And Then There Was Television

Taken from the BBC One Website
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Tue 19 Dec, 10:35 pm - 11:35 pm 60mins
And Then There Was Television
On the 2nd November 1936, the BBC broadcast the world's first scheduled high-definition television service from Alexandra Palace. This programme celebrates the 70th anniversary. We take some of the pioneering engineers and on-screen talent back to the studios, to see what they can remember of TV's early days: from Picture Page to Muffin the Mule to the first News programme and the infamous potter's wheel 'interlude', shown when the cameras failed. We also look at some amazing archive footage and the Queen's 1953 coronation: the event that single-handedly changed how people viewed the fledgling TV service.

...or 2335 Wednesday 20 December on BBC ONE Northern Ireland.

In scotland its AT 22.50 Just after Crimewatch UPDATE !

Was a nice watch - great to see pioneers of the early days of TV going back to Studio A at AP and chatting about the old days.

Only thing that spoiled it slightly for me was a shot of a film camera when they were talking about OBs covering things live...

I noticed that the programme perpetuated the version of history which suggested that AP went off air *during* the Mickey Mouse cartoon. In fact, the PasB suggested otherwise - this article by Russ J Graham at Transdiffusion is a good read - http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/tvoff.php

Pretty sure the programme said that the last thing shown was mikey mouse, don't remember it saying 'during'.

Good programme though. lets hope the new owners of Ally Pally see fit to allow an exhibition to be set up

just watched it back on Sky+ and the exact words were "in the middle of"

Cheers for the tip, I wanted to see this last night but ended up missing it.

You don't get to see much like this about these days, I accidentally caught something about the early days of the BBC on UKTV History several months ago, and there was some good informative programmes on the last night of BBC Knowledge four and a half years ago which I still have on tape somewhere.