40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Margaret Thatcher joins Peter Sissons in the spartan Channel 4 News studio mostly to discuss apartheid South Africa.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Friday Night Armistice, nee Saturday Night, begins with Armando Iannucci's meeting with OJ Simpson. A disguised Iannucci attempts to bankrupt an MP, while Al Murray and Sue Perkins look out for feral child gangs.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Scotland tumble out of the World Cup after drawing with ten man Uruguay. ITV's Ian St John takes the defeat with Zen grace and equanimity.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the nascent Chart Show features Tom Watt's baffling cover of Subterranean Homesick Blues followed by the Chart File, which includes the seldom seen Reggae Chart and within which Van Halen have set someone thinking about car hire. www.youtube.com/watc...
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Cheryl Baker hosts a backdoor pilot for Eggs'n'Baker on The Saturday Picture Show as she demonstrates how to cook blue string pudding from The Clangers, to audible consternation from the children watching.
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: for the World Cup the BBC got itself a studio atop the Academy of Arts in Berlin, overlooking the Brandenberg Gate. It was also quite spacious outside.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wogan is put out by the flowers their people have sent to Lauren Bacall, which sets the occasionally awkward tone.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: what's on supposed jewel of overnight ITV Hotel Babylon tonight, how much more 1996 can a show's subjects be, and who's that two weeks ahead of a debut single that meant they'd never have to appear on programmes like Hotel Babylon again?
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Kris Marshall, in his second TV credit, is taken in for questioning by The Bill, with representation by future Olivier winner and Tony nominee (and Edward's daughter) Sarah Woodward.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY: a reality show dressed up as spiritual journey? It's a wonder The Convent hasn't been recommissioned every year since. Four women enter the Convent of the Poor Clares in Arundel for a symbolic forty days and forty nights.
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ITV pundit Ian St John is left feeling the blues during Scotland's World Cup exit to Uruguay in 1986, as they draw 0-0 despite playing against 10 men for virtually the whole game. I believe he was…
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Featuring the Ikea Paas Tabel, OJ Simpson and an attempt to bankrupt Tory MPs, plus the Boy Band Topside tries to change the image of British Beef. With Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Peter Baynham.
