by Joe Moran
PICTURE CREDITS
1. Family watching television, 1954. Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images.
2. Poster advertising John Logie Baird’s demonstration of television at the London Coliseum, July 1930. Museum of Hastings.
3. Max Hastings and friends watching television, Kensington, 1950. Max Hastings.
4. Frances Day, Jerry Desmonde, Elizabeth Allen and Gilbert Harding on What’s My Line?, 29 August 1951. BBC/Corbis.
5. A woman adjusts her TV set, 1960s. Mary Evans Picture Library.
6. Carole Hersee, daughter of test card designer George Hersee, posing for a new version of Test Card F at the Thames studios in Teddington, 10 March 1969. Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images.
7. Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman on Countdown, 1980s. Granada Archives. ITV/Rex Features.
8. Delia Smith, 1971. David Reed/Corbis.
9. Jade Goody being interviewed on the big screen after her eviction from the Big Brother house, 26 July 2002. Press Association.
10. Stacked Old Televisions, 2011. Lindsay Blair Brown. www.lindsayblairbrown.com.
While every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders of illustrations, the author and publishers would be grateful for information about any illustrations where they have been unable to trace them, and would be glad to make amendments in further editions.
INDEX
Figures in italics indicate illustrations.
7:84 theatre company 205
24 342
77 Sunset Strip 118
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 184
A
A Certain Ratio 369
A for Andromeda 227
Abbey Road studios, London 35
ABC Television 118
About Anglia 124
About the Home 76
Ackroyd, Peter 281
Adam, Kenneth 161, 163, 173
Addinsell, Richard 218
Adventures of Colonel March, The 105
Adventures of Robin Hood, The 107, 110
aerials 1, 11, 19, 21, 37, 42, 45, 60, 62, 63, 71, 77, 79, 82, 83, 104, 119–20, 128–32, 143, 150, 216, 221, 266, 292, 324, 325, 326, 355, 375
Aeroplane, The magazine 58–9
agricultural programmes 219–20
Airport 310
Akenfield (film) 352–3
Akenfield, Suffolk 352, 353
Aladdin 187
Alagiah, George 334
Albu, Margaret 16
Aldenham bus overhaul works, Elstree, Hertfordshire 165
Alexander, Jean 304
Alexandra Palace, north London 28–9, 30, 31, 32, 36, 39, 41–44, 46, 52, 60
mast 28, 29, 49, 51, 55, 72
garden 44, 47
‘battle of the beams’ 48
Holme Moss’s opening night 65
1967 happening 162
analogue switched off 345
Alice in Wonderland 164
All Creatures Great and Small 229
Allan, Elkan 236
Allaun, Frank 141, 142
Allen, Elizabeth 88
Almond, Marc 212
Alperovici, Boris 18–19
Alpha Bangla 345
America’s Got Talent 363
Amis, Kingsley 8, 300–308, 310
Amis, Martin 281, 296
Amis, Sally 303
Ammonds, John 224, 227
Amos ’n’ Andy (American comedy show) 86
analogue television 312, 331, 344–50, 362, 370, 371, 372, 374
And Now for Something Completely Different … (film) 225
Anders, Neil 180
Andrews, Eamonn 90, 138, 151
Andy Pandy 96
Ang, Ien 273
Anglers’ Corner 167
Anglia Television 124–5, 128–29, 134, 181, 217, 218, 348
Animal Hospital 309–10
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? 97, 104, 179
Annan Committee on Broadcasting 214, 217, 355
Annan Report (1977) 214, 219–20, 226, 249
Anne, HRH The Princess Royal 87, 194
announcers 46, 47, 57–8, 93, 268, 348
Anouilh, Jean: Time Remembered 145–6
Anthology 3 (album) 298
Apollo missions 180, 181–2, 184, 185, 186, 287
Appleton, Professor E.V. 30
Archers, The 84, 97, 273
Archie Andrews 90
archiving 224–7
Ardener, Edwin 170
Are You Being Served? 214
Armitage, Simon 369
Armstrong, Fiona 350
Armstrong, Neil 182, 183
Army Game, The 371
Art and Artists 110
Arts Council 116, 302
Ascent of Man, The 320
Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon 161
Ask Pickles 96, 138
Askey, Arthur 110
Astra satellite 287, 288
AT&T 150
Atkinson, Rowan 342
Attenborough, David 97, 98–9, 163, 164–5, 193, 230, 279, 337–9, 340, 371–2
ATV 110, 129, 216, 239–43, 330, 348
Aubertin, George 96
audience research 107, 182, 223, 250, 253
Auguste, Père 68
Augustine, St 14
Austin, Bunny 37
Avedon, Richard 162
Avengers, The 157, 303, 368
Ayer, A.J. 296
Ayres, Pam 102
B
Bacon, Cecil W. 69
Baggott, Jean 103
Baily, J.T. 33
Baily, Kenneth 31
Baird, Iain Logie 52
Baird, John Logie 65, 300, 333
demonstrates his invention at Selfridge’s 13–14, 15, 16
‘Televisors’ 16, 17–18, 20, 21, 29
Long Acre studio 17, 22, 23
BBC’s first scheduled television programme 17–18
giant television set at London Coliseum 12, 22–3, 24
mast at Crystal Palace 30
Baker, Richard 87
Baker, Shirley 304
Baker, Tom 207, 208
Bakewell, Joan 79, 163, 165, 281, 311
Ballard, Bea 179
Ballard, J.G. 178–80, 335–6, 359
The Day of Creation 335
‘Escapement’ 179
‘The Greatest Television Show on
Earth’ 179
‘Manhole 69’ 335
‘Thirteen to Centaurus’ 335
ballet 24, 46, 64, 85, 103
ballroom dancing 99–100
Balmoral Castle 86, 87
‘Ban Welsh Telly’ group 221
Banks-Smith, Nancy 237, 306
Bannister, Roger 171
Barber, Anthony 193, 194
Barker, Eric 65
Barker, Ronnie 199, 209
Barkley, William 6
Barnes, George 131
Barnes, Julian 281
Barnett, Angela 183
Barnett, Lady Isobel 90
Barnett, John 159
Barry, Michael 35–6, 313
Barthes, Roland 3–4
Barton, Jack 240, 246
Basil Brush Show, The 207
Bateman, Nick 334, 337
Bates, Michael 201
Bath: Octagon 215
Batman 268
Baudrillard, Jean 268–9, 272
Bauman, Zygmunt 306
Baverstock, Donald 155
Baxter, Raymond 149
Bazalgette, Peter 312, 313, 331–2, 339, 359
BBC Alba 354, 355, 357–8
BBC archives 25, 26
BBC Belfast 197
BBC Broadcasting Research
Department 253, 308
Daily Life in the 1980s 253–4
BBC Club 214
BBC Good Food show, Birmingham
National Exhibition Centre 313
BBC Handbook 48–9, 250
BBC Home Service 66, 84, 128
BBC iPlayer 364
BBC library sound effects 68
BB
C Light Programme 60, 84, 85
BBC Midlands 348
BBC Natural History Unit 166
BBC Northern Ireland 198
BBC Radio 1 248
BBC Radio 2 236, 264
BBC Radio 4 264
BBC Radio Leicester 196
BBC Radio London 196
BBC Scotland 197
BBC Symphony Orchestra 21
BBC Television Centre, White City, London 10, 164, 351
BBC Wales 197
BBC Yearbook 51
BBC-3 6
BBC1
end of rationing of broadcasting hours 2
globe ident 180, 187, 190
