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

    Ian Krankie, Jimmy Krankie, Jan Michelle, Stu Francis from 'Crackerjack'

    39 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  2. Delia Smith

    Delia Smith cooks offal in the 1980s

    19 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  3. Doctor Who

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

    68 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  4. Doctor Who CBaker

    Nicola Bryant as Peri, companion to The Doctor and Colin Baker as the Doctor in the three-part 'Dr Who' adventure 'The Two Doctors'.

    39 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  5. Gordon The Gopher

    Gordon the Gofer in the Children's BBC broom cupboard, from 1987

    32 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  6. Grange Hill

    Todd Carty as peter Tucker Jenkins, Paul McCarthy as Tommy Watson, Rene Alperstein as Pamela Cartwright, Linda Slater as Susi McMahon, Terry Sue Patt as Benny Green and George Armstrong as Alan Humphries.

    58 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  7. Grange Hill Class Of '89

    Grange Hill class of 1989.

    68 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  8. Greene & Morph

    Sarah Greene and Morph.

    36 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  9. Hi De Hi

    The cast of 'Hi De Hi'.

    52 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  10. It Aint Half Hot Mum

    The cast of 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' including Windsor Davies as Battery Sergeant-Major Shut Up Williams, Don Estelle as Gunner Lofty Sugden, Kenneth MacDonald as Gunner Nobby Clark and Dino Shafeek as Char Wallah Muhammed, from 1980.

    56 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  11. Jackanory David Jason

    David Jason on 'Jackanory' telling the story 'Tumbleweed'.

    55 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  12. Jackanory Jane Asher

    Jane Asher on 'Jackanory' reading E Nesbit's celebrated children's novel, 'The Railway Children', about three children whose fascination with the railway helps reunite their family.

    29 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images