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Season 1970

  • S1970E01 Led Zeppelin

    • September 16, 1970
    • BBC One

    Led Zeppelin were voted 'most popular group' in the Melody Makers Poll Winners Awards. Ray Coleman discusses the impact of Led Zeppelin's win. John Bonham and Robert Plant talk about how the music scene is changing.

Season 1974

  • S1974E01 At the Turn of the Year

    • January 1, 1974
    • BBC One

    Michael Barratt and a network of Nationwide reporters start the year with the question: 1974 - will it be for better or for worse ... for richer or for poorer? We try to find the answers from people Nationwide.

  • S1974E60 Derek 'Blaster' Bates

    • March 25, 1974
    • BBC One

    Derek 'Blaster' Bates is a demolition expert. Blaster demolishes three chimneys. Old factory chimney, camera pans from l to 2 others. Blaster arrives, Danger Demolition signs. Crowd watch. Blaster retreats. Blast & 1st chimney falls. Crowd reaction. Blaster & assistant run from behind stack. Blast & it falls neatly behind wall.

Season 1975

  • S1975E98 Nationwide Air Race

    • May 16, 1975
    • BBC One

    live from Biggin Hill the ' Nationwide Air Race ' with regional flyers and presenters competing for the Nationwide Trophy. And at 6.45* Sportswide Jimmy Hill introduces a preview of the Home International Soccer Championship. This year the competition will be fiercer - Scotland will challenge England's supremacy, and Northern Ireland and Wales, both in good form, will be determined not to be left out in the cold.

  • S1975E113 Referendum Results

    • June 6, 1975
    • BBC One

    David Dimbleby with Charles Wheeler and Robin Day reporting on the Referendum Results. News, interviews and analysis from your Region tonight. in London - Michael Barratt and the Nationwide Team. 6.45 Sportswide: Jimmy Hill looks forward to the first day of World Cup Cricket. 7.5 Live coverage from Haydock Park of the Nationwide Stakes.

  • S1975E176 Nationwide at the Highland Games

    • September 3, 1975
    • BBC One

    MICHAEL BARRATT and the Nationwide team take outside broadcast cameras to Aboyne, in Scotland, to capture the colour, sport and spectacle as the clansmen gather on Royal Deeside.

Season 1976

  • S1976E48 Opening of the Ideal Home Exhibition

    • March 8, 1976
    • BBC One

    On the eve of the opening of the Ideal Home Exhibition, Nationwide comes tonight from Olympia. Frank Bough and Valerie Singleton are your guides to the newest ideas in home-making for 1976.

  • S1976E157 The Nationwide Yacht Race Three Days Before the Mast

    • September 7, 1976
    • BBC One

    This week Nationwide comes from the BBC's regional centre at Southampton. Tonight cameras at sea and on land cover a cross-Channel yacht race in which, for three days, eight 70-foot ketches belonging to the Ocean Youth Club are competing.

  • S1976E180 Who's First Across the Line?

    • September 8, 1976
    • BBC One

    For three days, eight 70-foot ketches belonging to the Ocean Youth Club have been battling in a race across the Channel and back to coincide with a special week of Nationwide programmes from the BBC's Southampton studios. Tonight, the climax, with outside broadcast cameras on the finishing line at Plymouth.

  • S1976E182 South of England

    • September 10, 1976
    • BBC One

    The last of a special week of programmes presented from the BBC's Southampton studios and featuring people, pastimes, and places of interest in the South of England. At 6.45* Sportswide Jimmy Hill looks forward to the weekend's sport with action, interviews and the day's latest news. As well as the regular football and racing preview there will be a report from the Burghley Horse Trials.

  • S1976E187 The British are Coming

    • September 17, 1976
    • BBC One

    Including a final report on The British are Coming People from Boxford, Suffolk, spent a bicentennial holiday with families in Boxford, Massachusetts. BERNARD FALK and Nationwide cameras went with them. At 6.45* Sportswide Jimmy Hill introduces an action preview of the weekend sport with a special emphasis on tomorrow's Football League programme. Peter O'Sullevan is also on hand to give his views on Saturday's racing calendar.

  • S1976E256 Young Nation Funky Dancing Competition

    • December 23, 1976
    • BBC One

    Included in this special Christmas edition-the climax of the Young Nation Funky Dancing Competition, with Flick Colby and Legs & Co; the concluding episode of Captain Nationwide's Christmas Adventure; and the winning entries in the Nationwide Carol Competition

Season 1977

  • S1977E48 Nationwide Good Neighbour

    • March 9, 1977
    • BBC One

    From the thousands of people nominated as the Nationwide Good Neighbour one person has emerged as outstanding. Tonight, in a live outside broadcast, Michael Barratt will knock on his or her door to introduce the Nationwide Good Neighbour to the nation at large.

