Yes, threads was a one off nuclear war drama doc. First broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday the 23rd of September 1984 and shown again on BBC 1 the next year. @@marcse7en
@@marcse7en As much as I agree with you, it’s still a very important film. It showcases the horrors of what could have happened and it’s an important reminder that we should walk the path of peace.
Happy 60th BBC TWO! Growing up in the 90s and 2000s i use to love watching shows on BBC Two like Simpsons, Robot Wars, Fresh Prince Bel air Captain Scarlet Farscape, the list goes on. I know you covered them on the channel loads of times but 90s TWOs always have a place in my heart. Some of the idents did scare me a tiny bit but there some I liked too and every now and then i go back and rewatch some of idents
They actually did something! Re-aired old idents and programing plus a 60 years music special, first the original Black & White ident before The Likely Lads, then the 90s Paint before Open All Hours, then the Computer Generated 2 before Butterflies, then another 90s one Copper Sparks before Miranda, and lastly a repeat of the B&W ident before the 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60 special. I love that they didn't JUST do the 90s 2s like usual but I do with they didn't just do two of them and repeat the first one again. They easily could've made the last two something else to cover more eras like the Personality, Window, TWO, Cube, etc. eras. Of course like always, Northern Ireland went above and beyond. Not only did they do exactly that, also showing Personality and Window 2s, they also remade the B&W ident from scratch while network just aired it awkwardly zoomed to fill widescreen 🤣
The Newsnight montage of shows is probably my favourite thing so far to come from the 60th celebrations (probably in part to seeing a clip from a programme that hasn't been repeated since 2014, I'm definitely bias in that regard), it is so expertly edited and that final section where The Young Ones end credits theme played, all the clips work so rhythmically and on the beat. Props to whoever edited that sequence on Newsnight, and a Happy Birthday to BBC Two.
Here’s to BBC Two: Thank you for serving us great programming and creating memorable idents that will live in an infinite legacy and holding the honour for the first European TV channel to launch a colour service. Here’s to another 60 years for BBC Two. Thanks for celebrating Adam.🥳
My late parents finally got a UHF Set in the early 1970s. My earliest memories of BBC 2 were the Trade Test Colour films during the day and Test Card F. BBC 2 programmes were only on the air in the evenings in those days.
There was something missing to this birthday celebration, an Adam Martyn video of course! Now today's birthday is complete, thank you! Also Happy Birthday BBC Two, and I hope it gets a better on screen logo soon
Wow, that's amazing, I remember it's 40th anniversary back in 2004, the cover on the Radio Times had the '2' logo on it as it's main feature! Think I've still got a copy of it somewhere!🙂🙂🙂
An excellent tribute Adam. So many big BBC2 memories. A lot of them have been from comedies like Red Dwarf, Shooting Stars, League Of Gentleman and The Fast Show. Also a lot of the sport over the years, Sunday Grandstand was always a big part of my weekends growing up as well as the snooker and Wimbledon (before the BBC put it everywhere across their schedule like they do now).
Happy Birthday BBC 2 🎉 you have Give me my favourite comedy programme Red Dwarf. A Bit of Fry and Laurie also Miranda these programs started careers. With BBC 2 it is like channel 4 as it has shown Documentaries or Films with subjects we never seen.
I can always remember the messing about at my uncles house to watch BBC2 he had a twin line set but for some season only one down lead from his attic to his lounge, so when they wanted to watch BBC1/ITV on VHF or BBC2 on UHF he had to go up unto the attic and change the aerials over. In the end it was too much bother to watch BBC2, so they never did.
Yeah, but they all were Janet Street-Porter's that she devised at C4 (and the BBC poached her - and her entourage - because they were so worried about C4). Pretty sure I remember Shooting Stars being the same.
Watching the live right now. While it was nice to see the old idents (So far it’s 1964 > Paint 91 > 1979 > Copper 91 > 1964) it’s still a bit disappointing to see a simple celebration. I was expecting something more like classic idents from Startup to closedown. Still it is a special weekend for us fanatics of this great pioneer. Thank you for all the great shows and idents and Happy Birthday BBC Two!
