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@whydontyoutube.bsky.social50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Brian Glover wanders round his home town in It's No Joke Living In Barnsley, from mountain a slagheap via Arthur Scargill and Charlie Williams down the pub to a man playing organ upside down.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the new owner of Weatherfield's warehouse arrives and Coronation Street doesn't know what's about to hit it.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Peter O'Toole takes full part in TFI Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHAH...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Amy Winehouse on almost completely forgotten 5pm ITV gap plugger The Sharon Osbourne Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w50...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Supersonic goes highly literal for a new recording of a T.Rex classic, with most of T.Rex absent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2I...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Yorkshire anthology Worlds Beyond begins with Voice From The Gallows, involving demonic possession of Connie Booth's daughter, by Avengers head writer and Professionals creator Brian Clemens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cybh...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Danny Wallace the first person ever to front an edition of Horizon asking whether Chimps Are People Too, given the number of scientific experiments on how much they can do and that they share 99.4% of DNA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeXI...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Arabella Weir is a central figure in private detective series Call Me Mister, where as the daughter of the catering firm in the crossfire of a violent antiques robbery shecomes into the realm of Haydn Gwynne, both acting very straight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtid...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Fenella Fielding, Mike Smith, Sarah Greene and Roy Hudd are on the Blankety Blank panel, helping contestants win some very aluminium-centric prizes.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.socialWe love a detailed report on the ITV franchise auction. A week before the winners and losers are revealed, today in 1991, BBC1 North gets involved, Close Up North reviewing where it leaves the northern franchises.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social80 YEARS AGO TODAY: Chris Tarrant is born. Famously Tarrant started his career as ATV Today's And Finally man, meaning he was on the spot when Coventry's Lieutenant Pigeon's moment in the pop sun began to fade in 1973.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social30 YEARS AGO TODAY: we could try to describe Flux but we're not sure we can beyond “it was late night ITV in the mid-90s, the heyday of just a lot of stuff happening ideally to be watched while out of it having just crashed back into the house”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIpW...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright are Two Fat Ladies, coming across as a long time eccentric partnership despite having never met before. Their motorbike and sidecar first docks by the fisheries of Cornwall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9y...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Zig & Zag tunnel out from Lockkeeper's Cottages and into the National Television Awards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6MC...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social20 YEARS AGO TODAY: nobody in soaps ever just slips off quietly, if it's not a murder or self-inflicted end it's when they're set to have some kind of celebratory event, so Fred Elliott has a massive stroke on the way to marry Bev Unwin.
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tomorrow's World previews the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of BBC TV with an overview of the past and future of TV. Ten years left for the boom in hologrammatic telly to happen!
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social50 YEARS AGO TODAY: having read out the home address of a six year old to start, the Generation Game sees Brucie have his palm read, admire cocktail stick art and play the lead in Nell Gwyn with Jan Hunt, "who was last with us when she played the spoons".
@whydontyoutube.bsky.socialAlthough we assume you better know it for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nacp...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.social90 YEARS AGO TODAY: probably best known as frontman of Sky technology channel .tv's puzzle game show Nexus, Brian Blessed is born. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcPt...
@whydontyoutube.bsky.socialEnd of another week, so another week ending newsletter. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...
