Perfect music for roller skating off the end of a cliff.

This is now 40 years ago old and was just before schools ended on BBC1 anyway at the end of June then 1983. From September then, they transferred to BBC2 as Daytime on Two then onwards of course. Thank you too!

As before, thank you of course for this. Very nice to see Ceefax in vision as it was then at the time. Test Card F had ended in April 1983, and by the May the BBC had replaced it really with Ceefax, as of course here. 10 out of 10 really of course for sure too!

Genuine BBC Television presentation often cut to Ceefax without the use of an opening page during the early 1980s but from around 1984 front cover main index pages or slide versions of opening pages became the norm providing a much more flexible means of joining the Ceefax Newsreel cycle.

Very nice. The first clip is exactly 38 years ago today!

I had just turned thirteen when this came out and remember Sunny Summer Holiday (not knowing what it was called at the time). A tune I always associate with holidays in Wales (especially Llandudno).

I used to love counting down the dots !

23rd June 1983 appears to be the penultimate day of BBC Schools on BBC1. One day out from being the most treasured of finds.

Very nice too-thank you for this and well done of course!!

The Lady announcer is Linda Stevens

Although billed in Radio Times as closedown regular daytime use of the test card on BBC1 and BBC2 ceased in early 1983. Ceefax in vision sequences had been around from 1980 but I only became aware of this in early 1982.

Wot so the golden hour back then actually told you what the years were going to be before it started? Plus Peter Powell only had 20 mins to finish his Radio 1 show to present Top of the Pops (which I know was live that week)!

Classic BBC1 daytimes.

Summer Sunny Holiday is the tape being played with the first selection of pages, and one of the "Falklands" tapes being played with the second.

Aww... was getting into those tunes :-(

The BBC schools countdown clock, memories of the class all rushing to the 'TV room' so as not to miss the start of the programme, in the days before the school had a video recorder!

Ahh the dying embers of Schools on BBC1, interesting to see Schools also being shown on BBC2 in the afternoon on the same day because of Wimbledon, unsure if this was normal practice or whether it was a dry run for the autumn. You possibly also have one of, if not the final outing for BART.

2:20 That is a very long edition of Play School at 4.20! I think a programme might have been missed off that list!

Some interesting observation about the BBC TV schedules, as that was the time of year when the Wimbledon chapionships were underway in those days. From what I recall way back then Wimbledon came on air on BBC1 at 1.45pm, they were previewing the match about to come on centre court, not joining the match slready on centre court as they do today, because back then centre court and old court 1 the players came out on court at 2pm. Nowadays the players on centre court and new court 1 come out on court 1 at 1pm. Plus,back then often the men's singles final was played on American Inependence day, now they can't because Wimbledon starts a week later nowadays. Once every few years now when American Independence day is on a Sunday there's no play at all.

Peter Brook on the First Clip. Not sure who the female announcer is on the second clip.

One day before schools moved over to bbc2

5:07 The BBC's cheap knockoff of ITV's disappearing dots.