My grandad was on the first broadcast playing the clarinet while my nan was in the audience, this holds such a special memory for my family :) X

6:16 This colour TV test is gorgeous!

8:20 "So if anyone's not home yet, perhaps that accounts for it." Gerald Priestland trying to put your mind at rest. :)

"Golfers in Action" shows just how lovingly Harry Enfield recreated the look and feel of these broadcasts in his Cholmondley-Warner sketches. :-)

Sometimes we need a updated version to celebrate 100 years of BBC.

I have always wanted to say that, "This IS Alexandra Palace."

If you wear headphones at full volume during the footage of BBC2's launch, you can hear the man who Gerald Priestland is talking to on the phone.

Interesting how obsessed so many people are with Doctor Who - I wonder if some of them even realise how little television from before the 1960s has survived. Doctor Who has one of the best survival rates of any tv series from the pre-1978 era, yet people still seem to care more about retrieving lost DW episodes than finding far rarer items from e.g. the 1950s or earlier. A little perspective is needed.

At 8:00 ... Gerald Priestland, opening night of Beeb Two, surely a prototype Basil Fawlty on tranquillizers, coping live on air with a massive power failure in west London. What a fabulous performance, such sang froid, such elegance, such stiffness of upper lip! But, as he listens to the producer's voice on the other end of the chunky old phone, he picks up his Bic and writes something. What could it be? And why? Perhaps it's really his wife, calling from home to remind him to pick up twenty Players on the way home.

So glad I found this

And now BBC Television will be *80*!

in 2022 BBC will be 100

Feels weird watching this but interesting at the same time

yes .. there is film footage featured in BBC Newsreels, but this is footage of how the live transmission looked..

RIP Richard Baker.

And now we’re past 100 years!

Very interesting. Part of the history of my life (well, some of it before I was born - I'm not quite that old). One thing that struck me, which I didn't remember from the time, is that the singers seem to be emulating an American accent, even when singing an English folk song. Well, perhaps the singer of 'Early One Morning' actually was American; but Petula Clark certainly wasn't.

Early one morning used for the BBC Radio 4 theme (Which is the medley of the patriotic and folk song across the UK) in 1978 until 2006

Decay of journalism in BBC studios

The BBC has been around for a long time. It's really advanced and it all started when the BBC was established as the 'British Broadcasting Company' in 1922. The BBC was called it until 01/01/1927 when the 'British Broadcasting Corporation' was established. Everything was transferred over to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC done some broadcasts and in 1936.. they launched the BBC Television Service. For the first few months they were using Baird's 240-line system but it was replaced by Marconi's 400-line system just a few months later. There also was a particular song on the BBC Television Service in 1936 called 'Television' . It was made to celebrate the new television service. Also before Children's BBC, there was For The Children and For The Very Young. Along with this, there was my favourite, Muffin the Mule. Then, in the late 1950s, they experimented with colour. Another major time for the BBC was in 1964, when BBC2 was launched. Unfortunately, there was a major power failure at Television Centre in West London 25 minutes before the scheduled programme first on BBC2 at 7:20PM. The first proper programme on BBC2 was Play School. Fun Fact: Play School was a children's programme. Then in 1985, it was major. The BBC launched the children's strand, Children's BBC (now CBBC). In 1997, there was a major re brand that swept the whole BBC. And of course, Children's BBC got re branded and was shortened to just 'CBBC'. BBC News 24 was launched as well. And there you have it. What will happen next on the BBC? Find out in the future.

0:17 1936 0:43 1936 0:49 1937-1938 RIP 1939-1946 1:33 1946 1:55 1946 2:48 1946 3:33 1950 4:40 1958 5:00 1956* 5:06 Logo 1956 6:03 1959 Colour testing 7:05 1964 9:11 1971 10:00 Present day

1:55. OMFG!!!! NO FRICKEN WAY!!!! IT'S PET CLARK!!!! And after all these years, she's STILL got it!!!! :) :) :) :)

The chap at 7:57 sounds like Basil Faulty when he answers the phone.

5:49 Finally colors!

Harry Enfield did a very good takeoff of Leslie Mitchell and similar announcers with the Mr Grayson sketches.

Television Is Here Again is a classic!

Peter Ustinov being a acting genius .

Early one morning is the traditional songs from England It was used for Colour television test of the BBC in 1959

7:06 live calling? Woahhh

Nice to see Mr Cholmondley-Warner making an appearance.

There is no Dr.Who because Dr. Who did not come from Alexandra Palace. It was always taped in Lime Grove and then Television Centre. The blurb above says: "Watch a selection of clips from programmes which all came from Alexandra Palace, when the BBC was there, 1936-1981."

my oh my

Haringey could be proud because of BBC broadcasting at Alexandre Palace.

Picture Page looks awesome.

Maybe if we sing the muufin the mule theme, they'll bring it back. C'mon gang, join me.

*THIS IS THE 🅱️🅱️C*

Best Television Company ever!

The BBC was once a well respected and much loved organisation in Britain. Now vast swathes of the public view the corporation with utter contempt. But Auntie just can't stop herself from spitting on Britain and the British.

Good to see Mr Cholmodely Warner making an appearance .

*tHiS iS tHe BbC*

I think you're realized that BBC is almost 100 years old now

Eileen Fowler.... my mind: she sounds a lot like Hyacinth Bucket....

