Friday, 26th December 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 6.45pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 From start to finish, it was a brilliant Boxing Night...
Friday, 24th December 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 8.40pm CHRISTMAS WITH TERRY AND JUNE, BBC1 Featuring our heroes on baubles in the...
Friday, 18th December 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm VICTORIA WOOD: AS SEEN ON TV SPECIAL, BBC2 “This special is a temporary...
Friday, 12th December 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.35pm MASTERTEAM, BBC1 Let’s play! It’s the quarter-finals of the teatime pub quiz-team Olympiad,...
Friday, 4th December 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm DOCTOR WHO, BBC2 Back in the 1990s, you had to get your Who...
Friday, 24th November 1963 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm THE PRISONER, ITV With Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons also lording it over...
Friday, 19th November 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm DEMOB, ITV Hyped up as the next big hit comedy drama that wasn’t...
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, 24th October 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 7.55pm ANGELS, BBC1 Perhaps one of the greatest BBC drama title sequences of all...
Friday, 15th October 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 7.15pm THE LIVING SOAP, BBC2 Billed as following on Sylvania Waters, but really an...
Friday, 12th October 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 11.30pm FRIDAY NIGHT… SATURDAY MORNING, BBC2 For such a comparatively short-lived series, FN…SM has...
Friday, 5th October 1973 PICK OF THE DAY 4.20pm ACE OF WANDS, ITV Although the theme music to Ace of Wands is...
Friday, 27th September 1974 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm TOP OF THE POPS, BBC1 We all know this story – Top of...
Friday, 24th September 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm BRUCE FORSYTH’S GENERATION GAME, BBC1 Everyone forgets it now, but the ultimate Saturday...
Friday, 20th September 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm THE RUSS ABBOT SHOW, BBC1 In the past there were small but obvious...
Friday, 8th September 1978 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm THE KRYPTON FACTOR, ITV Well, here’s a series that you probably didn’t expect...
Friday, 7th September 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 7pm BLANKETY BLANK, BBC1 “Please don’t fiddle with the controls on your set. Just...
Friday, 24th August 1979 PICK OF THE DAY 9pm ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, BBC1 It’s prime Carol Drinkwater and pre-Calum Buchanan...
Friday, 15th August 1997 PICK OF THE DAY 10pm ROOM 101, BBC2 Here’s a genuine curiosity – a programme that can be...
Friday, 12th August 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 8.30pm SUMMER HARTY, BBC1 Wither the eccentric? Leaving to one side the eponymous presenter’s...
Friday, 7th August 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm TWO D’S AND A DOG, ITV We think of spin-offs as a modern...
Friday, 30th July 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WINNER TAKES ALL, ITV “Press those buttons and gamble away!” Feet up for...
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, 11th July 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE CHART SHOW, CHANNEL 4 “WARNING: PREPARE FOR VDU OVERLOAD.” Behold the giant...
Friday, 9th July 1993 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm ELDORADO, BBC1 It’s all round to Joy’s Bar to meet Freddie, Olive and...
Friday, 29th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 6.55pm MIKE READ’S REPLAY SELECTION, BBC1 The then Czar of Saturday mornings pops by...
Friday, 28th June 1996 PICK OF THE DAY 10.00pm FRIDAY NIGHT ARMISTICE, BBC2 Pleased-with-itself, and rightly so, satire from the hard-to-spell triumvirate...
Friday, 17th June 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 7.50pm DID YOU SEE?, BBC2 “Yes I bloody did, thank you!” Journalist and journeyman...
Friday, 14th June 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm THE MAD DEATH, BBC1 One and only repeat showing for the made-in-1981-but-not-screened-until-1983 BBC...
Friday, 1st June 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm THE $64,000 QUESTION, ITV “64,000 welcomes to you!” – not one of Bob’s...
Friday, 30th May 1969 PICK OF THE DAY 10.30pm BIG BREADWINNER HOG, ITV The final episode of Granada’s flashy-yet-gritty bit of the...
Friday, 17th May 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 6.30pm TONIGHT WITH JONATHAN ROSS, CHANNEL 4 It seems so long ago now, but...
Friday, 12th May 1972 PICK OF THE DAY 8.10pm THE BROTHERS, BBC1 This road haulage power struggle family saga was a huge...
Friday, 9th May 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 7.40pm I’VE GOT A SECRET, BBC1 A long-running yet little-remembered transfer of the Allen...
Friday, 24th April 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 5.30pm THE TUBE, CHANNEL 4 It’s perhaps not surprising, but discussions about The Tube...
Friday, 17th April 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 4.40pm SWAP SHOP STAR AWARDS, BBC1 On BBC4 recently we’ve seen the debut of...
Friday, 10th April 1992 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm BRUCE’S GUEST NIGHT, BBC1 Drown your sorrows the day after the election with...
Friday, 5th April 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 8.00pm TREASURE HUNT, CHANNEL 4 It’s Good Friday, and here’s something suitably festive –...
Friday, 31st March 1978 PICK OF THE DAY 7.30pm A SONG FOR EUROPE, BBC1 Two hours of primetime Friday evening telly is...
Friday, 23rd March 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 9.25pm WHICKER!, BBC2 The eighth episode of 10 of Alan Whicker’s sedate (belying the...
Friday, 15th March 1985 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm WOGAN, BBC1 And it’s our last visit of the week to the verdant...
Friday, 11th March 1977 PICK OF THE DAY 11.40pm UFO, ITV This episode scoops the coveted POTD badge, along with regulated enhanced...
Friday, 6th March 1981 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm A QUESTION OF SPORT, BBC1 If not at the peak of its powers...
Friday, 27th February 1987 PICK OF THE DAY 7.30pm FIRST AIDS, ITV The centrepiece of this week’s momentous all-channel crusade to prevent the nation from...
Friday, 18th February 1977 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm INDOORS OUTDOORS, BBC2 It seems a long time since you got presenters called Val...
Friday, 9th February 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 9.00pm COLIN’S SANDWICH, BBC2 It didn’t exactly help that it was heralded in some quarters...
Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
Friday, 28th January 1972 PICK OF THE DAY 9.00pm SPYDER’S WEB, ITV The spy drama of slim repute – starring Patricia Cutts,...
Friday, 18th January 1980 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm THE SUPERSTARS, BBC1 A high-water mark for the ‘Stars, 1980 saw the UK...
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