With regard to BBC2 not making it to 70 years, the only response that comes to mind is to quote Battery Sergeant Major Williams from 'It ain't half hot Mum!' and say "Oh dear! How sad! Never mind!"
as an 80s/90s kid - Red Dwarf, Robot Wars, League of Gentlemen, Never mind the Buzzcocks, Shooting Stars (and all the reeves and mortimer stuff that preceded it), TOTP2 hungover on a Sunday during my uni years. But also Fresh Prince, The Simpsons, Farscape and LOTS of Star Trek.
We were in Aylesford when BBC 2 launched, so we didn’t see it. When we moved back to London we brought a pour Bush TV125/U dual standard TV with us and began viewing. Fave shows were Alias Smith and Jones and Call My Bluff, Pot Black. I would sit and watch the colour test films, like Birth of a Rainbow, It’s the Tube That Makes the Colour, The Colour Receiver Installation Film. Testcard and music was entertaining too. The rotating 2 seems to have been the basis for the similar rotating 4 on the Australian ABCs 4 Corners current affairs show
There was a lot to recommend listening to 440Hz tone as I walked around the transmitter hall. Single man , safety blip the 22Khz pilot tone every half hour.
It's true that there aren't that many channels that have survived for 60 years, but then again 60 years ago there were only 3 channels that had ever existed in the UK anyway so there literally couldn't be any more than 3 who have existed for that long. Even existing 30 years as a channel is something that I think only 15 channels have done in the UK so far (feel free to correct me if I've missed anything or wrongly included anything): BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4, S4C, Sky One (closed 2021), Eurosport (1), MTV, Sky News, Challenge, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Gold, QVC, Cartoon Network In addition to that the Sky Movies and Sky Sports brands have existed for more than 30 years, but it's impossible to point at any specific current channel within each brand as being the 'same' channel throughout those brand's respective existences.
I feel the beeb Is moving this innovation and creativity to its digital and social platforms. Although its sad, many of the types of programmes we are mourning are being made elsewhere ( minus newsnight) and I feel that the channels purpose is no longer needed. Alternative and spikey programmes are still on the BBC, but they are now all under one roof.
I think the biggest problem with BBC Two right now is the existence of BBC Four. Now, I am actually one of the minority of people who like BBC Four. But with limited broadcast hours and a lot of repeats, its content could easily shift over to BBC Two.
I agree, as much as I love BBC4, BBC2 surely could have the content instead (if it is a case of limited money). BBC 4 could be the best channel on the TV and could have tons of art shows / archive etc but it is not as good as it used to be, I am assuming it will be showing repeats of FlogIt soon enough. If Talking Pictures can run endless old black and white shows, heritage charts, footage detectives, cellar club etc why can't BBC 4 do much the same with the same energy and enthusiasm
Strange in all the footage of BBC2 over the years that there is nothing of The Young Ones, now they could shown the Bambi episode from 1984 as the sheer number of guest performers would make this certainly culturally significant, and they were Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane, Tamsin Heatley, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton in one of his performing roles on the show. Music from Motorhead playing Ace Of Spades, and according to their Guitarist Phil Campbell he had joined the band two weeks previously when they recorded their performance and it was first time he did anything as an official member of the band and would remain there until Lemmy's death in 2015. As a direct relation of The Young Ones, they could have shown the first ever episode of Absolutely Fabulous and Harry's Enfield Television Programme which did start on BBC2 in the early 1990s. Another choice is that the chances they took with showing American Television, with many shows from American Television making the schedule right up until the late 1990s, but the one show and episode I would have shown is MASH and the 5th Season episode Dear Sigmund from 1976, for the simple reason is that it was written and directed by Alan Alda but the central character in the episode is the Psychiatrist Major Sydney Freedman and his observations of the 4077th and how they dealt with the Korean War and the people they meet.
If you like comedy then you need to know the name Carla Lane. This lady wrote many bbc comedies including Butterflies which was set in the late 70s in Cheltenham. It was about a bored yet romantic housewife who has an affair. Among the cast is a very young Nick Lyndhurst as youngest son Adam. Carla wrote the Liver Birds early 70s comedy set in Liverpool and again in the 80s another Liverpool comedy called Bread which in one episode featured Paul and Linda McCartney. Carla wrote many comedies. I strongly recommend watching BUTTERFLIES.
