Armchair Nation (80 page)

strikes
193
,
228
–9,
231
–2,
239
–40,
255

Stromness, Orkney
132
,
203
,
204
–5,
229
,
230
,
259
,
321

Stuart, James
66
–7

Stubbs, Una
267

studio audiences
198
–9,
200

Stuttgart Studio Orchestra
265

Sugar, Alan
290

Sullivan, Woodruff
374

Sun
239
,
245
–46,
255

Sunday Dispatch
105

Sunday Express
136

Sunday Night at the London Palladium
9
,
92
,
110
,
111
,
118
,
175

Sunday Telegraph
241
,
256
,
290

Sunday Times
108
,
111
,
155
,
162
–3,
225
,
236
,
357
,
365

Super Furry Animals
356

Super Ted
355

Supermarket Sweep
320
,
324

Sutherland, John
101

Sutton Coldfield transmitter, Birmingham
58
–9,
60
,
61
,
62
,
75

Swain, Squadron-Leader F.R.D.
34

Swift, John:
Adventures in Vision
55

Swimmer, The
(film)
195

Swindon Viewpoint
216

Swinton, Lord
74

Syal, Meera
201

Sykes, Eric
182

T

Taff Acre
355

Take the High Road
354

Take Your Pick
128
,
153
–4

Talented Lanarkshire
362
,
364

Talkback
174

‘Tammeter'
108
–9,
273

Tardelli, Marco
297

Tarrant, Chris
332

Tarrant on TV
337

Taste the Blood of Dracula
(film)
268

Tatler News Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London
40

Tawney, R.H.
154

Taylor, A.J.P.
91
–2,
110
,
182

Taylor, Craig
352
,
353

Taylor, Dennis
260
,
261

Taylor, Derek
190

Taylor, D.J.
2

Taylor, Laurie and Mullan, Bob:
Uninvited Guests
272
,
337

Taylor, Roger
165

Tea Time with Tommy
126

Tebbit, Norman
290

Teesside
124

Teledu
70

telemania
111
,
114
,
117
,
141

teleprompter
136

‘Television' (song)
32
–33

television

origin of the word
14

tuning dial
1

warming up
5
,
43

first recordings
25
–26

new high-definition television service (1935)
27
,
29

405 lines
5
,
29
,
30
,
167
,
183
,
324
–25

start of television service (1936)
31
–33

withdrawn during Second World War
48
–49

returns
51
–2

cancelled for over a month (1947)
52
–3

arrival in the north
64
–5

arrival in Scotland
65
–7

625 lines
164
,
167
,
174
,
186

addiction to
111
–12

first television pictures across the Atlantic
149
–50,
151
,
154

curfew
195
–6,
205

erratic archiving of shows
224
–5

television ‘abstainers'
112
–13,
119

Television Annual for 1954
80

Television Audience Measurement (TAM)
108
–9,
129

Television Dancing Club
99
–100

Television House, Kingsway, London
243

television licences
66
,
73
,
77
,
84
,
86
,
97
,
103
–4,
131
,
159
,
160
,
202
,
224
,
233
,
249
,
344

