40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Film 86 talks to Bob Hoskins at length on the Mona Lisa set, the crew briefly distracted by the presence of Ringo Starr.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: George Michael joins Parkinson and a rabid audience in the week that he was arrested for running into parked cars, about which and the treatment he got around it he has as much to say as he can.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Police Camera Action special The Liver Run, a dashcam film of a 27 mile drive through Friday afternoon London traffic to get a donor organ to hospital in less than 35 minutes.

Channel 4's The Media Show looks in detail today in 1990 at the Mandela tribute gig, lager advertising, an attempt to film A Brief History Of Time and a sitcom version of Working Girl starring pre-fame Sandra Bullock which was dropped halfway through.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Doctor Who lands on the Scottish moors and encounters Queen Victoria in her Pauline Collins phase as she heads to a familiarly named estate taken over by a group of monks and their extraterrestrial werewolf.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Matthew Corbett wants to bury a time capsule, but if he thinks Sooty and co are causing him enough trouble deciding what should go insde it's nothing compared to finding a site, especially as it keeps landing on top of Rory McGrath.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Pat Sugden goes into labour unexpectedly at Emmerdale Farm and gives birth to Robert.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Ulf Goran is The Music Man in a ITV Schools series, the Swedish educator teaching a small child a guitar chord and accompaniment to his own playing. Just as interestingly, Simon Bates fulfils a brief spell as Thames continuity man.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: after the success of the reunion clip show Two Ronnies Sketchbook came the less immediately likely but still welcome The Smith & Jones Sketchbook, ending with a new head to head.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Kenneth Williams takes over the Wogan hotseat for a week, at least on screen easing into the role like a pro despite quite a confusing monologue before he meets Derek Nimmo, Janet Brown and royal photographer Norman Parkinson.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jon Pertwee's last TV appearance a month before his death is on Surprise Surprise, apparently as the favourite Doctor of an eleven year old.

It's James McAvoy's birthday, BAFTAs and Charles Xavier just pipe dreams when he was starring in a stylised photo story and being forced by Dannii Minogue to kiss someone on Saturday morning ill-fitting magazine show It's Not Just Saturday in January 1996.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: London Marathon day, which explains the opening to That's Life! but not why Mollie Sugden is in Doc Cox's place, relegated as he is to vox popping. You'll need a hardy constitution to get through the final item unscathed.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: written by Brian Glover, Sunshine In Brixton follows the treatment of a talented but undisciplined black teenager, whose stepmother is a near unrecognisable Jill Gascoigne and whose classmates include Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Hugh Bonneville is an evil meteorologist working with a pesticide company genetically engineering beetles with viruses that will destroy crops and cause global famine, until stopped by a reflected electrical bolt. That's Bugs for you.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: what's in the Express this week?

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: International Gladiators' second series pits the UK, US, Australia, Germany, Russia and South Africa against each other despite the minor drawback that three of those didn't have their own series and after this neither would two others.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: CBBC spinoff Totally Doctor Who welcomes David Tennant two days after his birthday and launches mini-reality show for under-twelves Companion Academy.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Vision On, three weeks from its end, is on the subject of 'time' and accordingly features a future Time Lord taking part amid the stop-motion (some by future Aardman personnel), speeded up footage, chromakey and Tony Hart's marker pens.

In this week's archive newsletter: BBC2 starts at precisely the wrong moment, Clive James invents Before They Were Famous, John Thomson as a pork chop, ITV's Doctor Who-killer doesn't, the clown Lord's Prayer and Pat Sharp's haircut. No, not that one. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Rock a Hula Ted, the episode in which Father Ted judges the Lovely Girls contest while feminist singer C.P. Grogan (using the Equity-abbreviated version of her name for the last time) visits the parochial house.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: before taking the rest of the series off Paul Merton takes a place alongside Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You, opposite Eddie Izzard and Charles Kennedy.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Morecambe & Wise The Stripper breakfast routine, "adapted" from a 1965 BBC-era Benny Hill set-piece which itself ripped off a sketch by the enormously influential American performer Ernie Kovacs from four years earlier.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bobby Davro On The Box springs upon us Postman Pete, a Greendale take-off which not only involves Noseybonk levels of disturbance thanks to full coverage costumes but a reworded theme sung by the actual Ken Barrie. www.youtube.com/watc...

