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The Good Old Days (6th April 1973). Bernard Cribbins leads the audience in a rousing rendition of The Marrow Song.
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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'Goodbyeee', the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, was originally broadcast on this day in 1989.
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Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (1st February 1985). Wise words of wisdom from Kitty (Patricia Routledge).
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Top of the Pops (6th November 1980). Live vocals from Mr Waterman as he sings the theme tune to Minder (I Could Be So Good For You) written by Gerard Kenny and Patricia Waterman.
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Remembering Victoria Wood, born this day in 1953.
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Joyce Grenfell (28th January 1972). "George, George …. don't do that".
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R.I.P. Diana Rigg (1938 - 2020).
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Harry, Sooty and Soo are enjoying a refined musical evening. But then Sweep turns up ...
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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R.I.P. Brigit Forsyth.
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R.I.P. Dennis Waterman.
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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Beginning another rewatch of The World At War. Forty six years on it's lost none of its impact. There have been countless WW2 documentaries, but The World At War is in a different class.
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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R.I.P. Leslie Phillips.
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R.I.P. Glenda Jackson.
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Happy Birthday Bernard Cribbins, born this day in 1928.
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Goodnight 🌙
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Fingerbobs (14th February 1972). I've missed the 51st anniversary of Fingerbobs by two days - still, better late than never.
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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Happy Birthday Bernard Cribbins, born this day in 1928.
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'The Most Special Agent', the first episode of Joe 90, was originally broadcast on this day in 1968.
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R.I.P. Bernard Cribbins.
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RIP Dave Prowse.
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The first episode of Camberwick Green was originally broadcast on this day in 1966.
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The first episode of Chigley (the final series in the Trumptonshire trilogy) was originally broadcast on this day in 1969
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Lest we forget
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Farewell Bobby Ball ....
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'Parsley's Tail', the first episode The Herbs, was originally broadcast on this day in 1968. It was written by Michael Bond and directed by Ivor Wood, with narration from Gordon Rollings.
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"Here is a box. A musical box. Wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?"
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R.I.P. David Soul.
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R.I.P. Michael Parkinson.
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"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub"
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The first episode of Camberwick Green was originally broadcast on this day in 1966.
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The first episode of Trumpton was originally broadcast on this day in 1967.
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The first colour episode of Ivor The Engine was broadcast on this day in 1976 (the original black and white series aired on ITV during the late fifties).
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Fawlty Towers (10th October 1975). A little bit of cheese going down the wrong way causes havoc for Mr Hutchinson (Bernard Cribbins).
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum - The Last Roll Call (3rd September 1981). A newly demobbed Sergeant-Major Williams (Windsor Davies) faces an uncertain future.
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Remembering Windsor Davies, born this day in 1930. Seen here in the final episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum (The Last Roll Call), originally broadcast 3rd September 1981.
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Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell interviewed on the set of Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973).
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Good morning Twitter.
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Blackadder the Third - Ink and Incapability (24th September 1987). Mr. Robbie Coltrane guested as Dr. Samuel Johnson, noted for his fat dictionary.
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Tom Baker trending? A good enough excuse to trot out this old favourite then.
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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On this day in 1985 (or strictly speaking, just after midnight on the 29th) Dennis Taylor defeated Steve Davis to win the Snooker World Championship. 18.5 million viewers burned the midnight oil to watch the final frame.
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Remembering Spike Milligan, born this day in 1918.
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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Mary, Mungo and Midge (1969, 13 episodes) deliberately eschewed the rural idyll from previous programmes, such as The Woodentops, in favour of an urban setting. The unmistakable tones of Richard Baker were on narration duty and it remained a regular repeat fixture until 1978.
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Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".
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R.I.P. Ruth Madoc.
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On this day in 1978, a one-off episode of The Good Life - When I'm 65 - was performed in front of a specially invited audience which included the Queen and Prince Philip.
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The first episode of Trumpton was originally broadcast on this day in 1967.
