Fifty Years Of Television

Television

The half-century history of television, beginning with the Queen's Coronation, which was broadcast in 1952 and brought neighbourhoods together round one set, closely followed by the advent of ITV in 1955 and the first colour programme : Wimbledon : in 1967. How did people adjust to the arrival of the box in the corner that started life as little more than a piece of furniture? Last in series