Boasting productions such as The Bill, Minder, Man about the House, Rainbow and The Sooty Show , Thames Television produced some of my favo...

I still remember the first BBC Video I got: Pyramids of Mars , the classic 1975 Doctor Who serial featuring Tom Baker. This was in 1987, an...

The tale of David Scarboro isn't one I was overly familiar with, but his short life and career on British television is, in itself, very...

If, in 1987, you had been watching television very late at night, we’re talking post-closedown late, you could have stumbled across somethin...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

  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...