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8 unusual facts about BBC Television


Bob Danvers-Walker

For BBC Television he featured regularly in Saturday Night Out.

Farmoor

BBC Television used the Oaken Holt Rest Home in Eynsham Road, Farmoor as a location for the 1990s sitcom Waiting for God.

H. Russell Wakefield

In 1968, BBC Television produced a dramatization of Wakefield's supernatural story "The Triumph of Death", starring Claire Bloom.

Live Report

They were finalists in the BBC Television's A Song for Europe contest in 1989 with the song, "Why Do I Always Get It Wrong".

Poltimore House

It fell into a dilapidated condition during the second half of the 20th century, but is currently undergoing a full restoration, funding having been received following its having been voted by the public a finalist in the first series of BBC Television's 2003 TV series "Restoration".

Preston bus station

On Good Friday 2012, the bus station was the venue for the Preston Passion, a passion play involving thousands of people forming a 'human cross', televised live on BBC Television.

Slim John

Slim John was a 1969 BBC English Language Instruction serial made for overseas broadcast, in twenty-six episodes of fourteen minutes each, and in black and white.

Torrington by-election, 1958

Following Granada Television's screening of the Rochdale by-election earlier in the year, BBC Television chose Torrington for their second election broadcast (after the 1955 general election).


5000 Volts

Although Tina Charles provided the vocals, she was not publicly acknowledged as the group's singer and for the band's 1975 appearance on BBC Television's Top of the Pops they were fronted by singer/actress Luan Peters (best remembered for her role as Raylene Miles, an Australian tourist in an episode of Fawlty Towers), first broadcast in 1979.

Beth Porter

For BBC Television, she produced The Husband, The Wife and The Stranger, starring Adam Faith and Derrick O'Connor, and for Channel 4 Television, Unusual Ground Floor Conversion, a short film directed by Mark Herman, Little Voice.

Bill Cotton

Following a secondary education at the independent school Ardingly College, he joined BBC Television as an in-house producer of light entertainment programmes in 1956, working on various programmes such as his father’s Billy Cotton Band Show and popular music programme Six-Five Special.

Bradford Scobie

Gas Huffin' Bad Gals!, a film written by and starring Scobie, was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Outfest festival in Los Angeles, and was aired on BBC television in England.

Brit Cops

Sky Cops - series broadcast on BBC featuring the Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit

Broomfield House

Broomfield House was featured on the BBC television series Restoration as a nominee for the south-east segment of the show, alongside London Wilton's Music Hall in London and Darnley Mausoleum in Kent.

D. Ramirez

He has achieved five Top 20 hits, and appeared on BBC Television's music programme, Top of the Pops, his highest standing in the mainstream music scene was his remix of Bodyrox's "Yeah Yeah", which earned him an Ivor Novello Award nomination.

Edgar Broughton Band

It was played (to astonished and puzzled reactions) on the David Jacobs' hosted BBC Television's Juke Box Jury.

Edge West Productions

For more than a decade, Day has been an active producing partner with National Geographic Channel, Public Broadcast Service, Discovery, The History Channel, TLC, BBC Television, Channel Four (TV UK), and NHK Japan.

Euphoria Show Choir

They have become increasingly popular since their formation in September 2010, having performed on local BBC television and supporting Spelbound, on their 2011 UK Tour.

Jan Francis

She first appeared on television in 1971, before landing BBC Television drama roles roles including Kschessinska in Fall of Eagles and Lisa Colbert in Secret Army (1977–78).

Jess Yates

After the war he directed documentary films, joined BBC Television as a freelance designer and joined the BBC on the production side in 1949.

John Crosse

In the early 1970s, he joined Yorkshire Television where he was noted for his authoritative Received Pronunciation accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as Redvers Kyle; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other ITV companies at the same time, some of which used friendlier in-vision announcers.

Konrad Bartelski

Towards the end of his career, Bartelski began to make appearances in the commentary box for Ski Sunday on BBC television - the programme which gained him his fame in his home country.

Lindsay Dracass

As a 17 year old schoolgirl, she was selected through the BBC Television programme, A Song for Europe, to be the UK's entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001, which was held at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Louis Wiltshire

Wiltshire began his career by setting up his own Art Studio in 1988, employing a team of artists to create unique figurative works, including fine figurative work for Wedgwood potteries, figurative work for BBC Television portraying the work of artist Quentin Blake and Roald Dahl, and head portrait work for Spitting Image.

Marion and Geoff

Marion and Geoff is a BBC television mockumentary, produced by Baby Cow Productions and screened on BBC Two in 2000, with a second series following in 2003.

Maurice Colbourne

He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.

Mein Schiff 1

The Mein Schiff, when still named Galaxy, was the setting of BBC television's docu-soap The Cruise, which made Jane McDonald famous.

