Wednesday, 29th November 1967 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm MAN IN A SUITCASE, ITV Evans-nabbed reverb-drenched piano and Ipcress File-riffing graphics of...
Come 1986 and, as per usual, ITV (now operating with the strap-line “It’s worth coming home to … ”) was playing...
Bob Monkhouse found his niche at the BBC in 1984, but he was not the only one to attain a sense of...
1984 was a year of change in front of the camera. Simon Cadell was replaced in BBC1’s Saturday evening nostalgic sitcom Hi-de-Hi! by...
For Cilla, the breakthrough was immediate. Not only would Surprise Surprise deliver her substantial new audiences (up to 16 million viewers would tune...
In 1982 British television had to cope with the arrival of a new terrestrial channel, whiIe ITV also had to contend with...
While the BBC wasn’t keen to ape American dramas, it wasn’t entirely dismissive of them either. On 5 September 1976, the long-running...
Friday, 26th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 From start to finish, it was a brilliant Boxing Night...
It’ll Be Alright on the Night producer Paul Smith took the decision to introduce the format to American television, and while in the United...
Friday, 4th December 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm DOCTOR WHO, BBC2 Back in the 1990s, you had to get your Who...
Friday, 15th November 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm WOGAN, BBC1 According to Radio Times, the most appropriate way to promote this...
Friday, 5th November 1976 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm LUCKY FELLER, ITV Sitcom antics in the form of this fondly-remembered yet little...
Friday, 18th July 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm DALLAS, BBC2 It’s 1980, so that means it must be Dallas. If it...
Friday, 15th March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 And it’s our last visit of the week to the verdant...
Begorrah! Who do we spy, approaching yon, bearing a peroration that doth promise riches of puzzlement and... oh forget it, here's today's...
"I don't know what's going on here but I wish it would stop".
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