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Here is a house… It was all so nearly so very different. Had things gone as planned, the first programme seen on BBC2 would have been a news report about The Beatles being thrown off a bus or something. Instead, thanks to a power cut, that...
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The main event, our huge A-Z OF TV SHOWS - starts with 'Allo 'Allo, ends with Zoom the Dolphin |
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A house! With a door! We travel through the not-so-arch window to pay our respects to PLAY SCHOOL... |
THE WEDNESDAY PLAY, the scheduling slot-named precursor to PLAY FOR TODAY and where 'Up The Junction' et al debuted |
PLAY FOR TODAY, BBC1's strand of single-dramas which, even now, remains a byword for ‘serious television’. Plus every single PFT indexed. |
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It's time to go... NATIONWIDE as we get 'the good word' on this '70s teatime regional roustabout. "I dunno what a folly is..." |
We chronicle the rise and fall of SATURDAY MORNINGS, from Zokko to Swap Shop to - gulp! - The Fun Factory, Get Fresh! and Dick and Dom... |
PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, in which Wordy, Powka, David Hargreaves and co teach us what to with an apostrophe. |
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"Saturday is TISWAS, never a day to miss, cos..." - well, we get into why in this look at the ace weekend morning show. |
Well... this worked much better in rehearsal, but here's our history of TOMORROW'S WORLD, from Baxter to Stableford. |
CHRISTMAS LOGS! Hooray! Deck the halls with our look at every telly Yuletide from 1970 up to the present day. |
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Anyone remember the 2000s? Peep into our NOUGHTIES TIME CAPSULE, to discover what from that decade we'd save for posterity. |
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Creamguide's Pick of the Day
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Blue Peter
Thursday, 17.30, CBBCNews this week that Blue Peter are launching a new badge to encourage participation in sport was accompanied in the press release by the more interesting news to us that this programme’s now got a new editor, one Ewan Vinnicombe. We’ll put aside our disappointment at not being headhunted to take the job ourselves and wish him all the best, although research suggests he doesn’t appear to be on Twitter, thus seemingly preventing us from being able to bend his ear and directly influence Blue Peter policy. Meanwhile, last week’s episode came in its entirety from the garden, showing off that it’s quite a versatile space and, despite the fact there’s a tram stop right next to it and a tram appeared to arrive during the programme, is actually quite quiet. The tranquillity of Salford, there.
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