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Wednesday 9 February 2011

"And now on BBC1..."


A small, but interesting snippet. The episode below, 'The Screaming Jungle', was the first ever episode of Dr Who to be shown on BBC1. Yes, really, because BBC2 was launched on the Monday following 'The Velvet Web' and up until that time BBC1 as we know it now was simply BBC-tv. And in 1963-64 when Dr Who began it was usual to have 'in-vision' continuity announcers such as the lovely and much lamented Anne Gregg, seen here when she was just 24.


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