I’m old enough to remember ITV coming along in 1955. My uncle, who had learned about electronics in the war, had a sideline in supplying and servicing TVs and radios and got us our Bush TV for the coronation in 1953. When a valve went, round he would come to replace it. So….when ITV came along he fitted a new control knob on the outside to enable us to switch from 1 (BBC, obviously) to the new fangled channel 9 with commercials. I can still recall the clunk, clunk of the switch as you turned it round.
Anyway, I digress. Here is a list of 70 shows, one from each year of ITV. I can’t help thinking there is another list of 70 – a list of shame if you will – but these are the highlights. Probably just me, but I watched a whole lot more of the earlier shows than the later ones on this list.