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bjork parries Chris Evans' usual line of questioning on TFI Friday by being the most Bjork she can before racing downstairs and performing I Miss You live with full horn section.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the world championship coincides with the release on BBC Records And Tapes of the year's second and, we'd argue, superior snooker-related pop song, Boss O' The Black by Jed Ford.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' English File stages Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman, Warren Mitchell reprising the role he justly won an Olivier award for in 1979 alongside Pam Ferris, Juliet Aubrey, Iain Glen, Toby Jones and James Grout.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: on Top Gear tonight Jeremy Clarkson on a golf course demonstrates who's missing out on the BMW 5 Series, Andy Willman meets racing pensioners, Quentin Willson salutes the Saab and Steve Berry tracks down vintage cars adapted for speed.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: 50s and 60s Hollywood star Carroll Baker pops over to Elstree to star in The Next Victim as a wheelchair bound woman who, with her husband out of town, grows increasingly anxious at reports of a local attacker.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Forty Minutes hops aboard a coaster merchant ship, transporting cargo between ports around the Channel and North Sea, in the tremendously titled A Passage To Wisbech.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Challenge is first to revive Bullseye, rehiring Tony Green alongside Dave Spikey. No speedboats, Challenge money only goes so far and even the monetary rewards are reduced. You'll never hear so much knowing ironic audience laughter.

You may have noticed that our video of the Last Going Live! had a section missing about 50 minutes in which was due to issues with the recordings we had. We've 'recovered' the missing 20(ish) minutes, although video and audio is not very good. youtu.be/XTUwujoOVXc

Going Live! started on 26 September 1987 replacing Saturday SuperStore. It came to an end after 174 live programmes on 17 April 1993. This is the last programme broadcast 33 years ago today. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/5C2VlnmcNBs

This week's catchup, now including the near-full last Andi & Emma Live & Kicking: whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

Rowan Atkinson doesn't give many interviews and probably should have timed this one on Wogan's Saturday night show today in 1983 better as he has to explain why he's sporting what we would come to know as The Black Adder's haircut.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: proper warning over this one for the squeamish, as Derren Brown does what many wish for and skewers Robbie Williams.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sue Lawley stands in for Wogan and talks to Toyah, telling the 28 year old she's very middle-aged. Did Lawley really think that was a natural hair colour?

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: standing in on Film 86, Michael Parkinson seems to think the existence and release of Dario Argento's Creepers is a personal attack on him.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Top Gear's Chris Goffey introduces the future of road navigation. It is, of course, via CD.

Through The Keyhole today in 1988, benefiting or otherwise from Loyd's snooping being Willie Rushton in a Boston Red Sox top, Emma Freud introduced partly as a singer and Chris Tarrant. One of the houses is more highbrow than the other.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Tenth Doctor era begins five billion years into the future on New Earth, where they are reintroduced to not only Face of Boe but Lady Cassandra, who inhabits Rose and tries to blackmail Adjoa Andoh.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: two, potentially three, entities that you can never really imagine having interacted interact as Davina McCall talks to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo on MTV Europe's live afternoon show Hanging Out.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Big Bang, Children's ITV's go at making science approachable, starts on food and liquid, the centrepiece being Gareth Jones walking across custard seven years before Brainiac: Science Abuse famously did the same.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: having taken irreverence towards mostly baffled pop stars to new heights, Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver leave Popworld with their offscreen deaths and trial at the gates of eternity by Daniel Bedingfield.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Three's The Manchester Passion retells the crucifixion story through the city's popular song. Keith Allen takes on the dual role of narrator and Pontius Pilate. Tony Wilson makes a cameo, surprisingly not as Jesus.

60 YEARS AGO TODAY: one of the few surviving episodes, and only just judging by the quality of this upload, of satire team of all the talents The Frost Report turns its attention to the news itself.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: What's My Line?, fronted by Eamonn Andrews with a panel of Ernie Wise, Jilly Cooper, Barry Sheene and Barbara Kelly. The audience reaction to the mystery celebrity guest in the flesh might have given it away to a better selection. www.youtube.com/watc...

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Lifeswappers, the only full-length TV commission by Roger McGough, takes a modernist-surrealist approach to couple swapping, involving Sheila Gish, Peter Egan and Miriam Margolyes.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jimmy McGovern's location series The Street begins with an episode in which a family accident forces both prospective affairee Jane Horrocks but everyone who saw it, including Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, to re-evaluate themselves.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Gaby Roslin Show, a Saturday night Channel 4 chat vehicle, sank without trace, and no wonder given how stilted on her side the chat with very first guest Eddie Izzard.