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. Kenny Everett

    Kenny Everett looks at television special effects for QED programme in 1985

    76 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  2. Maggie Smith

    Maggie Smith, 1985

    48 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  3. Only Fools Cast

    Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney and David Jason as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, 1985

    65 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  4. Open All Hours

    Ronnie Barker and David Jason as Arkwright and Granville, 1985

    100 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  5. Saturday Superstore

    Sarah Greene, Mike Read, Vicky Licorish, and Keith Chegwin from Saturday Superstore, 1985

    100 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  6. Smith And Jones

    Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith from Alas Smith and Jones, 1985

    68 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  7. Switch On To English

    Floella Benjamin, Sleh Gupta and Burt Kwok in Switch On To English, 1985

    90 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  8. The Quest

    The Quest, 1985

    90 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  9. Boris Becker

    Boris Becker, at seventeen (the youngest ever mens winner), holds aloft the Mens Singles trophy at Wimbledon. He defeated Kevin Curran. 1985

    31 KB

    1980s, sport, images

  10. Ian McKellen And Judy Dench

    Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. 1985

    49 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  11. Ferrari

    The Ferrari 156-85 of Michele Alboreto, during the British Grand Prix of 1985 at Silverstone

    79 KB

    1980s, sport, images

  12. Minardi

    The Minardi MM-M185 of Pier-Luigi Martini, during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1985

    87 KB

    1980s, sport, images