Michael Lampkowski

Such was the interest that Dr. Graeme Garden - aka one of 'The Goodies' - presented a series of programmes on new medical techniques and Lampkowski was one of his guests and discussed the procedure on BBC Television.

Michael Landes

On television, in Love Soup, a British television comedy-drama produced by BBC Television and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005, Michael Landes was the male lead as Gil Raymond in Series 1.

Mold cape

The cape was number 6 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary Our Top Ten Treasures presented by Adam Hart-Davis.

Nils Blythe

In 1994 he moved to The Money Programme on BBC television, reporting on business and economic developments around the world.

Ringlemere Cup

The cup was number 10 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary Our Top Ten Treasures which included an interview with Bradshaw.

Romek Marber

In 2013, The Minories, Colchester exhibited a retrospective of graphic work designed by Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society, Town and Queen magazines, Nicholson’s London Guides, BBC Television, Columbia Pictures, London Planetarium and others.

Ronald Forfar

Other parts include a tax inspector, Costello The Second, in Alan Bleasdale's The Muscle Market (a Boys from the Blackstuff prequel) and The Soothsayer in Herbert Wise's BBC television adaption of Julius Caesar.

Silverburn, Midlothian

It has a small community centre, with a garden surrounding the hall, which featured on the BBC Television programme The Beechgrove Garden in June 2008.

Snettisham Hoard

The hoard was number 4 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary Our Top Ten Treasures presented by Adam Hart-Davis.

Sophie Katinis

This led to a starring role as personal assistant Tina Carmody in the comedy series Stupid, Stupid Man followed by the role of Gabby West in the BBC television commissioned Australian soap opera, Out of the Blue.

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse

On November 10, 2012 Ramisco recorded a session for BBC Television with his backing band The Wat Wat Kings at BBC Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland.

Theresa Watson

Theresa Watson (born in Essex) is an English actress who played Prue Harris-Jones in the third series of the BBC television sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin alongside her husband Bruce Bould.

Tymes 4

Their second single was "She Got Game" and featured on BBC Television's Children in Need show Live & Kicking, The Saturday Show and Pepsi Chart Show.

Westfront 1918

Some shots from the film were used for scene-setting purposes in a 1937 BBC Television adaptation of the play Journey's End.


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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

During the 1990s it was featured in the BBC television series Children's Hospital.

Barnsdale Gardens

Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland, England were made famous by Geoff Hamilton through the BBC television series Gardeners' World which he presented from 1979 until his death in 1996.

Belle Tout lighthouse

The glass round room which once housed the light itself was featured on the popular BBC television show Changing Rooms, wherein it was re-designed by celebrity interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Brean Down Fort

The fort was used as a location for filming of the second episode, "Warriors", of the BBC television drama Bonekickers.

Canon Noel Duckworth

He was the subject of This Is Your Life on 12 January 1959 when, taken to the BBC Television Theatre by his friend the rowing commentator John Snagge, he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

Cardenden

The duel was the subject of an episode of Timewatch on BBC television, broadcast on 9 February 2007 entitled "The Last Duel".

Cliff Morgan

After his retirement from his executive post in BBC Television in 1987 he returned to radio, where his warm, mellifluous voice, together with his natural conversational style and his wide range of contacts in sport and entertainment, greatly benefited BBC Radio 4 series such as Sport on Four (1987–1998), My Heroes (1987–90) and Down The River.

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

Doggerland

The "Mammoth Journey" episode of the BBC television programme Walking with Beasts is partly set on the dry bed of the southern North Sea.

Dominic O'Brien

He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorize a pack of 52 playing cards in less than three minutes on the BBC television programme Record Breakers.

Eliot Otis Brown Walters

Eliot Otis Brown Walters (born 4 February 1993) is a British child actor best known for his role as Ryan in the BBC television drama Summerhill about the school by the same name.

Futera

Futera was the official licencee for non-sport titles including Mattel's "Barbie", BBC Television Sci-fi Series "Red Dwarf" in association with Grant Naylor Film Productions, and the feature film "Chicken Run" with Universal Studios, Aardman Animations & Pathé.

Harry Dodson

Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 – 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences.

Haut de la Garenne

In March 2008, BBC television personality Jimmy Savile started legal proceedings against The Sun newspaper which had, wrongly he claimed, linked him in several articles to the child abuse scandal at Haut.

Ice Warriors

Ice Warrior, alien race in the BBC television series Doctor Who

Jack Bannister

He is the current Talksport radio cricket correspondent, and was, for many years, a BBC television cricket commentator.

Jacki Bond

She came from South London and, with Samantha Juste, who co-hosted BBC television's Top of the Pops, was one of two British female vocalists signed to Strike or (in Juste's case) its subsidiary, Go.

