by Joe Moran
television
origin of the word 14
tuning dial 1
warming up 5, 43
first recordings 25–26
new high-definition television service (1935) 27, 29
405 lines 5, 29, 30, 167, 183, 324–25
start of television service (1936) 31–33
withdrawn during Second World War 48–49
returns 51–2
cancelled for over a month (1947) 52–3
arrival in the north 64–5
arrival in Scotland 65–7
625 lines 164, 167, 174, 186
addiction to 111–12
first television pictures across the Atlantic 149–50, 151, 154
curfew 195–6, 205
erratic archiving of shows 224–5
television ‘abstainers’ 112–13, 119
Television Annual for 1954 80
Television Audience Measurement (TAM) 108–9, 129
Television Dancing Club 99–100
Television House, Kingsway, London 243
television licences 66, 73, 77, 84, 86, 97, 103–4, 131, 159, 160, 202, 224, 233, 249, 344
Television Newsreel 55
Television Society 19
Television Village, The 292
Television Wales and West 123
Television’s Christmas Party 84
Telifis Éireann 129, 130
Telly Addicts 278
‘Telstar’ 152
Telstar satellite 148–54, 161, 186, 286
Tenko 252–3, 254
Terry-Thomas 57, 207
test cards 6, 20, 31, 70, 77, 86, 265
Test Card F 188, 265, 271, 326
Thames studios, Teddington, Middlesex 188
Thames Television 198, 199, 210, 218, 255, 256, 307
That Was The Week That Was (TW3) 155–7, 159
Thatcher, Margaret 249, 255, 302, 355, 360
That’s Life 3, 247, 253
Theroux, Paul 281
This is Scotland 123
This is Swindon 216
This Is Your Life 20, 138, 162, 223, 261
This Morning 276
Thistle Television 362
Thixendale, Yorkshire 324–5
Thomas, Gwyn 221
Thomas, Simon 221
Thompson, Bobby 128
Thomson, Ernest 49
Thomson, Roy 162–63
Thorburn, Cliff ‘the Grinder’ 257, 258, 259
Thorn Birds, The 249–50, 293
Thorne, Yorkshire 62
Thorpe, D.R. 73
Three Acres Inn, Shelley, near Huddersfield 367
Three Admirals 31
Three Mills Island, east London 334
Through the Keyhole 281
Thrower, Percy 167, 317–18
Tiller Girls 110
Times, The 14, 39, 53, 61, 92, 119, 139, 154, 176, 202, 289
Times Higher Education Supplement 294
Times Literary Supplement 315
Tippett, Michael 352
Tiswas 216, 361
Titchmarsh, Alan 317, 318
Today 210, 211
Tollund Man 98
Tom and Jerry 207
Tomorrow’s World 212, 253
Tonight 63, 135, 154
Top of the Pops 177, 203, 211–12, 253, 282, 371
Tornados 152, 154
Toynbee, Polly 320, 322
Trace, Christopher 190
trade test colour films 165
Trades Union Congress (TUC) 121
‘Tranny by Gaslight’ 196
Trenouth, John 26
Trethowan, Ian 149, 264
Tribune newspaper 109
Trodd, Kenith 274–75
Trooping of the Colour 74, 87
Troubles, the 126, 197
Truman Show, The 335
Trumpton 267
Turkish Gastarbeiter community 280
Turn It Up 64
TV detector vans 104, 149
TV Mirror 81–2, 91, 103
‘TV pickup’ 147, 195
TV Times 5, 18, 106, 128, 147, 181, 187, 214, 232, 303, 304
TV-12 channel 362
TV-AM 264–65
TVGoHome website 340
Twitter 364–5
Two Ronnies, The 209, 246, 255
Tyler, Martin 300
Tynan, Kenneth 6, 7, 8, 9, 237
Tyne Tees Television 124, 127–8, 129, 216–17, 219, 220, 348
Tyson, Mike 296
U
UK Living 320, 322
Ulster Television 7, 126–7, 128, 129–30
Ulster Unionists 75
Uncle Mac (Derek McCulloch) 42
United States
American TV networks and colour TV 164
NTSC system 164
incessant ad breaks 263
‘stripping’ technique 266
twenty-four-hour schedules 269
University Challenge 303
University of East London 359
University of Essex Union 6–7
University of London 359
University of Sheffield 359
University of Washington 374
Up the Junction 159
Upstairs Downstairs 209
Urbis gallery, Manchester: ‘Ghosts of Winter Hill’ exhibition (2009) 371
V
Variety Parade 107
Varney, Reg 95
Vegas, Johnny 345
Venables, Bernard 167
VHS 239, 248
Vic-Wells ballet 24
Victoria, Queen 15
Victory Parade (1946) 51, 52
video-recording 224, 225, 226, 236, 242, 247–49, 266, 269, 280–1, 364
Vietnam War 174, 179, 180, 204
Viewer, The (listings publication) 128
viewers
the term 28, 35
1939 questionnaire 46
‘television tea party’ 46–7
block viewing 54
