Old Radio Times

Yes, though my memory of it was after Neighbours at around 14:10, rather than the 12:35 shown above.

Suppose it moved about a bit, like lots of things.

Have you seen Malcy's link to this site, over in Media Websites?

I'm intending to upload some of my ancient stuff to there when time allows.

Yes, I remember it being after Neighbours too, Nick. It must have moved about a bit.

Isn't it refreshing to see a varied schedule? Compare that to a current BBC1 schedule, and all you'll find are DIY shows and antiques programmes!

I don't remember the Nine O' Clock News going on for twelve-and-a-half hours!

Oh yes! Going for Gold! with skinny Henry Kelly. I used to admire the glittery pink and blue neon set! And the great 'heat is on and the time is right' theme. It used to follow Knots Landing/Dallas I think. Rainbow, Rod Jane and Freddy or Allsorts used to be on 12.15 on ITV! Then later in the afternoon we'd have Bazaar(BBC1) and TV Weekly(TVS) with Anne Diamond

Don't mind if I join in......Monday 12th May 1997

BBC1

6.00am Business Breakfast
7.00am Breakfast News
9.00am Breakfast News Extra
9.20am Style Challenge
9.45am Kilroy
10.30am Can't Cook, Won't Cook
11.00am News; Regional News; Weather
11.05am The Great Escape
11.35am Change That
12.00pm News; Regional News; Weather
12.05pm Call My Bluff
12.35pm Going for a Song
1.00pm One O'Clock News
1.30pm Regional News; Weather, followed by The Weather Show
1.45pm Neighbours
2.10pm Quincy
2.55pm Through The Keyhole
3.20pm Skepper on Style
3.30pm Childrens BBC: Playdays, Monster Cafe, The New Yogi Bear Show, Casper Classics, 50/50, Newsround, Blue Peter
5.35pm Neighbours
6.00pm Six O'Clock News
6.30pm Regional News Magazines
7.00pm Auntie's TV Favourites
7.30pm Here and Now
8.00pm Eastenders
9.00pm Nine O'Clock News; Regional News; Weather
9.30pm Panorama
10.10pm FILM: One of Her Own
11.40pm FILM: Absent Without Leave
1.15am Weather
1.20am Closedown

Same day but Granada

5.30am ITN News
6.00am GMTV
9.25am Supermarket Sweep
9.55am Regional News
10.00am The Time...The Place...
10.30am This Morning
12.20pm Regional News; Weather
12.30pm ITN News; Weather
12.55pm Shortland Street
1.25pm Home and Away
1.50pm Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, followed by Breakaways
2.50pm Garderners Diary
3.20pm ITN News
3.25pm Regional News
3.30pm Childrens ITV: Tots TV, Caribou Kitchen, Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo, The Famous Five, The Big Bang
5.10pm Home and Away
5.40pm ITN News; Weather; Local Weather
6.00pm Granada Tonight
6.30pm The Footie Show
7.00pm Wish You Were Here....?
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm World In Action
8.30pm The Freddie Starr Show
9.00pm Bramwell
10.00pm News At Ten; Weather
10.30pm Regional News; Weather
10.40pm In Suspicious Circumstances
11.40pm Emmerdale
12.35am Jody Horowitz Reports
12.45am War Of The Worlds
1.45am Stand and Deliver
2.45am Real Stories of the Highway Patrol; News Headlines
3.10am FILM: The Lost Hours; News Headlines
4.30am Curtis Calls
4.35am World In Action
5.00am-5.30am The Time...The Place....

It's very interesting how much the schedule has changed in 8 years, especially on ITV, seemed to be a bit more choice in Prime Time, Kids and Night Time, though Daytime during the afternoon has improved, as I wasn't keen on Dr Quinn. I also have the variations for Border, Central and HTV from that day, as it's taken from a TV and Satellite Week.

it would be quite interesting to see the amount of regional variations within ITV from back then comapred to now.

maybe I should rephase that

it would be nice to see regional variations within itv from back then compared to now

As you've asked...

