One of the significant barriers LWT had to overcome in attracting the ABC1 audience that it so craved was the belief commonly...
Cissie Charlton made the trip to London all the way from her home in Ashington. The pensioner thought she was going...
While comic impersonators enjoyed pretty much a monopoly on Saturday evening comedy programmes, series like Summertime Special provided a platform for a...
With the arrival of Casualty, Saturday evenings had taken on a surprisingly grim aspect, yet the real world could also violate the...
The BBC’s head of variety, light entertainment group, Jim Moir took Noel Edmonds out for several lunches during 1982, to help the presenter shape...
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...
BOMBASTIC TEATIME behemoth which sprawled across half a decade
SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE thought that revamping ASK THE FAMILY as a kind of daily morning Confessions vehicle ("so who does the washing-up in...
"IT'S 6.30AM, Monday 17 January 1983"
FOR a good while Mr BBC, but also managed to find time to become perhaps Radio 1's least memorable Breakfast Show presenter.
SHORT-LIVED SATURDAY night "people show" from the South Bank
ELONGATION OF MAGPIE via original shortlived spin-off called Ace Reports
IF WOODSTOCK was a defining moment of the 60s, Montreux had a similar impact on the 80s, but for entirely different reasons.
CENTREPIECE OF week long, decade-defining, all-star, all-channel Aidsathon
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