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Published 10 July 2023
Back to mechanical television as a way of bringing colour into your home
Published 7 July 2023
If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock
Published 24 April 2023
It’s war as the BBC and TVS go head to head… over a car sticker
Published 17 April 2023
Having opened in January 1956, the BBC’s Midland television studios are finally complete
Published 3 April 2023
The creator of BBCtv’s first soap opera talks about writing the new show
Published 20 March 2023
Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows
Published 20 January 2023
The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60
Published 18 September 2022
Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB
Published 2 September 2022
The people who say BBCtv programmes are too populist don’t appear to have watched any, says Huw Wheldon
Published 30 June 2022
Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news
Published 17 June 2022
A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown
Published 3 February 2022
It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!
Published 29 November 2021
The behind-the-scenes chaos that translates to a professional on-screen programme
Published 1 November 2021
Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing
Published 5 January 2021
BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it
Published 14 October 2019
Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983
Published 24 December 2018
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978
Published 18 July 2018
A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Friday 18 July 1969
Published 4 July 2018
A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Tuesday 4 July 1967
Published 4 April 2018
A look at what was on BBC-1 and BBC-2 on Thursday 18 April 1974
Published 24 March 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1960 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 24 March 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 February 1960 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 29 November 2017
A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 29 November 1967
Published 1 November 2017
A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 1 November 1986
Published 3 July 2017
From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters
Published 26 January 2017
The Radio Times talks about the thought that goes into postponing a programme
Published 23 November 2016
A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 23 November 1963
Published 2 November 2016
A look at what was on the BBC on Sunday 2 November 1986
Published 31 October 2016
Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk
Published 19 October 2016
A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 19 October 1960
Published 29 September 2016
The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’
Published 17 June 2016
A look at what was on the BBC on Monday 17 June 1968
Published 12 March 2016
A look at what was on the BBC Television Service in the week of Sunday 12 March 1950
Published 10 March 2016
A look at what was on the BBC Television Service on Tuesday 10 March 1964
Published 10 February 2016
A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 10 February 1968
Published 11 January 2016
The late David Bowie makes an early appearance on ‘Tonight’ in 1964
Published 22 March 2015
What was on BBC television on Saturday 22 March 1969