elderly viewers 282–3
fragmenting of the television audience 344–5
Viewers’ Vote 54
Vincent, Robbie 196
Vine, David 258
Viner, Brian 200
Vision On 2
Voice of the People 128
Vorderman, Carol 234
vox pops 76, 128
Voyager I and II space probes 374
W
Waddington, David 292–3
Waddington Village Television 292, 363
Waddle, Chris 293
Wade, General 168
Wagon Train 128, 145, 146, 147, 330
Walcot Townswomen’s Guild 215
Walden, Brian 260
Waldman, Ronnie 58
Wales 70, 83, 123–4, 181, 220–1, 325, 346, 355–6
Walker, Alexander 242
Wall, Max 107
Wallace, Eric 349
Warde, Alan 315
Warhol, Andy 336
Warr, Charles 67
Warren, Tony 303
Warriss, Ben 64, 227
Watching You Watching Us 272
Waterhouse, Keith 195
Waterloo Station, London 32, 42
Waterman, Pete 365
Waters, Chris 304
Watson-Watt, Robert 83
Waugh, Auberon 194, 290–1, 321
We Seem To Have Lost The Picture (BBC LP) 25
Weakest Link, The 343
Wearing, Michael 308
Webb, Maurice, MP 68
Wednesday Play 158
Weekly, Montague 33
Welcome Home Ball 86
Welsh Language Society 220
Welsh League of Youth 124
Wenham, Brian 258
Wenvoe transmitter, Vale of Glamorgan 70, 83, 124, 152, 329
West, Peter 164
West, Timothy 115
West End, London 44–45, 64, 116, 225, 252
West Wing, The 342–43
West Yorkshire Police 232
Western Isles 169, 170, 247–8, 325, 354, 35
6
Western Mail 70
westerns 145–6, 154, 330
Westminster Abbey, London 36, 71, 73, 74, 78, 80, 82, 135
Westward TV 218
What Fettle? 220
What the Papers Say 121
What’s My Line? (panel game) 88, 89–90, 92, 94, 95–6, 101, 103, 136, 138, 139, 140
Wheeler, Mortimer 97, 98, 104
Wheldon, Huw 80, 331
Whicker’s World 120, 165
Whirligig 96
White, Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ 259, 291
White Dot 322–23
White Heather Club 127, 356
White Paper on the BBC (2006) 345, 346
Whitehaven, Cumbria 346–7, 349
Whitehouse, Mary 6, 8, 158–60, 173, 175–6, 204, 207, 238, 274, 295
Whitelaw, Willie 355
Whiteley, Richard 67, 68, 69, 122, 234, 270, 271
White’s Club, St James’s Street, London 77
Whitley Bay council, Tyne and Wear 74
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? 332–3, 345
Why Don’t You … Switch Off the Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead? (children’s programme) 2
Wife of the Week 291
Wildsmith, Brian: ABC 163
William Hill 236
Williams, Charles 55, 94
Williams, Hugo 281
Williams, Jac L. 221
Williams, Kenneth 246–47, 251, 254
Williams, Peter 219
Williams, Raymond 5, 180–1, 263, 268
Williams, Tennessee 274
Willmott, Peter 115
Wilson, A.N. 176–77
Wilson, Angus 163
Wilson, Harold 114, 195, 360
Wilson, Tony 349
Wimbledon tennis championships 37–8, 49, 164, 165, 341
Windsor Castle 73
Winfrey, Oprah 322
Winn, Merrick 139
Wint, ‘Art’ 53–4
‘winter of discontent’ (1978–9) 228, 252
Winter Hill transmitter, West Pennine Moors 220, 369, 371
Winters, Bernie 187
Wireless World magazine 42, 153
Wisdom, Norman 84
Wise, Ernie 222
Witney TV 361–2
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 259
Wogan, Terry 233, 236, 308
Wolstenholme, Kenneth 297, 298
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 85
Women’s Institute 178
Women’s Liberation 191
Wood, Haydn 94
Wood, Sir Kingsley 27
Woolf, Virginia 13, 43
Workington AFC 350
World in Action 251
World Cup (1966) 295, 297–8
World Cup (1970) 298
World Cup (1982) 297
World Cup (1990) 293, 294, 296, 297, 337
World of Sport 3, 4, 86, 223
Worsley, T.C. 225, 236
Wot Cheor, Geordie! 128
Wraight, W.L. 19
wrestling 3–4, 5, 86–87, 206, 259, 282, 301
Wyatt, Will 273
Wyndham Goldie, Grace 44, 47
X
X Factor, The 358–61, 363, 364, 365, 372
Y
Yarwood, Mike 220
Yes, Minister 360
Yorke, Helen 23
Yorkshire Ripper 232
Yorkshire Television 217, 219, 368
Youens, Bernard 304
Young, James 197–8, 199
Young, Michael and Willmott, Peter: Family and Kinship in East London 114–15
Young, Will 358
Young Generation 187
Young Winston 223
Z
Z Cars 159, 221, 224, 302
Zee TV 345
Zeebrugge Raid (1918) 44
Zoo Quest 98–9
Zoo Time 339
