Channel 3 · Decades
Rewind, one decade at a time
Every programme and film on BritCast TV, sorted the way a video shop would: by the decade it first came out.
THE GIST
Seven shelves. Each decade page has a shelf of spines to pull, then every programme and film with its own page.
4 tapesThe golden age
Technicolor musicals, Hitchcock and the films that played on bank holidays for half a century.
16 tapesThe sixties
Puppets, spies, Python and Dad’s Army: the decade British television grew up.
19 tapesThe seventies
Three channels, sitcom royalty and the first summer blockbusters.
30 tapesThe eighties
The video-rental boom, Channel 4, soap wars and the films everyone taped off the telly.
32 tapesThe nineties
Satellite dishes, laddish sitcoms, The X-Files and the last great years of VHS.
24 tapesThe noughties
DVD box sets, E4, The Wire and comedy that made you wince.
7 tapesThe twenty-tens
Bake Off, Taskmaster and the new comfort classics.