#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 2 March 1986
1. #EastEnders 24.35m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.25
3. Surprise Surprise 15.00
4. Wish You Were Here 14.60
5. TV Times Awards 13.90
6. This Is Your Life 13.80
7. #Emmerdale Farm 13.75
8. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
#OnThisDay from March 1992 - TV HITS
#VicReeves and #BobMortimer are your centrefolds!
"I'm not the next Craig McLachlan!" says #Neighbours' Richard Huggett.
A guide to Cops On TV.
Plus a sneak preview of #ChristianSlater in Mobsters.
#OnThisDay from March 1992 - TV HITS
The results of the TV Hits readers poll are in -
Best TV Show: Beverly Hills 90210
Best Soap: #HomeAndAway
Worst TV Show: #Brookside
Best Singer: #JasonDonovan
Uncoolest Person: #ChesneyHawkes
Best New Star: #MarkyMark
Best Group: #NKOTB
#OnThisDay from March 1994 - INSIDE SOAP
#HomeAndAway's Nicolle Dickson reveals WHY BOBBY HAD TO DIE!
"I'M A BIT OF A BORE!" says #EastEnders' #MichaelFrench.
STREET STYLE - The #CoronationStreet wardrobe department is a hive of activity.
In #Emmerdale there's WEDDING BELLS . . .
#OnThisDay 2 March 1991
Proving himself to be the Miley Cyrus of his day, #PaulDaniels ends up astride a wrecking ball, watched over by #JonPertwee, after a truck attempts to crush him to death with eight concrete slabs.
#OnThisDay 2 March 1987
Janet Ellis welcomes "a very special guest" to #BluePeter, none other than the new #DrWho - #SylvesterMcCoy. Meanwhile Mark Curry introduces "the largest and most important collection of children's books in the world".
#OnThisDay 2 March 1987
The evening papers react to the news that #SylvesterMcCoy is going to play the seventh Doctor when #DoctorWho returns -
FERRET MAN TAKES OVER AS THE NEW DOCTOR WHO
DR WHO? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!
IT'S DOCTOR SYLVESTER (WHO?)
NEW DOCTOR IS THE REAL MCCOY
#OnThisDay 2 March 1982
'TIME' AT THE ROVERS
They're about to call "Time" for the last time at the Rovers Return. Just 15 years after it was built, bulldozers are ready to knock down the pub - and the rest of #CoronationStreet. But viewers need not worry. The old set is being...
#OnThisDay 2 March 1981
LOOK WHAT ANNIE SAILS HOME TO . . .
Annie Walker (#DorisSpeed) comes home from her cruise in #CoronationStreet tonight to find two new barmaids, Carole and Diane, installed in place of Bet Lynch and Betty Turpin, and Fred Gee suspended . . .
#OnThisDay 2 March 1963
Hurry yourself along to Hair Fashions in Whitchurch, where Valerie Barlow (#AnneReid), Granada's #CoronationStreet Hairdresser, will officially open the new ultra modern hairdressing salon.
#OnThisDay 1 March 1997
#MichaelFrench stars alongside Chloë Annett and #SueJohnston in the first episode of #AnthonyHorowitz's science-fiction detective series CRIME TRAVELLER.
#OnThisDay 1 March 1982
#TracieBennett makes the first of over 200 appearances as Rita's foster child Sharon Gaskell in #CoronationStreet. Here she is saying 'hiya' to Rita in 1982 and bidding her farewell in 2021.
#OnThisDay 1 March 1979
#ArthurLowe stars for the first time as Redvers Potter in the new sitcom by Roy Clarke, POTTER.
Here's a trailer from the first series, the opening to the first episode, and Arthur discussing the character in his final TV interview in 1982.
#OnThisDay from March 1993 INSIDE SOAP
#EastEnders' #SidOwen says that Ricky should "GET OUT THERE AND PLAY THE FIELD!"
In #CoronationStreet HAS ANGIE FINALLY FOUND MR RIGHT?
DANNY'S DREAM HOME - Danny McCall from #Brookside in his bachelor pad.
