ATV (Midlands) schedule for Friday March 1st 1957
12.45 Lunch Box with Noele Gordon -1.30
4.45 Jolly Good Time including
The House That Jim Built and
The Adventures of The Scarlet Pimpernel - Sir Percy's Wager
5.45 News, newscaster- Ludovic Kennedy
5.55 Midlands News with Patricia Cox
6.00 Round Peg- finding the right job
6.30 Sailor of Fortune - Tangier
7.00 Emergency- Ward 10 Episode 4. Young Probationer Pat Roberts (Rosemary Miller) is on duty
7.30 Take Your Pick
8.00 Dragnet- The Big Friend
8.30 Jack Hylton's Music Box - George Formby, Lauri Lupino Lane
9.00 This Week
9.30 Douglas Fairbanks Presents Dream Stuff
10.00 About Homes and Gardens- Beryl Mason and Raymond Bishop
10.15 Palais Party - Lou Praeger
10.46 News with Ludovic Kennedy
11.00 Epilogue and Close down.
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ATV (London) schedule for Saturday December 28th 1957
12.30 Afternoon Out Steeplechasing at Wetherby
followed at 3.30 by A Surprise Event (any ideas what was shown??)
4.55 Ramar of the Jungle The Blue Treasure
5.25 Let's Face It - Alec Guinness in the make up chair
5.40 Sports Results and News
6.00 Abbott and Costello Show- The Western Story
6.30 Charlie Chan - with Raymond Young, Gene Anderson, Kay Callard, Alex Scott
7.00 Wyatt Earp Young Gun
7.30 The 64,000 Question with Robin Bailey
8.00 OSS- Frank finds out how American turncoats are being smuggled into Germany as spies
8.30 Val Parnell's Saturday Spectacular - Eric Sykes, Edmund Hockridge, Hattie Jacques
9.30 Web Episode 2 The Alibi
10.00 News
10.05 Q Planes film with Laurence Olivier
11.30 Epilogue Rev Noel Perry-Gore, Vicar of St John's Wood
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ATV (Midlands) schedule for Tuesday March 11th 1958
12.45 Thought for the Day - Rev John Morris
12.47 Lunch Box with Noele Gordon -1.30
2.43 For Schools More Power, repeated at 3.23- Close at 3.50
5.00 Jolly Good Time including
The Adventures of Twizzle Twizzle Gets Lost, and
5.25 Lassie - Gramps' Birthday
5.55 News
6.05 Midlands News newscaster- Patricia Cox
6.10 Mark Saber- The Sound of Death
6.40 Miscellany - ad mag with Patricia Dare
7.00 Charlie Chan with Alan Tilvern, Ann Hanslip, John Stuart
7.30 Emergency- Ward 10 with John Paul as RSO Hughes
8.00 Criss Cross Quiz
8.30 East End West End - with Sid James who learns that a dealer's life is just a living
9.00 Gun Law - Who Lives By The Sword
9.30 Val Parnell's Spectacular - Dickie Valentine, Arthur Haynes, Irene Handl
10.30 The Storyteller
10.46 News
11.00 Epilogue- Rev Charles Tompkins
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ATV (London) schedule for Sunday November 2nd 1958
11.15 Church St Joseph & St Francis Xavier Richmond York- 12.15
1.30 Motor Cycle Scramble from Mayfields Course, Ringinglow, York (ABC)
2.25 Free Speech with Lord Boothby, WJ Brown, Michael Foot, Alan Taylor
2.55 Music Shop - host Teddy Johnson with Joan Regan, Billie Anthony
3.25 No Parking film starring Gordon Harker
4.40 Slater's Bazaar -ad mag with John Slater, Bert Weedon, Mavis Sage, Tony Hilton, Ray Cooney
4.55 Caroll Levis Junior Discoveries
5.25 The Adventures of Robin Hood - The Devil You Don't Know
5.55 It Can Happen Tomorrow - scientist Ritchie Calder with the latest scientific news (ATV)
6.00 News
6.15 The Sunday Break - with Rev David Sheppard
7.00 About Religion - School Religion
7.25 News
7.30 Wyatt Earp- Ballad and Truth
8.00 Sunday Night at the London Palladium- Dolores Gray
9.00 Dotto - quiz with Robert Gladwell
9.30 News
9.35 The Invisible Man- Shadow on the Screen
10.05 Armchair Theatre The Witching Hour starring Dennis Price, Thora Hird
11.10 After Hours - Shirley Bassey, Bernard Braden, Stirling Moss
Epilogue- Rev Robert Duce, Minster of Pett's Wood Congregational Church
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ATV (Midlands) schedule for Monday March 16th 1959
