Television History

Peter Lewis' contemporary article from the Summer of 1962 looks at the series that broke new ground in police procedurals in its first year

John Winterson Richards chooses his own personal choice of ten classic television shows that had a major influence on our viewing habits and the type of programmes that followed them.

How television funded the world's greatest theme park

Andrew Cobby remembers 1983: VCRs, Columbo and Top of the Pops.

The story of Britain's foremost drama series - Armchair Theatre

Andrew Cobby takes a humorous look at 1970s daytime TV: Crown Court, A Handful of Songs and Nancy Kominski - who wouldn't want to skip school for that?

Exploring the history of the scripted crime shows that we watch on our TV screens today which owe much to television's innovation of the 1950s.

In spite of all the major domestic news stories of 1963; The Great Train Robbery, The Profumo Affair, everything else was eclipsed by the world shattering events in Dallas Texas on 22nd November.