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The first episode of Paddington was broadcast on this day in 1976. Adapted from the books by Michael Bond, the narration was provided by Michael Hordern.
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Tom Baker, overacting like a good-un (just for a change), certainly made the most of his brief appearance in George and the Dragon. The 10.15 Train (3rd February 1968).
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Top of the Pops (2nd March 1978). Kate Bush performs 'Wuthering Heights'. Currently sitting at number five in the hit parade, the following week it would knock ABBA off the top spot and remain there for a month.
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R.I.P. Peter Bowles.
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The first episode of Paddington was broadcast on this day in 1976. Adapted from the books by Michael Bond, the narration was provided by Michael Hordern.
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The first colour episode of Ivor The Engine was broadcast on this day in 1976 (the original black and white series aired on ITV during the late fifties).
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The first episode of Here Come the Double Deckers! was broadcast in the US on this day in 1970 (it began airing in the UK from January 1971).
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"I'm playing all the right notes, they're not necessarily in the right order". Morecambe & Wise with the original Grieg piano concerto sketch, written by Sid Green and Dick Hills, which was first broadcast on this day in 1963.
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A week after it aired in America, the first episode of Hill Street Blues received its UK premiere on this day in 1981.
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The Sooty Show. Sooty, Sue and Harry are enjoying a refined musical evening. But Sweep, that little tinker, just has to get involved with a number of totally unsuitable instruments ....
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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'Never Too Old', the final episode of Dad's Army, was originally broadcast on this day in 1977.
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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The first episode of Paddington was broadcast on this day in 1976. Adapted from the books by Michael Bond, the narration was provided by Michael Hordern.
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Remembering Tony Hart, born this day in 1925.
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins - Cinzano advert ("getting your head down sweetie? Jolly good idea").
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OTD in 1980, this classic Two Ronnies sketch (Mastermind) by David Renwick first aired. Initially Renwick thought so little of it that he threw it in the bin - but later, with deadlines looming, he dug it out and decided it wasn't too bad.
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Good morning Twitter.
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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Ivor the Engine originally puffed across our television screens in the late 1950's/early 1960's on ITV. Most of the black and white episodes were later remade in colour, in a BBC series first shown during 1976 and 1977. Ivor remained a popular repeat fixture on BBC1 until 1987.
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Good morning Twitter.
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The first episode of Mr Benn was broadcast on this day in 1971. Created by David McKee and narrated by Ray Brooks, 13 episodes aired during 1971 and 1972 (a fourteenth - Gladiator - appeared on Nickelodeon in 2005).
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R.I.P. Dickie Davies.
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Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
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Hector's House began airing in the UK on this day in 1968 (it was redubbed from the original French series La Maison de Toutou),
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Happy Birthday Timothy West, born this day in 1934.
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"It's going ... going".
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R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane.
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RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor.
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Good morning Twitter.
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Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom at the London Palladium (3rd December 1961). Due to an Equity strike, they (as members of the Variety Artistes' Federation who weren't on strike) were the only turns on that week's edition of Sunday Night at the London Palladium ....
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The first episode of Bagpuss was originally broadcast on this day in 1974. Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, the series ran for just 13 episodes (with voices provided by Postgate, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner).
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Goodnight Twitter 🌙
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Good morning Twitter.
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Hector's House (redubbed from the original French series La Maison de Toutou) debuted on BBC1 in 1968 and was repeated in the UK until September 1975.
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Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom at the London Palladium (3rd December 1961).
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R.I.P. Gwyneth Powell.
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The Morecambe & Wise Show (18th April 1964). Eric and Ernie meet The Beatles.
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The Settlers - The Lightning Tree (theme from Follyfoot)
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The Sooty Show. Sooty, Sue and Harry are enjoying a refined musical evening. But Sweep, that little tinker, just has to get involved with a number of totally unsuitable instruments ....
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On this day in 1975, the first episode of Hong Kong Phooey aired in the UK.
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The first episode of Trumpton was originally broadcast on this day in 1967.
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The first episode of Just Good Friends was originally broadcast on this day in 1983.
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