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Higgins, Alex ‘Hurricane’ 257, 259
High Noon (film) 304
Highlands and Islands 131, 167
Highlands and Islands Film Guild 169
Hill, Benny 21, 95–6, 155, 301
Hill, Jimmy 210, 296
Hill, Mary 106
Hill Street Blues 342
Himmelweit, Hilde 90–1
Hinchcliffe, Philip 207
Hird, Thora 246
Hitchens, Christopher 183, 191
Hitchens, Peter 323
Hitler, Adolf 39
HM Prison Lewes, Sussex 278
Hobley, McDonald 58, 61, 71, 348
Hobson, Dorothy 242–5, 270, 281
Hobson, Harold 55
Hodgkinson, Tom 323
Hodson, J.L. 91
Hoggart, Mary 155
Hoggart, Richard 109, 154–7, 159, 162, 181, 242, 343
The Uses of Literacy 155
‘The Uses of Television’ 155
Hoggart, Simon 155
Holloway, Stanley 61
Holly, Buddy 118, 152
Holme Moss transmitter, West Yorkshire 63–6, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 369
Holtby, Winifred 324
Hom, Ken 288
Home Guard 200
Home Office 83–4
homosexuality 213–14, 274
Hood, Stuart 273
Hopalong Cassidy 117
Hope, Bob 190
Hope-Wallace, Philip 116
Horizon 229
Hornby, Nick 298, 299
Hornsey Central Hospital, north London 37
Horse Guards Parade 74
Horse of the Year Show 181
horse racing 53
hose-piping 26
Hoskins, W.G. 287
Landscapes of England 285–6
House of Commons 131, 141, 142, 161, 267, 355
House of Lords 112, 326, 352
Household Cavalry 36
Housewives’ Choice (radio programme) 60
How Do You View? 57
How We Used To Live 277
Howard, Sydney 17
Howarth, Gerald 274
HTV 216–17, 221, 355
Huddersfield 113
Hughes, Gareth 279–80
Hughes, Robert 329
Huizinga, Johan: Homo Ludens 270–1
Hullabaloo 216
Humphries, Barry 307
Humphrys, John 94
Hunt, Jeremy 361–2
Hunter, Alan 41
Hunter, Nick 257
Hurd, Douglas 249, 268
Hurst, Geoff 297, 298
Hurt, John 213
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World 23–4, 229
Hyde Park, London 36, 102, 296
Hyem, Jill 254
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I Remember the Future 369–70
I Think They Call Him John (film documentary) 8–9
Idle, Eric 190
Idler, The 323
Idler movement 323
Immigration Act (1971) 201
Importance of Being Earnest, The (film) 277
In Kite’s Country 125–6
In Loving Memory 251
Incredible Hulk, The 237
Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) 232, 241, 245, 252, 265, 266, 292
Independent Television Authority (ITA) 129, 367
Indoor League, The 264
Inman, John 214, 247
Inner London Education Authority 21
Insect Play, The (Capek) 47
Inspector Morse 308
interludes 93–4, 96, 108
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 3
Inventors’ Club 55–6
Iona 325–26
ionosphere 30
IRA (Irish Republican Army) 197
Iranian Embassy siege 257
Irish Nationalists 75
Isaacs, Jeremy 258
Isle of Barra 203
Isle of Dogs, London 326
Isle of Harris 168, 325
Isle of Lewis 168, 170, 203, 325, 354
Isle of Man 83–4, 192, 346
Isle of Man Examiner 84
Isle of Mull 326
Isle of Skye 168
Isle of Wight 85–6, 134, 362
It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum 201–2
IT magazine 183
ITMA (radio comedy series) 54
ITN 105
ITN News 245–6, 273
It’s a Square World 118
ITV
arrival of (September 1955) 86, 104–6, 131, 175
development of 61
schedules 107–8
primetime 110
and Radio Luxembourg 119
regions 120, 217–20, 239, 268, 348–50
coverage of the moon landing 182
‘colour strike’ 193
curfew 195
