What We Were Watching

Season 1

A look back through TV history at the television shows that British viewers were watching.

Where to Watch What We Were Watching • Season 1

8 Episodes

  • Christmas 1988
    E1
    Christmas 1988Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
  • Christmas 1979
    E2
    Christmas 1979Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
  • Summer TV Classics
    E3
    Summer TV ClassicsJoin Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.
  • Song and Dance Spectaculars
    E4
    Song and Dance SpectacularsGrace Dent invites you to lose yourself on a joyful journey back through the BBC archives, celebrating the broadcaster's song and dance extravaganzas of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
  • Christmas 1995
    E5
    Christmas 1995Grace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.
  • Christmas 1991
    E6
    Christmas 1991Writer and broadcaster Grace Dent takes a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1991, as she immerses herself in the sights, sounds and TV schedules of the past.
  • Christmas 1984
    E7
    Christmas 1984TV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives, examining all the small screen content that viewers were glued to four decades ago.
  • Christmas 1985
    E8
    Christmas 1985Broadcaster, writer and critic Grace Dent travels back in time through the BBC’s television archives for a light-hearted look at What We Were Watching 40 years ago, over the Christmas period of 1985.

 

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