Articles about ABC Weekend TV

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

The much-loved announcer and newsreader has died aged 94

How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election

The background to the innovative ABC pop show of the 1960s

The chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation on his plans for the new ABC Weekend in 1955

The press pack for a new drama series on ABC Weekend: The Human Jungle

The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks

A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network

John Edmunds hangs up his newsreader’s tie and gets ready to tread the boards – or not

Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC

The Beatles are back in the UK in 1964… and back on ABC’s Big Night Out!

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

Inside ABC Weekend Television in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960

Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV

A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964

Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964

How does an ABC announcer cope with the fans, the long hours and… toothache?

300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want

The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958

We’ve lost Dame Diana Rigg, best known to us as Mrs Peel in ABC’s The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Ian Hendry tell the story of the series in our special website from 1976

Network Distributing launch their streaming service with three nights of ABC Weekend TV

It’s as easy as ABC

Six articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television

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

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

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North

A painfully sexist 1959 profile of actress Ann Taylor

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

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

A look at what was on ABC Weekend TV in the North on Saturday 31 October 1964

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

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

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

Meet the designer behind ABC’s striking sets in 1960