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In this section, all the screenshots that, despite my best efforts, could not be shoehorned into any other section on this site!

Left: Gordon the Gopher goes for a ride in Kevin Greening's Ford Capri. Middle: Janet Ellis takes time out from Blue Peter in 1984 to appear on Blankety Blank. Right: Maggie Philbin plugs in a pot plant for Tomorrow's World

Mr Blobby makes a grand entrance, and Patrick O'Connell in the days before he became Wogan's number two at Eurovision

Dana's 1970 Eurovision win sends her Top of the Pops. Meanwhile Jimmy Savile is nods off during the Top of the Pops 1974 Christmas special

Savile on the Pops a decade or so earlier

Merry Christmas from Tony, Noel and DLT

The BBC's first Election night programme in colour on 18th June 1970 with Guy's dad Cliff Michelmore in charge, Michael Barrett Nationwide and John Humphrys in black-and-white. Four years later, and the uncertain result of the next poll means Alistair Burnett has to announce that children's programmes have been shifted to BBC2

Left: Michael Barrett was later part of a BBC initiative to get the younger generation more interested in the news. Right:
one of life's great mysteries - whatever happened to James Burke?

Left: the much-missed Roy Castle. Middle: Doctor Who has regeneration pains. Right: all present and correct - Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and...the other one

There's trouble in store for Norman Wisdom, for Mark Curry as he does his best to destroy the Blue Peter set, and for the Perkins whose Mini has ended up in their living room

Left: shut that door! It's Larry Grayson's Generation Game. Middle: Robin Ray hosting Call My Bluff. Right: Greg Dyke in the days before he also became a quiz show host

After eight episodes the BBC finally gave up trying to convince us there was anything 'adult' about Torchwood and moved transmission to the CBBC Channel...

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