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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10m

[1996] Gogs - Gogs revolves around a family clan of dumb, primitive and socially inept cavemen in a fantasy prehistoric Stone Age setting, and contained various toilet humour-based gags and gross out situations. First episode.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 4h

[1976] Dave Allen At Large - "£10 note", a man is walking along a street when he spots a £10 note stuck under the wheel of a car.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10h

[1986] Furniture - Razzmatazz performance of "Brilliant Mind" by the new wave band from London. The song was featured in the John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful and remains the band's only entry in the charts.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 11h

[1996] Married for Life - Remake of the American sitcom "Married... with Children". Starring Russ Abbot, Julie Dawn Cole and Hugh Bonneville.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 13h

[1984] The Master - Intro to the series about nn ageing American ninja master and his headstrong young apprentice search for the elder man's daughter. Starring Lee Van Cleef, Timothy Van Patten and Shô Kosugi.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 23h

[1989] Shockball - Horrific public information film warning children to stay away from substations. Part of a longer film called “Electricity: Powerful Stuff”, which replaced the earlier "Play Safe".

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1993 - 1997] Shooting Stars - Compilation from the comedy panel game in which Vic describes Jack Dee's face.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1968] Blue Peter - Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves bring a fully-functioning life-size replica of Lady Penelope's iconic Rolls-Royce, FAB 1 into the studio.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1982] Weetabix - The brainchild of one Trevor Beattie, Dunk, Crunch, Brains, Brian and Bixie, AKA the Weetabix bovver boys and girl, were determined to stamp out "titchy breakfasts".

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1979] Brian Redhead introduces The Undertones performing Jimmy Jimmy on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1982] Film Fun - Derek Griffiths, as himself and a host of other characters, introduces classic cartoons while explaining their history and significance in the world of cinema.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026

[1978] Blue Peter - Simon Groom continues the Blue Peter legacy of hair-raising stunts, joining 45 Commando Royal Marines for a training exercise at London's Tower Bridge. Ominously, the exercise is called the Death Slide: a 150-metre rope strung from one of the towers to the banks of the Thames.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 09/10/2026

[1983] Riverside - "The Making of The Haçienda", Dr Fraser Diagram visits The Hacienda in Manchester, a nightclub opened by Factory Records in 1982. He interviews architect Ben Kelly about the club's distinctive design and founder Tony Wilson on building youth culture 'cathedrals'.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 09/10/2026

[1979] M - Unusual Top of The Pops performance of "Pop Music", introduced by Peter Powell and Kid Jensen.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 09/10/2026

[1981] Nationwide - "The Rise of Job Sharing", Tony Wilkinson looks at the phenomenon of job sharing, visiting Eddie and Susie who share a role at the North Kensington Law Centre.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 09/10/2026

[1970] Holiday Startime - A slightly hungover and tipsy Vincent Price with some tips on what to do with the leftovers.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 09/10/2026

[1994] Monty the Dog - Cartoon character created by British author Colin West, making his first appearance in the book Monty, the Dog who Wears Glasses in 1989. Narrated by Griff Rhys Jones.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 08/10/2026

[1979] Parkinson - Michael Parkinson interviews Walter McCorrisken, self-styled as the world's worst poet. In the mid 1970s, McCorrisken won a bad poetry competition organised by The Herald Diary in Glasgow.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 08/10/2026

[1989] The Film Club - Airing on BBC 2 on Saturday nights and pre-dated Moviedrome by two years. Here, director Terence Davies ( Distant Voices, Still Lives, The House of Mirth and Benediction) introduces "2001- A Space Odyssey".

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 08/10/2026

[1985] Prefab Sprout - Top of The pops performance of "When Love Breaks Down" by the sophisticated band from County Durham.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 07/10/2026

[1970] Shocking Blue - Top of The Pops performance of "Venus", the original version. By a Dutch songwriter, the singer Mariska Veres didn't speak English which led to a few mistakes.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 07/10/2026

[1977] The Lively Arts - Melvin Bragg goes behind the scenes of Doctor Who. Featuring Dick Mills at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composer Dudley Simpson, costume designer John Bloomfield and actors Deep Roy and Michael Spice during production of The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 07/10/2026

[1985] Micro Live - Fred Harris visits Boston software company Infocom. The developer has enjoyed great success with its line of text adventure games - the likes of Zork, Planetfall, Enchanter, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - which eschew graphics in favour of a simple text display.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 06/10/2026

[1981] Beekeeping - John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson Beekeeping sketch from The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 06/10/2026

[1963] You Know It Makes Sense - First ever seat belt campaign, 20 years before it became compulsory for all drivers and front seat passengers to wear one.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 06/10/2026

[1949 - 2026] George Fenton R.I.P. - English composer best known for film scores and TV music. Five Academy Award nominations, plus BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Classic BRIT awards. Collaborated with directors like Attenborough, Gilliam, and Loach.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 05/10/2026

[1981] World of Sport – Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks – The two titans of British wrestling battle it out at the Wembley Arena.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 05/10/2026

[1981] Willo the Wisp - When an intergalactic beauty pageant is going to be held in Doyly Woods, Mavis the fairy intends to enter, but Evil Edna has other ideas. Voiced by Kenneth Williams.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 05/10/2026

[1971] Tomorrow’s World - "Is this the car of the future?", James Burke may appear to be driving a modest 1970s car, but looks can be deceiving, for this prototype features not just mod cons, but future cons.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[1984] Weekend in Wallop - From the First Nether Wallop International Arts Festival, a one-off intended as a rival to the Edinburgh Festival, Rik Mayall performs with the Jools Holland Big Band.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[1969] Pipe Burst - Public information film informing you what you need to do if you happen to get a burst pipe. Although it seems like a parody, it isn't.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[1978] Monkey - Born from an egg on a mountain top; a stone egg and thus he is a stone monkey, a skilled fighter who becomes a brash king of a monkey tribe, who was "the punkiest monkey that ever popped".

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[1969] The Brown Rabbits - Public information film from the Central Office of Information warning of the dangers of Pills And Bottles.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

[1969] Clangers - Stop-motion children's series, created by Oliver Postgate, made of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. In this episode the Soup Dragon gets broody, and gains a son.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

[1981 - 1983] The Greatest American Hero - Intro to the series about a teacher who is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control. Starring William Katt and Robert Culp.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

[1985] Natural Born Smoker - Anti-smoking campaign. Imagines a futuristic world where humans have evolved anatomical features useful for smoking and a resistance to diseases caused by smoking but warns that these evolutionary features have not yet happened.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

[1971] Granny Gets the Point - Extract from the short film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

[1984] Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok. From the Musical "Chess". Top of The Pops performance with live vocal. Murray is the older brother of Anthony Head.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026

[1976] Blue Peter's Lesley Judd looks behind the scenes of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. She joins telephone operatives taking calls from viewers swapping toys, and sees production techniques for the live Saturday broadcast.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 02/10/2026

[1985] Acorn Antiques - Parodic soap opera written by Victoria Wood as a regular feature in the two seasons of Victoria Wood As Seen On TV. Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Rosie Collins. First episode.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 02/10/2026

[1971] George Harrison - Pan's People perform to My Sweet Lord, the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. In America and Britain, the song was the first number-one single by an ex-Beatle.

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