James Kenelm Clarke

In 1967 he joined BBC Television in London as a producer on the award-winning progmme Man Alive, edited by Desmond Wilcox.

Jamie Reeves

When Reeves saw Bill Kazmaier win his third World's Strongest Man title in 1982, on BBC television, he decided that would be his aim, and took up weights.

Janet Webb

Born as Janet Patricia Webster in Liverpool, she was most famous for her appearances on BBC television's The Morecambe & Wise Show where was, anonymously, "the lady who comes on at the end".

Kate Rusby

The previously unreleased song "Wandering Soul" was Rusby's contribution to the soundtrack for Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand, an eight-part BBC television documentary series originally broadcast in November 2004.

Kieran Prendiville

He was BBC television's choice for on-site commentator of the first space shuttle mission, reporting from Cape Canaveral and Edwards Air Force Base.

Kirk Pride

A brief film of the wreck can be viewed on the episode "Reefs and Wrecks" of the BBC television series Wild Caribbean, produced in 2008.

Lardner's Ring

Its title is presumably a tribute to the writer Ring Lardner, Jr., who was among the writers of the 1950s BBC television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Leeds City Varieties

Between 1953 and 1983, the theatre achieved national fame as the venue for the BBC television programme The Good Old Days, a recreation of old-time music hall featuring Leonard Sachs as the alliterative Chairman and many well-known and less-well-known performers.

Linda Barker

Barker is a longterm fan of the 1980s BBC television series Howards' Way starring Jan Harvey.

Little Clarendon Street

The Porters Bar & Restaurant, formerly at 1–2 Little Clarendon Street and now occupied by Strada, appeared in the BBC television programme The Restaurant.

Llanddewi Brefi

Llanddewi Brefi was made famous by the BBC television series Little Britain, where the character Daffyd Thomas (a variation of the original Welsh name Dafydd; played by Matt Lucas) lives in the fictional village of Llandewi Breffi.

Luke Booth

Booth, and his uncle Christopher Eves, successfully participated in the BBC television show, Dragons' Den and received investment to launch their packaging solutions for the FMCG, Retail & Leisure markets.

Malcolm Parry

Parry has presented several programmes about architecture on BBC television, including The House of the Future and On the House, as well as Building on the Past and Work Matter for BBC Radio Wales.

Marcus Lloyd

The following year he won BBC Television's Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television play, A Relative Stranger, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Siobhan Redmond (Alison Fraiman), Suzanna Hamilton (Jenny Bell), Ioan Gruffudd (Nigel Fraiman) and Jason Isaacs (Peter Fraiman).

Oreste Pinto

In 1952, Pinto published two books, Spy-catcher and Friend or Foe?  These formed the basis of the 1959-1961 BBC television series Spycatcher, in which he was portrayed by Bernard Archard.

Patrick Marber

After Miss Julie, a version of the Strindberg play Miss Julie, was broadcast on BBC television in the same year.

Roj

Roj Blake, the eponymous rebel leader from the BBC television series Blake's 7

Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Before the Cartsdyke yard closed in the late 1970s it was used to film part of a BBC Television Play for Today called "Just a Boys' Game".

Scrap Iron Flotilla

The introduction to the march is described as "in the style of the opening theme music to the BBC television series Warship".

Sheila Granger

She has appeared on BBC Television and radio shows including BBC Radio 5 Live. In 2010, Sheila Granger was labelled "Britains Leading Hypnotherapist" by the Times of India.

The Circus, Bath

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Circus as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.

The Ghost Hunter

There were three separate series, each of six half-hour episodes The BBC television series was a major success, achieving the number one rating in the Radio Times poll of favourite children's programmes, coming ahead of Blue Peter, Grange Hill and a host of other programmes of the time.

The Love School

The Love School (broadcast in the U.S. as The Brotherhood) is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman and John Prebble.

The Tale of Pigling Bland

In 1994, an animated film adaptation was featured on the BBC television anthology series, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends with the voice of Pam Ferris as Aunt Pettitoes.

Tim Staffell

Among the projects upon which he worked were the BBC television adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and, for the inaugural series, he was chief model maker for the first series of children's TV show Thomas the Tank Engine.

Vaisey

Vaisey, Sheriff of Nottingham, fictional character in the 2006 BBC television series Robin Hood

Vaughn Edwards

Vaughn Edwards is a fictional character the BBC television drama Spooks being portrayed by actor Iain Glen.

Vilhelm Hammershøi

In 2005, Hammershøi's life and oeuvre was featured in a BBC television documentary, Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi, with the British comedian and writer Michael Palin.

William Lummis

In his 98th year, he appeared in a BBC television programme, Timewatch, recounting his memories of meeting survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade.