43 years ago today, Star Wars was first screened on UK TV

#TVTimes #StarWars #FanthaTracks #TVTimes #returnofthejedi 

Look back 43 years to the very first TV screening of Star Wars in the UK.

Read the whole story at the below link:

https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/film-music-tv/43-years-ago-today-star-wars-was-first-screened-on-uk-tv/?fsp_sid=46466

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith

English actress Maggie Smith owner of the Triple Crown of Acting - for film, television and theatre, winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.

From a 1965 TV Times photo shoot (unknown photographer)

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WHY VIDEO DISC JOCKEYS NEED TO CHANGE HORSES

Will video kill the radio star? Or will it be Kenny Everett? The #TVTimes asks the big questions in 1980.  

https://thames.today/why-video-disc-jockeys-need-to-change-horses

ITV's coverage of the wedding of Princess Margaret is the #TVTimes pick of the day for today… in 1960

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/05/06/did-you-see-1960/

 ATV's 'Clayhanger' is the #TVTimes pick of the day for today... in 1976

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/29/did-you-see-1976/

It's 22 April 1956, and your pick of the day in the #TVTimes is  #ATV's Jack Jackson Show. Special guest star: Libby Morris, the Canadian singer, comedienne and face-puller.

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/22/did-you-see-1956/

It's Easter weekend in 1984, and the #TVTimes recommends #Channel4's ‘Jesus – the Evidence’  and a repeat of ATV/ITC's 'Jesus of Nazareth'  over on #itv

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/08/did-you-see-1984-2/

DID YOU SEE… 1973

The pick of the day’s television today in 1973 sees #Yorkshire  staging Joe Orton's The Ruffian on the Stair.

The #TVTimes interviews Peter Willes, Head of Drama at #YTV and somehow never mentions homosexuality even once.

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/01/did-you-see-1973/

THE PALLADIUM SHOW IS ‘IN THE VAN’

#ATVLondon's  Sunday Night at the London Palladium involves spending Sunday day in a van behind the theatre, says the #TVTimes in 1958

http://associatedtelevision.network/programmes/the-palladium-show-is-in-the-van/