#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 28 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 4 October 1998 1. #CoronationStreet 16.68m 2. #EastEnders 16.33 3. #Heartbeat 14.36 4. #Casualty 12.16 5. #Emmerdale 11.66 6. Ground Force 11.05 7. Airport 10.97 8. #TheBill 10.90

#OTD from October 1994 - #CoronationStreet magazine remembers Stan Ogden's wrestling match in Oct '64, a holiday to Majorca in Oct '74 and Jack Duckworth losing his licence in Oct '84. The 9th death was Steve Tanner's and the 9th wedding Audrey and Dickie. #MichaelBall returns to the cobbles.

#OnThisDay 4 October 1989 - FAST FORWARD Feddie Boswell and Lilo Lil frolic in the bushes in BREAD: "...pink and passionate, eh? H-MMMGNNPHFF!!!" Whilst in 'ALLO 'ALLO: "All the time I lie in bed, I see flashing knobs. I am plagued by flashing knobs..."

#OnThisDay 4 October 1989 - FAST FORWARD #KylieMinogue - SSHHH!! YOU CAN MEET ME!! Annie Jones from #Neighbours reveals - "I MISS MY NEIGHBOURS FAMILY" SCHOOL REPORT - #Sonia tells how she "got detention for singing in class"

#OnThisDay 4 October 1985 THE RANDY ROTTER WHO'S A WINNER On the night J.R. was shot, sixteen million Britons were watching. When Deidre and Ken were gazing into each other's eyes more than eighteen million tuned in. Now Dirty Den has done it for #EastEnders . . .

Then, exactly six years later, #OTD, 4 October 1995, it's predicted that #CoronationStreet will add a fourth episode each week - TV STREET GOES 4 DAYS A WEEK 'Overworked' stars in fury at bosses

#OnThisDay 4 October 1989 CORONATION TREAT It's confirmed that from 20 October, #CoronationStreet will be broadcast on three nights per week, with a new regular Friday night instalment. Here's how some of the newspapers reported the announcement.

#OnThisDay 4 October 1985 The Mirror reports on the SEX SHOW ROMPS OF THE BLUE PETER STAR "The sleazy secret life of former #BluePeter action man Michael Sundin is revealed. Only two days before he joined the programme he took part in a bizarre West End sex show . . . for gays."

Remembering Patricia Routledge . . . in "Janus" in November 1958 "When We Are Married" in January 1961 "The Brink" in February 1961, and "Little Mary Sunshine" in June 1962

#OnThisDay 3 October 1990 - FAST FORWARD Tegs and Matthew try to keep hold of their dinner money in #GrangeHill. The council workers are going mad in #EastEnders the cartoon.

#OnThisDay 3 October 1990 - FAST FORWARD KORKS! . . . IT'S KRISTIAN - Getting to Know Todd from #Neighbours. SKOOL REPORT - Bread's #MelanieHill reveals she was "a bit of a demon" SO WHAT'S FOR BREKKIE THEN? Producer #RussellTDavies talks about new show Breakfast Serials.

#OnThisDay from October 1993 - THE STREET The #CoronationStreet companion catches up with #KathyJones - Tricia Hopkins Seventeen Years On. #SueJenkins After the Street - Gloria Goes West. What was Elsie Tanner up to back in 1963 and what's Minnie Caldwell doing with that drill?

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 32 years ago 📺Tv Ratings for w.e. 3 October 1993 1. #EastEnders 18.93m 2. #CoronationStreet 18.56 3. #Casualty 14.48 4. #TheBIll 14.08 5. #Heartbeat 14.01 6. #Neighbours 13.88 7. Strike It Lucky 13.67 8. London's Burning 13.55

#OnThisDay 3 October 1990 STARRING ROLE IN GRANGE HILL #LuisaBradshawWhite makes her small screen debut in in January in the popular BBC school drama #GrangeHill. Luisa was cast in a small part but made such an impression she was offered a larger role . . .

#OnThisDay 3 October 1988 G'DAY KIDS Aussie star Peter O'Brien hopes to give his fans a surprise when he takes on his toughest role ever. The former #Neighbours hunk wants to shed his heartthrob image and be taken seriously . . . #JasonDonovan could be the new George Michael. . .

#OnThisDay 3 October 1987 SHANE'S NO LONGER THE BOY NEXT DOOR #Neighbours is an Aussie soap with more crises, crimes, revelations and reunions in one episode than most dramas manage in a month. It makes Crocodile Dundee look sophisticated. One of its biggest attractions is . . .

