from The Times
BBC1
6.00 Business Breakfast
7.00 BBC Breakfast News
9.05 Kilroy
9.45 Ross King
10.00 BBC News Headlines
10.05 Playdays
10.30 Good Morning with Anne & Nick
12.15 Pebble Mill (guest Kirk Douglas)
12.55 Regional News
1.00 One O'Clock News
1.30 Neighbours
1.50 First Letter First
2.15 Movie "Thursday's Game" (starring Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder)
3.50 Rupert
3.55 Melvin & Maureen's Music-a-Grams
4.10 Jackanory
4.25 New Yogi Bear Show
4.30 Dizzy Heights
4.55 Newsround
5.05 Blue Peter
5.35 Neighbours (repeat)
6.00 Six O'Clock News
6.30 Regional News
7.00 Top of the Pops
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 They Came from the Sea (a David Attenborough documentary on crabs leaving the sea and invading the land)
8.30 Side by Side
9.00 Nine O'Clock News
9.30 Chef!
10.00 Question Time
10.00 (N. Ireland) Spotlight
10.30 (N. Ireland) Question Time
11.00 Figure Skating: World Championships (from Prague)
11.30 (N. Ireland) Call to Prayer
11.45 (N. Ireland) Wheelie Bin Race
11.50 Call to Prayer (Muslims discussing their religion and the Fast of Ramadan)
11.55 (N. Ireland) Figure Skating: World Championships
12.05 Weather/sign-off
12.40 (N. Ireland) Weather/sign-off
BBC Select
2.15am-2.45 Executive Business Club
3.00-4.00 RCN Nursing Update
BBC2
6.45 Newton's Present-Day Success
7.10 Muscles: A Question of Fuel Supply
7.35 Technology: Eurekaaargh!
8.00 BBC Breakfast News (with signing)
8.15 Westminster
9.00 Daytime on Two
1.20 Adventures of Spot
1.25 Brum
1.35 Bunyip
2.00 BBC News Headlines
2.05 You & Me
2.15 Advice Shop
3.00 BBC News Headlines
3.05 Westminster Live
3.50 BBC News Headlines
4.00 Figure Skating: World Championships
5.00 Plunder
5.30 Food & Drink
6.00 Movie "Dragoon Wells Massacre"
6.00 (Wales) Japanese Language & People
6.30 (Wales) Making Time
7.00 (Wales) Advice Shop
7.30 First Sight "Barking Mad" (the moves to reform the Dangerous Dogs Act)
7.30 (Wales) Dad's Army
7.30 (East) Matter of Fact
7.30 (Midlands) Midlands Report
7.30 (North/Northeast/Northwest) Close Up North
7.30 (South) Southern Eye
7.30 (Southwest) Close Up
7.30 (West) Close Up West
8.00 The Snow Show
8.30 Top Gear
9.00 French & Saunders (includes a tribute to Fleetwood Mac and a parody of the movie Madonna: Truth or Dare)
9.30 A Labour of Love (the family leisure in the 1930s)
10.10 The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
10.30 Newsnight
11.15 The Late Show (a tribute to Frank Zappa)
11.55 Weather
12.00 Jumpcuts (preview of Open University programs)
12.05 A Bigger Europe for the Smaller Business
12.30 sign-off
ITV: Carlton (London)/Anglia/Border/Central/HTV West/HTV Wales/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Ulster/Westcountry/Yorkshire
6.00 GMTV
9.25 Jeopardy!
9.55 Regional News
10.00 The Time... The Place...
10.35 This Morning
12.10 The Riddlers
12.30 ITN News
1.05 Regional News
1.15 Home & Away
1.15 (Central) A Country Practice
1.45 A Country Practice
1.45 (Central) Home & Away
1.45 (Wales/West/Westcountry) Blockbusters
2.15 The View (viewers' views on TV programs and people)
2.45 Take the High Road
2.45 (Border) Wild World of the East
3.10 ITN News
3.15 Regional News
3.20 Blockbusters
3.20 (Anglia/Border/Wales/West/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) The Young Doctors (this Australian soap was extremely popular in the UK; despite ending production in 1983, it was repeated until 1995)
3.20 (Westcountry) A Country Practice
3.50 Where's Wally?
4.15 Mike & Angelo
4.45 Tiny Toon Adventures
5.00 Cartoon: Bugs Bunny
5.10 Home & Away
5.10 (Anglia) Billy
5.10 (Central) New Adventures of Black Beauty
5.40 ITN News
5.55 (Yorkshire) Calendar
6.00-7.00 (London) London Tonight
6.00 (Anglia/Central) Home & Away
6.00 (Border) Lookaround
6.00 (Meridian) Meridian Tonight
6.00-7.00 (Ulster) UTV Live at Six
6.00 (West) HTV News
6.00-7.00 (Westcountry) Westcountry Live
6.00 (Wales) Wales at Six
6.00 (Tyne Tees) Tyne Tees Today
6.25 (Anglia) Anglia News
6.25 (Central) Central News
6.30 (Border/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Blockbusters
6.30 (Meridian) Grass Roots
6.30 (West) Living Memory
6.30 (Wales) The Really Helpful Programme
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 3D (current affairs)
7.30 (Wales) Wales This Week
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Minder
9.30 Disguises (investigative reporters take on new identities to uncover stories; part 3 of 6)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Regional News
10.40 (Anglia) Anglia Tonight
10.40 (Border) Westminster File
10.40 (Central) Central Lobby
10.40 (Meridian) The Pier
10.40 (Tyne Tees) Put It in Writing
10.40 (Ulster) Counterpoint
10.40 (West) The West This Week
10.40 (Westcountry) Commando
10.40 (Wales) A Slice of Life
10.40 (Yorkshire) Edit V
10.45 (London) Big City
11.00 (Yorkshire) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.10 (Anglia) Wideangle
11.10 (Border/Tyne Tees/Westcountry) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.10 (Central) 1st Night
11.10 (Ulster) Movie "Martin's Day"
11.15 (London) Movie "License to Drive"
11.20 (Meridian) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.25 (West) HTV Weekend Outlook
11.40 (Anglia/West) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.40 (Central) Married... with Children
11.45 (Wales) Wales & Westminster
12.05 (Border) Married... with Children
12.05 (Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Movie "Two on a Guillotine"
12.10 (Central) The Equalizer
12.10 (Westcountry) Disaster Chronicles
12.15 (Meridian) War of the Worlds
12.15 (Wales) Prisoner: Cell Block H
12.30 (Anglia) Coach
12.35 (Border/West/Westcountry) Coach
12.55 (London) The Twilight Zone
1.05 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Wrestling
1.05 (Central) Hollywood Report
1.15 (Meridian) The Twilight Zone
1.30 (London/Meridian) Hollywood Report
1.35 (Central) Little Picture Show
1.45 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Movie "Relentless"
2.00 (London/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) America's Top Ten
2.30 (London/Meridian) Donahue
2.35 (Central/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Cinema, Cinema, Cinema
3.00 (Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Movie "West of Zanzibar"
3.05 (Central) America's Top Ten
3.30 (London/Meridian) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
3.30 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/Westcountry) America's Top Ten
3.35 (Central) Raw Power
4.00 (London/Meridian) Entertainment UK
4.00 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Nite Bites
4.15 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/WestcountryWales) Erasure
4.30 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Riviera
4.35 (Central) Jobfinder
4.40 (Tyne Tees/Ulster/Westcountry/Yorkshire) Jobfinder
5.00 (London) Riviera
5.00 (Anglia/Border/West/Wales) Jobfinder
5.00 (Meridian) Freescreen
5.20 (Central) Asian Eye
5.30 ITN News
Channel 4
5.50 Sesame Street
6.45 Dennis (Dennis the Menace)
7.00 The Big Breakfast
9.00 You Bet Your Life
9.30 Schools programs
12.00 Parliament Programme
12.30 Sesame Street
1.30 Lift-Off
2.00 Movie "State Fair"
3.50 Labrythm (animated short)
3.55 Food File
4.30 Countdown
5.00 Oprah Winfrey
5.50 The Magic Roundabout
6.00 The Word: Access All Areas
6.30 Gamesmaster
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.50 Comment (John Brown previews Red Nose Day)
