Historical Auntie

Alexandra Palace

Happy 75th birthday to BBC television!

To celebrate, Auntie Beeb is holding an open weekend at its original pre-war home Alexandra Palace, and of course its website (and BBC4) is turned over to retrospective articles, including a photo gallery, a tour of the original studio and a potted history of television broadcasting.

I would rather make this an excuse to wallow in nostalgia of my own, with just a few of the BBC TV programmes of my youth. How many do you remember, dear reader?

Andy Pandy theme

The Goodies theme

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe theme

The Herbs: Parsley the Lion

The Double Deckers theme

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin theme

Shoestring theme

Z Cars theme

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