Starting Science - a complete primary school VHS's-worth - Spring 1985

This is a complete capture of a VHS of Starting Science recorded at a primary school during the spring term 1985, starting on Wednesday 16th January.
Many thanks to Jason Robertson for the teletext archaeology that has come up with the exact TX dates and times for everything.
There are a few oddities to note, such as the countdown clock starting to reset itself in-vision; the key clipping levels for the clock drifting (or being knocked) out of alignment and revealing a hint of the actual mechanical clock face; and a brief test transmission of BBC Micro computer data.
(Over 30 years later, the data has been loaded and discovered to be a very boring text file for use in a database application, listing local authority facilities in the Midlands).
0:00 - end of Start The Day (TX 16.1.85, 9.46am)
2:50 - rewinding countdown clock (16.1.85)
3:09 - Starting Science: Communication and Control 1 (16.1.85)
17:47 - Starting Science: Communication and Control 2 (23.1.85, 9.46am)
34:45 - Picture Box: Bayeux Tapestry (partial extract) (23.1.85, 11.30am)
41:27 - Starting Science: Safe Systems (28.1.85, 10.10am)
58:30 - Starting Science: Safe Systems 2 (4.2.85, 10.10am)
1:12:09 - Starting Science: Impulse and Impact 1 (11.2.85, 10.10am)
1:27:33 - countdown clock with dodgy key (25.2.85, 10.10am)
1:28:04 - Starting Science: Impulse and Impact 2 (25.2.85, 10.10am)
1:42:43 - complete interval sequence and clock (25.2.85, 10.25am)
1:46:57 - Starting Science: Stairway to the Stars 1 (4.3.85, 10.10am)
2:02:02 - interval into clock and start of The English Programme with Eric Bogosian (4.3.85, 10.25am)
2:07:27 - Starting Science: Stairway to the Stars 2 (11.3.85, 10.10am)
2:21:57 - Starting Science: Magic and Mystery 1 (18.3.85, 10.10am)
2:36:03 - Starting Science: Magic and Mystery 2 (25.3.85, 10.10am)
2:50:45 - experimental BBC Micro data transmission (25.3.85, 10.25am)
2:52:16 - interlude and clock for The English Programme (25.3.85)
2:56:23 - Baby & Co (partial extract of Dr. Miriam Stoppard series for new parents) (18.3.85, 12.45pm)

[@richardtherrien4696]

That’s my Saturday nights entertainment sorted. Excellent.👍🏻

[@marcelorozengurt4432]

Very interesting programs very nice to see them again.

[@COOL-DROPS]

Thanks so much for this, it's pure Gold!

[@andreww6769]

Excellent upload! Definitely not Stepping Stones at the start though. They’d stopped making that about 1980. Thanks for the viewing 😎

[@dunebasher1971]

Now confirmed as Start The Day from 16th January 1985.

[@djanoglymusic]

I was hoping this would feature the episode I was in but can't find it anywhere.... even managed to contact the director but he didn't know where the tapes were anymore. One of these episodes was filmed at my school so starting to wonder whether the episode actually aired at all...

[@robmortimer4150]

Love the rewinding clock and caption mistake at the start. Worth watching for that alone

[@robmortimer4150]

Also, the later one with the dodgy camera means you can literally see the clock on what appears to be its stand for a second

[@duncanpriestley964]

@@robmortimer4150 could you give a time prompt please?

[@robmortimer4150]

@@duncanpriestley964 it’s in the description:)

[@adamwheeldon]

awsome, i want more

[@BBC600]

16:47 31:48 It would be interesting to check the newspaper archives and see if those advertisements can be found. 27:40 That's similar to how a fax machine works a demonstration like this was done on The Secret Life of Machines about the subject fax machines. What they're doing there is essentially what computer binary is on or off (in this case coloured or not coloured).2:50:45 Is the text file test transmission available on the internet for use in an emulator? That should be preserved too just for posterity sake.

[@dunebasher1971]

It was decoded by people on an Acorn user group. It's very very boring.

[@mummygiraffepresentsclassi8722]

DOCTOR WHO MATEY ALERT-Good grief! It’s Andrew Burt from “Terminus”! 💙💙💙💙