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Radio 1's four-part documentary on David Bowie moved into the Jean Genie era #OTD 50 years ago. @RadioTimes

It was Northern Weekend on the BBC 50 years ago, an occasion illustrated in @RadioTimes. Looks like a Bill Tidy...

Farewell to Alan Rothwell, a friendly face and voice from my childhood, thanks to Picture Box, which he presented from 1969 to 1990: youtube.com/watch?v=Mm2YJi… and Hickory House (1973 to 1978): youtube.com/watch?v=S3OnFp…

Tonight's show, first aired on BBC2 in 1968, repeated on BBC1 in 1969 and not seen since. Eric Morecambe’s son reacts to recovered The Morecambe and Wise Show episode radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/more…

Eric Morecambe, photographed with Ernie Wise for a famous cover of @RadioTimes in 1976, and both with guest André Previn during rehearsals for one of their most famous sketches in 1971. Photos Mark Gudgeon and Don Smith. #Alltherightnotes

Happy heavenly hundredth, Eric. To celebrate, BBC Four is showing a recovered episode of The Morecambe and Wise Show (thank you @filmisfabulous!) tonight at 8pm. Photo taken by @RadioTimes in 1968. #EricMorecambeat100

Remainder of the feature is here...

"Everyone has the right to laugh..." Jacques Tati was the subject of an Omnibus documentary #OTD 50 years ago, so @RadioTimes profiled the great man...

Alec Guinness and Lauren Bacall were photographed for the front cover of @RadioTimes in 1993 for the drama A Foreign Field. Writer Roy Clarke introduces tonight's repeat on BBC Four from 10pm. @PatrickMulkern

@LagstoneHall @NeilBrandLive @RadioTimes This is caption, to a similar picture from the same photoshoot, in the Radio Times for that week.

@BraxM @NeilBrandLive @RadioTimes Did this use the old Furness line at Haverthwaite instead of the Keighley and Worth Valley line?

The BBC's seven-part adaptation of The Railway Children began #OTD in 1968. @RadioTimes took this lovely shot of the children (Jenny Agutter, then as in the 1970 film playing Bobbie; Gillian Bailey as Phyllis and Neil McDermott as Peter).

Happy birthday to Susan Hampshire! In this rare 1967 photo from the @RadioTimes archive, Susan looks at dress designs for her Vanity Fair character Becky Sharp with BBC costume designer Joan Ellacott (in brown). More in our Sixties bookazine: rtshop.radiotimes.com/collections/bo…

@bushontheradio It could be so many, but the first one that popped up was the cheery theme to Rainbow.

What TV show intro theme do you hear in your head following THIS?

@KateGarnerMusic Fabulous song.

Toni Tennille at the piano. She had a hit with duo ‘Captain & Tennille’ ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ written by Neil Sedaka. Have a good week folks, keep on singing! (Read more in comments..) #ToniTennille

@Roundthearchiv1 @RadioTimes Yes, wasn't that lovely?

@BraxM @RadioTimes Such a poignant final frame...

The Prof, Pat and Sylveste took a trip to the Countryside in the last ever episode of Vision On #OTD 50 years ago. A sad day. "I don't think it should have finished in 1976, it could have gone on for at least another four or five years," producer Clive Doig told me. @RadioTimes

Lost in the day on a grey Sunday. Reigate Hill, Surrey.

Willie Rushton was the Jackanory presenter on 10 May 50 years ago, reading The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne. @RadioTimes

You're having a laugh! Happy birthday to Alan Bennett. Photo taken by @RadioTimes in 2006.

John Noakes went yachting as the first series of Go with Noakes concluded #OTD 50 years ago. @RadioTimes