#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 32 years ago 📺TV Listings for w.e. 9 January 1994 The plane crash sees #Emmerdale jump to 18.67m and 3rd place. Also, 1. #EastEnders 22.82 2. #CoronationStreet 20.91 4. #Neighbours 17.24 5. #Casualty 16.75 6. Licence to Kill 15.31 7. Barrymore 15.12

#OnThisDay 9 January 1985 Thames take out newspaper ads to promote two series premiering on ITV that evening - LYTTON'S DIARY with Peter Bowles and MOVING with Penelope Keith.

#OnThisDay 9 January 1991 - FAST FORWARD Will it be Becky or Brian who becomes the school council representative in #GrangeHill? Grant and Sharon are spending a weekend in Marbella in #EastEnders the cartoon.

#OnThisDay 9 January 1991 - FAST FORWARD BEAT THE CLOCK! Time to play with #DarrenDay. NEW KIDS ON THE HILL - Meet #GrangeHill's Richard, Fran and Nick. SKOOL REPORT - George A Cooper, aka Mr Griffiths. BEING LEONARDO! . . . It's Turtley Awesome Dudes!

From January 2009 Ahead of the DVD release of British gangster movie The Crew, one of its stars, former #Brookside regular #PhilipOlivier explains how in the film "there is totally rudeness, more than I've ever had to do . . ."

From January 2000 THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN Ahead of the second series of Queer As Folk, stars #CharlieHunnam, #AidenGillen and #CraigKelly, along with writer #RussellTDavies, discuss: "the same old b*ll*cks"

From January 1997 DOCTOR STRANGELOVE At last there is a good reason to stay in on Saturday nights. A new face, staff nurse Sam Colloby, has appeared on BBC1's popular medical drama #Casualty. It's a bit of a dream come true for 24-year-old #JonathanKerrigan, who plays Sam . . .

#OnThisDay 9 January 1979 #Emmerdale Farm - A strike at Yorkshire Television has meant that the villagers of Beckindale have had to wait until the 9th January to celebrate Christmas. So, naturally, expect plenty of goose plucking and dreadful sounding carol singers.

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 31 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 8 January 1995 1. #CoronationStreet 21.35 2. #EastEnders 20.96 3. #Neighbours 15.02 4. A Touch of Frost 14.71 5. National Lottery 14.36 6. Police Stop 14.25 7. #TheBill 14.20 8. #Emmerdale 13.97 9. Gladiators 13.85

#OnThisDay 8 January 1999 The first episode of #JonathanHarvey's Gimme Gimme Gimme is broadcast on BBC2, starring #KathyBurke and #JamesDreyfus. In this interview, Burke explains: "They all think I'm down to earth ... The only reason I've kept my accent is because I'm a lazy ..."

#OnThisDay 8 January 1992 Full page national newspaper ads are taken out to present - The BBC #DoctorWho Chess Set, meticulously crafted in fine pewter and featuring the complete cast of Doctors, plus his infamous enemies.

#OnThisDay 8 January 1989 A sequence of snippets from news flashes from BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 as reports of the Kegworth Air Disaster came in.

#OnThisDay 8 January 1981 Hurry yourself along to Tuxedo Junction in Market Street, Newcastle, where the most lavish nightclub in the country is proud to present a personal appearance of none other than #LewisCollins, alias Bodie of the Professionals.

#OnThisDay 7 January 1981 3 years before becoming Kevin Webster, a young #MichaelLeVell appears as paperboy Neil Grimshaw whose cheek towards Mavis draws the ire of Eddie Yeats in #CoronationStreet.

#OnThisDay 7 January 1984 #MichaelApsel hosts new game show Child's Play for the first time on ITV. What word is this 9-year-old defining? "It's where two people go off together and they have a good time and kiss and everything and go into a room and have a good time . . ."

#OnThisDay 7 January 1990 Despite having survived the cull that axed Marge, Rod, Hazel, Julie, Trevor, Paul, Laurie, Vince and Marie from #EastEnders, Sophie Lawrence (Diane Butcher) has decided to leave . . . I QUIT - Actress Sophie says goodbye to Diane and to the Square

#OnThisDay 7 January 1987 MURDER AT THE CROSSROADS MOTEL New producer of #Crossroads, William Smethurst, promises sweeping changes, including axing over half of the current regular cast and bringing back Amy Turtle!

