in 1983

heya


just one of them posts to "round things out", look you see. or just to complete a form of accidental triptych which i appear to have created for the month that is this month; the last of 2019. well, last until we reset the calendar or something, i don't know.

many, some, a few or absolutely none of you might just be wondering what, exactly, one could have watched on the television (in the UK) if you had elected (or opted) to stay at home for New Year's Eve 1983. if so, then here you go.

not bad, i suppose, but hardly the stuff to inspire one to stay at home, perhaps. let us not forget that, with this being 1983, home video was still kind of in an infancy, and by no means did everyone, or even a majority, have a VHS, Beta or V2000 at home. so, they were stuck with whatever was being broadcast.

obviously the highlight there is 9:40pm on ITV. that would be the broadcast of The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and other (lesser) actors. a bit of a "good call" shout out to Channel 4, mind, for (effectively) starting 1984 with Fox, which was a superb series. no, looking at 9:25am on ITV, i cannot recall what ET and Friends was.

what was happening on the BBC? for some reason they don't seem to celebrate their 1983 New Year's Eve listing much, but i managed to find it.

yes, indeed, that is (deceased and former) Sir Jimmy kicking off their early evening entertainment, acting as a warm up (so to speak) for Little & Large on BBC1. just how strange a time 1983 was is, i suppose, personified in an episode of Bergerac being the main evening entertainment.

over on BBC2 one got a most interesting, indeed cosmopolitan, mix. it is not everyone, after all, who would think to blend darts and some sort of opera about a bat (or something) for evening entertainment. i am not entirely sure who the target market was for this, but hopefully it was found.

exactly why were the viewing choices particularly poor on this particular New Year's Eve? probably because it was on a saturday. this meant that people had sunday and monday, as a bank holiday in lieu of it falling on a sunday, off to recover. yes, as a standard Scotland does indeed have two days off as holidays after New Year's Eve, but that is to account for the "Bucky factor".

well, anyway, there you have it.





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