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. Crackerjack

    Michael Aspel, presenter of 'Crackerjack'.

    36 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  2. Dad's Army

    Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sgt. Wilson, John Laurie as Private Frazer and Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey 'Dads Army'.

    42 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  3. Dave Allen

    Comedian Dave Allen performing on stage at the Royal Variety Performance, from 1970.

    67 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  4. David Bellamy

    Michael Parkinson with guests David Bellamy (botanist), Dr Magnus Pyke (scientist), Patrick Moore (astrologer) & Rowland Emett (cartoonist

    26 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  5. David Coleman

    David Coleman, Sports commentator on BBC TV at a football match, May 1974.

    40 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  6. Dixon Of Dock Green

    Michael Osborne, Nicholas Donelly, Kenneth Watson , Jack Warner as Sgt. George Dixon, Peter Byrne, and Derek Andrews in the police series 'Dixon of Dock Green'.

    33 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  7. Doctor Who

    Tom Baker as Dr Who with the Daleks at BBC Television Centre.

    47 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  8. Doctor Who Jon Pertwee

    John Pertwee as The Doctor and Caroline John as Liz in 'Dr Who'.

    47 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  9. Eric Morecambe

    Eric Morecambe, from the 'Morecambe and Wise Show', from 1973.

    37 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  10. Fanny Craddock

    Fanny Craddock

    38 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  11. Fawlty Towers 1

    John Cleese as Basil Fawlty and Andrew Sachs as Manuel, eccentric Torquay hotel owner, and Andrew Sachs as Manuel, incompetent Spanish waiter in 'Fawlty Towers'.

    31 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  12. Fawlty Towers

    Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty, John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, Connie Booth as Polly Sherman and Andrew Sachs as Manuel the hotel reception of Fawlty Towers

    42 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images