never to be forgotten 😊☺️😊☺️😊😊😊

[@jaquesravalec242]

The sound of the eighties every morning.

[@darranthompson8202]

Yes take me back just before leaving for school use to watch tv am .

[@kps.77]

I still remember as a kid, going into the room, switching the TV in and hearing this opening music as I waited to TV-AM to start, which I'd watch as I got ready for school. I must have been about 7-10 years old. So many memories.... Lizzie's work outs Wincey willis and the weather Rustie Lee's cooking Russell Grant;s stars The random chat and banter and great cast. Then as a teenager, Channel 4 brought out The Big Breakfast, which they should have kept. I remember then as a teen ager, the banana splits, Chris Evans and Gaby Rosling Now there's nothing to watch in the morning

[@mikerochburns4104]

Fair to say that there is nothing to watch at all. TV today is utter woke box ticking garbage, I've cut the chord and stopped watching now. Not even Netflix or Amazon.

[@clavichord]

Russell Grant was then on "the other side", along with Frank Bough, David Icke, Selina Scott and others... on BBC Breakfast Time

[@clavichord]

@@mikerochburns4104 Me too, and I enjoy not having to legally pay the TV license, under current rules

[@silenceofthetrafficjams]

I masturbated furiously over Kelly Brook on The Big Breakfast... Each to their own, eh?

[@HoffmeisterUK]

Gives me goose bumps every time I hear this. Getting ready for school... What do we have now, nothing even compares!

[@robertprees603]

i was 8 years old and the music was great but reminded me it was time for school.

[@mayscough72]

With you on that one pal

[@themanmaschine]

Oh totally, never saw it past ten to nine!

[@davidfbenko]

Reminds me of getting ready for horrible school in the 1980s.

[@Martin9476]

😀

[@tld7195]

yes, but wouldn't it be great to go back

[@runnymedecrafts2018]

You and me both 😝

[@jono12121201]

Yep….

[@donrennis7585]

Yep me too.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Great to see Anne Diamond and Nick Owen on television together this morning on GMB. She said how much hearing the theme tune took her back to the time and I agree it really does. It is really moving.

[@TeamCGS2005]

Feel so old because I even remember the music at the beginning.

[@danwood_uk]

if there's one thing that totally takes me back to the 80s, being a kid, getting ready for school, it's the TV-AM theme tune.

[@jeracom]

Remember waking up in the mornings for school hated it lol. Now i hear it i Remember my mum dad and all the great memories ❤

[@aaronjameslockwood2437]

Who is watching TV-AM videos clips on KZbin in 2023?

[@petermccann7933]

brilliant jumpers....a happy time when everything was possible

[@alastairlee4744]

Wow!!, I remember watching this back in the day, I was 11 when TV am first started, showing my age lol!!

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

Remember sitting and watching TV-AM in the front room of the Gweldues Hotel while my mum was cleaning before school, would have been about 5 year old and now 46!!

[@RickPeake01]

Watching it at 3.04am on the 14th june 2020 waiting for the start of broadcast .. well the feeling of excitement is the same now as it was back then. Xx wow... truly . Just good morning britain. Bloody good morning to.one and all.

[@SubjectRandom21]

I was only 3 when I watched this and I still remember it, I miss those days.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

SubjectRandom when you were 3?

[@raymondmain3796]

@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 yes I miss this too, would of been nine when this was on, was always on when while I was getting ready to go to school lots of great memories life was simpler then?

[@JohnGolf123]

@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 😂😂😂

[@virginiaguiney1644]

Childhood memories. I would hear this on the way out the door, and it would be in my head whilst playing in the recXX

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

Wow suddenly I'm getting ready for school again. My mid 50s self now would like to go back and give advice to my teenage self then

[@wez4517]

As a child hearing this theme tune and watching the opening titles it's weird but it made it look like something special was happening, like it was some big event. Clearly they'd gone to a lot of effort for those titles and I think it paid off, well it certainly did in our household as TV-AM was never off... well, until I'd gone to school that is...

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

What year did you start school,don't you think the presenter on the left resembles the headless doctor in Re-Animator.and the presenter on the right resembles actor David o Sullivan from Me and my gal,robin s nest and man about the house

[@wez4517]

@@Dinvadbhatmarathi98 how can he resemble a headless doctor... he quite clearly has a head! Lol Nah, to me they just resemble John Stapleton and Nick Owen weirdly enough. Anyway, in answer to your question, I started school in 1981 and I think you mean Richard O'Sullivan...

