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#OnThisDay 27 April 1995 📺TV Listings A Dingle family ding-dong in #Emmerdale. #KelvinFletcher appears in #AnthonyHorowitz's Chiller: NUMBER SIX. Roy tries to say it with flowers in #EastEnders. The last episode of CROWN PROSECUTOR. #NaomiCampbell in #AbsolutelyFabulous.

#OnThisDay 27 April 1993 📺TV Listings 40 MINUTES catches up with #ErnieWise. Nigel gets a shock in #EastEnders. Mr Turner reveals his feelings to Mrs Bates in #Emmerdale. #MarkMcManus stars as TAGGART. #CarlaLane's LUV continues. #RogerCook with THE COOK REPORT UPDATE.

#OnThisDay 27 April 1991 📺TV Listings Five "fresh-faced comics", including #ShaneRichie and #BillyPearce, make their TV debut in YOU GOTTA BE JOKIN'. The first of #BobMonkhouse's newlywed game show BOB'S YOUR UNCLE on ITV, or there's more FAST FRIENDS with #LesDawson.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 39 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 27 April 1986 1. #EastEnders 20.00m 2. #CoronationStreet 15.70 3. Crimewatch UK 15.05 4. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 13.80 5. A Question of Sport 13.35 6. That's Life 12.80 7. #Crossroads 12.60 8. News 11.55 9. #Emmerdale 11.50

#OnThisDay 27 April 1995 COUNTESS OF CORONATION STREET - My 25 Years as #CoronationStreet's Bet - #JulieGoodyear tells The Sun: "They called my boobs Newton and Ridley . . . if you've got it, flaunt it"

#OnThisDay 27 April 1987 SOAP STARS IN A LATHER Whilst the Albion Market team take the trophy in this charity football match, it's #EastEnders' Nick Berry, #CoronationStreet's #MichaelLeVell and #Brookside's #SueJohnston that get the attention, refereed by "Herr" Stan Boardman.

#OnThisDay 27 April 1987 FOR THE LOVE OF ELSIE . . . The Men in #PatPhoenix's Life . . .

#OnThisDay 27 April 1982 NEW 'STREET' READY FOR ITS CROWNING GLORY . . . The most famous street in the country is now nearly ready to receive its Royal visitor. For a week before the Queen will walk down the new cobbled #CoronationStreet, the builders have moved off site . . .

#OnThisDay 26 April 1996 📺TV Listings Maureen gets revenge in #CoronationStreet. Hollis goes undercover in the seedy world of vice in #TheBill. Jimmy hogs the limelight in #Brookside. Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading in FATHER TED. EUROTRASH introduces us to Lolo Ferrari.

#OnThisDay 26 April 1995 📺TV Listings Rosemary's wheeling and dealing is rewarded in #Neighbours. Samir feels rejected in #CoronationStreet. Jimmy is forced to find a new hiding place in #Brookside. #SeanBean stars as SHARPE. Medical drama in CARDIAC ARREST.

#OnThisDay 26 April 1992 📺TV Listings #DrewBarrymore stars in #StevenSpielberg's AMAZING STORIES. DON'T TELL FATHER is a new comedy by #RoyClarke, starring #TonyBritton. More comedy with #CarlaLane's SCREAMING, #NicholasLyndhurst in THE PIGLET FILES, and SPITTING IMAGE.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 33 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 26 April 1992 1. #CoronationStreet 19.56m 2. #EastEnders 19.23 3. #Neighbours 16.36 4. Naked Gun 14.21 4. #HomeAndAway 13.85 5. Bruno Vs Ribalta 13.78 6. #TheBill 12.89 7. One Foot In The Grave 12.78 8. Heartbeat 12.18

#OnThisDay 26 April 1980 DOWN MEMORY STREET As #CoronationStreet comes up to its 2000th episode, the Manchester Evening News looks back of 20 years of cobblestones and mateyness . . .

#OnThisDay 26 April 1995 THE COUNTESS OF CORONATION STREET - My 25 Years as #CoronationStreet's Bet - #JulieGoodyear tells The Sun: "My screams were for real as The Rovers burned. My nightie was on fire!"

#OnThisDay 25 April 1998 📺TV Listings Chrissy's father learns of her pregnancy in #GrangeHill. #PaulNicholls stars in police drama CITY CENTRAL. #GrahamNorton hosts Channel 4's COMING OUT PARTY, or there's a #JudyGarland impersonator in STARS IN THEIR EYES on ITV.

#OnThisDay 25 April 1993 📺TV Listings Tucker plays a trick on Justin during a swimming lesson in classic #GrangeHill. SEEKERS is a new thriller from #LyndaLaPlante, with #BrendaFricker. Personal videos of life in post-riot LA in STORIES FROM THE EYE OF THE STORM. More HEARTBEAT.

