Articles about BBCtv

Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows

The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60

40 years ago…

A look back at Children in Need 1982

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

The people who say BBCtv programmes are too populist don’t appear to have watched any, says Huw Wheldon

Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news

A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown

Inside BBCtv, from 1930 to 1950, in pictures

It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!

The behind-the-scenes chaos that translates to a professional on-screen programme

Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s why

Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983

CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978

A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Friday 18 July 1969

A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Tuesday 4 July 1967

A look at what was on BBC-1 and BBC-2 on Thursday 18 April 1974

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

A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 29 November 1967

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 1 November 1986

From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters

A look at what was on BBCtv on Friday 17 May 1968

The Radio Times talks about the thought that goes into postponing a programme

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 23 November 1963

A look at what was on the BBC on Sunday 2 November 1986

Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk

A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 19 October 1960

The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’

A look at what was on the BBC on Monday 17 June 1968

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service in the week of Sunday 12 March 1950

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service on Tuesday 10 March 1964

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 10 February 1968

The late David Bowie makes an early appearance on ‘Tonight’ in 1964

What was on BBC television on Monday 8 April 1968

What was on BBC television on Saturday 22 March 1969

What was on BBCtv on Friday 17 March 1950

What was on the BBC Television Service on 7-12 February 1938

What was on BBC television on Tuesday 31 December 1968

A play that briefly changed society

What was on BBCtv on Wednesday 13 November 1968

What was on BBCtv on Tuesday 22 October 1968

What was on BBC-1 on Monday 25 October 1965