A brand new series in which Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world, aided by a team of square-eyed researchers. He starts where television belongs - at home. There's classic comedy when Del has problems with a chandelier in Only Fools and Horses. From Tonight you can see what it's like in an underwater home. Michael Crawford has a bit of trouble indoors with Some Mothers Do Av 'Em, and there's even a doll's house for dogs from Nationwide. Guest Jan Francis from Just Good Friends discovers the Do-it- Yourself world of Barry Bucknell ; and find out where home is for Andy Pandy and Teddy. Director MIKE SEDDON Assistant producer NEL ROMANO Videotape editors DAVID HAMBELTON. IAN HUGHES Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world. Aided by a team of square-eyed researchers this week he looks at art. From Twenty-Four Hours there's the youngest artist to get his picture in the Royal Academy. From Monitor a sculptor who uses an oil can and another who wraps up for Review. Guest Bob Godfrey reveals the magic behind Henry's Cat, and Roobarb. There's Not Only But Also comedy when Pete and Dud discover the meaning of art. And, while he looks at Take Hart, Vision On, Hartbeat and Play Box, guest Tony Hart draws on his experience, the floor and even an airfield. The best of the Beeb on art - Windmill Director NIGEL HAUNCH Assistant producers KINA MURRAY, TONY MUCKLOW Video editor IAN HUGHES Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world, aided by a team of square-eyed researchers. This week he looks at animals. Guest Johnny Morris looks back at Animal Magic from the time he joined the zoo as Keeper Morris to the time he was spat at by a group of camels. A group of journalists discover why they say 'don't work with animals', and guest Jimmy Ellis tells how he overcame his fear of birds in One by One. From Look there's the Galapagos iguana, and from Blue Peter there's not the elephant, but the St Bernard dogs. There's even Gertie the rhino from Travellers' Tales with Armand and Michaela Denis. The best of the BBC on animals - Windmill. Director NIGEL HAUNCH Assistant producers KINA MURRAY. TONY MUCKLOW Videotape editor IAN HUGHES Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some golden moments from the BBC's film and videotape library. This week he looks at the time when most television is transmitted - night. Find out what goes on when Kieran Prendiville goes out at night for Tomorrow's World. See how to see in the dark: badgers from Badger Watch, foxes from 20th Century Fox and even an owl who nearly didn't get away. Relive Saturday Night Live and see a train crash and the 1964 election complete with swingometer. Guest Patrick Moore looks at some of the greatest events in space history and even plays the piano on The Sky at Night. Director MIKE SEDDON Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world. Aided by a team of square-eyed researchers, this week he looks at what we all stand up in - the body. There are beautiful 60s bodies from Whicker's World, fashionable bodies from the 30s, and unique footage from original keep fit expert EILEEN FOWLER. Guest Bonnie Langford shows how to move the body on The Hot Shoe Show and looks at Chris moving his in In at the Deep End. There's comedy from The Rag Trade, the best of the 1984 Olympics, even flowerpot bodies from Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men. All this - plus, the naughty bits from Monty Python's Flying Circus. The best of the Beeb for all the family - the body - it's all yours. Director NEL ROMANO Producer NIGEL HAUNCH Videotape editor IAN HUGHES Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world. This week, aided by a team of square-eyed researchers, he goes backwards, forwards, faster and slower in time. Leap back in time with Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, forward to the year 2000 with Blue Peter , and guest Moira Stuart shows the importance of time on BBC News. You can ride in time aboard Doctor Who, The Flip Side of Dominick Hide and the London to Brighton; and also see 50 years of television in two-and-a-half minutes. Guest television historian Michael Wood explains what time means to him as he goes In Search of the Trojan War and The Domesday Project; while Time Flies By for Chigley. The best of the Beeb for all the family - Windmill - watch it! Director NEL ROMANO Videotape editor IAN HUGHES Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world. This week Chris and the team discover that there's love and romance in the archives. There's Wildlife on One for two hedgehogs, a honeymoon hotel from Twenty-Four Hours, and heartache for The Black Adder. You can find out about love from Pinky and Perky, romance from The Frost Report, and guest Claire Rayner talks about a relationship with her husband that's Till Death Us Do Part. There's even a bit of necking from The Family of Man that finds a New Guinea girl a husband. All you need is Windmill - love and romance are all you need. Assistant producer NIGEL CROWLE Director MIKE SEDDON Videotape editor PETE DUNKLEY Series producer ALBERT BARBER