#OnThisDay 25 April 1992 📺TV Listings BBC1 picks up the first broadcasts from PARALLEL 9. #VictoriaWood: SOLD OUT is the main attraction on ITV. #BradleyWalsh hosts new series ONLY JOKING and #WayneDobson is back with A KIND OF MAGIC. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON from 1966 is on 4.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 26 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 25 April 1999 #CoronationStreet is top soap with 16.46m. Where The Heart Is is top drama with 10.48m. Stars In Their Eyes has 10.10m and Last Of The Summer Wine is top comedy with 7.76m. #HaveIGotNewsForYou leads on 2.

#OnThisDay 25 April 1980 COMIN SOON . . . t'Street's FIRST episode - The first episode of TV's #CoronationStreet is to be screened again for the first time in twenty years to mark the 25th anniversary of Granada TV which makes the show . . .

#OnThisDay 25 April 1994 TO HELDORADO . . . AND BACK Whatever happened to the fallen stars of TV's most ridiculed soap?

#OnThisDay 25 April 1978 WHO'S IN CHARGE? #BruceForsyth was at the centre of a mystery last night over his smash-hit television show The Generation Game. The BBC seem all set to hand over the programme to camp comedian #LarryGrayson. But Bruce was amazed and mystified . . .

#OnThisDay 25 April 1982 WE'RE LOVELY REALLY - The Curler Queens You Can't Resist - Bossy. Bad tempered. Battle-axes. Yet to millions they are the heroines of TV. There's dear old Nora Batty of Last of the Summer Wine. And there's sharp-tongued Hilda Ogden, #CoronationStreet's...

#OnThisDay 25 April 1978 SHOWBIZ STARS TUNE IN TO LIBERACE'S SPECTACULAR PARTY NIGHT It's sing-song time for the costliest group in showbiz. On piano - Liberace, and singing along were 200 showbiz pals. #LarryGrayson was the first to admit it was the gayest night he'd seen . . .

#OnThisDay 25 April 1995 THE COUNTESS OF CORONATION STREET - My 25 Years as #CoronationStreet's Bet - #JulieGoodyear tells The Sun: "I've only had two bed scenes . . . and one of them was with Betty Turpin".

#OnThisDay 24 April 1994 📺TV Listings #MichaelAspel hosts THE BAFTA AWARDS. Secretive artist Cindy Sherman comes out of hiding for ARENA. #PeterDavison's AIN'T MISBEHAVING concludes. #PeterCook joins SUNDAY NIGHT CLIVE. #CatherineZetaJones in THE CINDER PATH.

#OnThisDay 24 April 1993 📺TV Listings The new series of PARALLEL 9 goes up against WHAT'S UP DOC? #JeffreyHolland in YOU RANG, M'LORD? A peaceful demonstration goes awry in #TheBill. #AlfredMolina stars in murder mystery THE MARSHALL. A dash of #Elvis on BBC2 at 9:00.

#OnThisDay 24 April 1991 📺TV Listings It's farewell to Nick in #Neighbours and Grant finds romance in #HomeAndAway. #RulaLenska, #MollieSugden and #RichardWilson join the cast for a new series of CLUEDO. As part of 4's 'Banned' season, #DavidSuchet stars in A SONG FOR EUROPE.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 31 years ago Ratings for w.e. 24 April 1994 1. #CoronationStreet 19.88m 2. #EastEnders 18.46 3. #Neighbours 14.62 4. Peak Practice 14.02 5. The Knock 12.76 6. The Cinder Path 12.72 7. #HomeAndAway 12.09 8. #TheBill 12.09 9. Heartbeat 12.03 10. #Emmerdale

#OnThisDay 24 April 1995 HARD LESSON FOR BOY IN BLACK AND BLUE Playing the good Samaritan almost cost Tony Scannell his big TV break in #TheBill . . . COMFORTABLE AS A COCKNEY Peter Dean, former regular on BBC1's #EastEnders, is a real life cockney and is happy to carry on . . .

#OnThisDay 24 April 1983 WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE #CoronationStreet MASTERMIND OF 1983 - Win fabulous trophy and cash! Meet Pat and her famous pals!

#OnThisDay 24 April 1975 CORONATION STREET'S KATHY'S 21st #CoronationStreet stars rubbed shoulders with the family and friends of actress #KathyJones at the party to celebrate her 21st birthday. But a dapperly dressed mystery man was the gossip point of the evening . . .

#OnThisDay - 24 April 1995 THE COUNTESS OF CORONATION STREET - My 25 Years as #CoronationStreet's Bet, by #JulieGoodyear: After 6 months Miss Speed came up and said: 'You may call me Doris now, dear'

#OnThisDay 23 April 1995 📺TV Listings #GrangeHill takes us back to '84 where they have to cope with the aftermath of the accident. After a 10 year absence SHINE ON HARVEY MOON returns. In THE EXCHANGE, Mike Smith and #SarahGreene open a swap shop. Where do they get their ideas?

#OnThisDay 23 April 1994 📺TV Listings PARALLEL 9 returns for a third Saturday morning run. SEINFELD returns to BBC2: "television doesn't get much better". #BarryWhite guests on DON'T FORGET YOUR TOOTHBRUSH. More illusions in THE PAUL DANIELS MAGIC SHOW.