12.45 Thought for the Day - Rev John Morris
12.47 Small Time - Mr Happy, Brock and Bruin 9: Brock's Umbrella
1.00 News
1.02 Lunch Box with Noele Gordon -1.30
2.43 For Schools Matter in Use No 9, repeated at 3.23- Close at 3.50
5.00 Seeing Sport - Equitation
5.25The Adventures of Popeye
5.55 News
and 6.05 Midlands News newscaster- Patricia Cox
6.10 Mark Saber- Killer on the Prowl
6.40 Right to Reply - William Clark
7.00 William Tell- The Avenger
7.30 Shadow Squad- The Directors' Dilemma part 1
8.00 The Melody Dances- with Cyril Stapleton and His Band (ATV)
8.30 Wagon Train - The Beauty Jamison Story
9.30 Jack Hylton Presents Alfred Marks Time
10.00 News
10.15 Searchlight - The Repairs Muddle with Kenneth Allsop
10.45 Rainbow Room with Jean Morton
11.00 Epilogue - Father Michael Hollings MC, Asst RC Chaplain London University/ Close down.
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ATV (London) schedule for Saturday August 22nd 1959
1.40 News
1.45 Motor Cycle Racing at Silverstone, and Racing from Ripon
4.50 The Adventures of Aggie - Halvah (rpt, first shown May 4th 1957)
5.20 The Adventures of Robin Hood - Marian's Prize (rpt, first shown June 1st 1958)
5.45 News
6.00 Setting Up Home- David Jacobs on bathrooms
6.15 Holiday Town Parade - from Spa Royal Hotel Bridlington, with guest Derek Roy
7.00 Sword of Freedom - The Strange Intruder
7.30 Highway Patrol - A small town sheriff captures racketeer Jack Avery
8.00 Saturday Spectacular- with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy
9.00 Maverick - The Jewelled Gun
9.55 News
10.00 Murder in Reverse film starring William Hartnell (rpt, first screened April 21st 1957)
11.25 OSS- Frank is sent to Bergen (rpt, first shown December 21st 1957)
Weather and Epilogue Rev Noel Perry-Gore
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ATV (London)
Saturday October 3rd 1959.
10pm was the scheduled start for a
Party Political Broadcast, titled
Jo Grimond The Liberal Leader.
In view of the forthcoming election, this was unusually screened on a Saturday evening. Whether ATV resented such an intrusion on the usual night of entertainment, and whether Jo Grimond wasn't quite used to the vagaries of live telly, there occurred one of those typical Commercial Telly gaffes.
It seems Jo overran by about ten or eleven seconds, so that on the commercial channel at any rate, that was more than his allocated time. As a result, promptly at 10.10pm up came a caption, Jo was cut off, the slinky voice of Peter Cockburn returning the viewers to their wonted feast of entertainment. One critic, William Blatchford complained, that this "was a piece of stupidity ranking for sheer incompetence and bad manners with any action of this election." He indignantly described it as a flagrant moral infringement, rather nicely concluding, "perhaps it's as well Her Majesty is not being televised this Christmas"!
Still I suppose it wasn't quite as bad as that celebrated occasion when Shakespeare overran, and the ending was lost to commercials.
