ITV Schools And Colleges 70s/80s Marathon inc Continuity
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Here's a three hour ITV 'Schools and Colleges' marathon compiled using programmes and continuity from the 70s and 80s in a lunatic attempt to recreate an average morning's Schools telly. Most featured programmes are complete, some aren't.
Similar marathons using BBC1 and BBC2 programmes will also be available on my account.
Chronic illness has given me a lot of time on my hands and a lot of mind-altering prescription drugs. Please enjoy the results. This is best viewed while taking a sicky from work and watching it from bed. Lucozade is optional, thankfully.
For Schools and Colleges should have never been taken off the air. These programs were very educational and informative. I learnt more by watching these programs when I was a young boy, more than I did at school.
You are so right-it would be nice really if these sorts of series were on today, although of course sadly they are not though. Thank you of course!!
Bring back both ITV Schools and Colleges and BBC1 Schools and Colleges, a pre School programme on BBC2 at 10.30am, See Saw type programmes on BBC1 at 1.45pm after the midday news then Salford at One. The 12.00 pm to 12.30pm younger viewers spot, News at One, News at 545 on ITV, bring those back too. Not forgetting Open University at weekend on BBC1 and BBC2, also World of Sport on ITV and Grandstand on BBC1 on a Saturday afternoon, and Sunday Grsndstand on Summer afternoons. Weekend World, World In Action and This Week/TV Eye on ITV. Bring them all back I say.
That just hinking of how good the old days were before in the days before 24 hour TV. BBC2 coming on air at 7.30pm apart from those 30 minutes at 10.30am. TV got so much poorer without all of these programmes
@@dvidclapperton You are so right there too really may I say of course.
Your right about that. These programmes were brilliant. I remember them starting every weekday from 9.30am until 12 midday. They were very educational and very entertaining I wish they were still being shown to school children today
@@pathfinder1962 You are so right there too for sure of course. It is a deep shame really that broadcasters do not show all these sort of series now then somehow too. Whether on the BBC or ITV-well both really of old as I put below before-they are all now really missing from today's schedules so too.
Laid on the sofa offof school with sickness
Covered in a duvet either freezing or boiling, feeling tiny and enormous at the same time
I do hope there was a bottle of Lucozade to hand!
Oh man that brings back memorys. measels, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever had em all. scarlet fever was the worst, I remember slipping in and out of consciuosness while the Coronation Street theme blared on the telly.
Happy memories sitting on the hall floor looking up to the wheeled out TV back in the 70's.
Neil Garlick I was a seventies kid and remember that all sitting on mats waiting for the programme to start and being told by the teacher to sit still and stop fidgeting 😂
And the TV was always in a cupboard!
@@billyshearer117 Yes it was!!
@@samantharossiter8808 I vaguely remember we were assembled in the hall to watch the moon landings..
Timestamps:
0:00 Thames startup sequence A ("Perpetuum Mobile")
2:48 Thames startup sequence B ("Salute to Thames")
4:28 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" title card
5:26 "Stop, Look, Listen" countdown clock
6:27 "Stop, Look, Listen" (ATV)
16:37 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" title card (Westward)
17:10 "Chemistry in Action" (Granada)
37:06 "Schools" title card (STV)
38:06 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" countdown clock
39:06 "Picture Box" (Granada) (edited)
43:13 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" title card
44:15 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" countdown clock
45:14 "Experiment" (Granada)
1:00:17 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" countdown clock
1:01:18 "How We Used to Live" (Yorkshire)
1:21:09 "Independent Television for Schools & Colleges" title card
1:21:40 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" countdown clock
1:22:40 "Physics in Action" (Granada)
1:41:27 "Independent Television for Schools & Colleges" title card
1:42:21 "A Place to Live" countdown clock (incl. out-of-vision announcement)
1:43:48 "A Place to Live" (Granada) (beginning only)
1:44:27 Thames "Schools programmes have been temporarily suspended" title card
1:45:30 "Basic Maths" countdown clock
1:46:31 "Basic Maths" (ATV)
2:01:30 "Independent Television for Schools & Colleges" 30th anniversary year title card
2:02:34 "Search" countdown clock
2:03:34 "Search" (Yorkshire) (title sequence only)
2:04:14 "Interval" title card (STV)
2:05:14 "Stop, Look, Listen" (Central)
2:15:13 "Middle English" countdown clock
2:15:21 "Middle English" (Thames)
2:29:35 "The French Programme" countdown clock
2:29:52 "The French Programme" (Thames) (beginning only)
2:30:57 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" title card (incl. Thames countdown clock freeze frame)
2:37:54 Special announcement for teachers
2:38:18 "Your Living Body" (Granada)
2:53:17 "Independent Television for Schools and Colleges" title card and out-of-vision continuity announcement
A lot of music I've never heard before between programmes during For Schools and Colleges.
