The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter
Why Don't YouTube?A weekly roundup of British television's past in online video links - an extended mix of Twitter's @whydontyoutube
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The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - October 12th-15th 2026
October 12th
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Spice Girls make it to Live & Kicking. Note the cover for Mel C’s Liverpool shirt sponsor. She and Ronan Keating are the participants in Video Grand Prix, this year’s Trevor & Simon video review melee...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - October 9th-11th 2026
October 9th
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bruce has received a letter from a six year old with a joke that doesn’t make sense and Anthea is only too willing to read out her entire home address. And so another Generation Game dawns, wherein Forsyth...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - October 5th-8th 2026
October 5th
70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Zoo Quest was David Attenborough’s first TV series, bringing a big audience to wildlife documentary making by way of taking it out of the BBC studio for once, travelling to far-flung locations with a crew...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - October 2nd-4th 2026
October 2nd
60 YEARS AGO TODAY: Talking To A Stranger, a series of four 90+ minute dramas - all running back to back in this video - recounting the same disastrous family weekend each from a different perspective and shown on BBC2 as pa...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - September 28th-October 1st 2026
September 28th
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Roy Dotrice pulls double duty as both Charles Dickens, telling the story in flashback, and his father in biopic-series Dickens Of London, though that’s no casting at all compared to Paul Lavers, the fut...
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