HeyJaredThe Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter
A weekly roundup of British television's past in online video links - an extended mix of Twitter's @whydontyoutube
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 16
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 7, 2026
Latest issues
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 25th-27th 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September 25th70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Flight Into Danger becomes the first recorded live drama import to be shown on the BBC. Written by British-born subsequently successful novelist Arthur Hailey, it was commissioned for Canada’s CBC by their head of drama Sydney Newman, who partly as a result was brought over two years later by ABC, for whom he created The Avengers, and then the BBC, where he was responsible for The Forsyte Saga, The Wednesday Play and, for the most part, Doctor Who. The averting
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 21st-24th 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September 21st50 YEARS AGO TODAY: away they go as sporting capital Clitheroe hosts the We Are The Champions final between Galashiels, Northallerton, Anglesey and Oxfordshire, adjudged by “the absolute ace referee of soccer” Clive Thomas. The winners don’t really seem overjoyed. - Nationwide meets the people animatedly dubbing The Water Margin into English, adapted by David Weir who proved so successful at it he’d do the same for Monkey.
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 18th-20th 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September 18th60 YEARS AGO TODAY: the pillars of multi-talented song and dance men, Roy Castle on The Bruce Forsyth Show. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Granada’s The Kick Off Match features, for as far as we can tell the only time ever, Gordon Burns, football commentator. - after reading out the home address of two children right at the start, <strong
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 14th-17th 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September 14th50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Cilla Black’s latest in her standalone sitcom episode series Cilla’s World of Comedy finds her matching up to Richard Wilson and future Bayleaf in London’s Burning James Hazeldine, who turns up ten minutes into the 23 as half of a couple acrimoniously splitting up who attend a house view at the same time. Ooh, a right farce. - another legendary Play For Today, Jack Rosenthal’s bittersweet comedy Bar Mit
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 11th-13th 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September 11th60 YEARS AGO TODAY: “I have a good laugh at all the killing that goes on!” - Forsyth, B. (1966) We return to ABC’s The Bruce Forsyth Show, where he’s already complaining about the scheduling. His guests are The Army Game’s Michael Medwin and Diana Dors doing a joke about Mrs Thursday, at least the half dozenth reference to a contemporary show, and nearly suffering a wardrobe malfunction as part of an opening skit with Brucie coming over all unnecessary with her. Dors plays some gol
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.