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.
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Prudence Kitten
Molly Blake (daughter of Annette Mills) with Prudence Kitten in a puppet programme for young viewers
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Quatermass & the Pit 2
A scene from 'The Quatermass Experiment'.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Quatermass & The Pit
Christine Finn as Barbara Judd, Cec Linder as Dr Matthew Roney, John Stratton as Captain Potter and Michael Ripper as the Sergeant in 'Quatermass And The Pit'.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Sid James Tony Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour - 'The Two Murderer's, written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton. Sid James puts another proposition to a somewhat unenthusiastic Tony Hancock.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Television Toppers
The Television Toppers, A BBC dance troop who featured in many BBC programmes.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
The Archers
The Hood Family, from 'The Archers'
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1950s, tv and radio, images
The Billy Cotton Show
Alan Breeze (2nd left) and Billy Cotton (man in white) with Silhouettes and members of the Orchestra in a comedy Sports Production Number.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
The Goons
Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe in 'The Goon Show'.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
The Goon Show
Three 'under-cover' men (left to right) Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan on 'The Goon Show'
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Tommy Cooper
Tommy Cooper and McDonald Hobley. On Christmas Day viewers were invited to join many of the years television personalities at a Christmas party given by the BBC Television Service. Tommy Cooper ruins another trick, whilst McDonald Hobley suffers, from 1952.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Toytown
'Toytown' characters heard for many years on radio made their television debut in Puppet Theatre in 1956 (l-r) The Mayor's secretary, Ernest the Policeman and the Mayor of Toytown who has been turned into a pig by the Magician.
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1950s, 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.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