This week Chris Serle joins the festive mood with a view of Christmas past from the largest film and videotape library in the world. A Christmas-box selection from shows like Dave Allen at Large, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Hugh and I, The Good Life, and a sequence from The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show which was seen by 28 million viewers on Christmas Day 1977. Guest Jeremy Unwin , Young Cathedral Chorister of the Year, joins Chris in 'Good King Wenceslas'; and John Craven recalls when he met Mother Teresa for Newsround, and what that means for Christmas. There's even a look at London on Christmas Day 1949, and veterans of the First World War tell of the time the war stopped because it was Christmas Day. Director NIGEL HAUNCH Assistant producers KINA MURRAY. TONY MUCKLOW Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle presents a festive feast of food with film and videotape from the largest television library in the world. This week's menu includes super-cooks Philip Harben, Zena Skinner and Fanny Cradock. Noodles from Twenty-four Hours, truffles from Adventure and even a spaghetti tree from Panorama. Billy Bunter of Greyfriars makes a pig of himself, while Sooty and Sweep just make a mess. Guest nutritionist Dr Magnus Pyke reveals the secret of how to keep a wartime country fit, and just why science would ban the humble potato. Producer NIGEL HAUNCH Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle, in this week's exploration into the biggest film and videotape library in the world, discovers what transport means to Robbie and a flying boat, Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and a Weed in The Flowerpot Men. There's classic comedy from Sykes and a Bus and a Bus Strike in 1946 that seems like a holiday. From Nationwide there's a vicar with a wheelbarrow, and even a Churchmobile. There's trouble on a train in Telegoons: The Hastings Flier with the voices of Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Guest traveller Alan Whicker tells tales of Tonight, when he was Whicker Down Under, and of the time he stopped a train in Whicker on Top of the World. You can even prove that dogs on skateboards go in anything but straight lines. Producer MIKE SEDDON Series producer ALBERT BARBER
In this week's exploration into BBCtv's film and videotape library Chris Serle discovers - childhood. Find out what it was like to go Back to School in 1949, and in Special Enquiry how cold a 1955 classroom could get. Joyce Grenfell as the classic school mistress explains to George that we don't do that, while Richard Dimbleby finds out what else we don't do at Marlborough College, in Portrait of a Public School, 1954. There's early children's viewing with Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Mr Pastry and Whacko, with a whistle in the dark from the Clangers. There's star guest Richard Stilgoe with a feast of memories of childhood, not forgetting Billy Bunter of Greyfriars with a feast of his own. Assistant producers KINA MURRAY. TONY MUCKLOW Director NIGEL HAUNCH Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle takes a dip into water in his look at the BBC's film and videotape library. This week's watery wanderings include a rare bath for Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son, Paddington singing in the rain, and a man Water Walking across the Thames in 1951. You can see Compo splash out in Last of the Summer Wine, visit London's lushest loo in On the Throne, and find out how wet the weather turned out to be in 1954 in Fine Weather for Ducks. Guest Ernie Wise remembers 'Singing in the rain' from The Morecambe and Wise Show and talks about his latest work. Water from H to 0 ... There's even Sykes and a Bath. Assistant producer NIGEL CROWLE Director MIKE SEDDON Series producer ALBERT BARBER
In the last of the present series Chris Serle turns the sails of the Windmill 'around the world in 60 minutes'. There's Johnny Morris in Mexico finding out what goes on in a park on a Sunday, Fyfe Robertson on a whirl round Vienna for Tonight and Glenda Jackson leading Morecambe and Wise a dance in ancient Egypt. You can join some huskies in The Last Great Race on Earth, Sir Mortimer Wheeler on a Hellenic Cruise or Florence fishing in the Arctic on Magic Roundabout. Plus David Attenborough talking about some of the people he's met round the world and Children Talking about a day-trip to Calais. Assistant producers NEL ROMANO, BARBARA KINDRED Director NIGEL HAUNCH Series producer ALBERT BARBER
The first programme in a new series in which Chris Serle looks at television's past. This week: The Planet Earth with Percy Thrower. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer BARBARA KINDRED Designer ROGER HARRIS Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle looks back at television's past from the BBC Library at Windmill Road. The theme for this week's programme is War and Peace On war there's both the funny side in Dad's Army and the serious side seen through the eyes of artist Linda Kitson in Newsnight. There's peace from the Beatles with 'All you need is love' in the first live round-the-world satellite programme Our World, made in 1967. The special guest is Vietnam war correspondent and nature conservationist Julian Pettifer. There is the view of peace from the Salvation Army in Tonight and a view of peace on Armistice Day from the BBC documentary on The Great War. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer NEL ROMANO Designer ROGER HARRIS Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle goes down to the archives in search of The Sea and Ships. There's undersea diving adventure from Hans and Lotte Hass , and Jacques Cousteau. Rod Stewart is 'Sailing' for The Old Grey Whistle Test, and guest cameraman Dave Whitson talks of the problems of filming Shackleton and Moonfleet in a tank of water in Ealing. Special guest Ludovic Kennedy talks of his association with the sea with excerpts from Scapa Flow, The Life and Death of the Scharnhorst and Target Tirpitz. You can also discover Sykes and a Boat, Morecambe and Wise and Captain Pugwash. Director MIKE SEDDON Researcher ROSEMARY DA VIES Designer SUZY LAWRENCE Series producer ALBERT BARBER