#OnThisDay 7 January 1981 ALL IN THE NAME FOR MICHAEL Michael Turner has no chance of becoming unbalanced by virtue of a part in #CoronationStreet - he's changed his surname to Le Vell. The Manchester schoolboy, who appears tonight, started rehearsals on his 16th birthday.

#OnThisDay 7 January 1981 WHY ARE THEY SO CRUEL TO CROSSROADS? #NoeleGordon stood among the rubble of her luxurious flat and put on her no-nonsense Meg Mortimer look. "We all feel pretty hard done by. People just don't understand the function of #Crossroads. One does get upset...

#OnThisDay 7 January 1980 NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK, KIDS #GrangeHill returns for its third series, but the kids don't 'talk proper' like 'naice' middle-class children ought to do. #ToddyCarty, Terry Sue Pratt and Michelle Herbert give us the lowdown.

#OnThisDay 7 January 1976 The Manchester Evening News is the first to speculate that #PatPhoenix may be returning to #CoronationStreet - ELSIE RETURNING TO STREET: Elsie Tanner is coming back to Coronation Street after an absence of 2½ years. She will be seen on screen in April.

#OnThisDay 50 years ago - 6 January 1976 The first episode of Rentaghost was broadcast. The original lyrics to the well-known theme tune were rejected, but then played at the end of two of the 58 episodes: "At your party have a séance and hire Rentaghost We have medium sized tables here at . . .

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 41 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 6 January 1985 Channel 4 gets its highest ever rating with 13.85m for A Woman of Substance. Elsewhere, 1. #CoronationStreet 21.40 2. Wish You Were Here? 18.95 3. Superman II 17.60 4. Dr No 17.50 5. #Crossroads 15.90

#OnThisDay 6 January 1967 #ArthurLowe returns as Leonard Swindley in the first episode of #CoronationStreet spin-off Turn Out The Lights; a comedy also starring Robert Dorning and #BettyDriver, as the following week's TV Times shows.

From January 1996 - #CoronationStreet magazine catches up with #KathyJones, takes a peek through #AngelaGriffin's family photos, and remembers when: David & Irma bought the corner shop in Jan 66; Blanche Hunt left with bookie Dave Smith in Jan 76, and Kevin met Sally in Jan 86.

#OnThisDay 6 January 1995 The Sun asks WHERE ARE THE STARS OF CORONATION STREET NOW? 10 years after leaving, Fred Feast, who played #CoronationStreet's Fred Gee, claims that: "Playing Fred Gee nearly killed me."

#OnThisDay 6 January 1991 NEIGHBOURS AXE THEIR ONLY POM Ramsay Street's first Pom has been fired - months before British fans had a chance to see him in the Australian soap. Actor Bob La Castra has slammed TV bosses for sending his cockney character back to London . . .

#OnThisDay 6 January 1987 The Sun has this cartoon dig at fired #DoctorWho star #ColinBaker - "Sorry, there are no vacancies on Mercury . . . shall I try Mars?"

#OnThisDay 6 January 1987 WHY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE GRADE, BY AXED DR WHO #DrWho star #ColinBaker today blasts off against the man who sacked him, BBC Controller #MichaelGrade . . .

#OnThisDay 40 years ago - 6 January 1986 #SallyAnnMatthews makes the first of 1,416 appearances as Jenny Bradley in #CoronationStreet, offering to do an extra paper round for Mavis in the Kabin: "Yeah, I don't mind. We've only got rotten cookery first period anyhow . . ."

#OnThisDay 6 January 1986 New daytime game show Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak premiered on US television. The daily word association quiz ran for just 65 episodes over 13 weeks and marked the only time that #BruceForsyth hosted a series outside of his native UK.

#OnThisDay 6 January 1986 GRANGE HILL GETS TO GRIPS WITH THE TRAGEDY OF DRUGS - The Evening Post previews the new series of #GrangeHill, promising a hard-hitting drugs storyline and a rivalry between new characters Ziggy and Imelda.

#OnThisDay 6 January 1984 WHY BENNY MAKES HIS FANS CRY Paul Henry, who has played bumbling Benny in #Crossroads for eight years, is still astonished at the effect the character has on fans. "There are so many people who only seem to live for Crossroads," he says.

