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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: merry Christmas! Here's a feature about a pantomime! Heigh Ho!, part of Without Walls, talks to the critical septet in a local production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs about their lives and how they cope for the rest of the year.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Lennard Pierce died in December right after filming for the fourth series of Only Fools And Horses began, so essentially he had a second funeral. Among these mourners is Grandad's younger brother who hadn't seen the family for years.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Russell Harty and his viewers evidently really loved Elton John. His latest visit addressed milking cows, why he doesn't just support a better team rather than Watford and how much of him Princess Margaret has seen.

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Take Two, in the hands of Sarah Greene by today in 1992, shows what goes on in preparation for an afternoon in the broom cupboard. Note the, as they call it in wrestling, kayfabe breaking appearance of "Ed's manager" Christina Brown.

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As he was wont to do, Noel Edmonds wanders round the back of Swap Shop today in 1981, so of course he heads to the gallery to find out what all those people do towards the programme. So that's what Chris Bellinger looks like.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: writer Roy Minton and director Alan Clarke would go on to make Scum; Funny Farm, set in a decaying psychiatric ward that chips away at a new nurse (Tim Preece, later Reggie Perrin's son-in-law), isn't that much less gritty.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dave Allen At Large once again and it starts with a religious sketch followed by Allen discussing drinking, of course. The drinking is in its own way a very meta way of throwing to the pre-filmed bit.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Channel 4 list show spinning wheel stops at The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Spoiler: the programme they not long since bought for a large amount of money is number one.

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We have to mark the last day of Eurosport in the UK with an example of the greatest event it ever broadcast, the Rachau motorbike hillclimb. Commentator Martin Haven treats it with the respect it deserves.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the new game show for all the family, Don't Be Dirty.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the newly bankable Robson Green stars as a man juggling women and wagers in The Gambling Man, most famous because it's where second assistant director Si King first met makeup artist Dave Myers, the rest being cooking/biking history.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Points Of View gauges initial reactions to "the" Eastenders, Wogan - who apparently is never off BBC1 with his ninety minutes a week - and the COW, though it's Blott On The Landscape and Maelstrom actually causing split opinions.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the last of nine The Tommy Cooper Hours is mostly taken up by a single sketch which ships up within Thames itself, including a fake gallery. Cooper is on safer ground trying to rip Henry Cooper's shirt off.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: a new Tomorrow People... person! Except Tyco is immediately kidnapped for paranormal as weaponry research under the eye of Trevor Bannister. 17:00 is a perfect example of the problem with CSO in a real world setting.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dick & Dom's neighbour's Cat goes to the disco in Cleethorpes.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Ghosts series continues with The Chemistry Lesson, in which teacher Alan Cumming is in unrequited love with colleague Samantha Bond and turns to a druidess (NSFW) to win her over with magic that pays a price on both their lives.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the last Don't Forget Your Toothbrush features Kim Wilde, a car prize, a contest that takes over a whole town in Devon and a prank on the producer that absolutely could not be done today, and more than likely not then either.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: a Marks & Gran one series wonder, Roll Over Beethoven stars Nigel Planer as a millionaire pop star who buys a manor house and gradually falls in love with piano teacher Liza Goddard.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: certain corners of the web are ridiculously obsessed with Thomas The Tank Engine so obviously they've jumped all over Bookmark getting a rare interview with Reverend W. Awdry.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: George Best on Wogan! No, no, this is an earlier one, Best not long out of prison and working through the after dinner anecdotes while admitting he needed to control his drinking.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: ITN reports as Stephen Fry is still missing.

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From today in 1989 it's another episode of Trick Or Treat, the one series ITV prime-time post-modern game show of skill, luck and mockery that made The Joan Collins Fan Club infamous outside Channel 4.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: 4 Computer Buffs' main story is the hard sell on the Atari ST, Tony Bastable talking to Atari's Jack Tramiel, who gets up and walks away on camera. Just as innovative as the ST is Jane Ashton's combination of bow tie and furry cardigan.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Word makes it to its hundredth show with a fakeout intro featuring Alan Titchmarsh, Vic & Bob, Ian Wright, a NYPD police officer who posed for Playboy and Jasmine in Budapest with "the bad boys of rap" (in 1995!) the Beastie Boys.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Burston Rebellion documents the start of a 25-year school strike with Eileen Atkins and Bernard Hill as the central teachers. For some reason the upload is in grainy monochrome with stills at the start and a documentary at the end.

