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A friend sent me this from near his home in Kent... It made me happy. #Clangers

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Talos terrified me as a kid, and I still get a little shiver when he creaks his head towards the stray Argonauts.

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JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS ('63) was made in collaboration with Ray Harryhausen, a stop-motion animation icon. He has regarded this as his best film, and his special effects scenes are considered some of the most iconic in history. Watch JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS tonight at 9p ET!

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The World at War is 50 years old today. The 26-episode documentary, then the most expensive factual series ever produced, was narrated by Laurence Olivier.

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Say goodbye, Parsley. I hope all the tributes to #Paddington creator Michael Bond will big up his equally brilliant kids classic, The Herbs.

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Happy hundredth, Mr Mackay... Remembering Fulton Mackay, who would have been 100 today. A fine and subtle actor, and consummate comedy technician. Portrait taken on the set of Porridge on 20 February 1977 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes .

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I hear that BBC4 is clearing its schedule at 7.30pm tonight as a tribute to the late Ian Lavender. You'll know which episode... and when to join in! #DadsArmy

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Felicity Kendal 🎂pictured with her Good Life family – Richard Briers, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith – on 30 May 1978 for @RadioTimes while filming the final episode in Northwood, north-west London. @lucyjbriers

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Detective Ken Hutch. Go with screeching tyres and knocking over as many stacked boxes as possible. Saturday nights were such a thrill ride in the late 70s when Starsky and Hutch was on the box. Farewell #DavidSoul

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“They looked after me right from the word go. Literally I would sit at their feet. I was the sprog, I was the junior. I would sit on the floor, listening to their stories about life and the theatre.” Dads Army's #IanLavender , bottom right, photographed for @RadioTimes in 1968.

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Covers of Christmas past... Day 6 and, for me, a hard one to beat. A brilliant idea from Pauline Ellison in 1977: cosy, clever and perfectly realised. @RadioTimes #1970s Feel free to RT the RTs

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Remembering Dame Margaret Rutherford, born #OTD in 1892, with an absolute gem from the @RadioTimes picture archive, taken by Tony Ray-Jones in September 1970 for The Ealing Comedies.

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Fans of BBC4's classic children's TV hour on Sundays might like to know that the line-up on 27 November is The Magic Roundabout, a 1982 Rentaghost and a 1976 edition of one of the greatest of all kids's shows, Vision On.

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Very sad news for classic TV fans. Farewell to #PatriciaBrake , a fine actor with a gift for comedy: "our Ingrid" to #RonnieBarker 's "Dad" in #Porridge . Photographed during rehearsals for the sequel Going Straight on 19 February 1978, by Don Smith, for @RadioTimes .

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Farewell to a screen legend. Sylvia Syms photographed in 1966 by @RadioTimes

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If there was an entertainer who deserved a knighthood, it was Bernard Cribbins. Goodbye, Mr Perks. #BernardCribbins

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"She says, 'Kitty, I'm leaving Bill. We're not compatible.' Well they never were. He loves opera and she can't follow the plot of the Teddy Bear's Picnic." Happy birthday to Dame Patricia Routledge 🎂, pictured as Kitty in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV by Don Smith for @RadioTimes

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The Young Victoria... Victoria Wood on Morecambe Promenade, photographed in May 1980 by Roger Scruton for @RadioTimes . Victoria Wood Night is tonight on BBC4.

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As Santa's elves get cracking on this year's Christmas issue of @RadioTimes , we ask: which was your favourite cover? This one from 1977 is mine. A beautiful idea and execution from Pauline Ellison.

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Brian Cant, a man whose face and voice I grew up with, was born #OTD in 1933. He told me stories, taught me the time and sang me brilliant songs. A TV legend.

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Posted because John Laurie was born #OTD in 1897. But mainly because it makes me smile. #Keepsoldieringon

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Farewell, Nurse Gladys... Portrait of #LyndaBaron taken by Don Smith for @RadioTimes during filming of Open All Hours in 1976.