This week's delve into the archives resounds with melody as Chris Serle tunes in to music of sundry kinds. There's the unexpected Pairing of Stephane Grappelli and Nigel Kennedy in a duet from Lady be Good, a comic duet from Victor Borge and Leonid Hambro , as well as Elgar from Jacqueline du Pre and guest Ken Russell , with a little Andrew Lloyd Webber thrown in for good measure. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer NEL ROMANO Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle looks back on Sport and Achievement There is another chance to see two great athletes, Jesse Owens and Lillian Board turning on the speed, Marty showing what it's like to be a football star, Torvill and Dean skating in the World Championships, Pat Smythe and Flanagan galloping to victory and Scurlogue Champ, the winning greyhound. Special guest is mountaineer and rock climber Joe Brown who talks about his climbs up the Old Man of Hoy and the Himalayas. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer BARBARA KINDRED Designer DON TAYLOR Series producer ALBERT BARBER
This week Chris Serle takes to the air with Flight. There's a smooth take-off from The Bird that Beat the US Navy, a successful mid-air refuelling from Newsnight and a bumpy landing from Diamonds in the Sky. Discover what insect Arthur Askey sings about and why a bicycle helped Michael Hordern to fly. The special guest is writer and broadcaster Raymond Baxter , who talks of his association with planes from the Spitfire to Concorde and the Harrier. Designer DON TAYLOR Producer MIKE SEDDON Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past from the BBC library at Windmill Road. This week, Chris takes a look at Families, some of whom are Frank and Betty Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em; Michael Jackson and his brothers; mother and babies from Kingdom of the Ice Bear; the Royal Family; and Del Boy and Grandad at Christmas. The special family guests are Cliff Michelmore Jean Metcalfe and Guy Michelmore , who recall their own days in television. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer BARBARA KINDRED Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past. This week Chris takes a look at Journeys - and travels through man-eating rapids in River Journeys, on the QE2 with Alan Whicker, out in space with The Clangers, back in time with Morecambe and Wise, and into the future with Tripods. Special guest is writer, Monty Python star and train spotter Michael Palin.
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past from the BBC Film Library at Windmill Road. This week Chris tramps the British countryside - in the wake of the Ice Age with Julian Pettifer , at harvest time with Not the Nine O'Clock News, in the woods with David Bellamy , in the past with the Chair Bodgers of the Chilterns and, in Surbiton, living The Good Life. This week's special guest is Angela Rippon. Assistant producer JENNIFER WHITE Director NEL ROMANO Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past from the BBC library at Windmill Road. This week, Chris takes a look at cars. From the freeways of California, where the car is king, to a back garden with The Woodentops where it's homemade. In the Top of the Pops studio with MADNESS and out learning to drive with MICHAEL CRAWFORD. The special guests are Grand Prix commentators James Hunt and Murray Walker , who recall outstanding moments on the track. Producer MIKE SEDDON Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past from the BBC Library at Windmill Road. This week, Chris takes a look at skill, when JOHN CURRY skates to victory: OLGA KORBUT balances on a beam; BARBARA WOODHOUSE tames a Dobermann and FANNY CRADOCK demonstrates the art of cooking a sausage. The special guest is Frank Bough , who tells of the skill of being a television anchor man. Director MIKE SEDDON Producer BARBARA KINDRED Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
This week, Chris Serle takes a look at money. From spending lots of it in Christie's auction room to trying to make a killing with false teeth in Steptoe and Son. JAMES BURKE discovers the origins of money and there is music from the 60s with ADAM FAITH. ALAN WHICKER talks to billionaire JOHN PAUL GETTY and Paddington buys a share. This week's special guest is Valerie Singleton. Assistant producer LIZ RYVES BROWN Director MIKE SEDDON Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
with Chris Serle This week Chris takes a look at America and visits cowboy country with MARTY FELDMAN , geyser country With DAVID ATTENBOROUGH , Texas with ALAN WHICKER and New York with ALISTAIR COOKE. The special guest is Entertainment USA's host Jonathan King. Assistant producers NEL ROMANO. JENNIFER WHITE DEBBIE SEARLE Director MIKE SEDDON Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
Chris Serle presents a Holiday Special of golden moments from the BBC you may have missed, forgotten or never seen before. With the help of guest Ian McCaskill 's sock and some seaweed, discover some of the secrets behind Bank Holiday weather forecasting. Ruth Madoc says Hi-de-Hi! and you can discover what holiday camps of the 50s were really like. All you need for the Bank Holiday: a visit to Fawlty Towers. How to make Blackpool rock. A browse through brochures with Steptoe and Son. A trip to Benidorm, a human cannon-ball and a rare chance to see where Muffin the Mule puts his carrots. In fact.... the best of the Beeb - Bank Holidays from the 30s to the 80s. Designer MARTIN METHVEN Videotape editors IAN HUGHES and TIM NICHOLSON Produced by ALBERT BARBER