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#OnThisDay 2 March 1987 The evening papers react to the news that #SylvesterMcCoy is going to play the seventh Doctor when #DoctorWho returns - FERRET MAN TAKES OVER AS THE NEW DOCTOR WHO DR WHO? NEVER HEARD OF HIM! IT'S DOCTOR SYLVESTER (WHO?) NEW DOCTOR IS THE REAL MCCOY

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1996 📺TV Listings BIG BREAK returns on BBC1, as does CATCHPHRASE, hosted by #RoyWalker, on ITV. #MatthewKelly is back with STARS IN THEIR EYES. It's #FreddieStarr's turn for AN AUDIENDE WITH . . . THE SCULPTRESS, starring #PaulineQuirke, continues.

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1994 📺TV Listings Des offers the keys to his house to Raquel in #CoronationStreet. LUV, by #CarlaLane, returns, starring #MichaelAngelis & #SueJohnston. #RobertLindsay stars in controversial Screen Two drama GENGHIS COHN. It's 1981 in THE ROCK AND ROLL YEARS.

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1993 📺TV Listings Michelle has a late night encounter in #EastEnders. The trial continues in #Emmerdale. WILD OUTS is a Comedy Playhouse pilot starring #LeslieGrantham and #JonathonMorris. HARRY ENFIELD'S TELEVISION PROGRAMME. 40 MINUTES: Away The Lads.

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 28 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 2 March 1997 1. #EastEnders 19.83m 2. #CoronationStreet 18.54 3. A Touch of Frost 18.15 4. National Lottery 12.51 5. #Emmerdale 12.24 6. #TheBill 12.07 7. Reckless 11.62 8. Crime Traveller 11.46 9. Antiques Roadshow 11.39

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#OnThisDay from March 1991 - THE STREET GALA NIGHT - Celebrating 30 years of #CoronationStreet. FROM THE ARCHIVES - Daran Little recalls the residents of each of the houses since 1960. MOVING IN - Hugh Miller tells the story of when Jack and Annie Walker moved into the Rovers.

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#OnThisDay from March 1994 - INSIDE SOAP #HomeAndAway's Nicolle Dickson reveals WHY BOBBY HAD TO DIE! "I'M A BIT OF A BORE!" says #EastEnders' #MichaelFrench. STREET STYLE - The #CoronationStreet wardrobe department is a hive of activity. In #Emmerdale there's WEDDING BELLS . . .

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1982 'TIME' AT THE ROVERS They're about to call "Time" for the last time at the Rovers Return. Just 15 years after it was built, bulldozers are ready to knock down the pub - and the rest of #CoronationStreet. But viewers need not worry. The old set is being . . .

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1981 LOOK WHAT ANNIE SAILS HOME TO . . . Annie Walker (#DorisSpped) comes home from her cruise in #CoronationStreet tonight to find two new barmaids, Carole and Diane, installed in place of Bet Lynch and Betty Turpin, and Fred Gee suspended . . .

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#OnThisDay 2 March 1963 Hurry yourself along to Hair Fashions in Whitchurch, where Valerie Barlow (#AnneReid), Granada's #CoronationStreet Hairdresser, will officially open the new ultra modern hairdressing salon.

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1997 📺TV Listings #MichaelFrench stars as a time-travelling detective CRIME TRAVELLER. The Spice Girls join NOEL'S HOUSE PARTY. A new series of Performance begins with #StephenSondheim's COMPANY, with #AdrianLester. #PatrickKielty hosts LAST CHANCE LOTTERY.

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1993 📺TV Listings #RussAbbot plays it straight for the first time in SEPTEMBER SONG. #DanielPeacock's TEENAGE HEALTH FREAK continues. There's friction between Gail and Audrey in #CoronationStreet. #NigelPlaner stars in BONJOUR LA CLASE.

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1992 📺TV Listings #AlanRickman and #JulietStevenson star in #AnthonyMinghella's directorial debut TRULY, MADLY DEEPLY. It's the last in the series of 'ALLO 'ALLO and THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY. Beware The Trickster On The Roof in ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE.

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 27 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 1 March 1998 1. #CoronationStreet 17.88m 2. #EastEnders 17.86m 3. #Casualty 15.74 4. National Lottery 13.20 5. #Emmerdale 12.89 6. Taggart 11.41 7. Real Women 11.07 8. Jonathan Creek 10.92 9. Ballykissangel 10.90

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1989 DIRTY DEN'S #EASTENDERS DIARY Leslie Grantham was angry about the way Den's last scenes were handled. "I was annoyed that the new producer decided to cut closing shots when Den fell dead and plunged into the canal," he says . . .

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1983 TUCKER LEAVES GRANGE HILL FOR NEW ROLE Teenage heart-throb Tucker Jenkins bounces back to our TV screens next week. The cheeky lad from #GrangeHill is the hero of a new drama by Liverpool writer #PhilRedmond . . .

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1985 The Daily Star blasts the BBC's decision to axe #DrWho, asking "Who else but the barmpots of the BBC would fight a campaign for more public money by treating the public with such contempt?" They then launch a campaign to Save #DoctorWho!

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#OnThisDay from March 1989 - THE STREET magazine remembers when #CoronationStreet's Fred Gee took Bet Lynch and Betty Turpin on an Easter picnic. What could possibly go wrong?

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#OnThisDay from March 1993 INSIDE SOAP #EastEnders' #SidOwen says that Ricky should "GET OUT THERE AND PLAY THE FIELD!" In #CoronationStreet HAS ANGIE FINALLY FOUND MR RIGHT? After leaving #HomeAndAway, Les Hill says "I'M JUST CRUISING ALONG!"

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 37 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 28 February 1988 1. #EastEnders 24.05m 2. #CoronationStreet 16.55 3. That's Life 15.85 4. #Neighbours 15.15 5. All Creatures Great and Small 13.00 6. Holiday '88 12.75 7. Andy Capp 12.50 8. Wish Me Luck 12.45

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1990 WILL BILLY BOUNCE BACK INTO THE STREET? Ken Farrington, who quit #CoronationStreet five years ago after a row with the scriptwriters, wants to return. The 53 year-old actor, who played Billy Walker for 25 years, will be out of work . . .

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1986 DR WHO'S WHO #DrWho is on the way back . . . and he's facing the most deadly battle of his time-travelling life! Forget the Daleks. This time he's up against the toughest warlord of the lot - BBC boss #MichaelGrade . . .

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1985 PAY UP TO SAVE DR WHO Fans of #DrWho may be able to save their favourite programme. The BBC, which yesterday announced the sci-fi programme was being dropped, revealed today it would consider this novel way of raising money . . .

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1985 TA-TA TARDIS! #DoctorWho is being dropped by the BBC. He will disappear from our screens for eighteen months. The Doctor, who has seen off Daleks and Cybermen, met his match yesterday in the Amazing Axeman, BBC1's new controller #MichaelGrade . . .

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1978 GET OUT OF THAT, SUNSHINE #EricMorecambe "cheers up" #DesOConnor after he slips in the bath and breaks his leg, leaving him unable to go to Australia on tour.

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1984 CORONATION STREET SAYS FAREWELL Stars of television's #CoronationStreet went to Manchester Cathedral today to pay their last respects to actress #VioletCarson, who played Ena Sharples . . .

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#OnThisDay 28 February 1987 Hurry yourself along to Misselbrook + Weston in Oxted, the local store with a whole lot more! Meet Ken Barlow, #WilliamRoache, star of #CoronationStreet, and buy wine at 50p a bottle! What are you waiting for?

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1985 DR WHO FAILS TO MAKE THE GRADE #DrWho is being dropped by the hard-up BBC for the first time in22 years. BBC1 controller #MichaelGrade has ordered the series, which stars #ColinBaker, to be suspended for at least 18 months . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1996 📺TV #ChrisBarrie and THE BRITTAS EMPIRE are Back With A Bang. #SimonShepherd takes centre stage in the new series of PEAK PRACTICE. A special hour long edition of #TheBill. Frank has another breakdown in #EastEnders. Last in the series of THE X FILES.

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1995 📺TV Listings #HenryKelly is back with GOING FOR GOLD. Will Phil and Kathy's romantic journey come to a happy ending in #EastEnders? The first episode of #BenChaplin and #SamanthaJanus comedy GAME ON, although the episode shown is not the one listed.

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1992 📺TV Listings Seth's gain spells trouble for Turner in #Emmerdale. The #RedDwarf crew meet the Inquisitor. Us Girls is a new comedy featuring #MonaHammond. Cascade, the episode of #Casualty postponed from December, is finally shown.

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1991 - FAST FORWARD It's after midnight in Albert Square in #EastEnders the cartoon. What are #AndiPeters and #SimonParkin up to in TV Centre? Have they invented the car of the future in #GrangeHill? Plus, The Proggy Pages.

