by Joe Moran
Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The (play) 205
Chicago Cubs 151
Children’s Hour (radio programme) 42, 46
Children’s Hour (television programme) 146
children’s TV 2, 80, 241
Christie, Agatha: The Mousetrap 225
Christmas Night with the Stars 181
Church Times 177
churchgoing 175–7
Churchill, Sir Winston 48, 74, 78
Churchill, Winston 274
Cider with Rosie 205
cinemas 115, 116, 202, 204–5, 237, 272
City Lights (film) 64
Civilisation 110, 230, 320, 332
Clangers 185
Clare of Assisi 14
Clarissa and the Countryman 351–2
Clark, Kenneth 110, 125, 230, 332
Clark, Petula 173, 187
Clarke, Arthur C. 153
Clarke, Nick 76
Shadow of a Nation 72
Clarke Belt 153
‘Clean Up TV’ campaign 158–61, 175–6
Cleese, John 200
climbing 171–3, 190
‘clipboard queens’ 108
Coalisland, Tyrone 260, 261
Cobbett, William 121
Cock, Gerald 36, 41–2, 46, 47
Cock of the Border 126
Coe, Jonathan: The Rotters’ Club 222
Cold Feet 371
Cold War 74, 287
Coldwell, Pattie 281
Coleman, David 278–9, 298
Colin’s Sandwich 279
Collett, Peter 271–2, 273
Collins, Norman 59–61
London Belongs to Me 59–60
‘Colour Comes to Town’ exhibition 184–5
colour TV 2, 87, 162–7, 184–87, 193–4, 202–3, 206, 217, 233, 248, 256, 257, 261, 265, 296, 304, 323, 344, 361
Come Dancing 296
comedy 198–202
commercials 105–6, 108, 147, 205–6, 223, 233, 243, 282, 333, 345
Commission for Racial Equality 221
Committee on Broadcasting Coverage 221
community television 215–17
Compact 21
Compton Potters’ Arts Guild, Surrey 96
Conrad, Pete 185
Conrad, Peter 309
Conservative Party 68, 249, 289
Consider the Oracle (film) 102
Conwell, Nula 303
Cook, Peter 224
cookery programmes 311–16, 321
Cooper, Derek 247–8
Corbett, Ronnie 185, 209
Cordet, Hélène 69
Coren, Alan 237
Coronation
1937 36–7
1953 69, 71, 72–87, 115, 129, 130, 136, 323, 346
Coronation Commission 73, 74
Coronation Street 71, 122, 125, 128, 130, 142, 145, 193, 235, 239, 240, 246, 281, 292, 302, 303–7, 354, 360, 368, 369, 372, 374
Coronation Street bug 346, 347, 371
cosmic microwave background radiation 375
Cosmo Group against censorship 8
Cosmos 371
Costello, Elvis 211
Cotton, Bill 206, 208
Cotton, Billy 99
Council for the Protection of Rural England 290
Countdown 234, 270–1
Countryfile 352
Countryside Alliance 351
Couper Institute, Cathcart 67
Coward, Noel 51, 116, 276
Hay Fever 45
Cowell, Elizabeth 46, 47–8
Cowell, Simon 359
Cowgill, Bryan 206
Cowley, Jason 295
Cox, Professor Brian 301, 371
Crackerjack 254
Cradock, Fanny 140, 203, 312
Craig, Douglas 94
Craig, Wendy 187
Crew, Pete 172
Crichton Smith, Iain 170
cricket 53, 76, 85, 262, 296–7, 300
Cripps, Stafford 55
Crisp, Quentin 213
Croft, David 199, 200, 201
Crosland, Anthony: The Future of Socialism 113
Crossroads 239–46, 248, 272, 276, 280, 281–2
Crown Court 264
Croydon Airport, South London 32
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 257
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, London
Baird’s mast 30
new mast (opened 1956) 134, 150, 215
switchover (2012) 371–2
Culpitt, David Henry: ‘This enlightened age’ 124
Curtis, Adam 365
Cushing, Peter 100–1
D
Dad’s Army 86, 179, 199, 200–1, 226
Dagenham, Essex 115
Daily Express 6, 27–8, 38–9, 64, 80, 100, 139, 199
Television Exhibition (1937) 39
Daily Herald 77, 91, 329–30
Daily Mail 20, 31, 97
Daily Mirror 35, 73, 111, 239, 240, 241, 251
Daily Record 363
Daily Sketch 136
Daily Star 240, 282
Daily Telegraph 28, 33, 344, 351
Dallas 235–6, 238–9, 243, 255–6
‘Dallas effect’ 239, 253
Dalmaine, Cyril Carr (Jonah Barrington) 38–9
Danahar, Arthur 40–1
Dangermouse 282
Daniel, Glyn 97, 98
Dartmoor Preservation Society 83
Dartmoor Prison 278
Darwin, Charles 336
David, Elizabeth 311, 314–15
Davies, Bernard 177
Davies, Dickie 3, 223
Davies, Gavyn 341
Davies, Pete: The Last Election 24
Davis, Steve 260, 261
‘Dawn University’ 181
Dawson, Les 223, 247
Day, Frances 88
Day, Robin 253
Day to Day 276
Dayan, Daniel 373
daytime television 106, 267, 271, 282, 320–1, 324
de Mol, John 339
deaf viewers 2, 35, 211, 312
Deansgate studios, Manchester 304, 305
Degville, Martin 213
Delaney, Shelagh 121, 304
Delia effect 314
Delia’s Winter Collection 313, 314
‘demand forecasters’ 147
Denton, Charles 240, 248
Depeche Mode 212
Des Chiffres et des Lettres 270
Desert Song, The (musical) 44–5
Desmonde, Jerry 88
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire 249, 266
Diana, Princess of Wales 323
Dick Barton - Special Agent (radio programme) 60
Dick Emery Show, The 301
Dickens, Charles 15
Pickwick Papers 304
Dickson, Peter 364
Dickson Wright, Clarissa 352
Did You See? 273
digital recorders 364
digital television 331, 332, 333, 342–50, 354–5, 370, 371
Dimbleby, David 140
Dimbleby, Jonathan 135–6
Dimbleby, Richard 39–40, 80, 135–6, 140, 154, 364
Dinard, Brittany 130
Dinwiddie, Melville 66
Discotheque 368
Disney 48
Dixon, Adele 32
Dixon of Dock Green 158–9, 185
Do Not Adjust Your Set 368
Doctor Who 203, 207–8, 226, 227, 345
The Hand of Fear 208
The Idiot’s Lantern 71–2
‘The Seeds of Doom’ 208
docusoaps 310, 331, 341
Dodd, Ken 199
Doddy for Christmas 181
Doggett, Peter 184
Doonican, Val 187, 233
Doppler effect 375
Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London 289
Dorté, Philip 243
Dotto 114
Double Your Money 109, 128
‘Down on the Farm’ 44
Downton Abbey 177
Dr Finlay’s Casebook 162, 182
Drabble, Margaret 247
Drabble, Phil 254, 351
Dragnet 110
Drake, Sir Francis 218
Driving School 310
Drysdale, Cliff 165
du Noyer, Paul 267
du Pré, Jacqueline 156–7
Duchess of Duke Street, The 209
Duchess Theatre, London 116
Dudley Moore trio 182
Duffy 356
duty logs 9–10, 159
Dyke, Greg 282, 297
E
Eagle comics 183
Earls Court, London
Olympia exhibition centre 31
radio show 81, 150–1
Earls Court Rangers 61
Early Bird satellite 153, 154
EastEnders 253, 272, 278, 292, 305, 307, 326
Eastman, Ron 167
Eastwood, Clint 114
eBay 345
Echo and the Bunnymen 212
Economist, The 141
Eden, Anthony 109
Edgar, Barrie 76
Edgerton, David: The Shock of the Old 343–4
Edinburgh 123
Edinburgh Castle 66
Edinburgh International Television Festival: McTaggart lecture 127
Edison, Thomas 15
Edmonds, Noel 278
Edmonton, north London 43
Edwards, Huw 370
Edwards, ‘Professor’ Jimmy 65, 66
Eiffel Tower, Paris 48, 118
Eilbheas 354
Einstein, Albert 15
Eitshal mast, Isle of Lewis 203
Electricity Board 145, 146, 147, 195, 249–50, 293
Elgar, Sir Edward 156
Elimidate 341
Eliot, T.S. 4, 13, 61, 92
