Articles about ABC

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

A painfully sexist 1959 profile of actress Ann Taylor

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

An in-depth look at the people behind the scenes at hit soap opera Peyton Place in 1967

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day

A look at what was on television on 17 June 1967

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.

Sir John Dankworth dies aged 82.

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British and US film series were a treat for 60s viewers

Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.

The ultimate rite of passage

From 1955 to 2005 by way of changing priorities and consumerism

The companies that made Thames

Lord Hill’s diagnosis creates a new company

Build a better ITV company

The big launch makes a damp squib

Thames’s first day on air

The competition

From the Euston Road to the banks of the Thames

What was it that made Thames stand out?

Memories of the centre of ITV

Thames leaves a legacy we all can see today

All bloody entertaining

By the time ABC arrived, many decisions had been made. Howard wanted them changed.

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 1

Three regions, four contractors. How? Why? asks Richard G Elen

The earliest architecture of television

ITC meets ABDC

Your Weekend TV

The three section triangle

Television moves in on the cinema and theatre

Branding with malice aforethought

All the stations, all the times

Continuity announcer

Covering just 4 regions

Television takes on cinema in the regions

US networks

How London and TV are inextricably bound

ABC, ABPC and the art of studios

ABC people do it in two regions at once

ABC, ABPC and the art of television

ABC in context