Tonight’s Anglia TV… in 1971 

16 August 2017 tbs.pm/13078

The TVTimes tells us what was on Anglia on Monday 16 August 1971. Things worth noting include:

• It’s a late start to Anglia starting up with the latest headlines from the Anglia Newsroom at the heady time of 4.20pm, swiftly followed by a handful of children’s programmes. starting with The Romper Room presented by the lovely Miss Rosalyn. We’re Australia bound at 4.55pm then up to the Yorkshire Dales in Follyfoot at 5.15pm.
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  Michael Hunt

  News time now and it’s up to London for the ITN News, followed at 6pm by About Anglia. Your Weathercaster is Mike Hunt.

• Your early evening programmes are pretty much a networked affair from 6.40pm until 10.30pm, kicking off with Hughie Green and Opportunity Knocks! and I mean that most sincerely folks. After that it’s a trip up to Weatherfield for another episode of Coronation Street, followed at 8pm by The World of Wicker in which Alan Wicker travels to the delights of British Virgin Islands. At 8.25pm we have a former Op Knickers, Knackers, Knockers winner, yes, it’s Sez Lez with the much missed Les Dawson.
• Irish drama now and Kat and Alfie arrive looking for Kat’s long-lost son… What’s that? Oh right, it’s The Sinners, a Granada mini-series about shenanigans amongst the Batchelors of Cork. Followed by the ITN News at Ten, it’s time for The Brian Connell Interviews, this with the Right Hon. John Siddley. Probably best to get up and turn over now until 11pm when an ITC classic is aired in the shape of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and with a quick Reflection at 11.58pm, it’s lights out for Anglia around midnight!

Networked ITV was a good few years away meaning each ITV regions day and evening schedule could be completely different to another region, or follow a pattern in programme. The TV Times offers us four regional variations for us gander at:

• LONDON: Thames is the first to get up in this regional block at 1.50pm, with an hour of educational programming starting with Communicators and followed by Fencing at 2.15pm and People to People at 2.40pm. This is followed by an hour of nostalgia with Matinee at 3.10pm then Edgar Wallace at 3.35pm. A touch of Yak! at 4.40pm is followed by American sci-fi series Lost in Space at 4.55pm. Thames then follows the Anglia schedule except for Today at 6.20pm followed by a trip to the Crossroads Motel at 6.20pm. Thames turns to drama at 10.30pm with American action series Name of the Game followed at 11.55pm by another ITC classic, The Persuaders.
• MIDLAND: ATV starts off with a touch of the occult with Horoscopes at 3.35pm then, into Women Today at 3.40pm. American drama with Peyton Place at 4.10pm is followed by a touch of paper folding… random… Origami at 4.40pm, then Bush Baby at 4.55pm. Then it follows Anglia until 10.30pm when it airs Survival and its final programme is the vaguely titled Speaking.
• SOUTHERN: Southern begins at with a big of energic Yoga at 3.10pm then, at 3.35pm, As MIDLAND until 4.10pm when it’s Ding Dong… Houseparty! Mr Piper is at 4.20pm followed at 4.25pm by comedy with Lucy. Then, as THAMES at 4.55pm until 6pm. Local magazine programme Day by Day at 6pm nudges Op Knocks to 6.45pm on this station. Then, as ANGLIA until 10.30pm, when it’s Family Dog… the mind boggles, then after South News at 10.55pm we have half an hour of Farming at 11.05pm, the weather at 11.35pm and a shutdown of the transmitters a good twenty minutes before midnight.
• YORKSHIRE: YTV starts its broadcast at 2pm with a Folk Festival, groovy baby! Then has a news update at 4.10pm and Matinee at 4.15pm before some very basic children’s programming in the shape of Story at 4.40pm and Woobinda at 4.55pm then, their own offering at 5.20pm with Follyfoot. Once again, we follow the Anglia pattern until 10.30pm when they air Edgar Wallace followed by a touch of late night Cooking.

External links

• See the rival BBC-1 London schedule at the Genome project.
• See the rival BBC-2 England schedule at the Genome project.