the quality of tv when there were just four channels...

ITV the main decline

does itv even exist? never watch it even once. amazing when you think of the stuff they used to have on...minder...auf wiedersehen pet...big deal...hammer house of like whatevvverrrr...whys it always a speedboat super smashing great dusty bin and that

I remember watching a programme in the 80`s when some Professor of media predicted that the arrival of satellite tv and hundreds of channels would result in downturn in quality programming and that most of the channels would be filled with drivel. How right he was.

There is so much rubbish on tv nowadays and I can only think that John Logie Baird is turning in his grave. :(

you can tell how the quality has changed cos if repeats of stuff you didnt really bother watching years ago...when theyre on now...like dads army etc...are the best things on tv now! tv these days is pathetic. its not just the quality its the quantity, there are virtually no new shows even being made.

But when you look back at the listings you wonder if it was all that

BBC 1 26 February 1986

0600 Ceefax AM
0650 Breakfast Time
0920 Pages from Ceefax
1030 Play School
1050 Gharbar:Magazine for Asian women.
1115 Pages from Ceefax
1230 News After Noon
1257 Regional News [London/SE: Financial Report; News Headlines with Subtitles].
1300 Pebble Mill at One
1345 Bagpuss
1400 Pages from Ceefax
1435 Football Live coverage of USSR v England. Today's children's programmes are shown on BBC Two.
1640 Driving Force
1725 Tom and Jerry
1735 First Class :Quiz hosted by Debbie Greenwood.
1800 Six O'Clock News
1835 Regional News Magazines
1900 Wogan
1940 No Place like Home
2010 The Colbys
2100 Nine O'Clock News Followed by Regional News.
2130 Q.E.D.
2200 Sportsnight :Steve Rider introduces highlights of today's international football matches
2320 UK Dance Championships 86
0010-0015 Weather and Close

If John Logie Baird had invented the television format we use today he probably would.

ITV really is just appaling now (and has been for years) . Only ever turn it on for Football ( occassionaly X Fctor :) )

lol how long did it take you to find the crappest tv day possible??

no place like home was good anyhoo lol...well...kinda!

Philo Taylor Farnsworth would turn in his grave.

lol i just picked a random one from the 80s

Nothing wrong with Bagpuss you heathen!

theres no icons anymore either. where are the new generation of larger than life actors like george cole/john thaw/peter falk/ronnie barker/david jason

If you want to nit pick

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin will be turning in his grave :D

have you been watching QI or sumink??

who won the footie ?

Is it a wind up?

If not 1-1 (aet) France go through on a dodgy goal.

erm
this match
1435 Football Live coverage of USSR v England. Today's children's programmes are shown on BBC Two

lol, USSR won 1-0. By the way it was never a penalty!!

back in the ussr...umm...i dont think its very far...thats not right is it???

Ten minutes of quality there with Tom and Jerry. :)

watched all of them

cunnybobbler 19 Nov 01:03


does itv even exist? never watch it even once. amazing when you think of the stuff they used to have on...minder...auf wiedersehen pet...big deal...hammer house of like whatevvverrrr...whys it always a speedboat super smashing great dusty bin and that

only thing is, their was no adverts in big deal :D

Sportsnight RIP sorely missed :(

actually Captain , England won 1-0

Whatever happened to Debbie Greenwood :x

ITV

Thursday October 2 1975

0930-1200 Schools
0930 Stop, Look, Listen.
0942 The Messengers.
1004 My World. Stories.
1018 Picture Box.
1035 Viewpoint.
1100 The World Around Us.
1122 Seeing and Doing.
1139 How We Used to Live.
1320-1330 Channel News; What's on Where
1355 Racing from Newmarket The 1400, 1430, 1500, 1535 races.
1545 Labour Party Conference :News, views and debates.
1620 The Osmonds
1655 Castaway
1720 The Adventurer
1750 News
1800 Channel News Followed by Weather.
1810 Skippy
1835 Crossroads
1900 Space 1999
2000 This Week
2030 Man About the House :How Does Your Garden Grow? Starring Richard OSullivan and Paula Wilcox. Plant-lifting could land Chrissy in trouble with the law.
2100 The Stars Look Down : Inherit the Earth. Robert Fenwick and his gang are trapped when disaster strikes at the pit
2200 News Plus Channel Weather.
2230 The Last Challenge
2300 Short Story
Followed by: News; Weather in French; Weather; Closedown.

Where you getting these listings from Tobes?

That day England beat Russia (Waddle?), I was a 15 year old doing some labouring during the school holidays. Gutted I couldn't watch the match. :(

http://tvlistings.thetvroomplus.com/?id=2:ca

Thanks

Followed by: News; Weather in French; Weather; Closedown

Rather strange don't you think?, unless this was for the Channel Islands?

shocking listing tobermory, what rubbish

I think I can't remember racing being on the BBC in midweek

it all stopped thanks to the.............well what?

I think I can

Roots was much watch t.v. in our house years ago. Think it was on Sundays at 9.00 p.m.

blakes 7 was the biznis

cunnybobbler 19 Nov 20:10
blakes 7 was the biznis
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http://quizicon.com/Blakes-7-Crew-Quiz.html

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When did daytime tv start?

My Dad reckons there used to be nothing on until the 6 o'clock news.

Never saw any of those 1975 programmes. Probably too busy sha'gging birds.

i only got 8. for some reason i couldnt remember cally or daynas names...and i put soolan instead of soolin...and i remembered slave but again forget his name

i hated slave. total gimp.

There were - on average - better progs in those days. Maybe the ghost of Lord Reith still frightened the makers. The US independents make stunning progs today - far better than anything currently on this side of the Atlantic - but that was then and this is now. Reality progs and "audience participation" and the race to the bottom have pretty much sunk UK efforts. Life, the current Attenborough effort, is outstanding but that's about it. We should kill 1 in 5 of the BBC top-paid staff to encourage the others.

Punter the racing was on ITV actually in that one

cheers

TV in the past wasn't that good, the best bit on BBC 2 was the girl and some other thing drawing on a blackboard and had funny noises

TV was ok 5 years ago, when programmes went through the night

now overnight TV has sunk again with stupid phone-in shows

TV- a medium that is neither rare nor well done.

TV is better now because of this : you have all the new stuff plus access to most of the best of the old stuff.

there is actually a lot more quality these days, its just offset by the mountainous amount of cr@p that runs alongside it