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The Sporting Week – Behind the Scenes
Published 18 April 2022
World of Sport airs every Saturday on ITV – but work on the programme begins on Tuesday
TV announcer’s career about to take a new turn
Published 20 January 2021
London Weekend’s Alec Taylor would like to try new things in 1975
The new look
Published 11 December 2020
Over on our refurbished Thames site, the Reading Evening Post looks in to what exciting programmes the new Thames Television will be offering us in 1968
Here comes the big new era
Published 12 October 2020
The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?
ITV’s Regional Strength
Published 9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
The Frost freakout
Published 5 October 2020
A show is disrupted by unwashed sweary rebels. No, not that one.
Back in time for TV: 1978
Published 24 July 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…
Can TV’s ‘lost weekend’ be brought to life?
Published 13 May 2019
The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change
How I grew up with ITV
Published 3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
Tonight’s London Weekend… in 1968
Published 2 August 2018
A look at what was on London Weekend on Friday 2 August 1968
Yorkshire Television presents…
Published 29 July 2018
Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire
Frost joins tycoons in shock ITV shake-up
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Destination 1974
Published 12 February 2018
The strike over, the TVTimes looks ahead to the new-look ITV in 1968 and beyond
The ABC of Simon Dee
Published 1 February 2018
Part 1: Simon Dee talks about his upbringing in this interview from 1970
The pirate king steps ashore to find his family out on the street
Published 1 February 2018
Part 2: Simon Dee talks about losing his Radio Caroline job in this interview from 1970
How I ‘died the death’ in Manchester and was saved by one man’s faith
Published 1 February 2018
Part 3: Simon Dee talks about Dee Time in this interview from 1970
Christmas Day on Thames, LWT and Channel 4… in 1987
Published 24 December 2017
A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987
Doris Hare just can’t keep off the buses
Published 19 September 2017
A look at how Doris Hare rose to fame from 1971
The Unlikely Grads
Published 27 March 2017
The TVTimes in 1971 interviews 29-year-old LWT producer Humphrey Barclay
✎ Crushing your hopes at Christmas
Published 19 December 2016
Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.
► Exit ATV, pursued by LWT
Published 1 December 2016
Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time
► The fall and fall of LWT
Published 4 August 2016
The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.
✎ Fountaineer
Published 12 April 2016
A new minisite from Transdiffusion devoted to the soon-to-be-gone Wembley studios.
Tonight’s LWT… in 1981
Published 14 November 2015
A look at what was on London Weekend on Saturday 14 November 1981