Elizabeth II, Queen 71–4, 78, 79, 80, 83, 86, 87, 136, 152–53
Christmas broadcast 74, 222
‘Elizabethan night’ (1953) 14–15
Ellington, Duke 31
Ellis, John 11
Elton, Harry 122
Elvin, George 156
Elwell, Graham 332–3
Emergency - Ward 10 111–12, 163, 330
Emery, Dick 166, 213–14
EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd) 35, 48, 216
Emin, Tracey: My Bed 335
Emitron cameras 53
Emley Moor mast 367–8, 369
Emmerdale Farm (later Emmerdale) 264, 280, 303
Empson, William 117
End the Day 126
Engelbert Humperdinck Show, The 187
Enright, D.J. 207
Equity 226
Eric Barker Half-Hour, The 65
Essex man 289–90
Eton College 157
Eurovision Song Contest 233
Evans, Chris 371
Evans, Gwynfor 355, 356
Evans, Harold 120
Evening Standard 260, 340
Evensong 175, 176, 177, 332
Everest, conquest of (1953) 79
Everton, Clive 260
F
FA Cup Finals 62, 75–76, 293, 295
Fabian of the Yard 96
Face to Face 136, 137, 138, 294, 337
Fair Isle 203
Falcon Crest 266–7
Farley, Paul and Roberts, Michael Symmons: Edgelands 370
Farming Diary 124
Farming Outlook 219
Fawlty Towers 200, 228, 279, 337
Feis folk festival 354
Feltz, Vanessa 322
Ferret Theatre Company, The 362
Ferryside, Carmarthen Bay 346
Festival of Britain (1951) 63–4
Fiddick, Peter 248, 257
Fields, Gracie 18–19, 86
Financial Times index 280
Finnigan, Judy 276
Finsbury Park, north London 42
Fireman Sam 355
Firth, Raymond 338
Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of
Canterbury 74, 78, 80
fishing 125, 167, 219
Fiske, John and Hartley, John: Reading Television 296
Five Revolutionary Painters 110
Fletcher, Cyril 41
Floyd, Keith 315
‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentaries 87
Flynn, Errol 274
focus groups 308–9, 311
Fonteyn, Margot 82
Food and Drink 312, 313
foot-and-mouth outbreak (2001) 349, 350
football 3, 53, 62, 75–6, 85, 168, 176, 206–7, 293–300, 332, 346, 357, 372
Football Focus 296
Football League 299
Foreign Press Club 109
Forman, Denis 120, 121, 122
Forsyte Saga, The 174–77
Forsyth, Bruce 9, 43, 208–9, 252
Forsyth, Frederick 257–8
Fowlis, Julie 354
Fox, Avril 8
Free Church of Scotland 169, 170, 360
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland 169
Freeman, John 136–8
Freeview 345
French TV 130, 202, 268
Frith, Simon 211
Frost, David 156, 173, 182
Fry, Michael 357
Fry, Stephen 332
Futbol Mundial 362
Fuzzy Lines newsletter 325
G
Gadael Lenin (Leaving Lenin) (film) 356
Gaelic music revival 354
Gaelic Television Fund 357
Gahan, Dave 212
Gailly, Étienne 54
Gallows Glorious (play) 42
Galsworthy, John 174
Games, Abram 26
Games, Marcus 26
Gander, L. Marsland 33–5, 39
Ganley, Len 267
Gardel, Carlos 19
Garden, The (journal) 317
Gardeners’ Question Time 317
Gardeners’ World 167, 317, 318
gardening 44, 117, 167, 317–19, 321, 353
Gardening Club 167
Garnett, Tony 331
Garnham, Nicholas 166
Gascoigne, Paul 293, 294, 297, 337
Gates, Gareth 358
Gaumont cinema, Manchester 78
Gay News 213, 214
general elections 114, 135, 196, 205, 346, 359, 361
General Electric Company 35
General Hospital 288
General Household Survey 202
Generation Game, The 208–9, 252, 301
George, Charlie 295
George VI, King 36, 73
ghosting 15, 150
Giddens, Anthony 294
