daytime TV 80s and 90s Vs now

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Not sure where you saw repeats of The Saint in the 80's.
Thames were still showing it in the late 70's , mostly on school holiday mornings but I didn't see anywhere else showing it.
 
I always loved The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, Country Practice and The Sullivans...

Daytime TV in general seemed much more varied and interesting than it is now. Maybe I'm just getting older!

Anyone remember Paint Along with Nancy?!
 
anyone agree with me that the late 80s and early 90s where the most exciting times for daytime telly

we had many brilliant quiz shows such as Chain Letters Going For Gold Lucky Ladders Keynotes and Win Lose Or Draw to name a few

great topical debate provided by both The Time The Place and Kilroy

they just don't do daytime as good as they used to anymore which is a crying shame
 
OMG..yes..the Young Doctors, Country Practice & The Flying Doctors...i like a medical drama...way back before i trained as a nurse/midwife...not so keen now!
 
Well, I was at school a lot of the time :)



Well, perhaps, but I was thinking more about the original material, what most people would think of when they were discussing the subject.

And regardless of what you thought of them, I don't recall Pebble Mill or Going for Gold ever being exciting :D



True, but even the test card would be better than *that* :-)
 
Campcrusader said:
I always loved The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, Country Practice and The Sullivans...

Daytime TV in general seemed much more varied and interesting than it is now. Maybe I'm just getting older!

It's certainly nothing to do with getting older. Daytime TV back in those days WAS a hell of alot more interesting and varied than it is now. ITV nowadays seem to think that the only people who want to watch the TV in the weekday daytimes are women! What about catering to the male viewers too?! There are the unemployed, shift workers, etc, who will be at home during the days. I work myself so am not home during the weekday daytimes. But I do think to myself what a load of rubbish now the schedules are compared to those good old days.

It could be argued that what with the amount of hours the soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street take up the evening schedules, that there shouldn't be a return to hours of soaps during the daytimes again.But just one or two half hour soaps amongst the daytime schedules wouldn't go amiss, or alternatively some hour long drama shows or mini series from the US, Canada, or Australia. There also neeRAB to be some good new cheap quiz or game shows back in the daytime schedules. Instead of that Jeremy Kyle chavvy chat time trash, a good quiz or game show in the 9:25am slot would be much more appreciated. Then later on in the day at say 3:00pm or 3:30pm another good quiz/game show.

Bascially the ITV daytime schedule neeRAB a complete revamp. Add some more variety to it by showing some drama and quizes, rather than all these endless womens chat and lifestyle/makeover shows and the endless repeats of MiRABomer Murders.

I believe the BBC1 daytime schedules are to get a revamp next year. Whether it will be any good or not we'll have to see. But I don't have much hope of the ITV daytime schedules ever being any good again!
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Awww..the good ole days...

I remember when Neighbours very first started it was on at 9.25 & then repeated at lunchtime..loved that

I couldn't abide Going for Gold..Henry Kelly was awful imo but liked Win Lose or Draw..& Supermarket Sweep was ace when it first aired

Loved The time The Place & Kilroy too

can't remember any more right now
 
IIRC, Neighbours had a 10.05am, not a 9.25am start.

When Neighbours moved to a 5.35pm evening slot, the morning show disappeared, and Neighbours became a 1.35pm fixture for many years.

I remember lots of great daytime TV:-

  • Open Air
  • Knots Landing
  • Dallas (re-runs at midday!)
  • The Liver BirRAB
  • The Onedin Line
  • The Pamela Armstrong Show

...and some not great daytime TV from the 80s:-

  • Bazaar
  • 5 to Eleven

Scroll 1/3rd of the way down the page on the link below to see some example daytime programs from 1987

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcother/promotions.html
 
If you were at school you will have missed most of the daytime output.
I agree there was plenty of very average material like Pebble Mill and Going for Gold , which is why I specifically said ITV daytime output in my first post.

The BBC had very little of worth in the 80's and they didn't really try to compete until much later.

ITV on the other had had been broadcasting daytime - or at least started programmes earlier in the day than BBC - since the early 70's.

ITV too had its fair share of crap but the shows I mentioned along with regular movies meant it had something worth watching much of the time although judging from the shite some people fondly recall on this thread like the appalling Australian soaps I think they are getting what they deserve today.

By and large in the 70's and 80's anything that was made in Australia meant time to switch off for me with the exception of Skippy , although that seemed alone in the list of filmed series from Oz , the rest being cheaply shot VT crap
 
And ITV thought it was so good they started showing it peaktime on a saturday night where it predictably died a very quick death and returned to daytime

One of the more obscure channels that has changed its name a few times were rerunning Crown Court in its entirety for many hours a day .

Not sure if its still on
 
From the late eighties, Advice Shop with a Scottish lady called Margot always sticks in my mind.

And on BBC2, and even Channel 4, you had Schools programmes all morning and into the early afternoon. There was this series 'Scene' with one off dramas on BBC2 on Fridays at 1.
 
Well, I can't have missed it all due to school then, because I remember the likes of The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters, or at least their being on... :rolleyes:
 
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