October 1986 highlights  A very important day in the life of BBC1 - from now on the channel would broadcast continuously from breakfast to late night, without any breaks for Ceefax or the test card. A sad day for the anoraks, then...
The introduction of daytime television meant a raft of new programmes. Open Air from Manchester saw Eamonn Holmes unleashed onto an unsuspecting world, inviting viewers' comments on the previous night's television (right), whilst a few weeks later former MP Robert Kilroy-Silk would present topical discussion in Day to Day (which was not renamed Kilroy until the following year). Phillip Schofield would present birthday greetings and programmes for younger viewers, followed by the dull Five to Eleven, a short reading for adults. Afternoons would be a place for classic drama, with the first in a repeat run of The Onedin Line. Pebble Mill at One fans were to be disappointed - their replacement viewing turned out to be the news, followed by a new soap opera from Australia. Neighbours would be shown twice a day, with the repeat airing at 10.05 the next morning (the repeat would switch to 5.35 on the same day from January 1988). But there would be no more chat from the foyer of Pebble Mill for another year, when Daytime Live began.  The One O'Clock News replaced News After Noon, and was presented by a new signing from ITN, Martyn Lewis (left); meanwhile hourly bulletins were introduced throughout the morning on BBC1, and in the afternoon on BBC2. A further change was just two weeks away, which would see the revamping of Breakfast Time into a two hour news programme, much to the upset of most of its viewers.
Radio 2 had relaunched earlier in the year, throwing out contemporary pop and bringing back more of the standards, crooners and show tunes. In response to this, David Hamilton would soon leave, claiming the music policy had become 'geriatric'.
And in Radio Times 25-31 October 1986 Price 32p  The new daytime service had a potential audience of 25 million, according to Radio Times this week - "an all-day service is something any public service broadcaster should be providing in
the late 80s," said Roger Laughton, head of BBCtv's Daytime Programming. He was keen to
avoid a 'home counties' image, with a strong regional presence, and also imported programmes such as Neighbours, 'an everyday story of Australian folk' - Laughton described it as "the best
we could find."
It may have been the start of all-day broadcasting, but RT decided to give its cover over to
World Safari, an ambitious project in which Julian Pettifer and David Attenborough in London linked up live by satellite with 16 wildlife locations across the globe (right). 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Radio Times Covers | 