colour television 184, 187
a classic Saturday night 206–10
new daytime service (1986) 266
BBC2
launch of 161, 225–6
colour television 163, 164, 166, 167
unions resist plan to start BBC2
earlier 228
BBC4 343
Beach Head 184
Beadle’s About 321
Beatles, the 16, 154, 173, 190, 227, 298, 361
Behan, Brendan 7
Belfast 74, 75, 85, 126, 128, 197, 198
Bell, Julian 43
Bellamy’s Britain 301
Belmont transmitter, Lincolnshire 129, 217
Benn, Tony 360
Bennett, Alan 78
Bennett, Cyril 255
Benny Hill Show, The 223
Bentine, Michael 118, 339
Bentley, Marcus 334
Bergson, Henri 198, 225
Bernstein, Sidney 120, 121, 122, 217
Best, George 85
Betamax 248
Betjeman, John 113, 160, 304
Between the Lines 158
Beveridge, Lord 112–13
Beverley Sisters 84
Bevins, Reginald 150
Biafran War 174
Bickle, H.M. 56
Big Brother 271, 328, 333–40
Big Chief I-Spy 2
Big Match, The 296
Big Society 362
Bill, The 278, 302–3, 307, 309
Billington, Michael 154
Billy Bunter 67–8
Bilsdale transmitter, North Yorkshire Moors 217
Birkett, Lord 138
Birkinshaw, Douglas 33
Birmingham 58, 61, 62, 158, 242, 243, 244, 256, 361
Birmingham, Alabama 243, 361
Birmingham Evening Mail 282
Birt, John 25, 308, 331
Black, Cilla 182, 186
Black, George 124
Black, Peter 97, 166, 236
Black and White Minstrel Show 135, 166, 182, 365
Black Hill transmitter, North Lanarkshire 123
Black Mountain transmitter, Northern Ireland 129
Blackburn, Lancashire 64, 220
Blackburn, Tony 248
Blackman, Honor 157
Blackpool FC 75–6
Blackwell, Nigel 267
Blackwood, Algernon 56–7, 73
Blair, Lionel 267
Blair, Tony 360–1
Blanchflower, Danny 295
Blanchot, Maurice 270
Blankers-Koen, Fanny 54
Blankety Blank 233
Bleak House 261
Blériot, Louis 13, 14
Bligh, Jasmine 41, 46
Blind Date 321
Blitz magazine 305
Blockbusters 281
Blodau’r Ffair journal 124
Blue Peter 2–3, 178, 190, 282, 286
Blunkett, David 344
Blythe, Ronald 177–8, 353, 367
Akenfield 177, 352
Blyton, Enid 112
Bodkin, Professor Thomas 104
Bollywood films 280, 281, 345
Bolton, Betty 26
Bolton, Lancashire 122, 142
Bolton FC 75
Bonanza 146
Bonington, Chris 172
Book Programme, The 247
Boon, Eric 40, 41
Boorman, John 166
Border Television 126, 218, 219, 349
Born, Georgina 309
Boulestin, Marcel 43
Boult, Sir Adrian 21
Bournemouth radio transmitter 30
Bowie, David 183–4, 212, 213
boxing 40–1, 49, 62, 103, 296
Boy George (George O’Dowd) 213
Boyd, William 281
Braben, Eddie 223–4, 227–8
Bradbury, Malcolm 120, 155
Bradford 77, 78, 79, 344
riots (2001) 344
Bradman, Don 53
Bragg, Melvyn 285
Brains Trust, The 114
Brasher, Chris 171, 190
Bray, John 149
breakfast television 264–5, 268
Breakfast Time 276
Brent, Douglas 100
Bridgewater, Leslie 94
Bridgewater, Tony 23
Briggs, David 333
Brighton, Sussex 82, 134
Wax Museum 140
Britain’s Got Talent 359
British Asians 201–2, 344, 345
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
first scheduled television programme 17–18
first synchronised sound and vision broadcast (March 1930) 19
the first television play 19–20
BBC accent 58
viewer panel 99, 200
curfew 195
public meetings 215
ITV-BBC duopoly 217, 249, 279, 332