and Sunday closing 206
ITV-BBC duopoly 217, 249, 279, 332
eleven-week strike (1979) 231–2
expands weekday afternoon programmes 263–4
new daytime service 266
cancels some sports 282
franchise sales 307, 342
ITV Digital 345
ITV1 347
ITV2 375
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J’Accuse … Coronation Street 305
Jackanory 182
Jackson, Brian 113
Jackson, Glenda 210
James, Clive 236, 237, 238, 259, 281, 296, 342–3
Visions Before Midnight 237
James, Eric 113
James, Oliver 324
James Caird (boat) 13, 14
Jane Eyre 102
Janmohamed, Shelina Zahra 201
Jarman, Derek 274
Jefferson, Jolly ‘Dynamite’ 61
Jeremy Kyle Show, The 347, 359
Jerry Springer Show, The 322
Jewel in the Crown 250
Jewel, Jimmy 64, 227
Jig Time 127
Jiminez, Margarita 191
Jim’ll Fix It Christmas Special 203
Jodrell Bank radio telescope, Cheshire 148
John, Elton 223
Johns, Hugh 298
Johns, Stratford 159
Johnson, President Lyndon B. 153, 154
Johnson, Steven: Everything Bad is Good for You 342
Johnson, Virginia 23
Johnston, Johnny 105
Johnstone, Paul 98
Joice, Dick 124–5, 129
Jones, Dylan: When Ziggy Played Guitar 212
Jones, Jack 107
Jones, Penry 326
Jones, Philip 198–9
Jones, Steve 210
Jones, Terry 117–18
Jonson, Ben 200
Jordan, Paul 98
Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake 20
Jubilee (film) 274
Juke Box Jury 118–19, 207, 227
Jupiter Moon 291
Justice, James Robertson 123
JVC 248
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Kaleidoscope 58
Kappel, Fred 150, 152
Karnehm, Jack 258
Katz, Elihu 373
Keats, John 49, 237–8
Keeler, Christine 140
Keelylang Hill mast, Orkney 205
Keir Hardie Junior School, Newham, east London 240
Keith Chegwin’s Star Search 288
Keller, Hans 296
Kelly, Barbara 90
Kennedy, John F. 179
Kennedy, Ludovic 273–4, 275
Kenneth Williams Show, The 247
Kenny Everett Television Show, The 260
Kenny Everett Video Show 232–3
Kepler 22b 375
Keynes, John Maynard 113
Keys, Nelson 44
Kilmarnock, Lady Hilly 300, 301
Kilmarnock, Lord 300
Kilroy-Silk, Robert 266, 276
King, Connie 17
King’s College, London 30
King’s Theatre, Hammersmith 61
Kingswood Warren, Surrey 226
Kin
near, Roy 156
Kirk O’Shotts transmitter 65, 66, 70, 73, 75, 90, 123, 362, 369
Kirkwall, Orkney 205
Kite, Oliver 125–26
knitting 116–17
Kojak 247, 301
KPM All-Stars 265
Kramer, Billy J. 368
Krish, John 8–9
Kubrick, Stanley 184
Kwango, Johnny 87
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La Traviata 109
Labour Party 113, 114
Lacey, Bruce 339
Lagus, Charles 99
Laird of Cowcaddens (Jack McLaughlin) 356
Lake, Ricki 322
Lanark Grammar School 362
Lanarkshire TV 362
Lancashire, Sarah 306
Lancaster, Burt 195
Landesman, Cosmo 334
Lang, Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury 36
Langhamer, Claire 117
Laramie 146, 154, 187
Larkin, Philip 300, 301
Laski, Marghanita 92
Last, Nella 51, 55
Last of the Summer Wine 248
Late Night Line-Up 159, 163, 174
Laughton, Charles 32
Leadbeater, Charles 314, 319
Lee, Stewart 233
Lees-Milne, James 194
Leicester Square Hall, London 258
Leigh, Mike: Abigail’s Party 231, 232, 371
Leishman, Marista 360
Lejeune, Caroline 58
Lennon, John 118
Leonardo da Vinci 165
Levin, Bernard 237
Lewis, Jeremy 129
Lewis, Philip 256
Lewis, Robert 170
Lewis-Smith, Victor 340
Liberace 107
