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1st February 2025: Coverage of the long-running BBC TV series Ulster in Focus, typically seen only in Northern Ireland but currently undergoing a national retrospective on Saturday nights on BBC Four!
The page has an overview of the series and full details of the broadcsts for schools (in Northern Ireland only) over 35 years. More to be added soon including changes over the decades and links to online videos on iPlayer and BBC Rewind.
17th January 2025: A full guide to the BBC Schools TV topics series Landmarks is underway - I'm adding pages for each unit of programmes starting in 1988 and heading to the end in 2002.
Once that's all done there will be a full episode list including repeats from previous series, a single-page guide to all the units, and an overview to the whole series.
The companion series Zig Zag for younger pupils already has a full guide set up.
17th January 2025 again: Catching up... here are various updates made to the site over the past year, which I didn't have time to summarise here.
Vastly expanded details of the Look and Read drama serials Geordie Racer from 1988, and Shadow Play from 2004 which is now 20 years ago! Including new pictures, production details, quotes and location maps.
A guide to all three series of the ITV Schools health education series Alive and Kicking from the 1970s and 80s.
Details of the BBC Schools TV 1980s art series Look, Look and Look Again
A vastly expanded guide to the classic series Stop, Look, Listen including year-by-year accounts of the ITV Schools programmes from the 1970s and 80s, plus details of every unit made for Channel 4 Schools in the 1990s and 2000s.
More about the 1990s BBC religious education series Movable Feasts which wasn't even a schools programme at first.
Blatant storyline spoilers from the final episode of the early 1980s BBC TV series Maths-in-a-Box revealing the secrets of the planet Sooter.
An account of the mad behind-the-scenes episode of Zig Zag which collapses in on itself as Paul Coia interrupts his own director to show a close-up of the script he is reading which instructs him to show a close-up of his script. It was only ever shown in 1986.
Tidied up and updated galleries for the long-running BBC school radio series Time and Tune and Music Workshop, including the full national broadcast history and details of the regular presenters and producers from all 50+ years of Music Workshop and a separate page for the series Music Workshop Stage Two.
Latest updates
Series 2 (1970)  (from Living and Growing)
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| New 7 Jun 2025 05/06: New page added about this unit of Living and Growing. 06/06: Video links added and an episode title corrected. 07/06: Details of regional broadcasts around the UK added, with some gaps to fill. | |
| The Facts Are These | TV |
| 7 Jun 2025 | |
| Series 1 (1968) (from Living and Growing) | TV |
| New 31 May 2025 New page added about the first unit of Living and Growing. | |
| Living and Growing | TV |
| 30 May 2025 Update to add an entire series of Living and Growing that I had overlooked - the 1968 programmes were re-made in 1970, so all the subsequent series numbers have been bumped up by 1! | |
| Chuck Wallace's Middle Age Spread | TV |
| 23 May 2025 Full details of this 1990s series which saw American actor George Wendt (who died recently) driving around Scotland meeting ghosts. | |
| Ulster in Focus | TV |
| 21 Mar 2025 Details of title sequences and repeats for adults (including BBC4 repeats in early 2025) and broadcasts outside of Northern Ireland added | |
| Landmarks
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TV |
| 20 Mar 2025 20/03: Series overview and an account of the opening title sequences added. 14/03: Update with unit lists, credits, broadcasts & resources overview | |
| Geography Postcards (from Landmarks) | TV |
| New 20 Mar 2025 Pictures rearranged slightly | |
| Water, Moon, Candle, Tree and Sword (from Stop, Look, Listen) | TV |
| 20 Mar 2025 Added pictures and details, credits, activity pack cover, and updated broadcast details (spring 2004 was daily not weekly) | |
| Jack and the Beanstalk (from Stop, Look, Listen) | TV |
| 19 Mar 2025 Broadcast details updated (spring 2004 was daily not weekly) | |