Good show, FiF! Here's a @radiotimes.bsky.social pic of the boys from the year in question.

Starsky and Hutch made its UK debut #OTD 50 years ago. "A feature film introducing... two tough young cops who walk a tightrope in the world of crime," as @radiotimes.bsky.social billed it. Photo of David Soul taken by Jeremy Grayson in 1976.

There's another chance to see Dad's Army: the Lost Episodes tonight at 7.15pm on U&Gold. When the series was first shown, the cast talked to @radiotimes.bsky.social about re-creating a classic...

Happy birthday to Louise Jameson 🎂 Photographed by @radiotimes.bsky.social on location in Edinburgh for the 1979 BBC Scotland drama The Omega Factor, in which she played the part of physicist Dr Anne Reynolds.

A favourite time of year... Bluebell wood in South Bucks.

Whistle Down the Wind, in luminous black and white, is tonight at 9pm on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social.

Drawn to #DoctorWho... Happy birthday to fan turned 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi. Photographed by Richard Grassie for @radiotimes.bsky.social 🎂🌟 @stuartmanning.bsky.social

Good old Talking Pictures TV. They're showing the 1980 Play for Today, The Flipside of Dominick Hide, tonight at 9.05pm. Don Smith photographed its stars, Peter Firth and Caroline Langrishe, for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

Happy birthday to Peter Davison, photographed in his role as Dr Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice by Lu Jeffery for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

“Oliver was the ultimate storyteller, and when you hear him with that beautiful, brown, velvet, safe voice, it’s so enchanting.." Remembering Oliver Postgate, born #OTD in 1925, with Bagpuss musician Sandra Kerr: www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/bag... and Pogles' Wood: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/po...

"It wasn’t just that they were so popular, but there was a gloss and perfection about everything they did that inspired reverence in every quarter..." The Two Ronnies began #OTD 55 years ago. I sought the views of writer David Renwick in 2021: www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain... Photos: Don Smith.

Wishing Valerie Singleton a very happy birthday. Photographed in her early Blue Peter days by @radiotimes.bsky.social, and taking part in a recent project paying homage to the golden age of children's television. You can read about it here: www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/bag...

You could watch Pigeon Street #OTD 40 years ago. A colourful and musical "soap opera for the under-fives", the show was enjoyed by grown-ups, too. @radiotimes.bsky.social photographed designer Alan Rogers and animator Peter Lang back in 1981, when the show first launched.

The forest folk who enchanted a generation... @radiotimes.bsky.social celebrates Pogles' Wood at 60... today! www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/po...

A look around Lisbon... 13 Pink Street in the city centre.

A look around Lisbon... 12 The unbelievably beautiful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in midday sunlight.

A look around Lisbon... 11 The ornate Torre de Belém.

A look around Lisbon... 10 The Padrão dos Descobrimentos overlooking the Tagus.

A look around Lisbon... 8 The Praça do Comércio. No filters with these blue skies.

A look around Lisbon... 7 The colourful Pena Palace in Sintra.

A look around Lisbon... 6 The Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra.

A look around Lisbon... 5 Cabo da Roca – "the end of the world"

A look around Lisbon... 4 The Oceanário de Lisboa, and waterfront.

A look around Lisbon... 3 A view over the Tagus from the Castelo de Sao Jorge.

A look around Lisbon... 2 Estufa Fria.

A look around Lisbon... 1 The Parque Eduardo VII.

A great front door... Like the Tardis materialised in a wall.

Days of Wine and roses... many congratulations to prolific comedy writer Roy Clarke on his knighthood. Photographed by @radiotimes.bsky.social on location with his Last of the Summer Wine cast in 1974.

Two's company... Patrick Troughton, born #OTD in 1920, pictured as the second #DoctorWho, with Deborah Watling and Frazer Hines as companions Victoria and Jamie, on location for The Enemy of the World at Climping Beach, West Sussex, in 1967. Photo by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

One of my all-time favourite @radiotimes.bsky.social covers, of Alistair Cooke in 1972, taken by Penny Tweedie in San Francisco. His long-running radio series Letter from America is 80 today.

Space: 1999 series 2 airs on @rewindtv.bsky.social from today at 10am. Last year @radiotimes.bsky.social celebrated the show's 50th anniversary with a fond, in-depth retrospective: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ge... @gerryanderson.bsky.social @fanderson1981.bsky.social

Remembering Mary Tamm, born #OTD in 1950, who played #DoctorWho companion Romana. Photographed in 1978 at her home in south London for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

Good morning.

Wilfred Makepeace Lunn, inventor and regular team member of the fantastic children's series Vision On, was born #OTD in 1942. Photos taken in 1972 for @radiotimes.bsky.social.

Working in tandem... It all comes together in Small Prophets, tonight at 10pm on BBC Two. It's the @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Day and the whole series is on @BBCiPlayer.

Happy birthday to these good people, all photographed at one time or another by @radiotimes.bsky.social 🎂 🎉

Patrick's writings are always beautifully crafted, insightful, impeccably researched and hilarious. I can't wait to read his forthcoming history of Who.

Granville and Nurse Gladys were unimpressed by Arkwright's attempts to improve store security in Open All Hours #OTD 50 years ago. The episode, Beware of the Dog, is available on BBC iPlayer @radiotimes.bsky.social

The Frost Report is 60 today... Photo of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett from the show's famous class sketch taken by Don Smith in March 1966 for @radiotimes.bsky.social

"We had enormous fun doing Bagpuss. If you listen carefully, you can hear us giggling..." Meet Sandra Kerr, who brought Bagpuss & Co to life with her music... www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/bag...

Happy birthday, Vision On, 62 today! I contacted producer/director Clive Doig and "The Prof" a couple of years ago about what was easily my favourite programme as a boy. They literally do not make 'em like this any more... www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain... @radiotimes.bsky.social

You are the new day.

What goes around comes around: the final of Landscape Artist of the Year at the Falkirk Wheel, tonight at 8pm on Sky Arts. @radiotimes.bsky.social

Shine silently... tonight's episode of Small Prophets is another enchanting surprise. It's at 10pm (11pm N Ireland) on BBC Two, and the whole series is on BBC iPlayer. @radiotimes.bsky.social

An impressively cast seven-part BBC adaptation of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend began #OTD 50 years ago. Don Smith of @radiotimes.bsky.social was there at rehearsals to capture Jane Seymour, John McEnery, Leo McKern and Kathleen Harrison.

My Master... Roger Delgado, born #OTD in 1918, as #DoctorWho's elegant archenemy, on the set of The Mind of Evil. Photographed in 1970 by Don Smith © Radio Times Archive.

I always wanted to live in Festive Road. It looked like a brilliant place to be. Happy 55th birthday, Mr Benn, whose stories by David McKee were ahead of their time, and whose wonderful adventures have been continued by @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social

Marvellous to see Sir Lenny Henry at @nordenfarm.bsky.social last night for a pre-tour warm-up. The lad's still got it!

Happy Birthday to Paul Jones, @radiotimes.bsky.social cover star, along with his son, in 1973 with Jon Pertwee. #DoctorWho

You're 'aving a laugh... Kenneth Williams, who would have been 100 today, photographed for @radiotimes.bsky.social during the recording of Just a Minute by Tim Roney for @radiotimes.bsky.social.