1977: It’s gone down in folklore that Eric Morecambe’s appearance on World Of Sport was dreamt up by him and Dickie Davies...
1981: Even the Community Programming Unit has to let its hair down occasionally. Grapevine, “The Self-Help Show”, is still very low-key in...
1979: 21 minutes of the pre-Christmas Swap Shop are illuminated by Debbie Harry and a Super 8 camera wielding Chris Stein taking...
1981: Westward Television celebrated its 20th anniversary, eight months after the actual date and ten days before the franchise closed. Hey, better...
1971: Opportunity Knocks’ big discoveries in 1971 were Little & Large, but despite making the All Winners Show they weren’t in contention...
1977: You’re quite right it’s Monday, Play School, and as the start of Christmas week Chloe Ashcroft and Johnny Ball are getting...
1980: Top Of The Pops (full playlist), the last one before Christmas. Both Simon Bates and the production team are in “that”...
1977: “He’s got a funny surname but I can’t remember it!” Our Show was what LWT, with the backing of Anglia and...
1980: Um, is it alright if we all agree to skip past the imagery of the first show trailed here? Thanks. BBC1’s...
1987: We haven’t included a lot of adverts in this Advent Calendar so far because there’s great vats of them on YouTube...
1976: Post-Grundy, the Sex Pistols found promoters and local councils weren’t as amenable to putting on their UK tour as they had...
1970: “The work to rule is over!” And unfortunately so is the online presence of the full Bob-fronted Golden Shot that was...
1981: Some of the bits between the programmes on BBC2. “It’s really sodding cold” is the news lead, including a rare namecheck...
1980: Tributes to John Lennon were still having to be made, Top Of The Pops finding a dark corner of the studio...
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...
1980: John Lennon was declared dead at 3.50am UK time, which means it’s very likely this Midday News report would have been...
1979: The first Star Trek film was released the previous day in the US and on the 15th here. The BBC children’s...
1984: “Lumberjack? Steeplejack? Oh, Uncle Jack?” The Chas & Dave theme and presence of Stu Francis can only mean Crackerjack was on...
1973: Everyone was into oil fields in the mid-70s, and a discovery near the Shetlands led John Craven’s Newsround. Craven himself had...
1982: As trailed by the natural face of experimental broadcasting, Arthur Mullard, although The Saturday Show found an ideal front”person” for the...
1974: The Irish border problem used to mean something entirely different. Nationwide traversed the divide in the company of Bernard Falk, who...
1980: Peter Davison had been named as the Fifth Doctor a month earlier and was three and a half months away from...
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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