That was great - getting back to the sights and fads of 1982. Loved the deelyboppers, but I didn't get a personal stereo until 1987. I was too busy spending money on nights out, FASHION and booze in '82 to bother.
How about start saying "School holidays 82" instead of a short word of it because it makes me upset more but please remove that word you use if possible. Thanks!!!
Brilliant memories the next day was my 5th birthday. In 1982 LWT started at 5.15. Loved the handover from Thames as it meant the weekend has officially started.
Brings back Memories, Sat watching and Eating Fish and Chips, The Start of the weekend in the 80's, ITV giving way to LWT, Back then TV was good, Gimme those days on tv again, Not the same anymore :)
I remember those days having fish and chips Friday night around this time. At 7pm was either watching Play Your Cards Right or Family Fortunes. Miss those times
Splendid! As I live in the States, I haven't seen this program before. When this was televised, I was attending university in Bellingham, a small city near US-Canada border, and the hair styles and fashions definitely are fond memories. Videotaping of weddings remains fairly popular, and those rapidly-proliferating walkman cassette players and headphones seem rather innocent contrasted with today's proliferation in public places of smartphones. Thanks very much for posting this film!
This must have been uploaded from an original master tape, the quality is exceptional. I would have finished junior school the day this was broadcast, aged 11. I watched this program most Fridays.
At 1:52 one of the best oddities of LWT's awful lack of regional news. Even though LWT took over at 5.15pm on a Friday from Jan 1st 1982 they had to provide a Friday evening regional news. Too lazy to produce a bulletin themselves, they contracted their weekday rival Thames to produce Thames Weekend News for them at a cost of nearly £500,000 a year. Very odd. This arrangement lasted until 1988 when finally under threat from the IBA, LWT launched their own regional news provision.
Good lord Leonard Parkin! He lived not far from me as a child and my aunt once told him I said " Parkin, friend" after seeing him on the TV as a little child and he loved it!
Serious blast from the past this! Fred Housego doing the traffic news? Why? Who had a TV in their car? And most of us mere mortals could not afford a proper Sony Walkman in them days. I had a cheap Argos knock-off version for a while in 1982. Now people act like zombies over their phones...
Watch the traffic news before getting in the car perhaps. I don't know. About 10,000 people in London had car phones in 1982 apparently, more than you'd expect. They used radio to communicate with a telecom centre.
I was about to mention that. Looks like the ident/frontcap didn’t play so they just held on the feed from ITN. Precisely the reason there always used to be a ten-second transmission hold at the end of each show/segment - something for the regions to sit on in the case of a mishap, rather than show a blank screen. Actually, there’s a similar hold at the end of the Six o’clock Show - I think this recording is from a master tape/clean feed, so probably not what happened on air.
@@CaptainSiCo It's not what happened on air. The VTR started out recording the ITN line instead of the LWT studio output, and the VT op didn't realise until the titles had started. On-air, the junction would have appeared as normal.
Is it me or does the man at 27 minutes look like Alan Partridge (and a bit of Gordon Brown)? Their shock at headphones cracks me up. I can't imagine anyone was surprised by them even in 1982. I guess this was like The One Show.
There's a very long hold at the end of News at 5.45, then what appears to be a switching break. Did LWT hand control back to Thames for the first segment of the 6 O'Clock Show I wonder, or just a VHS glitch?
There was usually an ident before the programme. Going by the long silent hold on the end of the news and the ad breaks it looks like a studio recording not off air. The glitch probably the input to the VT being changed?
The reason there's no LWT ident before the 6'O Clock Show is that the VT operator was recording the wrong thing - he had the ITN line selected, not the 6OCS studio. He realised, and switched the input source, just after the LWT ident. Viewers at home would have seen the junction happen as normal. On the plus side, that is guaranteed to be the only recording in the world of Leonard's few seconds of paper-shuffling. ITN never recorded and kept the studio sequences from its bulletins at that time, it only kept the individual reports (which had obvious re-use value).
