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    TV Series

    What We Were Watching

    7.5/10
    2018 - Present
    Returning Series
    Seasons: 1
    Episodes: 8

    Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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    Seasons & Episodes

    Christmas 1988

    1. Christmas 1988

    Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.

    12/23/2018
    Christmas 1979

    2. Christmas 1979

    Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.

    12/23/2019
    Summer TV Classics

    3. Summer TV Classics

    Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.

    7/29/2020
    Song and Dance Spectaculars

    4. Song and Dance Spectaculars

    Grace Dent invites you to lose yourself on a joyful journey back through the BBC archives, celebrating the broadcaster's song and dance extravaganzas of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

    11/20/2020
    Christmas 1995

    5. Christmas 1995

    Grace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.

    12/19/202059 min
    Christmas 1991

    6. Christmas 1991

    Writer and broadcaster Grace Dent takes a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1991, as she immerses herself in the sights, sounds and TV schedules of the past.

    12/20/2021
    Christmas 1984

    7. Christmas 1984

    TV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives, examining all the small screen content that viewers were glued to four decades ago.

    12/28/202458 min
    Christmas 1985

    8. Christmas 1985

    Broadcaster, writer and critic Grace Dent travels back in time through the BBC’s television archives for a light-hearted look at What We Were Watching 40 years ago, over the Christmas period of 1985.

    12/21/202557 min