Who drew the first Playschool house? It reminds me of the ol' crooked house in Adventure Island, Southend on Sea, the bit with the key always puzzled me as well, but it could have been worse, if I remember rightly when Auntie Beeb started, there was a bit of music and dancing, ITV was a ad break for toothpaste and Countdown was the first programme on Ch4, so not too bad. I like the story about TV going off for the war, one minute a Mickey Mouse cartoon then loads of time later, it comes back on, and they pick up right where they were, more Mickey. Nice one.
I still enjoy watching shows on BBC2 (and BBC4), more so than BBC. I love watching DW TV channel and they have numerous arts show, music shows, science shows and I would love to see the BBC have more of those than endless FlogIt, I can't believe it costs a vast amount to put shows on about say an artist such as Dave McKean talking about his art, it doesn't need to be etc flying around the world seeing various monuments or staying at expensive hotels. Also, there must be millions of comedy acts around the country or drama productions that could do with a bit of coverage on BBC2 and probably for very little money. The 4 hour show of music was fine but I was hoping for a more coherent show such as 1964, 1965, 1966 etc instead of bouncing from the brilliant Kinks to Beyonce etc. Also, surely if Channel 5 can do a four hour show about TV in 1971 or 1972 or the 1976 Summer heatwave, the BBC could make a fascinating 4 hour archive show of all their obscure arts / dramas (and no FlogIt) for the evening of their 60th ?
I dont mind bits from the BBC Studios Joint venture coming over to BBC Two. Flog It could be re-packaged into the visiting of places of interest format somehow. What could Two do - the music thing is one worth visiting - in depth looks at the stories of some of the more recent key musicians - I would love a Taylor Swift Doc as I know nothing of her as such.
I would love to see BBC Two use their archives more as well, and the BBC in general need to bring back the older series of Strictly Come Dancing - I would love to see them again - and I wish the BBC would get rid of the Flog It! repeats and also get rid of Homes Under The Hammer and Bargain Hunt too please
I see they put the old black & white BBC2 ident on before that episode of The Likely Lads which seemed appropriate for the 60's but I think they missed out on showing that blue stripy one from the early 70's before Open All Hours, then the late 70's / early 80's one was shown before Butterflies. Didn't watch the rather long music programme, think I'll watch that on iPlayer at some point.
I'm grateful to Alan Yentob for bringing Rab C. Nesbitt to England without patronising subtitles as we supposedly wouldn't be able to understand people North of the Border! Also for the relevant person in the corporation for showing M*A*S*H* with the laughter track removed. As Alan Alda once remarked, us Brits don't need to be told when to laugh, cry, etc. Happy Birthday BBC2!
A message to BBC Two: Someone once told me you're supposed to eat a cake on your birthday... Tada! Here's your birthday cake - it's apple flavored! And here's a spoon. The cake didn't rise properly in the oven, that's why it looks more akin to an apple pie... Ugh, baking is really quite complicated! - Venti from Genshin Impact
Hey Adam! The Ident Review's 6th birthday is coming up soon, so do you plan to celebrate? Also on that subject, will the Ident Review Extra ever come back? Or maybe Video Scaries?
Also, for their 50th anniversary ten years ago they brought back some of the much loved idents from the 90's on a regular basis, it would be nice if they did that again for it's 60th, can't see that happening though!🙂🙂🙂
They reaired old idents, first the original Black & White ident, then the 90s Paint, then the Computer Generated 2, then another 90s one Copper Sparks, and lastly a repeat of the B&W ident.
Not having a modern TV , Colour and BBC2 were denied for a good few years for me. I think I have seen the first eps of Likely Lads and Butterflies a few times on repeat now, and to some extent on YT. Butterflies one of Carla Lane's series of basically being a woman (Bread and Liver Birds being effectively the other main parts of the trilogy), Didnt really like the whole point of Butterflies though , if her cooking was so bad why didnt he do a bit of if sometimes and actually help her find what she was good at, we have to accept the mismatch of teen kids to older parents as part of the tv family cliche.
