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T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

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

Vale John Edmunds

Published 17 May 2023

The much-loved announcer and newsreader has died aged 94

The easy-chair election

Published 4 May 2023

How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election

Thank Your Lucky Stars!

Published 24 March 2023

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

Sir Philip Gives ABPC’s TV Plans and Policy

Published 22 March 2023

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

The Human Jungle

Published 1 January 2023

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

Opportunity Knocks for Brenda Marsh

Published 13 July 2022

The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Present and Future Policy on Development

Published 14 February 2022

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

Newsflash TV man is returning to theatre

Published 3 January 2022

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

The future of television: What next?

Published 26 December 2021

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

The future of television: Who owns television?

Published 25 December 2021

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

Announcing Ray Moore

Published 12 November 2021

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

Beatles big TV scoop!

Published 29 September 2021

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

ITV: the Programmes and the Companies

Published 27 September 2021

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

Both sides of the camera

Published 24 September 2021

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

In association with…

Published 7 June 2021

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

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

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

Into the fifth year

Published 5 March 2021

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

ITV puts its announcers in the picture

Published 13 January 2021

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

The Year in Commercial Television

Published 7 December 2020

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

18 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Published 26 November 2020

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

12 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Published 19 November 2020

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

JOHN EDMUNDS tells you: What it is like to be A TELEVISION ANNOUNCER

Published 5 November 2020

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

The franchise affair

Published 23 October 2020

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

ITV dopes the public

Published 14 September 2020

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

The Avengers

Published 10 September 2020

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

Hello again, old friend

Published 29 July 2020

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

A clarification

Published 10 July 2020

It’s as easy as ABC

Lockdown 6-pack

Published 18 April 2020

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

A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television

Published 20 March 2020

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

Stop watch man starts UTV

Published 31 October 2019

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

From the Televault: The Avengers!

Published 2 July 2019

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

Both sides of the camera

Published 8 April 2019

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

Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966

Published 27 March 2019

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

Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966

Published 26 March 2019

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

A pretty busy girl

Published 8 March 2019

A painfully sexist 1959 profile of actress Ann Taylor

ABC’s Religious Training Scheme

Published 4 February 2019

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

Musical break for Julie

Published 10 January 2019

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

Sentenced to death

Published 8 January 2019

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

Tempo: the impact of television on the arts

Published 6 November 2018

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

Tonight’s ABC Weekend TV… in 1964

Published 31 October 2018

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

All for the love of good food

Published 19 October 2018

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

Milestones

Published 6 October 2018

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

A sister to assist her in career

Published 5 October 2018

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

Designed by VOYTEK

Published 21 September 2018

Meet the designer behind ABC’s striking sets in 1960

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