Public information announcement......Your TV will work perfectly well without a licence...Mine does !

its amazing to think that just a few years earlier Orson Wells caused a panic with War of the Worlds on the radio.

Those clips that say "interlude" from about 4 minutes in. Are they the same sort of thing as what we have nowadays, where there is an unseen person tells us what is coming up next?

Nice!

can not stop thinking of John Cleese when I see the announcers, Very Monty pythonish.

I can watch the videos from BBC in France, however, I get a message "the channel you requested is not available in your country" when I try to see the full channel of the BBC.

The Rai in Italy started thier broadcast in the early 1950's with a format like this from early BBC broadcast

this, guys, is HD in the 50's :D

John Cleese ?manning to telephone with the the power cut live very funny good old BBC

6:05 - A very familiar tune to us Canadians of a certain generation.

Oh my, how we hated those damn interludes. But really the worst thing was the 'football results' that came on just before Doctor Who and lasted a whole hour with some guy literally reading out the tables of football scores from every match played throughout the whole of England and Scotland that week.

BBC is the best

I clicked on a video titled "Young Girl Takes on BBC". It wasn't what I thought.

Superb

I remember it all from Muffin the Mule onwards! Lord but I'm growing old...............

I'd watch keep fit if it were on today

Is that the only surviving footage of King George VI's coronation? I'm guessing it as higher quality footage would have been used if it existed.

No Peace No BBC 🔥

3:13 they used that in a doctor who episode based around the queens coronation

At 6:49: Why is the guy in the middle fondling the lapel and tie of the guy on the left? Weird...

All the early clips were shown in cinemas to publicise the tv service

1:34 "Do you remember me? Jasmine Bligh." She'd have been disappointed (but not surprised) if they didn't after nearly seven years.

Good video; 27 years after the BBC went on the air, the broadcasting network would create its own Mickey Mouse, Doctor Who. (I am only joking with you.)-JW

08:41 ~ 09:08 Ask Zena

so did they televise the crowning of king George vi or just the outside stuff

Not 'specially constructed' but specially ADAPTED studios. Not quite the same thing. Two 70 x 30 ft large rooms fitted out with tv gear. For example, TV Centre was 'specially constructed' as a tv 'factory'.

@TheEnglishWonder I wish we did.

The whole situation regarding the destruction of the BBC as we once knew it is absolutely criminal. I spent a wonderful career (up until retirement) employed by the BBC and could not have wished to work elsewhere - even though my first year in TV (aged around 18) was with Associated Rediffusion, later to become London Weekend Television, then based in Wembley and just prior to its move to the South Bank in London. LWT was a great employer and looked after me extremely well, even "assisting" with my transfer to BBC Radio in London - all thanks to LWT's John Berger. I later moved back to my home town of Manchester where the BBC was about to open a brand new Broadcast Centre for both radio and TV. I remained there until retirement and enjoyed an amazing career, having moved from audio operations into vision mixing. During that time, numerous opportunities arose for me to be both director and vision mixer combined, mainly on music based programming, but I was also asked to direct and vision mix the very last UK-based International version of "It's A Knockout" at the Blackpool Ice Rink. I feel extremely priviledged to have enjoyed an absolutely fantastic career, and genuinely could not have wished for more. There is however one "credit" I must award, and that is to the person who constantly supported me in my quest to move on within my BBC Manchester career, where I continued to try to become one of THE best amongst my London based colleagues - the late Head of Centre, John Ithell - thank you John x

God save The BBC.

Colour tests using RCA cameras.

I want a BBC logo “TAC” in the 60 s’

...and now a choice of viewing on BBC for those of you who don't like sport, there's SPORT!

What is the music at 1:16

9PM

Let's TV History ...

that's because it never came from Alexandra Palace .. all the clips relate to programmes that came from there...

It’s crazy that tv presenters used to take calls on live broadcasts. Innocent days of television.

Petula Clark, she of "Downtown" fame.

So who knew Angus Deayton launched BBC2?

I only came here for muffin the mule

Is it Violet Carson (of Ena Sharples fame in Coronaion St ) Presenting at 2.21 ?? Anybody??

Well, times have changed,but BBC still belongs to top European tv public broadcasters along with German ARD/ZDF , Swiss SRG , Czech ČT, French FR,Norwegian NRK,Danish DR and Austrian ORF

& the Lady who worked with Muffin the Mule, looked like Dame Vera Lynne to my eyes. OOps. Well, I was not around until 1970/ lol.

ok

Who was the beautiful announcer after Petula Clark?

BBC VS CBS

alright who let the BBC on youtube? come on own up

4:56 - Hey! I know this guy - he directed _W1A,_ too. Yet, for some reason, this retrospective completely ignores *BBC Me.* Typical.

Nice, clipped accents.

Is that Patricia Laffan at 2:23?

0:53 It's Mr Chumely-Warner

Why am I watching this? I live in the U.S.A....

cool

It used to be so good and worth watching. It's comedy was gold. No more sadly.

Was the colour test in 1959 actually transmitted or for a public event?

Baird Bombardment Vision

Consider, at some point the BBC thought George VI's coronation wasn't worth keeping?

The license fee is a small price to pay for the best television in the world!