Elsewhere on TBS

Peter Ling visits the first floor office of property master Des McCormack in 1959

Our new subsite goes behind the cameras at ABC in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960

Peter Ling watches Pam Elliott wield a panstick for Rediffusion in 1958

Peter Ling pops up to the second floor to meet Albert Short, head of the post room

Our new microsite takes you behind the scenes of Radio Luxembourg in 1965: from the staff to the adverts, from how to buy airtime to how to visit… and packed with audio clips recorded by Transdiffusion at the time!

Peter Ling goes down on to the studio floor to meet FM Tony Hulley in 1958

A painfully sexist 1959 profile of actress Ann Taylor

Peter Ling pays a visit to the Rediffusion Club and talks to bartender Betty Bowes in 1958

Read issue 18 of the UK’s pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News from March 1973, fully digitised and free

All television production requires training, especially when it’s amateurs in front of the camera. In 1959, ABC Weekend set out to teach the vicars, priests and bishops of Britain how to work in TV

Han Cooper takes her time machine back to 1964 to watch the output of the brand new BBC-2

ATV’s new wrestling sitcom ‘The Losers’ gives the TVTimes an excuse to look behind the world of professional wrestling in 1978

Meet the co-host of ABC’s The Sunday Break in 1959: starlet Julie Stevens

Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967

Angus Wilson reviews the contribution made to the arts by ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ in 1964

The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of ‘Crossroads’ in 1978 in a – frankly bonkers and baffling – celebratory article ‘written’ by ‘Meg Mortimer’

The goings on inside Thames in January 1971

The TVTimes finds the secrets of Associated-Rediffusion’s casting director Weston Drury in 1956

Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951

Philip Harben introduces his new cookery show – The Grammar of Cookery – in 1964, part of ABC’s Headway adult education service

A random day at Thames in 1970… planned to the very second

It’s 1949 and regional radio from the BBC Home Service is at its height. Our new special site reprints a BBC West of England booklet going behind the scenes of radio in the west and south west

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

Introducing Dinah Lee and Jane Taylor, playing sisters in ABC new serial ‘My Sister and I’ in 1956

The goings on inside Thames in October 1971

Kif Bowden-Smith is driven slowly mad by musical jingles

Fusion magazine looks back over an eventful year for Rediffusion

Meet the designer behind ABC’s striking sets in 1960

The Thames staff newsletter goes behind the scenes of an episode of ‘Mystery and Imagination’ in September 1969

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Saturday 12 September 1964

Your TVTimes correspondent in 1964 is frankly baffled by ‘Don’t Say a Word’

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Friday 11 September 1964

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Thursday 10 September 1964

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Wednesday 9 September 1964

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Tuesday 8 September 1964

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Monday 7 September 1964

A personal look back at 1964 from David Heathcote

The latest news from the Wonderful Radio London Big L Club

In depth into Southern Television’s schedule for Sunday 6 September 1964

Take a trip back to how capitalism worked in 1964

An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith

Thames provides a quick guide to what they can do for trainees wanting to enter television in 1977

Tony Hancock’s new series for ATV premieres in 1963

James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967

TVTimes talks to Janice Willett, producer of ABC’s State Your Case, in 1957