Programming

ATV’s new science fiction show could scare children… and that’s the plan

Success on the network for Anglia’s line of single dramas

Thames Television’s new detective show gives TVTimes a reason to look at TV detectives in general

The creator of BBCtv’s first soap opera talks about writing the new show

Yorkshire Television peers through the revolving door of 10 Downing Street

Even harder than it looks: the technological challenge of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt

A look back at three-channel Christmas television

Episode 2 of a new serial of adventures in time and space goes out tonight and Dennis Potter is looking forward to it

A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979

TWW’s programme controller provides a rundown of forthcoming ITV programmes to the South Wales Argus in 1961

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

Inside TV-am’s popular children’s magazine show, the Wide Awake Club, in 1988

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

Pay a visit to A-R’s Here and Now in 1963 to learn about diving, dancing and diamonds

A quick profile of Gerry Anderson and the Thunderbirds from 1966

A look back at your favourite ITV light entertainment shows from 1970

Look-in picks the top 16 stars of 1971 and provides some fantastic facts about all of them

The TVTimes introduces a new, batty action series in 1966

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

Who are Britain’s up-and-coming young actors in 1963? The ATV Television Show Book finds out

Republished following the death of Sir Roger Moore at the age of 89: Impeccable suits, beautiful women, fast cars, exotic locales – meet Simon Templar

Republished following the death of Sir Roger Moore at the age of 89: Look Westward interviews him on his plans to direct films in 1964

How Central changed ATV’s drama output

Look-in magazine talks to Joanna Lumley about her exciting new ATV series ‘Sapphire and Steel’ in 1979

Behind the scenes of This Is Your Life in 1972

Retro television is back in fashion… if it ever went out

The story of Granada’s ambitious 1969 colour special

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

Are you planning your Ready, Steady, Go! New Year’s Eve 1964 party?

HV Kershaw looks back at Coronation Street’s beginnings in 1960 from the comfort of 1976

Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk

A look behind the scenes at ATV’s ‘The Plane Makers’ in 1963

After 4,510 episodes, Crossroads comes to an end in 1988 with a TVTimes souvenir pull-out.

Redvers Kyle explains his new experimental schools programme in 1963

How television mined the cinema for vaudeville acts

The TVTimes looks into the fashions of The Avengers in 1963

A history of the ever-present schedule filler cartoon

A play that briefly changed society

Andrew Bowden notices it’s very strange to be living in Sun Hill

Chase McPherson on ten years of living under Big Brother’s gaze

NBC hasn’t learned its lesson not to alienate its viewers… or its talent.

Popularity and hard hitting plots.

The series is here to stay

School’s out forever

Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy