#OnThisDay 8 September 1992 📺TV Listings Denise Coffey joins this series of TAKE OFF WITH T-BAG. #NoelEdmonds is back with TELLY ADDICTS. MEN BEHAVING BADLY begins its second series on ITV, with #NeilMorrissey joining the cast. He's also in BOON. 2 POINT 4 CHILDREN returns.

#OnThisDay 8 September 1995 📺TV Listings A new series of FUN HOUSE. The pizza parlour siege continues in BROOKSIDE. THE NEW AVENGERS gets another airing. #TomBaker returns in MEDICS. STRANGE BUT TRUE with Michael Aspel. TOMORROW'S WORLD returns. #FrankSkinner in ROOM 101.

#OnThisDay 8 September 1997 📺TV Listings #BluePeter is back for a new series. Following the end of MASTERMIND, Magnus Magnusson is the focus of THIS IS YOUR LIFE. The last episode of PRESTON FRONT. Tony Marchant's drama HOLDING ON begins. Anton Rogers in new vet drama NOAH'S ARK

#OnThisDay 8 September 1979 The Mirror reports the death of former #CoronationStreet star Alan Browning, who played Elsie Tanner's husband: CORONATION ST. STAR ALAN DIES. The following day, Pat Phoenix, estranged wife Pat Phoenix reveals: WHY I COULD NOT GO TO TRAGIC ALAN.

#OnThisDay 8 September 1985 With #EastEnders having climbed to the top of the ratings, The Mirror has this story: COCKNEY FIDDLERS! Street hits out at EastEnders - A spokesman for #CoronationStreet stormed 'People are being misled. The EastEnders figures are a fiddle.'

#OnThisDay 33 years ago, #WhatWeWereWatching 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 8 September 1991 - 1. #CoronationStreet 17.63m 2. #EastEnders 15.67 3. #Neighbours 14.92 4. Big Trouble in Little China 14.35 5. #Casualty 12.23 6. #HomeAndAway 12.07 7. Crocodile Dundee 12.03 8. #TheBill 11.79

#OnThisDay 8 September 1985, The Mirror has this #CoronationStreet story - Alf Roberts lifts the lid on MY STREET OF MAGIC: "For burly Alf Roberts, the king of the corner shop, life has been 25 years of magic." Actor Bryan Mosley reveals all about his time in The Street.

#OnThisDay 8 September 1989 - 'ELLO, 'ELLO, 'ELLO - MEET THE THREE HUNKS BRINGING THRILLS TO #TheBill: Telly's Boys in Blue are Looking Good!

#OnThisDay 8 September 1987, Mike Reid makes his first appearance as Frank Butcher in #EastEnders. His first line is "Did you get my letter?" He would go on to appear in 775 episodes, with his last airing on 9 December 2005.

#OnThisDay 9 September 1992 - BIG! magazine LOVE AND KISSES! #HomeAndAway's Sophie and Simon reveal what it's like to snog on screen! KNOCKOUT! "Being a star is cool!" says #StephenDorff. "DON'T CALL ME BONKERS!" demands Les Hill.

#OnThisDay 9 September 1993 📺TV Listings Eamonn Holmes is now your host for TV WEEKLY & Dexter Fletcher takes over GAMESMASTER. THE BIG STORY with Dermot Murnaghan is ITV's new current-affairs series. WAITING FOR GOD is back for a new series, as is THE UPPER HAND. New TOP GEAR.

#OnThisDay 9 September 1995 📺TV Listings #DanniiMinogue guests on FULLY BOOKED. New episodes of game shows BIG BREAK and RAISE THE ROOF. The last of BBC2's SUMMER DANCE series. Lord Mountbatten is the subject of SECRET LIVES. IT'LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT 7.

#OnThisDay 9 September 1998 📺TV Listings Chris Packham investigates the Loch Ness Monster in THE X CREATURES. SMITH AND JONES are back for an 11th series of sketches. The TWO FAT LADIES cook for a gymkhana. More interior-design shenanigans in CHANGING ROOMS. JO WHILEY is back.

#OnThisDay 40 years ago #WhatWeWereWatching - 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 9 September 1984 and ITV dominates: 1. Minder 15.45m 2. #CoronationStreet 14.1m 3. Lace 13.7m 4. Duty Free 12.9m 5. Jim Davidson's Special 12.75 6. Fresh Fields 12.7m 7. Me & My Girl 11.65m 8. #Crossroads 11:4m

#OnThisDay 34 years ago #WhatWeWereWatching - 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 9 September 1990 - 1. #CoronationStreet 16.12m 2. #Neighbours 15.02m 3. #EastEnders 14.9m 4. #TheBill 11.7m 5. Bread 11.42m 6. #HomeAndAway 10.8m 7. News 10.79m 8. Taggart 10.71m 9. #Casualty 10.33m 10. On The Up

#OnThisDay 9 September 1990, Gillian Reynolds in The Telegraph reflects on THIRTY YEARS OF THE QUALITY STREET: #CoronationStreet has never been a vehicle for propaganda or a pulpit for social sermons. Nonetheless it has shown the problems which beset our passage from cradle to...