TV listings from the olden days 📺

[Rogg]

Somehow it's already 2 years to the day since the dreaded 'Flux' began, the 13th series of Doctor Who.

The episode was called 'The Halloween Apocalypse'.

If you look behind the house on the right side, you'll work out where the Tardis landed. Jodie gets giddy. Not sure if it makes it canon that the Doctor is a Liverpool fan.

[Rogg]

The 13th episode of Mr Bean first aired on Halloween night in 1995.

+ random bonus Kenneth Williams as Dracula.

[Rogg]

Saturday 31st October 1964.

More Halloween Doctor Who. This time in 1964 for the start of series 2: 'Planet of Giants', part one. 5.15pm on the BBC. Plus a nice feature on the story of the show so far.

International Ballroom Championships at 10.30pm.

[Rogg]

Halloween on the Beeb, 1986. Plus that week's letters pages.

An actual Halloween film at 11.35pm.

[Rogg]

Sunday 1st November 1992. UK Gold is here.

Quite neat that classic Doctor Who finally lands on the iplayer on the same date that UK Gold began broadcasting.

Seeing as UK Gold is where I saw Doctor Who for the first time as a kid. I don't know how, when or if I'd have come to the show otherwise. Article below this vid.

[Rogg]

This is the pattern that UK Gold had for showing Doctor Who. Starting on Monday 2nd November 1992.

I have many nice memories of watching it is a miniature person. 'The Addams Family' was usually in the slot before it. I hated that though. They were weird cunts.

[Randall]

I recorded them all on vhs

[Rogg]

I recorded them all on vhs

We had a few of the omninus editions recorded on VHS. Watched them loads.

I converted some old tapes a few years ago and found bits and bobs of Who still on them. Lovely stuff.

[Rogg]

ITV4, the home of world darts, began broadcasting on this day in 2005.

It seems its very first show was live football: Real Betis v Chelsea in the Champions League.

[Rogg]

The Play for Today classic 'Abigail's Party' first aired on this day in 1977. It makes me feel sick. The party from hell.

[Ross, Bob]

Demis Roussos is sound.

At least in Aphrodite's Child. He can fuck off with his 'my friend the wind' shit.

[Rogg]

Tuesday 2nd November 1982.

At 4.45pm, Channel 4 launches. Its first show, naturally: Countdown.

[Rogg]

and here's the listing.

Brookside also began on Channel 4's first day. It will run until 2003.

[tungsten tossers]

Five Go Mad in Dorset... haven't seen that in years

[Rogg]

Saturday 1st November 1986.

Including the covers of both magazines.

The Radio Times is marking 50 years of BBC television. BBC1 has a special evening of shows from 7.35pm.

Doctor Who epic 'The Trial of a Time Lord' has reached episode 9 of 14. The Doctor's trial is coming to end, as is the viewers'.

[Rogg]

Tuesday 2nd November 1954.

The first episode of Hancock's Half Hour, the legendary radio comedy series written by Galton & Simpson who go on to write Steptoe & Son.

By miracles this very first episode survives. I've posted it underneath this Radio Times listing. Still sounding fresh on its 69th birthday.

[Rogg]

Saturday 2nd November 1968.

Presidental election week. Nixon vs. whoever that is. This is 5 years to the very month since Kennedy was murdered.

Part 1 of one of the great Doctor Who stories: The Invasion. Cybermen at St Paul's Cathedral.

ITV has a show about the Charlton brothers.

[tungsten tossers]

Scram to get rid of your mouse problem

[Rogg]

Scram to get rid of your mouse problem

Here's a different, larger ad. Probably asking for a photoshop.

Timothy Whites chemist... it's mentioned in Dad's Army sometimes. Could be wrong but I think it's the predecessor of Superdrug.

[Rogg]

35 years ago tonight, the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth aired.

9.30pm on BBC1: 'Goodbyeee'.