#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 21 April 1985
1. #CoronationStreet 17.50m
2. Goldfinger 17.05
3. News At Ten 13.85
4. #Crossroads 13.45
5. #Emmerdale Farm 13.40
6. The Kenny Everrett Television Show 13.25
7. The Price is Right 13.10
8. #Dallas 12.85
#OnThisDay 21 April 1999 - MORE! magazine
BACON SIZZLES - Sacked #BluePeter presenter #RichardBacon behaving badly!
THE END OF THE LINE? Heavenli Adbi has done a Geri Halliwell and quit The Honeyz amid a flurry of gossip.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ... #HomeAndAway's Dieter Brummer?
#OnThisDay 21 April 1995
The first episode of FATHER TED was broadcast on Channel 4. Set on the fictional Craggy Island, it starred Dermot Morgan as Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon) and Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). It ran for 3 series.
#OnThisDay 21 April 1994
The first episode of medical drama CARDIAC ARREST was broadcast on BBC1. Written by #JedMercurio, then still a doctor himself, the show focused on the lives and challenges of junior doctors and was known for its realistic and sometimes dark portrayal.
#OnThisDay 21 April 1992
The death of comedian #BennyHill was announced.
Here's how the BBC and CNN discussed the news, and Entertainment Tonight and ITV paid tribute.
#OnThisDay 21 April 1992
BENNY HILL, THE KING OF SAUCY COMEDY, FOUND DEAD AT HIS HOME
#BennyHill, one of the world's most popular comedians and master of risqué jokes and sketches, was found dead at his home in Teddington, south-west London, last night . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1985
NOELE: "I Begged Her To Come and Live With Me," says star's pal #LarryGrayson - Comic Larry Grayson has revealed a secret heartache behind his close friendship with actress #NoeleGordon . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1984
STREET OF NO RETURN
Elsie Tanner's daughter, Linda, is returning to #CoronationStreet, but Elsie's tearaway son, Dennis, remains obstinately absent. "They've asked me back many times but nothing would ever persuade me to return," says Philip Lowrie . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1982
MY CROSSROADS: Which Way Now For Mr. Chance?
Has a nation of #Crossroads viewers seen the last of Adam Chance? Or will he return with more scheming. Actor Tony Adams swears even he doesn't know if the character will return to the screens . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1973
CORONATION STREET BRIDE
Actress #JulieGoodyear - #CoronationStreet barmaid Bet Lynch - got a military reception today when she arrived for a special marriage blessing service . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1968
IT'S A ONE WAY STREET
The first thing you notice about The Street is the fur coats. Stand in the crowded atmosphere of the Granda canteen and you can pick out the #CoronationStreet characters at once . . .
#OnThisDay 21 April 1967
THE DRAGON WAS A LAMB AT REHEARSALS
I walked into the #CoronationStreet rehearsal room - a big, bare room, dominated by a vibrant, dramatic personality. No, not Ena Sharples - the dragon was a lamb at rehearsals. Elsie Tanner was the eye-catcher . . .
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 29 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 20 April 1997
1. #EastEnders 23.34m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.35
3. Where The Heart Is 12.65
4. #Emmerdale 11.82
4. National Lottery Live 11.82
6. Peak Practice 11.64
7. Kavanagh QC 11.50
8. The Knock 10.64
9. #Neighbours
#OnThisDay 20 April 1994
BBC CRIES FOUL IN WAR OF SOAPS AS THE STREET CLEANS UP FOR ITV
The granddaddy soap of them all, ITV's 34-year-old #CoronationStreet, cleaned up on Monday night in a head on scheduling confrontation with its young BBC rival #EastEnders . . .
#OnThisDay 20 April 1993
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
On screen they may have kept up a running battle for 17 years, but away from the cameras #CoronationStreet's Johnny Briggs and Ken Barlow's alter ego #BillRoache are good friends . . .