You legend. This is exactly the surrealist educational bleakness I was looking for.
Chazbot What a ridiculous time of year to watch this. You'd be off school legally and would have no need to pretend to be ill.
Winner.
I thought I'd never find this music again. Especially the third piece. Brings back so many memories
Pure nostalgia. Used to pull a sickie so I could watch these in the 70s
That Thames bit at the beginning is awesome
Lunatic attempt? Possibly. But a noble quest into the rich and strange too, I salute you!
No matter how 'sick' You were to warrant a day or two off school.Everybody was always well enough to drag themselves downstairs to the front room....me included.
I used to watch this when I was off sick, brilliant, thanks. 'How We USed To Live' was always my favourite. Takes me back to very happy days. How did you come by all this footage of nostalgia?
same here with the sick off school stuff...although I was rarely actually sick just hated primery school.. but this nostalgia warms the heart
Me also, Jethro Tull was the theme I remember...
Me too.
How We Used To Live is here.
You were happy being sick?
The main attraction for me wasn't any of the programs, but the interval music.
These two tunes
2.44.37-2.45.59
2.45.59-2.48.28
have been really lodged in my head for forty-odd years, for some reason I just love 'em!
If you mean at 1:44:37 the audio is actually from a network ITV Schools caption from 1975 or before...
czcams.com/video/SUOqdTn-JOs/video.htmlm57s
The timings are wrong but I corrected this mistake in another comment
If I'm off sick at home I hope I can watch this and not Pebble Mill!
this is making me have goose bumps
I remember these days before video recorder, we had to watch TV Live and all of us kids queued up getting ready to get our places... we all sat on the dusty hall floor back then
Interesting programme about aluminium production, very energy intensive process that is.
Brings back the memories. Great post. Thanks.
what kid wouldn't enjoy watching a saddle being made .....in detail....
I have been looking for the Thames Television introduction music for YEARS!! Didn't think I'd hear it again, complete with IBA transmitter info.. thanks.
Absolutly bloody brilliant!
If I was off sick I'd watch these shows.
Thanks for making this! :) I've recently gotten into chasing down these old shows its nice to see a proper stab at a reconstruction :)
Ha. Have you found any other sources besides CZcams?
Brilliant!!!
Experiment was my favorite schools program.
It brings back memories of being off school ill and watching TV all day.
That Picture Box music was petrifying. X
It was creepy!
I'm surprised by this, if you mean the actual Picture Box theme. It never made a huge impression on me, though my mother seemed to find it charming. I like the one at 44.15 - the somewhat-dissonant one which might conjure images of a town in a blizzard.
Great Upload, Thank you for the memories :)
No more scrolling around lots of little unsatisfying videos... Everything you need is here!
This is absolutely amazing. Love the chemistry bits, wow!!
Thank you for posting this at 1 hr 33 m the physics program I make a brief appearance we were filmed in a physics class at Egerton park
Hey, there, little mouse...
The Radio Times at the time would list BBC1's showings as For Schools, Colleges; whilst the TV Times would list ITV's showings as For Schools at the time. When BBC2 took over they became Daytime On Two in September 1983 onwards; and when Channel 4 or S4C took them over in September 1987 they became ITV Schools on 4. Daytime on Two continued until 2010; whilst ITV Schools on 4 continued until June 1993.
This was because of the franchise changes at the time. From September 1993, it was renamed as 4 Schools, as by then Channel 4-and S4C- were responsible for their own output. Thank you anyway of course-well done too!!
Daytime on two lasted until June 1997 after which it became schools programmes instead by the way so too.
Picture Box at 39.06 - wonderful theme tune!
Great memories, How we used to live, Picture Box and a Granada science program narrated by Charles Foster.
Ah ...sick day school tv or rainy play time school tv. Those were thecdays
The live birth scenes at the end were rather graphic; always amazed to see a new life begin its 'journey'....
Those amazing days off school when you laid on the sofa feeling tiny and enormous at the same time
Good old skool bugs
The extra music, Thames Schools Clock and Fake Announcement are a mock at 2hrs 30.
I just got to that part and it really stands out as faked.
45:12 at last. I've been searching for the program that inspired 'Look Around You', the brilliant science spoof show. This is as close to it as I've seen.
"Write that down in your copybook"
Thants
I can actually remember watching that actual Stop Look Listen episode at the beginning....with my children.
55:15 Just look around you. :)
Haha I was waiting for the trembling hand removing the egg from the boiling water, aw man they had it spot on
Yes, was thinking the same! Can't stop laughing during Experiment as it reminds me so much of that show. :-D
47:50
Write that down in your copybook now.
