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
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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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...
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
@@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...
@@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
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!!
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!
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. 😂
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
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 😁
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
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 👌👌✅
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,
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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????
@@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
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
If was due to the franchise system that was in place for ITV at the time. Some franchises specified they could only broadcast at specific times (TV-AM and LWT for example). Although TV-AM broadcast pritty much nationwide everything else had certain regional variations above and beyond regional news. ITV broadcast using the IBA (Independant Broadcasting Authority) masts hence the IBA screen before start up.
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.
@KevCityboy It would be great especially if they could get Nick, Anne Diamond and the rest. I remember going downstairs and switching the TV on and seeing those opening credits with the message saying "TVAM will being at 6:25" then the people and pigeons etc. Wincey Willis, Lizzie, Russell Grant
It's July 2022 and I'm listening to this & wishing we could all go back in time for good.
me too
Modern era sucks big time!!!
I was there amongst the crowd on the Downs, Bristol, from what I can remember I was part of the "O" in Morning.
What a coincidence. I was one of the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, I was in the first N in morning.
do you know who was in the wrong letter?
Fantastic memories great theme tune never to be forgotten 😊☺️😊☺️😊😊😊
The sound of the eighties every morning.
Yes take me back just before leaving for school use to watch tv am .
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
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.
Russell Grant was then on "the other side", along with Frank Bough, David Icke, Selina Scott and others... on BBC Breakfast Time
@@mikerochburns4104 Me too, and I enjoy not having to legally pay the TV license, under current rules
I masturbated furiously over Kelly Brook on The Big Breakfast... Each to their own, eh?
i was 8 years old and the music was great but reminded me it was time for school.
With you on that one pal
Oh totally, never saw it past ten to nine!
Gives me goose bumps every time I hear this. Getting ready for school... What do we have now, nothing even compares!
Feel so old because I even remember the music at the beginning.
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.
Reminds me of getting ready for horrible school in the 1980s.
😀
yes, but wouldn't it be great to go back
You and me both 😝
Yep….
Yep me too.
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.
brilliant jumpers....a happy time when everything was possible
I was only 3 when I watched this and I still remember it, I miss those days.
SubjectRandom when you were 3?
@@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?
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 😂😂😂
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 ❤
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.
Who is watching TV-AM videos clips on RUclips in 2023?
Wow!!, I remember watching this back in the day, I was 11 when TV am first started, showing my age lol!!
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...
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
@@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...
@@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
@@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
@@wez4517 oh and the Sullivans also came one and sons & daughters
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!!
Childhood memories. I would hear this on the way out the door, and it would be in my head whilst playing in the recXX
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
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!
wow 30yrs has gone by god i miss this x
Absolutely the best days of my life.
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. 😂
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
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 😁
Sound of my childhood getting up for school
I was one of the pigeons that landed
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
i was a teenager TV am was so much brighter in the 80s morning TV was great in school summer hols
John Stapleton sitting there with Nick. John is still presenting breakfast TV 25 years later! Saw him on GMTV the other morning.
You had to get up early if you wanted to see TV-am’s ident as it only appeared when the station opened up.
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
This is what breakfast tv should be like nowadays, also I really liked the theme too.
Opinionated and passive aggressive? Sorry to tell you but nothing much has changed. Dominated by white men? Well.
My time machine is ready to go back , wow!!!! What fun . March 2020 😎👍😎👍
Good old days.
I miss Tv am.
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 👌👌✅
Nick Owen in this opening definitely has a bit of Partridge about him.
Who’s watching in 2020 😂
2021
2022
2020, 2022, 2023...🤣
6:55 Took 4 hours getting from Leeds to Harrogate? What mode of transport was that? Mule? ;)
Yes wish they could come back may be on channel 5 ? Was great TV . TV-AM we miss you :(.
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,
3:08 to skip to start
Always watched this before school
As soon as they read out the description at the start, my brain said, "That's got to be Isla St Clair..."
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.
Ojminjj
Miss the eighties, can really tell Jeff Wayne did the theme tune it has similarities to the war of the world's :)
It's actually: "War of the Worlds".
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
I always thought it was to allow the transmitter time to warm up and reach full power before the actual programming started.