I would prefer if BBC Two carried the "in depth" News Channel Interviews with rolling news on BBC News, I want a choice, not a double up (same Radio 4 vs World Service).
They haven't got any money. TV is really in the doldrums now. They always marked this before. They need to fold BBC Four into Two - that would return the channel to its old form and increase the budget from the costs saved from having Four on its own.
BBC NEWS annoys me. It's the dont miss the MESSAGE type news telling its insulting. Am sick of being told Charles has CANCER like he is the only person who has had CANCER don't miss the MESSAGE. There is a channel that can shutdown.
Relaying on a show that has been off the air for over 4 years now in such large numbers is never a good sign for a television channel. I mean why do we even have BBC Two at all if they are mostly going to be airing game shows, simulcasts of BBC News and repeats of shows that have been off the air for sometimes years. This isn’t a good sign for BBC 2 at all. Especially considering that BBC Two have had three or four years without a channel controller. Not good for a channel that has given us so many great, innovative and important programs over the past 60 years. These are very bad times for BBC Two. And it might not get better but we will have to wait and see. BBC Two did give the British Morecambe and Wise in colour for the first time back in September of 1968, and the Morecambe and Wise Show would continue to air first on BBC 2 until 1971. So that’s one of the things that didn’t get mentioned. Morecambe and Wise were massively popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and seeing them in colour for the first time must of been a massive deal for the few individuals who had colour television sets at the time.
I very rarely watch BBC Two, and don't often watch BBC One either! ... I call the BBC, the "Boring Broadcasting Corporation." 🤣 I love "Doctor Who," but NOT the God-awful New Series! ... And I hate "DeadEnders!" ... I'm more of a "Coronation Street" fan!
It might not even get to 65! I personally think the BBC should be looking at closing all their TV channels except BBC1 (reverting back to BBC TV with more of a ‘BBC HD’ style schedule of programming including PSB programming) preparing the UK for a full switch to online. Anyway Happy 60th Birthday to BBC2. What a channel you were in the 90’s!
This channel is the reason that a lot of classics (like Threads) exist. Happy Birthday BBC 2, the Beeb’s second prize.
Threads? The nuclear war film? ... I wish things like THAT, didn't exist!
Yes, threads was a one off nuclear war drama doc. First broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday the 23rd of September 1984 and shown again on BBC 1 the next year. @@marcse7en
@@marcse7en As much as I agree with you, it’s still a very important film. It showcases the horrors of what could have happened and it’s an important reminder that we should walk the path of peace.
Happy 60th BBC TWO! Growing up in the 90s and 2000s i use to love watching shows on BBC Two like Simpsons, Robot Wars, Fresh Prince Bel air Captain Scarlet Farscape, the list goes on. I know you covered them on the channel loads of times but 90s TWOs always have a place in my heart. Some of the idents did scare me a tiny bit but there some I liked too and every now and then i go back and rewatch some of idents
They actually did something! Re-aired old idents and programing plus a 60 years music special, first the original Black & White ident before The Likely Lads, then the 90s Paint before Open All Hours, then the Computer Generated 2 before Butterflies, then another 90s one Copper Sparks before Miranda, and lastly a repeat of the B&W ident before the 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60 special.
I love that they didn't JUST do the 90s 2s like usual but I do with they didn't just do two of them and repeat the first one again. They easily could've made the last two something else to cover more eras like the Personality, Window, TWO, Cube, etc. eras.
Of course like always, Northern Ireland went above and beyond. Not only did they do exactly that, also showing Personality and Window 2s, they also remade the B&W ident from scratch while network just aired it awkwardly zoomed to fill widescreen 🤣
In the Republic you can't get the iplayer.
Happy birthday BBC 2! Thanks for all the idents and services you made.
