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Listings, clippings, cuttings and ephemera from British TV gone by.
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 35 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 2 December 1990
1. #CoronationStreet 20.57m
2. #Neighbours 18.85
3. #EastEnders 18.16
4. It'll Be Alright on the Night 17.92
5. Blind Date 13.88
6. Keeping Up Appearances 13.43
7. This Is Your Life 13.11
8. #Casualty
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1998 - MORE! magazine
#NatalieImbruglia - WHY SHE LIKES GETTING INTO MEN'S TROUSERS.
COULD YOU GO OUT WITH . . . Bobak from Another Level? "I'd never sit on the loo in front of a girlfriend."
SCRIPT TEASE - Sexy actors reveal their parts.
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1992 - BIG! magazine
YOUNG GIFTED AND BACK! #MacaulayCulkin returns in Home Alone 2 - but is it any good?
BOING! #East17 try sumo wrestling.
FIVE MINUTES WITH . . . #MarkOwen from #TakeThat
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1993
#NatalieCassidy is seen for the first time as Sonia Jackson in #EastEnders, although it's not until 21 December that she gets to speak for the first time.
"I don't want a swig . . . No. I've said I don't want one."
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1990
Immediately following the first fully-networked repeat of episode one of #CoronationStreet, we're treated to this little montage.
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1990
ITV provides what was, at that time, a rare opportunity to see again the very first episode of #CoronationStreet, with a special introduction by #WilliamRoache.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1987
#GeoffreyHughes makes the last of 511 appearances as Eddie Yeats in #CoronationStreet. Having left in 1983, Hughes returned for this pair of episodes to say farewell to Hilda Ogden:
"See you soon Hilda, and keep smiling, eh?"
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1964
#BarbaraKnox (née Mullaney) makes her first appearance as Rita in #CoronationStreet. Originally an exotic dancer friend of Dennis Tanner, her first line, to Stan Ogden, is: "Got your eyeful?"
It's then 7 years until her next appearance in January 1972.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1994
The Sun has an #EastEnders exclusive -
'ENDER MICHELLE!
EastEnders 'veteran' Susan Tully quits to try her luck in the West End -
"Susan feels it's time to move on to something new. She doesn't want to become too typecast."
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1983
The first photographs are released to the press showing Len Fairclough's funeral in #CoronationStreet. The following day we get to see the first picture of #TracieBennett resuming her role as Rita's foster daughter Sharon Gaskell.
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1978
CORONATION STREET COMES OF AGE
On December 9, 1960, #CoronationStreet was born to a rapturous reception. This week it is 18 years old and is still tops . . .
Champagne on the house - the Rovers has never seen anything like it!
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1978
CHANGING FORTUNES OF THE STREET
18 years ago when #CoronationStreet first appeared, it was a stark and grimy place. Folk there lived just above the poverty line. Today, the picture is very different . . .
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#OnThisDay 2 December 1978
ENA AT 80 -
'I've begged them to let me bury the old girl' -
Violet Carson looked wistful as she sipped champagne at Coronation Street's 18th birthday party.
"I realise that #CoronationStreet has made me, but it has also destroyed me."
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 29 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 1 December 1996
1. #EastEnders 20.79m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.60
3. #Casualty 15.56
4. Inspector Morse 14.77
5. National Lottery Live 14.68
6. #Emmerdale 13.42
7. Moll Flanders 13.24
8. #Neighbours 11.89
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#OnThisDay 1 December 1999 - MORE! magazine
BUENOS DIAS, EL SAUCEPOT - #EnriqueIglesias may look like another Latin love god . . .
PRECIOUS MOMENT - Those girls from Eurovision are back - proving there is life after Say It Again.
COULD YOU GO OUT WITH #EastEnders Michael Greco?
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#OnThisDay from December 1992 - INSIDE SOAP
#Brookside TEN YEARS ON - what's happened to the original cast?
SWING OUT CINDY! It's a tough life for #EastEnders' #MichelleCollins, but someone's got to do it!
#NickBerry from #Heartbeat - SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK!
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#OnThisDay from December 1992 - INSIDE SOAP
KRISTIAN CRACKS IT! Leaving #Neighbours behind has been Kristian Schmid's biggest career move so far.
SKY HIGH CY - #Emmerdale heart throb Cy Chadwick learns to fly.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - Happy 10th birthday #Brookside.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#OnThisDay 1 December 1984
The Manchester Evening News speaks to #CoronationStreet's official historian Eric Rosser, who reveals that as well recalling what's happened on screen, his files contain details of incidents from the distant past for characters such as Ena Sharples.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#OnThisDay 1 December 1988
Ken Irwin in the Mirror rather tactlessly reveals, before the actor has been told, that #CoronationStreet's Brian Tilsley is to be killed off -
Have we got news for you Chris Quinten . . . OLD WOODENTOP IS DEAD (AND HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW IT!)
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of November 1984
1. Royal Variety Performance 20.55m
2. #CoronationStreet 20.45
3. Miss World '84 17.10
4. Give Us A Clue 16.05
5. Name That Tune 15.80
6. Hi-De-Hi 15.55
7. Tenko 15.35
7. Just Good Friends 15.25
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 43 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of November 1982
1. #CoronationStreet 15.85m
2. This Is Your Life 15.80
3. Give Us A Clue 13.75
4. The Professionals 13.70
5. Hart to Hart 13.30
6. Miss World 1982 12.90
7. Game For a Laugh 12.80
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#OnThisDay 30 November 1991 - NUMBER ONE magazine
#LukePerry explains how SEX IS SERIOUS STUFF AT BEVERLY HILLS HIGH
NO LONGER A TEENAGE HEART-THROB #CoreyHaim reveals "I was a real mummy's boy"
THEY'RE BOXING MAD - Salt 'N' Pepa
APPLES AND PEARS - Minder's new boy #GaryWebster
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#OnThisDay 30 November 1991 - NUMBER ONE magazine goes #TakeThat mad -
CENSORED! FROM PERVSTERS TO POPSTARS!
"It's all thanks to Number One," say Take That!
FIVE GO MAD IN MANCHESTER
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#OnThisDay 30 November 1987
Rumours begin to circulate that co-creator and script editor of #EastEnders, Tony Holland, has quit the soap -
REAL LIFE DRAMA OVER EASTENDERS is followed by NO CRISIS, SAYS BBC, and finally: SOAP EDITOR HAS QUIT, ADMITS BBC
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
#OnThisDay 30 November 1968
RONNIE BARKER: THE HAPPY MAN WHO HIDES HIS FACE AWAY
He's a master of many faces ... but if ever a private man contradicted his public image, that man is #RonnieBarker - the larger of the two Ronnies in the Frost on Sunday show. What is he really like?
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM