TV listings from the olden days 📺

[Rogg]

Saturday 30th April 1938.

87 years ago today at 3pm. The FA Cup Final is televised on BBC tv for the first time: Preston North End v Huddersfield Town. Preston won 1-0 after extra-time. Billy Shankly was in the Preston team. King George VI presented the trophy.

There were 93,000 people at Wembley and fewer than 10,000 television sets in the country.

It was the second complete football match to have been televised, after England v Scotland earlier that month. The BBC's outside broadcast unit relayed the action to Alexandra Palace via aerial.

[tungsten tossers]

Saturday 30th April 1938.

87 years ago today at 3pm. The FA Cup Final is televised on BBC tv for the first time: Preston North End v Huddersfield Town. Preston won 1-0 after extra-time. Billy Shankly was in the Preston team. King George VI presented the trophy.

There were 93,000 people at Wembley and fewer than 10,000 television sets in the country.

It was the second complete football match to have been televised, after England v Scotland earlier that month. The BBC's outside broadcast unit relayed the action to Alexandra Palace via aerial.

How times have changed

[Rogg]

I expect many of them went off to war soon after. Shankly joined the RAF.

Here was Shankly having won the cup, on the left. In 1959 he will become manager of second division Liverpool FC.

[Randall]

A man's game

[tungsten tossers]

I expect many of them went off to war soon after. Shankly joined the RAF.

Here was Shankly having won the cup, on the left. In 1959 he will become manager of second division Liverpool FC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... rld_War_II

[Randall]

Brave men all

[Rogg]

That list includes footballers who were with Preston and Huddersfield in 1938.

[tungsten tossers]

That list includes footballers who were with Preston and Huddersfield in 1938.

Something that I have never really thought about..

Many sportsmen must have lost their lives during the war

[Rogg]

Thursday 1st May 1997.

28 years ago today, it's the UK General Election. Here's that week's Radio Times, showing the Tuesday listings.

World snooker quarter-finals. Goodnight Sweetheart. Channel 5 in its 9pm weekday film era has the 1983 film 'Christine'.

[Randall]

The vile and disgusting Blair won

[tungsten tossers]

Christine at 9pm on C5

[Rogg]

and here is election night 1997. 28 years ago tonight.

The BBC precedes its election coverage with the election episode of Blackadder the Third, 9.25pm.

[Randall]

Edmund would have been better than blair

[Rogg]

Edmund would have been better than blair

1997 really did put the Luciferians at the wheel.

[ChrisW]

https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAOSHsXCZZ

[Rogg]

Saturday 3rd May 1969.

56 years ago this Saturday teatime. Episode 3 of The War Games airs on BBC1. The final few weeks of 60s Doctor Who.

[Rogg]

Saturday 3rd May 1997.

The 1997 Eurovision Song Contest live from Dublin. The Radio Times lists all the phone numbers.

BBC1 has a mini version of Match of the Day at 5.35pm and then the whole one later on.

The snooker semis and A Touch of Frost are happening elsewhere, and the Yes Minister Christmas special for some reason at 9pm on BBC2. That may have upset the snooker fans.

[Rogg]

5th May 1987.

Colin Baker has left the role. Time to re-cast the Doctor. What does the public think? I wonder if the first contributor Tim Warlow made it to 2025.

[shenmue]

Little did we know the dark days ahead after gorgeous jodie left the show.

[tungsten tossers]

5th May 1987.

Colin Baker has left the role. Time to re-cast the Doctor. What does the public think? I wonder if the first contributor Tim Warlow made it to 2025.

Ian Botham wtf?