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Thank Your Lucky Stars!

Published 24 March 2023

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

The Beatles: Wiped Out

Published 30 May 2022

Tracking down missing footage of the Fab Four

Going underground

Published 4 April 2022

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

Beatles big TV scoop!

Published 29 September 2021

The Beatles are back in the UK in 1964… and back on ABC’s Big Night Out!

Pops and pirates

Published 23 July 2021

Granada’s World in Action looks at the victims of the off-shore radio boom: the recording artists who drove it

Seen at 6.30

Published 4 December 2020

Inside Granada’s greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30

12 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Published 19 November 2020

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

Milestones

Published 6 October 2018

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

1964 and all that

Published 6 September 2018

A personal look back at 1964 from David Heathcote

Ready, Steady, Goes

Published 24 July 2018

Celebrating the life of Ready, Steady, Go! as it finishes at the end of 1966

Blackpool Night Out

Published 1 June 2018

ABC opens the new Blackpool Theatre with ‘Blackpool Night Out’ in 1964

The Fab Four meet the Big Four

Published 21 January 2016

The intertwined worlds of The Beatles and 1960s ITV

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 29 September 2023