Many thanks for sharing this. On my channel is a playlist called 'Music For Bunking Off: BBC/ITV Schools & Test Card Music & Theme Tunes From the 70s and 80s'.
Look around you
When TV companies were restricted in their advertisements during school educational hours.
The good old days l remmeber this when I was sick off school
Stop Look Listen the cameraman was Paddy Seale (Thunderbirds)
,, I imagine this is what being taught o levels was like, if u were never taught GCSEs you'll never know that instead of imparting knowledge the teachers continually left the room to go print something for other classes 🍎
My favourite from itv schools and colleges in the 1970s.
Joe and the sheep rustlers was my favourite, I also liked the boy from space,being home sick with a bottle of lucosade happy times 😆
Eurk ! That last one made me queasy !
always remember the clock counting down with the harp being played, only saw it when off ill and always had a bucket next to the cetee if you were sick well it did have zoflora in it
First appearance of the music that Channel 4 would use when they took over Schools programmes in the mid-80's.
I just watched "Look Around You" again and wanted to see the original... It's as strange as it gets :D
ITV for schools and colleges was nationally networked
Thanks so much for this trip into the past. Please please please can someone tell me what the music is a 5.29. it's so calming.
Butterfly Ball promo after Jack & The Beanstalk!
I remember a local Scottish programme playing it and my brother exclaiming 'THAT'S RONNIE JAMES DIO'. We were Rainbow fans as kids. I didn't believe him!
Dec Cart That was what you call a supergroup.
Look Around You
The music at 2:12:06 thumbs up if u remember
That a young Mr Tarrant I can hear?
@45:18 Definitely the inspiration for "Look Around You"
Why were schools tv programs cancelled? They could have their own channel by now!
1:51:33 / 2:53:30 Old freddy Harris looks very dapping in a beige shirt and brown striped patterned tie
NOW WATCH THE CRISP BEEN PACKED TO GO TO THE SHOPS BUT WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU THAT
IGNORE my earlier comment - either it relates to a different upload or this one has been tampered with.
BUT - those two tunes I was speaking of are, fortunately. included in this compilation, and as of this date they're circa 2.34.00 [sweet] and 2.35.24 [even sweeter]
The sad demise of decent tv....
Anyone know what the music is at 4.28 and 16.37 1.42.21?
@2:50:59 - Wow, I sure don't remember watching THAT one at primary school !
Do you have by chance the record of itv schools (middle English I think) in 1982/83 where the character Doomlord from Eagle comics shows up? It was a segment with both Eagle and Girl comics with some kind of interview or behind the scenes report.
That still with the oil rig, the music that played on it on this vídeo, I only remember that music played with the big countdown clock and not the still with the oil rig. Was the same music played on all ITV regions at the same time? The still that appeared before the countown clock was usualy a photo of a commemorative postsge stamp.
You also had programmes starting at odd times on Schools and Colleges compared with standard ITV and BBC network programmes. 9.43am, 10.02am, 10.24am, 10.44am, 10.59am etc etc.
Yes you did too-such as 11.39am as well!
Thank you for putting this out there. I don't suppose you known what the music is during the Thames Schools Programmes have been Suspended bit at 3hrs 4mins?
That's actually one of the ITV Schools interlude pieces used from c.1973-1975, over the "lightspots" caption.
I’ve got a feeling Thames network tip but I might be wrong on that
What year was this
Does anyone know the name of the music beginning at 4.29, please?
"....but of course, the wires get all tangled up" ":-)
Can anyone tell me was Helen Worth, from Coronation Street in these schools programmes
1:21:40 whats that tune?
OMG! Chris Williams at 2:37:54 - he gets everywhere!!
Ivor the engine ...
Would love to know what the music is that starts around 4:34
Chris Tarrant narrating?
I'd love to see the rest of Interference if anyone has it........
Brilliant
Is that Chris Tarrant telling us how a saddle is made ?
Indeed it is - it says so at the beginning of the programme, rather than with the end credits as you might expect.
Get well.
59:59 WTF Gerald, get your Doctorate already!
That interference programme was good
02:45:05 amazing
Very English the mother having a cup of tea after giving birth.
Ii WormHolT Time TraVellinG
Beaker.
2:20:03 CHRISPS FOR YOUR SCHOOL DINNER?????
Hah. I have wondered if someone was having a laugh with that episode. If that's the one with the two hands on the deep fat fryer then I ready my case. Oh and I'm delighted you're spending your lockdown time wisely by watching my schools videos.
Basic maths...lol
Fred Harris FTW
2:35:48
That was my 1984 in a nutshell. Ruuuun.....