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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. That's right, isn't it, Sky News?

Sky News - Harold Pinter blooper

In their rush to be first with breaking news, Sky News wrongly announces that playwright Harold Pinter is dead.

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Pop Panel time on Saturday Superstore today in 1984 with the traditionally ill-matched selection including Davy Jones, Paul Young, Kenny Dalglish, Julian Lennon and, looking about as out of place as any one person can, Baz from the Farmer's Boys.

BBC 1 Saturday Superstore

Davy Jones, Paul Young, Julien Lennon & Kenny Dalglish.

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 6h

In this week's archive newsletter: Paul Daniels' camera trick, Natalie Casey goes to the toilet, Nicholas Witchell in the broom cupboard, ITV franchise fun, Blue Peter anniversaries, library Bogies, early Chris Evans and ORIGINAL BUNGLE. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

The Why Don't YouTube? Archive - October 13th-19th 2025

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Orient: Club For A Fiver, made by a film student with no other credits, documents cash strapped and failing Leyton Orient and the increasing loss of head of manager John Sitton, culminating in offering two of his players outside.

Leyton Orient: The Real-Life Ted Lasso, But Darker

Leyton Orient Football Club, struggling with financial and on-pitch woes, fights for survival in a chaotic season. Managers John Sitton and Chris Turner face immense pressure as the team battles relegation with a diminished squad and limited resources. Players are called to step up amidst morale cr

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Joe Loss Orchestra back their former singer and trumpeter Ross McManus and his son, an unpleasantly bearded Elvis Costello, on Georgia On My Mind for Saturday Review.

Ross and Declan sings Georgia on my mind

ELvis on UK TV in 1985 celebrating Joe Loss

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Paul Daniels, having watched some very bronzed and buff men do some balancing, sends Penelope Keith through a glass display and Debbie up in a hot air balloon. www.youtube.com/watc...

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Channel 4 News presenter Godfrey Hodgson presents What The Papers Say, in a middle of a stint on the channel, in the week of the Broadwater Farm riot and Cecil Parkinson's mistress.

Channel 4 Continuity (Incomplete) & What The Paper Says - Friday 11th October 1985

-------------------------- End Of What The Paper Says Channel 4 Slide - Face The Press Channel 4 "Next" Slide - A Week In Politics Adverts Adverts Legal & General New Zealand Lamb

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Micro Live returns and has some catching up to do, mostly with good old Freff outlining the market slump and talking to Bill Gates about the shake-up. Meanwhile Fred Harris determines whether computers are better than tape recorders.

Micro Live S02E01

This playlist is dedicated to hosting episodes from Micro Live. Following the two successful Making the Most of the Micro - Live! 'specials' in 1983, BBC2 transmitted Micro Live, a regular magazine…

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Coronation Street creator Tony Warren gets got for This Is Your Life and as you'd expect practically everybody connected turns out. Even June Brown and Melvyn Bragg.

This Is Your Life: Tony Warren

This Is Your Life: Tony Warren Originally broadcast 11 October 1995. Michael Aspel surprises Coronation Street creator, Tony Warren, in the Rovers.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: also on The Tube, Rik Mayall pops down the swimming baths for a sketch featuring Norman Lovett. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-f6...

RIK MAYALL - "The Funniest Man in The World"

An early 80s clip from UK music show THE TUBE featuring Rik and Norman Lovett, demonstrating that Rik's great and completely brilliant at comedy.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jools Holland and Jools Holland judge a Madonna lookalike contest on The Tube, which mostly goes to prove that Chris Barrie can't impersonate Jools Holland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5wq...

CH4 The Tube Clip (Oct 1985) BETAMAX

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: violent Cribbins! We're up to The Hotel Inspectors episode of Fawlty Towers, the perfect example of spiralling towards an ending we should have seen coming but somehow don't because of all the friction burns.

Dailymotion

Bekijk S1E4.The Hotel Inspectors - guido goetstouwers op Dailymotion

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: More4 is launched as an "adult" version of E4, a home for occasional new programming amid imports and repeats, well before being reformatted for that whole nebulous "lifestyle" arrangement.