8.00 Close to Home
8.30 Secret Life of... the Electric Light
9.00 The Goldring Audit (Mary Goldring reports on the water industry and privatization)
10.00 Drop the Dead Donkey
10.30 Harry Enfield's Guide to the Opera
11.05 The Avengers (b/w)
12.10 Dispatches
1.00 Dick Powell Theatre "The Legend" (b/w)
1.55 sign-off
S4C
7.00 The Big Breakfast
9.00 You Bet Your Life
9.30 Ysgolion (schools)
12.00 Parliament Programme
12.30 Slot Meithrin
1.00 Sesame Street
2.00 Movie "State Fair"
3.50 Labrythm
3.55 Food File
4.25 Slot 23
5.00 Countdown
5.30 Gamemaster
6.00 News
6.10 Heno
7.00 Pobol Y Cwm
7.30 Tony Ac Aloma
8.00 Adlais
8.55 Taro 9
9.30 Harry Enfield's Guide to the Opera
10.00 Drop the Dead Donkey
10.30 Movie "Distant Voices, Still Lives"
12.05 The Word: Access All Areas
12.30 Do You Come Here Often?
1.00 sign-off
BBC1
6.00 Business Breakfast
7.00 BBC Breakfast News
9.05 Kilroy
9.45 Ross King
10.00 BBC News Headlines
10.05 Playdays
10.30 Good Morning with Anne & Nick
12.15 Pebble Mill (guest Kirk Douglas)
12.55 Regional News
1.00 One O'Clock News
1.30 Neighbours
1.50 First Letter First
2.15 Movie "Thursday's Game" (starring Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder)
3.50 Rupert
3.55 Melvin & Maureen's Music-a-Grams
4.10 Jackanory
4.25 New Yogi Bear Show
4.30 Dizzy Heights
4.55 Newsround
5.05 Blue Peter
5.35 Neighbours (repeat)
6.00 Six O'Clock News
6.30 Regional News
7.00 Top of the Pops
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 They Came from the Sea (a David Attenborough documentary on crabs leaving the sea and invading the land)
8.30 Side by Side
9.00 Nine O'Clock News
9.30 Chef!
10.00 Question Time
10.00 (N. Ireland) Spotlight
10.30 (N. Ireland) Question Time
11.00 Figure Skating: World Championships (from Prague)
11.30 (N. Ireland) Call to Prayer
11.45 (N. Ireland) Wheelie Bin Race
11.50 Call to Prayer (Muslims discussing their religion and the Fast of Ramadan)
11.55 (N. Ireland) Figure Skating: World Championships
12.05 Weather/sign-off
12.40 (N. Ireland) Weather/sign-off
BBC Select
2.15am-2.45 Executive Business Club
3.00-4.00 RCN Nursing Update
BBC2
6.45 Newton's Present-Day Success
7.10 Muscles: A Question of Fuel Supply
7.35 Technology: Eurekaaargh!
8.00 BBC Breakfast News (with signing)
8.15 Westminster
9.00 Daytime on Two
1.20 Adventures of Spot
1.25 Brum
1.35 Bunyip
2.00 BBC News Headlines
2.05 You & Me
2.15 Advice Shop
3.00 BBC News Headlines
3.05 Westminster Live
3.50 BBC News Headlines
4.00 Figure Skating: World Championships
5.00 Plunder
5.30 Food & Drink
6.00 Movie "Dragoon Wells Massacre"
6.00 (Wales) Japanese Language & People
6.30 (Wales) Making Time
7.00 (Wales) Advice Shop
7.30 First Sight "Barking Mad" (the moves to reform the Dangerous Dogs Act)
7.30 (Wales) Dad's Army
7.30 (East) Matter of Fact
7.30 (Midlands) Midlands Report
7.30 (North/Northeast/Northwest) Close Up North
7.30 (South) Southern Eye
7.30 (Southwest) Close Up
7.30 (West) Close Up West
8.00 The Snow Show
8.30 Top Gear
9.00 French & Saunders (includes a tribute to Fleetwood Mac and a parody of the movie Madonna: Truth or Dare)
9.30 A Labour of Love (the family leisure in the 1930s)
10.10 The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
10.30 Newsnight
11.15 The Late Show (a tribute to Frank Zappa)
11.55 Weather
12.00 Jumpcuts (preview of Open University programs)
12.05 A Bigger Europe for the Smaller Business
12.30 sign-off
ITV: Carlton (London)/Anglia/Border/Central/HTV West/HTV Wales/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Ulster/Westcountry/Yorkshire
6.00 GMTV
9.25 Jeopardy!
9.55 Regional News
10.00 The Time... The Place...
10.35 This Morning
12.10 The Riddlers
12.30 ITN News
1.05 Regional News
1.15 Home & Away
1.15 (Central) A Country Practice
1.45 A Country Practice
1.45 (Central) Home & Away
1.45 (Wales/West/Westcountry) Blockbusters
2.15 The View (viewers' views on TV programs and people)
2.45 Take the High Road
2.45 (Border) Wild World of the East
3.10 ITN News
3.15 Regional News
3.20 Blockbusters
3.20 (Anglia/Border/Wales/West/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) The Young Doctors (this Australian soap was extremely popular in the UK; despite ending production in 1983, it was repeated until 1995)
