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[original PM]

22:45: News. (Sound Only).

Them were the days.

Exactly one television channel.

If you were within range of one of the very few transmitters.

only 1!

showing your age then - there were 2 when i was born

not that i watched them as we did not get a telly until i was like 4 or 5

[barrydidit]

Come Dancing

with Terry, Wogan, who tonight introduces the First Semi-final Scotland v The North West from Tiffany's Ballroom, Glasgow Commentator BARRI HAYNES
A professional demonstration by Byron and Dorothy Charlton
Music by ANDY ROSS , HIS ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
A MECCA promotion
Arranged by ERIC d. MORLEY Director KEN GRIFFIN
Series producer BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

And 36 years later they're still fecking at it.

[barrydidit]

And also:

21.25: The Man Alive Report

A Peculiarly English Disease
(LETTER FROM A DISGRUNTLED ENGINEER)
A well-known Victorian engineer once stepped down from the carriage in which he was travelling to supervise the repair of a damaged wheel. When he climbed back up his fellow passengers all ignored him. By showing that he knew how things worked he'd shown that he was less than a gentleman.
His status-sensitive travelling companions were suffering from a peculiarly English disease that 100 years later is still with us. Even in 1978, if you want ' to be accepted' in England you must be seen to be doing the right kind of work-work that's as far removed as possible from the means of production.
All the evidence shows that not enough of our cleverest people are going into industry, the very place we need them. MICHAEL DEAN talks to a number of people who, quite independently, have been studying our strange and potentially fatal social disease.
Producer JULIAN COOPER Editor TIM SLESSOR

Glad to see things have improved since then....

[NickFitz]

Lots of religious stuff, which is only to be expected on Easter Sunday

A Brian Rix farce.

The Royal Ballet.

And to finish the day on a high note:

22.40: THE LONELY MEN

A documentary film from Yugoslavia
English version spoken by Simon Lack
Written and presented by Gordon SMITH
In a meteorological station high in the mountains of Bosnia, three young weathermen face isolation and loneliness in arctic conditions.

[eek]

I have an awful lot of Apollo 15, Ernie's First £50,000 draw and an episode of Monty Python.

Turns out that even then the Monty Python episode was a repeat....

[Uncle Albert]

Dr Who with Patrick Troughton as the Dr.

The Highlanders by ELWYN JONES and GERRY DAVIS
PART 1: Highlanders v. English; but whose side is the Doctor on?

[Doggy Styles]

Racing, table tennis and something with Sooty in it.

[MaryPoppins]

Camberwick Green and Champion the Wonder Horse.

[anonymouse]

I tried picking the year 1966, and got this...

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

[Batcher]

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

Not surprised. Nothing of any note happened in 1966.