If only the pair of them worked closer together and LWT made more of their association with Thames than Carlton in the 1991 franchise applications, maybe Carlton wouldn’t have passed the quality threshold none of which was ever shown on their 9 years on the air. God knows why I’m moaning now, it’s all history now
Great upload, I used to love the 6 o Clock Show so it's great to see a whole episode. I hadn't realised they did travel news from a helicopter, impressive if a little pointless. I don't think that lasted long
I've always found Michael Aspel's success fascinating. Superficially charismatic but no real charisma at all. Nicely spoken, looks relaxed on camera, safe pair of hands, but weirdly blank.
Why not reuploaded the video feature the song "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cockrin without being muted in future because when I'm getting Southern England independent I will introduce a new rule to all of RUclipsrs out here by telling them not to mute the music when uploading old shows for example despite warnings about the songs being blocked on RUclips. Result!!!!
@dunebasher1971 Alternatively, if you sign up to the Internet Archive, but if you want to, it is much safer than the hideous RUclips unless changes must be taken to remove the ID claims.
This is great, such brilliant quality, but I need to ask, is the guy at 19:20 a kid or a teacher? Admittedly everyone looked older then, just look at Blockbusters
On 20th July, just three days earlier, the Provisional IRA exploded two bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people and leading to the death of seven horses. Known as the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings. Not a great week I think you would agree Daniel?
TV wise all we had in 1982 was BBC One, BBC Two, ITV with Channel 4 following in November 1982. That was it. Fantastic. If you were lucky you had a VCR to record and watch your favourite shows. Only four national BBC radio stations, and a scattering of commercial ones. 1982 was a different era certainly.
Aspel's 'jokes' at the beginning. Painful. Can't remember anything interesting he ever said. Colin Baker, on the other hand... 'married, several children, pissed off, really, dreadfully pissed off'!
That was great - getting back to the sights and fads of 1982. Loved the deelyboppers, but I didn't get a personal stereo until 1987. I was too busy spending money on nights out, FASHION and booze in '82 to bother.
Interesting. Useless fact: 1982 was the year CDs first became available but I think hardly anyone could afford one for the first few years.
Wonderful memories ... summer hols 82 and 16 ready for Feltham School 6th form in the September ... wish I had a time machine ❤️
Come On Eileen and Eye Of The Tiger number one in the charts.
Summer 82 was great memories
@@ajs41 1982 had great music too
How about start saying "School holidays 82" instead of a short word of it because it makes me upset more but please remove that word you use if possible. Thanks!!!
Brilliant memories the next day was my 5th birthday. In 1982 LWT started at 5.15. Loved the handover from Thames as it meant the weekend has officially started.
I was 3 in 1982 and lived in the Midlands, but this is fantastic to watch.
@@ajs41 there was always something like this to get weekend up and running whichever region you lived in
looks like this is HD, Amazing clear print.
Brings back Memories, Sat watching and Eating Fish and Chips, The Start of the weekend in the 80's, ITV giving way to LWT,
Back then TV was good, Gimme those days on tv again, Not the same anymore :)
I remember those days having fish and chips Friday night around this time. At 7pm was either watching Play Your Cards Right or Family Fortunes. Miss those times
I'm on Coronovirus lockdown, and for some reason wanted to watch this.
Splendid! As I live in the States, I haven't seen this program before. When this was televised, I was attending university in Bellingham, a small city near US-Canada border, and the hair styles and fashions definitely are fond memories. Videotaping of weddings remains fairly popular, and those rapidly-proliferating walkman cassette players and headphones seem rather innocent contrasted with today's proliferation in public places of smartphones. Thanks very much for posting this film!
The US and Canada were a lot more advanced than the UK at that time I'd have thought. These days there isn't much difference.
A nice touch that the Thames Weekend News diamond incorporates the orange, white and blue stripes of the LWT river ident.
LWT finally got their own version 6 years later
I loved this programme and to this day am a Baker fan.
Francis Wilson before he was signed by the BBC to provide his "Window on the Weather" on the new Breakfast Time.
Corruption in the metropolitan police!
Who's watching in 2023?
Best tape transfert.