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

@@wez4517 I started school in 1983 before I started school I used to watch the little green man,jamies magic torch,Paddington bear voiced by Michael Hornden,trumpton,cockle shell beach,rainbow.then in school they showed you dark towers, the boy from out of space, words and pictures,watch and Think about

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

@@wez4517 do you remember a program were children of a high school are trapped in a tv room of their school while two aliens are in the t v

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

@@wez4517 oh and the Sullivans also came one and sons & daughters

[@Kendaleng]

I remember the snowstorms that year. We were off school for a couple of weeks. The snow was really deep and the schools boiler completely froze. Happy days 😁

[@shaunlaws6521]

If there was time machine I would defertnatly go back to those days in a heartbeat no doubt about it much much better the crap now I hate it

[@hrhwhite]

OMG.. This brings back memories of me sat in my school uniform having my breakfast before heading off for school. The world's a very different place now!

[@joeoldskoolbeef]

Absolutely the best days of my life.

[@gagiman7273]

Sound of my childhood getting up for school

[@roverboi100]

wow 30yrs has gone by god i miss this x

[@donrennis7585]

The common theme that I'm noticing in these comments is that this opening theme brings back a lot of nostalgia for a lot of us that were born in the 80s. I wonder if any of the people that were parents back then, have any emotional attachment to this theme tune? Probably not though, as they were to worried about getting kids ready for school or getting to work on time, bills etc. 😂

[@yorkrose26]

I know that most people are here nor nostalgic reasons, but of the topics mentioned, ‘what’s in haggis’, dangers of boxing and over prescribing of medication are all topics still as relevant today as then. Just goes to show, even though the world turns solutions are rarely found

[@simonreeves828]

Somebody has mentioned in the comments it feels like a big event or something importsnt was about to happen . Breakfast television was worth watching then 👌👌✅

[@paulcrisp9861]

My time machine is ready to go back , wow!!!! What fun . March 2020 😎👍😎👍

[@garrymorgan2341]

Wow. I would have been 5 at the time this broadcast. Still remember the opening theme song. Although I seldom saw it from the start. I usually joined in around 8am

[@stephenkissane4268]

I was one of the pigeons that landed

[@trentsteele1986]

i was a teenager TV am was so much brighter in the 80s morning TV was great in school summer hols

[@stuart121972]

You had to get up early if you wanted to see TV-am’s ident as it only appeared when the station opened up.

[@Stephen1965]

This is what breakfast tv should be like nowadays, also I really liked the theme too.

[@peteradaniel]

Opinionated and passive aggressive? Sorry to tell you but nothing much has changed. Dominated by white men? Well.

[@smartchip]

The 80's and maybe the early 90s, was when childhood that is a classic childhood of playing out, dealing with your own problems, knowing your place in life, grounding you, making you a well rounded person, knowing life is not fair, so get on with it, Checkout, Asch conformatity experiment, Milgrams experiment, Asch Solomon experiment, Rat hope experiment, Baader-meinhof effect, Dunning kruger effect, Rat utopian experiment, Also and importantly the following content producers, The Duran, the lotus eaters, Redacted, colonel douglas macgregor, Scott ritter, Tim cast irl, Most importantly, Yuri bezmenov lectures and interviews in the 1980's, undeliverable describes the time we are living in and why,

[@Markjuk]

John Stapleton sitting there with Nick. John is still presenting breakfast TV 25 years later! Saw him on GMTV the other morning.

[@nudisco300]

Nick Owen in this opening definitely has a bit of Partridge about him.

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Good old days.

[@rachelcaullay172]

I miss Tv am.

[@ziggypop79]

Loved TV-AM, hated it when they brought in GMTV, just woeful.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Not as good for sure too from 1993 onwards so too.

[@KaitainCPS]

As soon as they read out the description at the start, my brain said, "That's got to be Isla St Clair..."

[@Vicks1978]

Miss the eighties, can really tell Jeff Wayne did the theme tune it has similarities to the war of the world's :)

[@Juliukas101]

It's actually: "War of the Worlds".

[@davidrover62]

When 'Good Morning Britain' replaced GMTV they should've kept the theme used in the original opening titles of TV-am's Good Morning Britain too. Although John advised the sounds were those made of a Flute and Oboe, the theme reminded me somehow of pan pipes. The theme used at present for the programme seems too harsh and brash for me, but then again when you have Piers Morgan as a presenter - perhaps it fits perfectly.

[@CrazyTobster]

TV-AM was a television network in it own right. So what you are effectively saying is that today's show should play the intro of an old competitor. (I know TV-AM was on ITV but it was a separate business)

[@benphillips9957]

Who’s watching in 2020 😂

[@darranthompson8202]

2021

[@FieldmasterFox]

2022

[@SubjectRandom21]

2020, 2022, 2023...🤣

[@coatboy1981]

The blue slide was due to the engineers having to change the bt network it also happened at 9.15 for them to change to each itv region

[@Tomsonic41]

I always thought it was to allow the transmitter time to warm up and reach full power before the actual programming started.

