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BBC Genome

MattLambMattLamb
edited October 2014 in Chit chat
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

Well worth a look for a trip down memory lane, which I assume we're all fond of here.
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2014
    surprised all that is archived tbh

    Apparently on bbc1 at the exact time I was being born was 'Noel Edmonds Presents Swap Of The Pops'. If I'd been born an hour earlier it would've been 'Flash Gordon Conquors The Universe'.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited October 2014
    Clive Dunn was a special guest on the Lennie (Bennett) and Jerry (Stevens) show the day I was born. Ludwig was among the sparse children's programming on in the morning, with Mr Benn and John Craven's Newsround in the afternoon.
  • milemile
    edited October 2014
    Just checked the day I was born. A couple of times it said. 'Closedown' during the day. Was this because of an industrial action or was this common in the late 70s?

    And then it just stopped at midnight. How did people cope. :grin:

    I did a Google but there seemed to be a lot of people striking in 1979.
  • JmkJmk
    edited October 2014
    25/12/1987 The one time I slept on the couch so I could get up early and play all the new Spectrum games I got for Christmas.

    I got up at 7, watched Ziggy's Gift, then played the games. The one I particularly remember was Technician Ted: The Megamix, even though it wasn't a newly released game. It had such a fancy loader.

    That was probably the last time I looked forward to a Christmas and I became far more cynical afterwards.
  • JimmoJimmo
    edited October 2014
    mile wrote: »
    Just checked the day I was born. A couple of times it said. 'Closedown' during the day. Was this because of an industrial action or was this common in the late 70s?

    And then it just stopped at midnight. How did people cope. :grin:

    I did a Google but there seemed to be a lot of people striking in 1979.

    Despite a number of strikes in the 70s, it was in fact quite common for the BBC to shutdown in the afternoon. Whether this was down to trade union rules (e.g like how studios used for recording tv shows used to shut down at 10pm) or whether it was simply because they didn't have the material to fill the schedules (Equity had rules on how many times something could be repeated) I don't know.
  • StridentStrident
    edited October 2014
    An article about some of the "hidden programmes" during the daytime closedown...

    http://www.transdiffusion.org/2001/09/01/hidden
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited October 2014
    Looking at that, it's actually quite a pleasant surprise how many Radio 1 DJs from the 70s have turned out not to be nonces. Easy to forget that with all the goings on in the past year or so.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited October 2014
    John Logie Baird was still thinking about it...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited October 2014
    ccowley wrote: »
    Looking at that, it's actually quite a pleasant surprise how many Radio 1 DJs from the 70s have turned out not to be nonces.

    Yet...
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited October 2014
    MattLamb wrote: »
    Yet...
    :lol: true enough. "Correct at time of going to press"... etc. :)
  • fogfog
    edited October 2014
    mile wrote: »
    I did a Google but there seemed to be a lot of people striking in 1979.

    the bin men also went on strike also, opps.. misread that as stinking.

    I recall tv only came on for maybe 2-3 hours in the evening for a while, any only the news and maybe 1 or 2 shows.. no kids tv etc.. was really crap tbh and I do remember it being a winter as it was dark evenings early.
  • ADJBADJB
    edited October 2014
    Most of my birthday seems to be have been coverage of Wimbledon with Pinky and Perky being the other main highlight. Interesting to see that all the news programs through the whole day came to 38 minutes (including a 1 minute long bulletin) which is less than channel 4 evening news on its own nowadays. 10.30 start and 22.50 close down, that's changed a bit as well.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2014
    ADJB wrote: »
    Most of my birthday seems to be have been coverage of Wimbledon with Pinky and Perky being the other main highlight.

    Same here (in 1975), but substitute Pinky & Perky for Bagpuss and Captain Pugwash.

    We didn't get a TV until 1980 though, so the first program I saw was probably Multi-Coloured Swap Shop - in black and white.
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • Your Spec-chumYour Spec-chum
    edited October 2014
    I think some of those closedowns during the day was when they use to transmit that testcard with the girl and doll playing noughts & crosses. I remember Ceefax being on early Sunday mornings. Sunday was the only day my old man didn't go to work, and he and mum would always try to lay in, but I would wake early and annoy them till one of them got up and made me breakfast and put telly on:lol: There where 3 channels, BBC1 - testcard, BBC 2 - Ceefax, and ITV - David Frost on TVAM.

    I remember there being no morning TV like the crap on now with Jeremy Kyle, auction, and DIY shows. It was all school programs.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited October 2014
    Unsurprisingly there was nothing on the box in the early hours of Xmas Eve 1972 :-)
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • mermanmerman
    edited October 2014
    It was a Saturday evening, so Bruce Forsyth was on the telly...
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited October 2014
    As I know the time I was born (my Mum reminds me every year on my birthday!) I can see I was born just in time for Playschool to start :lol:

    I was born at 3:50pm if anyones interested ;-)
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