ITV DAYTIME EARLY 80'S

[Alan Scott]

Does anyone remember the following shows and what the archive status of each is? This would have been in the days before breakfast tv. Schools and colleges programmes were shown between 9.30 and 12. Kids shows like Rainbow were shown between 12 and 12.30. These shows were shown between 12.30-1 :

The Sullivans-The first Aussie soap
Gardening Time with Cyril Fletcher
Look Who's Talking with Derek Batey-a chat show
The Riordans-Irish soap?

After the news at 1, Crown Court was shown regularly and also the following:

Farmhouse Kitchen
Afternoon Plus
Who's Baby with Bernie Winters
Looks Familiar with Denis Norden

[Andy Howells]

Crown Court has recently been getting a massive rerun on the Legal TV channel. I imagine the sullivans is still intact as it was from Australia (if I remember rightly I think it got a rerun on UK Gold in the 1990's).

[Martin McDowell]

The Sullivans survives in its entirity, all 1,114 episodes are held at the National Film & Sound Archive in Canberra. One of the best shows ever made!

As far as I'm aware, once a few eps of The Riordans survive in RTE's archive in Dublin.

Can't help with the rest I'm afraid!

[Hugo Danby]

The Gardening Time programmes still exist. They should be in the ITV Archive at YTV.

[Matthew Brannigan]

I was never that interested in gardening, but Cyril Fletcher made Gardening Time very entertaining with his humour and warmth. Him and Bob Price were a great double act.

[Ash Stewart]

irishmartin said:

The Sullivans survives in its entirity, all 1,114 episodes are held at the National Film & Sound Archive in Canberra. One of the best shows ever made!

And all are being released on DVD down under...

[Steven Smith]

Look Who's Talking was a Border Television production, so might be worth checking with them regarding archive status.