by Joe Moran
New Scientist 185
New Statesman 137, 225
New York 130, 154, 182
Newbattle Abbey College, Midlothian 132, 133
Newcastleton, Scottish Borders 353
Newman, Sydney 172, 207
Newnham College, Cambridge 79
News At Ten 195
News Chronicle 59
Nichols, Peter 187
Nicklaus, Jack 166
Nicolson, Harold 43–4
night-time television 267–9, 270
Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early ’80s (album) 4
Nine O’Clock News 235
Nixon, Richard 183
Noble, Michael 168–9
Norbury, James 117
Norman, Philip 118
Babycham Night 85–6
North, Richard 208
North East Tonight 348
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board 131
Northern Ireland 75, 84, 85, 126–7, 129–30, 197–8, 363
Not Only … But Also 224
Nottingham Forest FC 297
Nottingham Panthers 61
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey 275
NTSC system 164
Nuffield Foundation television inquiry 91, 96, 102, 142
Nupen, Christopher 156
Nye, Sue 341
O
Obscene Publications Act 274
Observer 155, 236, 237, 281, 296, 301
O’Connor, Des 187
Odeon, Leicester Square, London 77
Office, The 341–2
Oi Polloi 354
Old Man of Hoy 171–3, 190
Oldham riots (2001) 344
Olivier, Laurence 23
Olympia and York 326
Omnibus 156, 182
‘One Day in the Life of Television’ project (1988) 275–80, 283
One Foot in the Past 369
One Man and His Dog 254–5, 351, 354
One O’Clock Gang, The 127
One O’Clock News 334
One O’Clock Show 127
Only Fools and Horses 255
OPEC oil crisis 194
Open Air 281
Open Door 216–17
Open University 181, 266, 279
Opera for Everybody 94
Opie, Iona and Peter 105, 107, 142, 359
Opportunity Knocks 210, 211, 232
Orcadian 204, 321
Orkney 131–4, 171, 203–5, 224, 229, 230, 231
Orkney Herald 132, 133, 134, 204, 205
Orwell, George 271
1984 27, 101, 102, 103
Osborne, John 116, 189
The Entertainer 115
Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Suffolk 353
Ouest France newspaper 130
Our World satellite link-up 154
Out of Town 125, 218–19, 352
Outer Hebrides 168, 203, 289, 325
Owen, Bob 70
P
Page, Robin 351
Pale Fountains 265
Palin, Michael 183, 189, 200, 342
Pallo, Jackie: You Grunt, I’ll Groan 3
Panorama 7, 92, 117, 135, 136, 204, 247, 250, 251
Paramount Astoria Girls 25–6
Parkhead Public Hall, Glasgow 67
Parkinson 210, 221, 224
Parkinson, Michael 210
Parnaby, Florence 346
Parnell, Val 107
Parrott, John 262
Parry-Williams, T.H. 70
Parsons, Nicholas 218
Partridge Family, The 268
party political broadcasts 109
‘passive people meter’ 273
Pater, Walter 237
Patey, Tom 172
Patten, Marguerite 76, 130
Pavarotti, Luciano 297
Paxman, Jeremy 127, 276
Peacock Committee on Broadcasting (1986) 268
Peel, John 222–3
‘Penge Pub Effect’ 150
Penguin Books 174, 311
People newspaper 91, 92
‘Man o’ the People’ column 102
People Are Funny 109
People’s Journal 170
Perry, Jimmy 201
Perry Mason 135
Pertwee, Jon 207
Pet Rescue 331
Peters, John Durham 15
Speaking into the Air 358
Peters, Sylvia 57, 61, 348
Phil Silvers 135
Philadelphia Phillies 151
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 73, 86–7, 150
Phillips, Mark 194
Phoenix, Patricia 303, 305
phone-ins 182, 196, 268, 358–9
Photomatons 16
Pickles, Mabel 96
Pickles, Wilfred 54, 65, 96, 132
Picture Page 34, 35, 47, 49, 55
