There's A Twitter Account That Just Tweets TV Listings From Thirty Years Ago Today

    It will make you wish that TV was of a simpler time, a time before Come Dine With Me was on thirteen times in a row on Channel 4.

    So there's an account that just tweets this.

    No detail. No insight. Just this.

    ITV 6.35 Crossroads 7.00 Name That Tune 7.30 Corrie 8 This Is Your Life 8.30 Up The Elephant 9.00 War Of The Springing Tiger (docu) 10 News

    British TV listings from exactly 30 years ago today.

    ITV 7.00 The Zodiac Game 7.30 The A-Team 8.30 A Fine Romance 9.00 Auf Wiedersehen Pet 10.00 News At Ten 10.30 Snooker

    Seeing all these classic programmes side by side...

    Even if you weren't born yet.

    ITV 6.40 Highway 7.15 Family Fortunes 7.45 Film: You Only Live Twice 9.50 News 10.00 Love & Marriage: Lucifer (play) 11.00 Jimmy Young

    It wouldn't really work for today's TV schedules.

    It was a bit of an accident, really. I was trying to think of a way of doing a Twitter feed that people would read every day, without the pressure of coming up with funny material on a daily basis. It struck me that everybody watches TV, and people love talking about the telly of their youth, so I figured they might like to read what was being broadcast on this day.

    We will now never forget you classic television. Never.