All posts tagged "TV Advent Calendar"

Advent Calendar: December 23rd

1981: Even the Community Programming Unit has to let its hair down occasionally. Grapevine, “The Self-Help Show”, is still very low-key in...

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Advent Calendar: December 22nd

1979: 21 minutes of the pre-Christmas Swap Shop are illuminated by Debbie Harry and a Super 8 camera wielding Chris Stein taking...

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Advent Calendar: December 21st

1981: Westward Television celebrated its 20th anniversary, eight months after the actual date and ten days before the franchise closed. Hey, better...

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Advent Calendar: December 20th

1971: Opportunity Knocks’ big discoveries in 1971 were Little & Large, but despite making the All Winners Show they weren’t in contention...

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Advent Calendar: December 19th

1977: You’re quite right it’s Monday, Play School, and as the start of Christmas week Chloe Ashcroft and Johnny Ball are getting...

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Advent Calendar: December 18th

1980: Top Of The Pops (full playlist), the last one before Christmas. Both Simon Bates and the production team are in “that”...

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Advent Calendar: December 17th

1977: “He’s got a funny surname but I can’t remember it!” Our Show was what LWT, with the backing of Anglia and...

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Advent Calendar: December 16th

1980: Um, is it alright if we all agree to skip past the imagery of the first show trailed here? Thanks. BBC1’s...

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Advent Calendar: December 15th

1987: We haven’t included a lot of adverts in this Advent Calendar so far because there’s great vats of them on YouTube...

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Advent Calendar: December 14th

1976: Post-Grundy, the Sex Pistols found promoters and local councils weren’t as amenable to putting on their UK tour as they had...

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Advent Calendar: December 13th

1970: “The work to rule is over!” And unfortunately so is the online presence of the full Bob-fronted Golden Shot that was...

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Advent Calendar: December 12th

1981: Some of the bits between the programmes on BBC2. “It’s really sodding cold” is the news lead, including a rare namecheck...

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Advent Calendar: December 11th

1980: Tributes to John Lennon were still having to be made, Top Of The Pops finding a dark corner of the studio...

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Advent Calendar: December 10th

1981: One of the great pop years, where the rise of the synths, punk’s fallout, the soul revival, rock’n’roll revivalism, weird European...

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Advent Calendar: December 9th

1980: John Lennon was declared dead at 3.50am UK time, which means it’s very likely this Midday News report would have been...

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Advent Calendar: December 8th

1979: The first Star Trek film was released the previous day in the US and on the 15th here. The BBC children’s...

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Advent Calendar: December 7th

1984: “Lumberjack? Steeplejack? Oh, Uncle Jack?” The Chas & Dave theme and presence of Stu Francis can only mean Crackerjack was on...

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Advent Calendar: December 6th

1973: Everyone was into oil fields in the mid-70s, and a discovery near the Shetlands led John Craven’s Newsround. Craven himself had...

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Advent Calendar: December 5th

1982: As trailed by the natural face of experimental broadcasting, Arthur Mullard, although The Saturday Show found an ideal front”person” for the...

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Advent Calendar: December 4th

1974: The Irish border problem used to mean something entirely different. Nationwide traversed the divide in the company of Bernard Falk, who...

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Advent Calendar: December 3rd

1980: Peter Davison had been named as the Fifth Doctor a month earlier and was three and a half months away from...

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Advent Calendar: December 2nd

1981: Southern was on the way out at the end of the year which would inevitably mean an end to Houseparty, the...

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