Beyond 2000 - Science+Technology TV Show

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 1:16am #1

Who remembers the once popular science & technology show, BEYOND 2000 on television in the days before most people had access to broadband internet/smart mobile phones?

Originating in Australia, BEYOND 2000 was broadcast in many other countries and here in Ireland it aired on RTÉ and in the early days of SKY NEWS on the half-hour when news programmes were previously of shorter duration. It was probably inspired by longer running shows of the same genre like BBC "Tomorrow's World" in the United Kingdom.

BEYOND 2000 also had a catchy theme as well!

Opening sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNrKpB_8sU

Full Closing Credits (original version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLaS1rQKWQ

Full Closing Credits (updated version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRwZn5SQ5A

Beyond 2000 - extended main theme music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1TAmxpq3AM

Full episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wak565DAjE

Fast forward to 2017
"Australia Beyond 2020" inspired by Beyond 2000
Series 1 / Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umg-0lSMO5Y

branie2 · 23-10-2017 1:27am

I remember that show. it used to be on a Sunday afternoon on RTE 1

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 1:34am

branie2 wrote: »

I remember that show. it used to be on a Sunday afternoon on RTE 1

I used watch it on Thursdays around 4:30-5:00pm on RTÉ One back in late '80s as I used rush back from school to catch BEYOND 2000 theme music playing during the closing credits rolling. Happy Days!!

KKkitty · 23-10-2017 1:40am

I loved that show. So informative and interesting. They don't make them like that anymore.

StupidLikeAFox · 23-10-2017 1:45am

I remember this. I would love to look up a few of the shows to see how accurate (or how wacky) some of the predictions were.

As an aside I remember seeing ray D'Arcy on the den talk about televisions which were only 2 inches thick, mad stuff at the time

StupidLikeAFox · 23-10-2017 1:52am

Here is a crazy idea from 1993 where they proposed you would no longer have to get your photos developed, instead opting for a "photo cd" - it saves on having to set up the cumbersome projector to show your holiday snaps to friends and family

https://youtu.be/NCGmxk3H44g

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 1:54am

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I remember this. I would love to look up a few of the shows to see how accurate (or how wacky) some of the predictions were.

As an aside I remember seeing ray D'Arcy on the den talk about televisions which were only 2 inches thick, mad stuff at the time

Here's a full episode to check out in your spare time!

Beyond 2000 | Series 1 Episode 12 | 80s Home Banking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVl-XyBAwpQ

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 1:57am

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Here is a crazy idea from 1993 where they proposed you would no longer have to get your photos developed, instead opting for a "photo cd" - it saves on having to set up the cumbersome projector to show your holiday snaps to friends and family

https://youtu.be/NCGmxk3H44g

Simon Reeve speaks fluent French too! Well travelled I suspect from his time on the show

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 2:01am

KKkitty wrote: »

I loved that show. So informative and interesting. They don't make them like that anymore.

"Click" on the BBC News channel (free-to-air) on digital satellite

Click is a weekly BBC television programme covering news and recent developments in the world of consumer technology.

First episode date: 2000
Presented by: Spencer Kelly
Original network: BBC News; BBC World News; BBC Two
Language: English
Number of episodes: 883 (as of 12 April 2017)
Genres: News, Special Interest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 2:05am

KKkitty wrote: »

I loved that show. So informative and interesting. They don't make them like that anymore.

In Australia the show was cancelled and updated a few times.
Now called "Australia Beyond 2020"

"Australia Beyond 2020" Episode 2 - ABC (2017)
Below is YouTube link to view full episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xerlrHs9H7g

Zaph · 23-10-2017 10:28am

I was more of a Tomorrow's World fan myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaF-h8UhvU

AwaitYourReply · 23-10-2017 10:08pm

Zaph wrote: »

I was more of a Tomorrow's World fan myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaF-h8UhvU

I used enjoy watching Tomorrow's World for many years as it was also broadcast on RTÉ television in the Republic of Ireland but I just felt it had begun to grow tired and stale in terms of presentation and style by the early '90's until it's demise in the noughties. Such a shame it was allowed to go downhill.

Other programmes on the BBC such as the weekly chart show, Top Of The Pops was also limping on for quite a while before it was eventually axed and one felt that if the right people were behind the scenes, they would have found a better way to keep it alive and relevant for a new generation. They should have put up a better fight against MTV Unplugged back in the '90s too as I reckon the rot had set in many years prior to it's axe. I also firmly believe that messing around with it's time slot AND/OR broadcast channel on a frequent basis was not clever. It should only have been moved if research was overwhelming about making such changes but it looked desperate and was too little too late in the end to keep this once iconic show alive in it's weekly slot.

AwaitYourReply · 24-10-2017 12:39am

KKkitty wrote: »

I loved that show. So informative and interesting. They don't make them like that anymore.

A full episode of a similar science+technology show called "BEYOND TOMORROW" which came after BEYOND 2000

BEYOND TOMORROW | Robot Doctor | Eat All Day
Full episode 44:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWwQUqKyu0

AwaitYourReply · 14-11-2017 1:05am

Beyond International the company behind the popular "Beyond 2000" television show from Australia is now 32 Years old!
The below article explains how it all began and was published in October, 2015 to mark it's 30th anniversary milestone.

http://www.mediaweek.com.au/beyond-international-celebrates-30-years/

website: http://www.beyond.com.au/
Headquarters office is based in Dublin 2, Ireland

polyglot · 20-07-2021 12:26pm

I found this page while searching for connections if any between Beyond 2000 and BBC Click that I watch now on youtube.

Beyond 2000 was my favorite show in Australia back in the late 80s. I had moved from Silicon Valley in USA to Sydney and later Perth and was shocked at how limited the media was in Oz versus USA, but also how advanced that show (that I thought was locally produced) was (plus the great theme music!).

Later back in the US, I saw the other Beyond incarnations on cable/satellite TV.

A lifetime later (now in France), I stumbled across BBC Click on youtube and the show and the theme music reminded me so much of Beyond xxx that I googled to see if there was a connection.

NOW, who is old enough (and lived in USA at that time) to remember the Granddaddy of shows like this that riveted 11-year old me each week? ... The 21st Century with Walter Cronkite. (with more great theme music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MGYrcapdk

AwaitYourReply · 03-08-2021 5:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117636617#Comment_117636617

I think Walter Cronkite was one of the main tv news anchor presenters prior to the likes of CBS Dan Rather, NBC Tom Brokaw and ABC Peter Jennings in the United States. Cronkite was probably most famous for breaking the shock news to American tv viewers of US President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PXORQE5-CY

Well to jog your memory you had other shows focusing on technology advancements and the future down through the years such as

"3 2 1 Contact" from the Children's Television Workshop airing on PBS in the USA and you also had BBC tv's "Tomorrow's World from the 1960's thru to early 2000's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYz1m2j7Es

And then if you go back to the 1960's you had BBC tv's "Tomorrow's World" which went on for several decades and was eventually replaced by "Click Online" (later renamed as "Click")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnMjoitdRRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65rGDP2Eyt8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmqzq3e2S4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdoJFUaTHY

BBC "Click Online" 1st series episode one circa April, 2000 presented by ex-Sky Newsreader Stephen Cole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7MBBnpxWIo

Walter Cronkite's final signing off on the CBS Evening News which must have had a massive audience back in the day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tdqojA26E