Television Newsreel
55

Television Society
19

Television Village, The
292

Television Wales and West
123

Television's Christmas Party
84

Telifis Éireann
129
,
130

Telly Addicts
278

‘Telstar'
152

Telstar satellite
148
–54,
161
,
186
,
286

Tenko
252
–3,
254

Terry-Thomas
57
,
207

test cards
6
,
20
,
31
,
70
,
77
,
86
,
265

Test Card F
188
,
265
,
271
,
326

Thames studios, Teddington, Middlesex
188

Thames Television
198
,
199
,
210
,
218
,
255
,
256
,
307

That Was The Week That Was
(
TW3
)
155
–7,
159

Thatcher, Margaret
249
,
255
,
302
,
355
,
360

That's Life
3
,
247
,
253

Theroux, Paul
281

This is Scotland
123

This is Swindon
216

This Is Your Life
20
,
138
,
162
,
223
,
261

This Morning
276

Thistle Television
362

Thixendale, Yorkshire
324
–5

Thomas, Gwyn
221

Thomas, Simon
221

Thompson, Bobby
128

Thomson, Ernest
49

Thomson, Roy
162
–63

Thorburn, Cliff ‘the Grinder'
257
,
258
,
259

Thorn Birds, The
249
–50,
293

Thorne, Yorkshire
62

Thorpe, D.R.
73

Three Acres Inn, Shelley, near Huddersfield
367

Three Admirals
31

Three Mills Island, east London
334

Through the Keyhole
281

Thrower, Percy
167
,
317
–18

Tiller Girls
110

Times, The
14
,
39
,
53
,
61
,
92
,
119
,
139
,
154
,
176
,
202
,
289

Times Higher Education Supplement
294

Times Literary Supplement
315

Tippett, Michael
352

Tiswas
216
,
361

Titchmarsh, Alan
317
,
318

Today
210
,
211

Tollund Man
98

Tom and Jerry
207

Tomorrow's World
212
,
253

Tonight
63
,
135
,
154

Top of the Pops
177
,
203
,
211
–12,
253
,
282
,
371

Tornados
152
,
154

Toynbee, Polly
320
,
322

Trace, Christopher
190

trade test colour films
165

Trades Union Congress (TUC)
121

‘Tranny by Gaslight'
196

Trenouth, John
26

Trethowan, Ian
149
,
264

Tribune
newspaper
109

Trodd, Kenith
274
–75

Trooping of the Colour
74
,
87

Troubles, the
126
,
197

Truman Show, The
335

Trumpton
267

Turkish
Gastarbeiter
community
280

Turn It Up
64

TV detector vans
104
,
149

TV Mirror
81
–2,
91
,
103

‘TV pickup'
147
,
195

TV Times
5
,
18
,
106
,
128
,
147
,
181
,
187
,
214
,
232
,
303
,
304

TV-12 channel
362

TV-AM
264
–65

TVGoHome
website
340

Twitter
364
–5

Two Ronnies, The
209
,
246
,
255

Tyler, Martin
300

Tynan, Kenneth
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
237

Tyne Tees Television
124
,
127
–8,
129
,
216
–17,
219
,
220
,
348

Tyson, Mike
296

U

UK Living
320
,
322

Ulster Television
7
,
126
–7,
128
,
129
–30

Ulster Unionists
75

Uncle Mac (Derek McCulloch)
42

United States

American TV networks and colour TV
164

NTSC system
164

incessant ad breaks
263

‘stripping' technique
266

twenty-four-hour schedules
269

University Challenge
303

University of East London
359

University of Essex Union
6
–7

University of London
359

University of Sheffield
359

University of Washington
374

Up the Junction
159

Upstairs Downstairs
209

Urbis gallery, Manchester: ‘Ghosts of Winter Hill' exhibition (2009)
371

V

Variety Parade
107

Varney, Reg
95

Vegas, Johnny
345

Venables, Bernard
167

VHS
239
,
248

Vic-Wells ballet
24

Victoria, Queen
15

Victory Parade (1946)
51
,
52

video-recording
224
,
225
,
226
,
236
,
242
,
247
–49,
266
,
269
,
280
–1,
364

Vietnam War
174
,
179
,
180
,
204

Viewer, The
(listings publication)
128

viewers

the term
28
,
35

1939 questionnaire
46

‘television tea party'
46
–7

block viewing
54

elderly viewers
282
–3

fragmenting of the television audience
344
–5

Viewers' Vote
54

Vincent, Robbie
196

Vine, David
258

Viner, Brian
200

Vision On
2

Voice of the People
128

Vorderman, Carol
234

vox pops
76
,
128

Voyager I and II space probes
374

W

Waddington, David
292
–3

Waddington Village Television
292
,
363

Waddle, Chris
293

Wade, General
168

Wagon Train
128
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
330

Walcot Townswomen's Guild
215

Walden, Brian
260

Waldman, Ronnie
58

Wales
70
,
83
,
123
–4,
181
,
220
–1,
325
,
346
,
355
–6

Walker, Alexander
242

Wall, Max
107

Wallace, Eric
349

Warde, Alan
315

Warhol, Andy
336

Warr, Charles
67

Warren, Tony
303

Warriss, Ben
64
,
227

Watching You Watching Us
272

Waterhouse, Keith
195

Waterloo Station, London
32
,
42

Waterman, Pete
365