All the links on this page cover TV and films. They were originally on the Misc links page.
TV and film companies
Film sites
General and themed TV sites
Dave Chapman's TARDIS TV Archive was listed here, but it seems to have vanished off the web at the moment. If anyone knows of a new address for it, please mail it to me using the contact link at the bottom of the page.
- Off The Telly - articles and reviews of TV past and present.
- TV.Com - a review and discussion site for TV programs past and present.
- 625: Andrew Wiseman's TV Room - a collection of articles about various aspects of TV, including logos, DOGs and public information films.
- Independent TeleWeb - information about the Independent (Commercial) Television sector in Britain.
- Sub-TV - pages of information about ATV (an early ITV franchise) and BBC and ITV programs for schools.
- Sat Kids! - a site devoted to that oddest of TV phenomena, British Saturday morning kids television.
- 80s Cartoons - related to the Saturday morning viewing, a site all about cartoons from the 1980's.
- Tropher's Castle - one for the kids. Contains character guides for Winnie-the-Pooh, Godzilla and many other cartoons, along with a page of Harry Potter links.
- The TV Lounge - lots of links about children's TV, mainly from the 70s and 80s, and some humour as well. (This page includes "Bagpuss - A Sociopolitical Analysis". Some of the humour is not really suitable for children.) Part of a larger site, The Lord Palmerston.
- Jedi's Paradise - lots of children's TV information, mainly pre-2000 programs.
- Toonopedia - for all things 'toon.
- Sounds Familiar - the UK TV Advert database.
- Kelly Books - "Leading Specialists in the Literature of Broadcasting and Mass Media", Kelly Books publish and sell books and magazines relating to radio and television.
Pages about specific TV series or films
Television history sites
- Transdiffusion Network - an affiliation of not-for-profit web sites, "dedicated to using modern methods of communication to educate and inform on broadcasting history". There's a lot of interesting stuff here, well worth a look.
- TV Cream - classic TV.
- Cult Television - the Alternative Guide to Classic Television.
- TV Ark - described as "the television museum". Lots of stuff here, well worth a look.
- I Love TV - the BBC's "I Love TV" cult program site. No longer being updated, following the cost-cutting and political wrangling of the last couple of years.
- Whirligig - "1950's British TV Nostalgia"
- MHP - all about the bits before programs start and after they finish...
- The TV Room - a site that is aiming to be a comprehensive reference to all the bits between programs on the UK and Irish broadcasting networks.
- TV Radio Bits - BBC idents, clips, jingles and an 80s zone.
- TV Whirl - many, many Real Media downloads of program clips and channel idents.
- Television Test Cards, Tuning Signals, Clocks and Idents - as does this one.
- This Is Five - a large collection of UK Channel 5 idents.
- The Test Card Circle - similar to MHP, but concentrates on one bit.
- Vintage Broadcasting - all sorts of TV and radio bits and pieces.
- WebFax - various odds and ends, mainly concerned with trade test films. Presented in the style of Ceefax.
- The World's Earliest Television Recordings - the primary research and restoration site on the first television recordings, made using the Baird 30 line system, from 1927.
- On Air - personal reminiscences by the people involved in BBC Transmission, the department which operated and mainted the BBC's own radio and television transmission systems from 1922 to 1997.
- MB21 - home to the UK Transmitter Gallery and some more technical aspects of TV and radio broadcasting history.
- 405 Lines - a brief introduction to the older 405 line television standard, which was replaced by the current 625 line standard by early 1985.
DVD sites
- DVD Reviewer - covers Region 1 and Region 2 discs.
- DVD Times - DVD news and reviews.
- R2 Project - news and reviews of Region 2 DVDs.
- TV Shows on DVD - seems to be almost entirely Region 1 releases.
- DVD Demystified - everything you wanted to know about DVD, but were afraid to ask. Ties in with the book of the same name, published by McGraw-Hill.
- DVD Easter Eggs - a searchable archive of DVD easter eggs.
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