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#OnThisDay 14 November 1981 #DrWho
HAPPY TO BE YOU KNOW WHO
It is eight months since #TomBaker hung up Dr Who's long scarf and floppy hat. But Baker still cannot shake off the character he played for six years.
"To tell the truth, I don't really want to. I adore being recognised in the street . . ."
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1990 - FAST FORWARD
When will the boys ever learn that throwing benches into the pool never ends well, in #GrangeHill.
Roly pounces on the puss in #EastEnders the cartoon.
Julie and her dad don't see eye to eye in #BykerGrove.
Plus - The Proggy Pages.
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1990 - FAST FORWARD
WE'RE KYLIE KRAZY! #KylieMinogue Steps Back in Time!
SHE'S BACK . . . AND SHE'S WEARING A HAT! - Hurrah, hurrah Maid Marian is back.
SCHOOL REPORT - #DanniellaWestbrook: "I'm so lazy, basically."
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 32 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 14 November 1993
1. #CoronationStreet 21.43m
2. #EastEnders 20.88
3. #Heartbeat 16.29
4. #Neighbours 15.18
5. #Casualty 15.90
6. London's Burning 15.68
7. You've Been Framed 15.13
8. Strike It Lucky 14.17
9. #TheBill
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1989
BOBBY HITS HOME - Fans Switch on to a Summer Bay Rebel -
Pint-sized Nicolle Dickson has won millions of young British fans as tearaway Bobby Simpson in #HomeAndAway...
...Kylie Minogue's younger sister Dannii recently joined the soap as a troublesome
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1995
TO SEE YOU . . . NOT NICE - Jim's Flop Generation Faces Switch to Friday -
Comic Jim Davidson's new-look Generation Game is such a turn-off BBC TV chiefs are ready to switch it from Saturday night to Friday . . .
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1993
BET TO BED DON IN STREET SEX SCANDAL
#CoronationStreet fans are set for a shock sex scandal when Rovers landlady Bet Gilroy beds cabbie Don Brennan . . .
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1982
SHARON - HOTTEST PROPERTY IN THE STREET
It's a long way from #CoronationStreet to the beaches at Tenerife where Street star #TracieBennett, 21, held an undress rehearsal for her new role as a castaway in a Christmas panto . . .
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1963
#CoronationStreet makes its Australian debut on channel GTV-9 at 9.15pm:
British serial about the lives of the people who live in an ordinary street in a typical town in the North of England, cast inc. Ina Sharples (Violet Carson) (sic) . . .
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1961
PRODUCING TONIGHT'S INSTALMENT
Ernest Dewhurst takes a walk down the North's most famous thoroughfare - #CoronationStreet, with this behind the scenes look at the making of episode 201.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#OnThisDay 14 November 1977
Hurry yourself along to the Amsterdam Bar in Huddersfield where #PatPhoenix - star of #CoronationStreet, will be opening our new extension
- HAVE A SWINGING EVENING IN OUR NEW CLUB WITHIN A PUB
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#OnThisDay 13 November 1988
BERTIE BASSETT TAKES ON DOCTOR WHO
#DrWho Candy Monster had better watch out - Bertie Bassett wants him EXTERMINATED! . . .
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#OnThisDay - Whereas the Mirror is full of praise for #CoronationStreet's "blue-eyed sex machine" Ken Morley on 13 November 1994, exactly one year later they dub him KEN BORLEY and say that "Street's Reg is a one-man yawn".
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#OnThisDay 13 November 1993
The Birmingham Evening Mail has an interview with Tony Warren - THE GODFATHER OF CORONATION STREET - Nothing important happens in #CoronationStreet without his say-so:
"I based Ena Sharples on my old grannie."
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#OnThisDay 13 November 1989
Now you'll NEVER drag your kids away from teatime telly - HOME . . . AND AWAY!
Bronzed young bodies plunge into the surf under the bluest of skies. Wish you were there? Well, if you are a #HomeAndAway fan, you've already seen the place lots of times . . .
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#OnThisDay 13 November 1981
K9 COMES OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE
K9 - #DrWho's mechanical mutt - is back on the trail to stardom. The BBC's decision to put the tin terrier into the doghouse brought such howls of protest that K9 has now collared the lead in a 50-minute adventure . . .
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1996 📺TV Listings
#MarkLamarr poses the questions for teams captained by #SeanHughes and #PhillJupitus (listed here as Phill Jupiter) in the first ever episode of NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS.
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1992 📺TV Listings
Neurotic business woman Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy have one hell of a day in front of them in the first ever episode of #AbsolutelyFabulous, written by and starring #JenniferSaunders.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 36 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 12 November 1989
1. #CoronationStreet 20.90m
2. #Neighbours 18.76
3. #EastEnders 17.51
4. Blind Date 14.42
5. Bread 13.97
6. Beadle's About 13.72
7. This Is Your Life 13.65
8. London's Burning 12.56
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1994
The Express speaks to #EastEnders' #RossKemp on the role that broke TV records -
MY TEARS WERE REAL, SAYS HARD MAN OF EASTENDERS
When Grant sparked off 'Sharon-gate', more people tuned in to watch than any other television programme this decade . . .
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1991
CELEBRATION STREET
The press reports that Carolyn Reynolds has scooped one of TV's most powerful jobs - producer of #CoronationStreet -
"It's not every day a media mogul burps your baby and offers you one of the top jobs in television."
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1981
Construction began on Coronation Street's second outdoor set. Original designer Denis Parkin returned to oversee construction and the site was inaugurated by #DorisSpeed, photos of whom, in her blue overalls, appeared in the press the next day.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1981
BON VOYAGE! TEARS OF JOY FOR TV'S MEG
Fans of #Crossroads, "crying with happiness," bombarded ATV with calls last night after discovering that their favourite character, Meg Mortimer (#NoeleGordon), was not dead as they had feared . . .
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1961
ENA OF CORONATION STREET IS BORN
by #TonyWarren in the TV Times -
The 25-year-old originator of #CoronationStreet tells of the 11th hour decision that turned Violet Carson into Ena Sharples . . .
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#OnThisDay 12 November 1982
Hurry yourself along to Lincolnshire International Travel, in the Bus Station at Lincoln, and meet Johnny Briggs - "Mike Baldwin" of #CoronationStreet. Hurry, there are special offers!
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM