Tomorrow's World

I concur.

Various latter-day stuff, such as Bang Goes The Theory and Click, covers/has covered different aspects of what would've once been in TW's remit. Nostalgia for the TW brand is not reason enough to revive it, methinks.

Anyone under a certain age has no memory of and/or attachment to the TW brand. Would those of us old enough remember TW be the target demographic of any full revival? And even we were, would we actually bother to regularly watch it? Conversely, if a revived version were targeted at a younger audience would the TW name seem odd/naff/un-cool/passé etc?

Any ongoing reinstatement of the TW brand would be better suited nowadays to e.g. shortform online-only content about science & technology news (but, again, we surely now have the "Click" brand for that?), rather than a traditional 30-60 minute appointment-to-view programme broadcast on linear television.

Tomorrow’s World in the 70s and 80s assumed a level of intelligence and education in the audience and there’s nothing wrong in that at all. Even if I didn’t totally follow the (medical in particular) items, I still got enough from it to find it fascinating. By the time the show had gone down the slightly more showbiz style, I began to find it more and more patronising. And yes, it’s charm was the live demonstrations that sometimes didn’t always go to plan, the models, the prototypes and occasional specials like linking up with radio one to demonstrate 3D stereo (at the time BBC one was mono, so this was the only way to do it!)

Bang on. That was THE ONLY Tomorrow's World theme tune. Never heard most of the others. Thought it had finished in the early 90s!

I never knew Tomorrows World had so many different theme tunes! I thought there were only ever two, the one from 1982 and the one from 1987.

I’m not sure I ever watched more than a handful of editions, what day and time did TW used to air, was it up against Coronation Street?

I’m talking the 90s, not 1970

I think Friday 19:30 was the usual slot in the 90s, before TOTP took that slot in the late 90s.

When I first watched it in the late 80s I think it was Thursdays after EastEnders.

There have been a few BBC4 TOTP repeats where they've made reference to being on after Tomorrow's World (one episode began with John Peel directly referencing a feature that had been on), so presuably it was on before TOTP around 84/85.

It was Thursdays in the 70s and 80s. Part of BBC 1's 'powerhouse' schedule on Thursdays. ITV gave up trying to compete, the regions did their own thing, or in clusters, showing some naff old US TV movie 19:30 to 21:00.

Before Eastenders launched, it was TOTP followed by TW (or for some periods the other way round ) Then there was a top drawer sitcom at 20:00 ish. Citizen Smith, OFAH, The Good Life, etc

Clever stuff. My parents would never have watched TOTP in isolation, but with it slotted in between TW and the sit com they did, and TOTPs viewer got to see TW.

BBC 1 was unmissable between 19:00 and 21:00 Thursdays, true family entertainment

It was always the other way round in the seventies and early eighties - Tomorrow's World first, at around seven o'clock, followed by Pops. It's mentioned in one of the Blue Peter books that in the early eighties there was a plan for Blue Peter and Tomorrow's World to share a studio on Thursdays but Biddy Baxter wouldn't have it.

After 'stEnders started, it was still TW followed by Pops, because 'stEnders was at seven. But in the new schedules in the autumn of 1985, the link was finally severed with Pops at seven and Tomorrow's World at eight. That's how it stayed for a couple of years, and when I first started watching it, apart from in 1989 when it swapped with Holiday and moved to Tuesdays, and then moved back.

But at the start of the nineties, the ratings were dropping so from the autumn of 1991 - when it had that relaunch with the theme with the drums - it was moved to Wednesdays in the opposite-Corrie death slot at 7.30, and then for the rest of the nineties it shuffled around between Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but almost always opposite Corrie at 7.30.

That reminds me of something else. For a while in the 70s (might have been early 80s) TW came from Pebble Mill, and not TVC. I don't know why ?

I remember when it was followed by The Man from Uncle.

In the 60s ? Ironically that’s what some ITV regions showed against it in the 70s