#OnThisDay 6 January 1982 #VioletCarson gives her first press interview since retiring from her role as Ena Sharples in #CoronationStreet two years previously. Here are two versions of it: AFTER ENA, NO WAY TO RELAX and ENA'S FED UP WITH DOING NOWT . . .

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 29 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 5 January 1997 1. #EastEnders 22.91m 2. #CoronationStreet 18.19 3. It'll Be Alright on the Night 14.89 4. #Emmerdale 14.82 5.#Casualty 13.88 6. #TheBill 13.53 7. Ballykissangel 13.47 8. #RonnieBarker: A Life in Comedy

#OnThisDay 5 January 1994 As the rescue attempt begins, following the devastating air crash in #Emmerdale, the episode ends with a haunting piano rendition of the theme music.

#OnThisDay 5 January 1981 BBC2 broadcasts the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, featuring Peter Jones as the Narrator. Here he is to tell us a little more about how the series was made.

#OnThisDay 5 January 1976 Lesley Judd spends the day as an air stewardess at Gatwick airport aboard a DC-10 jumbo jet for #BluePeter.

From January 1995 - #CoronationStreet magazine remembers #DorisSpeed, recalls when: Ena became Elsie's landlady in Jan '65; Len was suspected of murder in Jan '75 and Mike invested in flying suits in '85. Ken and Janet's was the 12th marriage and Joe Donnelli's the 12th death.

#OnThisDay 5 January 1995 The Sun asks WHERE ARE THOSE CORONATION STREET STARS NOW? 11 years after his departure, Peter Adamson, who played Len Fairclough in #CoronationStreet reveals: "Some days I can't go out so I lie in bed and stare at the ceiling."

#OnThisDay 5 January 1992 GO-GO STREET STAR A NO-NO #CoronationStreet has delivered an amazing snub to one of the best-known barmaids at the Rovers Return. Actress Jennifer Moss - who played Lucille Hewitt for 14 years - was left out of a TV tribute to the pub's pint pullers. . .

#OnThisDay 5 January 1988 The Telegraph publishes an obituary for Margot Bryant, who played #CoronationStreet's Minnie Caldwell: "Quite unlike Minnie in real life, Miss Bryant was outspoken, caustic and sophisticated with a love of travel . . ."

#OnThisDay 5 January 1982 COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE #GrangeHill returns for its fifth series. In the Guardian, creator Phil Redmond and producer Susi Hush explain its success.

#OnThisDay 5 January 1981 A PLACE IN THE 'STREET' - That was Michael's birthday present: Manchester Schoolboy #MichaelLeVell received a rather special present for his 16th birthday - a part in #CoronationStreet as paperboy Neil Grimshaw.

#OnThisDay 5 January 1995 Hurry yourself along to the Dorset Echo's front office and come and meet the star of Peter Pan. Yes, it's #Neighbours Doug Willis, aka Terence Donovan, who'll be autographing photographs of himself at £1 each!

#OnThisDay 4 January 1981 DR WHO IS ON THE MOVE AGAIN When #TomBaker stepped into the time machine he quickly became one of Britain's best-loved actors. Why has he decided to move on from "the part of a lifetime" in #DrWho?

#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 34 years ago 📺TV Ratings for w.e. 4 January 1992 1. #EastEnders 24.32m 2. #CoronationStreet 21.51 3. The Trouble With #MrBean 18.74 4. #Neighbours 18.40 5. Taggart 18.33 6. You've Been Framed 18.20 7. Watching 15.93 8. This Is Your Life 15.47

#OnThisDay from January 1993 - TV HITS #MacaulayCulkin talks about PUPPY LOVE! BEHIND THE SCENES AT 'THE WORD' with guests #MarkyMark and #DanniiMinogue. #TobyAnstis and Melissa Bell from #Neighbours review the singles.

#OnThisDay 4 January 1988 #Neighbours airs in its new early evening slot of 5:35 on BBC1 for the first time. Episode 302 ends on a Shane Ramsay cliffhanger. Proceeding this, however, Anne Charleston appears as Madge to introduce new viewers to the goings on in Ramsay Street.

#OnThisDay 4 January 1984 After 1606 appearances, #PatPhoenix stars as #ElsieTanner in #CoronationStreet for the final time: - "How long you away?" - "Ah, now there's a question!" This video combines her first and last appearances.