Articles about BBC-1

Production values have changed… for the better?

Think you know all about the “swirly” BBC-1 globe? Wrong.

It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 5 June 1965

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1975 to find out what was on the telly…

CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978

A look at what was on BBC-1 in the North on Sunday 24 October 1965

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

A look at what was on BBC Television and S4C on Friday 25 April 1986

A look at what was on television on Christmas Day 1997

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 1 November 1986

A look at what was on BBCtv on Friday 17 May 1968

A look at what was on the BBC on Thursday 15 February 1968

The BBC-1 Christmas jingle from 1967

A look at what was on television on Tuesday 16 November 1999

A look at what was on the BBC on Sunday 2 November 1986

A look at what was on television on 17 June 1967

Once Britain’s biggest star… and then gone. Why?

A look at what was on television on 30 December 1966

What was on BBC-1 on Monday 25 October 1965

What was on BBC-1 on Saturday 29 August 1964

What was on BBC-1 on Thursday 26 August 1965

Regional variations apply to Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1971