Thursday, 30 April 2020

NOSTALGIC LOCKDOWN TV ANTICS

For want of anything better to do during lockdown, I decided to compile a fantasy single day schedule of programmes shown on BBC One during the week I was born. I completed this futile task by referencing the invaluable BBC Genome site.

All of the programme lengths are correct, I didn't cheat. That would really be pointless. Obviously it resembles no BBC One schedule in history, but I did try to make it look vaguely realistic in terms of when these programmes would be shown on this made-up day.

Anyway, it whiled away an hour or so. You might enjoy trying it too.

One Day in October 1974

6am             Election ’74: Where Are We Now?

9:30am        Weather

9:35am        Fingerbobs

9:50am        Trumpton

10:15am      You and Me

10:30am      Tom and Jerry

10:40am      The Sound of Laughter

11:10am      Huckleberry Hound

11:15am      Deputy Dawg

11:20pm      Barnaby

11:35pm      Ragtime

11:50am      Interval

12pm           News

12:25pm      Weather

12:30pm      Star Trek (animated series)

12:55pm      Interval

1pm             Pebble Mill

1:45pm        Bewitched

2:15pm        Chico and the Man

2:40pm        The Forsyte Saga

3:35pm        Interval

3:40pm        The Long Chase

4:05pm        Play School

4:30pm        Blue Peter

5pm             Screen Test

5:20pm        The Wombles

5:25pm        Clangers

5:30pm        News

5:35pm        Weather

5:40pm        The Generation Game

6:30pm        Tom and Jerry (double-bill)

6:50pm        Top of the Pops

7:30pm        Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em

8pm             Film: Carry On Cleo

9:30pm        Porridge

10pm           News

10:20pm     Weather

10:25pm     Kojak 

11:15pm     Parkinson

12:15am      Weather/Closedown

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