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A daily representation of old British television. Subscribe to our Newsletter for more. (NB. few of the clips we post are uploaded by ourselves)
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta talks about her experiences in the alleged promised land on Thames' Today.
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In this week's archive newsletter: Paul Heiney disappoints Bananarama, Mandela dies in prison (subs pls check), Snoop vs Emu, JG Ballard, sundry Brit awards, David Van Day, Frank Bough sings and Gyles Brandreth is cockblocked by Brezhnev.
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Granada got rid of all the clips they couldn't show on a Saturday early evening on Mike Reid's Late Home Video Show, the wilfmeister general going through the more vaguely acceptable of his stand-up act shaggy dog stories today in 2001.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Granada reach the end of Prisoner Cell Block H and John McKenzie commemorates the occasion with an apparently live phone chat with The Freak, Maggie Kirkpatrick.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dame Edna Everage does the usual business on Aspel & Company, very much playing off Michael, David Essex and Claire Rayner. One adlib seems to crack Everage up, a rare sight indeed.
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Years Ahead, the magazine for the elderly, covers the role of canalboats during the war, Zena Skinner trying cycling, trad folkies the Copper Family and, somewhat of a shift, housing benefit today in 1988. Followed by the first round of Fifteen To One.
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Now, *this* is television, from an episode of Animal Magic today in 1982.
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Win, Lose Or Draw today in 1996, Bob Mills territory so the insultingly easy phone competition is milked for everything it's worth, and it's Krankie on Krankie action, assisted by Nicholas Parsons and Linda Nolan. Jeanette gets her own box.
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Helen Mirren appears on Parkinson and, whilst trying to make the most of the bonhomie, famously pushes back against Michael's one track mind.
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: one-off ITV comedy-drama number 6,724 for James Nesbitt, Big Dippers positing he and Pearce Quigley as small-time criminals whose newly acquired briefcase contains two million pounds, leading to capers.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV visits a perfectly ordinary private school, one of the pupils being the TV debut of Felicity Montagu.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Channel 4 remember they have an archive and launch The Legend Of The Tube, old performances linked by new contributions chiefly from Jools and Paula.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Micro Live comes from the BT research laboratories. Lesley Judd falls ill after recording the intro, meaning Fred Harris rushed in to demonstrate early digital transmissions, while Ian McNaught-Davis conducts community singing.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' The English File, fronted by Henry Kelly, discusses newspapers and visits the Daily Mirror newsroom.
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Look Around You discovers advances in health. MED-I-BOT. Is that Simon Pegg lurking there?
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: cult 40 Minutes film The Outcasts, following the denim and leather biker gang existing on the fringes of society/Great Yarmouth.
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60 YEARS AGO TODAY: ITV's Play Of The Week is A Midsummer Night's Dream with Patrick Allen as Theseus, Peter Wyngarde and Anna Massey as Oberon and Titania, Alfie Bass and Bernard Bresslaw amidst the mechanicals, and Benny Hill as, of course, Bottom.
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John Craven warns Newsround Extra viewers of the scale and danger of pirated music today in 1986. Phil Collins, Bob Geldof and Tim Finn "who is unknown in Britain" - how soon they forget I Got You - comment.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Cheryl Baker is this week's controller of the Children's ITV console, where between The Little Green Man and the Moomins she's joined by Do It!'s Shelagh Gilbey and the great Look-In illustrator Arthur Ranson.
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