Turning Points (ITV)
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companyThames
started28th Apr
1970
ended9th Jun
1970
last rpt15th Jun
1972
3 school years
episodes6
duration20 mins
subject
🏛️HistoryModern History
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
Turning Points (ITV) is an ITV schools TV series from the 1970s, covering Modern History for secondary school pupils.
- three pairs of programmes covering key events in China, Russia and the USA around the turn of the Twentieth Century
- the series was also repeated by Thames Television for adults, late on Tuesday evenings in August and September 1970
- there was a separate BBC series called Turning Points 30 years later
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