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Happy birthday to the great Bernard Cribbins, 93 today. 🎂 Photo taken by @RadioTimes in February 1971. #KnighthoodOverdue

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The #MagicRoundabout is on BBC4 tonight at 7pm, but have you ever wondered what the creator of the animated series looked like? Well, by the power of the @RadioTimes picture archive, wonder no more! Photo of Serge Danot taken in 1974 by Jeremy Grayson.

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Brucey bonus... #PopMaster starts on the telly today, and Ken Bruce is as witty and as good company as you'd expect. It transfers wonderfully well, and is directed by a very good friend of mine. Way to go, Del! Nightly 8pm on More4 @RealKenBruce

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I once asked Dick Clement his favourite line written by his writing partner Ian La Frenais. “It's from The Likely Lads movie, when Bob comes up looking very depressed while Terry’s fishing. And Terry says, ‘I’d offer you a beer but I’ve only got six cans.’” @TalkingPicsTV 6.30pm

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Tonight's episode of #Ghosts is one of the best half-hours of television this year. Perfectly played, quietly profound. Bravo to the whole team, and to writer @benwillbond . 8.30pm @BBCOne or @BBCiPlayer

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This is a local shop, for local people... The League of Gentlemen opened its doors #OTD 25 years ago.

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Really shocked about #PaulRitter . So versatile, with an unerring instinct for what was funny. I met him in 2015 when he was playing #DadsArmy creator Jimmy Perry, and found him very patient, kind and easy-going. Terribly sad.

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So sad to hear of #IanLavender 's passing. He was such a generous guest when I visited him at home in 2018 for Dad's Army's 50th anniversary, and more than happy to talk about early days, EastEnders, his platoon chums and *that line*. My condolences to Miki and his family.

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Remembering actor and playwright Arnold Ridley, born #OTD in 1896, who served in the First and Second World Wars. Photographed as Private Charles Godfrey on location for the 1970 #DadsArmy story The Big Parade.

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Goodbye, Vicar. #FrankWilliams was not only a fine comic actor but also a lovely bloke. I spoke to him a few times about his memories of #DadsArmy , and at a "wrap party" for Stella, where he and Ronnie Grainge had been very friendly and utterly delightful.

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#RadioTimes covers from Christmasses past... #18 And finally, and unlikely ever to be beaten as my favourite, the "one tree hill" from December 1977, painted by Pauline Ellison. So good it featured on a recent BBC Mike Yarwood documentary. @RadioTimes

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The epitome of cool... Sad to hear screen hero David McCallum has left us. He was generous with his time last November, and happy to chat about Escape, UNCLE, Steel and lots more. My boyhood self would have dreamt of speaking to him – and I told him so.

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“Picasso was burgled and did a drawing of the robbers. Police arrested a horse and two sardines.” Remembering the great Barry Cryer, born #OTD in 1935. Photos taken by Jim Forrest in 1982 for @RadioTimes .

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I always thought he was talking to me, whether he was telling a story on Jackanory or following the furry Wombles of Wimbledon. And I totally believed in him as Perks in The Railway Children and Wilf in #DoctorWho . And that's why I loved #BernardCribbins .

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"We're looking after the people that telly forgot about." Terrific piece on the mighty @TalkingPicsTV by @ViewfromPenge in the new @RadioTimes , on sale today.

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War hero, playwright and actor Arnold Ridley died on this day in 1984, aged 88. #DadsArmy creator Jimmy Perry's favourite episode was the one he wrote for Ridley, about Private Godfrey's hidden courage: "Arnold was an amazing man."

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There's a documentary about The Good Life tonight at 9pm on @channel5_tv . All the excuse I need to post a lovely photo of the cast on location for When I'm 65, taken by Chris Ridley for @RadioTimes in 1978.

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Happy 55th birthday, Dad's Army! Photo of original cast taken by Gordon Moore for @RadioTimes

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Happy birthday to the magnificent #BernardCribbins . 🎂There's not enough room in a tweet to express all the joy you've brought people over the past 60 years...

