OLD ITV daytime

when Did BBC start there New Daytime programmes?

and what was the programmes there showed?

I know Itv never started daytime until auttum of 1987:

and Wasn;t it Prinsor Cell Block H that help ITV fill up there timeslot with Oz soap?

Monday 27th October 1986, to be precise, it saw the launch of the One O'Clock News, Neighbours and Open Air.

The schedule had been clear since September 1983, but due to the lack of funds there was no proper daytime schedule, and Ceefax pages were often seen filling the gaps, especially in the morning.

when did Kilroy apper?

It was originally called Day To Day, but I think either 1987 or 1988.

PCBH was shown late at night not during daytime. It was Yorkshire that started showing Prisoner and then other regions picked it up later.

Henceforth known as "Black Monday".

daytime back in the late 80;s can;t be that bad?

are you telling me you would rather have BBC breakfast time then

Nothing with test card and ceefax and nice muisc

Daytime 83-86 was often like this on BBC1

6.50am Breakfast Time
9.20am Ceefax
10.30am Play School
10.50am Ceefax
12.30pm News
1.00pm Pebble Mill At One
1.45pm Kids show
2.00pm Ceefax
3.50pm Childrens BBC

...OK it wasn't like this every day, some gaps were filled, but if there was nothing to show it'd be like this...

Indeed that's not quite how it was and the daytime hours were still likely to be taken up with Wimbledon, the party conferences or any other special events.

When schools programmes decamped to BBC2, a concerted effort was at least made to provide a full afternoon service on BBC1, although it would usually have been filled with an old film or repeats. The plan was to expand on this gradually so that by 1987 a full daytime service would be operational.

However, in 1985 BBC1 could no longer afford to fill its afternoon hours, hence Ceefax became the norm from the lunchtime See-Saw programme until the start of CBBC, sport and other live events notwithstanding. So remained things until the end of October 1986 when funds had been divested from elsewhere to make the full daytime service possible.

Unfortunately, it was all too much in one go for Ceefax fans who'd become used to BBC1 being off for most of the day, now suddenly all that was left was Ceefax AM at 6am. Even that got cut two months later to make way for The Flintstones...