daytime TV 80s and 90s Vs now

Daytime TV in the 80's and 90's was a hell of a lot better than the state it is in now. What with all these womens lifestyle type shows on ITV, and all these antiques and property shows on BBC1 along with endless repeats of Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder.

Back in the day on ITV you'd have something like Lucky Ladders or Runaway on at 9:25pm, followed by decent discussion show The Time The Place at 10:00 with discussions about things like the health service, unemployment, etc, unlike that chavvy Jeremy Kyle rubbish. 12:30pm there'd usually be Aussie soap The Sullivans. 3:00pm there'd be a another game/quiz show again, things like Tell The Truth, Win Lose Or Draw, SounRAB Like Music, etc. Then at 3:30pm there'd either be Sons and Daughters or The Young Doctors.

Whilst on BBC1 you'd have Open Air at 9:05 and 11:05, Kilroy at 9:20. At 11:05 there used to reruns of Dallas for a while. Skipping forward a bit at 1:25 Neighbours, followed by Going For Gold at 1:50. Ususally followed by something like Ironside or a US comedy.

And you'd also get some films on both ITV and BBC1 too back in those days.

The whole daytime schedule was varied with different shows on different days. Unlike now when the entire schedule is filled with the same shows at the same time five days per week!

Schedules nowadays could learn a thing or two by looking at the old daytime schedules from the 80's and 90's to see how it SHOULD be done!
 
if like me you are a fan of Win Lose Or Draw

you will be glad to know STV have put EVERY SERIES online via Youtube

in summary I think Danny Baker was the best host I took a shine to him very quickly when I first watched it as a toddler I've been a fan of his ever since

watching his era now I fall about laughing at 99 per cent of Danny's jokes

I remember being very disappointed when Shane Ritchie took over as host for series 5 in 1994 the show lost its edge but to be fair Shane did an OK job

it got its sparkle back once Bob Mills took over the following year he was every bit as good as Baker IMO
 
Uhm not strictly daytime but Masterteam with Angela Rippon at 5.30 every weekday. Best quiz programme ever!

Loved 15 to 1 and Countdown, and Henry Kelly mis pronouncing everything to really piss everyone off and make it even more difficult to understand
 
I watched A Country Practice a few times, at the time I was 6 and wanted to be a doctor/nurse... ended up studying business! I like my course though and wouldn't change it for the world.
 
I used to enjoy BBC1's Open Air, this live show was a groundbraking original. The presenter I recall the best is the late Patti Caldwell, she was an excellent, down to earth broadcaster, now sadly missed. Other presenters were Eamon Holmes and Bob Wellings.

Another favourite was ITV's Crown Court. That was a really absorbing drama spread over five half-hour slots Monday to Friday. I used to go home for my lunch in those days and never missed it. Could it be time for a revival?
 
Sorry Border was showing Return of the Saint repeats in the mid 80s, alternating with The New Avengers. The original Saint repeats were more a seventies thing.
I will admit daytime television was quite good in those days, and some of the schools programmes like How We Used to Live and Scene were well worth watching.
Nowadays, for all we don't have the ten bob an episode Aussie soaps, it's all mindless guff aimed at a focus group's idea of a female audience. This Morning must be the biggest waste of electricity ever.
 
Are you seriously trying to use the worRAB "exciting" and "daytime telly" in the same sentence?! :rolleyes:



"Henry Kelly, what a Henry Kelly" :D

Going for Gold was rubbish... and *not* remotely exciting!



Oh sheesh, I remember that... but in my defence I only watched Neighbours for about two years and I was like 12 at the time. I think I grew out of it :-)
 
When I was a student, then a mother in the 1980s, I remember watching

The Time the Place - much better than Kyle and Springer
This Morning
The News
Neighbours

The early 80s daytime TV was rubbish.

I remember when I was off school in the 1970s, I watched Crown Court, Pebble Mill at 1 and woman's programmes
 
Probably 'Afternoon Plus' on ITV (with Mavis Nicholson?). I remember being off primary school and (I don't think I'm imagining this) between about 1.45 and 3.15pm, BBC1 closed down, there was "The Testcard and music" then, I seem to recall on a Monday, "Songs of Praise"! So long ago!

"The Time, The Place", with Mike Scott and "Open Air" were favorites when I was doing my A levels. The mad premise of Going for Gold (European countries having to answer questions in English) and Henry Kelly's use of "The First Round Proper" are also memories of halcyon days! :D
 
A genteel version of Loose Women made by Southern, who tended to be the most middle class and Conservative of the ITV regions. Not bad not especially exciting.
I must admit Sons and Daughters was the ultimate borefest in daytime, badly made and totally boring.
 
I always rated 'The time The place' as a good mainstream discussion programme. I always found 'Kilroy' unbearable though because of the host.........
When was it decided that people wanted to watch the endless misery and conflict (the Kyle nonsense etc.....) that now fills the schedules? :confused:
 
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