Elsewhere on TBS

Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air

First published a year ago, listen to Thames Television’s inaugural luncheon on their first day of broadcasting on 30 July 1968

From a year ago: a look at what was on Rediffusion in London on Monday 29 July 1968

Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978

Join us for a look back at The Avengers and The New Avengers, plus the autobiography of Patrick Macnee

Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1967, including the Seven Deadly Virtues, The Gamblers, Betjeman’s London and Lady Windermere’s Fan…

For researchers: source documents relating to TWW and Teledu Cymru from the Transdiffusion archives

Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1966, with stars such as David Frost, Bernard Levin, Ian Hendry, Joe Orton and James Mason…

The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you

Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969

Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately

A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971

Peter Ling travels to Wembley to meet Guy Bloomer, deputy manager of the studios in 1959

Peter Ling goes to Room 518 on the fifth floor to visit the manager of the drama department Vyvienne Moynihan in 1959

The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973

Peter Ling pops to Wembley to talk to Len Fraser in the Property Store in 1959

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