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In this week's archive newsletter: Johnny Morris sings about a seal, Bucks Fizz are separated by distance twice, the first glimpse of the Muppets, a CD is covered in honey, Hardwicke House, Nicholas Winton, and Denis Healey meets Zig & Zag. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

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In this week's archive newsletter: Johnny Morris sings about a seal, Bucks Fizz are separated by distance twice, the first glimpse of the Muppets, a CD is covered in honey, Hardwicke House, Nicholas Winton, and Denis Healey meets Zig & Zag. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

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Another week's worth of videos rounded up, with further detail (and including the ones that refused to send):

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Victoria Wood tells Aspel & Company about her lack of proper women's dress sense, love of soaps, experience of comedy in different parts of Britain and disastrous school play experience.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jamie Oliver gets down to dinner lady business on Jamie's School Dinners.

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Bill blows up Sun Hill again, the pretext this time being the reign of terror of Gabriel Kent, a sniper and related cover-up, the shooting death of PC Kerry Young, but chiefly a racist PCSO with a stolen van full of petrol.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Blur perform Jubilee off Parklife on #totp Damon artfully/uselessly smashes up a laptop halfway through, the effect lost by the cumulative effect of circling camerawork. https://buff.ly/41dUw9s

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Paul Daniels' TV career really begins on The Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club came calling. The audience banter is already on point, Chop Cup is well into development, the catchphrases are already in place.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the self-defining BBC2 documentary series Modern Times begins with Mad About The Boy, following a 52 year old British woman marrying a 27 year old she met in the Gambia four weeks earlier.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the only Doctor Who story of the whole decade to be confined to just two episodes, The Sontaran Experiment is a kind of coda to The Ark In Space involving human experimentation.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: ORS85, co-hosted by Timmy Mallett and Culture Club's Jon Moss, welcomes the Smiths, Dead Or Alive, Roman Holliday, Big Sound Authority, a mime dressed as Captain Scarlet, and Chris Evans sitting behind some decks for no reason (25:30)

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Newsround Extra investigates the BMX craze.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Good Old Days features a man with a penny whistle who thinks he's Acker Bilk, the great lost comedy double act Bill Pertwee and Terence Alexander, a manic finger clicker and Bernard Cribbins nearly falling down the stage steps.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Clive James sweats heavily and finds high and low society as he files a Postcard From Bombay (as it was still officially known), between beggars, Bollywood and a Pierre Cardin fashion show.

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Cilla Black had reached the last series of her own show by today in 1976 and finds herself being outdone in her own studio backyard by Diana Dors, not least in a sketch involving a passing and disturbingly lascivious Roy Hudd.

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: apart from Reg Cox, the big story of the first week of Eastenders is Pauline Fowler's pregnancy - let's hope the baby turns out well - and Lou Beale's reaction to it.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Vic Reeves and Blur compete to be the most drunk person on stage at the Brits, with Damon and Alex offering advance olive branches that would not be grasped for decades.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: with the Channel Tunnel project officially abandoned a month earlier, Bernard Falk for Nationwide finds out what they're doing with the big hole on the British side. Black and white in 1975? Was there another colour strike?

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Paul Coia runs through the new VHS releases on Pebble Mill At One with unglamorous assistance from Morrissey. "Something that you might like, all the rude videos on one VHS" offers Coia, clearly not knowing anything about his guest.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: a not great sort of sci-fi spoof featuring the perennially available Burt Kwouk leads into a Late Show special on the march of Murdoch, The Whole World In His Hands.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the first of Alan Bennett's two Plays For Today, Sunset Across The Bay follows a couple retiring to Morecambe and living out their lives in isolation. Even spotting Liz Dawn and Paul Shane can't upset the melancholy.

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60 YEARS AGO TODAY: Pete and Dud visit an art gallery with their sandwiches. This is the only full version we could find, which makes it a shame it's been colourised in the Laurel & Hardy style for no good artistic reason.

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The first You Bet! was today in 1988, and we're not sure Brucie knows what rapping is.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Pebble Mill celebrates ten years of Eastenders with Alan Titchmarsh talking to assorted cast members, its co-creator and archivist, plus the blues guitar credentials of Jules Tavernier and some birthday wishes from the other soaps.

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