The Newsnight montage of shows is probably my favourite thing so far to come from the 60th celebrations (probably in part to seeing a clip from a programme that hasn't been repeated since 2014, I'm definitely bias in that regard), it is so expertly edited and that final section where The Young Ones end credits theme played, all the clips work so rhythmically and on the beat. Props to whoever edited that sequence on Newsnight, and a Happy Birthday to BBC Two.
Here’s to BBC Two:
Thank you for serving us great programming and creating memorable idents that will live in an infinite legacy and holding the honour for the first European TV channel to launch a colour service. Here’s to another 60 years for BBC Two. Thanks for celebrating Adam.🥳
My late parents finally got a UHF Set in the early 1970s. My earliest memories of BBC 2 were the Trade Test Colour films during the day and Test Card F. BBC 2 programmes were only on the air in the evenings in those days.
There was something missing to this birthday celebration, an Adam Martyn video of course! Now today's birthday is complete, thank you! Also Happy Birthday BBC Two, and I hope it gets a better on screen logo soon
Wow, that's amazing, I remember it's 40th anniversary back in 2004, the cover on the Radio Times had the '2' logo on it as it's main feature! Think I've still got a copy of it somewhere!🙂🙂🙂
Thank you Adam, for these wonderful videos
An excellent tribute Adam. So many big BBC2 memories. A lot of them have been from comedies like Red Dwarf, Shooting Stars, League Of Gentleman and The Fast Show. Also a lot of the sport over the years, Sunday Grandstand was always a big part of my weekends growing up as well as the snooker and Wimbledon (before the BBC put it everywhere across their schedule like they do now).
Happy 60th Birthday From BBC Two ❤️
Happy Birthday BBC 2 🎉 you have Give me my favourite comedy programme Red Dwarf. A Bit of Fry and Laurie also Miranda these programs started careers.
With BBC 2 it is like channel 4 as it has shown Documentaries or Films with subjects we never seen.
Wishing BBC 2 a very happy birthday
now we need to bring the number 2 back
My favourite shows on BBC TWO are University Challenge and Newsnight!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BBC 2!
Happy 60th BBC Two.
I can always remember the messing about at my uncles house to watch BBC2 he had a twin line set but for some season only one down lead from his attic to his lounge, so when they wanted to watch BBC1/ITV on VHF or BBC2 on UHF he had to go up unto the attic and change the aerials over. In the end it was too much bother to watch BBC2, so they never did.
Happy 60th Birthday to BBC2. 🎂
Happy Birthday to BBC2
Not forgetting all the youth programming back in the early 90s Reportage, Dance Energy etc
Yeah, but they all were Janet Street-Porter's that she devised at C4 (and the BBC poached her - and her entourage - because they were so worried about C4).
Pretty sure I remember Shooting Stars being the same.
Never knew my dad shared a birthday with bbc2. Nice to know
Really cool I the old 60 years
Happy Birthday BBC 2, 10 years ago on the 50th anniversary I saw One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on BBC 2 and the rest is history.
They really did put some good films on.
Happy Birthday BBC Two ❤❤❤
Happy Birthday BBC2!
You’ve been always iconic outside of the UK ;)
That launch logo on a portrait background … feels modern now. Imagine a flat panel display turned sideways, next to the presenter.
Watching the live right now. While it was nice to see the old idents (So far it’s 1964 > Paint 91 > 1979 > Copper 91 > 1964) it’s still a bit disappointing to see a simple celebration. I was expecting something more like classic idents from Startup to closedown. Still it is a special weekend for us fanatics of this great pioneer. Thank you for all the great shows and idents and Happy Birthday BBC Two!
Happy birthday BBC Two!
Thank You For 60 years,BBC 2 have a greater 40 years.6️⃣0️⃣
wow! happy birthday BBC 2!
With regard to BBC2 not making it to 70 years, the only response that comes to mind is to quote Battery Sergeant Major Williams from 'It ain't half hot Mum!' and say
"Oh dear!
How sad!
Never mind!"
Also . Happy 60th birthday to BBC1.
😊 Happy Birthday BBC2. Bring back 2.
as an 80s/90s kid - Red Dwarf, Robot Wars, League of Gentlemen, Never mind the Buzzcocks, Shooting Stars (and all the reeves and mortimer stuff that preceded it), TOTP2 hungover on a Sunday during my uni years. But also Fresh Prince, The Simpsons, Farscape and LOTS of Star Trek.
