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Published 24 March 2023
The background to the innovative ABC pop show of the 1960s
Published 5 March 2021
It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV
Published 26 November 2020
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964
Published 14 September 2020
The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958
Published 27 March 2019
Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North
Published 4 February 2019
All television production requires training, especially when it’s amateurs in front of the camera. In 1959, ABC Weekend set out to teach the vicars, priests and bishops of Britain how to work in TV
Published 28 August 2018
James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967
Published 30 July 2018
Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television
Published 18 May 2018
The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years
Published 15 December 2017
⧉ How ABC discovered Joan Edwards, Bob Hatch and Julie Stevens in 1957
Published 8 December 2017
⧉ John Halas explains the genesis of his new cartoon series, Foo Foo, in 1960