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1991 - FAST FORWARD DANNII'S DAY - Meet Kylie's little sister, #DanniiMinogue. SCOTT'S SKOOL REPORT - That's Life's new boy tells all. EAT MY SHORTS MAN - #TheSimpsons are bigger than The Turtles!

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 31 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 27 February 1994 Torvill and Dean bring a whopping 23.95m to BBC1, beating #CoronationStreet and #EastEnders. #AbsolutelyFabulous has dropped to 9.63m. #ChrisEvans' Don't Forget Your Toothbrush has a mere 2.66m.

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1982 HILDA'S NEW HOME IN THE STREET Hilda Ogden is getting a new house in the most famous street in Britain . . . and she's doubly delighted. The address is the same, Nº 13 #CoronationStreet, but the house will be twice as big . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1980 CLASSY STYLE OF THE GRANGE HILL MOB Children seem to be more enthusiastic about TV's #GrangeHill school than they are about the real thing. The latest series, which ends on Friday, has enrolled ten million viewers for its young stars . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1976 ACTRESS PAT SAVES MARMALADE FROM A JAM To Marmalade the kitten actress #PatPhoenix will always be a heroine. Pat was involved in a real-life drama when she heard whining beneath the floor of her dressing room . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1982 MAKE A DATE WITH TRACIE . . . Look out for a girl who's being tipped for the top. Her name is #TracieBennett, she's 20 and she's already caught the eye of some on TV's shrewdest talent spotters. Viewers can see her next week in #CoronationStreet . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1982 ITV-2 GAMBLES ON BROOKSIDE When Channel 4 takes to the airwaves in the November, family unity, already stretched to breaking point, will have a fourth channel to contend with. Channel Four's biggest gamble is a new soap opera called #Brookside . . .

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#OnThisDay 27 February 1993 SUN MAY SET ON ELDORADO #AlanYentob took over as Controller of BBC1 yesterday - and immediately sounded a possible death knell for #Eldorado. "It doesn't seem to have done the business . . ."

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1988 WORTH £10 MILLION - BUT HE STILL USES A TESCO'S PLASTIC BAG TO CARRY HIS SCRIPTS Comic #BennyHill, revealed as one of Britain's richest people with a £10 million fortune, walked to work as usual yesterday with his scripts in a supermarket plastic bag . . .

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1996 📺TV Listings It's Diane-Louise Jordan's last day in #BluePeter. Alma's having a mid-life crisis in #CoronationStreet. Pauline feels guilty in #EastEnders. #JohnThaw stars in a second series of KAVANAGH QC. More from GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART.

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1995 📺TV Listings #RobsonGreen and #BernardHill star in an adaptation of #CatherineCookson's THE GAMBLING MAN. Black Orchid is a feature length episode of TAGGART. #ImeldaStaunton joins Stephen & Hugh for A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE. Part 4 of THE BUCCANEERS.

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1992 📺TV Listings #RobertPalmer performs on WOGAN, hosted by #GloriaHunniford. #JohnThaw stars in the first of a new series of INSPECTOR MORSE. THE #JackDee SHOW "drags stand-up into the 90s". #KevinLloyd from #TheBill is the subject of THIS IS YOUR LIFE.

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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 30 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 26 February 1995 1. #EastEnders 21.02m 2. #CoronationStreet 21.01 3. #Casualty 15.38 4. #Neighbours 14.48 5. National Lottery 14.45 6. #Emmerdale 13.33 7. #TheBill 13.20 8. Big Fight Live 13.06 9. #HomeAndAway 12.91

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1989 The People has more #EastEnders exclusives - Millions watched Dirty Den appeared to have been shot. But the body discovered will have no head. The funeral of the body - mutilated by the propeller of a passing barge, will take place when Pete . . .

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1984 PRESENTING THE NEW LEN FAIRCLOUGH This is the handsome new hunk in #CoronationStreet who has captured the hearts of women viewers. Actor #PeterArmitage has been plucked from the dole queue to be Len Fairclough's replacement . . .

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#OnThisDay 26 February 1992 - BIG! magazine MY GIRL? YOU MUST BE JOKING! #MacaulayCulkin and #AnnaChlumsky are just good friends. PHWOAR! IT'S #TakeThat's IDEAL GIRL. "I'm not the most romantic guy in the world," says Robbie. BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS . . . #Baywatch.

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