These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.

The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.

You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.

Notes on downloading:

  • Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
  • Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
  • Downloading image items will just include the images
  • All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items

Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Pinky & Perky

    Pinky and Perky from 1963.

    71 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  2. Pogles Wood

    Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. A new race of puppet people join the 'Watch with Mother' series. They are country and woodland folk - Mr. and Mrs. Pogle, a small boy called Pippin and a small animal called Tog.

    76 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  3. Sid James Taxi

    Sid James who stars in 'Taxi', a drama series about the adventures of a London tax-driver and his mates, from 1963

    44 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  4. Sooty

    Harry Corbett and the teddy bear glove puppet Sooty and Soo.

    37 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  5. Stanley Baxter

    Stanley Baxter

    36 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  6. Stanley Baxter June Whitfield

    Stanley Baxter and June Whitfield.

    43 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  7. Stanley Baxter Show

    Joan Sims and Stanley Baxter.

    27 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  8. Steptoe & Son

    Harry H Corbett as Harold and Wilfrid Brambell as Albert in Steptoe and Son

    54 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  9. Terry Thomas

    Terry Thomas

    26 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  10. The Billy Cotton Show

    Billy Cotton with his familiar cry 'Wakey Wakey'

    50 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  11. The Billy Cotton Show Colour

    Billy Cotton in 'The Billy Cotton Band Show'

    57 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  12. The Likely Lads 1

    Wendy Richard as Lynn, James Bolam as Terry, Rodney Bewes as Bob and Wanda Ventham as Angela in 'The Likely Lads'

    49 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images