More4 Launch Promo 2005

Remember when More4 was an adult entertainment channel before becoming a lifestyle member of the Channel 4 network? Here is the launch promo for it!

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Another week has passed: whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

The Why Don't YouTube? Catchup - October 3rd-9th 2025

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Alan Bennett has Melvyn and The South Bank Show round for the second time, the first in 1984 so quite a bit to catch up on.

The South Bank Show - Alan Bennett

Alan talks to Melvyn Bragg about his childhood in Leeds, his life in London and how these two places have influenced his work.

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Time Commanders, the historical battle re-enactment series using the Rome: Total War engine, puts a team of students on Pompey's side against Caesar today in 2003. One of them is Ruth Wilson, later of Jane Eyre, Luther, The Affair and His Dark Materials.

Time Commanders - Battle of Pharsalus

48BC. After plunging his country into civil war Julius Caesar faces off against his political rival and former son-in-law Pompey the Great. This battle will influence whether Rome remains a republic…

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the final episode of Minder's sixth series was intended as its end and would be the last script written by its creator Leon Griffiths. As such Arthur putting up an eccentric recluse comes to an ambiguous ending.

Minder 80s TV 1985 SE6 EP6 - Waiting for Goddard

Minder 80s tv programme starring George Cole & Dennis Waterman. Private investigator Caroline Selby seeks Arthur's help in locating eccentric recluse and inventor Albert Goddard, who has come into an…

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: another list show! But this is quite a good one, The Fifty Greatest Documentaries, as much as it turns into an odd mix of films, TV and reality shows, and some placings that look even stranger now than they did then.

The 50 Greatest Documentaries

The 50 Greatest Documentaries More 4 Channel 4 produced countdown list of The 50 Greatest Documentaries All rights to featured & mentioned programs belong to their rightful owners. No copyright infringement is intended, for educational purposes only. Apologies for #50, please be aware this was ma

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jayne Middlemiss on behalf of The O Zone follows Oasis to Stoke-on-Trent.

Oasis - 1995-10-03 - Ozone Special, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Band interviews, rehearsal and live clips recorded at their gig in Stoke. Includes one of the very few clips with Scott Mcleod in the band and Robbie Williams still was a mate of the Gallaghers ;)

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Spike Milligan takes adaptable voiceover duties - including, oh christ, *that* voice - on Wolves, Witches And Giants, adapting fairy tales of assorted implied goriness, not least the Brothers Grimm tale that opened the series. www.youtube.com/watc...

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sooty and co, of Sooty & Co, enter a local talent night MC'd by a depressive Jim Bowen. Back at the shop Scampi shows off his unexpected saxophone skills.

Sooty & Co. - 03x06: Talent Night (1995)

Once word about a talent show breaks, Sweep seems awfully eager to enter, and insists on his talent resulting in... telling the gooseberry joke. ©ITV

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the winner of Dick & Dom's Forfeit Auction has to take dictation, a vehicle for Ian Kirkby to show off his tremendous Eric Morecambe impression to an audience that for the majority will likely have no idea who Morecambe is.

Dick and Dom in da Bungalow - Forfeit Auction, Dictation Kid

More messy fun from Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow - This is from the Forfeit Auction, a regular fixture of the Sunday show where various messy tasks would be auctioned to the highest bidder. Here, the task is The Dictation Kid - sadly, the winner doesn't seem to take well to being drenched in mushy pe

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: welcome to The Learning Zone, a series of early hours educational programmes intended for VHS recording and rebroadcast. Night one includes Jenny Eclair finding out about adult retraining and Duncan Goodhew advising on time management.

BBC Learning Zone - Sunday 8th/Monday 9th October 1995

The very first broadcast of 'The Learning Zone' on BBC2. Includes: Who Learns Wins: programmes 1-6 Making Time In the Office ANY AND ALL COPYRIGHTS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.

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The BBC really liked a public vote around the time of The Nation's Favourite Song Lyric today in 1999, Mariella Frostrup and Griff Rhys Jones helming debate, covers, recitals and countdown.

The Nation's Favourite Song Lyric - 1999/10/08

For National Poetry Day this year the public were invited to vote for the song lyric that meant the most to them. A host of celebrities gather to reveal the results.

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