Elsewhere on TBS

Meet the radio voice who easily transferred to television

Meet the magical star of What’s My Line?

There’s only one thing worse than the thighs and boobs in Rediffusion’s Riviera Police – and that’s when there aren’t any, writes Milton Shulman

Meet BBCtv announcer Avis Scott

A pictorial guide to the funeral of the former prime minister, from the people behind ‘Fusion’, the house magazine of Rediffusion London

Milton Shulman prefers BBC comedy to ITV comedy… sometimes

A new subsite with archives from Channel Television

Milton Shulman compares Sherlock Homes, Public Eye and Burke’s Law

Milton Shulman wants less Ready Steady Go! and more Panorama

Milton Shulman vents his spleen at arts programming in general and Jonathan Miller in particular

Remembering Captain Thomas Marcus Brownrigg OBE, CBE, DSO, RN (Rtd), IDC

TV critic Milton Shulman turns his withering eye on current affairs programming

The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks

Milton Shulman rages over the quality of TV chat

A gallery of publicity and posters for the Brussels Expo 1958

Milton Shulman, splenetic TV critic, looks at what’s wrong with the BBC’s flagship news show Tonight

Top producer Brian Tesler shortly goes over to Associated TeleVision from the BBC with one of the most tempting contracts ever offered in this country

British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1959

British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1958

British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1957

A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: technical limitations are preventing ITV-2

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: how Studio 5 at Wembley is coming along

Inside BBCtv, from 1930 to 1950, in pictures

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: the door to Human Resources is always open

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: has the quality of A-R programming fallen?

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: sorry, what did you want me to write?

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: BBC-2, ITV-2 or a brand new TV-3?

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: keep an eye on the balance sheet

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how do we keep our standards so high?

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how we make sure our adverts are good adverts

The BBC celebrates its silver jubilee in our new microsite

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how to mix levity with depth

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: we don’t want an ITV-2 or a BBC-2

Twice a week, Thames goes live to Teddington’s studio 3 for the show ‘Magpie’

Studio 5 at Wembley has been designed. A-R’s chief engineer takes us around the plans

Our new website celebrating a decade of change

What will television look like in 1984? The programme makers of 1958 try to find out

Is it possible to define “good TV”?

Associated-Rediffusion asks its producers what makes a ‘feature’ in 1960

The general manager of Rediffusion on why we should go into colour now, in 1966

The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV

A series of Associated-Rediffusion video dramas make their way on to ABC in the United States

Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority

In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954