TV listings from the olden days 📺

[Rogg]

Saturday 26th April 1969.

A bit of a Randall special. Proper Doctor Who and a proper cup final.

[Randall]

The war games
The goat

[Rogg]

The war games
The goat

I'll be watching that soon. I've got the Pat bug.

[Rogg]

This was the last Doctor Who story to be shot in black and white.

It is surrounded by colour shows at this point, including the cup final.

I think the next stage of DW treatment is to colourise.

Majestic youtube dorks are onto that of course. How does this look? :

[Rogg]

Saturday 26th April 2008.

Love Soup was a fantastic series.

[Rogg]

Sunday 26th April 1970, ITV.

Featuring an interview with Bob Monkhouse which, well.

[The Ginge Reaper]

Does Rogg remember the days when there were only two TV listings magazines, and you had to buy them both because the Radio Times only carried BBC channels and the TV Times only carried ITV and Channel 4?

[Rogg]

Does Rogg remember the days when there were only two TV listings magazines, and you had to buy them both because the Radio Times only carried BBC channels and the TV Times only carried ITV and Channel 4?

I don't. But yes indeed, the Radio Times was owned by the BBC.

Apparently 1991 was the year when it changed so that all listings could be published by both magazines.

[The Ginge Reaper]

Aye, through an Act of parliament. Bonkers.

[Rogg]

Aye, through an Act of parliament. Bonkers.

It is very quaint. My earliest memory of TV listings is just in newspapers.

Although I remember a Sky TV guide which presumably Sky sent out to every customer in the 90s.

[The Ginge Reaper]

ALl I remember is a mag called "Tv and Satellite Week" or something of that ilk. We had analogue Sky from around 1995 and dont remember anything coming in the post.

[Rogg]

The 1988 Christmas edition of the Radio Times became the best selling edition of any British magazine in history.

It sold 11.2 million copies. Woof.

[Rogg]

The Christmas TV Times from that same year.

The same price as the Radio Times: 80p. Stretching to 16 days however, to include New Year's Day.

[The Ginge Reaper]

I always used to enjoy how the newspapers went through a stage of trying to be the earliest to do their Xmas Tv guides.

Just rows upon rows of listings like this:

2pm: TBC
3pm: TBC
4pm: TBC
5pm: The Chase
6pm: News
7pm: TBC

Absolutely pointless.

[Rogg]

ALl I remember is a mag called "Tv and Satellite Week" or something of that ilk. We had analogue Sky from around 1995 and dont remember anything coming in the post.

That still exists! (a 2022 edition below).

Not sure what exactly my memory is of now. I think there was a Sky magazine of some kind which they sent out for free.

[tungsten tossers]

I always used to enjoy how the newspapers went through a stage of trying to be the earliest to do their Xmas Tv guides.

Just rows upon rows of listings like this:

2pm: TBC
3pm: TBC
4pm: TBC
5pm: The Chase
6pm: News
7pm: TBC

Absolutely pointless.

With Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong ?

[Rogg]

Saturday 26th April 1980 on ITV.

I have seen that Tales of the Unexpected. It's very saucy.

Later on, more late night pro-celebrity darts. If you can't read it: Cliff Lazarenko + Phil Bennett; Leighton Rees + Trevor Cherry.

[Rogg]

Monday 27th April 1970.

Frankie is here. Followed by Doomwatch. An interesting combination.

Some radio listings here too.

[Randall]

Doomwatch sounds like my life

[Rogg]

Doomwatch sounds like my life

I have it on DVD. It reminds me of Pertwee Doctor Who but without any of the fun.

'The Plastic Eaters' is the most memorable ep where a plastic eating chemical is accidentally let loose on an aeroplane.