The Footage Detectives

It's a new year and we have a new look! We go on a 60s flight across Europe, go cycling in the 40s but when and where? We've had a lost reel of Harry Tate's sent in and who had a 'sunny Jim'?

There's reels a plenty with Pete Murray appearances behind the scenes stories from Maureen Evans and Karen Kay, some 60s pop to take us back in time and footage of a model aircraft competition.

There's special footage of some iconic footballers, a great scopiatone of the Tornadoes, there's traffic in the 50s, we celebrate The Housecoat and who remembers Alan Freeman's record shops?

Mike and Noel take a trip to the flicks with wonderful footage announcing the 'new' Odeon's opening up there's a travelogue to Hampstead in the 30s and a lost film of The Pretty Things from 1966!

We take you to Aberdeen in the 60s and to the mills in the 40s, but with a modern jazzy twist. Who remembers 'Needle Time'? And who frequented the Athenaeum Dance Hall in Muswell Hill in the 50s?

Mike and Noel share an educational reel on 1950s projection, then it's time for Fanny Cradock and omelettes in a brilliant lost reel and there's footage from the 1950s for car enthusiasts.

We have a fascinating lost reel of Dick Emery you won't want to miss; we take you to Birmingham in 1964 with a brilliant reel and how many of you still have your 60s 'Give Us a Show' projector?

We treat you to a very rare reel featuring Larry Adler from the late 50s, then we're off to celebrate 'Oak Apple Day', look at a wonderful reel on clay and who remembers Cabdrivers cough mixture?

It's time to turn on the Cinebox, with a bit of Cinebox magic! There's a brilliant reel looking at the 'new technology' of the 60s and a reel that Noel's uncovered on making music for silents.

Fanny Cradock is back with a burning question, then we rewind to 1962 with a look at the great advances in the era's factories and there's a reel about egg imports from Australia in the 1930s.

We're jetting off to Heathrow in 1958 and Noel's uncovered a reel about the production of newspapers in the 70s. Have you still got your Beezer Bingo Banger? And do you remember AGM potato crisps?

We have a short film of Peter Sellers featuring Graham Stark, Dick Emery & Raymond Francis! Then it's off to 1969 for 'new' scientific discoveries. And do you remember Archie Andrews ice lollies?

See you all in the TPTV cinema for some brilliant reels of bygone buses! There's also a glimpse of Soho in the 50s bin men in the 40s and who remembers Bluebird liquorice and chocolate toffees?

We start with a trip to Durham's beaches in the 1960s and a look at the life of a sea coal man we keep up with the fashions and products of 1949 and boogie with the 'The Avons' in 1962.

Mike and Noel have everything from the lovely Debbie Reynolds to the bizarre world of The Alberts! There's also a superb reel of the last Maidstone Trolley Bus! And do you remember Beetle Drives?

We watch the lost films from the Ovaltine factory's heyday, and we have a special guest with some rare items. The Easter Bunny is here! And we have a reel of England's 'rebirth' after the war.

Mike and Noel bring news from Tunbridge Wells, wallow in the astounding footage of the building of Rugby's Plaza Cinema and talk the label machines that graced our railway platforms in the 60s.

Mike and Noel watch behind the scenes Worzel, Gilbert Harding's home lighting lessons from the 50s unseen footage of James Bond on location and a driving lesson from British Railways in the 50s.

We head back to class with a look at 60s school life, we have reels from the 40s on the dangers of fires in the bedroom a thirst quenching film about orange juice and who remembers Puffkins?

We take a trip to London in the 30s and spend a Sunday by the sea in the 50s. There's film magic and memory joggers with Merry Maids and bus signs, and we pay tribute to our friend Brian Murphy.

We take a trip to London in the 30s and spend a Sunday by the sea in the 50s. There's film magic and memory joggers with Merry Maids and bus signs, and we pay tribute to our friend Brian Murphy.