Life on Earth 230, 337–9, 371
Lime Grove studios, Shepherd’s Bush, London 68, 98, 117, 138
Ling, Peter 246
Listener magazine 20, 21, 44, 47, 73, 173, 180, 181, 237, 241, 273, 281
Little, Daran 305
Live Aid concert 286
Liverpool 62, 94, 363
Liverpool FC 297
Lizard peninsula, Cornwall 148, 151
Llansteffan, Carmarthen Bay 346
Llewelyn-Bowen, Laurence 316, 317
Lloyd, Kevin 302–3
Loach, Ken 166
Local Government Information Office 160
Lockerbie disaster (1988) 349
London 28, 29, 30, 39, 90
London and North Eastern Railway 29
London Coliseum: giant television screen (1930) 12, 22–3, 24
London County Council 115
London Docklands Development Corporation 326
London Evening News 25
London Olympics (1948) 53–4
London Palladium 252
London Review of Books 296
London tube bombings (2005) 344
London Weekend Television (LWT) 218, 220, 251, 252, 255
London Women’s Liberation Workshop 191
London zoo, Regent’s Park, London 33, 98, 339
London’s Burning 308
Look North 348
Lookaround 349–50
‘Looking In’ (television revue) 26
Lord’s Day Observance Society 107
Loss, Joe 48
Loughrey, Pat 198
Love Thy Neighbour 199
Lovell, Sir Bernard 182
Lovell, James 180
Low, David 45
Lowe, Jez 349
Lowe, Ted 256–7, 258, 261
Lowry, L.S. 142, 304
Lulu 233
Lunch Box 243
Lutz, Tom: Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears 293–4
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron 93
McCann, Graham 342
McCartney, Paul 118, 173
McCooeys, The 85, 197
McCulloch, Ian 212
MacDonald, Ramsay 19
MacDonald Brothers 363
McEwan, Ian 24
McFlannels, The 85
McGivern, Cecil 67
McGrath, John 205, 224
McIntyre, Colin 312–13
Mackay, Fulton 158
McKay, Helen 31
McKellar, Kenneth 123
Mackenzie, Compton 140
McKibbin, Ross 44, 91
McLean, Donald 25, 26
McLuhan, Marshall 186
The Gutenberg Galaxy 153
McManus, Alan 262
Macmillan, Harold 360
Macnee, Patrick 157
Madame Tussaud’s 140
Madeley, Richard 276
Magical Mystery Tour (film) 173
Magnet (comic) 67
Magnolias, Shrewsbury 167
Magyar Melody (musical) 44
Maidenhead, Berkshire 93
Major, The 166–7
makeover programmes 316–17, 319, 331
Malcolm, Mary 58
Mallaigvaig, Mallaig 168
Man from UNCLE, The 161–62
Man on the Moon 182
Manchester 62, 63, 64, 122, 291, 305
Manchester Grammar School 113
Manchester Guardian 20, 27, 59, 61, 63, 121, 332, 373
Manchester University 96, 248
European Institute for the Media 292
Mann, Jean 66
Manwatching 339
Marble Arch Pavilion, London 40
Marco Polo satellite 291
Marconi, Guglielmo 22, 29–30, 148
Margaret, Princess 136, 353
Marriage of Figaro, The 301
Mars-Jones, Adam 281
Marsden, Dennis 113
Marshall, Larry 127
Martin, Kingsley 137
Martin, Len 206–7
Martin, Millicent 156
Marwick, Ernest 132, 133
Mass Observation 51, 53, 122, 275–6
Coronation (1953) 77, 78, 79
survey of prospective television owners 54–5
Mastermind 229
Masterpiece Theatre 207
Masters, Brian 134–5, 140
Match of the Day 185, 197, 210, 295, 296, 299
Match of the Seventies 299
Materials for the Engineer 161
Matheson, Hilda 47
Matthews, Cerys 356
Matthews, Stanley 76
Maverick 146
Maxin, Ernest 227
Maxwell, Betty 100
Maxwell, Robert 100
Maze prison 261
Me and My Girl (musical) 45
Meades, Jonathan 369–70
Medhurst, Andy 316, 319
Meek, Eric 152
Meek, Joe 151–2, 154
Meerkats United 279
Meeting Point 176
