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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: a rare chance to hear June Brown (credited as 'Woman') trying a Black Country accent, in period drama Clayhanger.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the second part of the Doctor Who Ood story, The Satan Pit finds the Doctor entering a pit as Rose tries to escape.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: tish, hush and fourpence for Call My Bluff. Frank Muir is joined by Jilly Cooper (looking remarkably like Sally Phillips) and art historian Professor Quentin Bell, Patrick Campbell by Lesley-Anne Down and Anthony Valentine. www.youtube.com/watc...
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Hugh Grant sharpens up the bumbling Englishman act early on Ladies In Charge. (bit quiet)
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Zig & Zag's Dirty Deeds office shifts to Scotland for a celebrity party at a demonic Nicholas Parsons' gothic mansion, featuring Katie Puckrick in a Godzilla outfit and the only recorded interaction between Brian Hibbard and Jo Guest.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Nationwide is surely amongst the first to expose Geoff Capes' budgie breeding side, as well as his Glenryck pilchards habit and a gym full of shirtless police cadets.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Children's BBC's bit of everything show Lift Off! welcomes, unexpectedly, Mantronix.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY: They Think It's All Over's 154th and last edition, which surely final host Lee Mack can quietly drop from his CV, is a Summer Special with German-based former England international Tony Woodcock and James 'Martin Fowler' Alexandrou.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wide Awake Club's Arabella Warner is Children's ITV host for an afternoon including the baffling Madame Gusto's Circus, Sooty meeting Roy Kinnear impersonating a fly, and magazine show Splash! featuring Alex Higgins and C.A.T.S Eyes.
Jack Charlton hosts the final of BBC2 match angling competition Hooked! today in 1982. His ease with microphone and direction may explain why he stuck to football management afterwards, except that he actually was managing Sheffield Wednesday at the time.
Mantronix on a UK kids TV show called 'Lift Off' in 1986.
