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
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- All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items
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Spike Milligan Parkinson
Spike Milligan and Michael Parkinson
25 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Steptoe & Son 2
Harry H Corbett as Harold and Wilfrid Brambell as Albert Steptoe in the first story of 'Steptoe and Son', from 1970
55 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Steptoe & Son
1973 Christmas Special of 'Steptoe and Son'.
43 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Ascent Of Man
Jacob Bronowski presents 'The Ascent Of Man' from 1973
17 MB
1970s, tv and radio, video
The Generation Game Bruce
Bruce Forsyth, the presenter of the Generation Game with Marilyn Ward, Jenny Cash, Jennifer Bailey and Wendy Isles
44 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Generation Game Larry
Larry Grayson and Isla St Clair, presenters of the 'The Generation Game' entertainment show featuring family couples competing in a test of their general knowledge & skills
46 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Goodies
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor in 'The Goodies' on their 3 seater bicycle
69 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Good Life
Felicity Kendal as Barbara, Richard Briers as Tom, Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter and Paul Eddington as Jerry in series four of the comedy sitcom 'The Good Life'.
42 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
The Likely Lads
Rodney Bewes as Bob and James Bolam as Terry in 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?', from 1973.
40 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Till Death Us Do Part
The Garnett Family in 'Till death us do part'. Una Stubbs as Rita, Waren Mitchell as Alf, Anthony Booth as Mike and Dandy Nichols as Else
48 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
TV Test Card
BBC Test card G is often called the electronic test card. It can only be seen as a picture on the television screen and does not exist as a card at all, the picture is generated entirely in electronic circuits. The patterns and shapes each have a special significance for television engineers.
36 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Twenty Four Logo
Logo for the BBC television programme '24 Hours', from 1971
54 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
