Articles about Thames Television

Inside Thames in 1988

A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London

Twice a week, Thames goes live to Teddington’s studio 3 for the show ‘Magpie’

A creepy tourist-friendly film series

One of the two quintessential ITV quiz shows

A nine-year-old turns on Rediffusion in 1968… and gets a surprise

Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?

It’s 29 July 1968 and Rediffusion London comes on air for the very last time

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

The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?

What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976

Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

Over on our Thames Television sub-site, Gary Rodger takes us on a journey to Thames in 1984 as the management put out an emergency service when the staff go on strike

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1975 to find out what was on the telly…

Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready

The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969

Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately

Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967

The goings on inside Thames in January 1971

Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979

A random day at Thames in 1970… planned to the very second

The goings on inside Thames in October 1971

The Thames staff newsletter goes behind the scenes of an episode of ‘Mystery and Imagination’ in September 1969

Thames provides a quick guide to what they can do for trainees wanting to enter television in 1977

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

A 1979 promotional leaflet gives us a glimpse inside Thames Television’s plans for the 1980s

A look at what was on ITV in the whole country on Thursday 8 August 1968

Inside ITV’s biggest children’s department in 1977

The programming powerhouse of Thames, as seen on the covers of the TVTimes

How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988

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

Behind the scenes at Thames in 1982

In-depth into Thames Television in 1977

Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire

Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980

A look at what was on Thames in London and Channel 4 on Wednesday 12 June 1985

What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992

Thames is left as the sole bidder for the new Channel 5 licence in 1992… but investors are restless

The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction

A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987

On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV

Television in the People’s Republic of China in 1979

Behind the scenes of This Is Your Life in 1972

A look back, from 1971, at six acts discovered by Hughie Green and his team