[@melgrant7404]

Always watched this before school

[@terryrothery41]

Yes wish they could come back may be on channel 5 ? Was great TV . TV-AM we miss you :(.

[@johnking5174]

32 years a go to the day. Today is Monday 25th January 2016. Amazing how Good Morning Britain aired in 1984, and 32 years later is is back on ITV, and just like its predecessor in the early days, it is struggling to gain more viewers than the BBC.

[@1peter1180]

+John King it would be nice if TV AM came back with the same opening titles

[@itsjemmabond]

Agreed.

[@muk8804]

It's not the same Programme...it's made by a different TV company to TV -am which hasn't existed for 30 years . They have simply used the same title.

[@MegaCozzy]

Popeye 7..25 the cornflakes then school

[@lucaschapman2188]

My breakfast used to be a black coffee and a Cigarette for years😎👍🏻very healthy!

[@hjyigo4759]

Had this been the BBC I think they'd be reaching for the Guardian to review before the Daily Mail!

[@Tampo-tiger]

So true, and the Daily Worker.

[@jaquesravalec242]

The BBC was more balanced in those days as was the Guardian. It didn't employ trendy but dim younger executives like Danny Cohen or Ian Katz. Those two would be unemployable were it not for their ideology.

[@paulstruthers2691]

...or the Socialist Worker

[@TrickytreeMunich]

Jeff Wayne wrote the theme for this TV-AM's Good Morning Britain programme, you can clearly hear a similarity to his 'War Of The Worlds' music in this.

[@MegaCozzy]

Ojminjj

[@lisamorris7491]

Arggggh school 😢those were the days

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

Did you have chicken soup,chocolate cake with mint custard apple Crumble,roast potatoes in school dinners,do you remember Johnny Briggs coming on after school Ulysses 31

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I was born in England in 1984.

[@muhammaduddin9268]

I came to London in March 1984 from Bangladesh Syhlet aged 7 lived near BT Tower Hanson Street.

[@mousehead2000]

The good ole days.

[@chrisjones1931]

Interesting article for its time about Edward Heath, probably totally dismissed in 1984. The Tories probably shut that down, especially Leon Britton who was well aware what was going on behind the scenes back then and then losing a investigation file about the 80's scandals and conveniently losing it many years later. Changing the topic though, this programme bought back lots of memories of 80's early mornings for school, warming up by the gas fire while my school uniform being warmed up near the fireguard and chocolate ready break.

[@logicalnetwork1611]

John Stapleton is a legend

[@kps.77]

As mush as this brings back memories of breakfast then school as a kid, I have to wonder, why the hell did someone record this 30 years ago?!

[@Muskateering]

+KSKR UK Cuz they knew they be uploading it on here in the future.

[@allumgraphics]

because it was recorded at the time by the company that made it . . . DOOOH

[@RobloxianGamerz0]

3:11 TVAM startup intro

[@si4106]

I cant belive this was so long ago, i used to watch this before school. Time gos so fast.

[@888ssss]

3:08 to skip to start

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I was born in the United Kingdom in 1984, 11 years before moving to New Zealand.

[@satoronsela1254]

And I was born in NZ in 1977 and moved to the UK in 1984 :P.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@Jack Brown We've never met. I don't know SatoRonsela125.

[@simonp1970]

Unless im losing my mind im sure i used to watch a popeye cartoon at around 745, then it was off to school... happy days

[@therookpiece]

Yes, you're right because I did exactly the same. Although I seem to remember it came on at 7:20-25.

[@MegaCozzy]

Haha same here mate me to born 1970 I remember Popeye before shitty school

[@jono12121201]

Yep my dad used to do poached eggs on toast and off I would go with a paper round and then school in fishguard

[@xjorvis]

Remember seeing this intro as a kid

[@RickPeake01]

1984 sort of gives it away....

[@TeamCGS2005]

6:55 Took 4 hours getting from Leeds to Harrogate? What mode of transport was that? Mule? ;)

[@garethmurtagh]

That comment about how the portrait of Diana “made her look thinner” seems poignant in light of what was subsequently learned about her.

[@SeeHere2]

Starts at 3.20

[@lucaschapman2188]

When TV wasn't 24 hours

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

No that did not occur until 1987 or later on itv and the bbc channels and channel 4 until 1997 or later too.

[@jenmctavish7522]

yeh timmy mallet and lizzy exercises good times love funky 80s jumpers lol

[@Tampo-tiger]

Not sure why, but Wimpy Willis used to irritate me beyond belief. Thanks goodness the BBC was still watchable back then, as the ITV cast of GMB were all pretty aggravating.