37 years earlier I cant believe that was so many years ago it looked like it was filmed yesterday.
I've got a video from Christmas 1983 which looks as good as new.
This must have been uploaded from an original master tape, the quality is exceptional. I would have finished junior school the day this was broadcast, aged 11. I watched this program most Fridays.
I agree. we must be the same age then. 50 plus.
At 1:52 one of the best oddities of LWT's awful lack of regional news. Even though LWT took over at 5.15pm on a Friday from Jan 1st 1982 they had to provide a Friday evening regional news. Too lazy to produce a bulletin themselves, they contracted their weekday rival Thames to produce Thames Weekend News for them at a cost of nearly £500,000 a year. Very odd. This arrangement lasted until 1988 when finally under threat from the IBA, LWT launched their own regional news provision.
Good lord Leonard Parkin! He lived not far from me as a child and my aunt once told him I said " Parkin, friend" after seeing him on the TV as a little child and he loved it!
Leonard Parkin was a top newsreader. I remember watching him on News At 5.45 then went on to News At One
Thank you for posting this❤️ memories
Bring back those early 80's fashions and hairstyles. All the girls in the audience look gorgeous.
Typical 1982-looking girl at 26:19. Similar to the members of Bananarama.
Ah, the distinctive off-colour skin tones of Marconi Mk9 cameras!
Serious blast from the past this!
Fred Housego doing the traffic news? Why? Who had a TV in their car?
And most of us mere mortals could not afford a proper Sony Walkman in them days. I had a cheap Argos knock-off version for a while in 1982. Now people act like zombies over their phones...
Watch the traffic news before getting in the car perhaps. I don't know. About 10,000 people in London had car phones in 1982 apparently, more than you'd expect. They used radio to communicate with a telecom centre.
Astonishing quality for a 40 year old recording.
The ITN credits were held for quite a long time and no LWT logo before the 6 O’clock show titles. Wonder if there was a fault or some sort.
I was about to mention that. Looks like the ident/frontcap didn’t play so they just held on the feed from ITN. Precisely the reason there always used to be a ten-second transmission hold at the end of each show/segment - something for the regions to sit on in the case of a mishap, rather than show a blank screen.
Actually, there’s a similar hold at the end of the Six o’clock Show - I think this recording is from a master tape/clean feed, so probably not what happened on air.
@@CaptainSiCo It's not what happened on air. The VTR started out recording the ITN line instead of the LWT studio output, and the VT op didn't realise until the titles had started. On-air, the junction would have appeared as normal.
Thats what Vauxhall does look like now all the way up Nine Elms Road to Chelsea Bridge.
The 6 O'Clock Show was on air after ITN News at 545 with Leonard Parkin.
Yes at 6pm?
Is it me or does the man at 27 minutes look like Alan Partridge (and a bit of Gordon Brown)?
Their shock at headphones cracks me up. I can't imagine anyone was surprised by them even in 1982.
I guess this was like The One Show.
The Walkman had only been invented 3 years earlier in 1979 in Japan and it took 2 or 3 years for things to catch on in those days.
Great show. They shortened the Thames news to put this on. Great days.
Nice one Dunie,
Rita sounds like Pamela Stephenson doing a not the 9 o'clock news sketch :)
Some of those anecdotes were tough going ... lol :)
I thought the news at 5.45 would never end...!
Danny Baker and one of the dozen or so accents he's had over the years he's been on TV or radio.
Fred mentions Shooters Hill and Blackheath. Where I moved in 1985 still to this day
I had just left primary school then and was to start at the school here Furzedown in september, a great school.
That's in Tooting I think.
There's a very long hold at the end of News at 5.45, then what appears to be a switching break. Did LWT hand control back to Thames for the first segment of the 6 O'Clock Show I wonder, or just a VHS glitch?
There was usually an ident before the programme. Going by the long silent hold on the end of the news and the ad breaks it looks like a studio recording not off air. The glitch probably the input to the VT being changed?
