Articles about ABC Weekend TV

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

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

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

The TVTimes talks to ABC’s Philip Harben about cookery in 1964

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television

The ABC Midlands and North presentation schedule for 28 July 1968

A look at what was on ABC in the North on Sunday 28 July 1968

A look at what was on ABC in the North on Saturday 27 July 1968

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 15-21 January 1968 for a look at what was on the telly

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-25 May 1967 for a look at what was on the telly

The story of Hughie Green, as told by the TVTimes in 1964

A profile of the star of ABC’s ‘Redcap’ in 1966

ABC opens the new Blackpool Theatre with ‘Blackpool Night Out’ in 1964

The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years

John Parsons explains how he gets his interviews in the can for ABC’s Film Fanfare in 1956

Look Westward magazine profiles Eamonn Andrews and previews his new Saturday night chat show in 1964

TVTimes introduces ABC’s new Saturday night drama series in 1965

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 February 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

⧉ Jack Hargreaves looks forward to a new series for farmers starting on ABC Weekend in 1958

⧉ Inside ‘ABC at Large’, the campaigning current affairs series, in 1962

⧉ Alpha’s Saturday sports and features programme ‘Let’s Go’ returns for a second series in 1960

⧉ Over on our ABC subsite, the TVTimes in 1958 looks at the rush to get Outside Broadcasts on air at Christmas

Roberta Leigh explains the genesis of ABC’s new puppet show to the TVTimes in 1959

⧉ Over on our ABC site, the TVTimes interviews John Edmunds in 1957 to find out why he isn’t dating a girl

⧉ Over on our subsite ABC at Large, meet Tony O’Toole, Property Master at Teddington in 1962

⧉ Over on our subsite ABC at Large, celebrate the new Television House opening in March 1962 in Mount Street in Manchester

The TVTimes introduces a new, batty action series in 1966

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

Ronnie Taylor celebrates 7 years of ABC in 1963

Disc jockey and presenter dies

A look at what was on ABC Weekend TV on Saturday 22 March 1958

A look back, from 1971, at six acts discovered by Hughie Green and his team

Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.

In 1968, Honor Blackman tells TVWorld about Cathy Gale, Pussy Galore and being a mother.

The TVTimes in 1961 looks at the men behind the two most popular religious programmes on ITV – ‘The Sunday Break’ and ‘About Religion’

The TVTimes talks to the girls behind the midland admags in 1957