Border

12.20pm Hollywood Anthologies
12.25pm-12.30pm Regional News
5.10pm-5.40pm Border Sports Action
6.00pm Lookaround; Local Weather
6.30pm-7.00pm Home and Away
10.40pm Beadle Late
11.10pm-11.40pm Good Advice

Central

12.55pm A Country Practice
1.25pm Home and Away
1.50pm Blue Heelers
2.50pm-3.20pm High Road
5.10pm-5.40pm Shortland Street
6.00pm Home and Away
6.25pm-7.00pm Central News; Weather
10.40pm-12.45am FILM: The Island
4.30am Jobfinder
5.20am-5.30am Asain Eye

HTV

12.55pm West: The Pulse, Wales: Getaways
1.25pm-3.20pm Danielle Steel's Palomino
5.10pm-5.40pm West: Sorted, Wales: Tribe
6.00pm Home and Away
6.25pm HTV Weather
6.30pm-7.00pm West: The West Tonight, Wales: Wales Tonight
10.40pm West: The West Story, Wales: Strangely Scientific
11.15pm Wales: FILM Who's Harry Crumb?
11.40pm West: Hunter
12.40am FILM: Empire City
2.35am Club Nation
3.35am God's Gift
4.35am World In Action
5.00am-5.30am Coronation Street

.....so a lot of difference in ITV Regions, even between HTV Wales and West!

Yes, I remember that daytime soaps like Home and Away and the Emmerdale/Corrie repeats went out at different times in different regions, even though they were showing the same episode. Even those who scheduled them at the same time weren't necessarily taking the same source feed, as I noticed when flicking between channels.

That schedule is from just before the June 1997 revamp of Breakfast News. The one above would still have been the Virtual Era look - when they changed everything in 1997, did they still have Business Breakfast for a while, or was it completely axed then? It's strange to think that BBC1 used to show a full hour of business news as part of the breakfast time programming, yet today's Breakfast features only a couple of minutes every half hour.

The oldest tv guide I have is TV Choice week commencing 8th April 2000, so nearly 5 years old. The cover is Corrie with Rebecca and Martin.

An example of the schedule for Monday 10th April 2000

HTV Wales

9.25am The Jerry Springer Show
10.00am Loose Women
10.30am This Morning
12.30 Lunchtime News
12.55 HTV News
1.05 Shortland Street
1.35 Home and Away
2.05 Trisha
3.05 News; Regional News
3.20 CITV: Maisy, The Singing Kettle, Little Grey Rabbit, Pokemon, Its a Mystery, Sabrina the teenage witch
5.05 Home and Away
5.30 Moneyspinners
6.00 HTV News
6.30 Evening News
7.00 Wish you were Here
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 Airline
8.30 Carol Vorderman's Better Homes
9.00 Monsignor Renard
10.30 Savage Planet
11.00 Nightly News
11.20 HTV News
11.30 Art Talks

Regional Variations

HTV West

5.30pm Look Back 2000
11.30pm Sportsweek

Central

12.55pm Central News
1.05pm Home and Away
1.35pm High Road
5.30pm Shortland Street
6.00pm Central News
11.20pm Central News
11.30pm Drumbeat

Meridian

12.55pm Meridian News
1.05pm Shortland Street
1.30pm Three Minutes
5.30p Monkey Business
6.00pm Meridian Tonight
11.20pm Meridian News
11.35pm Cyber Cafe

Granada

12.55pm Granada News
1.05pm Coronation Street
5.30pm-6.30pm Regional News
11.20pm Granada News
11.30pm Timecop

So a few regional variation but not nearly as much as the mid 1990s. And look how different the schedule is even 5 years ago, no Emmerdale, no double episode of Corrie.

Business Breakfast continyed for at least a year or two after the revamp of Breakfast News, but IIRC it ended by 1999.

I've got the magazine back out, and the BBC Variations prove interesting for that day....

BBC1 Wales:

As England except
1.15am-1.20am News; Weather

BBC1 Scotland
As England except
2.55pm An t-Oilamh Seilasdar
3.10pm-3.30pm Sam Smalaidh

The listings for the other channels prove interesting too, if anyone wants to see the Channel 4, Channel 5 ones for that day, just say so.

Oh yes I remember it well - when it first started (about 1987?) I often went home for lunch and would watch it then. My main memory of it is Kelly's questioning technique which often began, "what am I?". We used to think of plenty of "amusing" answers to that one