Features
Curse of the Mummy
The Thames staff newsletter goes behind the scenes of an episode of ‘Mystery and Imagination’ in September 1969
Previewing Television
A radio reviewer looks on incredulously at the coming of television to the United States in 1935
How to receive Continental television
Practical Television in 1962 gives advice on how to receive European television in the UK: grab your soldering iron
So You Want to Work in Television…
Thames provides a quick guide to what they can do for trainees wanting to enter television in 1977
How I grew up with ITV
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
This is Thames
A 1979 promotional leaflet gives us a glimpse inside Thames Television’s plans for the 1980s
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Marconi mobile television
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954 – see why in our new microsite
Factsheet 1966: Religion on Independent Television
An introduction to religious programmes in ITV in 1966
Factsheet 1966: Taste, Accuracy, Impartiality in ITV Programmes
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
The show that left me speechless
Your TVTimes correspondent in 1964 is frankly baffled by ‘Don’t Say a Word’
Tonight’s Anglia TV… in 1971
A look at what was on in the east of England on Sunday 19 September 1971
Back in time for TV: 6-12 August 1970
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 6-12 August 1970 for a look at what was on the telly
Saturday 12 September 1964 on Southern
In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Saturday 12 September 1964
Friday 11 September 1964 on Southern
In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Friday 11 September 1964
Thursday 10 September 1964 on Southern
In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Thursday 10 September 1964
Freddie Phillips
You know him from Trumpton and Camberwick Green. We know him from his 8 daily start-up pieces for BBC-1 (two on Sundays) in use 1964-7. Have a listen to them on our SoundCloud channel
Television starts the day
Listen to Television start the day each day on Transdiffusion’s free SoundCloud playlist
► Quick march
On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
✎ Made in Yorkshire
A Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund a documentary about YTV
✎ Sir Ken Dodd 1927-2018
Looking back at the life of Liverpool funnyman Ken Dodd
✎ Sit down, Nigel Barton
Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play