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@tvark.bsky.socialSee Hear
Magazine series
BBC 2
11 October 1981 - present day
A weekly programme for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. News, views and entertainment, with subtitles and sign language.
A list of some of the contributors to the series is on the ALT.
@tvark.bsky.socialBob Warman
Retired TV presenter
Born 11 October 1946
Happy 80th Birthday
@tvark.bsky.socialBling Reality ITV 1 (Possessed/TwoFour) 11 October - 5 November 2021 Gok Wan hosts this daytime television series all about jewellery. The bling store is split into four sections dealing with the making, repair, buying and selling of jewellery with a team of experts advising the public.
@tvark.bsky.socialThe Boy with No Brain: Extraordinary People Documentary Channel 5 (Markthree) 11 October 2016 Narrator: James Norton The story of Noah Wall, a little boy who developed a rare complication of spina bifida while in the womb which has left him with a brain just 2 percent the size of a normal child.
@tvark.bsky.socialHigh Stakes
Gameshow
ITV 1 (Escalate TV)
11 October - 13 December 2011
Host: Jeremy Kyle
The show where you need brains, bravery and just a little luck to win big money. But beware - one wrong step and you are down and out, instantly!
@tvark.bsky.social11 October 1996
A new look for Channel 4.
Out was the multicoloured 4 ident after nearly 14 years.
In came the four circle "connections" idents.
@tvark.bsky.socialMystery Train
Cult horror
BBC 2
11 October - 13 December 1991
Host: Richard O'Brien
Presented in a deserted underground train station. The series showed horror films and animations. Our link is from a promotion for the first episode.
@tvark.bsky.socialWe remember director and producer John Crockett who passed away on 11 October 1986. Directed Doctor Who The Aztecs (image below). He also directed one episode of the Marco Polo adventure for the Timelord. Also involved with Compact, Suspense and People of Nowhere.
@tvark.bsky.socialNeil Buchanan is 70 today
What was his best TV show?
A - No 73/7T3
B - Art Attack
C - Finders Keepers
D - another TV show
@tvark.bsky.socialRemembering actress Jean Alexander
1926-2016
Hilda Ogden in Granada's Coronation Street for over 23 years.
Auntie Wainwright in BBC's Last of the Summer Wine in 1988, 1989, and from 1992-2010.
@tvark.bsky.socialRemembering actor Earl Hyman
1926 - 2017
The voice of Panthro in over 120 episodes of the kids TV animation series Thundercats in the 1980's.
@tvark.bsky.socialRemembering actor Richard Jaeckel 1926-1997 TV credits included: Baywatch Murder, She Wrote Mission: Impossible Little House on the Prairie Spenser: For Hire Dallas Gunsmoke
@tvark.bsky.socialHappy 80th Birthday to Chris Tarrant.
If you had met him in the TISWAS studio all those years ago, would you have:
A - Throw a custard pie at him
B - Pour a bucket of water over him
C - Put him in the cage and Tilt the Tub
@tvark.bsky.socialAmanda Burton Actress Born 10 October 1956 Happy 70th Birthday
@tvark.bsky.socialMartin Kemp Musician and actor Born 10 October 1961 Happy 65th Birthday
@tvark.bsky.socialUpstairs Downstairs
Period drama
ITV (LWT/Sagitta)
10 October 1971 - 21 December 1975
Written by: Jean Marsh, Alfred Shaughnessy, John Hawkesworth, Fay Weldon
Press ALT for cast list
@tvark.bsky.socialKaty Family drama BBC 1 10 October - 14 November 1976 Based on the novel by Susan Coolidge Cast includes: Claire Walker Julia Lewis Ed Bishop Scott Kunz Virginia Fiol Thomasine Heiner Sarah Brackett Madge Ryan Delia Paton Bessie Love Kate Lock Jane Slaughter Caroline Hinton Nicholas Young
@tvark.bsky.socialLaura Tobin Weather presenter Born 10 October 1981 Happy 45th Birthday
@tvark.bsky.socialBabyfather Drama BBC Two 10 October 2001 - 18 December 2002 Based on the novel by Patrick Augustus Cast includes: Don Gilet Diane Parish Angela Griffin Mona Hammond T-Bone Wilson Heshima Thompson Rachael Matherson-Frederick Saffron Lashley More cast on ALT
@tvark.bsky.social10 October 2011 UKTV channel Dave begins broadcasting in High Definition on satellite and cable.
