Season 1
8 episodes · Dec 23, 2018
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S1E1Christmas 1988
Dec 23, 2018Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
S1E2Christmas 1979
Dec 23, 2019Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
S1E3Summer TV Classics
Jul 29, 2020Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.
S1E4Song and Dance Spectaculars
Nov 20, 2020Grace Dent invites you to lose yourself on a joyful journey back through the BBC archives, celebrating the broadcaster's song and dance extravaganzas of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
S1E5Christmas 1995
Dec 19, 202059mGrace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.
S1E6Christmas 1991
Dec 20, 2021Writer and broadcaster Grace Dent takes a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1991, as she immerses herself in the sights, sounds and TV schedules of the past.
S1E7Christmas 1984
Dec 28, 202458mTV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives, examining all the small screen content that viewers were glued to four decades ago.
S1E8Christmas 1985
Dec 21, 202557mBroadcaster, writer and critic Grace Dent travels back in time through the BBC’s television archives for a light-hearted look at What We Were Watching 40 years ago, over the Christmas period of 1985.