Aw yeah! 2-Day!
Happy birthday 2 BBC2!
We were in Aylesford when BBC 2 launched, so we didn’t see it. When we moved back to London we brought a pour Bush TV125/U dual standard TV with us and began viewing. Fave shows were Alias Smith and Jones and Call My Bluff, Pot Black. I would sit and watch the colour test films, like Birth of a Rainbow, It’s the Tube That Makes the Colour, The Colour Receiver Installation Film. Testcard and music was entertaining too. The rotating 2 seems to have been the basis for the similar rotating 4 on the Australian ABCs 4 Corners current affairs show
Happy 60th birthday BBC2
There was a lot to recommend listening to 440Hz tone as I walked around the transmitter hall.
Single man , safety blip the 22Khz pilot tone every half hour.
Happy birthday bbc 2
It's true that there aren't that many channels that have survived for 60 years, but then again 60 years ago there were only 3 channels that had ever existed in the UK anyway so there literally couldn't be any more than 3 who have existed for that long.
Even existing 30 years as a channel is something that I think only 15 channels have done in the UK so far (feel free to correct me if I've missed anything or wrongly included anything):
BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4, S4C, Sky One (closed 2021), Eurosport (1), MTV, Sky News, Challenge, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Gold, QVC, Cartoon Network
In addition to that the Sky Movies and Sky Sports brands have existed for more than 30 years, but it's impossible to point at any specific current channel within each brand as being the 'same' channel throughout those brand's respective existences.
Happy birthday BBC 2
I feel the beeb Is moving this innovation and creativity to its digital and social platforms. Although its sad, many of the types of programmes we are mourning are being made elsewhere ( minus newsnight) and I feel that the channels purpose is no longer needed. Alternative and spikey programmes are still on the BBC, but they are now all under one roof.
happy birthday bbc2 even though i dont live in the uk
I think the biggest problem with BBC Two right now is the existence of BBC Four. Now, I am actually one of the minority of people who like BBC Four. But with limited broadcast hours and a lot of repeats, its content could easily shift over to BBC Two.
I agree, as much as I love BBC4, BBC2 surely could have the content instead (if it is a case of limited money). BBC 4 could be the best channel on the TV and could have tons of art shows / archive etc but it is not as good as it used to be, I am assuming it will be showing repeats of FlogIt soon enough. If Talking Pictures can run endless old black and white shows, heritage charts, footage detectives, cellar club etc why can't BBC 4 do much the same with the same energy and enthusiasm
Good video Adam.
Thank you!
60 years of BBC 2? Oh god, it’s happening again.
1964-2024 HAPPY 6th Anniversary
BBC2 was born the same day my father was born!
Strange in all the footage of BBC2 over the years that there is nothing of The Young Ones, now they could shown the Bambi episode from 1984 as the sheer number of guest performers would make this certainly culturally significant, and they were Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane, Tamsin Heatley, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton in one of his performing roles on the show. Music from Motorhead playing Ace Of Spades, and according to their Guitarist Phil Campbell he had joined the band two weeks previously when they recorded their performance and it was first time he did anything as an official member of the band and would remain there until Lemmy's death in 2015.
As a direct relation of The Young Ones, they could have shown the first ever episode of Absolutely Fabulous and Harry's Enfield Television Programme which did start on BBC2 in the early 1990s. Another choice is that the chances they took with showing American Television, with many shows from American Television making the schedule right up until the late 1990s, but the one show and episode I would have shown is MASH and the 5th Season episode Dear Sigmund from 1976, for the simple reason is that it was written and directed by Alan Alda but the central character in the episode is the Psychiatrist Major Sydney Freedman and his observations of the 4077th and how they dealt with the Korean War and the people they meet.
