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A daily representation of old British television. Subscribe to our Newsletter for more. (NB. few of the clips we post are uploaded by ourselves)

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Game On returns for a second series and a second face for Matthew, Hollywood-bound Ben Chaplin replaced by Neil Stuke. They'll get away with it as long as they don't draw attention to it or anything.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Game On returns for a second series and a second face for Matthew, Hollywood-bound Ben Chaplin replaced by Neil Stuke. They'll get away with it as long as they don't draw attention to it or anything.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: for the World Cup the BBC got itself a studio atop the Academy of Arts in Berlin, overlooking the Brandenberg Gate. It was also quite spacious outside.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: for the World Cup the BBC got itself a studio atop the Academy of Arts in Berlin, overlooking the Brandenberg Gate. It was also quite spacious outside.

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SMTV Live today in 1999, the day before Father's Day, takes correspondence from kids on the subject of things dads do. Enter Sophie from Durham with almost certainly not what was expected.

SMTV Live today in 1999, the day before Father's Day, takes correspondence from kids on the subject of things dads do. Enter Sophie from Durham with almost certainly not what was expected.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Lisa Riley is born. Sixteen months before Mandy Dingle arrived in the Dales and in her first TV role she was working a little further south, though thanks to Vera she never did get that job at Bettabuy.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Lisa Riley is born. Sixteen months before Mandy Dingle arrived in the Dales and in her first TV role she was working a little further south, though thanks to Vera she never did get that job at Bettabuy.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: an unconventional choice for Stars In Their Eyes.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: an unconventional choice for Stars In Their Eyes.

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For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Junior Kick Start ran for nine series but there's only one moment people who aren't Dougie Lampkin remember. Some say that one man in the background is still laughing to this day.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Junior Kick Start ran for nine series but there's only one moment people who aren't Dougie Lampkin remember. Some say that one man in the background is still laughing to this day.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tim Healy gets his partner (they wouldn't get married for another two years) Denise Welch a job on Auf Weidersehen Pet as Oz finds someone else living in the house he left behind.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tim Healy gets his partner (they wouldn't get married for another two years) Denise Welch a job on Auf Weidersehen Pet as Oz finds someone else living in the house he left behind.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Newsnight introduces a weather forecast. With the aid of Have I Got News For You, a demonstration of why it didn't last more than two weeks.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Newsnight introduces a weather forecast. With the aid of Have I Got News For You, a demonstration of why it didn't last more than two weeks.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sharpe has an appointment at the royal court, if Alexander Armstrong can remember what he did with it in his second TV acting role.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sharpe has an appointment at the royal court, if Alexander Armstrong can remember what he did with it in his second TV acting role.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: give me the most 'failed one-off pilot for a prime-time comedy variety show in the mid-80s' title sequence and line-up you have.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: give me the most 'failed one-off pilot for a prime-time comedy variety show in the mid-80s' title sequence and line-up you have.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: an unexpected ending to Bullseye.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: an unexpected ending to Bullseye.

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In case you thought social media had already wringed out clean every notable thing that ever happened in Bullseye, may we present the end of the Christmas special from today in 1987.

In case you thought social media had already wringed out clean every notable thing that ever happened in Bullseye, may we present the end of the Christmas special from today in 1987.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Rab C Nesbitt, in the first Naked Video sketch in which he's named, visits the benefit office.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Rab C Nesbitt, in the first Naked Video sketch in which he's named, visits the benefit office.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: what's on supposed jewel of overnight ITV Hotel Babylon tonight, how much more 1996 can a show's subjects be, and who's that two weeks ahead of a debut single that meant they'd never have to appear on programmes like Hotel Babylon again?

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: what's on supposed jewel of overnight ITV Hotel Babylon tonight, how much more 1996 can a show's subjects be, and who's that two weeks ahead of a debut single that meant they'd never have to appear on programmes like Hotel Babylon again?

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The South Bank Show today in 1996 followed RADA hopeful Maxine Peake to an elocution lesson, and she took with her drama school friend Diane Morgan.

The South Bank Show today in 1996 followed RADA hopeful Maxine Peake to an elocution lesson, and she took with her drama school friend Diane Morgan.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: today on BBC1.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: today on BBC1.

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60 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bernard Cribbins is in his element as a knitting teacher in The Avengers.

60 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bernard Cribbins is in his element as a knitting teacher in The Avengers.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Victoria Wood on That's Life!, playing her trusted *double checks* banjolele.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Victoria Wood on That's Life!, playing her trusted double checks banjolele.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: tonight on BBC1.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: tonight on BBC1.

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