#OnThisDay 23 April 1991 📺TV Listings #CliveOwen is back as the slick but sensitive CHANCER. THE LOWDOWN profiles under-16 cricket player Adil Ditta and wonders whether he'll make it big. Sharon's future is in doubt in #EastEnders. Turner is depressed by Mrs Bates in #Emmerdale.

#WhatWeWereWatching on 📺#OTD 37 years ago 📺 TV Ratings for w.e. 23 April 1988 - 1. #EastEnders 17.10m 2. #Neighbours 15.15 3. #CoronationStreet 14.80 4. Steptoe and Son 11.95 5. Splash 11.85 6. Crimewatch UK 11.65 7. Catchphrase 11.55 8. A Question of Sport 11.35 9. The Two of Us 11.25

#OnThisDay 23 April 1993 LONDON'S BURNING? PULL THE OTHER ONE Neighbours ignored a huge blaze on the set of London's Burning - because they thought it was part of the TV show. And when firemen arrived to tackle the flames, they assumed they were actors . . .

#OnThisDay 23 April 1983 SEXY SUZIE DIDN'T GET THE SACK! Angry television bosses last night denied reports that actress Cheryl Murray - who plays #CoronationStreet's sexy Suzie Birchall - faces the sack . . .

#OnThisDay 23 April 1983 Inside #CoronationStreet - SEXY SHARON'S TEMPTING OFFER Watch out Gail! Sexy Sharon Gaskell, actress #TracieBennett, could be back in the Street! LUCILLE'S NINE YEARS OF NIGHTMARE Life for actress Jennifer Moss has been a nightmare since leaving . . .

#OnThisDay 23 April 1966 Hurry yourself along to Walsall's STAR BINGO & SOCIAL CLUB for a personal appearance of #CoronationStreet's Stan Ogden (#BernardYouens). Or perhaps you'd prefer Lucky Legs Night, where's there's free nylons galore! It Pays to Play Star Bingo!

#OnThisDay 23 April 1966 OH, THE AGONY OF BEING DR WHO "This show," said an actor to #WilliamHartnell when he first put on #DrWho's white wig, monocle, frock coat and checked trousers, "won't last more than six weeks." "Nonsense," replied Hartnell . . .

#OnThisDay 22 April 1995 📺TV Listings #ZoëBall presents brand new Saturday morning show FULLY BOOKED. Sinead O'Connor sings live in THE WHITE ROOM and Carter USM appear with #LilySavage in LIVE FROM THE LILYDOME. The fascinating story of ROMEO AND JULIET IN SARAJEVO.

#OnThisDay 22 April 1994 📺TV Listings HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: #AngusDeayton says "Private life should be just that - private!" A new series of MAY TO DECEMBER goes up against #BrianConley sitcom TIME AFTER TIME. #HelenaBonhamCarter guests in #JoBrand THROUGH THE CAKEHOLE.

#OnThisDay 22 April 1993 📺TV Fly-on-the-wall documentary SYLVANIA WATERS, featuring an ordinary Australian family, begins. #RubyWax tries to salvage #JoannaLumley's career in THE FULL WAX. #TonySlattery is JUST A GIGOLO. Domestic bliss at the Vic is strained in #EastEnders.

#OnThisDay 22 April 1992 📺TV Listings 'Local boy made good' #PeterCapaldi takes an early starring role in MR WAKEFIELD'S CRUSADE. #JimBroadent stars in Kevin Hood's WORK! Dr. Ruth teaches Terry about sex in WOGAN. Why is Rita so preoccupied in #CoronationStreet?

#OnThisDay 22 April 1991 📺TV Listings BIRDS OF A FEATHER - RT asks whether a US remake with Cindi & Lorraine, rather than Sharon & Tracey, can work? FAMILY MATTERS claims that most parents smack their children. Deidre gets a shock in #CoronationStreet. THE COOK REPORT on ITV.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 35 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 22 April 1990 1. #CoronationStreet 19.24m 2. #Neighbours 18.34 3. #EastEnders 17.58 4. #HomeAndAway 13.17 5. Wild Cats 13.03 6. Strike It Lucky 12.66 7. This Is Your Life 12.30 8. You Bet 11.53 9. Surprise Surprise 11.15

#OnThisDay 22 April 1993 EMMERDALE LOSES ITS MOST FAMOUS FARM After 21 years, one of #Emmerdale's most famous landmarks is about to change. The familiar stone farmhouse that has dominated the skyline is in danger of subsiding and the Sugdens have had to leave their home . . .

#OnThisDay 22 April 1989 SISTERS OF SOAP #Brookside star #SueJohnston, problem-prone Sheila Grant, thinks it's about time she was allowed to remind viewers that she IS capable of playing lighthearted scenes too. #EastEnders new girl #MichelleCollins found joining an ordeal . . .

#OnThisDay from 22 April 1992 - BIG! magazine "I'm not a bad guy - honest!" says #HomeAndAway's Revhead. "Pretty? I Look like a horse!" says #JuliaRoberts. Who's #MarkyMark splashing in the surf with? What's #Neighbours' #GuyPearce been up to since leaving the show?