The good ole days.
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.
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)
Popeye 7..25 the cornflakes then school
My breakfast used to be a black coffee and a Cigarette for years😎👍🏻very healthy!
I cant belive this was so long ago, i used to watch this before school. Time gos so fast.
Arggggh school 😢those were the days
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
Loved TV-AM, hated it when they brought in GMTV, just woeful.
Not as good for sure too from 1993 onwards so too.
I was born in England in 1984.
I came to London in March 1984 from Bangladesh Syhlet aged 7 lived near BT Tower Hanson Street.
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.
+John King it would be nice if TV AM came back with the same opening titles
Agreed.
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.
Had this been the BBC I think they'd be reaching for the Guardian to review before the Daily Mail!
So true, and the Daily Worker.
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.
...or the Socialist Worker
John Stapleton is a legend
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.
Remember seeing this intro as a kid
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?!
+KSKR UK Cuz they knew they be uploading it on here in the future.
because it was recorded at the time by the company that made it . . . DOOOH
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
Yes, you're right because I did exactly the same. Although I seem to remember it came on at 7:20-25.
Haha same here mate me to born 1970 I remember Popeye before shitty school
@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.
Banger
1984 sort of gives it away....
yeh timmy mallet and lizzy exercises good times love funky 80s jumpers lol
Starts at 3.20
I was born in the United Kingdom in 1984, 11 years before moving to New Zealand.
And I was born in NZ in 1977 and moved to the UK in 1984 :P.
@Jack Brown We've never met. I don't know SatoRonsela125.
Yep my dad used to do poached eggs on toast and off I would go with a paper round and then school in fishguard
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...
When TV wasn't 24 hours
No that did not occur until 1987 or later on itv and the bbc channels and channel 4 until 1997 or later too.
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????
IBA needs to come back, and revoke the licenses of any entity that became part of 'ITV'
bring back southern, and fsck meridian
@@TheChipmunk2008 Regions mean jack shit to ITV now, apart from regional news there are hardly any variations
@@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
That comment about how the portrait of Diana “made her look thinner” seems poignant in light of what was subsequently learned about her.
Happy Birthday
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.
I was 9 yr old omg
GREAT TO SEE GOOD MORNING BRITAIN BACK.
Video program starts at 3mins 11 seconds
Hah, fuckin' hell, Wincey Willis. Those were the days. Wonder what happened to her, doesn't seem to have a wiki page.
i remember that clock in the corner that is very old school
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.
Well of course on itv now then although there is the bbc so too.
Anyone tell me if this is a Jeff Wayne composition please???
TV presenters should go back to wearing proper sweaters with a shirt and tie, classic breakfast telly look 😁
This is a scary theme tune.
breakfast tv never been the same since
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.
How i soooooooooooooooooo miss being a teenageer and skinny in the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
@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.
It is incorrect to describe a scottish person as scotch.
Back in the days when you were jealous of Scotland having lots of snow, nowadays you think "rather them then me!!"
Andy Roo 6 years later and we hardly have any proper snow now.
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.
. . . . .would have . . . . .
@@andrewdeans3686 I am aware of my wrong diction there, I often get that one wrong -thanks:)
No way I didn't know he had died :(.
I would like to ask this because I wasn't alive yet that time...
Why is TV-am required to have the blue slide on-air before it signs-on?
If was due to the franchise system that was in place for ITV at the time. Some franchises specified they could only broadcast at specific times (TV-AM and LWT for example). Although TV-AM broadcast pritty much nationwide everything else had certain regional variations above and beyond regional news. ITV broadcast using the IBA (Independant Broadcasting Authority) masts hence the IBA screen before start up.
Is this from the strike, when it started late and finished early? Hasn't it always started at 6am otherwise?
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.
Toughen up.
what is the tune called,HELP
+John Robertson It was just called the "TV AM Theme Tune". If this is what you asking about.
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.
@KevCityboy
It would be great especially if they could get Nick, Anne Diamond and the rest.
I remember going downstairs and switching the TV on and seeing those opening credits with the message saying "TVAM will being at 6:25" then the people and pigeons etc.
Wincey Willis, Lizzie, Russell Grant