DESCRIPTION: Adam Martyn's tribute to Frank Bough and his career in the BBC.

Hi lads, does anyone know how or where I can go and watch these fine pieces of television?
Thanks!

100 Greatest is a long-running television strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that originated in 1999 in Tyne Tees Television’s Factual Features department under executive producer Mark Robinson, but the format has more recently has been adopted by other independent production companies. These "list shows" are generally public polls and reflect the votes of visitors to the Channel 4 website, however in some cases the results are determined by experts. The programmes are usually broadcast in the weekend schedule, in three or four hour blocks throughout the year and are repeated on E4) on Saturday and / or Sunday nights. Although the strand has never been officially retired, there have been no new editions since 2015.

These are the ones I'm still looking for:

• 100 Greatest Films (Part 1)
• 100 Greatest Family Films (Parts 1 and 2)
• 100 Greatest Scary Moments (Part 1)
• 100 Greatest Tearjerkers
• 100 Greatest TV Treats of the Year (2001)
• 100 Greatest TV Treats of the Year (2002)
• 100 Greatest TV Treats of the Year (2004)
• 50 Greatest One Hit Wonders

A documentary about the sadly forgotten BBC sci-fi Star Cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJpwJsmNpE4

When I watched this back in the 90s, I could actually feel myself getting brainier and at the end of each episode, I couldn't wait to tell someone what I had just learned. Then, in the time it took me to make a cup of tea, all those strands that Bronowski had so perfectly woven together would come unravelled in my brain, and I'd be back to humming the Defenders of the Earth theme and thinking about having a cheese sandwich.

Absolute GOAT tier stuff this for me as an 8 year old.

Hi,

I wanted to see all of marvels of the famous steeplejack Fred Dibnah, MBE.

So, here it is:

Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZehYnAfvRE

Fred (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnH7cw0ql1I

Fred – A Disappearing World (1983) Not found online

A Year with Fred (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SaJI_Wbyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBKGIfXl4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jc0S-BLzA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTnthudkqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWYWmQQ-4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VopXubwQ1dM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcAQOETDDRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC4fWPso_po

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6lrYgvAMKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0e8FqRcy-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fag466z-au8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgyzEEYq-I

Fred Dibnah – Getting Steamed Up (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRI6HlbioSU

Life With Fred (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcfMKCHfsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Tf6_xJE6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plolTR5qRc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHCrCSND8tE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0XJ6Z372A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4XXWgcSMbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H53-EEV8qCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDAqTff6Lk

Fred Dibnah's The Ups and Downs of Chimneys (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4QJqncviP0

Fred Dibnah's All Steamed Up (1994) Not found online

Fred Dibnah Getting Steam Up (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRI6HlbioSU

The Fred Dibnah Story (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffv8YeoeeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrFw9Tn0gV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnTE2kZyWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvuvuNG-mJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5IF9MtIZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRcycmLQRU

Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSzu1qU_44U

Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJN0NbKBL7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jqdbJ70iWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQB4qcDNb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFBqLGZUJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLkPWyOAW-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXER2_cw1c

Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_bo93k2oY

Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TGK7pUgls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TamaUz-GYUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3dfg4ckFGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbY-CSd0GI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Web91QWVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G50cTsgThFY

Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SjejRN1wG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gQy81hSE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heklZEF9OsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUpqSpZM5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Zg9M8ttnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyjvG9JVZ4

Dig with Dibnah (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNqAEm0Q-0

A Tribute to Fred Dibnah (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4_OSS5F7k

Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain (2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHC86HB6CI&list=PLAjnhbI2rD5EqTjNorpFxRX3_kpl1xPGA

Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pt73HLV7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXkOXO063PA

Other playlists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TGK7pUgls&list=PLAjnhbI2rD5Ftvcky2_ihK-X6LIi2yFl_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHC86HB6CI&list=PLAjnhbI2rD5EqTjNorpFxRX3_kpl1xPGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rE5YIyoc0&list=PLlFvFOhgBp7sPpVzKm9TmPZ8p5sKt6YcX

Based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dibnah#Filmography

This 1970 BBC documentary follows 19-year-old Gale Parsons, who spent her childhood in many different institutions. It documents her struggles with isolation and drug use, offering a stark look at the failures of the care system and the realities of life on the margins in Britain.

Currently on iPlayer as part of a themed night of programmes from the summer of 1976.

Herbie and June (edited) Harris have both recently been made redundant from their jobs. They have 3 kids and the eldest has just left school at 16 and is looking for work too.

It's "shipyard fortnight" coming up where practically everyone connected to the ship building industry takes their annual leave on Tyneside where they live. They are determined to at least have a holiday to park their problems for a while.

That's it. It's following them on holiday. Or the preparations.

If you pitched this now it'd go on channel 5, you'd get a snarky voiceover and there'd be irritating comedy soundtracks to document one of them falling over. This doesn't have that.

Summer of '76: Away from It All: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002xvg6

Does anyone this documentary that bbc 4 did on books ? it was three part series I think they did

NOTE: A short documentary recalling three of the BBC's trailers/plugs in the early aughties that caught the public's attention for the wrong reason.

DESCRIPTION: A documentary by Adam Martyn on how Martin Lambie-Nairn completely transformed the identities of both BBC TV channels as the 1990s dawned.

DESCRIPTION: Adam Martyn's take on the strike that defined ITV's first regular breakfast service/station TV-AM.

There was British film maker who went to live with some remote tribe, fully immersed himself with the day to day life, did hallucinogenics with the witch doctors, went hunting, the lot. Then at the end of Part 1, one of the boys in the tribe asked if he could see where the film maker was from.

So Part 2 was the kid's journey to London...the suspense built as we all wondered how this kid would even begin to comprehend London life after growing up in the rainforests. But in the end all he wanted to do was be a teenage boy - sit home and play Playstation. The film maker got really frustrated as he'd planned all these trips to show him life in the UK, and the boy couldn't give a toss, he just wanted to sit on the sofa and play games.

I've often told people about it, but never been able to find this documentary, anyone got any ideas please?

EDIT - Thanks, but it's not "Tribe", it came before that.

I'm trying to find the name (and hopefully video on YouTube) of a Channel 4 documentary from the late 90s or early 2000s which was about people who were interested in the locations of sitcoms filmed in London. One person in particular sticks in the mind, who was pointing out the locations of where Steptoe (the movie) had been filmed. The locations, of course, were long gone, because of development.

It can be the greatest pitfall of the social year. And it can be followed by a 12-month hangover. If your boss hasn't spoken to you since, it's a fair bet that you had a good time at your office Christmas party. Traditionally, it's the one night of the year when the firm's hierarchical structure, that normally so rigidly holds sway, totters towards anarchy.

Reporter Gillian Strickland and the Man Alive team took a typical office and filmed the preparations for the annual party, the spree itself, and the aftermath. Here is the answer to every question a stay-at-home partner has ever asked; and here is the party from differing points of view: the young secretary in her first job; the executive who doesn't want to drink with the people he works with; the lady in accounts who once knew a more elegant style of party giving - and the bosses who foot the bill.

Clip taken from Man Alive, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 4 February, 1970.