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One thing leads to another ... The momentous three final episodes of #Endeavour get under way this coming Sunday at 8pm on ITV1. 36 investigative epics in 11 years... It's a spectacular body of work from @ScriptULike . @EndeavourTV

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So thrilled that Vision On made the 100 BBC TV #gamechangers . It inspired a whole generation of children, gave us painting and the Prof, mime and signing, fantastic music and zillions of ideas...

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#VictoriaWood standing on Morecambe Promenade, photographed in May 1980 by @RadioTimes #QueenVic

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Once upon a time, not so long ago, grown-ups made programmes especially for children. They made them with care, and without computers. These shows entertained and inspired the young viewers, who fell in love with them without realising. Your love brought them back: 7pm BBC4

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Eyes that have seen so much. First and Second World War veteran, teacher, playwright and actor Arnold Ridley. He was photographed on the set of tonight's #DadsArmy . It was recorded exactly 45 years ago today. He was 79 at the time. Picture by Don Smith for #RadioTimes .

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There's a warm tribute to Bernard Cribbins in the new @RadioTimes .

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Sunshine and laughter: farewell to Josephine Tewson, famous for Shelley, Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine, but often seen on screen with The Two Ronnies and pictured here with Ronnie Barker in Clarence in 1987 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes

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Remembering the towering Graham Crowden, born #OTD 101 years ago... pictured as Dr Jock McCannon in A Very Peculiar Practice ("Would you care for a wee drop of something, Stephen?"), Mr Clutterbuck in The Amazing Mr Blunden and Tom Ballard in Waiting for God.

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One of Michael Gambon's greatest performances... 15 November 1986 edition of @RadioTimes , illustrated by Mark Thomas.

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“I am very proud of it. I am glad to be remembered for it." Happy birthday to Ian Lavender, 75 today. Photo: @RadioTimes #DadsArmy #Keepyoungandbeautiful You can read my 2018 interview with Ian here: @lavender_ian

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A date for your diary, fans of lovely old programmes: Sunday 11 February, BBC4. There's the first two episodes of #Bagpuss , a wonderful Timeshift film about its makers and two other archive docs. And I'll have a special interview next week... @OfficialBagpuss .

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Can you believe it: Kes is 50 years old today? Such a funny, moving and important film, but people forget how great its cinematography was, courtesy of Chris Menges. He went on to do Local Hero, Comfort and Joy and The Killing Fields. Some portfolio is that.

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Coming soon... Our celebration of one of the greatest ever children's programmes, Vision On. Stay on this channel. @RadioTimes

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To mark this week's 40th anniversary of Arthur Lowe's death, BBC4 is showing one of his finest hours as Captain Mainwaring in #DadsArmy at 8pm, followed by a 2000 profile of the actor. Photo Don Smith.

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Just two pages from a beautiful "Scarecrow Handbook" prop that Mackenzie Crook made for his series #WorzelGummidge (7.15pm BBC1). Is there no end to this man's talents? Picture by Gary Moyes. Full story in the current double issue of @RadioTimes .

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"I look back on them very fondly..." It was a joy last year to hear Sir Michael Palin chuckling over his memories of #RippingYarns , which begins a repeat run on BBC4 tonight from 10.30pm, and to seek the views of superfan @mrjohnofarrell :

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Covers of Christmas past... as @RadioTimes begins work on the festive issue today, I've opened up the magazine's archive to choose one, daily, from each decade, kicking off with the very first example from 1923, by "Abbey". Feel free to RT the RTs! #1920s

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Oh yeah..? Ronnie Barker captured by Don Smith while filming a second series episode of #Porridge on the multi-storey set at Ealing Film Studios. The superb 1976 Christmas special The Desperate Hours is on @BBCTwo tomorrow at 6.45pm. @RadioTimes

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“Sally Alexander, I presume.” In this lovely moment from #Endeavour , Dorothea Frazil, played by @abigailthaw , is introduced to Women's Liberation campaigner Sally Alexander, in real life Thaw’s mother, and here played by Thaw’s daughter!