#OnThisDay 3 October 1987 WHAT A LORRA SNOBS! Ratings Queen Cilla Blasts Those Blind Date Bashers "They come on because they wanna be on the telly. They certainly don't come on because they're looking for an ideal mate," says #CillaBlack

#OnThisDay 3 October 1985 YOU DIRTY RAT - Roland joins BBC for a furry fortune: "Roland Rat has turned tail on TV-am and scuttled off to join the BBC ... 'It'll make Wogan's weekly wage look like a bag of peanuts,' Wily Roland admitted yesterday."

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 42 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 2 October 1983 1. #CoronationStreet 14.40m 2. The A-Team 14.25 3. Winner Takes All 13.50 4. The Winds of War 13.30 5. Give Us A Clue 12.70 6. Punchlines 12.15 7. The Morecambe and Wise Show 11.90

#OnThisDay 2 October 1980 NO FLIES ON US! This week, NME is in Baggy Trousers and Baggy Trousers are in NME. Yes, new and entertaining views of the importance of snappy legwear in daily life are but one small section of the MADNESS extravaganza . . .

#OnThisDay from October 1992 - THE STREET The #CoronationStreet companion speaks to Jill Summer (Phyllis Pearce), recalls what was happening back in October 1961 (including Elsie Tanner's relationship with Bill Gregory), and recaps What's Been Happening in the Street?

#OTD from October 1993 - INSIDE SOAP LOVE AT LAST! #EastEnders' Kathy & Phil get serious! "OUR EYES MET AND IT WAS LIKE ... ZING!" #DanniiMinogue is planning a Christmas wedding with co-star #JulianMcMahon. #CoronationStreet's TRACY GOOES AWOL! After a lifetime spent upstairs...

#OnThisDay 2 October 1992 Producer Verity Lambert, "the woman with the toughest job on TV" reveals exclusively to The Mirror - HOW I'M GOING TO SAVE ELDORADO "Keep watching - soon you will really like it"

#OnThisDay 2 October 1986 Following the recent death of #PatPhoenix, former #CoronationStreet scriptwriter and editor Malcolm Lynch speaks of: MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH STREET STAR PAT "Pat Phoenix did not become Elsie Tanner; on the contrary, Elsie Tanner became Pat Phoenix."

#OnThisDay 2 October 1983 A "disillusioned" #PatPhoenix explains why she has quit #CoronationStreet, telling the Mirror: I WANT TO BE FREE "Could you imagine Victoria Principal from Dallas at an Ideal Home exhibition or opening bus stations like I do?"

#OnThisDay 2 October 1983 The People has this #CoronationStreet exclusive: HORROR END FOR LEN - Street love affair riddle as Fairclough dies in M-way crash. Plus, #TracieBennett reveals she's "Terrified of Men . . ."

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 25 years ago 📺TV Ratings for BBC2/C4 for w.e. 1 October 2000 1. The Weakest Link 4.19m 2. Robot Wars 3.59 3. #The Simpsons 3.48 4. Fresh Prince of Bel Air 3.09 5. #Friends 3.05 6. Countdown 3.00 7. #Thunderbirds 2.94 8. #TOTP 2 2.68

#OnThisDay 1 October 1983 LWT take our newspaper ads to tell us to . . . GIVE THE FAMILY A SUNDAY TREAT For the first time ever - LIVE League Football on ITV. The Big Match 2.30 Sunday afternoon on LWT - London's Weekend ITV

#OnThisDay 1 October 1981 Thames Television take out newspaper ads to let us know that . . . THIS EVENING 1,000 PEOPLE WILL GET ON THE WRONG TRAIN The Cassandra Crossing, 7.30: #SophiaLoren and #RichardHarris star in this nail-biting film about a train carrying a deadly virus ...

#OnThisDay 1 October 1991 WE REALLY ARE VERY NORMAL Madcap #RikMayall and #AdeEdmondson have sunk to their most sordid depths yet. Their characters Richie Richards and Eddie Hitler in the new sitcom Bottom are snivelling scumbags. But wait. There's something far more shocking ...

#OnThisDay 1 October 1988 DR WHO BOOTS STALLONE OUT OF HIS TARDIS Time Lord #DrWho has won another epic battle against an extraordinary being - this time destroying Rambo star #SylvesterStallone. The man from the Tardis was all set to be played by Stallone . . .

#OnThisDay 1 October 1988 The new producer of #EastEnders, Mike Gibbon, claims that EASTENDERS IS AS BAD AS CROSSROADS Show boss hammers 'dull' stars: "The show's dreary. The scripts have got to improve and there must be more laughs."

#OnThisDay 1 October 1983 ANNIE WALKER OUT OF THE STREET TV's #CoronationStreet lost a third star last night - Annie Walker. The prim, posh landlady of the Rovers Return is being written out because the 70-year-old actress #DorisSpeed is unwell . . .

