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#OnThisDay 1991 : The first episode of Bottom was broadcast on BBC2 It featured Rik Mayall as Richie and Adrian Edmondson ❎ as Eddie. The TV series ran until 1995. #90s #RikMayall

#OnThisDay 1986 : Following the passing of Pat Phoenix who played Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street, Granada Television's in vision continuity announcer, Jim Pope, pays a poignant tribute to the actress. #80s Source : youtube.com/watch?v=6rPWjy…

#OnThisDay 1994 : 30 years ago today, the first edition of Top Of The Pops (TOTP) 2 was broadcast on BBC2. (TV listing courtesy of Graeme Wood) #90s #totp

#OnThisDay 1993 : Cartoon Network launched in the UK #90s

#OnThisDay 1998 : Sky Text reports on Sex On The Beach being banned on Top Of The Pops. #totp

From w/c 17 September 1977 : The Long Search Continues on Radio 3 with this Radio Times cover. #70s

From w/c 17 September 1983 : The TV Times are Game For A Laugh with this cover. #80s

From w/c 17 September 1988 : The heat is on, catch the action with the Radio Times as Olympics 88 beckoned. #80s

From w/c 17 September 2005 : Good Evans, Radio's bad boy, Chris Evans, returns but this time he comes in peace via this Radio Times cover.

Radio 1 #OnThisDay in 1998 via the land of Ceefax in which @chrismoyles was covering for breakfast. #90s

30 years on from the final edition of a unique chapter in Saturday morning TV…one last push for the story of its final chapter, featuring memories from Lucinda Cowden Laurence R Harvey Richard Waites and writer Peter Cocks.

Presenter Jamie Theakston announces he has been diagnosed with cancer bbc.in/4dbrOtY

Back to School televisual memory number 12... Landmarks

The Day Today really was years ahead of its time.

Was Sad Sack part of your televisual childhood?

Russty's Rhythm number 547 A daily musical track to either make you go yay or nay. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Watch the video here : youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb…

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