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The lady behind Lady Penelope... Meet Mary Turner, Supermarionation legend:

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“Oliver Postgate and I went to Cardiff years ago for a puppet week. I took #Bagpuss and all the girls practically swooned and wanted to hug him. I thought it amazing that an old saggy cloth cat should have that sort of reaction, but it does. Even today.” Peter Firmin 2015

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Remembering Eric: Photo of Eric Thompson, brilliant writer and narrator of the English version of The Magic Roundabout, taken by Don Smith for @RadioTimes

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Happy birthday, The Good Life, 45 years old today. Favourite moments? I have two: "humourless" Margo bursting into giggles in the garden; and when Barbara realises that Tom has been freelancing entirely for her benefit. What were yours? Group shot © #RadioTimes #HoppyBithtok

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Marvellous news about the John Mills #Quatermass coming to @TalkingPicsTV on 19 May. Really powerful piece this, eerie, well shot, with an emotional core.

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To me, Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD was the very best thing about a bank holiday back in the day (well, that and not having to go to school), so I'm thrilled @TalkingPicsTV are showing it tonight at 7.15pm.

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One of the great laughter givers. A huge loss. Farewell to the brilliant #BarryCryer . Photographed by Don Smith for @RadioTimes in connection with the BBC radio series Hello Cheeky on 25 January 1975.

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Farewell to Bamber Gascoigne, photographed circa 1980 by Tim Roney for @RadioTimes .

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Remembering character actor Irene Handl, born #OTD in 1901. Photographed at home in 1968 making a Viennese-style chocolate cake for @RadioTimes .

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Taking a bow... RIP Glenda Jackson.

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A date for your diary, fans of classic telly: Sunday 30 May, BBC4. There's a 1974 #BluePeter , episodes of Ivor the Engine, @OfficialBagpuss and @Clangers , an Oliver Postgate profile and The Golden Age of Children's TV... what's not to like?

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Strange Endeavour... Shaun Evans, Sean Rigby, John Thaw and James Grout.

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Silly season: if you're wondering where The Good Life Christmas special, Silly, but It's Fun.... has got to, it's not on BBC2 this year but BBC4 tonight at 7.30pm! So to brighten your morning, here are the fantastic four pictured by Jeremy Grayson for @RadioTimes in December 1975

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Three cheers for Count Arthur Strong! All three series are now on @NetflixUK ! Come on, Bulent, join in. @Arthur_Strong

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Unsung TV hero #6 : Joan Sanderson, who elevated countless shows with her imperious manner and nerveless projection, as haughty Doris Ewell in Please Sir!, impossible Mrs Richards in #FawltyTowers and kindly Nell in Me and My Girl. She was always formidable, always wonderful.

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Happy birthday to #SylviaSyms 🎂 Photographed for the BBC2 thriller Bat Out of Hell in 1966 by @RadioTimes

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Covers of Christmas past... Day 7 and two colourful contributions from either end of the.... #1980s . The bell and dove (is that a pub anywhere?) from 1981 is by Tony Meeuwissen, and 1988's "pantoland" is by Lynda Gray. Feel free to RT the RTs. @RadioTimes

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One piper piping... one of my favourite pre-Christmas @RadioTimes covers, this one by Paul Slater in 1987 marking 100 years of Sherlock Holmes. @Markgatiss

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Bagpuss helps Oliver Postgate in the editing suite... There's a #Bagpuss double bill on BBC4 tonight from 8pm, then a Timeshift documentary at 8.30pm showing how "Smallfilms" operated – out of pigsties, using Meccano and knitting... and care and love.

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Date for your diary: One of the finest BBC dramas that's ever been written, produced and performed, #EdgeofDarkness is being shown by BBC4 in weekly, two-episode instalments, from Wednesday 15 February. If you've never seen it, you should...

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Happy Birthday to @EricIdle 🎈... Photographed on the roof of Broadcasting House on 5 March 1974 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes #ErictheHalfaBBC

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Silly, but It's Fun.... #TheGoodLife 1977 festive episode is on BBC2 tonight at 6pm – 21 million watched it on its first transmission. This glorious photo of Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington was taken on location on 30 May 1978 for @RadioTimes .

