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Month: April 2024
Granada gallery
A selection of famous Granada programmes
500 good sports
Children make better contestants, say the staff at Criss Cross Quiz
TV’s boy quiz wonder
The 13-year Junior Criss Cross Quiz champion Alan Hindle
What it’s like to be… a £2,000 Criss Cross Quiz man
An interview with Criss Cross Quiz's big winner
Jeremy Hawk – the quiet quizmaster
Meet the host of Criss Cross Quiz
It’s fun being a quiz-kid
Children have fun on Junior Criss Cross Quiz
Answers are child’s play for the kids
– says Jeremy Hawk of Junior Criss Cross Quiz
Concentrating on Pat McHugh
Meet the hostess of Granada's Concentration
Meet the Concentration puzzle man
Bert Harrop draws George Cross's clues in Granada's popular quiz game
Count down for Basie
Count Basie makes a Personal Appearance
Marion Ryan meets ‘mein papa’!
Eddie Calvert and Marion Ryan make a Personal Appearance
Now for the new Paul Anka
Paul Anka makes a Personal Appearance
Car A102 speeds the news
Behind the scenes at Northern Newscast
New style old tunes
Jeremy Lubbock takes over keyboard duty on Piano Pops
Catchy Tunes are catching on again
Rock 'n' roll music is going out of fashion in 1960, but piano music is here to fill the void
Lt Marshal gains his objective
Gary Marshal stars in Bandstand
From Cooking to Crotchets
Donna Hightower stars in Bandstand
Home is where the heart is
Maureen Evans stars in Bandstand
Jazzman Eddie keeps ’em on the note
Stars flock to play in Granada's Bandstand
For Britain’s best small bands – a weekly… Bandstand
A new jazz show hits Granada's airwaves
The Cruel Wait
A wife and mother of trawlermen talks about fear
Willoughby Goddard sees a THIN future for FAT actors
An interview with one of The Man in Room 17 stars
Cameraman in the fashion
Granada's Camera in Action looks at fashion photography through the ages
Watch on the world
Introducing Granada's short-lived weekly international news show
ITV 1968
Granada's entry in the 1968 Independent Television Authority yearbook
ITV 1967
Granada's entry in the 1967 Independent Television Authority yearbook
ITV 1966
Granada's entry in the 1966 Independent Television Authority yearbook
ITV 1965
Granada's entry in the 1965 Independent Television Authority yearbook
ITV 1964
Granada's entry in the 1964 Independent Television Authority yearbook
ITV 1963
Granada's entry in the 1963 Independent Television Authority yearbook
Knights errant take to the hills
Meet husband-and-wife stars Hugh David and Wendy Williams
It’s Knight Errant’s move
Meet Chris McMaster, director of Knight Errant Limited
A new knight for the old firm
All change for the cast of popular Granada drama Knight Errant
Self portrait
… by JOHN TURNER, Adam Knight of Granada's Knight Errant '60
The back seat voice of conscience
Meet Richard Carpenter of Knight Errant – who is learning to drive
A private eye on Jeremy
It's Wizard looks at fingerprints and crime detection
Jeremy Purser finds It’s Wizard
13-year-old Jeremy Purser ask the science questions on It's Wizard
It’s Wizard – but it’s safe!
