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#OnThisDay from October 1970
TV Times turns #CoronationStreet's #BillRoache into a fashion model!
KEN BARLOW COULDN'T GET AWAT WITH THIS IN THE STREET

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 36 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 15 October 1989
1. #CoronationStreet 20.93
2. #EastEnders 17.53
3. #Neighbours 17.05
4. In Sickness and in Health 12.75m
5. #OnlyFoolsAndHorses 12.42
6. Bread 12.33
7. Blind Date 12.01
8. Beadle's About 11.64

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1984
Channel 4 take out newspaper ads to let viewers know that . . .
UNTIL TODAY WE DIDN'T GIVE YOU MUCH CHOICE IN AFTERNOON VIEWING

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1995
MAVIS THE MANEATER - The Street's star prude was a sexy young thing . . .
The Mirror casts doubt on #CoronationStreet's Thelma Barlow's account of her childhood and claims to know her real age.

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1993
OUR TRACY GETS A BIT OF STREET CRED
Once she was #CoronationStreet's shy schoolgirl . . . a slip of a lass in grey cardigan and ankle socks. But, baby, look at her now. Millions of TV viewers have watched Deidre Barlow's daughter Tracy slowly change...

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1994
#TheBill celebrates its tenth birthday -
TEN YEARS ON AND STILL TOP OF THE BILL says the Mirror

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1992
WACKY WAKEY, WAKEY!
A puppet named Sam was thew centre of attention yesterday. The pint-sized rascal will be helping to host children's morning shows on the new GMTV station from January 1. He linked up with his minder #PaulZerdin and #SimonParkin . . .

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1990
NIGHT ON THE TILES!
An aristocrat from a castle starts slumming it tonight in #CoronationStreet. Frisky the tabby toff makes his debut in the opening sequence of the down-to-earth ITV soap. He replaces the working class ginger tom . . .

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#OnThisDay 15 October 1986
SQUARE EYED BRITAIN GETS ALL-DAY TV
Telly-mad Britain will get all-day viewing when the BBC launch a new non-stop service. Out go cosy old favourites like the Breakfast Time sofa and Frank Bough's sweaters. A sharper, newsy look will spearhead . . .

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The magazine article was from TV Times. The painting was by fellow Coronation Street actor Peter Dudley, who played Bert Tilsley.

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1983
Get your hands on these new videos from the BBC . . .

IN A PACKED SHOW TONIGHT . . . It's a video from me . . . and it's a video from him.

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1984
Thames Television take out full-page newspaper ads to promote #TheBill
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE ON A COPPER'S BEAT IN LONDON'S EAST END?
A new police drama series filmed entirely on location, The Bill is a true life drama giving a realistic insight ...

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 14 October 1984
1. Minder 17.50m
2. #CoronationStreet 17.30
3. Any Which Way You Can 16.20
4. Fresh Fields 16.05
5. Duty Free 14.65
6. The #BennyHill Show 14.40
7. Name That Tune 14.25
8. News At Ten 13.50

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1980
ITV'S SEVENTEEN DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
ITV are splashing out £30 million on a bumper bundle of Christmas shows. Leading ITV's homegrown campaign will be Alf Garnett. There will be specials from Morecambe and Wise, Kenny Everett, the Muppets, Bruce Forsyth...

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1979
The Mirror reveals THE SAD TALE OF PETRA THE TV PUPPY - Why #BluePeter told a little white lie -
"The pup fell ill and died. So we decided to do what most responsible parent would do - get a replacement."

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1978
CHANCE ENCOUNTER
Tony Adams, the dashing, dishy doctor who for five-and-a-half years was General Hospital's most eligible bachelor is to join #Crossroads this month . . .

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#OnThisDay 14 October 1978
Hurry yourself along to the great new Sun Valley Amusements in Freeman Street, Grimbsy because . . .
PAT PHOENIX COMES TO GRIMSBY!
Meet Elsie of #CoronationStreet plus, you can enjoy free sherry all day!

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1966
Your chance to purchase the "entire production" of The Curse Of The Daleks, a #DrWho theatre play that had run at London's Wyndham's Theatre from 21 December 1965 to 15 January 1966 as a matinee show.

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 13 October 1991
1. #EastEnders 19.39m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.71
3. #Neighbours 16.64
4. Ruth Rendell Mysteries 14.35
5. #TheBill 13.95
6. Blind Date 13.20
7. #Casualty 13.15
8. #HomeAndAway 13.10

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1994
Susannah Corbett, daughter of #HarryHCorbett, tells the Today newspaper:
MY DAD MADE A FORTUNE OUT OF STEPTOE BUT HIS DEATH SENT US FROM RICHES .. TO RAGS

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1987
HILDA'S STREET EXIT IS MURDER! - Cast Face Sack If They Spill Beans -
Stand by with the hankies, soap fans - #CoronationStreet's farewell to the legendary Hilda Ogden is going to be a real weepie. Hilda will be written out on Christmas night . . .

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1982
PORN UNLIMITED
Cable TV was given the go-ahead yesterday. Armchair shopping and soft porn movies will all be available. There will be no limit of the number of channels and no rigid control on programmes. But there will be a special anti-porn gadget...

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1981
Has the Mirror uncovered the secret of how #NoeleGordon will leave #Crossroads?
IS THIS MEG'S LAST RESTING PLACE?
The cast of the TV series gathered round an open grave yesterday to film a burial scene . . .

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1980
WILL VIEWERS EXTERMINATE DR. WHO BEFORE THESE DO?
#DoctorWho's biggest threat doesn't come from the Daleks or the Androids. It comes from TV licence evaders . . .

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#OnThisDay 13 October 1961
Ena Sharples of #CoronationStreet encourages you to
THINK! WHAT SERVICE MEANS -
"I pay them to worry about my set!"
So, hurry yourself along to Telefusion in Market St. in Heywood and try a rental television free for seven days.

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