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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 28 years ago
📺TV Ratings for BBC2/C4 for w.e. 12 October 1997
1. #Friends 6.04m
2. #Brookside 5.72
3. #TopGear 5.23
4. Ground Force 5.22
5. Shooting Stars 4.81
6. #AbsolutelyFabulous 4.79
7. #Hollyoaks 4.35
8. Countdown 4.06
9. Two Fat Ladies 3.99

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#OnThisDay 12 October 1990
To celebrate #Emmerdale's anniversary, the Evening Standard looks back on
18 YEARS OF IDYLL MOMENTS
"How is a woman expected to settle down to a spot of jam-making while being pestered by police, barristers and pushy journalists?"

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#OnThisDay 12 October 1988
IT'S DOCTOR DUD!
Pint-sized sex symbol #DudleyMoore is set to be the next #DrWho - in a 19 million dollar American film version of the time traveller . . .

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#OnThisDay 12 October 1982
THE LEADING LADY
When #VerityLambert, at 27, became the youngest producer ever to be appointed at the BBC, some of the chaps expressed shock . . .
. . . then after #DrWho turned into a colossal money spinner, the doubters fell silent . . .

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#OnThisDay 12 October 1978
THE LETTER THAT CHANGED MY LIFE by William Roache -
"If you had asked me at any time during the first 12 years of #CoronationStreet what the turning point had been in my life, I would have said it was the day at the very beginning of my career . . ."

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 33 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 11 October 1992
1. #EastEnders 19.91m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.67
3. #Neighbours 17.03
4. #HomeAndAway 14.18
5. #Casualty 14.12
6. Strike It Lucky 13.99
7. #TheBill 13.80
8. London's Burning 13.70

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#OnThisDay 11 October 1989 - FAST FORWARD
Have Tegs and Justine fallen on good times in #GrangeHill?
Will the voluptuous Carmen tempt Adrian in BREAD?
Why is Helga removing her stained clothing in 'ALLO 'ALLO?
Plus THE PROGGY PAGES.

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#OnThisDay 11 October 1984
COR BLIMEY!
Yesterday the BBC announced its new soap opera designed to beat ITV's #CoronationStreet and #Crossroads in the ratings war. It's a big-budget twice-weekly series called #EastEnders . . .

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#OnThisDay 11 October 1984, The Mirror looks forward to the BBC's new soap #EastEnders - EAST SIDE STORY - Albert Square .. a corner of the East End set to become as familiar as Coronation Street.

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#OnThisDay 11 October 1982
REAL LIFE IN WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE
Journalist Maureen Messent provides a candid account of her visit behind the scenes at #CoronationStreet . . .

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 26 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 10 October 1999
1. Walking With Dinosaurs 18.91m
2. #EastEnders 18.15
3. #CoronationStreet 16.56
4. #Heartbeat 13.22
5. You've Been Framed 12.62
6. #Emmerdale 11.90
7. #Casualty 11.09
8. Twister 10.67

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#OnThisDay 10 October 1999
Dawn Acton appears for the last time as Tracy Barlow in #CoronationStreet. Six years earlier she predicted the future . . .
"If Tracy does grow up in the Street I would think she will be a very troubled and confused person. I hope she does turn out like this . . ."

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#OnThisDay 10 October 1993
CORNETTO ST.
Kevin and Sal set up Italian restaurant in Street spin-off:
"TV chiefs are hoping to get a bigger pizza of the ratings with a spin-off from #CoronationStreet set in an Italian restaurant. The Webster family . . ."

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#OnThisDay 10 October 1979
DR WHO MEETS HIS FANS
Hundreds of TV's #DrWho fans packed Menzies bookshop when their hero, otherwise known as #TomBaker, took time off from fighting Daleks to sign copies of the new Dr Who comic . . .

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#OnThisDay 10 October 1979
Hurry yourself along to the Arndale Centre and SEE DR WHO IN PERSON! #TomBaker will visit newsagents signing copies of the new #DrWho Weekly from Marvel Comics. It's the first ever regular Dr Who weekly!

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1983
LWT take out newspaper ads to promote -
THE SECRET ADVERSARY . . .
#AgathaChristie's super-sleuths Tommy and Tuppence pit their wits against a ruthless and unknown opponent in a race to avert disaster for Britain -
7.45pm Sunday on LWT

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 31 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 9 October 1994
1. #CoronationStreet 19.49m
2. #EastEnders 18.73
3. You've Been Framed 15.95
4. #Heartbeat 15.08
5. Soldier Soldier 14.43
6. #Neighbours 14.12
7. #TheBill 13.28
8. Blind Date 13.24

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1991 - BIG! magazine
#MarkyMark: ME AND MY BROTHER DONNIE.
"I'M IN LOVE!" declares #HomeAndAway's Les Hill.
Amelia Frid: AT HOME WITH CODY OF #Neighbours.

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1996
THE SOAPS THAT NOW THROW IN EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK
Last night #EastEnders was named best soap. But as storylines get increasingly breathless, featuring hit-men, incest, drug-dealing and more, Graham McCann says soaps are in danger of losing the plot.

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1989
THE TWO LESLIES - Dirty Den and dotty Dawson meet in paradise -
Here's a funny pair of heavenly twins - devilish Leslie Grantham and earthy #LesDawson. The odd couple are going up in the world to shine together as TV comedy stars . . .

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1981
Speculation about how #NoeleGordon is to be written out of #Crossroads is still rife:
ATV STAYS SILENT ON MEG'S BLAZE OF GLORY
"A letter bomb sent to a VIP at the motel starts a fire in which three minor characters are killed. Meg is badly hurt . . ."

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#OnThisDay 9 October 1982
ANNIE'S ANSWERS
#DorisSpeed has been in the #CoronationStreet cast regularly since its first episode on December 9, 1960.
But what does Doris speed think of Annie Walker?
"Annie is a silly, pretentious woman. I would hate to be like her."

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#OnThisDay 8 October 1981
Thames Television take out newspaper ads to warn us . . .
TONIGHT AT 7.30.
JAWS
The British TV Premiere of this suspense classic, starring #RobertShaw and #RoyScheider.

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#OnThisDay 8 October 1974
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMERDALE FARM
#Emmerdale Farm is 200 episodes old and producer Robert Cardona reckons that "more realism" has been the most striking innovation. "There was too much chat during the early episodes. I've cut the dialogue by half so that..."