Wall To Wall Cookery Programming

[Sakkarin Profile]

Now that there is cookery programming every available minute of the day, and we get bored by the repetition and the banality of some of it, it's easy to forget how things used to be.

I moved here on 22nd March 1979.

As a matter if interest I tracked down the Radio Times for that day, amazingly there's a website that has them all, since 1923!
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/b ... 1979-03-22

The only TV Times I could find covering that day is a copy for sale,
https://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/i ... ct_id=5551

however someone has put a copy of the 13th March 1979, so I've posted that here, 9 days before I moved (Yorkshire TV, but probably poretty much equal to London version)
https://www.transdiffusion.org/2017/03/ ... tv-in-1979

This is the ENTIRE TV schedule in the UK that day. Not a single cookery programme, and not very much of anything else. The test card from midnight onwards...

And of course no way to save it to watch later.


BBC1 22nd March 1979

6.40 : Open University
7.55 : Closedown
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9.40 : For Schools & Colleges
12.20 : Closedown
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12.45 : Midday News/Weather
13.00 : Pebble Mill
13.45 : Ragtime with Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris
14.00 : You and Me: Fun with B, D and P

14.15 : For Schools, Colleges
15.00 : Closedown
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15.53 : Regional News
15.55 : Play School
16.20 : Don and Pete Peter Glaze and Don Maclean
16.25 : Jackanory with Betty Hardy
16.40 : Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.
17.00 : John Craven's Newsround
17.05 : Blue Peter with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom
17.35 : The Perishers
17.40 : Evening News with Kenneth Kendall
17.55 : Nationwide with Frank Bough, Hugh Scully, Sue Lawley, John Stapleton
18.55 : Tomorrow's World Michael Rodd , Kieran Prendiville and Judith 19.20 : Top of the Pops Dave Lee Travis
19.55 : Blankety Blank Terry Wogan
20.30 : Potter Written by Roy Clarke
21.00 : Nine O'Clock News
21.25 : The British Academy Awards
23.00 : Tonight with Robin Day
23.40 : Weather/Regional News

24.00 : Closedown


BBC 2 22nd March 1979

6.40 : Open University
7.55 : Closedown
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11.00 : Play School
11.25 : Closedown
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16.50 : Open University
18.55 : When the Boat Comes In with James Bolam
19.45 : The Mid-Evening News
19.55 : Newsweek Presented by Richard Kershaw
20.30 : Malice Aforethought by FRANCIS ILES Part 2
21.25 : Midweek Cinema: It's a Wonderful Life
23.30 : Late News/Weather
23.40 : Open Door - Small Landlords Association

24.00 : Closedown


ITV 13th March 1979

9.30 : Schools Programming
12.00 : Issi Noho (for kids)
12.10 : Stepping Stones (for kids)
12.30 : The Cedar Tree (serial?)
13.00 : News at One
13.20 : Calendar News/Weather
13.30 : Crown Court
14.00 : After Noon - Betty Foster Dressmaking Course
14.25 : This Day Next Year - 13 part drama
15.20 : Calendar Tuesday with Richard Whiteley
15.50 : The Entertainers with Peter Skellern
16.20 : Pop Gospel with Berni Flint
16.45 : Magpie with Jenny Hanley
17.15 : Doctor On The Go with Robin Nedwell
17.45 : News at 5.45
18.00 : Calendar
18.35 : Crossroads
19.00 : Emmerdale
19.30 : Charlie's Angels
20.30 : How's Your Father? with Harry Worth
21.00 : ITV Playhouse - Where The Heart Is
22.00 : News at Ten
22.30 : David Frost's Global Village
23.30 : For Better, For Worse - discussion programme

24.00 : Closedown

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Ah yes, I remember it well

My only caveat is that there was sometimes a cookery item on Pebble Mill I think, but, no cookery obvious

[Pepper Pig Profile]

I think Michael Smith started on Pebble Mill. Glynn Christian too maybe.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

looking at that more carefuller, I hadn't appreciated that the term "Global Village" so far pre-dated t'internet

Clever so an dso that Mr Frost,

[scullion Profile]

And of course no way to save it to watch later.

i first used a video recorder in 1979 (not mine - it was in a diplomatic residency), i think it was when betamax and vhs were still battling it out.