That paper shuffling was phenomenal
Normally LWT would start at 7.00pm on Friday until December 1981. From January 1982 it was 5.15pm
The reason there's no LWT ident before the 6'O Clock Show is that the VT operator was recording the wrong thing - he had the ITN line selected, not the 6OCS studio. He realised, and switched the input source, just after the LWT ident.
Viewers at home would have seen the junction happen as normal.
On the plus side, that is guaranteed to be the only recording in the world of Leonard's few seconds of paper-shuffling. ITN never recorded and kept the studio sequences from its bulletins at that time, it only kept the individual reports (which had obvious re-use value).
@@dunebasher1971 And had the dedication to his job to down-and-up the sources, rather than just hack the correct source in!
Absolutely cracking upload. Looks like it came from a master tape.
Was that a shot of Northolt base under the end credits?
Yes that was Northolt
If only the pair of them worked closer together and LWT made more of their association with Thames than Carlton in the 1991 franchise applications, maybe Carlton wouldn’t have passed the quality threshold none of which was ever shown on their 9 years on the air. God knows why I’m moaning now, it’s all history now
The headphone part in this day would be the i phone and android devices. 😀
Great upload, I used to love the 6 o Clock Show so it's great to see a whole episode. I hadn't realised they did travel news from a helicopter, impressive if a little pointless. I don't think that lasted long
I've always found Michael Aspel's success fascinating. Superficially charismatic but no real charisma at all. Nicely spoken, looks relaxed on camera, safe pair of hands, but weirdly blank.
My dear old 6 o'clock show - the one programme they are shit scared to do a modern version of
"Shit scared"? The BBC's got The One Show, and ITV doesn't seem to feel the need to compete.
@@dunebasher1971
one show team cannot be compared to the classic Aspel & Street Porter / Baker / Munroe line-up
Some extra shuffling from Leonard Parkin there.
Long hold there on the ITN end titles. Think LWT may have had problems or they forgot to run their continuity ident?
Delayed switchover back to LWT I guess.
1:57: THAMES' REGIONAL WEEKEND NEWS
50 fps upload too.
Why not reuploaded the video feature the song "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cockrin without being muted in future because when I'm getting Southern England independent I will introduce a new rule to all of RUclipsrs out here by telling them not to mute the music when uploading old shows for example despite warnings about the songs being blocked on RUclips. Result!!!!
Because then the entire video gets blocked and nobody can see it.
@dunebasher1971 Alternatively, if you sign up to the Internet Archive, but if you want to, it is much safer than the hideous RUclips unless changes must be taken to remove the ID claims.
This is great, such brilliant quality, but I need to ask, is the guy at 19:20 a kid or a teacher? Admittedly everyone looked older then, just look at Blockbusters
He's a kid.
It was fashionable at the time to make yourself look older than you were. The total opposite of today.
OMG I loved this show, where I first discovered Janet Street Porter. And wow the audience are soo lame
What's wrong with the audience? They seem very polite and cheerful to me, which is exactly what you need for a show like this.
Is there any way to get all the episodes of Six O'Clock show online? My Grandad was in an episode which featured hop-picking, would like to find it
what was the bad news that Aspel hinted on at the start?
On 20th July, just three days earlier, the Provisional IRA exploded two bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people and leading to the death of seven horses. Known as the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings. Not a great week I think you would agree Daniel?
Aspel looked uncomfortable
1982 I was 13 then
Toyah with Brave New World at 26:26.
Police corruption, somethings never change 😂😂😂
Rail strikes, morally corrupt Met…🤔
15:55
when i was young i always thought Michael Aspel looked like
a boiled egg...Wish those days were back.Everything seemed so much simpler.
TV wise all we had in 1982 was BBC One, BBC Two, ITV with Channel 4 following in November 1982. That was it. Fantastic. If you were lucky you had a VCR to record and watch your favourite shows. Only four national BBC radio stations, and a scattering of commercial ones. 1982 was a different era certainly.
Ronnie Barker?
Aspel's 'jokes' at the beginning. Painful. Can't remember anything interesting he ever said. Colin Baker, on the other hand... 'married, several children, pissed off, really, dreadfully pissed off'!
no media savvy
What do you mean?