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Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as "British Pathé". Its collection of news film and movies is fully digitised and available online. [1]
This Week is a British weekly current affairs television programme that was first produced for ITV in January 1956 by Associated-Rediffusion (later Thames Television), running until 1978, when it was replaced by TV Eye. [1] In 1986, the earlier name was revived and This Week continued until Thames lost its franchise at the end of 1992.
Bob Danvers-Walker also worked freelance for many radio and television outlets. He was the announcer on the "rebel" version of the comedy programme Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh on Radio Luxembourg when the show was in temporary exile from the BBC (1950–51), and for the science-fiction series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future on the same station ...
15 January – The Benny Hill Show (1955–1961; 1964; 1966–1968; 1969–1989) 16 January – The Sooty Show (1955–1967; 1968–1992) 16 February – Portrait of Alison (1955) 16 February – Look at It This Way (1955) 22 February – Benbow and the Angels (1955) 5 April – The Children of the New Forest (1955) 16 April – The Mulberry ...
Tonight is a British current affairs television programme, presented by Cliff Michelmore, that was broadcast on BBC live on weekday evenings from 18 February 1957 to 18 June 1965. The producers were the future Controller of BBC1 Donald Baverstock and the future Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne .
Television portal; United Kingdom portal; 1950s portal; Television series which originated in the United Kingdom in the decade 1950s. i.e. in the years 1950 to 1959.Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United Kingdom should be removed from this category and its sub-categories
Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone [1] before being replaced by No-Do, in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau from 1930 to ...
Jon Pertwee also starred in the show in a variety of roles. The Mr Pastry character had originated in the 1936 stage show Big Boy in which Hearne had appeared with Fred Emney . A Mr Pastry film The Time of His Life , was subsequently released in 1955, but portrayed the lead character as a pathetic figure coming out of prison and totally ...