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1/2 Strangers on a Train... The sitcom sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? began #OTD 50 years ago. Its stars James Bolam and Rodney Bewes were photographed on 17 September 1972, the recording date of the first episode, by Don Smith...

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Nothing rose-tinted about this interview with #DadsArmy 's Arnold Ridley to promote the radio programme Christmas in the Trenches in December 1973. Fascinating nevertheless. @RadioTimes photographer Don Smith drove him to the Imperial War Museum to take his picture. @DadsArmyFans

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To mark the 55th birthday of #TheMagicRoundabout 's first UK screening, my favourite picture from the @RadioTimes archive. Don Smith travelled to Scotland to photograph narrator Eric Thompson with daughters #EmmaThompson and #SophieThompson ... and Florence... and Dougal ❤️

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Happy birthday to Peter Purves 🎂. Photo taken with his Blue Peter team-mates Valerie Singleton and John Noakes during a @RadioTimes cover shoot by Penny Tweedie in 1971. @purves_peter

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"I say, would you mind, awfully..?" Remembering John Le Mesurier, born #OTD in 1912. Photo taken by Don Smith on 27 November 1968, the recording date for the #DadsArmy story Under Fire. @RadioTimes

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I am so sad to tell you that the legendary photographer, hero of @RadioTimes and personal friend Don Smith has left the building. His legacy is extraordinary. We loved him here at RT, and our hearts are broken. Our sympathies to his family and friends.

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Many happy returns to Dame Penelope Wilton, pictured here with her Ever Decreasing Circles co-stars Richard Briers and @PeterEgan6 on 12 August 1987. Photo Don Smith, Radio Times Archive @lucyjbriers

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Terry Nation's post-apocalyptic drama Survivors began #OTD in 1975. It ran for three seasons and 38 episodes (and was remade in 2008). Lucy Fleming, who played Jenny Richards, was photographed on 19 February 1977 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes .

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Steptoe and Son was back #OTD 50 years ago. @RadioTimes photographed its two stars, Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell.

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"The Christmas joys of the troops were more in the imagination of the people back home..." #DadsArmy star Arnold Ridley gave a far from rose-tinted view of Christmas in the Trenches ahead of Radio 4's documentary #OTD 50 years ago. Portrait of Arnold in Godfrey gear by Don Smith

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Remembering #RichardBriers , born #OTD in 1934. Portrait taken for Ever Decreasing Circles on 22 September 1984 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes #RichardBriersDay

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If this logo means something to you, can I recommend switching on BBC4 at 7.30pm? Happy days are here again! #VisionOn

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"Surbiton selfie": one of my favourite sitcom group shots, actually taken in Northwood, by Chris Ridley for @RadioTimes on 30 May 1978. #RichardBriersDay

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A great group shot by Gordon Moore for Radio Times back in 1970. Should have been a cover, really... so in 2018, for the 50th anniversary, we made it one!

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A big thank you 🙏 to all our new #followers - Dad’s Army Fans has just under 10,200 #followers - thank you for all the likes ❤️ retweets 🔁 & comments. The affection for our favourite sitcom is wonderful to be part of, do give us a like & retweet & Tell us why you ❤️ #DadsArmy

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While Tony Hart is trending, here's where it all began...

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Remembering Terry Jones, born #OTD in 1942. Captured as Mrs Pinnet realising she is in the wrong house in the New Cooker Sketch, and as Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson, with @EricIdle 's sidetracking interviewer, in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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Happy birthday🎂to comedy legend Ian Lavender. Don't do anything silly with your cake today, will you, Ian? Photo taken by Don Smith, during rehearsals for #DadsArmy on 10 July 1975, for @RadioTimes .

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"I loved the characters. That’s why I embraced them so readily..." The TV Wombles are 50 next month, so @RadioTimes asked the great @Mike_Batt all about Bernard Cribbins, Womble mania and pop stardom:

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Mark Braxton 💙

@BraxM

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And now in close-up... #TheBoxofDelights , 38 today.

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