What We Were Watching
What We Were Watching
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What We Were Watching

7.5 / 10
2018
1 season
8 episodes

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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Seasons

  • Christmas 1988

    1.Christmas 1988

    23-12-2018

    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.

  • Christmas 1979

    2.Christmas 1979

    23-12-2019

    Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.

  • Summer TV Classics

    3.Summer TV Classics

    29-07-2020

    Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.

  • Song and Dance Spectaculars

    4.Song and Dance Spectaculars

    20-11-2020

    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.

  • Christmas 1995

    5.Christmas 1995

    19-12-202059m

    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.

  • Christmas 1991

    6.Christmas 1991

    20-12-2021

    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.

  • Christmas 1984

    7.Christmas 1984

    28-12-202458m

    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...

  • Christmas 1985

    8.Christmas 1985

    21-12-202557m

    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 Christ...

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