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Gavin Culloty @gculloty87.bsky.social · 6h

Lee Thompson (Radio Producer)

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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 7h

Remembering the late Actress, Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) Angela would have been 100 years old today 😇🙏

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Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 12h

#OnThisDay 16 October 1991
The results of the auction of ITV franchises are announced. Evening Standard describes it as:
THE GREAT TV AUCTION FARCE -
Thames loses to Carlton
TV-am loses to Sunrise
Granada stays despite a bid of a mere £9m
LWT survive £28m higher bid by rival

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Gavin Culloty @gculloty87.bsky.social · 8h

Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social.

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 12h

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Children's ITV celebrates its 40th anniversary with Simply The Best, a week long series of specials featuring an "ordinary family". The first day includes Jon Pertwee's final appearance as Worzel Gummidge.

40 Years of CITV Simply the Best Goggle Watch episode 1 1995

40 Years of CITV Simply the Best Goggle Watch episode 1 1995 LWT/Granada Programme for CITV.

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 20h

You want the whole thing? Oh go on then...

38 years ago today a sodden Ian McCaskill carries the can for the weather forecasting failures around the Great Storm on 1987.

One of my favourite ever pieces of TV

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14h

Hancock's Half Hour (16th October 1959). "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?"

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APTS Archive @aptsarchive.bsky.social · 18h

#OTD 16 October 1958 - First edition of #BluePeter was televised.
The first two presenters were #ChristopherTrace, an actor, and #LeilaWilliams, winner of #MissGreatBritain in 1957.
#BiddyBaxter became editor of the programme and until her final show in June 1988, after nearly 26 years.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL MISSING TODD TERRY RESWIZZLE

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Helen Randle 💙💛 @helenrandle.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Birthday to Blue Peter!

youtu.be/Oqm23ajfUNg

Setting Sail: 60 Years of Blue Peter | Poem By Tony Walsh

YouTube video by CBBC

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ejsang.bsky.social @ejsang.bsky.social · 19h

On this day 1968 ....

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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 1d

"I think brexit is rubbish"
"Brexit has failed"
"Continuing to stay out is hurting us all"
"Why isn't Starmer doing anything about it?"

THEN TELL HIM TO!
Please Sign the petition and share it, or frankly, stop moaning. 😜😂

#RejoinEU

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Apply for the UK to rejoin the EU fully - do not just 'reset' the relationship

I think the UK needs to rejoin the EU fully for maximum economic benefit and to restore influence rather than merely 'reset' relations.

petition.parliament.uk

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 2d

Wishing the wonderful actor Ncuti Gatwa a happy 33rd birthday! 🎁

#DoctorWho #FifteenthDoctor #HappyBirthday

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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering the late Artist and Television Presenter, Tony Hart (15 October 1925 – 18 January 2009) Tony would have been 100 years old today. What a Legend 😇🙏

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Roger Moore, born this day in 1927.

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 3d

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Heroes Of Comedy series begins properly with a rifle through Tommy Cooper's catalogue interspersed with a tremendous collection of talking heads, from Monkhouse through Milligan and Clive James to an effervescent Anthony Hopkins.

Tommy Cooper - Heroes of Comedy (1995)

Tommy Cooper episode on Heroes of Comedy. Starring Paul Daniels, Anthony Hopkins, Clive James, Spike Milligan, Bob Monkhouse, Johnny Speight, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Tarbuck and more. S01E01 - 13th October 1995 Watch in 4K for best quality. 00:00 Part 1 20:25 Part 2 38:57 Part 3 58:56 Part 4 Video muted

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