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Old 21-12-2016, 18:11
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When people talk about the Golden tv generation you can see why
Seeing this schedule & then the utter garbage we are being served this year I am so glad I grew up in Xmas tv Golden Generation and at same time feel sorry for the youngsters who never experienced a Golden tv generation you Really don't know what you missed


http://ctva.biz/UK/TV-Listings/_CTVA...tings_1976.htm
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Old 21-12-2016, 18:16
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To be honest the last looks dire, there are one or two good shows peaktime, and the rest was pretty poor.
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Old 21-12-2016, 18:22
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To be honest the last looks dire, there are one or two good shows peaktime, and the rest was pretty poor.
Who
20 mliom people for Morecambe & wise
About same for Generation game might tell you different but at least we HD a variety of choice movies TOTP comedy. Light entertainment etc a
Compared to 3 hours of soaps & reality TV we got this year and No movie premier on Eiher main channels in the Evening maybe it's what 21at century viewers want
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Old 21-12-2016, 18:24
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I'd forgotten we had to suffer Billy Smart's Christmas Circus every year back then. Finally dropped in '78.
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Old 21-12-2016, 18:33
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Apart from the odd programme that does look pretty poor. The newest films being a mere 5 years old and some programes dating back to 1936!
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Old 21-12-2016, 19:33
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Apart from the odd programme that does look pretty poor. The newest films being a mere 5 years old and some programes dating back to 1936!
There was a 5 year tv block on new films then so.not a lot they coukd do then
But the thing about Xmas tv is it was supposed to be a movie premiere and top comedy acts not normally on yet now we have 3 hours soaps thst are on 5 days a week plus reality shows on both channels which is hardly a premier or top entertainment
3 hours of life in a square /st & farm fictional is hardly what I call classic Xmas tv
Really
BBC1 Xmas tv schedule in 70s was must watch on Xmas day
TOTP
Generation gsme
Mike yarwood
Morecombe & wise
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Latest available 007 film.or film premier plus Tommy cooper or another top rated
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Old 21-12-2016, 19:40
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Others would say folk are stuck in the dark ages. Rose tinted specs etc.

Times move on.
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Old 21-12-2016, 19:47
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I'm not saying things are better now in fact I can't stand the wall to wall soaps, but I'd rather have what we have now versus what they had then.

On the plus side it is nice to see the nonces got their Christmas specials.
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Old 21-12-2016, 19:51
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Back then you had to watch whatever was on the main channels or switch the box off.

Today we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, catch up/on demandTV, Sky/Virgin TV, DVDs, Boxsets, online entertainment etc etc.

We are spoilt for choice really and yet some people still complain about there being nothing to watch.
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Old 21-12-2016, 20:15
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There was a 5 year tv block on new films then so.not a lot they coukd do then
But the thing about Xmas tv is it was supposed to be a movie premiere and top comedy acts not normally on yet now we have 3 hours soaps thst are on 5 days a week plus reality shows on both channels which is hardly a premier or top entertainment
3 hours of life in a square /st & farm fictional is hardly what I call classic Xmas tv
Really
BBC1 Xmas tv schedule in 70s was must watch on Xmas day
TOTP
Generation gsme
Mike yarwood
Morecombe & wise
Itv
Latest available 007 film.or film premier plus Tommy cooper or another top rated
Show
I agree generally, but its all relative to circumstances then and now. We can talk about 20 million audiences but it must be remembered that there were only 3 channels and BBC2 back then was very much more an acquired taste. Its practically a captive audience with no facility to record shows.
ITV largely given up there on Christmas night. A John Curry Ice Dance spectacular right in the middle of primetime looks truly out of place.
I don't think its a bad schedule overall, I can actually remember it, but perspective is everything with this. I think we back then appreciated a film premiere for instance a hell of a lot more because it would be the first time it had been shown outside of Cinema-and that was mostly a 5 year gap. Even mediocre films used to get huge audiences at times.
TOTP back in that long lost tv world made chart music a very much more family affair-those listed acts all come flooding back to me now. I don't think I could name more than a couple of number ones this year-and I suspect Im not alone.
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Old 21-12-2016, 20:36
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Back then you had to watch whatever was on the main channels or switch the box off.

