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Listings, clippings, cuttings and ephemera from British TV gone by.
#OnThisDay 9 December 1967
OUR DR WHO MONSTERS - BY THE CHILDREN
If you think that the monsters in the #DrWho TV programme are too terrifying for children, just take a look at this little lot. Menacing. Mysterious. Unearthly . . .
The winning entries will be shown on #BluePeter . . .
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 9 December 1984
1. #CoronationStreet 19.25m
2. Name That Tune 15.65
3. The Benny Hill Show 14.85
4. The A-Team 14.70
4= Child's Play 14.70
6. #Crossroads 14.65
7. Tarby & Friends 14.60
8. Dallas 14.00
9. Tenko 13.70
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#OnThisDay from December 1972
CORONATION STREET 1984
TV Times celebrates the 12th birthday of #CoronationStreet and asks what sort of Street would a new baby grow up in? What has been the effect of the programme's run on the stars? Can it survive without central personalities?
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1992 - SMASH HITS
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR - Behind the scenes at the Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party!
STUD-U-LIKE! #BradPitt talks weeing in a bucket, creating skid marks and gushes about true love.
NO! NOT THE BISCUIT TIN with #HughDennis and #StevePunt.
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1990
THE ROGUE'S RETURN - Awful Alan joins party:
Alan Bradley came back from the dead yesterday to join #CoronationStreet's 30th birthday party. Mark Eden & Barbara Knox toasted each other in champagne and forgot the time he tried to throw her under a tram.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1990
OH YES IT IS! NEIGHBOUR MADGE AS A PANTO FAIRY.
What will the #Neighbours think? The Ramsay Street gang are going Panto crazy. They've come all the way from Down Under to show off their tinsel talents in a froth of Christmas magic . . .
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1983
Len Fairclough may be dead - but he certainly isn't lying down. Actor Peter Adamson saw his #CoronationStreet character killed off in a car crash. Yesterday he appeared on TV-am and read out a poem he had written as Len's epitaph.
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1983
GOOD RIDDANCE TO LEN!
#CoronationStreet boss's verdict on the star he sacked -
Producer, the strawberry-nosed Bill Podmore, gave his verdict on Peter Adamson at a party in London last night: "Good riddance!"
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1981
TWO WAY STREET
On the 21st anniversary of #CoronationStreet, the Daily Record looks at the coming and goings of the big names, including #PhilipLowrie, #WilliamRoache, #JeanAlexander, #DorisSpeed and #AnneKirkbride:
"I'm in a rut, but it's a lovely rut"
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1979
CHEERS! IT'S CELEBRATION ST.
Champagne glasses raised, the stars of #CoronationStreet celebrate a very special birthday. Britain's favourite TV show is nineteen years old - and last week it was also back on top of the ratings.
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1978
TWO SIDES OF THE STREET
The Mirror's Ken Irwin says:
I've just sent a telegram to Ena Sharples in #CoronationStreet. It reads: "Okay, so I was wrong!"
I was the young TV critic who said the show would never last. 18 years later and it's still up there!
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1965
A BABY IN THE STREET
Actress Eileen Derbyshire is to leave #CoronationStreet in which she has played the quiet spinster Miss Nugent for nearly five years:
"I'm sorry, but I'm having a baby in May."
She will be 'written out' within the next month.
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#OnThisDay 9 December 1960
The first episode of #CoronationStreet is broadcast live on ITV at 7pm. Some regional press coverage from the day:
PRESENTING A WORLD IN MINIATURE -
That every front door everywhere hides a story is the theme of Coronation Street, which begins tonight.
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
From 6 - 12 December 1989 - FAST FORWARD
Why won't Trevor leave the girls alone in #GrangeHill?
What's going on at the Museum in Bread?
There were five in the bed . . . in 'Allo 'Allo.
Plus, The Proggy Pages
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
From 6 - 12 December 1989 - FAST FORWARD
AREN'T THEY STUPID?! Why are Trevor and Simon completely bonkers?
SCHOOL REPORT - What do #Neighbours star Kristian Schmid's teachers have to say about him?
IAN IS PAINT POTTY!! #EastEnders Adam Woodyatt is a bit of a Rambo at heart!
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
From 4 - 10 December 1991 - FAST FORWARD
It's the last day at #GrangeHill for Calley.
Lesley Joseph channels her inner Noel Edmonds in TV Centre.
Frank Butcher has a surprise for his Mrs in #EastEnders.
Will you be asking for a Commodore Amiga or a Sea Mega Drive for Christmas?
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
From 4 - 10 December 1991 - FAST FORWARD
THE SECRETS OF THE NEW KIDS - #NKOTB are back in the country!
SCHOOL REPORT - Les Hill from #HomeAndAway has good flour bomb and water fights!
HERE COMES CATHY! Fast Forward spent a very exciting day with #CathyDennis!
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 8 December 1991
1. #CoronationStreet 21.47m
2. #EastEnders 20.51
3. #Neighbours 18.17
4. Big 16.46
5. #Casualty 15.17
6. #TheBill 15.16
7. #HomeAndAway 14.66
8. Blind Date 13.96
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1971
Following her abrupt and unexpected departure from #CoronationStreet, Sandra Gough makes the last of 393 appearances as Irma Barlow (neé Ogden).
"He's right though, in't 'e Eddie? This club is yer last chance."
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#OnThisDay from December 1992 - THE STREET
The #CoronationStreet Companion has an interview with the show's creator, #TonyWarren.
There were greyhounds and whippets a-plenty back in 1962.
Whilst in 1992, the Duckworths get a grandson.
Plus, a poster of #SarahLancashire.
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1991
YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IAN FROM ADAM!
#EastEnders Actor Adam Woodyatt has been voted the sexiest EastEnder since Dirty Den but TV's newest Mr Nasty is determined to keep women at a distance.
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1990
Young Telegraph meets the 'Streetwise' #DaranLittle who keeps official records for #CoronationStreet. There isn't much he doesn't know about our favourite soap opera. Although rather than go to the 30th anniversary parties, he'll be in bed with cocoa.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1985
SURPRISE FOR STARS
A radiant Annie Walker has staged a spectacular return to #CoronationStreet. Actress #DorisSpeed, who played Annie until 1983, was the star of a glittering champagne party to celebrate 25 years of the hit series.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1975
CORONATION STREET GOOD FOR ANOTHER 15 YEARS, SAYS ENA SHARPLES
Television's Violet Carson has a word or two to say to anyone who thinks #CoronationStreet is due for demolition:
"It's a way of life. A whole generation has grown up with us. . ."
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#OnThisDay 8 December 1973
CAPTIVES OF CORONATION STREET - but Ena and Co. are quite happy to stay -
"I suppose I must be quite a wealthy lady," says #DorisSpeed, "My accountant says it's ridiculous and I must spend some of it."
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM