Scrapbook
A look back at ABC entertainment
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No Trams to Lime Street
![1959 - No trams to Lime Street](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-notram.jpg?resize=300%2C222&ssl=1)
Jack Hedley and Billie Whitelaw in the award-winning Armchair Theatre production.
Police Surgeon
![1960 - Police Surgeon](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-police.jpg?resize=300%2C222&ssl=1)
Ian Hendry as Dr Geoffrey Brent attending to the wounded in the cop drama.
Our House
![1960 - Our House](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-ourhouse.jpg?resize=300%2C238&ssl=1)
Hattie Jaques and Charles Hawtrey in Norman Hudis’s comedy about surreal boarding house residents.
The Human Jungle
![1963 - The Human Jungle](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-humanjung.jpg?resize=300%2C407&ssl=1)
Herbert Lom as the psychiatrist who can’t stay professionally detached from those he hopes to help.
Glamour all the way
![1964 - Glamour all the Way](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-glamour.jpg?resize=300%2C310&ssl=1)
Acceptable then, cringe-worthy now, the first Miss TVTimes contest is judged by Patrick Macnee and Adam Faith and won by Valerie Martin.
Redcap
![1965 - Redcap](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-redcap.jpg?resize=300%2C437&ssl=1)
John Thaw fights crime in the army as a member of the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch.
World of Sport
![1965 - World of Sport](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-wos.jpg?resize=300%2C340&ssl=1)
Saturday afternoons mean sport – and owning ITV’s largest Outside Broadcast fleet means ABC brings you the programme, fronted by Eamonn Andrews.
Public Eye
![1965 - Public Eye](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-publiceye.jpg?resize=300%2C229&ssl=1)
Alfred Burke as the private eye with no gun and no mobsters lurking.
Intrigue
![1966 - Intrigue](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-intrigue.jpg?resize=300%2C168&ssl=1)
Edward Judd fights industrial espionage.
The Phantom Lover
![1966 - The Phantom Lover](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-phantom.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1)
David Buck appears in a supernatural drama series Mystery and Imagination, in this story opposite Virginia McKenna.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
![The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe](https://i0.wp.com/www.transdiffusion.org/images/sb-lww.jpg?resize=300%2C445&ssl=1)
CS Lewis’s timeless classic, adored by children and adults alike.
Photographs: TVTimes/ABC/ITA
About the author
Russ J Graham is editor-in-chief of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System