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More than two million television sets were bought or rented for the 1953 Coronation, and most of them had twenty people sitting in front of them.
Fifteen minutes of stories and nursery rhymes on the Home Service at quarter to two, aimed at under-fives and the mothers who needed a sit down.
Broadcasting stopped. An announcer said goodnight, the anthem played, and the screen went to a dot.
The chart show that decided what was in your ears for the following seven days, whether you liked it or not.
Send in something good enough and a shield-shaped badge arrived in the post. Nothing else at that age came close.
Britain stayed up for Apollo 11, most of it in front of a set that had been rented specially for the occasion.
Text pages broadcast in the gaps of the TV signal: news, football scores, and page 302 for the weather.
Phil Redmond's series about a London comprehensive, with bullying, truancy and a sausage on a fork in the title sequence.
The BBC's colour test card: Carole Hersee playing noughts and crosses with a toy clown called Bubbles, broadcast for decades.
A BBC Sunday afternoon fixture with a theme tune more famous than the sport it introduced.
Acorn's machine for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, which ended up in nearly every school in Britain.
The BBC's Saturday morning block, with games, bands, cartoons and a competition where somebody got gunged.
A gentle competitive baking show that became the most watched programme on British television.