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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 28/09/2026

The crowdfunder begins! Our massive ATV book can be yours in November for just £25! #ATVShowBook --> transdiffusion.org/atv-show-book/

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Wyrd Britain @wyrdbritain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't fret, 'Nurse Will Make It Better' in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/09/nurs...

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 26/09/2026

CROWDFUNDER STARTS NEXT WEEK! 248-page softback book (21x28cm) featuring articles from ATV's 50s & 60s "Show Books", staff newsletters and publicity material. It charts the history of ATV and ITC 1955–81. £25 inc p&p worldwide. The crowdfunder will run for a month, with delivery before Christmas.

Front cover. From the final draft, which is why those of you with eyes like a rat will see elements of the background poking through into the foreground. That's not in the final version, it's a quirk of Adobe's InDesign software. Please form an orderly queue to complain about Adobe's software, as well *all* have complaints.

The index, so you can check if your favourite show or star is included. This page: 64,000 Question to Keith, Brian.

The index, so you can check if your favourite show or star is included. This page: Kelly, Barbara to Zoo Gang, The.

The back cover, because who doesn't like a huge shadowed eye, hey? Fools, that's who.

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From September 1968 : The TV Times magazine became a national publication, previously some ITV companies produced their own listings magazine.

The new TV Times will cover all thirteen UK ITV areas.
it will have regional colour facilities. Top standard gravure reproduction on high quality paper. A volume discount structure. A wide choice of positioning in an entirely new format.

The new TV Times. Independent Television's new magazine.

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TelevisionAU @televisionau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today's TV: 20.9.1988, Brisbane (TV Week)

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Richard Phillips-Jones @rpjwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You may not know his name, but if you're of a certain age you know his shows: Robin Of Sherwood, Children Of The Stones, Into The Labyrinth, Sky, King Of The Castle... Patrick Dromgoole remembered, at @spookyisles.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/patrick-drom... #HTV #FolkHorror #70sTV #80sTV

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sad news. Patrick Dromgoole was involved in most of the TV I watched avidly when growing up. Two favourites - Arthur of the Britons & Pretenders (a historical drama set at the time of the Monmouth rebellion. )

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TVARK @tvark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Patrick Dromgoole 1930-2026 Patrick was a part of the many children and family drama series made by HTV for the ITV network. Among these are Into the Labyrinth, Robin of Sherwood, King of the Castle, Sky, Children of the Stones and Follow Me... He also worked under the pseudonym Mordecai Klogport!

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The upheld complaint as broadcast concerning the episode of the #GranadaTelevision programme 'In Suspicious Circumstances' which subsequently has not been made available for repeat. Later episodes also exclusively featured cases far more historic in nature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRn...

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Broadcasting Complaints Commission - In Suspicious Circumstances

YouTube video by Stressball13

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A fascinating look at the intricacies of the making of ITN's 'News at Ten' in its' 'glory days'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBAa...

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ITN The Making of National News

YouTube video by Kaleidoscope's Presentation Vault

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Missing out on a full Network DVD release, the whole of the 1976 ATV serial 'A Place to Hide' is now available on YT. Here is Ep 2 (1, 3-6 on same channel). Roy Russell also penned 'Fly into Danger' (1972) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gx4... @alanbriscoe.bsky.social @rozzyc.bsky.social

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A Place To Hide-Episode 2.

YouTube video by Duke Of Forgil.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The ITN Story. Stumbled across this rather good 1977 documentary the other day. Uploaded by "Frontline by ITN" ("ITN Archive" as was). An hour's worth of great behind the scenes stuff and everyone you could reasonably hope to see interviewed.

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ITN Special: The ITN Story (1977)

YouTube video by Frontline by ITN

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Rosalyn Connors BEM BCAc @rozzyc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've really been enjoying my weekend viewing of late. Perhaps it's because Saturdays were just made for #BrianClemensThriller . So out come the DVDs, the Tizer, the Hula Hoops tonight to sit down to watch another one of my faves 'Spell of Evil' (Anglia TVT 16/06/73, NOTE Tomy (sic) Mansell) 🤣🤣🤣

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In the 1987 Doctor Who serial "Paradise Towers" the Doctor remarks on the threats facing him and refers to "a killer in every corner", a phrase very familiar to viewers of ATV's Thriller! It raises the question of other episode titles that might have featured in a dialogue in other shows.

