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STORY BOX
- 19.09.1962 Books to Enjoy – Redcap Runs Away (missing)
- 26.09.1962 Adventures of Today – World of Penguins (missing)
- 03.10.1962 Life in Other Lands – Return to the Stone Age (missing)
- 10.10.1962 Life in Other Lands – Cattle Station in Central Australia (missing)
- 17.10.1962 Nature Study – Collecting Crabs (missing)
- 24.10.1962 Nature Study – The Countryside in Winter (missing)
- 07.11.1962 Books to Enjoy – The Box of Delights (missing)
- 14.11.1962 Adventures of Today – Saving the Temples (missing)
- 21.11.1962 Story of Everyday Things – Pen and Paper (missing)
- 28.11.1962 Story of Everyday Things – Toys and Games (missing)
- 16.01.1963 The Hartwarp Light Railway (missing)
- 23.01.1963 Adventures of Today – Journey to the Lost World (missing)
- 30.01.1963 Life in Other Lands – Secrets of the Forest (missing)
- 06.02.1963 Life in Other Lands – Indians of the Andes (missing)
- 13.02.1963 Story of Everyday Things – Coins (missing)
- 20.02.1963 Story of Everyday Things – Meals (missing)
- 06.03.1963 Theseus and the Minotaur (missing)
- 13.03.1963 Nature Study – Looking at Fish (missing)
- 20.03.1963 Nature Study – How Animals Move (missing)
- 27.03.1963 Adventures of Today – Building a New Barbican (missing)
- 01.05.1963 Adventures of Today – Sailing to the Cape (missing)
- 08.05.1963 Story of Everyday Things – Shoes (missing)
- 15.05.1963 Books to Enjoy – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (missing)
- 22.05.1963 Nature Study – How Animals Feed (missing)
- 12.06.1963 Nature Study – Exploring a Sandy Beach (missing)
- 19.06.1963 Nature Study – Eyes and No Eyes (missing)
- 18.09.1963 Books – Emil and the Detectives (missing)
- 25.09.1963 Poetry – Man and Beast (missing)
- 02.10.1963 Nature Study – Waiting and Watching (missing)
- 09.10.1963 Everyday Things – Matches (missing)
- 16.10.1963 Other Lands – A Story of Sweden (missing)
- 23.10.1963 Geography – Buried Treasure (missing)
- 06.11.1963 Poetry – Town and Country (missing)
- 13.11.1963 Books – Minnow on the Say (missing)
- 20.11.1963 Nature – Looking at Sea-Anemonies (missing)
- 27.11.1963 Adventure – Sunken Treasure (missing)
- 15.01.1964 Puppets (missing)
- 22.01.1964 Books – The Little Mermaid (missing)
- 29.01.1964 Poetry – The Sea (missing)
- 05.02.1964 Nature – Seagulls (missing)
- 12.02.1964 Adventures of Today – Mountain Rescue
Picture only exists – there is no sound. - 19.02.1964 Nature – Forestry in Britain (missing)
- 04.03.1964 Books – The Hobbit (missing)
- 11.03.1964 Caves (missing)
- 18.03.1964 Poetry (missing)
- 25.03.1964 Episode No. 11 (missing)
- 29.04.1964 Geography – People of India (missing)
- 06.05.1964 Geography – Land of India (missing)
- 13.05.1964 A Tale from India – The Story of the Pole Star (missing)
- 27.05.1964 Nature – Looking at Birds (missing)
- 10.06.1964 Nature – Looking at Lobsters (missing)
CALL FOR ACTION
- 01.09.1960 The Orange Box: A Story About the Theft of a Radio-Active Isotope (missing)
If the programme you were looking for isn’t here there could be a number of reasons: It’s worth double-checking that you typed in your search string correctly. But if you’re sure you have, please bear in mind that there are a lot of programmes we don’t have any information on at all.
If the programme you’re searching for falls into one of these categories:
Sports ProgrammesDocumentaries
Religious Broadcasts
Reality Shows
Quiz / Game Shows
Some Children’s Magazine and Music Shows then we probably don’t have any information on it, so it might be missing, particularly if it was made in 1979 or earlier.
Lastly, don’t forget that we only hold information on British TV programmes, you won’t be able to find any information about programmes made for American or Australian television, for example. Just because we don’t have a listing for your programme doesn’t mean that it isn’t of interest to us. It just means that we don’t have any information about it.
We’ve got details on more than 175,000 different episodes, almost 40,000 of which are not thought to exist in the ‘official’ archives. Now, before you get too depressed by this fact, some of these are really old shows which were made before television programmes were generally recorded at all. We realise it’s very unlikely that these older programmes will exist at all, but there’s always the chance that someone recorded some 8mm film footage of them off their television screen or maybe made a sound recording of them while they were being broadcast. That’s still of interest to us.
However, our main hope is that someone will be able to help us recover some programmes which were recorded, but which are now thought to be lost for ever. That’s what this search engine is for – to help you identify whether that old film print you’ve got in your attic, or that old video recording you made back in the early 1970s is missing from the archives.
You could type in a programme name, or an episode name and click on ‘Search’ and it will give you some summary information whether or not the programme is lost. You don’t have to enter a complete name, entering part of the name – unless it’s very short – should find it too. If some or all of that programme is lost, you can click on the link and get further details. If it’s a music or variety programme you have, you may be able to locate it by typing in the names of one of the main guests and clicking on ‘Search’. This information is far from complete, but it may help you to identify a particular edition.
Our information is good, but it’s not perfect. There will be mistakes in it, and we know it’s incomplete. In particular, information is very patchy on programmes in the some categories. This website only contains information concerning British broadcasts. Happy searching!