BBC Official History of Everton FC 1988

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Billy Dean said:
This just came up on my YouTube feed. The BBC official history film they did in 88, narrated by John Motson. Had this on VHS and watched it religiously as a kid. Still remember large parts of the text now even though I haven't seen it for the best part of 30 years lol

Nice little trip down memory lane

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Great stuff mate. I look forward to watching that later.

It's kind of depressing that we've only won just the one trophy since that video was made though.
 

As an avid collector of football videos in the 80s, this was a highlight in mine. Striking Years was another cracker in that it showed match highlights. Those two were probably the best we did as a club, if we don't include the 1984 FA Cup final video. I don't think we ever really exploited our televisual history on DVD. Certainly, we never released Striking Years on DVD. The best Everton DVD is, in my view, The Big Match, with about two hours of highlights from the late 60s to early 80s.

It's funny how the technology transition, for example, from VHS to DVD often means so many classic programmes never get transferred to the new format. The BBC did a fantastic Match of the Seventies series that they released on VHS in the 1990s. While they transferred their excellent Match of the Day: The 60s, 70s, and 80s to DVD, the more in-depth Denis Waterman-presented Match of the Seventies never made the jump. All we're left with are bad YouTube rips.

Collecting and archiving action like this is a very niche passtime now since the entertainment industry closed the analogue hole which made it very awkward for ordinary people to record programmes to optical disc. Recording Sky beyond its box usually meant sacrificing HD for SD and you had to use a SCART. That's why I recently invested in a brilliant little device called the Cloner Alliance UHD Pro. It's a standalone HDMI pass-through that works as a PVR and allows you to record HD or 4K to memory stick. And when it's on a memory stick, it can be transferred to computer for editing and burning to blu-ray. While the current Everton side may not be storing too many memories for us just yet, who knows where Dyche might take us. I'll be there to capture the League Cup 2024 win anyway.
 
Drico said:
As an avid collector of football videos in the 80s, this was a highlight in mine. Striking Years was another cracker in that it showed match highlights. Those two were probably the best we did as a club, if we don't include the 1984 FA Cup final video. I don't think we ever really exploited our televisual history on DVD. Certainly, we never released Striking Years on DVD. The best Everton DVD is, in my view, The Big Match, with about two hours of highlights from the late 60s to early 80s.

It's funny how the technology transition, for example, from VHS to DVD often means so many classic programmes never get transferred to the new format. The BBC did a fantastic Match of the Seventies series that they released on VHS in the 1990s. While they transferred their excellent Match of the Day: The 60s, 70s, and 80s to DVD, the more in-depth Denis Waterman-presented Match of the Seventies never made the jump. All we're left with are bad YouTube rips.

Collecting and archiving action like this is a very niche passtime now since the entertainment industry closed the analogue hole which made it very awkward for ordinary people to record programmes to optical disc. Recording Sky beyond its box usually meant sacrificing HD for SD and you had to use a SCART. That's why I recently invested in a brilliant little device called the Cloner Alliance UHD Pro. It's a standalone HDMI pass-through that works as a PVR and allows you to record HD or 4K to memory stick. And when it's on a memory stick, it can be transferred to computer for editing and burning to blu-ray. While the current Everton side may not be storing too many memories for us just yet, who knows where Dyche might take us. I'll be there to capture the League Cup 2024 win anyway.
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Mate, there was loads of everton material on vhs that I didn't even know was out there until the pandemic lockdown gave me loads of time to search online. For example did you know that a 1 hour highlights vhs was released by Sheffield weds of our first away game of the 86/87 title winning side? Or when the TV blackout was on in 85/86 (Lineker season) our boxing day home game with Man utd was released by utd on video,the full 90min with no commentary.
Both footage unseen by me until 2020.
 

vagablonde said:
Mate, there was loads of everton material on vhs that I didn't even know was out there until the pandemic lockdown gave me loads of time to search online. For example did you know that a 1 hour highlights vhs was released by Sheffield weds of our first away game of the 86/87 title winning side? Or when the TV blackout was on in 85/86 (Lineker season) our boxing day home game with Man utd was released by utd on video,the full 90min with no commentary.
Both footage unseen by me until 2020.
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I think there was far more of us on VHS than there ever was on DVD. Much of it was poor quality or one-camera stuff, but it existed. What really irritated me was the poor quality stuff the club did on DVD in association with the company set up by the local Granada TV producer Paul Doherty. Dubbed commentary and grainy footage said it all. Our 86/87 season DVD, for example, should have had commentary from the BBC and Granada, where available. Instead, the production values make it a chore to watch.
 
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