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've just discovered that actress Marian Diamond died early this year aged 89. She had a brief but important role in the Thriller episode "The Next Scream You Hear" but was a frequent face in archive TV. One of her central roles was as a villainous agent in the 1972 ATV serial Tightrope. RIP Marian.

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Moments later Terry goes on to mention "Wait Until Dark" starring Audrey Hepburn. This 1967 film was also about a blind woman being stalked by a killer and was almost certainly an influence on Blind Terror and the two later Thriller episodes about blindness.

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In the "End of an Era" episode (1973) of sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Bob says he is feeling "blind terror" which Terry notes is a film starring Mia Farrow. Blind Terror (1971) was penned by Brian Clemens & one of the films that set the scene for his series Thriller.

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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

11 July 1926. One hundred years ago today, #PatrickWymark was born. To commemorate this year, I will be publishing a biography, The Power of Patrick Wymark. Unforeseen setbacks mean there have been some delays. But this will happen. (thanks to @andydrewz.bsky.social for design).

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Tomorrow People serial "The Heart of Sogguth" (1977) is one of my favourites of the show - Mike's band (played by his actual band Flintlock) have a new manager who secretly has macabre plans for them. This was bold fo its time slot in its depiction of the occult and supernatural possession.

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 09/07/2026

'Studios of ITV' backers! Dispatch of the NINE books, booklets and newspapers, plus an absolutely startling envelope bulging with extras, begins on TUESDAY 14 JULY 2026. Our local Post Office has requested we drop off a max of 30 a day, so it'll take until 18 July until everything is out the door.

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Jon Potts @jabberwocky65.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’ve just seen online the news that Joanna Pettet has sadly died aged 83. The #BrianClemensThriller episode Midsummer Nightmare has always been a favourite and she was excellent as Jodie. She also starred in A Killer in every Corner as Sylvia.

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We've lost another #BrianClemensThriller actor, RIP Michael Byrne, you certainly proved memorable in the latter stages of 'If It's a Man Hang Up' www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

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Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

OTD (30th June) in 1984 LWT repeated the Thriller episode "The Savage Curse" (i.e. Kiss Me and Die). This marked the end of the 1980s repeats across the ITV regions. These repeats were hugely important not just for those who saw them at the time but the recordings which were later seen by many more.

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 23/06/2026

It is literally too hot here in Granadaland to be dealing with this today, but we’re still doing it. More goodies back from the print shop for our Studios of ITV thing!

Three sets of leaflets from the 1950s and 1960s, reprinted.

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Jon Potts @jabberwocky65.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’ve just read online that David Daker has passed. Kill Two Birds will always be one of my favourite #BrianClemensThriller episodes @rozzyc.bsky.social @martinmauthor1.bsky.social

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Rosalyn Connors BEM BCAc @rozzyc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Send for Tom Patterson!" I think Saturdays were made for #BrianClemensThriller , so I'm treating myself to another classic mystery later on. Armed with my Tizer & Hula Hoops it's back to 19.05.73 on ITV, for an episode that doesn't appear to have aired at all in its original form in the US.

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AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦⚰️🎃🕸🖤 @afizgig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#NW See No Evil (1971) aka Blind Terror 📽 dir. Richard Fleischer 'In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them'

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AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦⚰️🎃🕸🖤 @afizgig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#NW And Soon the Darkness (1970) 📽 dir. Robert Fuest 'Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other struggles to search for her in the rural community. But who can she trust?'

Poster for the movie And Soon the Darkness 1970.

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

14 years after the long-running #GranadaTelevision series 'Crown Court' ended, there was a brief return to an almost identical format in #YorkshireTelevision 'Verdict'. Running to a mere 4 stories, it also included brief, edited deliberations in the jury room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOT...

