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Hark back to the TV Presentation of the 70s to the 90s. With wobbly film, In Vision announcers, long forgotten programmes, adverts and retro graphics

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REMEMBERING PAM MASTERS Red Bee Media’s first CEO. It is with great sadness that I share the news of Pam Masters’ passing. Pam was the driving force behind Red Bee Media’s creation. As our first… ... REMEMBERING PAM MASTERS Red Bee Media’s first CEO. It is with great sadness that I share the news of Pam Masters’ passing. Pam was the driving force behind Red Bee Media’s creation. As our first C...

The death has been announced of Pam Masters, former head of Presentation at the BBC and Channel 4 and later founding CEO of Red Bee.

@tvlive.site @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org

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08.03.2026 20:37 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Let look in on the ending of Sunday Grandstand with a very young Des Lynam

08.03.2026 20:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

THE single biggest mistake ITV has ever ever ever made.

08.03.2026 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He also in Take a letter Mr jones at Southern, and that awful Rock factory at Thames

08.03.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I asked Cheryl want she wanted for her birthday, she said," She making her mind up" I'll get my coat..

08.03.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The lost the American version so they went for the next best thing

08.03.2026 18:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Its another Saturday night, Are you picking BBC1, BBC2 or ITV? in 1978.

07.03.2026 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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A Cry from the Streets? Only When Max Sings 😋

07.03.2026 16:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SO... Who actually likes Twiglets???

07.03.2026 15:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You mean like running for 30sec plus? That happened at time in mids 00 aswell.

07.03.2026 14:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lets head back to 1989 for Saturday Sport on TVam with Geoff Clark

07.03.2026 09:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Tune in, tomorrow for Sally James and Tiswas on "Watch it!, alas its 1981-1982 so its not a good Tiswas..

06.03.2026 22:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Coming up later on LWT tonight it's South of Warford.

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Dear POV were fed up with Clive Anderson, please send him away, they could if they could find him...

06.03.2026 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Now lets look at todays weather, its going to be a sunny one.. its still march to so wrap up..

06.03.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

THE only reason that was made was because ITV lost the rights to Married... with Children with Sky nabbing S7 onwards, Some ITVs areas LOVED the series.

05.03.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Married For Life title

Married For Life title

Russ Abbot

Russ Abbot

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A new seven-part comedy, adapted from an American series, about a hapless shoe salesman, his sex-hungry wife and their difficult children. Starring Russ Abbot 

For Whom the Bells Tolls. Ted Butler takes on the phone company when he disputes his telephone bill, but his family refuse to join the battle.

TV listing A new seven-part comedy, adapted from an American series, about a hapless shoe salesman, his sex-hungry wife and their difficult children. Starring Russ Abbot For Whom the Bells Tolls. Ted Butler takes on the phone company when he disputes his telephone bill, but his family refuse to join the battle.

#OnThisDay 1996 : 30 years ago today, the UK's take on the US sitcom Married For Children was broadcast on ITV. Russ Abbot would take the lead role in Married For Life which would run for just one series.

#90s
TV listing : @tvdidyousee.bsky.social

05.03.2026 20:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1
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In 2001 Crossroads came back courtesy of Carlton. Jill , Doris Luke and Adam Chance was still there but many others weren't

05.03.2026 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I didnt know Ed byrnes was tv pres enthusiast

04.03.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GUS Honeybun with RADIO 1 & DEPECHE MODE
GUS Honeybun with RADIO 1 & DEPECHE MODE YouTube video by 5PY Heritage

On a similar vein, Gus Honeybun briefly defecting from Derry's Cross.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Yn...

04.03.2026 18:50 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Lets head back to 1985, there dancing gymnastics on Blue peter, oh look there David Bellamy aswell dancing away.

04.03.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lets join "Marti Caine" from 1980 in her own show with the Geoffrey richer dancers On BBC1

03.03.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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This is the end of The Stranglers playing on ATV's Rockstage from Nottingham Theatre Royal in 1981... watch out for the endcap whizzing in.

02.03.2026 17:32 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
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Happy St David's Day, What better way than to showcase the BBC offering: "70 years of BBC Cymru" on S4C do you remember all those classics? like Bocs o Jocs or Saithdegau?

01.03.2026 15:21 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Happy St David's day, so lets enjoy some singing on Ar Teulu Ffon Roedd: ( I hope Ive got that right)

01.03.2026 09:57 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Saturday Morning Archaeology: Parallel 9
Saturday Morning Archaeology: Parallel 9 YouTube video by Stuart Millard

Now available for all, a new Saturday Morning Archaeology unpacks the complicated history of one of the genre's weirdest entries, with the space opera shenanigans of Parallel 9.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1M...

28.02.2026 11:06 👍 43 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 11

How did I miss that!

28.02.2026 11:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can you name everything on the conveyor belt? This couple can on Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game in 1991. Mind you that knows how to dance with Rosemarie Ford.

28.02.2026 09:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Outside of London and HTV the last series was screened over summer of 1990 and 1991. Thames had Highway to heaven instead.

27.02.2026 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Magnum, p.i. title

Magnum, p.i. title

Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck

Magnum tv listing

Magnum tv listing

#OnThisDay 1981 : 45 years ago today, the first episode of Magnum P.I. was broadcast in the UK.

It starred Tom Selleck as Magnum.

(TV listing courtesy of @woodg31.bsky.social)
#80s

27.02.2026 20:09 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0