Meldrum transmitter, Aberdeenshire 131, 132
Melly, George 185–6, 281
Melody Maker 190
Mendlesham mast, Suffolk 128, 134
Merlin satellite dish 286
Metropole Cinema, near Victoria Station, London 23
Michelangelo 110
Michelmore, Cliff 135, 203
Mickey’s Gala Premiere 48
Middleton, Mr 44, 47
Middleton, Noëlle 98
‘Mike Neville Said It (So It Must Be True)’ (song) 349
Mike Yarwood Christmas Special 223
Miles, Barry 162
Miles, Michael 105, 128, 153
Miles, Sarah 57
Millennium Bug 347
Miller, Joan 34, 46
Miller, Jonathan 163, 165
Miller, Karl 180, 237, 293, 296
Milligan, Spike 209, 255–6
Million Dollar Duck (film) 203
Mills, Annette 65
Mills, Ivor 7
Milne, Alasdair 236
Milne, Sir David 168
Milton Keynes Channel 40 216
Milton Keynes Development Corporation 216
Minder 28
miners’ dispute (1973) 194
Mirfin, Beryl Kathleen 1
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‘Miss Adrienne’ 126
Miss World contest 190–1, 233, 275, 301
Mitchell, Leslie 31, 32, 34, 46, 104, 374
Mitchell-Hedges, F.A. 17
Monkees, The 203
Monolulu, Ras Prince (Peter McKay) 34
Monro, Matt 1
Monseigneur News Theatre, Leicester Square, London 40
Montreal Olympics (1976) 203
Monty Python 190, 191, 225
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 189–90, 192, 200
moon landings 180, 182–7, 286
Moore, Dudley 224
Moore, John 82
Moore, Patrick 181–2, 183
Moral Rearmament 159
More, Kenneth 52
Morecambe, Eric 222, 224, 227, 228
Morecambe and Wise 86
Morecambe and Wise 187, 222–4, 227–8, 342
Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, The 221–3, 227–8
Morgan, Edwin: ‘Unscrambling the waves at Goonhilly’ 151
Morgan, Patti 99
Morgan, Piers 363
Morley, Robert 92
Morley, Royston 42
Morning Magazine 106
Morris, Desmond 210, 339–40
The Naked Ape 339
Morrissey, Steven 304–5
Mortimer, John 224
Morton, Thomas: Speed the Plough 156
Mosley, Leonard 64–5
Mosquito Coast, The (film) 281
Mossman, James 135
Moult, Ted 233
Mount, Ferdinand 338
Mountjoy, Doug 258
Moynihan, John 75, 76, 294, 296
Mr and Mrs 264
Mr Pastry 227
Mr Popcorn’s Band 265
Mrs Dale’s Diary 84
Muffin the Mule 65
Muggeridge, Malcolm 7, 174
Mullan, Bob 272, 337
Mullin, Chris 344
Mulvey, Laura 191
Munich Agreement (1938) 39
Muppet Show, The 355
Murdoch, Rupert 288, 289, 290
Murray, Isobel 229
Murray, Dr Margaret 97
Murray, Pete 118
Muswell Hill, London 28, 45, 59, 71
My Breasts Are Too Big 341
Mynott, Jeremy 119
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Nagasaki, Kendo (Peter Thornley) 4
Nairn, Ian 119
Nairn, Tom 357
Naked Civil Servant, The 213
Naked Jungle 333
NASA 375
national anthem 195, 268
National Association for Freedom 202
National Cat Club Show 33
National Front 201
National Grid 145, 146, 195, 250, 330
National Media Museum (formerly National Museum of Photography, Film and Television), Bradford 26, 52
National Theatre, London 6
National Union of Agricultural Workers 178
National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association 6, 160
Nationwide 3, 242
NBC 130
Neagle, Anna 138
Neighbours 276–7, 278, 280, 281, 307, 321–2, 361
Neil, Andrew 365
Net Book Agreement 314
Netherbutton mast, Orkney 134
Network 279
Neville, Mike 348–9
New Labour 308, 314, 344, 350, 360
New Musical Express 320
New Order 297
New Romantic look 213