Picture Post magazine 57, 62, 63, 94, 96, 97
Piers Plowman 4
Pile, Stephen 268
Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting 154–5
Pilkington Report on Broadcasting (1962) 121, 242, 343
Pimlott, Ben 222, 267
Pimlott, J.A.R.: An Englishman’s Christmas 222
Pink Floyd 182
Pinter, Harold 116, 192
The Caretaker 116
A Night Out 116
Pirandello, Luigi: The Man with a Flower in his Mouth 19–20, 21, 22
Pius XII, Pope 14
Plaice, Stephen 278
Plaid Cymru 355
Plato: Republic 373
Play for Today 231
Plowden, Lady Brigette 241
Pobol y Cwm 220
Podmore, Bill 305
Poe, Edgar Allan 102–3
Points of View 159, 239
Poldark 320
Pontop Pike transmitter, County Durham 74–75
Poor Cow (film) 166
Pop Idol 358, 361
Porridge 158, 246
Porter, Cole 157
Post Office 33, 129–30
Post Office Engineering Union 61
postcards
census (1933) 26–7
viewers’ feedback (1936) 35
Postgate, Oliver 185
Postgate, Raymond 311
Postman Pat 321
Postmaster General 27, 74, 103–4, 106, 107, 150, 167
Pot Black 256–7, 259
Potter, Dennis 225, 231, 329–31, 343, 353, 365
The Changing Forest 114
Emergency Ward 9 330
The Glittering Coffin 114
The Singing Detective 274–5
Pound, Reginald 73
Powell, Neil 306
Powell, Sandy 24
power cut (May 1961) 145
Press Association 90
Preston Polytechnic 292
Price is Right, The 260
Priestland, Gerald 226–7
Priestley, J.B. 89
Prisoner: Cell Block H 269
Private Eye magazine 6
Private Life of a Kingfisher, The 167
programme planners 250
public service broadcasting 250, 342
public viewing rooms 35–6, 41
Puffin Club 2
Purser, Philip 236
Purves, Peter 3
Pye 148
Q
quality television 342
Quatermass Experiment, The 102
Question of Sport, A 278–9
Question Time 253
Quigg, Eoghan 363
Quincy 251
QVC shopping channel 362
R
Raban, Jonathan 214, 247
Race Relations Board 199
radio licences 84, 104
Radio Luxembourg 108, 119
Radio Rediffusion 103
‘radio roof’ 29
Radio and Television Retailers’ Association 164
Radio Times 5, 21, 35, 38, 41, 45, 46, 48, 58, 66, 69, 81, 84, 131, 138, 147, 158, 172, 174, 181, 183, 187, 206, 207, 214, 229, 232, 236, 247, 301
, 318, 320, 340, 361
radio waves 1, 18, 27, 28, 29–30, 286, 369
ultra short 30, 33
‘battle of the beams’ 48
signal ‘passover’ 63
graphics 69
travelling over long distances 147–8
bounced off the surface of the moon 148
‘rain fade’ 287–8
Radiolympia, Olympia exhibition centre, Earls Court, London 31–2, 47–8, 209, 374
RAF Drytree 148
Raffles 220
Raikin, Arkady 161
Ranelagh polo ground, southwest London 37
Rantzen, Esther 253, 342
ratings 108–9, 206, 223, 232, 250, 282, 295, 308, 310, 355
Rattigan, Terence 116, 138
Rawhide 114, 146
Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture 331
Raynor, Henry 184
Ready Steady Cook 321, 324, 331
reality TV 310–11, 337, 340, 358, 359
Reardon, Ray 257
Rediffusion Group 110
Rees, Maureen 310
Rees-Mogg, Lord 305
Reform Club, Pall Mall, London 77
Reid, Jimmy 219
Reilly, the Misses 48
Reiss, Pamela 253
Reith, Lord (John) 54, 58, 105, 146, 360
Rembrandt (film) 32
Rembrandt van Rijn 165
remote controls 251, 273, 323
Report Swindon 216
Reynolds, Stanley 186–7
Rhodes, Gary 313, 315
Rhys Jones, Griff 146
Rich, Roy 125, 218–19
Richard, Cliff 233