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verdict

YouTube video by michelleupdates

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm not quite sure what happened there as the original spreadsheet has the correct details and then it was just copy and paste but obviously something went awry. This update should be correct for Tyne Tees (page 1), the second page is unchanged.

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Simon Coward @simoncoward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Just noticed that Alan's list has The Carnation Killer on 23/04/1984 on TTTV but I've got that one as 04/06/1983, but Alan has that date for The Death Policy which I have as 16/08/1982 but Alan has The Devil's Web on that date, though I have it on 02/04/1984 on which Alan has The Double Kill etc...

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

👍 ... and if anyone knows details of episodes aired from any of the gaps ... please do let us know. #BrianClemensThriller

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 17/06/2026

Farewell Didsbury (1968) ABC’s head of light entertainment looks back at 12 years of the company’s northern studios

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Farewell Didsbury - THIS IS ABC WEEKEND from Transdiffusion

ABC's head of light entertainment looks back at 12 years of the company's northern studios

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This grid offers an at a glance guide to the first broadcasts of Gerry Anderson's UFO across the various ITV regions in the early 1970s. Some remarkable variations in when different regions first aired certain episodes including STV not showing "The Cat With Ten Lives" until 5 years after ATV!

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The controversially-title final 'Crown Court' case to air on ITV in April 1984 - after a 12 year run and some 300 or so cases - is now available to view on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5cr...

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... Basher - Complete (1080p)

YouTube video by Forgotten British Television

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"The Double Kill" was another I missed for some reason. Just for curiosity's sake I would have liked to have seen a full Thriller telercording. Off-airs are a way some of these obsolete formats and departed channels can be revisited.

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Due to a recording mix-up I only ended up with a few minutes of "Good Salary" which apparently was also a telerecording. The little I saw was very poor quality but we may have had reception problems at the time so I'm not sure if it was down to the telerecording. I never had a recording of "Night".

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Martin Marshall @martinmauthor1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

NEW! An original ABC-TV promo trailer for the #BrianClemensThriller 'Death in Deep Water' which aired on 3 Nov 1975, a day before its' premiere broadcast in the US. @jabberwocky65.bsky.social @rozzyc.bsky.social @alanbriscoe.bsky.social

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rewindtv.bsky.social @rewindtv.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We have some exciting news... 🥳

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It is 30 years since Bravo repeated Thriller. For new or old Thriller fans it's hard to overestimate how important and valued those repeats when they seemed the only chance to see the show again. This page summarises what Bravo showed: thriller-reviews-and-reflections.blogspot.com/2021/12/uk-r...

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UK repeats of Thriller on the Bravo channel - 1996

The early to mid 1990s were one of the best periods for archive TV fans as many of their favourites - not just the "big name" shows that had...

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Caroline Champion @ceechampion.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm not sure many things sum up folk horror like the Thriller episode 'A Place to Die'. (S1, ep 7) I've seen this a few times, but on this rewatch - it chilled me to the core! A new Dr and his wife move to a small village where the villagers have some very strange beliefs!

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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

1st June 1996 - satellite channel Bravo repeated the Thriller episode "Death in Deep Water". For those of us who had only just discovered the show via the 4 episodes released on VHS this was the first "new" one we saw. Whether for that reason or not this has always been one of my favourites...

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Rosalyn Connors BEM BCAc @rozzyc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just re-reading a section about DVD releases of #BrianClemensThriller in @martinmauthor1.bsky.social book 'A THRILLER in Every Corner', & there's more irony on page 668 with "The undoubtebly clever 'Brain' Clemens. 🤣🤣🤣

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 27/05/2026

One of the 9 booklets and brochures in our £25 reprint offer is an edition of 8-page company mag Talk of THAMES telling staff in February 1969 about progress on building Euston. It's the only one we're having printed abroad and are worried about. See transdiffusion.org/studios-of-i... for details.

Page 7, with a diagram of the new buildings

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