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Published 7 July 2023
If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock
Published 5 June 2023
Thames Television’s new detective show gives TVTimes a reason to look at TV detectives in general
Published 4 April 2022
A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London
Published 23 February 2022
Twice a week, Thames goes live to Teddington’s studio 3 for the show ‘Magpie’
Published 9 December 2021
A creepy tourist-friendly film series
Published 2 September 2021
One of the two quintessential ITV quiz shows
Published 30 July 2021
A nine-year-old turns on Rediffusion in 1968… and gets a surprise
Published 19 July 2021
Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?
Published 3 May 2021
It’s 29 July 1968 and Rediffusion London comes on air for the very last time
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
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?
Published 9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
Published 25 April 2020
Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown
Published 29 November 2019
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
Published 24 July 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 29 May 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1975 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 24 May 2019
Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready
Published 16 May 2019
The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969
Published 7 May 2019
Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 25 October 2018
Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979
Published 16 October 2018
A random day at Thames in 1970… planned to the very second
Published 18 September 2018
The Thames staff newsletter goes behind the scenes of an episode of ‘Mystery and Imagination’ in September 1969
Published 4 September 2018
Thames provides a quick guide to what they can do for trainees wanting to enter television in 1977
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
Published 21 August 2018
A 1979 promotional leaflet gives us a glimpse inside Thames Television’s plans for the 1980s
Published 8 August 2018
A look at what was on ITV in the whole country on Thursday 8 August 1968
Published 31 July 2018
Inside ITV’s biggest children’s department in 1977
Published 31 July 2018
The programming powerhouse of Thames, as seen on the covers of the TVTimes
Published 31 July 2018
How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988
Published 30 July 2018
Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television
Published 29 July 2018
Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire
Published 18 June 2018
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
Published 12 June 2018
A look at what was on Thames in London and Channel 4 on Wednesday 12 June 1985
Published 31 May 2018
What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992
Published 14 May 2018
Thames is left as the sole bidder for the new Channel 5 licence in 1992… but investors are restless
Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
Published 24 December 2017
A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987