Richard, Eric 302
Richards, Frank 67
Richardson, Tony 121
Rilke, Rainer Maria 237
Rising Damp 247, 279
Roberts, Michael Symmons 370
Roberts, Nancy 97
Robertson, Fyfe 62, 63
Robey, George 23
Robinson, John, Bishop of Woolwich 176
Robinson, Kenneth 159
Robinson, Robert 6, 8
Robson, Bobby 294
Robson, Eric 317, 353
Rochdale by-election (1958) 121
Rogers, G.L. 37
Rogers, Roy 107
Romaine, George 127–8
Romaril, Beryl 51–2
Romper Room, The 126
Ronson, Mick 212
Root, Jane 351–2
Rose, Tania 199
Rosemarkie transmitter, Black Isle 131, 168, 203
Ross, Alan 307
Ross, Jonathan 211
Rossiter, Leonard 247
Roundabout 7–8
Roussos, Demis 231
Rowridge transmitter, Isle of Wight 86
Royal Air Force (RAF) 8
Royal Albert Hall, London 190
Royal Family, The (film) 87
Royal Festival Hall, London 77
Royal Horticultural Society 317
Royal Institution 300
Royal Television Society 361
Royal Ulster Constabulary 75
Royal Variety performance 185
Runrig 354
rural life 350–4
S
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru) 355, 356
Sabbath restrictions 106–7
SABRE (Steerable Adaptive Broadcast Reception Equipment) 202–3
Sackville-West, Vita 44
Sagan, Carl 371
Sainsbury’s stores 314
St Benedict’s School, Ealing 93
St Edward’s School, Oxford 277
St Hilary transmitter, Vale of Glamorgan 124
St Mary’s Hospital, London 111
St Pancras Station, London 160
St Paul’s Cathedral, London 29, 32
Sale of the Century 218, 223, 288
Salford University 292
Sallis, Peter 52
Sally the Seal 24
Saltmarshe, Christopher 139
Samaritans 9
Sampson, Anthony 192
Samuel, Raphael 317
Sandy Heath transmitter, Bedfordshire 128
Sapper, Alan 231–2
Sargent, Sir Malcolm 218
satellite dishes 11, 287–91, 296–7, 326
satellite television 149, 153, 236, 286–93, 299, 313, 319–20, 325, 326, 332, 345
Saturday Night 197–8
Saturday Night Story 56
Savalas, Telly 247
Savoy Hotel, London 52
Sayer, Sylvia 83
‘Scanner, the’ (television columnist in Radio Times) 45
Scarlet Pimpernel, The 105
Schama, Simon 177
scheduling 250–6, 266, 308
Science Museum, South Kensington, London 35
Scooby Doo (cartoon series) 2
Scotland 65–7, 84–5, 122–3, 131–4, 168–72, 354, 356–8
Scott, Johnny 352
Scott, Peter 112
Scottish Covenant 65
Scottish Home Service 84
Scottish parliament 354
Scottish Television (STV) 122–3, 127, 219, 354, 356–7
Sebastiane (film) 274
Second World War
German invasion of Poland (1939) 47
phoney war 48
television withdrawn 48–9
German TV broadcasts 48
loss of television sets to bombing 52
seder (Passover ritual) 373
Seeing and Doing 277
Self, Will 334–5
Selfridge, Harry 13, 16
Selfridge’s department store, Oxford Street, London 13–17, 19, 20, 43, 149
Selsdon Committee on Broadcasting 27
Sendak, Maurice: Where the Wild Things Are 163
Seth-Smith, David 33
Seton, Bruce 96
Sex Pistols 210–11
Shackleton, Ernest 13, 14
Shakespeare, William 60, 82
44th sonnet 14
Julius Caesar 161
King Lear 105, 309
‘Shakespeare’s Sister’ 305
Shand, Jimmy 127
Shattered 335
Sheffield Cablevision 216
Shelley, Jim 340
Shelley, Pete 212
Shelter 160
Sheridan, Dinah 42
Sherrin, Ned 157
Shetland 169, 203, 289, 358
shopping channels 313, 362
Shott, Nicholas 362
Shrew journal 191
Sight and Sound 316
Sigue Sigue Sputnik 213
