Live into 85

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 show 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 suffered a number of on-screen incidents including failed performances by John Grieve and Chic Murray. The show received 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.