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T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

Thank Your Lucky Stars!

Published 24 March 2023

The background to the innovative ABC pop show of the 1960s

Into the fifth year

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

18 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Published 26 November 2020

Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964

ITV dopes the public

Published 14 September 2020

The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958

Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966

Published 27 March 2019

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North

ABC’s Religious Training Scheme

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

That was the decade that was

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

Talk of Thames

Published 30 July 2018

Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television

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

School for stars

Published 15 December 2017

⧉ How ABC discovered Joan Edwards, Bob Hatch and Julie Stevens in 1957

Cartoon with the Chaplin touch

Published 8 December 2017

⧉ John Halas explains the genesis of his new cartoon series, Foo Foo, in 1960

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 9 June 2023