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Forty Years (1976)
TV Movie | 155 min | Family

Forty Years (1976)

TV Movie | 155 min | Family

A programme looking back at the previous forty years of BBC TV. Using clips to illustrate how the BBC developed the medium, the programme also heralded a season of nightly vintage repeats shown on BBC 2.

Producer

Richard Drewett (as Richard Drewitt)

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Release date

Aug 1, 1976 (United Kingdom)

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
John Berger Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Jacob Bronowski Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The New Yorker: Shorts & Murmurs (2015)
Alistair Cooke Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	America (1972)
Billy Cotton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Music Hall Parade (1939)
Andrew Cruickshank Dr. Angus Cameron (archive footage) Dr. Angus Cameron (archive footage) See fewer	El Cid (1961)
Rupert Davies Chief Inspector Jules Maigret (archive footage) Chief Inspector Jules Maigret (archive footage) See fewer	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Richard Dimbleby Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Libel (1959)
David Frost Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Retreat (I) (2011)
Tony Hancock Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Call Me Genius (1961)
Gilbert Harding Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Brian Horrocks Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Cliff Michelmore Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pantomania: Babes in the Wood (1957)
Annette Mills Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Millions Like Us (1943)
André Morell Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage) Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage) See fewer	Ben-Hur (1959)
Malcolm Muggeridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Heavens Above! (1963)
Barbara Mullen Janet MacPherson (archive footage) Janet MacPherson (archive footage) See fewer	A Place of One's Own (1945)
Queen Elizabeth II Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Civilisation (1969)
Phil Silvers Sgt Ernest Bilko (archive footage) Sgt Ernest Bilko (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Bill Simpson Dr. Alan Finlay (archive footage) Dr. Alan Finlay (archive footage) See fewer	Kidnapped (1978)
Alan Whicker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Whicker; Down Mexico Way (1963)