  • S1977E106 Nationwide with Prince Charles

    • May 30, 1977
    • BBC One

    Five weeks ago The Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal was launched ' to help young people help others '. Tonight HRH The Prince of Wales is in the Nationwide studio to meet young people around the country who already do voluntary work in the community. He will also say more about the kind of enterprise he wants to encourage during this Jubilee Year.

  • S1977E136 Nationwide Inter-City - First stop - Bournemouth

    • July 11, 1977
    • BBC One

    This week Nationwide will be linked live from a train, the Nationwide Inter-City, as it travels the length of England. For Michael Barratt - a sentimental journey at the end of his long and distinguished career in the programme, ror the production and technical teams - a television first.

  • S1977E137 Nationwide Inter-City - Maidenhead

    • July 12, 1977
    • BBC One

    Tonight the Nationwide Inter-City pulls into Maidenhead. For the first time a television programme is being introduced live from a train as MICHAEL BARRATT makes the journey into nostalgia at the end of eight years with Nationwide.

  • S1977E210 Mums and Dads

    • October 21, 1977
    • BBC One

    Six thousand children ' in care' throughout Britain need to find new families. Tonight, London and South East viewers of Nationwide's weekly feature Lifelines will meet several of them - a small group of school-age youngsters representative of those 6,000.

  • S1977E254 Christmas with Nationwide: 1977 Carol Competition Final

    • December 22, 1977
    • BBC One

    School pupils throughout Britain entered for the 1977 Nationwide Christmas Carol Competition. Tonight Val Singleton introduces the final, with Noel Edmonds, Richard Stilgoe and Leslie East judging which of the last six will become the Nationwide Carol 1977.

Season 1978

  • S1978E02 Where are the football stars of tomorrow?

    • January 3, 1978
    • BBC One

    Tonight, from Maine Road, Manchester - home of Nationwide's adopted team, Manchester City - the programme launches a competition to discover the brightest footballing talents among the nation's schoolboys - the foundations, perhaps, of the Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England teams of the future. What are the skills and techniques the experts look for? How does a club find and cultivate young talent? Questions Nationwide will be answering in the course of this competition open to schoolboys Nationwide.

  • S1978E20 Nationwide Goes North - City of the Future?

    • January 27, 1978
    • BBC One

    Nationwide concludes its special week of programmes from the North of England with a visit to Kingston-uponTHull-a place apart, whose people have known hard times, but could it become the gateway to Europe, the city of the future?

  • S1978E72 Nationwide Budget Special

    • April 11, 1978
    • BBC One

    The Nationwide team returns for comment and analysis on the Chancellor's proposals and we find out how families Nationwide are affected by the Budget.

  • S1978E87 Nationwide Football Final

    • May 2, 1978
    • BBC One

    2,000 youngsters entered the Nationwide Schoolboy Football Competition to find the most skilful players in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. Tonight. 20 regional finalists compete at Maine Road, Manchester, in the Grand Final. To the winner goes the Mitre Trophy and the title Nationwide Schoolboy Footballer of 1978.

  • S1978E224 Miss World of Talent

    • November 9, 1978
    • BBC One

    Including Miss World of Talent - a chance for some of the beautiful girls gathered in London for ' Miss World 1978' to reveal their hidden talents: from ballet to painting, from guitar-playing to gymnastics.

  • S1978E225 The Mersey Beat

    • November 10, 1978
    • BBC One

    Including tonight The Mersey Beat - another of Martin Young's reports on the Merseyside police. Miss World of Talent - the chance for more of this year's Miss World contestants to reveal their hidden talents.

  • S1978E229 Miss World Special

    • November 16, 1978
    • BBC One

    As the Miss World contest reaches its climax, we reveal your choice for Miss World of Talent. And for those with bigger aspirations than Miss World we launch Large is Lovely, a chance for outsize ladies to star in a competition tailor-made for them.

  • S1978E230 The Mersey Beat - 2

    • November 17, 1978
    • BBC One

  • S1978E233 15th Anniversary of Doctor Who

    • November 22, 1978
    • BBC One

    To mark the 15th anniversary of Doctor Who (1963), Frank Bough interviews the series' star Tom Baker, his companion Mary Tamm and the original Doctor Who companion, Carole Ann Ford.

  • S1978E235 The Mersey Beat - 3

    • November 24, 1978
    • BBC One

  • S1978E248 Large is Lovely - The Final

    • December 13, 1978
    • BBC One

    The climax of Nationwide's competition giving Britain's bigger beauties the chance to show off their looks and dress sense. Judges Fran Fullenweider , Angela Rippon Mary Dilnot , Patrick Lichfield and Alfred Marks and the last of four colourful stories from Luke Casey 's Irish Journey as Nationwide's reporter revisits his home country.

  • S1978E254 Nationwide: Carol Competition

    • December 21, 1978
    • BBC One

    Now in its third year this special feature of Christmas on Nationwide attracts entries from schools all over Britain. Sue Lawley introduces the 1978 Final from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. And the young finalists -the school pupils who compose and perform the carols - await the verdict of judges on the Nationwide Carol of 1978

Season 1979

  • S1979E37 Nationwide from Scotland and Wales

    • February 20, 1979
    • BBC One

    From Edinburgh and Cardiff, the Nationwide team look at some of the issues that might lead to the biggest change in the United Kingdom for centuries. Including tonight - Pigeonhole, Glyn Worsnip and WALTER with a special Celtic edition. Also from far and near, the Programme's team of reporters, LUKE CASEY, BERNARD CLARK , KEVIN COSGROVE , TONY FRANCIS , DIANE HARRON , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT , NICHOLAS WOOLLEY and GLYN WORSNIP bring you films and features that reflect the way life is Nationwide.

  • S1979E67 Kate Bush Tour of Life

    • April 3, 1979
    • BBC One

    Documentary on the upcoming tour by Kate Bush

  • S1979E80 Margaret Thatcher : On the Spot

    • April 20, 1979
    • BBC One

    At the end of the second week of the election campaign, the Leader of the Opposition comes into the Nationwide studio to answer your questions.

  • S1979E158 The Nationwide Dossier

    • August 8, 1979
    • BBC One

    How safe are the world's ageing jet airliners? Is so-called' psychic surgery' a fraud? Why should diplomats who commit crimes be able to escape punishment? In the first of three reports Roger Cook and Bill Kerr Elliott review a year of Nationwide's investigative journalism.

  • S1979E162 The 007 Set

    • August 14, 1979
    • BBC One

    An interview with production designer Ken Adam about his work on the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979).

  • S1979E168 The Nationwide Dossier - 2

    • August 22, 1979
    • BBC One

    Roger Cook and Bill Kerr Elliott conclude their review of a year of Nationwide's investigative reporting. Tonight: The private investigator who kidnaps children to order; where the Cup Final tickets go; and the sad story of the firemen who stayed at their posts.

  • S1979E189 Calling Medic One-Six - 1

    • September 20, 1979
    • BBC One

    In this new series Nationwide follows a seaside doctor through the most hectic week of his year, working 24 hours a day as the doctor for all emergencies.

  • S1979E194 Calling Medic One-Six - 2

    • September 27, 1979
    • BBC One

    Nationwide cameras follow a seaside doctor as he works round the clock looking after a general practice swollen by 50.000 holiday-makers.

  • S1979E204 Calling Medic One-Six - 3

    • October 11, 1979
    • BBC One

    Nationwide cameras follow a seaside doctor as he works round the clock looking after a general practice swollen by 50,000 holiday-makers.

  • S1979E214 Home Office

    • October 22, 1979
    • BBC One

    The start of a regular new feature-Home Office, in which Glyn Worsnip presents a mixture of hints on jobs around the house, advice on consumer problems, and some amusing thoughts from the Nationwide postbag.

  • S1979E219 Load-On!

    • November 1, 1979
    • BBC One

    Bob Wellings continues his exploration of the world of North Sea oil with a report on the construction of a giant rig.

  • S1979E252 A Song for Christmas-The 1979 Nationwide Carol Competition

    • December 18, 1979
    • BBC One

    In October young people all over the country were invited by Nationwide to write original Christmas carols. Tonight, from Coventry Cathedral, Sue Lawley presents the nine finalists who perform their songs before a panel of judges including Peter Skellern , Dana and Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues,

Season 1980

  • S1980E05 The British Pop and Rock Awards 1980 - 1st chance to vote

    • January 7, 1980
    • BBC One

    Nationwide viewers get their first chance to vote tonight. The six voting categories: Best Male Singer, Best Female Singer, Best Group/Band, Best Single, Best LP, and the Nationwide Golden Award for the most enduring singing star of the year.

  • S1980E18 The British Pop and Rock Awards 1980 - Golden Award

    • January 24, 1980
    • BBC One

    The Nationwide team of FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY HUGH SCULLY , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS with background to the news of the day, including The British Pop and Rock Awards 1980 A chance to see more contenders for the Nationwide Golden Award. This trophy is for the entertainer or performer who, in the opinion of Nationwide viewers, displayed the most all-round family appeal during the past year. Also, Anne Nightingale and Simon Bates look at some of the artists they'll be considering for the Radio 1 DJ's Award for outstanding contribution to British popular music.

  • S1980E180 Watchdog - 1

    • September 8, 1980
    • BBC One

    Watchdog a new series in which HUGH SCULLY invites you to investigate the world around you. Are you paying too much? Are you being told the truth? Watchdog joins forces with the Nationwide audience to do battle on behalf of Britain's consumers.

  • S1980E186 Zoo Vet - Operation Panda

    • September 16, 1980
    • BBC One

    Exclusive film of a major operation to save the life of Ching-Ching, one of the zoo's priceless giant pandas.

  • S1980E196 Zoo Vet - Why have zoos at all?

    • September 30, 1980
    • BBC One

    This week: Why have zoos at all? Do zoos have a job to do, apart from entertaining us? Is it cruel to keep wild animals behind bars? And why is so much trouble taken to breed them?

  • S1980E214 Tom Baker on leaving Doctor Who

    • October 24, 1980
    • BBC One

    Actor Tom Baker talks to Sue Cook about his decision to leave Doctor Who

  • S1980E243 Celtic Connections 2

    • December 4, 1980
    • BBC One

    Celtic Connections: Julius Caesar called the Celts ' one of the three great barbarian races'. Nationwide's 20th-century Celtic journey takes reporter Bill Kerr Elliott from the coasts of Brittany to the Scottish Isles, and from Cornwall and Carmarthen to County Donegal. He discovers how the Celts have survived the ravages of time and foreign invasions, and what they have contributed to life in Britain - past and present. 1: What's in a Name? and Grass Roots, presented this week by Gillian Miles from Spotlight South West in Plymouth.

  • S1980E248 Celtic Connections 3

    • December 11, 1980
    • BBC One

    Nationwide reporter Bill Kerr Elliott continues his 20th-century journey, discovering the contribution of the Celts to life in Britain. ' Play it again SeSn ' - Celts have always loved their music . -. and today it's still one of the strongest links between the Celtic people. and Grass Roots: presented this week by Alan Towers from Midlands Today in Birmingham.

  • S1980E252 Christmas on Nationwide

    • December 17, 1980
    • BBC One

    Christmas on Nationwide in which James Hogg rummages through the Nationwide archives to search out the programme's great Christmas moments over the past years.

  • S1980E253 Celtic Connections 4

    • December 18, 1980
    • BBC One

    Christmas on Nationwide Including Celtic Connections Julius Caesar called the Celts ' one of the three great barbarian races'. Nationwide's 20th-century Celtic journey takes reporter Bill Kerr Elliott from the coasts of Brittany to the Scottish Isles, and from Cornwall and Carmarthen to County Donegal. 3: On the Fringe and Grass Roots: presented this week by Mike Neville from Look North in Newcastle.

  • S1980E254 Christmas on Nationwide - The Children Take Over

    • December 19, 1980
    • BBC One

    Tonight Nationwide hands over the airwaves to young viewers and gives them a chance to write, report and present the programme. And at 6.45 Sportswide with Desmond Lynam

  • S1980E255 Christmas on Nationwide - Comfort and Joy

    • December 22, 1980
    • BBC One

    The Duke and Duchess of Devon-shire throw open the doors of Chatsworth in Derbyshire, one of England's finest stately homes, for the climax of Nationwide's Operation Christmas appeal. Over 100 needy old people and children will be given the ' royal' treatment in the magnificent setting of Chatsworth's Painted Hall. Frankie Howerd , The Spinners, Ray Alan and Lord Charles, a Salvation Army band and other surprise guests keep the party going as Frank Bough and Sue Cook present Operation Christmas reports from around the nation.

Season 1981

  • S1981E06 Celtic Connections - Part 3

    • January 8, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nationwide's 20th-century Celtic journey takes reporter Bill Kerr Elliott from the coasts of Brittany to the Scottish Isles, and from Cornwall and Carmarthen to County Donegal. 3: On the Fringe and Grass Roots - presented this week by Stuart Hall from Look North West in Manchester.

  • S1981E41 Down and Out - 2

    • February 26, 1981
    • BBC One

    Down and Out: more of Tony Wilkinson 's experiences as a dosser on the streets of London. And Grass Roots - presented this week by Gillian Miles from Spotlight South West in Plymouth.

  • S1981E47 Down and Out - 3

    • March 5, 1981
    • BBC One

    Down and Out: more of Tony Wilkinson 's experiences as a dosser on the streets of London. And Grass Roots: presented this week by Alan Towers from Midlands Today in Birmingham.

  • S1981E50 Budget

    • March 10, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nationwide with popular features from around the country, including the latest reaction and analysis from the Nationwide Budget team.

  • S1981E57 Down and Out - 4

    • March 19, 1981
    • BBC One

    Down and Out: more of Tony Wilkinson 's experiences as a dosser on the streets of London. And Grass Roots - presented this week by Ian Masters from Look East in Norwich.

  • S1981E71 Papworth

    • April 8, 1981
    • BBC One

    Tonight Nationwide's been invited to Papworth. Sue Lawley discovers that its reputation is built, not just on heart transplants, but on a whole community dedicated to the care of the disabled. For polio victim, Joan Peacock (left) the Papworth Settlement has been a lifeline:

  • S1981E73 St Paul 's in London

    • April 10, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nationwide ends its special week of programmes beneath the dome of St Paul 's in London. Glyn Worsnip reports on the working life of a great cathedral as it prepares for a magnificent event - the Royal Wedding in July. The Dean, The Very Rev Alan Webster , explains: Sue Lawley is in Eyemouth in Scotland where exactly 100 years ago a freak storm killed 129 fishermen. Including Down to Earth: with Alan Titchmarsh And at 6.45 Sportswide with Desmond Lynam

  • S1981E120 The Nationwide Baird Trophy

    • June 16, 1981
    • BBC One

    The climax of the competition to find the programme makers of tomorrow. Esther Rantzen and colleagues pick the winners from the schoolchildren who have been given the chance to try their hand as reporters, directors and cameramen.

  • S1981E121 Enterprise 82

    • June 17, 1981
    • BBC One

    Enterprise 82 A major new awards scheme, with the Department of Industry and the world of finance. Nationwide cameras watch at close hand as five new ventures struggle to become going concerns.

  • S1981E138 A Party for the Prince - 1

    • July 10, 1981
    • BBC One

    As Britain prepares to celebrate the wedding of the Heir to the Throne, Nationwide suggests ways in which everyone can join the festivities.

  • S1981E142 The Princes Castle

    • July 16, 1981
    • BBC One

    The Princes Castle: from Caernarvon Castle, the fortress which some believe to have been built for the first English Prince of Wales nearly 700 years ago Hugh Scully concludes his royal reports from the Principality. Grass Roots: presented this week by Ian Masters from Look East in Norwich.

  • S1981E143 A Party for the Prince - 2

    • July 17, 1981
    • BBC One

    With the Royal Wedding less than two weeks away, Nationwide offers further hints for people organising their own parties

  • S1981E146 Royal Progress

    • July 22, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nationwide's series of royal reports ends in Tetbury in Gloucestershire. the town where the Prince of Wales and his bride will make their home.

  • S1981E148 A Party for the Prince - 3

    • July 24, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nationwide puts the finishing touches to its own celebrations for the Royal Wedding.

  • S1981E251 Nationwide with the Foreign Secretary

    • December 16, 1981
    • BBC One

    On the day that the Prime Minister reports to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, meets Nationwide viewers live in the studio to answer their questions and complaints about the European Community. Is our membership destroying the British economy? Do we pay too much for food? How can the Community help to reduce the threat of war?

Season 1982

  • S1982E16 British Rock and Pop Awards for 1982

    • January 22, 1982
    • BBC One

    Including tonight another chance for Nationwide viewers to vote in the British Rock and Pop Awards for 1982. And at 6.45 Sportswide with Desmond Lynam

  • S1982E46 House of Lords

    • March 5, 1982
    • BBC One

    This evening on Nationwide, Glyn Worsnip , in the first of a series of film reports, goes behind the scenes at the House of Lords to find out about the work of the Upper House and talks to the peers about their wide range of interests and expertise. And at 6.45 Sportswide with Desmond Lynam

  • S1982E63 Rt Hon Tony Benn , MP

    • March 30, 1982
    • BBC One

    Nationwide with The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp, one of the Labour Party's most influential figures. He is Chairman of the Home Policy Committee of Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee. Tonight he answers Questions from Nationwide viewers; around the country on Labour party policy, on everything from defence to unemployment, economic policy to race relations. -

Season 1983

  • S1983E01 20th anniversary of Doctor Who

    • March 17, 1983
    • BBC One

    To mark the 20th anniversary of Doctor Who, Sue Lawley interviews the current Doctor Peter Davison, former Doctors Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, and Richard Kershaw talks to the original series producer Verity Lambert.

  • S1983E02 Election Special with Margaret Thatcher

    • May 24, 1983
    • BBC One

    A general election special in which Prime Minister 'Margaret Thatcher' takes questions from members of the public.