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ATV (London) schedule for Sunday July 17th 1960
11.00 Morning Prayer from St Hilary's Parish Church, Wallasey -12.00
2.50 Patrick O'Hagan Sings - Bless You, Dear Old Donegal, Angels Guard Thee
3.05 The Shipbuilders film starring Clive Brook (rpt from Aug 2nd 1958)
4.35 Get This ad mag with Josephine Douglas and David Rees
4.45 William Tell - The Mountain People (rpt from May 31st 1959)
5.15 Hawkeye - Hawkeye's Homecoming (rpt from Nov 3rd 1957)
5.45 The Wonder of Man - a doctor looks at the human body (ATV)
6.05 News
6.15 The Sunday Break with guest Ronnie Hilton
7.00 About Religion - Heaven and Hell
7.25 News
7.30 White Hunter - The Fugitive
8.00 Bonanza - The Spanish Grant
8.55 News
9.00 Bernard Delfont's Sunday Show with the Piccolo Puppet Theatre, Tommy Cooper, Adele Leigh
10.00 Armchair Mystery Theatre - Madeleine with Adrienne Corri
11.00 International Detective - The Bristol Case
followed by The Weather Forecast
The Epilogue Rev Peter Gillingham Vicar of Horsham
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ATV (Midlands) schedule for Thursday July 28th 1960
12.45 Thought for the Day - Rev John Morris
12.47 Lunch Box with Noele Gordon -1.30
2.00 Racing from Redcar (TTT Presentation)-4.00
5.00 Four Feather Falls- Ghost of a Chance, and It's Wizard
5.25 Lassie - Transfusion (rpt, first shown July 30th 1959)
5.55 News
and 6.05 Look Around newscaster- Patricia Cox
6.30 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon - The Mark of Crime
7.00 Cool for Cats with Kent Walton
7.30 It's Only Money quiz with Tommy Trinder (A-R)
8.00 Putting on the Donegan- with Roy Castle
8.30 No Hiding Place - The Last Deal
9.25 News
9.40 Television Playhouse The Barber of Stamford Hill with Lee Montague
10.35 Get This! - ad mag with Josephine Douglas and David Rees
10.50 Highway Patrol - Joe and Dolly Parker work a hitchhiking ruse
11.24 News Headlines and Weather Forecast
11.26 Epilogue - Rev JCH Tompkins, Rector of Handsworth, Birmingham
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ATV (Midlands) schedule for Wednesday June 7th 1961
12.45 Thought for the Day - Rev John Morris
12.47 Lunch Box with Noele Gordon -close at 1.22
2.43 For Schools The British Isles no5 Communications with John Richmond (A-R) -3.05
3.15 For Schools preparing a Play no1 (rpt from June 15th 1960)/ Close at 3.45
5.00 A to Zoo- U for Underground and Ursines
5.25 The Adventures of Robin Hood - The Goldmaker's Return (rpt, first shown Oct 13th 1957)
5.55 News and 6.05 Midlands News newscaster- Patricia Cox
6.10 Roving Report - The Divided City (Berlin)
6.30 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon - One Good Turn
7.00 Broken Arrow - The Trial
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 Val Parnell's Startime- with Edmund Hockridge, Adele Leigh
8.55 Boyd QC - Treasure Trove
9.25 News
9.35 Homicide film starring Robert Douglas
11.05 News Headlines
11.07 Saber of London - Last Chapter (running time allowed seems only 20 minutes!)
followed by The Weather Forecast
11.28 Epilogue - Rev Harold T Cook, Minister of Britsol Road Methodist Church Northfield Birmingham
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ATV (London) schedule for Sunday October 29th 1961
11.00 The Morning Service from The Parish Church Newport Pagnell (ABC)-12.05
2.15 The Pursuers - The Gun
2.45 Sir Francis Drake - Doctor Dee
3.15 Call Oxbridge 2000 - Alison brings home a young man, with much comment from the Graham household
4.00 Plateau of Fear- Final episode: Slam-down
4.30 Supercar - Pirate Plunder (rpt)
5.00 Tempo with comments from the Beyond the Fringe Team
5.50 Get This! - ad mag with Josephine Douglas and David Rees
6.15 The Sunday Break with Ken Colyer's Jazzmen
7.00 About Religion - King Herod: Committed for trial with Godfrey Quigley
7.25 News
7.30 77 Sunset Strip - Hot Tamale Caper, part 1
8.25 Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium starring Frankie Vaughan
9.25 News
9.35 Drama '61 So Long at the Fair starring Kika Markham
10.35 Bonanza - The Dark Gate
The Weather Forecast
The Epilogue - Rev Paul Morton-George, minister of Wallington Methodist Church
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ATV (Midlands) schedule for Tuesday March 6th 1962
12.45 Thought for the Day Canon Charles Crowson
12.47 Lunch Box -1.22
1.30 For Schools Chemistry for Sixth Forms No16 Glass -1.50
2.35 For Schools Summing It Up No17 Looking at Shape (ATV) -2.48
2.53 For Schools Discovery No7 Embryology (Granada) -3.20
3.25 For Schools French from France No17 La Vente aux Encheres (ATV) -3.45
5.00 Tuesday Rendezvous
5.55 News
6.05 Midlands News with Patricia Cox
6.15 This Wonderful World
6.45 Here and Now
7.00 Ideal Home - network ad mag with George Martin, Fanny and Johnnie Craddock
7.30 Mess Mates - You're Never Alone
8.00 Meet Mr Callaghan film with Derrick de Marney (News 9-9.15)
9.55 Strange Experiences three short films (not specified)
10.05 Arthur Haynes Show
10.35 Pencil and Paper
11.05 The Four Just Men - The Man in the Road with Dan Dailey (rpt)
11.28 The Weather Forecast and
The Epilogue Canon Charles Crowson, Vicar of Yardley Birmingham, & Close down
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