In the run up to Christmas, we’ll be bringing you the ghosts of Christmas past and present and today, we’ve unearthed a potted history of Christmas idents from years past.

It made me all nostalgic warm and fuzzy watching some of these back! See what you think of them and let us know what memories they bring back of your Christmasses past.

BBC idents from 1980 – 93

And here’s a montage of BBC Christmas idents set to music

This one is a Channel 4 1998 Christmas ident

Another 90s Channel 4 Christams ident

here’s one from Granada which includes a few ads from Christmas 1992

And a few more… Christmas Day on Central 1984

ITV 1986

ITV 1987

Yorkshire TV 1987

ITV 1981

And finally, a TV AM Christmas ident but I don’t know what year it’s from. If you do, please let us know!