TV listings from the olden days

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Saturday 29th March 1997.

The final time that the Radio Times has only 4 channels on their main pages. Channel 5 starts tomorrow.

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Easter Monday 1997.

Channel 5 has arrived.

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Saturday 3rd April 2010.

Matt Smith is the new Doctor. 14 years ago today, how ridiculous.

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Friday 4th April 1997.

The Radio Times is struggling to work out where to put the Channel 5 daytime listings.

Channel 4 is going through Frasier from the beginning.

Columbo! BBC1, 2.15pm.

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Sunday 5th April 1992.

Both FA Cup semi-finals are live on BBC1, from Highbury and Hillsborough.

The Piglet Files on ITV Central at 7.15pm, a spy comedy starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. I've never ever seen that.

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Friday 10th April 1995.

's Out, the final episode of Bottom, aired on BBC2. 29 years ago today.

It was originally intended to air in November 1992, as the final episode of Series 2, but that was cancelled following a murder on Wimbledon Common where the episode is set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Rachel_Nickell

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Friday 10th April 1992.

Coverage of the 1992 General Election has been going on all night and is still going on this morning.

An interesting patch of Thunderbirds and Doctor Who on BBC2 from 6pm.

9pm on ITV Central, that is the first episode of Heartbeat. It will run for 372 episodes, ending in 2010.

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Sunday 15th April 1984.

40 years ago today. Variety show 'Live from Her Majesty's' aired on ITV, hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck.

Tommy Cooper had a heart attack on stage. The show continued with other acts while behind the curtain they were trying to save him. He was later pronounced dead, age 63. This is from 'News at One' on ITV the following day and front page of the Mirror the following morning.

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I watched it live

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Friday 14th April 2006.

Let's take a look at Good Friday telly in 2006.

Especially at double Columbo on Channel 5 from 12.30pm, you love to see it.

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Monday 16th April 2001.

Easter Monday 2001. I think I saw some of that Godzilla airing, hmm. A largely pointless film.

Match of the Day featured Coventry v Sunderland from Highfield Road.

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Friday 17th April 1992.

Good Friday telly, 32 years ago.

BBC1 has a Columbo at 1.40pm.

The second episode of Heartbeat is on ITV. 9pm on a Friday.

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Friday 14th April 2006.

Let's take a look at Good Friday telly in 2006.

Especially at double Columbo on Channel 5 from 12.30pm, you love to see it.

I was murdered by abigail Mitchell

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The cover of the Radio Times this week in 2010. The General Election is coming soon.

Three different covers were available to choose from, featuring the infamous redesigned daleks that were seen once and, by popular demand, never again.

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Sunday 19th April 1987.

37 years ago today. On episode 3 of The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons make their first tv appearance.

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Sunday 21 April 1996.

2.50pm on BBC1, Columbo.

The first round of the snooker is scattered across BBC2. No red button and shit, this is all you got. The description in the 1.30pm slot is worth a read.

Live football from Roker Park on ITV Central at 2.30pm. Sunderland are closing in on promotion to the Premiership.

An evening of Birds of a Feather and the second Naked Gun film on BBC1, not bad at all.

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Saturday 23rd April 1966.

58 years ago today. The final episode of the Doctor Who story 'The Celestial Toymaker' airs. It is the only episode of the story to survive in the archive today. An extremely weird story.

There is a character in it named Cyril, a vile overgrown schoolboy, seemingly based on the character of Billy Bunter. Under legal scrutiny the BBC had to issue a statement to distance the character from Billy who was not their property. Watch this from 12 mins if you want to see the fat cunt fry: