1985: The BBC launch a magazine to challenge Look-in on January 29th. It doesn't last long.... Meanwhile the first mobile phone call is made in the UK, Eastenders appears on TV, the Heysel Football riots take place and 39 people die. English clubs are banned from playing in Europe for an indefinite period by UEFA.
The fourteenth James Bond film A View to a Kill with Roger Moore is released, Live Aid Concerts raise £50 million for the Ethiopian famine. Neil Kinnock makes his famous speech attacking the Trotsykyist Militant group who sent out redundancy notices by taxi to Liverpool Council workers and Margaret Atwood publishes The Handmaid's Tale.
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Amongst the top selling singles that year were Power of Love by Jennifer Rush, Frankie from Sister Sledge and Madonna's Into The Groove. Top selling albums included Born In The USA from Bruce Springstein, Hounds of Love by Kate Bush and Meat is Murder from The Smiths.
The BEEB obviously concentrated on BBC programmes and had features on Blue Peter and The Saturday Superstore with comic strips from various shows including Automan which I don't recall at all, One To One, Grange Hill, Bananaman and Tripods.
One of the obvious choices for the magazine was to have the input of the Blue Peter team. By 1985 I really wasn't watching the programme any more as I was never at home when it was broadcast and felt I'd outgrown it anyway. The presenters consisted of Michael Sundrin, Simon Groom and Janet Ellis. The following clip albeit from the previous year shows all three having a look at the special effects used in Tripods.
The BEEB ended without announcement with #20 published on June 11th 1985 less than six months after it's launch. There woud be a slightly more successful publication in a few years called Fast Forward but for now Look-in remained unchallenged.
Plus of course....
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Back to "Look-in with 1987 tomorrow.
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