BBC Television’s fortieth anniversary (1976) 226
Film and Videotape Library 226
audience appreciation index 341
British Film Institute (BFI) 226, 275, 276, 280, 302, 307, 310, 321, 356
British Legion 117
British Leyland 194
British Medical Journal 111
British Relay 346
British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) 291, 292
British Telecom 358
Broadbent, Joan 183
Broadcasting Act (1990) 279, 336, 357, 362
Broadcasting Act (1996) 362
Broadcasting House, Belfast 198
Broadcasting House, London 24, 26, 27, 30, 35, 139
Broadcasting Standards Council 305
Bronowski, Jacob 110
Bronzino: Venus and Cupid 189
Brooker, Charlie 340–1
Brookes, Peter 206
Brookside 307
Brown, Allan 357
Brown, George Mackay 132–33, 203–6, 224, 229–31, 259, 321–22, 324
An Orkney Tapestry 204
Brown, Gordon 141, 341, 359–60, 361, 363
Brown, John Seely 344
Brown, Mhairi 203, 204, 205
Browne, Thomas 237
Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night 252
Bruno, Frank 296
Brunsdon, Charlotte 242
Bryant, Arthur 80
Buchanan, Jack 138
Buckham, Bernard 35
Buckingham Palace, London 36, 42, 80, 86
Buckland, Norah 157–8
Bucknell, Barry 317
Bunyan, Vashti 170
Burgess, Anthony 19, 20–22, 27, 163
Buried Treasure 97–8
Burke, David 322, 323
Burke, James 183
Burn, Gordon 259
Burnett, Hugh 137
Burnley riots (2001) 344
Burns and Allen Show 86
Burton-on-Trent Archery Club 110
Bushell, Miss Sydney M. 17
Butlin’s holiday camps 77
Buzzcocks, the 212
Byatt, A.S. 259
Bygraves, Max 84
C
cable radio 110
cable television 215, 216, 236, 289, 319–20, 326, 332, 345
Café Continental 68–9, 107
Cainnt Cultural Services 357
Caldwell, Henry 68
Calendar 271
Callaghan, James 360
Callisthenes (Selfri
dge’s column in The Times) 14
Cambridge Air Force Base, Massachusetts 148
camera obscura 32, 36
Cameron, David 361, 362
Campaign for Quality Television 342
Campion, Gerald 67
Canary Wharf tower, London 326
Capri 18, 19
Caradon transmitter 265
Cardus, Neville 76
Carleton Greene, Hugh 159
Carlton 307
Carlton Food Network 320
Carnane, Isle of Man 84
Cassandra (of Daily Mirror) 73
Castle, Barbara 352
Castle, Roy 277
Catatonia 356
catch-up sites 347, 364
cathode ray tubes 52, 62, 141, 203, 322, 370, 375
Cathy Come Home 160
Catweazle 4
Caughie, John 356
Cawston, Richard 87
Ceefax 266, 312–13, 327, 372
Celebrity Wife Swap 341
Cenotaph, London: two minutes’ silence (1937) 38
Central Television 240, 269
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham 162, 242
Cercle des Amis de Channel 130
Chamberlain, Neville 39
Changing Rooms 316, 317, 325, 331
Channel 4 249, 258, 266, 270, 274, 278, 282, 292, 305, 334, 335, 336, 346, 351
Channel 5 333, 346
Channel Islands 202–3
Channel Television 130
Chaplin, Charlie 64, 80
Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 78, 191, 323
investiture 87, 181
Charlie Chester Show 96
Charlie’s Angels 237
Charlton, ‘Steady’ Eddie 259, 260
‘Charming Belles in Harmony’ 23
Charsfield, Suffolk 177–8
Chataway, Christopher 1–2
Chatteris, Cambridgeshire 41
Chekhov, Anton 343
Chelsea at Nine 122
Chelsea Palace, King’s Road, London 122