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■ On Monday ITV celebrates 70 years ...

So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

A century ago, John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television transmission

Talking Pictures TV talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 82 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Fate Takes a Hand (1961) (Wednesday 1 October, 7am) Drama. Director: Max Varnel. Starring: Ronald Howard, Val

When the Sunday Dispatch newspaper joined forces with Morecambe & Heysham Corporation to create a new tourist attraction for the town, few would have bet more than a shilling that it would still be go

Although associated with the 1960s, Pick of the Pops began in 1955 on the BBC Light Programme. The 4 October listing in the Radio Times reads: “Presented by Franklin Engelmann in which Jingle (assiste