If you like comedy then you need to know the name Carla Lane. This lady wrote many bbc comedies including Butterflies which was set in the late 70s in Cheltenham. It was about a bored yet romantic housewife who has an affair. Among the cast is a very young Nick Lyndhurst as youngest son Adam. Carla wrote the Liver Birds early 70s comedy set in Liverpool and again in the 80s another Liverpool comedy called Bread which in one episode featured Paul and Linda McCartney. Carla wrote many comedies. I strongly recommend watching BUTTERFLIES.
Happy Birthday BBC2! As far as back catalogues go, I would like to see the old “Watch With Mother” programmes repeated.
A very happy 60th birthday to BBC Two!
Who drew the first Playschool house? It reminds me of the ol' crooked house in Adventure Island, Southend on Sea, the bit with the key always puzzled me as well, but it could have been worse, if I remember rightly when Auntie Beeb started, there was a bit of music and dancing, ITV was a ad break for toothpaste and Countdown was the first programme on Ch4, so not too bad. I like the story about TV going off for the war, one minute a Mickey Mouse cartoon then loads of time later, it comes back on, and they pick up right where they were, more Mickey. Nice one.
I remember The Flintstones on BBC 2 - shame they don't show that anymore.
It would be amazing if bbc 2 was launched on 2/2/02 on 2:00 PM.
I still enjoy watching shows on BBC2 (and BBC4), more so than BBC. I love watching DW TV channel and they have numerous arts show, music shows, science shows and I would love to see the BBC have more of those than endless FlogIt, I can't believe it costs a vast amount to put shows on about say an artist such as Dave McKean talking about his art, it doesn't need to be etc flying around the world seeing various monuments or staying at expensive hotels. Also, there must be millions of comedy acts around the country or drama productions that could do with a bit of coverage on BBC2 and probably for very little money.
The 4 hour show of music was fine but I was hoping for a more coherent show such as 1964, 1965, 1966 etc instead of bouncing from the brilliant Kinks to Beyonce etc. Also, surely if Channel 5 can do a four hour show about TV in 1971 or 1972 or the 1976 Summer heatwave, the BBC could make a fascinating 4 hour archive show of all their obscure arts / dramas (and no FlogIt) for the evening of their 60th ?
I dont mind bits from the BBC Studios Joint venture coming over to BBC Two. Flog It could be re-packaged into the visiting of places of interest format somehow. What could Two do - the music thing is one worth visiting - in depth looks at the stories of some of the more recent key musicians - I would love a Taylor Swift Doc as I know nothing of her as such.
Shame! BBC 2 is dead now, but when I was a kid/teenager in the 80s 90s it was a top tier channel! Super stuff back then! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I would love to see BBC Two use their archives more as well, and the BBC in general need to bring back the older series of Strictly Come Dancing - I would love to see them again - and I wish the BBC would get rid of the Flog It! repeats and also get rid of Homes Under The Hammer and Bargain Hunt too please
I see they put the old black & white BBC2 ident on before that episode of The Likely Lads which seemed appropriate for the 60's but I think they missed out on showing that blue stripy one from the early 70's before Open All Hours, then the late 70's / early 80's one was shown before Butterflies. Didn't watch the rather long music programme, think I'll watch that on iPlayer at some point.
Zavvi have a new Doctor Who steelbook available to pre-order if you want it!
just saw a really old ident on 2, guessing thats what is on, will try and get a screencap
Theyre airing classic idents
No mention of 'Month Python'!
I'm grateful to Alan Yentob for bringing Rab C. Nesbitt to England without patronising subtitles as we supposedly wouldn't be able to understand people North of the Border!
Also for the relevant person in the corporation for showing M*A*S*H* with the laughter track removed. As Alan Alda once remarked, us Brits don't need to be told when to laugh, cry, etc.
Happy Birthday BBC2!
Happy birthday bbc2 shame there aren’t any special idents this year though
The BBC 2 idents of the 1990s (mostly Fibers & especially Shadow) gave me the creeps, Happy Birthday all the same.
Is it really ten years since "Harry and Paul's Story of the Two's"?
I believe it is!
@@AdamMartyn Probably the funniest thing they've produced in recent history, except it wasn't that recent, as it turns out 😨
BBC 2
Itv @ 70 next year
And Happy Diamond Bday BBC TWO
And BBC One at I believe 90? In 2026
Bring back play school!!!!
