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| 4/28/26 | ![]() RTBWTV April 26th 2026 How the Baron changed adventure television - by accident✨ | UK action adventure TVThe Baron+5 | — | ITCThe Baron | — | The BaronUK television+7 | — | 57m 23s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() RTBWTV March 15th 2026 - Private Eyes✨ | private investigatorsUK television history+3 | — | — | Leeds | private eyesTV history+8 | — | 52m 11s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() RTBWTV February 22nd 2026 - Westerns✨ | WesternsTelevision history+3 | — | High Chaparral | USUK | Westernstelevision+6 | — | 49m 48s | |
| 1/13/26 | ![]() RTBWTV January 11th 2026 - Technology and drama and what was on 60 years ago✨ | technologydrama+4 | — | — | — | BBCInnes Lloyd+5 | — | 52m 57s | |
| 11/27/25 | ![]() RTBWTV November 23 2025 - Here is the News✨ | television news historyBBC vs ITN+4 | — | BBCITN+2 | — | television newsBBC+6 | — | 57m 09s | |
| 10/14/25 | ![]() RTBWTV October 12th 2025 - The Future✨ | future predictionsBritish television+4 | — | Smith's CrispsFireball XL5+4 | — | futureBritish television+5 | — | 1h 01m 32s | |
| 8/19/25 | ![]() RTBWTV August 17th 2025 Tributes and Radio to TV and vice versa✨ | radio to TVmedia migration+5 | — | — | — | radiotelevision+5 | — | 54m 25s | |
| 7/18/25 | ![]() RTBWTV July 14th 2025 - Animals✨ | natural historywildlife+3 | — | — | — | natural historywildlife television+3 | — | 49m 42s | |
| 6/4/25 | ![]() RTBWTV June 1st 2025 - Brainwashing and mind control✨ | mind controlbrainwashing+5 | — | ITCRADA | — | mind controlbrainwashing+8 | — | 1h 00m 39s | |
| 4/19/25 | ![]() RTBWTV April 18th 2025 - Jean Marsh tribute✨ | Jean MarshBritish Television+5 | — | ITCDoctor Who | — | Jean MarshBritish Television+5 | — | 39m 08s | |
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| 3/23/25 | ![]() RTBWTV March 22 2025 - Side hustles and alternative careers | RBWTV March 22nd 2025 Side hustles and alternative careers. We all need to make ends meet, and back in the Golden Age of British television it was just the same. In this episode, Guy Morgan and David Newell check through the cvs (or resumés if you're American) of well known faces who appeared on the nation's screens between 1956 and 1974. Some opened restaurants, while many more paid the rent by working in them. Others showed off a wide range of craft and design skills and became more famous for those. And a couple rose up the food chain to produce landmark television. We ask: What do classically trained actors bring to the table (literally) when they are between jobs? How did a butcher and sausage magnate become a star of radio and TV? And how is Adam Adamant connected to bedroom furniture? The closing edit of Bartender by Eric Tubb and Loretta Lynn is an MCA Nashville Release ℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc and be heard in full on YouTube. As usual, rights in any clips and music remain with the holders and are used here for educational purposes and can be purchased through legitimate online websites. And if any of our original material is used for training AI, the perpetrators agree to pay us £1,000,000,000. | — | ||||||
| 2/23/25 | ![]() RTBWTV February 20th 2025 Robots, cyborgs and computers | RTBWTV February 20th 2025 - Robots, cyborgs and computers As we enter that optimistic Star Trek future, where everything is automated and everyone lives a life of peaceful leisure staring at their screens, Guy Morgan and David Newell look back at how the future was viewed by classic television during Britain's golden age - 1956 and the Suez Crisis to 1974 and the three day week. We discover that amongst all the bright predictions, many writers and producers were offering a rather more gloomy forecast. Dave takes charge of the robots (although there's a tussle regarding the Cybernauts) while Guy tinkers with giant computers. But where, you ask, do the Daleks and Cybermen fit in? What's the best way to disable an errant computer? (A trip to your local ironmonger's might prove useful) and never, never cancel a scientist's funding -- who knows what they might get up to in revenge? As usual, rights in any clips and music remain with the holders and are used here for educational purposes. They can be purchased through legitimate online websites. By the way, if any of our original material is used for training AI, the perpetrators agree to pay us £1,000,000,000. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/25 | ![]() RTBW TV January 26th 2025 - Spin offs | RTBWTV January 26th 2025 - Spin offs A bracing New Year plunge into the Golden Age of British Television (1956 and the Suez Crisis to 1974 and the three day week). Guy Morgan and David Newell take some threads from classic television of the era and spin them off to explore how one TV series can give birth to another - no matter how tenuous the connection. What is the difference between a spin off and a franchise? Whose great nephew continued the family crimefighting tradition? Which series "jumped the shark" from Episode 1? And which one causes Dave physical pain to mention? As usual, rights in any clips and music remain with the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 12/18/24 | ![]() RTBWTV December 15th 2024 The Birth Of Xmas Specials | RTBWTV December 15th 2024 A leisurely sleigh ride through the snowy wastes of Christmas scheduling from the Golden Age of British Television (1956 and the Suez Crisis to 1974 and the three day week). Guy Morgan and David Newell set out on a search party to find the first authentic UK Xmas TV episode of a regular series - only to find the Americans had got there first. Sad to say, some of the tracks have been obliterated by the blizzard of wiping that afflicted the BBC, but some, surprisingly, have been frozen in time, thanks to the advent of ITV and the business nous of Lew Grade. The intrepid explorers discover that the template of church service, the Queen's message and the mandatory circus/panto/celebrity revue was carved in stone from the mid fifties, but the number of elephants dramatically declined over the years. So pour an eggnog, prise out some dates and steep yourself in the warm glow of black and white television that was probably recorded sometime in August...…….. As usual, rights in any clips and music remain with the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 11/7/24 | ![]() RTBWTV podcast episode November 3rd 2024 Hokey inthe Pokey | RTBWTV November 3rd 2024 A leisurely stroll around the exercise yard of the Golden Age of British Television (1956 and the Suez Crisis to 1974 and the three day week) to inspect the role of prisons and prisoners in comedy and adventure series. Guy Morgan and David Newell dig their way out of the labyrinth and dodge the searchlights to uncover what happened to criminals after they'd been nicked in that last sixty seconds of regular crime shows. Of course we mention the 50th anniversary of Porridge, but also uncover its predecessor, Her Majesty' Pleasure - a very different bowl of gruel. Dave touches on the (mainly French) classics which feature notorious jails and escapees and we ask what's uppermost in the mind of an old lag as he steps out of the prison gates? Here's a clue, it's not his Mum's home cooking…... We also nod to characters who are stuck in a hard place thanks either to bad luck or sinister, clandestine forces. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. The Music of ITC can be purchased from all good online retailers. | — | ||||||
| 9/23/24 | ![]() RTBWTV 22-9-2024 Tributes And Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | RBWTV September 22nd 2024 Another careful excavation of the treasure buried deep in the archives of the Golden Age of British television - that's 1956 (The Suez Crisis) to 1974 (The Three Day Week). With Dave back from his Volvo hunting in Italy, we explore, as promised, the mysteries of Edgar Wallace now unspooling again on Talking Pictures TV. A host of familiar faces have a crack at playing unfamiliar roles - good guys and gals get a chance to turn villainous and actors best known for a bit of menace join the side of the angels. Originally made as quota quickie B-movies, they were repackaged for television with three versions of the sinister theme tune (including a fast paced one by The Shadows). Guy Morgan and David Newell try to make sense of the plots, note one famous producer who repeatedly got cast as a Brummie tearaway before stepping behind the cameras and select one episode which would have been a noir classic if it was in French. But first, they pay tribute to both David Graham and Kenneth Cope who recently passed away in their 90s after long and distinguished careers and also to Cleo Sylvestre for her pioneering work on screens big and small. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/24 | ![]() RTBWTV 15-9-2024 Brief bonus material re Kenneth Cope and Dixon of Dock Green | RBWTV September 15th 2024 A brief bonus episode of Rose Tinted Black and White Television where David Newell allows me (Guy Morgan) to get some things off my chest about the strange convolutions Dixon of Dock Green went through in terms of script and storylines in the early seventies. As it happens, we recorded this just before the passing of the great Kenneth Cope, star of British Television, with two Avengers' points, appearances in many British Golden Age series, as well as Coronation Street and Brookside. Of course he will be forever remembered as Marty Hopkirk, Jeff Randall's ghostly detective partner. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 8/19/24 | ![]() RTBWTV August 18th 2024 - The Commies Are Coming, Oh Hang On A Minute, They're Here | RTBWTV August 18th 2024 - The commies are coming! Oh hang on a minute, they're here! Another snorkel through the calm reassuring lagoon that is the classic television which flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. But what's this? Some our most beloved adventure series from the beginning of the Golden Age of British TV were written and directed by communists. That's right! These reds were on the run from the sinister HUAC, the House Unamerican Activities Committee in the United States and sought refuge and work in the unlikeliest spot of the Home Counties of England. And like other exiles, either from the Nazis or Soviet dominated Eastern Europe, they contributed immeasurably to British cultural life. Hear how we wouldn't have the Globe Theatre, Zoe Wannamaker or Zulu without the witchhunts of Senator Joseph McArthy. David and Guy explore the semi hidden history that became a staple of TV in the late 50s and early 60s and provides Talking Pictures TV with its Saturday schedule. And, they cry out, why hasn't anyone made a biopic about Hannah Weinstein? Oh, yes and there's also some self flagellation about watching (ahem) The New Avengers. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/24 | ![]() RTBWTV July 7th 2024 Legs And Co (not Those Ones) | RBWTV July 7th 2024 Legs & Co (shows that stand the test of time) Now that Guy's back from his mission behind the Iron Curtain/former Austro-Hungarian Empire, we relax back on the li-lo and drift through the calm reassuring lagoon that is the classic television which flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. In this episode: Legs & Co (not those ones). Dave ponders on what gives TV series "legs" or longevity. Why do shows such as The Avengers (silly question), Dad's Army, Rupert Davies' Maigret and Steptoe and Son keep attracting viewers? And are there any others out there that deserve dusting off and showing again? Guy wonders who our classic screen characters might have voted for in the recent General Election. Plus, who can sing along with the theme from The Flashing Blade? As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | ![]() RTBWTV May 31st 2024 Lone Wolves Versus Teams - Which Is BetterɁ | RTBWTV May 31st 2024 - Lone Wolves versus teams - which is better? Another snorkel through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. Co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider shows that are still available, others that have been lost and some which should have existed and perhaps still could........... In this episode, we look at the pros and cons of being a single protagonist or "lone wolf" as against being a team player. Of course we examine the Saint, but there's a pack of lone wolves in 1960s and 70s television - they just kept themselves to themselves. We compare those shows to the ones which feature "a precinct". Not always cops, there's one set in a football club (that's soccer to our American friends), but also publishing, lawyers, and particularly medicine, with their firebrand young doctors kept under control by their crusty wise old superiors, ably assisted by a nurse or a resourceful Scottish housekeeper. And then there's the Precinct in the room that we have to talk about - the police/detective series, where even mavericks have the backing of an entire organisation - whether they like it or not. We put on our sociological hats and stroke our chins as to how Dixon of Dock Green charts the real changes in British policing during the period and ends up not deserving the "cosy" label it's often been associated with. In fact, it ends its days as downbeat as a modern Nordic Noir, just listen to that minor chord at the end of the last theme tune........... We also ask: Did the Mission Impossible team paint the town red after a successful adventure? How did they recruit Dave when he was in Aladdin and to what purpose? And why did Airfix fail to produce a kit for the popular Western series Bonanza? As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/24 | ![]() RTBWTV April 21 2024 Import - Export | RTBWTV April 22nd 2024 Import/Export A leisurely swim (rather than a deep dive) through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. "The Golden Age". Co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider shows that are still available, others that have been lost and some which should have existed and perhaps still could........... This time, who had the most air miles when it came to working both sides of the pond? We explore the American actors who headlined series in the UK, and some of Britain's surprise exports. And to illustrate, we muse on the dying art of the great theme tune, leaning heavily on "The Music of ITC" discs 1 and 2, the Man from Uncle and others used here for educational purposes and which are, of course, available to purchase from all good online stores. Also we learn how Dave's character role as a butler took him over for a short spell until he found himself drawn into solving mysteries while "resting"....... As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders. | — | ||||||