Silence of the Sea, The (play) 52
Silverleaf, Michael 294
Silvester, Victor 99
Silvey, Robert 108
Sims, Monica 2
Singin’ in the Rain 187
Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Ballion) 212
Sissinghurst, Kent 43, 44
Sitwell, Dame Edith 110
Six-Five Special 118
Sky Living 375
Sky News 288, 362
Sky Sports 293, 296–300
Sky television 288, 289, 291, 292, 332
Skylon, South Bank, London 63–64, 71
Sloan, Tom 142–43, 166
Smethurst, William 282
Smith, Chris 351
Smith, Delia 284, 311
Delia Smith’s Christmas 313
Delia’s Winter Collection 314, 315
Smiths, the 305
snooker 256–62, 291, 300
Snowdon, Lord 87
So You Think You Want Bigger Boobs? 341
Soft Cell 212
Softly, Softly 302
solar eclipse (1999) 287
Soldier, Soldier 308
Solent TV 362
Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 194
Songs of Praise 176
Sony 248
Sooty 146
Sopranos, The 342
Southall, west London 202, 280, 281
Southern Railway 32
Southern Television 125–26, 134
, 218–19
Space Cadets 335
‘Space Oddity’ 183–4
Spake, Jeremy 310
Spanish Civil War 32
Special Report 215
Spencer, Peggy 100
Spender 307
Spender, Stephen 307
Sphere, The (magazine) 23
Spike magazine 335
Sportsnight with Coleman 181, 196
Springwatch 352
Sproat, Iain 202
Staffordshire Polytechnic 277
Stanley, Bob 265
Stanley, Lulu 17
Stapleton, John 288
Star Trek 186
Star TV 345
Stars on Christmas Day 223
Starsky and Hutch 209–10
Steptoe and Son 114, 155, 179, 221
Stevenson, Ray 183
Stewart, Andy 127
Stiff Records 211
Stock, Francine 358–9
Stockland Hill, Devon 202
Stockwood, Mervyn, Bishop of Southwark 176
Stoll, Sir Oswald 22
Stoller, Barry 210
Stoppard, Tom 207
Storey, David 121
Storey, Roger 101–2
Storey, Stanley 38
Stornaway Gazette 168
Stranmillis Embankment, Belfast 7
Strictly Come Dancing 345
strikes 193, 228–9, 231–2, 239–40, 255
Stromness, Orkney 132, 203, 204–5, 229, 230, 259, 321
Stuart, James 66–7
Stubbs, Una 267
studio audiences 198–9, 200
Stuttgart Studio Orchestra 265
Sugar, Alan 290
Sullivan, Woodruff 374
Sun 239, 245–46, 255
Sunday Dispatch 105
Sunday Express 136
Sunday Night at the London Palladium 9, 92, 110, 111, 118, 175
Sunday Telegraph 241, 256, 290
Sunday Times 108, 111, 155, 162–3, 225, 236, 357, 365
Super Furry Animals 356
Super Ted 355
Supermarket Sweep 320, 324
Sutherland, John 101
Sutton Coldfield transmitter, Birmingham 58–9, 60, 61, 62, 75
Swain, Squadron-Leader F.R.D. 34
Swift, John: Adventures in Vision 55
Swimmer, The (film) 195
Swindon Viewpoint 216
Swinton, Lord 74
Syal, Meera 201
Sykes, Eric 182
T
Taff Acre 355
Take the High Road 354
Take Your Pick 128, 153–4
Talented Lanarkshire 362, 364
Talkback 174
‘Tammeter’ 108–9, 273
Tardelli, Marco 297
Tarrant, Chris 332
Tarrant on TV 337
Taste the Blood of Dracula (film) 268
Tatler News Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London 40
Tawney, R.H. 154
Taylor, A.J.P. 91–2, 110, 182
Taylor, Craig 352, 353
Taylor, Dennis 260, 261
Taylor, Derek 190
Taylor, D.J. 2
Taylor, Laurie and Mullan, Bob: Uninvited Guests 272, 337
Taylor, Roger 165
Tea Time with Tommy 126
Tebbit, Norman 290
Teesside 124
Teledu 70
telemania 111, 114, 117, 141
teleprompter 136
‘Television’ (song) 32–33