3.20 (Westcountry) A Country Practice
3.50 Where's Wally?
4.15 Mike & Angelo
4.45 Tiny Toon Adventures
5.00 Cartoon: Bugs Bunny
5.10 Home & Away
5.10 (Anglia) Billy
5.10 (Central) New Adventures of Black Beauty
5.40 ITN News
5.55 (Yorkshire) Calendar
6.00-7.00 (London) London Tonight
6.00 (Anglia/Central) Home & Away
6.00 (Border) Lookaround
6.00 (Meridian) Meridian Tonight
6.00-7.00 (Ulster) UTV Live at Six
6.00 (West) HTV News
6.00-7.00 (Westcountry) Westcountry Live
6.00 (Wales) Wales at Six
6.00 (Tyne Tees) Tyne Tees Today
6.25 (Anglia) Anglia News
6.25 (Central) Central News
6.30 (Border/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Blockbusters
6.30 (Meridian) Grass Roots
6.30 (West) Living Memory
6.30 (Wales) The Really Helpful Programme
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 3D (current affairs)
7.30 (Wales) Wales This Week
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Minder
9.30 Disguises (investigative reporters take on new identities to uncover stories; part 3 of 6)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Regional News
10.40 (Anglia) Anglia Tonight
10.40 (Border) Westminster File
10.40 (Central) Central Lobby
10.40 (Meridian) The Pier
10.40 (Tyne Tees) Put It in Writing
10.40 (Ulster) Counterpoint
10.40 (West) The West This Week
10.40 (Westcountry) Commando
10.40 (Wales) A Slice of Life
10.40 (Yorkshire) Edit V
10.45 (London) Big City
11.00 (Yorkshire) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.10 (Anglia) Wideangle
11.10 (Border/Tyne Tees/Westcountry) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.10 (Central) 1st Night
11.10 (Ulster) Movie "Martin's Day"
11.15 (London) Movie "License to Drive"
11.20 (Meridian) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.25 (West) HTV Weekend Outlook
11.40 (Anglia/West) Prisoner: Cell Block H
11.40 (Central) Married... with Children
11.45 (Wales) Wales & Westminster
12.05 (Border) Married... with Children
12.05 (Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Movie "Two on a Guillotine"
12.10 (Central) The Equalizer
12.10 (Westcountry) Disaster Chronicles
12.15 (Meridian) War of the Worlds
12.15 (Wales) Prisoner: Cell Block H
12.30 (Anglia) Coach
12.35 (Border/West/Westcountry) Coach
12.55 (London) The Twilight Zone
1.05 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Wrestling
1.05 (Central) Hollywood Report
1.15 (Meridian) The Twilight Zone
1.30 (London/Meridian) Hollywood Report
1.35 (Central) Little Picture Show
1.45 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Movie "Relentless"
2.00 (London/Meridian/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) America's Top Ten
2.30 (London/Meridian) Donahue
2.35 (Central/Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Cinema, Cinema, Cinema
3.00 (Tyne Tees/Yorkshire) Movie "West of Zanzibar"
3.05 (Central) America's Top Ten
3.30 (London/Meridian) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
3.30 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/Westcountry) America's Top Ten
3.35 (Central) Raw Power
4.00 (London/Meridian) Entertainment UK
4.00 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Nite Bites
4.15 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/WestcountryWales) Erasure
4.30 (Anglia/Border/Ulster/West/Westcountry/Wales) Riviera
4.35 (Central) Jobfinder
4.40 (Tyne Tees/Ulster/Westcountry/Yorkshire) Jobfinder
5.00 (London) Riviera
5.00 (Anglia/Border/West/Wales) Jobfinder
5.00 (Meridian) Freescreen
5.20 (Central) Asian Eye
5.30 ITN News
Channel 4
5.50 Sesame Street
6.45 Dennis (Dennis the Menace)
7.00 The Big Breakfast
9.00 You Bet Your Life
9.30 Schools programs
12.00 Parliament Programme
12.30 Sesame Street
1.30 Lift-Off
2.00 Movie "State Fair"
3.50 Labrythm (animated short)
3.55 Food File
4.30 Countdown
5.00 Oprah Winfrey
5.50 The Magic Roundabout
6.00 The Word: Access All Areas
6.30 Gamesmaster
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.50 Comment (John Brown previews Red Nose Day)
8.00 Close to Home
8.30 Secret Life of... the Electric Light
9.00 The Goldring Audit (Mary Goldring reports on the water industry and privatization)
10.00 Drop the Dead Donkey
10.30 Harry Enfield's Guide to the Opera
11.05 The Avengers (b/w)
12.10 Dispatches
1.00 Dick Powell Theatre "The Legend" (b/w)
1.55 sign-off
S4C
7.00 The Big Breakfast
9.00 You Bet Your Life
9.30 Ysgolion (schools)
12.00 Parliament Programme
12.30 Slot Meithrin
1.00 Sesame Street
2.00 Movie "State Fair"
3.50 Labrythm
3.55 Food File
4.25 Slot 23
5.00 Countdown
5.30 Gamemaster
6.00 News
6.10 Heno
7.00 Pobol Y Cwm
7.30 Tony Ac Aloma
8.00 Adlais
8.55 Taro 9
9.30 Harry Enfield's Guide to the Opera
10.00 Drop the Dead Donkey
10.30 Movie "Distant Voices, Still Lives"
12.05 The Word: Access All Areas
12.30 Do You Come Here Often?
1.00 sign-off
. Most people still only had four channels until March 1997 when Channel 5 launched. A few people did have analogue satellite but they were very much the minority, and even fewer people had cable.