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Breakfast TV is born!

Remember waking up to Frank Bough and Selina Scott? Well, if you lived in the UK during the 80s you probably will. We have some really fabulous snippets from Eighties Breakfast TV on this page. Just play these videos and relive those golden days of TV-AM and the BBC's Breakfast Time. 

The First Ever Episode of TV-AM

This video clip features the launch of the first TV-am programme by the Famous Five (David Frost, Michael Parkinson, Angela Rippon, Anna Ford and Robert Kee) on 1st February 1983.

 TV AM "Good Morning Britain"

Opening Titles

Wow! This really brings back some fond memories of my early morning breakfasts before rushing off to school, well I didn't exactly rush! Now home time was a different matter.

BBC Breakfast Time in January 1984

If you had a crush on Selina Scott then you can relive those moments again by watching the video above! The clip starts off with the last few moments of Ceefax. The BBC used to display selected pages before the real TV programmes started - more interesting that watching Bill Turnbill.

A young Fern Britton on

BBC Breakfast Time in 1984

Debbie Greenwood in Leather(?) Trousers on BBC's Breakfast Time

Well if they aren't leather then they are definitely rubber! In this clip she interviews Tim "Biggot" Smith.

Rat On The Road from TV-AM in 1983

You either loved him or hated him! Yes, that blasted Roland Rat used to have a regular slot on breakfast TV just to annoy adults across the UK.