Today we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, catch up/on demandTV, Sky/Virgin TV, DVDs, Boxsets, online entertainment etc etc.

We are spoilt for choice really and yet some people still complain about there being nothing to watch.
Because to some people there is only BBC...it would actually mean having to change channel to find something different.
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Old 21-12-2016, 20:42
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Because to some people there is only BBC...it would actually mean having to change channel to find something different.
On April Fools the BBC should switch the schedules for BBC 1&2 wonder if BBC1 will still have the higher ratings.
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Old 21-12-2016, 20:56
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you're holding up that 1976 schedule as a golden age? It's dire. Apart from the Porridge special and Morecombe and Wise nothing in that schedule would be fit to broadcast now ...that's how good a schedule it was!

In fact the Porridge episode has already been on this Christmas. As for Mike Yarwood the Generation Game, New Faces, ice skating, Kojak etc, who'd want to watch that now? Hardly 'classic' TV.
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Old 21-12-2016, 21:02
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I'm glad me and my family are too busy eating, drinking and having a good time to watch any tv on christmas or boxing day! I don't recall ever watching anything, outside of football on boxing day or THAT match at the MCG in 2010 in the ashes.

I'll catch up with a few things afterwards. It's really not a big deal is it?
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Old 21-12-2016, 21:22
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I agree generally, but its all relative to circumstances then and now. We can talk about 20 million audiences but it must be remembered that there were only 3 channels and BBC2 back then was very much more an acquired taste. Its practically a captive audience with no facility to record shows.
ITV largely given up there on Christmas night. A John Curry Ice Dance spectacular right in the middle of primetime looks truly out of place.
I don't think its a bad schedule overall, I can actually remember it, but perspective is everything with this. I think we back then appreciated a film premiere for instance a hell of a lot more because it would be the first time it had been shown outside of Cinema-and that was mostly a 5 year gap. Even mediocre films used to get huge audiences at times.
TOTP back in that long lost tv world made chart music a very much more family affair-those listed acts all come flooding back to me now. I don't think I could name more than a couple of number ones this year-and I suspect Im not alone.
I watched Every Totp on Xmas day without a fail every year from 73 /to date and I coukd name the entire line up in 70s and probably which order too but I couldn't even name Any
Chart toppers of this year if indeed that still exists
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Old 21-12-2016, 21:32
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Its the definition of the word star that's changed the most over the last 40 years. Then we had the likes of Morecambe & Wise, Yarwood, Forsyth, Val Doonican, Two Ronnies, Les Dawson

Now "presenters" or even god forbid "reality tv show contestants are stars, even the likes of Ant and dec who are probably closest to the stars of yesteryear tend to do little other than anchor shows and have interactive dialogue between them........The winner of IACGMOOH was nothing other than a glorified reality tv star from another show.

Times AND tastes change and looking at the bread and butter Morecambe and Wise stuff that had aged VERY badly whilst accepting the BIG PRODUCTION numbers involving Bassey, Previn etc have aged better. The Two Ronnies material ironically has hardly aged at all. I for one miss the days of DECENT light entertainment shows.....
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Old 21-12-2016, 22:37
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A few observations:

1. Religious programming has been pushed to the margins of the schedule. ITV still has its Christmas Carol service late on Christmas Eve. BBC one still does Midnight Mass and a Christmas Morning service, as well as the On Christmas Night five minute reading late on Christmas Day, but beyond that, there isn't much religion on TV. ITV shows no religion at all on Christmas Day and hasn't done for some years. Even on a normal Sunday, Songs of Praise now occupies an early teatime slot rather than around 6:30pm, where it used to be for decades.

2. There isn't much in the way of variety or a good family sitcom on now. Mrs Brown's Boys isn't suitable for children, and there isn't a decent comedy sketch show on. I recall maybe two Christmases ago, BBC One had an hour's variety from a theatre at about 10:30pm, but there's nothing like that on this year.

