What We Were Watching

Synopsis

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

First Air Date: 2018-12-23

Last Air Date: 2025-12-21

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 8

Networks: BBC Four

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Top Cast

Peter Sallis as Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)

Seasons

Season 1 (2018)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Christmas 1988 (2018-12-23)

Looking 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.
Ep. 2: Christmas 1979 (2019-12-23)

Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
Ep. 3: Summer TV Classics (2020-07-29)

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.
Ep. 4: Song and Dance Spectaculars (2020-11-20)

Grace 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.
Ep. 5: Christmas 1995 (2020-12-19)

Grace 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.
Ep. 6: Christmas 1991 (2021-12-20)

Writer 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.
Ep. 7: Christmas 1984 (2024-12-28)

TV 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.
Ep. 8: Christmas 1985 (2025-12-21)

Broadcaster, 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.