#OnThisDay 20 April 1987
#EastEnders beautiful barrow girl #GillianTaylforth is an East Ender in real life and still lives in Islington. She has shared a flat for the last year with co-star #NickBerry - who plays her stepson Wicksy in the Albert Square saga . . .
#OnThisDay 20 April 1983
Inside #CoronationStreet -
HOW THE STREET GREW UP
AND THESE ARE THE HOMES WHERE THE STARS REALLY LIVE
#OnThisDay 20 April 1994
Following the end of Cheers, spin-off series FRASIER makes its UK debut at 10.00 on Channel 4.
Kelsey Grammer stars as "the morose shrink with more problems than his clients".
Here are early promos for the show.
#OnThisDay 20 April 1981
#DaveAllen returns to BBC1 with a new 50-minute special for Easter, beginning, naturally, with a somersaulting Pope.
#OnThisDay 20 April 1987
Hurry yourself along to the Top Rank Club in Birkenhead for the Easter Monday Bank Holiday Party. There's star cabaret at 12 noon with Ivy Tilsley (#LynnePerrie from #CoronationStreet), an Easter Bonnet Competition and Free Chicken and Chips!
From April 1993 - THE STREET -
The #CoronationStreet Companion
#DaranLittle - The Street's Memory Man
"Every house has a history every character an address ad family. There is one person and only one person who has all these facts at his finger tips and he is a Londoner ..."
From April 1992 - THE STREET
The #CoronationStreet Companion recalls what was happening back in April 1961, asks What's Been Happening in The Street lately?, and catches up with Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts).
From April 1991 - THE STREET
The #CoronationStreet Companion recalls:
GALA NIGHT and a personal appearance of #DorisSpeed, who had lost none of the style and dignity of the much-missed Annie Walker.
MOVING IN "To Jack and Annie Walker, 1939 had a far greater significance..."
From April 1989 - THE STREET
The #CoronationStreet Companion remembers: Dennis Tanner - The Young Rascal of The Street; Margaret Thatcher meeting Alf Roberts and popping into The Rovers; and "Moonfaced Fred Gee" taking Bet and Betty on a Picnic.
#OnThisDay 19 April 1985
The first episode of sitcom HOME TO ROOST is broadcast on ITV. Written by Eric Chappell, it stars #JohnThaw as Henry Willows and #ReeceDinsdale as his teenaged son Matthew. Here's a trailer for and the opening to the first episode. 29 were made in total.
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 19 April 1992
1. #CoronationStreet 19.89m
2. #EastEnders 18.18
3. #Neighbours 17.67
4. Inspector Morse 16.83
5. #HomeAndAway 15.18
6. #TheBill 13.81
7. This Is Your Life 13.48
8. #Heartbeat 12.96
#OnThisDay 19 April 1992
PRETTY POLLY RIVAL FOR STREET'S JULIE
Watch out Bet Gilroy, your crown as Queen of the Soaps is under threat - from former nude dancer #PollyPerkins. Polly has landed a starring role in new £10 million BBC sun-and-sex series #Eldorado . . .
#OnThisDay 19 April 1986
FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE - Street Romeo Settles Down -
Johnny Briggs grins that raffish grin that has quickened the pulse of many #CoronationStreet fans. After bedding more girls than he can remember, the Street's flashy factory boss is bound for the altar...
#OnThisDay 19 April 1983
Inside #CoronationStreet:
THE SHAPING OF ELSIE
Elsie Tanner started out twenty-two years ago. Since then #PatPhoenix has aged a little, filled out a little and survived the heartbreak of several love affairs . . .
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HILDA AND EDDIE. . .
#OnThisDay 19 April 1978
NO, I'M NOT REALLY LIKE ANNIE WALKER!
Annie Walker, queen of the Rovers Return, is the essence of smalltime tyranny. And since the first episode of #CoronationStreet, actress #DorisSpeed has worn the character like a glove . . .
