ATV Programmes
That must have been culture, because it certainly wasn't
entertainment (Lew Grade, apocryphal)
Tonight on ATV
...
Although ATV is thought of as producer of lightweight
entertainment there haven't been many companies who would sweep
one of their top rated programmes aside, even for just one week,
to replace it with opera.
Below is a small subjective list of programmes. If your
favourite ATV programme is missing let me know, and I will
add it.
First Nights
The opening night of ITV was a joint
effort between ATV and Associated Rediffusion.
Two days later it was down to ATV (known then as ABC):
- 9:30 Weekend
- 10:30, 13:00, 14:00 - 15:00 Testing (Test Card & Time
Signal)
- 15:00 ABC Music Shop
- 15:30 My Hero
- 16:00 Home with Joy Shelton
- 16:20 ABC Club (for children of all ages)
- 16:30 Tales of Hans Andersen
- 17:00 Michaela and Armand Denis (Scavengers of the
Jungle)
- 17:15 Do It Yourself
- 17:30 Sport
- 18:00 Closedown
- 19:00 News
- 19:10 Strange Experiences
- 19:15 Around the Town - People are funny
- 19:45 Colonel March of Scotland Yard
- 20:45 Saturday Showtime (Harry Secombe, Norman Vaughan
and the Tiller Girls)
- 21:00 TV Playhouse (Mid Level)
- 22:00 News and Newsreel
- 22:15 The Jack Jackson Show
- 23:00 Epilogue and Closedown
Note the Saturday morning programme for children - nearly 20
years before Tiswas. Look into the history
of ATV to find out why it was called ABC at this time.
- 19:45 Introduction by Leslie Mitchell, followed by the
opening by Alderman Lummisgibson, Lord Mayor of
Birmingham
- 19:55 News
- 20:00 Variety, featuring Bob Monkhouse and Denis
Goodwin, Mr Pastry, Barbara Lyon and Tyrone Power
- 20:45 The Adventures of Robin Hood
- 21:15 Boxing - Lightweight contest over 12 rounds
- 22:00 I Love Lucy
- 22:30 Midlands Cabaret, with Joe Loss
- 22:50 Epilogue read by the Bishop of Birmingham
- 23:00 Closedown
Colour (15 November 1969)
- 09:45 Thunderbirds
- 10:40 Man of the Month
- 11:25 ATV Today
- 12:25 All Our Yesterdays
- 12:55 News
- 13:00 World of Sport (On the Ball, ITV 7, Tennis,
Wrestling)
- 17:15 Land of the Giants (Seven Little Indians)
- 18:10 News
- 18:15 Parkin's Patch
- 18:45 The Saturday Crowd
- 19:30 Please Sir
- 20:05 Kim (with Errol Flynn)
- 22:00 News
- 22:10 Saturday Night Theatre (Aren't We All)
- 23:10 Frost on Saturday
- 00:10 Weather and Close
Last Nights
Listen to Trevor Lucus make the closing
announcement for ATV London.
and Mike Prince and Shaw Taylor make the closing
announcement for ATV in the Midlands.