Granada's It's Wizard aims to present science to kids in an entertaining – but safe – way
Camera in Action brings history to life
Granada's new series uses old photographs to recall history
Love in the two-and-ninepennies
Mike Scott of Granada's Cinema and his wife Sylvia
Mr Swindley goes it alone
Meet Arthur Lowe, star of Coronation Street spin-off Pardon the Expression
N.-W. gives first night verdict
The Manchester Even Chronicle gives its judgement on Granada's opening night
Halifax man’s post with commercial TV network
Norman Somers is appointed chief announcer
Good Year for Granada – Record Profit
Granada Group is getting ready for its next big adventure
ITV for Yorks in October – with a regional “accent”
A transmitter in Yorkshire means a studio in the county and separate programmes, says the Yorkshire Observer
Second TV programme to begin early in May
Details emerge of Granada TV and its transmitters
ITV will start early in ‘sleepy’ N.-West
The Manchester Evening News reports that Granada will go off air early because Northerns like an early bedtime
Opening of Commercial TV in The North
A review of Granada TV's first night
How ITV Was Received on Merseyside
The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada's first night on air in 1956... and finds that the picture is terrible
Getting people and places together
Inside People and Places, Granada's hit magazine show
Poise in a topsy-turvy world
Want to look around Granada's studios in 1960? Paul Rycroft will show you the sights
This is THE NORTH: Here Are My Plans
Meet Sydney Bernstein and find out about his plans for the new Granada TV Network
The V.C War
Can the war between North and South Vietnam be won with American help, asks World in Action
Au H₂O
"In your heart, you know he's right (wing)" – World in Action looks at Barry Goldwater
L. B. J.
World in Action goes looking for the new president of the United States of America
Seen at 6.30
Inside Granada's greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30
Granada TV Chelsea
Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada's branch studio in London
And the SCENE is all set at Granada
Mike Scott celebrates 7 years of Granada in 1963 and the launch of Scene at 6.30
Granada TV chief on production problems
A Granada man addresses the Heywood Round Table in 1966
Granada goes to Rochdale
How a by-election in Lancashire made all elections TV elections
Egg-head among the hens!
Meet People and Places' comic inventor
Duet for drolls
Puppet satire 20 years before Spitting Image
Sporting doctor finds a link
Granada's People and Places doctor enjoys a sporting life
In this Wild West town… the sheriff is 20in tall
Mosey on down to Four Feather Falls
The Adam Faith Show
An audience programme for Adam Faith's Granada show
It started with the garbage men
Johnny Dankworth is the man behind One Man's Music
3 swing along to a King size success
Meet Michael, Tony and Dennis King
Viewers into voters
Granada and party conferences
Summer advertising
Advertise on Granada in Summer 1964
They buy your product in the summer too!
Advertise on Granada in Summer 1957
First in striking achievement for world television
Granada gets the pictures to CBS
Granadaland
This is Granadaland
Victoria Regina: four plays
Victoria Regina on Granada
ten tall candles for a first birthday
A print advertisement for Granada's first year
A fairy tale for all ages
An unusual outside broadcast for Granada – ballet from Brussels
My life with father
Granada's Head On looks at Randolph Churchill, who here looks at growing up with his father Winston
Royal pageantry comes North
The Queen visits Manchester in 1961
The Continent comes to Chelsea
Chelsea at Nine goes French
Keep dancing for a happy marriage
Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane appear on Chelsea at Nine
Pardon the Expression… that’s business
The comedy spin-off of Coronation Street
Spy-catching by remote control
The Man in Room 17 begins
Fine day for a sail…
All Our Yesterdays on the Dunkirk evacuations
Instant news for Yorkshire
Granada opens a remote studio in Leeds
Pictures from the past
Inside the All Our Yesterdays postbag
Henpecked, but happy!
A documentary series on heterosexual relations gives TVTimes the chance to claim how husbands are bullied by their wives
Drama break-through
Granada's new play series Six Shades of Black
Living with modern art
The paintings from Granada's corridor walls go on display at the Whitworth
The genius behind pop
Burt Bacharach is celebrated in a Granada special
Woman in waiting
Meet Anne Reid
Woman behind the headlines
The editor of The Headliners on her greatest scoop
Rose blooms when it’s dark outside!
The Odd Man returns in a new series
Meet the new Mike Sarne
The host of Junior Criss Cross Quiz and his other job
Panic stations – for World in Action
What happens when a World in Action story falls through
Gairmany calling!
Lord Haw Haw is remembered by All Our Yesterdays
Neighbours
Ena Sharples and Albert Tatlock
Boy with 120 pets
Zoo Time meets Richard Claypole
Yes, it’s a woman’s world… and I’m not complaining
A play strand called It's a Woman's World starts on Granada provides an excuse to hear the Earl of Arran's views on women
Stars with a sting
Meet wildlife cameraman Norman Langley