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 1 March 1992
1. #EastEnders 21.81m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.55
3. You've Been Framed 19.30
4. #Neighbours 17.92
5. Darling Buds of May 17.88
6. Inspector Morse 16.44
7. One Foot in the Grave 16.16
8. #Casualty 15.80
#OnThisDay 1 March 1989
DIRTY DEN'S #EASTENDERS DIARY
Leslie Grantham was angry about the way Den's last scenes were handled. "I was annoyed that the new producer decided to cut closing shots when Den fell dead and plunged into the canal," he says . . .
#OnThisDay 1 March 1985
The newspaper cartoonists have their say on Michael Grade's decision to cancel #DoctorWho.
#OnThisDay 1 March 1985
The Daily Star blasts the BBC's decision to axe #DrWho, asking "Who else but the barmpots of the BBC would fight a campaign for more public money by treating the public with such contempt?" They then launch a campaign to Save #DoctorWho!
#OnThisDay 1 March 1983
TUCKER LEAVES GRANGE HILL FOR NEW ROLE
Teenage heart-throb Tucker Jenkins bounces back to our TV screens next week. The cheeky lad from #GrangeHill is the hero of a new drama by Liverpool writer #PhilRedmond . . .
#OnThisDay 28 February 1993
A 12-part adaptation of Peter Mayle's A YEAR IN PROVENCE began on BBC1. Starring #JohnThaw and #LindsayDuncan, it was neither a critical or a ratings success and was described as achieving "the near impossible – a John Thaw vehicle nobody liked".
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1986
1. #EastEnders 24.35m
2. #CoronationStreet 19.25
3. Wish You Were Here 18.35
4. Boxing: Barry McGuigan 18.30
5. Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show 16.75
6. Duty Free 16.10
7. Surprise, Surprise 15.19
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1983
1. #CoronationStreet 18.45m
2. It'll Be Alright on the Night 16.00
3. This Is Your Life 15.65
4. Last of the Summer Wine 15.60
5. Wish You Were Here 14.75
6. 3-2-1 14.60
6= Tom, Dick and Harriet
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 44 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1982
1. This Is Your Life 18.10m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.00
3. Wish You Were Here 15.50
4. The Gaffer 15.45
5. The #BennyHill Show 15.35
6. Last of the Summer Wine 15.30
7. Family Fortunes 15.10
#OnThisDay 28 February 1991
Yvette Fielding and Diane-Louise Jordan take us behind the scenes of Studio 1 at the BBC Television Centre for #BluePeter.
#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
Buster Merryfield makes his first appearance as Uncle Albert in #OnlyFoolsAndHorses in the episode 'Strained Relations'.
Here's continuity from the original broadcast, interviews with Buster, and the reaction of young fans to the new character.
#OnThisDay 28 February 1990
WILL BILLY BOUNCE BACK INTO THE STREET?
Ken Farrington, who quit #CoronationStreet five years ago after a row with the scriptwriters, wants to return. The 53 year-old actor, who played Billy Walker for 25 years, will be out of work . . .
#OnThisDay 28 February 1986
DR WHO'S WHO
#DrWho is on the way back . . . and he's facing the most deadly battle of his time-travelling life! Forget the Daleks. This time he's up against the toughest warlord of the lot - BBC boss #MichaelGrade . . .
#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
PAY UP TO SAVE DR WHO
Fans of #DrWho may be able to save their favourite programme. The BBC, which yesterday announced the sci-fi programme was being dropped, revealed today it would consider this novel way of raising money . . .
#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
TA-TA TARDIS!
#DoctorWho is being dropped by the BBC. He will disappear from our screens for eighteen months. The Doctor, who has seen off Daleks and Cybermen, met his match yesterday in the Amazing Axeman, BBC1's new controller #MichaelGrade . . .
#OnThisDay 28 February 1985
DR WHO IS AXED IN A BBC PLOT
#DoctorWho was axed by the BBC last night . . . and furious fans claimed it was a plot to back up demands for a higher licence fee . . .
