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Opportunity Knocks for Brenda Marsh
Published 13 July 2022
The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks
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
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
How I grew up with ITV
Published 3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
King of the talent seekers
Published 29 June 2018
The story of Hughie Green, as told by the TVTimes in 1964
Blackpool Night Out
Published 1 June 2018
ABC opens the new Blackpool Theatre with ‘Blackpool Night Out’ in 1964
Three year diary
Published 18 May 2018
The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years
Interviewing the stars
Published 1 May 2018
John Parsons explains how he gets his interviews in the can for ABC’s Film Fanfare in 1956
Eamonn Andrews calling…
Published 27 April 2018
Look Westward magazine profiles Eamonn Andrews and previews his new Saturday night chat show in 1964
Private detective in the Public Eye
Published 5 April 2018
TVTimes introduces ABC’s new Saturday night drama series in 1965
Looking over the farming fence
Published 30 January 2018
⧉ Jack Hargreaves looks forward to a new series for farmers starting on ABC Weekend in 1958
Side-street Crusaders
Published 16 January 2018
⧉ Inside ‘ABC at Large’, the campaigning current affairs series, in 1962
Let’s Go… again!
Published 8 January 2018
⧉ Alpha’s Saturday sports and features programme ‘Let’s Go’ returns for a second series in 1960
It’s a race against time
Published 16 November 2017
⧉ Over on our ABC subsite, the TVTimes in 1958 looks at the rush to get Outside Broadcasts on air at Christmas
Why I created Torchy
Published 14 November 2017
Roberta Leigh explains the genesis of ABC’s new puppet show to the TVTimes in 1959
John Edmunds is too busy for romance
Published 10 November 2017
⧉ Over on our ABC site, the TVTimes interviews John Edmunds in 1957 to find out why he isn’t dating a girl
Man of property
Published 1 September 2017
⧉ Over on our subsite ABC at Large, meet Tony O’Toole, Property Master at Teddington in 1962
The Passing of the 9th Floor Back…
Published 25 August 2017
⧉ Over on our subsite ABC at Large, celebrate the new Television House opening in March 1962 in Mount Street in Manchester
Barmy? Brilliant? Batman!
Published 27 June 2017
The TVTimes introduces a new, batty action series in 1966
Tonight’s ABC North… in 1958
Published 22 March 2017
A look at what was on ABC Weekend TV on Saturday 22 March 1958
Six acts that made opportunity knock
Published 27 February 2017
A look back, from 1971, at six acts discovered by Hughie Green and his team
✎ Crushing your hopes at Christmas
Published 19 December 2016
Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.
Cathy Gale brought out the violent streak in me and I was out to kill
Published 21 November 2016
In 1968, Honor Blackman tells TVWorld about Cathy Gale, Pussy Galore and being a mother.
Faith – and 7,000,000 viewers
Published 15 September 2016
The TVTimes in 1961 looks at the men behind the two most popular religious programmes on ITV – ‘The Sunday Break’ and ‘About Religion’
The admag girls
Published 20 June 2016
The TVTimes talks to the girls behind the midland admags in 1957
Tonight’s ABC Midlands… in 1956
Published 13 May 2016
A look at what was on ABC in the midlands on Sunday 13 May 1956
The Immaculate Avengers
Published 17 February 2016
The TVTimes looks into the fashions of The Avengers in 1963
Avengerworld
Published 6 February 2016
A new charity anthology of writing about The Avengers is released today
In good voice for their calling
Published 10 August 2015
The TVTimes in August 1959 interviews ABC’s John Benson and Mitchell Raper
Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966
Published 25 December 2014
What was on ABC in the North on Christmas Day 1966
Tonight’s ABC North… in 1963
Published 21 December 2014
What was on ABC North on Saturday 21 December 1963
Hello and goodbye
Published 8 December 2014
ABC, ATV London and Rediffusion bow out; Thames, LWT and Yorkshire come in
Tonight’s ABC Midlands… in 1965
Published 23 October 2014
What was on ABC in the midlands on Saturday 23 October 1965
Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966
Published 11 September 2014
What was on ABC in the North on Sunday 11 September 1966