Underplayed Gems

Live into 85

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A New Year's Eve special broadcast live from Scotland's Gleneagles Hotel in 1984. Hosted by Tom O'Connor, the show tried to update the traditional Hogmanay format but suffered from production problems and bad reviews.

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What happens

Live into 85 is a New Year's Eve television special that was broadcast by BBC1 on 31 December 1984. Broadcast from the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland and presented by the English comedian Tom O'Connor, the special was themed around Scotland's Hogmanay festivities and was a retool of the BBC's then-traditional New Year's specials. The special aimed to be more contemporary following multiple perfunctory editions and to have a broader appeal to English viewers, booking the English singer Maggie Moone and the English band Modern Romance. The show faced a number of production setbacks, including the withdrawal of Bucks Fizz and a number of on-screen incidents, including failed performances by John Grieve and Chic Murray. Live into 85 had a poor reception by viewers and critics in England and Scotland alike, with Grieve and Murray coming in for particular criticism. The year after, the BBC ended its networked Hogmanay specials after 32 consecutive years in favour of different formats and relegated its Hogmanay-centric coverage to an opt-out on BBC1 Scotland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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