Curious British Telly
Sunday, 28 January 2024

Early Children's ITV Continuity Captured

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I’ve been digging through some Betamax tapes this weekend and, as luck would have it, the first one I pulled out of the box had an absolute ...
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Friday, 22 December 2023

New Print Article: The Birth of Teletext

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A year on from my last published article , I’m back in the pages of Best of British with The Birth of Teletext. Ever since I first laid eye...
Saturday, 16 December 2023

All the Slices of Archive TV Christmas Footage I've Found

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Christmas television has always been a landmark event. Or, at least, it always was. These days, scanning through the Christmas issue of the ...
Saturday, 2 December 2023

Philip Schofield's Final Day on Children's BBC

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2023 was a disastrous year for Philip Schofield's television career and private life, and it remains to be seen whether he'll ever r...
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Betamax Find: In Front of the Children (1983)

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  There’s not a person in the country who didn’t love at least one children’s programme on the BBC whilst growing up. It’s an impossible pro...
Monday, 9 October 2023

The Book of Beasts - Out Now!

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Beasts is one of the calling cards of 1970s British folk horror, and this is an unarguable fact. Unless, of course, you haven't watc...
Monday, 25 September 2023

Betamax Find: Claire Rayner's Casebook (Homosexuality)

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Every now and then, I come across something on an old video tape which strikes a chord with people. At the weekend, I dug up a 1983 edition ...
Monday, 18 September 2023

A King Rollo Comic Strip from July 1983

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Digging deep into my collections of Buttons comics, most of which I picked up in a job lot off Ebay in 2021, I found this charming King Roll...
Monday, 11 September 2023

New 'Old' Episode of Bric-a-Brac Emerges onto YouTube

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In what can only be described as excellent news, Neil Miles (tape archaeologist extraordinaire) has captured a complete episode of Bric-a-Br...
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