A message to BBC Two:
Someone once told me you're supposed to eat a cake on your birthday... Tada! Here's your birthday cake - it's apple flavored! And here's a spoon. The cake didn't rise properly in the oven, that's why it looks more akin to an apple pie... Ugh, baking is really quite complicated!
- Venti from Genshin Impact
Hey Adam! The Ident Review's 6th birthday is coming up soon, so do you plan to celebrate? Also on that subject, will the Ident Review Extra ever come back? Or maybe Video Scaries?
Like the channel and need new idents
Also, for their 50th anniversary ten years ago they brought back some of the much loved idents from the 90's on a regular basis, it would be nice if they did that again for it's 60th, can't see that happening though!🙂🙂🙂
MSN is still kicking?
I was surprised too 😂
I haven't seen any special Idents like they did in 2014.
They reaired old idents, first the original Black & White ident, then the 90s Paint, then the Computer Generated 2, then another 90s one Copper Sparks, and lastly a repeat of the B&W ident.
Not having a modern TV , Colour and BBC2 were denied for a good few years for me. I think I have seen the first eps of Likely Lads and Butterflies a few times on repeat now, and to some extent on YT. Butterflies one of Carla Lane's series of basically being a woman (Bread and Liver Birds being effectively the other main parts of the trilogy), Didnt really like the whole point of Butterflies though , if her cooking was so bad why didnt he do a bit of if sometimes and actually help her find what she was good at, we have to accept the mismatch of teen kids to older parents as part of the tv family cliche.
I would prefer if BBC Two carried the "in depth" News Channel Interviews with rolling news on BBC News, I want a choice, not a double up (same Radio 4 vs World Service).
Not a bad achievement for a channel whose first words heard were “stonking wigs” (not quite!).
BBC seems to be iPlayer first, channels second these days
They haven't got any money. TV is really in the doldrums now. They always marked this before.
They need to fold BBC Four into Two - that would return the channel to its old form and increase the budget from the costs saved from having Four on its own.
BBC NEWS annoys me. It's the dont miss the MESSAGE type news telling its insulting. Am sick of being told Charles has CANCER like he is the only person who has had CANCER don't miss the MESSAGE. There is a channel that can shutdown.
30 percent cuts and so much TV now available = innovation / investigation less likely now. Quantity does not = quality.
Relaying on a show that has been off the air for over 4 years now in such large numbers is never a good sign for a television channel. I mean why do we even have BBC Two at all if they are mostly going to be airing game shows, simulcasts of BBC News and repeats of shows that have been off the air for sometimes years. This isn’t a good sign for BBC 2 at all. Especially considering that BBC Two have had three or four years without a channel controller. Not good for a channel that has given us so many great, innovative and important programs over the past 60 years. These are very bad times for BBC Two. And it might not get better but we will have to wait and see.
BBC Two did give the British Morecambe and Wise in colour for the first time back in September of 1968, and the Morecambe and Wise Show would continue to air first on BBC 2 until 1971. So that’s one of the things that didn’t get mentioned. Morecambe and Wise were massively popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and seeing them in colour for the first time must of been a massive deal for the few individuals who had colour television sets at the time.
I very rarely watch BBC Two, and don't often watch BBC One either! ... I call the BBC, the "Boring Broadcasting Corporation." 🤣
I love "Doctor Who," but NOT the God-awful New Series! ... And I hate "DeadEnders!" ... I'm more of a "Coronation Street" fan!
it wont get to 70
It might not even get to 65! I personally think the BBC should be looking at closing all their TV channels except BBC1 (reverting back to BBC TV with more of a ‘BBC HD’ style schedule of programming including PSB programming) preparing the UK for a full switch to online.
Anyway Happy 60th Birthday to BBC2. What a channel you were in the 90’s!
The classics are great but now it’s all woke garbage.
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no one cares
@@SpeedrunUrm agreed
so what?
Grow up
BBC Two Is Mid
Under 1 hour gang
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Happy Birthday BBC2.
Happy Birthday BBC Two!