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Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:56 pm
by 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.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:13 pm
by tungsten tossers
Rogg wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:56 pm
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
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:33 pm
by 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.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:15 pm
by Randall
A man's game
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:31 pm
by tungsten tossers
Rogg wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:33 pm
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
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:37 pm
by Randall
Brave men all
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:46 pm
by Rogg
That list includes footballers who were with Preston and Huddersfield in 1938.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:45 pm
by tungsten tossers
Rogg wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:46 pm
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
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 9:27 am
by 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'.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 9:52 am
by Randall
The vile and disgusting Blair won
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 11:06 am
by tungsten tossers
Christine at 9pm on C5
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 8:29 pm
by Rogg
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 8:33 pm
by Randall
Edmund would have been better than blair
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 8:46 pm
by Rogg
Randall wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 8:33 pm
Edmund would have been better than blair
1997 really did put the Luciferians at the wheel.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 8:52 am
by ChrisW
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Sat May 03, 2025 9:50 am
by 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.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 4:03 pm
by 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.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Mon May 05, 2025 8:32 am
by 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.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Mon May 05, 2025 3:13 pm
by shenmue
Little did we know the dark days ahead after gorgeous jodie left the show.
Re: TV listings from the olden days 📺
Posted: Mon May 05, 2025 4:33 pm
by tungsten tossers
Rogg wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 8:32 am
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?
