Drama for everyone!
ATV's dramatic output in the 1950s
Programmes
The shows, series and spectaculars ATV brought to our screens
Chris, Sally and Spit – organising meyhem every Saturday
It's Saturday morning madness!
This hospital serial really does help
Emergency – Ward 10 reaches its 100th episode
The Palladium Show is ‘in the van’
Sunday Night at the London Palladium involves spending Sunday day in a van behind the theatre
The making of the Muppets
Inside ATV's international hit variety show
Annual Report 1969
1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals
Watch carefully – it’s TV’s big night
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
How wrestling can get a hold on you
ATV's new wrestling sitcom 'The Losers' gives the TVTimes an excuse to look behind the world of professional wrestling in 1978
It’s Crossroads’ 3,000th Birthday
The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of 'Crossroads' in 1978 in a - frankly bonkers and baffling - celebratory article written by Meg Mortimer
You have to laff at Lenny’s new faces
An interview with ATV's latest star in 1975: a 16-year-old impressionist from Dudley called Lenny Henry
Sergeant Cork
Meet Sgt Cork and the other members of CID in the 1890s appearing on ATV in 1963
Ghost Squad
ATV's Ghost Squad - based on a real Metropolitan Police undercover division - is profiled in 1963
Tonight’s ATV London… in 1968
A look at what was on ATV in London on Sunday 28 July 1968
Arthur Haynes
The ATV Television Show Book for 1963 looks at one of ATV's biggest stars: Arthur Haynes
Where were Elton and Miss Piggy when the lights went out?
Elton John gives an interview to TVTimes to coincide with his appearance on The Muppet Show in 1977
Morecambe and Wise
Meet the stars of ATV's hit comedy sketch show in 1962
It’s a tough life being a Saint
Ian Ogilvy discusses his fear of fame as he completes a series of the Return of the Saint in 1978
A Golden Hour
ATV responds to accusation that their programming is too light with a heavy hour of peak-time arts in 1963
Happy birthday! to ‘Seeing Sport’
The TVTimes welcomes the second series of ATV's 'Seeing Sport' in 1957
Games people play with Monkhouse
Bob Monkhouse talks about his history of game shows as he prepares for a series of Celebrity Squares in 1975
How Noele Gordon takes the air
Noele Gordon learns to fly for an ATV Midlands series
It’s the Muppet Show…
Meet the stars of ATV's wacky new variety series
Christmas Box
The TVTimes pays a visit to Alpha studios to watch Lunch Box prepare for Christmas
Emergency – Ward 10
Emergency - Ward 10, the twice weekly serial, reached its 500th edition in 1962
The men in my life and the life in my men – by Miss Piggy
The TVTimes speaks to international superstar and screen idol Miss Piggy in 1978
Shut That Door!
Larry Grayson interviews Noele Gordon on Shut That Door! in 8 September 1972
Benny Hill
Clips from the ending of Benny Hill's ATV show from 26 December 1967
Cor luv a duck! It’s The Larkins
How ATV's The Larkins came to be in 1958
Fireball XL5
The exciting new Gerry Anderson space adventure!
Let them answer back!
Introducing ATV's new "counter-attack" programme in 1958
On the Braden Beat
Lancing the boil of pompousness: Bernard Braden takes on the bigwigs