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Opinion

Mark Duguid from the BFI Screenonline gives us his selection of five key moments from British TV history, each of which has had a lasting legacy for TV makers and watchers in this country.


The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953)
The BBC's six-part science fiction serial that gripped the nation back in 1953.

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Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ITV, 1955–)
Less of the informing and educating and more of the entertaining.

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The Family (BBC, 1974)
English working-class life as it had never been seen on TV before.

Desmond's (Channel 4, 1988-94)
One of Channel 4's earliest success stories?

24 Hour News
The impact of 24 hour rolling news.


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