source: The London Times
RETRO LONDON TV- Thursday February 5, 1981
BBC1
9.00am- For Schools, Colleges- History- Britain Alone
9.25- Maths- Geometry
9.47- Maths- Which way to Go?
10.10- Merry-go-Round
10.35- Scene: On Yer Bike!
11.05- It's Maths
11.30- The story of the castle
11.55- Beside the Sea
12.20pm- Closedown
12.45- News and Weather
1.00- Pebble Mill At One
1.45- Bod
2.00- You and Me
2.15- For Schools, Colleges- Music Time (Fast and Slow)
2.40- Television Club (Man's Best Friend)
3.00- Closedown
3.55- Play School
4.20- Undercover Elephant
4.25- Jackandry
4.40- Scooby and Scrpapy Doo
5.00- John Craven's Newsstand
5.05- Blue Peter
5.35- The Perishers
5.40- News with Jan Leeming
5.55- Nationwide
6.20- Mary Marquis from Glasgow's Reporting Scotland presents the Grass Roots item
7.00- Tomorrow's Item
7.25- Top of the Pops
8.05- Wildlife on One: Flower from the Flames
8.30- Partners
9.00- News with Richard Baker
9.25- Starsky and Hutch
10.15- Question Time
11.15- International Ice Skating
11.55- News Headlines
12.00am- Closedown
BBC2
11.00am- Play School
4.25pm- Open University- Childhood (5 to 10)
4.50- The First Years of One
5.15- S101 Preparatory Maths: angles
5.30- Interval
5.35- Harold Lloyd
6.00- Music-Hall Greats: Please Turn Over (1959)
7.25- A Guardian Lecture
7.50- News- with subtitles for Hard of Hearing
8.00- Writers and Places: The World's Wrong End
8.30- Russell Harty
9.00- The Little World of Don Camillo
9.25- Man Alive: Medicine or Miracle
10.15- The Mike Harding Show
10.45- Newsnight
11.40- Closedown
Thames
9.30am- For Schools- Health Education
9.52- Ghost and Spirits
10.09- Making a Living (industrial society)
10.31- Evolution (fossils)
10.53- A-level biology (the isolation and metabolism)
11.10- Science for younger children
11.27- Craft activities for Infants
11.44- Picture Box
12.00pm- Gideon
12.10- Stepping Stones
12.30- The Sullivans
1.00- News
1.20- Thames News
1.30- Together
2.00-- After Noon Plus
2.45- Fallen Hero
3.45- In Loving Memory
4.15- Watch It!
4.20- Little House on the Prairie
51.5- Emmerdale Farm
5.45- News
6.00- Thames news
6.25- Help!
6.35- Charlie's Angels
7.30- The Jim Davidson Show
8.00- Sapphire and Steel
8.30- TV Eye: Going Private
9.00- Hill Street Blues
10.00- News and Thames news Headlines
11.00- The New Avengers
12.00am- What the Papers Say
12.15- Close- Sir Neil Cameron, Marshal of the Royal Air Force reads Dorothy L. Sayer's The English War
RETRO LONDON TV- Thursday February 5, 1981
BBC1
9.00am- For Schools, Colleges- History- Britain Alone
9.25- Maths- Geometry
9.47- Maths- Which way to Go?
10.10- Merry-go-Round
10.35- Scene: On Yer Bike!
11.05- It's Maths
11.30- The story of the castle
11.55- Beside the Sea
12.20pm- Closedown
12.45- News and Weather
1.00- Pebble Mill At One
1.45- Bod
2.00- You and Me
2.15- For Schools, Colleges- Music Time (Fast and Slow)
2.40- Television Club (Man's Best Friend)
3.00- Closedown
3.55- Play School
4.20- Undercover Elephant
4.25- Jackandry
4.40- Scooby and Scrpapy Doo
5.00- John Craven's Newsstand
5.05- Blue Peter
5.35- The Perishers
5.40- News with Jan Leeming
5.55- Nationwide
6.20- Mary Marquis from Glasgow's Reporting Scotland presents the Grass Roots item
7.00- Tomorrow's Item
7.25- Top of the Pops
8.05- Wildlife on One: Flower from the Flames
8.30- Partners
9.00- News with Richard Baker
9.25- Starsky and Hutch
10.15- Question Time
11.15- International Ice Skating
11.55- News Headlines
12.00am- Closedown
BBC2
11.00am- Play School
4.25pm- Open University- Childhood (5 to 10)
4.50- The First Years of One
5.15- S101 Preparatory Maths: angles
5.30- Interval
5.35- Harold Lloyd
6.00- Music-Hall Greats: Please Turn Over (1959)
7.25- A Guardian Lecture
7.50- News- with subtitles for Hard of Hearing
8.00- Writers and Places: The World's Wrong End
8.30- Russell Harty
9.00- The Little World of Don Camillo
9.25- Man Alive: Medicine or Miracle
10.15- The Mike Harding Show
10.45- Newsnight
11.40- Closedown
Thames
9.30am- For Schools- Health Education
9.52- Ghost and Spirits
10.09- Making a Living (industrial society)
10.31- Evolution (fossils)
10.53- A-level biology (the isolation and metabolism)
11.10- Science for younger children
11.27- Craft activities for Infants
11.44- Picture Box
12.00pm- Gideon
12.10- Stepping Stones
12.30- The Sullivans
1.00- News
1.20- Thames News
1.30- Together
2.00-- After Noon Plus
2.45- Fallen Hero
3.45- In Loving Memory
4.15- Watch It!
4.20- Little House on the Prairie
51.5- Emmerdale Farm
5.45- News
6.00- Thames news
6.25- Help!
6.35- Charlie's Angels
7.30- The Jim Davidson Show
8.00- Sapphire and Steel
8.30- TV Eye: Going Private
9.00- Hill Street Blues
10.00- News and Thames news Headlines
11.00- The New Avengers
12.00am- What the Papers Say
12.15- Close- Sir Neil Cameron, Marshal of the Royal Air Force reads Dorothy L. Sayer's The English War