3. Both BBC and ITV are VERY heavily reliant on soaps now. Even as recently as the early 1990s, they were a daytime filler when they were shown on Christmas Day.

4. Things like circuses and ice dancing spectaculars wouldn't get a look in these days.

There's nothing much in the schedules of recent Christmases that would get the whole family sitting around the TV.
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Old 21-12-2016, 23:33
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We stopped putting the tv on at all at Christmas a few years back; this year will be the same. We are recording a few things though, the Queen & Maigret etc
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Old 21-12-2016, 23:53
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A few observations:

1. Religious programming has been pushed to the margins of the schedule.

2. There isn't much in the way of variety or a good family sitcom on now. Mrs Brown's Boys isn't suitable for children, and there isn't a decent comedy sketch show on.

3. Both BBC and ITV are VERY heavily reliant on soaps now.
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1. I'm not sure whether you see that as a positive or negative thing but given that it's always been rather dull and unrepresentative of religious communities there are many churchgoers who would confess to being rather glad for the change.

2. Has there ever been a good family sitcom? Variety and sketch comedy have had there day and been declared dead. It's unfortunate in some ways but you can't make people like things they have no taste for. BGT, ostensibly designed to revive variety, has floundered in that respect.

3. Though that has certainly been the case I have to wonder whether the move of Eastenders to a late evening slot on Christmas represents something of a change coming for BBC at least.
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Old 22-12-2016, 00:25
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I am 70 and in my opinion TV has never been better. In 1976 you were stuck with 3 channels, limited recording facilities, no ability to pause programmes and a small number of films.
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Old 22-12-2016, 02:14
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I've just read through to 1980 and there's certainly no golden age in any of that! It's still the odd classic surrounded by prehistoric films, even older Flash Gordon repeats and unwatchable tat.

You could probably find as much half decent programming on either Channel 4 or 5 nowadays, completely ignoring any other channel or outlet.

As has been mentioned there were still only 3 channels, but when you consider BBC 2 was all but unfathomable there really were only 2 channels so it's no wonder they could easily get a 20 million audience.
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Old 22-12-2016, 03:28
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I see ITV showing 'Graham Kerr; How to Sharpen a Knife' on Christmas Eve. Will they ever get back to those heights of entertainment ever again?
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Old 22-12-2016, 04:17
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you're holding up that 1976 schedule as a golden age? It's dire. Apart from the Porridge special and Morecombe and Wise nothing in that schedule would be fit to broadcast now ...that's how good a schedule it was!

In fact the Porridge episode has already been on this Christmas. As for Mike Yarwood the Generation Game, New Faces, ice skating, Kojak etc, who'd want to watch that now? Hardly 'classic' TV.
I'd agree, there's an awful lot of junk in that schedule. Compared to the normal programming all year round in 1976, it must have seemed "exciting" back then but to our eyes in 2016 it actually looks quite mediocre.
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Old 22-12-2016, 04:20
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I've just read through to 1980 and there's certainly no golden age in any of that! It's still the odd classic surrounded by prehistoric films, even older Flash Gordon repeats and unwatchable tat.

You could probably find as much half decent programming on either Channel 4 or 5 nowadays, completely ignoring any other channel or outlet.

As has been mentioned there were still only 3 channels, but when you consider BBC 2 was all but unfathomable there really were only 2 channels so it's no wonder they could easily get a 20 million audience.
Yes, it was either watch all that tat and drivel or watch nothing at all......it does explain how the audiences were huge for everything back then.
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Old 22-12-2016, 04:32
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In fairness to the OP I've just looked at 70 -75 and to be honest that actually seems a reasonably good line up, not the best but I imagine it compares relatively close to what we have now in this multi-channel age, I believe even those with a minimal only Freeview light service get around 20 ish channels so nobody can really complain now.

Even the 1970 - 75 BBC 2 listings resemble our BBC Four relatively speaking.
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