#OnThisDay 1 October 1979 With the ITV strike rumbling on, McEwan's Lager take out full page newspaper ads to let us know . . . HOW THE GROUSEBEATERS MANAGE TO SPEND THEIR EVENINGS WITHOUT ITV

#OnThisDay 30 September 1988 DALEKS HAVE KNEES TOO Twenty-five years after the first Doctor Who series, the Daleks are back, still hell-bent on universal domination. The Sunday Telegraph gets the inside story . . .

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 42 years ago 📺 TV Ratings from September 1983 with not a single show from the BBC in the top 50! 1. #CoronationStreet 14.85m 2. The Winds of War 14.50 3. The A-Team 14.25 4. Star Wars 13.70 5. Winner Takes All 13.50 6. The Sea Wolves 13.30 7. The Morecambe & Wise Show 13.25

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 46 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 30 September 1979 and with ITV off the air, the BBC has a clean sweep - 1. To The Manor Born 22.70 2. Blankety Blank 21.75 3. #LarryGrayson's Generation Game 21.70 4. Last of the Summer Wine 20.90 5. Mastermind 20.55

#OnThisDay 30 September 1978 MY FASHION SECRETS - BY PAT PHOENIX #PatPhoenix, the redhead with flashing eyes and glamorous sexy image, known to millions as Elsie Tanner in #CoronationStreet, reckons she is going to be a freak Mae West . . .

#OnThisDay 30 September 1994 The Star has this #EastEnders exclusive: SINFUL SECRETS OF CINDY AND BINNIE They're the wild women of Albert Square and they're sending millions of soap viewers into a right old lather. EastEnders is turning into a hotbed of passion . . .

#OnThisDay 30 September 1994 ALFREDA GARNETT - That's what BBC want to turn me into, storms Alf: "The BBC prefer to think people like Alf will go away if they ban him. The politically correct crowd create a fictional world in which none of the unfortunate things exist . . ."

#OnThisDay 30 September 1994 BIG BLUBFAST #ChrisEvans and #GabyRoslin weep on his last morning. He says sorry to crew of The Big Breakfast for being horrible.

#OnThisDay 30 September 1993 ITV confirm that Brighton Belles, the UK's adaptation of The Golden Girls, is to be dropped half-way through it's run, with viewing figures having dropped to a "disappointing" 7 million.

#OnThisDay 20 September 1993 HAPPY BIRTHDAY? BLUE PETER NEARLY DROVE ME POTTY! #BluePeter is set to celebrate a historic event - its 35th birthday. But the programme that gave joy to generations of children put years on one presenter. #JohnNoakes confessed yesterday . . .

#OnThisDay 30 September 1993 AND HERE'S EIGHT WE MADE EARLIER - Blue Peter stars toast 35 years: Eight former #BluePeter presenters met for an anniversary party yesterday - and recalled how the TV kids' favourite made them nationwide stars.

#OnThisDay 20 September 1981 A NICE PAIR OF RONNIES . . . And The Two In The Middle Aren't Bad Either - Fancy letting this couple loose in a harem. It's Piggy Malone and Charley Farley, alias #RonnieBarker and #RonnieCorbett, under their disguises . . .

#OnThisDay 30 September 1961 Hurry yourself along to the Television Exhibition at Telefusion's London Road Branch in Derby to catch ENA SHARPLES (Miss Violet Carson) star of I.T.V.'s CORONATION STREET. #VioletCarson #CoronationStreet

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 39 years ago 📺TV Ratings for the whole of September 1986 1. #EastEnders 21.70m 2. In Private, In Public: The Prince & Princess of Wales 18.45 3. #OnlyFoolsAndHorses 17.50 4. #CoronationStreet 16.20 5. Blind Date 13.85 6. Murder With Mirrors 13.40

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago 📺TV Ratings for all of September 1985 1. Open All Hours 16.85m 2. #CoronationStreet 16.45 3. Fresh Fields 16.35 4. Superman III 15.60 5. #EastEnders 15.30 6. The Brothers McGregor 15.15 7. In Sickness And In Health 15.10 8. Minder 14.90

#OnThisDay 29 September 1979 SPEECHLESS! - Esther's Young Stars Gagged By The Law - Two of Britain's youngest and most talkative TV stars are speechless throughout recordings for #EstherRantzen's "Junior That's Life" shows. If you watch you will see ten-year-old #ShaunLey . . .

#OnThisDay 29 September 1979 Hurry yourself along to Runcorn for the MISS SHOPPING CITY 1979 Beauty Contest. Watch lots of gorgeous girls compete for a terrific first prize of £200 with Grand Final guest judge #JohnnyBriggs - Mike Baldwin from TV's #CoronationStreet.