To conclude Black History Month, the Thames TV documentary series This Week followed the build up to the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier fight in 1971 with interviews with the fighters, promotors and access to behind the scenes. Transmitted in 1971. | Thames TV Archive

67K views · 1.1K reactions | Thames TV's 'TV Eye' looks at the appalling state of affairs eight months after Idi Amin was overthrown. This film catalogues a terrible tale of woe - murder and looting with no proper police force to control it, broken-down hospitals, flattened towns with no materials to rebuild them, and a ruinous black market and asks what the western aid givers are doing about it. | History of Uganda | Facebook

Back in 1977, editing a TV show like Magpie meant literally cutting and taping film strips by hand 🎞️ Sound was handled separately on magnetic film, then synced perfectly with the visuals a slow, skill-heavy process that needed total precision. A clip from Thames TV’s Finding Out shows the behind-the-scenes grind of how Magpie was pieced together frame by frame, splice by splice. ✂️📺 Credit: ThamesTV - #tvhistory #1970s #filmediting #behindthescenes #magpie #thamestelevision #retrofilm #broadc

The late night Thames TV Ident from 1978.

Thames TV in-vision continuity + Ident (1969)

#somethingfortheweekend with a montage of blooper clips from 90's comedy series Men Behaving Badly. | Thames TV Archive | Facebook

17 reactions · 3 comments | Classic eighties Christmas TV here with a sketch from Mike Yarwood from a 1989 Christmas Compilation show. Day 18 in our #thameschristmascountdown | Thames TV Archive | Facebook

7.6K views · 46 reactions | #bornonthisday One of the most successful television actors of his generation, actor John Thaw CBE. Here he is in action in one of his much loved roles as Regan. Taken from the episode of the same name from the series Armchair Cinema from 1974. | Thames TV Archive | Facebook