| 3/9/24 | ![]() RTBWTV March 7th 2024 PoW Fame Academy | RTBWTV March 7th 2024 - Stars behind wartime bars Another snorkel through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. Co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider shows that are still available, others that have been lost and some which should have existed and perhaps still could........... This time, we take a deep dive into that crucible of acting and writing talent, the Second World War -- or more specifically prisoner of war camps. The National Archive near Kew in West London is currently staging Great Escapes, an exhibition about life in captivity for servicemen and civilians on both sides of the conflict. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/great-escapes/ And in particular, we pay tribute to the performers incarcerated in the most famous prison camp of all, Stalag Luft III. We also look at people held prisoner by the Japanese who went on to find fame and fortune in literature and on screen. And we consider the impact the war had not only on actors' careers, but the appetite for TV series about it. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. You'll hear a smidgeon of Peter Butterworth in Carry On Screaming, plus an extract from his This is Your Life episode in 1976. Also, Robert Farnon's Colditz March, Clifton Parker's music from The Wooden Horse (1950), Elmer Berstein's theme to the The Great Escape and the theme to Hogan's Heroes composed by Jerry Fielding. All can be found and purchased online. | — | ||||||
| 2/17/24 | ![]() RTBWTV February 16th2024 Ch... Ch...Changes | RTBWTV February 16th 2024 - Ch...ch....changes A leisurely snorkel through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week. Co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell consider shows that are still available, others that have been lost and some which should have existed and perhaps still could........... This time, how and why do long running shows evolve? They get longer or shorter, stars come and go and just as importantly, the men in suits interfere...... Be warned! There are references to shows outside the specified time frame as a concession to younger listeners. As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. The familiar theme tune from Barry Norman's Film programme is a recording of Billy Taylor playing his 1952 composition "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free". David Bowie's Changes is available to purchase online along with the rest of his essential back catalogue. The same goes for Edwin Astley's two themes for Danger Man and John Dankworth and Laurie Johnson's themes for The Avengers. | — | ||||||
| 1/15/24 | ![]() RTBWTV Episode January 14th 2024 - The Gold Robbers in the bag! | Happy New Year to all our listeners! To begin 2024, we take a deep chin stroking review of The Gold Robbers, whose Saturday repeats are winding down on Talking Pictures TV. The series is on the cusp of change for the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week, which is of course the Golden Age that co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell champion in their self appointed role of keepers of the vintage TV flame. We ask: did Guy remember that scene correctly from his cradle all those years ago? Just how much violence was acceptable at the end of the sixties? And did the success of such a long running serial lead LWT to double down and make six months worth of the much maligned (by us) Manhunt? As always, rights in all music and clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. And don't forget, The Gold Robbers theme by Max Harris can be tracked down at all good online retailers. | — | ||||||
| 11/28/23 | ![]() RTBWTV 23 - 11 - 2023 - Ian Hendry Special | RTBWTV November 23rd 2023 - Ian Hendry Special This time we take a deep dive (rather than the usual leisurely swim) through the classic television that flitted across the black and white screens of the UK from the Suez Crisis of 1956 until 1974's three day week, because co hosts Guy Morgan and David Newell examine the under sung life and career of Ian Hendry. Without him there would have been no Avengers (unthinkable!) and television in the 1960s and 70s wouldn't have been the same. But he was equally at home and in demand on the big screen and held his own even when cast alongside heavyweight famous names. For the first time in the programme's history, Dave comes into the same studio as Guy, and is subjected to a musical quiz. There are the usual discursive ramblings, plus Dave's personal reminiscences of not only Ian Hendry but also Charles Hawtrey (though not at the same time). As always, rights in all music and interview clips belong to the holders and are used here for educational purposes. And don't forget, those theme tunes are available from all good online retailers. For the full Hendry experience, go to: https://ianhendry.com | — | ||||||
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