Giggleswick School, north Yorkshire 122
Gilbert, Joan 55, 73
Gill, A.A. 5
Gillespie, Marie 280
‘Girls in Grey’ (wartime march) 55
Give Us a Clue 267
Glanville, Brian 295
Glasgow 123
Glasgow Herald 66, 90, 123
Glencairn Hill transmitter, Belfast 74–5
Glendenning, Raymond 258
Glengorm mast, Isle of Mull 326
Going for Gold 361
‘Goldilocks zone’ 375
golf 166
Gone Fishing 125
Good Food magazine 313
Good Food Guide 311
Good Housekeeping magazine 13
Good Life, The 229, 246
Good Morning Britain 264
Goodies, The 200, 247
Goody, Jade 328
Goon Show, The 84
Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall 148–51, 285–7
Goonhilly Tea Rooms (previously Telstar Café) 286
Gordon, Noele 240, 242–3, 245
Gorer, Geoffrey 111, 117, 141–2
Exploring English Character 112
Grade, Lew 107, 242, 243, 251, 330
Grade, Michael 251–6, 278
Grampian Television 205–6, 218, 219, 220, 369
Granada Reports 349
Granada Sky Food & Wine Channel 320
Granada Studios Tour, Deansgate, Manchester 305
/> Granada Television 110, 120–2, 193, 217, 292, 304, 339, 363, 372
Granadaland 121, 122, 123, 217, 218, 348, 371
Grandstand 171, 206, 207, 256
Gray, Ann 249, 266
Grayson, Larry 214, 247, 252
Great Escape, The (film) 232
Great Glen Chain 168
Green, Hughie 105, 110, 128
Greene, Robert: Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay 14–15
Greenwich Cablevision 215
Greenwich Meantime 215
Greer, Germaine 191
Griffin, Phil 371
Griffiths, Eric 315
Griffiths, Terry 218, 257
Grimond, Jo 131, 133
Grimsetter airfield, Orkney 134
Grosvenor House Hotel, London 52
Ground Force 317, 318, 331
Group Theatre, Belfast 197
Grove Family, The 97
Grundy, Bill 210
Guardian 8, 228, 255, 272, 291, 340
Gun Law 105
Gyngell, Bruce 264–5
H
Hackney Empire 252
Haig, Jack ‘Wacky Jacky’ 127
Haigh, Peter 111
Hailsham, Lord 96
Haines, Luke 4
Hale and Pace 215
Haley, William 54
Half Man Half Biscuit 267
Hall, Henry 45, 268
Hall, Peter 352, 353
Hallé Orchestra 65, 109, 110
Hamilton, Geoff 318
Hammer horror films 268
Hancock 155
Hancock and the Vikings 200
Harben, Philip 65, 95, 311, 312
Hardcastle, William 166
Hardern, Leslie 55–6
Harding, Gilbert 88, 89–96, 101–2, 103, 134–41, 294, 337
Hardy, Thomas 286, 322
Hargreaves, Jack 125, 218, 219, 352
Harman, Mr Justice 294
Harringay Arena, London 40, 49
Harris, George 25
Harris, Rolf 309
Harrison, George 190
I Me Mine 219
Harrisson, Tom 122, 142
Harrods department store, London 289
Harrow Library, northwest London 25
Harry Secombe Show, The 185
Hartley, John 296
Harty, Russell 122, 145, 220
hashtags 364–5
Hastings, Max 50
Haston, Dougal 171, 172
Hatch, Tony 243–4, 276
Have a Go! (radio programme) 54, 61
Hawaii Five-O 179
Hawker Siddeley Group 149
Hawkshaw, Alan 271
Hay, Will 45
Hayfield, Derbyshire 304
Heath, Edward 194, 195, 196, 267
Heath, Ted 99
Heathrow Airport 310
Heaviside, Oliver 29–30
Heaviside layer 29, 30
Hedd Wyn (film) 356
Heffer, Simon 289
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 315
Heil Honey, I’m Home! 291
Henderson, Brum 7, 126, 127, 128
Henderson, Thomas, MP 75
Hendry, Stephen 262, 291
Hennessy, Peter 118
Henson, Adam 352
Herbie the skateboarding duck 3
Hersee, Carole 188, 271
Hersee, George 188
Hessary Tor, Devon 82–3
