Posted March 28, 200817 yr Every Saturday, the Birmingham Mail includes an archive edtion which most weeks concides of a tv & radio guide as originally printed. Here's one from Monday April 17th 1978. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TV Guide BBC1 4.40 Cheggers Plays Pop Keith Chegwin with Co-Co, Showaddywaddy & Slade. 5.05 John Craven’s Newsround 5.10 Blue Peter with John Noakes turning Mrs Mop 5.40 News with Richard Baker 5.55 Midlands Today 6.20 Nationwide 6.55 Ask The Family 7.20 Angels Part 3 of 13 episodes: “Present Imperfect” starring Shirley Cheriton, Joanna Munro, Kate Saunders and Clare Clifford. Katy’s on night duty in charge of a noisy surgical ward. 8.10 Panorama reports from the Rhodesian bush about the guerrilla war which is bankrupting the country. 9.00 News with Richard Baker 9.25 The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald Two-part television drama, part 2. During the trial that never was, both prosecution and defence pose various theories behind the strange story of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F Kennedy. 10.55 Tonight with Denis Tuony 11.35 Weather/Regional News 11.40 Closedown Tomorrow Till Tea 6.40 Open University 9.38 Schools & Colleges Mathshow 11.00 Watch 11.18 Going To Work 11.40 Living In A Developing Country: Ghana 12.00 Closedown 12.45 News and Weather 1.00 Pebble Mill At One 1.45 Ragtime 2.00 You and Me 2.14 Schools & Colleges Encounter 2.32 Merry-go-round 2.40 TV Club 3.20 Term 3.53 Regional News 3.55 Play School 4.20 Champion The Wonder Horse: The Die-Hards 4.45 Take Hart BBC2 4.55 Open University 7.00 News on 2 Headlines 7/05 Children’s Wardrobe 7.30 Newsday with John Humphreys 8.15 Johnny Mathis 9.00 Pickersgill People 10.00 Snooker 10.55 Arena: Television 11.45 Late News on 2 11.55 John Rye Tomorrow Till Tea 6.40 Open University 11.25 Play School 2.15 Other People’s Children 2.30 Having A Baby 3.30 The Living City ATV 4.20 Clapperboard 4.45 The Feathered Serpent 5.15 University Challenge 5.45 News 6.00 ATV Today 6.45 Whodunnit? Jon Pertwee with Liza Goddard, Patrick Mower, June Whitfield and Alfred Marks. “Diamonds Are Almost Forever”. 7.30 Coronation Street How will Alf react when he finds out that Bet has entertained a man overnight in her flat? Derek returns and Rita works hard to reunite him with Mavis? But has she worked in vain? 8.00 Devenish starring Dinsdale Landen as Arthur P. Devenish, the egocentric ideas man for a games manufacturing firm. In this episode Devenish tests his latest invention, the greatest game of all time, in a staff knockout competition. 8.30 World In Action What can be done for the people who live in Manchester’s slums of the seventies. 9.00 Rumpole Of The Bailey 10.00 News At Ten 10.30 Left, Right and Centre An interview with Enoch Powell on immigration. 11.00 Columbo 12.25 Something Different Religious series with Sue Jay 12.40 Closedown Tomorrow Till Tea 9.30 For Schools Seeing and Doing 9.47 A Place To Live 10.04 Look Around 10.21 Writer’s Workshop 10.43 French Studies 11.05 Figure It Out 11.22 Picture Box 11.39 Good Health 12.00 Paperplay 12.10 Rainbow 12.30 Parents’ Day 1.00 News At One 1.20 ATV Newsdesk 1.30 Crown Court 2.00 After Noon 2.25 Mid-Week Racing from Newmarket 4.20 Runaround with Stan Boardman, guest Elkie Brooks 4.45 Magpie --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radio Guide Radio One 4.31 Kid Jensen (including 5.30 Newsbeat) 7.30 Radio 2 10.02 John Peel Tomorrow Till Tea 7.02 Noel Edmonds 9.00 Simon Bates 11.31 Paul Burnett (including 12.00 Newsbeat) 2.00 Tony Blackburn 4.31 Kid Jensen Radio 2 4.17 John Dunn 6.15 Sports Desk 7.02 BBC Northern Radio Orchestra 7.30 Alan Dell: The Dance Band Days 8.02 The Big Band Sound 9.02 Humphrey Lyttelton: The Best Of Jazz 9.53 Sports Desk 10.02 The Monday Movie Quiz with Ray Moore 10.30 Star Sound with David Bellan 11.02 Brian Matthew: Round Midnight (including 12.00 Newsroom & 2.00 News) Tomorrow Till Tea 5.02 Ray Moore 7.32 Terry Wogan 10.02 Jimmy Young 12.13 Waggoner’s Walk 12.30 Pete Murray’s Open House 2.30 David Hamilton (including at 3.30 Racing from Newmarket) 4.30 Waggoner’s Walk 4.45 Sports Desk 4.47 John Dunn BRMB 2.00 Nicky Steele 6.00 Newsline 6.15 Sports Round-Up 6.30 Ed Doolan 8.00 Robin Valk 11.00 Dave Jamieson 2.00 Terry Griffiths Tomorrow Till Tea 6.00 Les Ross 8.00 News Round-up 9.30 Stewart White 12.30 News and Sports Round-up 12.45 This Lunchtime: Ed Doolan 2.00 Nicky Steele Beacon Radio 4.00 Mike Baker 7.00 Topic: Magazine and Phone-in with Helen Armitage 9.00 Dave Owen 1.00 Peter Quinn & Bob Snyder Tomorrow Till Tea 6.00 Chris Harper 9.00 George Ferguson (including 12.00 Swap Shop) 1.0 Mick Wright 4.00 Mike Baker Radio Luxembourg 8.00 Top Twenty 9.00 Rob Jones 10.00 Rosko in Exile 11.00 Tony Prince Gold Mine 12.00 Barry Aldis 2.0-3.0 Supergroups
March 28, 200817 yr what a dreadful line up! Monday night wasn't the best of TV nights back then, it was the night when all the serious news and current affairs programmes were shown (Panorama, World In Action) but at least the schedules weren't infested with soaps. Trying to think what I could possibly have watched, well most likely Coronation Street as I used to watch it then. I don't see Crossroads, that used to be on in the house in 1978. Probably Rumpole, my mother was a big fan of the programme. I would most likely have watched Blue Peter too. I'd imagine I probably spent some time listening to Radio Luxembourg as it was the only way to hear music after about 7pm in my area. The local ILR station ran all its specialist shows after 7pm (and a phone in with James Whale from 10pm), Radio One closed down until John Peel appeared at 10pm. I'm not sure if I really bothered listening to him much in early 1978, I think it was in 1979 when I really began to listen to him, though I did tune in to some of his programmes in 1978.
April 1, 200817 yr what a dreadful line up! Monday night wasn't the best of TV nights back then, so you dont think bbc four will be doing the cult of monday night then??? btw got any early cable/sky tv lists from the 1980s/1990s??? (guess there wasnt such a thing in 1967)
April 1, 200817 yr Much better than the c**p on those channels these days. I was 13 months old then so, nope, don't remember watching that particular line-up!
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