[@kpsuk]

@Aaronator19842009 God, I remember as a kid, waking up and putting the TV on and listening to this music over and over, the the intra to TV-AM came on (The pigeons, Ark Royal & Dover cliffs) then watching Lizzy, Wincy Willis, the travel show with Enya's Orinocoa flow as it's theme. Oh and childrens TV from 3 pm- 4pm, then big kids TV (Grange Hill etc) from 4pm - 5pm. Classic childhood TV.

[@mayscough72]

TV presenters should go back to wearing proper sweaters with a shirt and tie, classic breakfast telly look 😁

[@BossySwan]

Banger

[@RickPeake01]

Video program starts at 3mins 11 seconds

[@mrk45]

Hah, fuckin' hell, Wincey Willis. Those were the days. Wonder what happened to her, doesn't seem to have a wiki page.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

IBA needs to come back, and revoke the licenses of any entity that became part of 'ITV'

[@TheChipmunk2008]

bring back southern, and fsck meridian

[@johnking5174]

@@TheChipmunk2008 Regions mean jack shit to ITV now, apart from regional news there are hardly any variations

[@TheChipmunk2008]

@@johnking5174yes it's very sad, I much preferred it back in the day, also I was kinda half into DX TV, got HTV wales from southampton one day with a standard 18 element yagi and no amp, clear enough to recognize the ident

[@geography27]

I wish TV-am would return... even if it went to another channel to broadcast. I miss it. A lot of people do! GMTV was crap throughout it's entirity and Daybreak is the same.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Well of course on itv now then although there is the bbc so too.

[@anngulliver5964]

This is a scary theme tune.

[@pauldonnelly3179]

At 6:20 it's interesting that there was a story about a man being tried for having a "p0-rn picture" of Ted Heath...

[@d902amo]

The TV-AM fire will always keep burning................ The music is taking me back to the days when I had the responibilities of a postage stamp. What an anthem hey????

[@lynn7384]

I was 9 yr old omg

[@chantalmascoe4594]

Happy Birthday

[@matthewpayton]

GREAT TO SEE GOOD MORNING BRITAIN BACK.

[@jane1975]

The stuff they used to say about Princess Diana (RIP) in the newspapers both left and right is just about the same flack that the First Lady gets on Twitter. Can you imagine if we had Twitter back then, the stuff that would of been said, amongst the crap of course only it would of been 80’s style crap LOL.

[@andrewdeans3686]

. . . . .would have . . . . .

[@jane1975]

@@andrewdeans3686 I am aware of my wrong diction there, I often get that one wrong -thanks:)

[@CuteLittleBlackCat]

Anyone tell me if this is a Jeff Wayne composition please???

[@russ7510]

i remember that clock in the corner that is very old school

[@cloverfield911]

How i soooooooooooooooooo miss being a teenageer and skinny in the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

[@johnking5174]

What a difference a year made for TV AM. In the previous year the breakfast station launched with a most stuffy line up with David Frost, Robert Kee, Angela Rippon, Anna Ford and Robert Kee. Only Frost and Parkinson survived into 1984, both relegated to weekends only. 1983-1985 was the worst years for TV AM, nearly becoming bankrupt, presenters not paid and London Electricity Board nearly cutting their power supply due to unpaid bills. By 1985 they had recovered a lot.

[@thesnowdens]

Back in the days when you were jealous of Scotland having lots of snow, nowadays you think "rather them then me!!"

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

Andy Roo 6 years later and we hardly have any proper snow now.

[@imisinjan]

It is incorrect to describe a scottish person as scotch.

[@bicolouredprawn]

@keith4291 Pretty much the same here mate, although we weren't big on porridge at our house. But yeah, it would be frosty outside, sun coming up, I'd have a big bowl of Frosties and a cup of tea, and Jeff Wayne's music was the soundtrack to all our breakfasts back then.

[@massivley]

breakfast tv never been the same since

[@terryrothery41]

No way I didn't know he had died :(.

[@Scripture-Man]

I remember this tune well, but I find it a bit harsh and hard for a "comfy" breakfast show, not a very relaxing start to the day. I think it would have made a better opening theme for something like a topical debate show such as Killroy.

[@jaquesravalec242]

Toughen up.

[@stefanoricci1602]

Time for School...lol

[@muhammadalieesaa3379]

It was Good Morning Britain at the start & it's back to Good Morning Britain again now but I don't like Piers Morgan in it though.

[@joshuatrees]

If you're 26 now, cloverfield911, you were born approx 1983 and only a teenager between approx 1996 and 2002!! Not during the 1980s, certainly not in1987 when i became a teen!

[@Age-Adrian]

Think it's a case of being proud to be British also bringing poeple together.