Debuting on 29 June 1980, this short-lived youth-oriented new wave music and arts series from London Weekend Television was produced by Janet Street-Porter and presented by young Bermondsey boy and NMEscribe Danny Baker.
The 25-minute show presented features on post-punk, jazz-funk, futurist music, ballroom dancing (!), teenage nannies, greyhound stablegirls, the Ford factory at Dagenham, rockabilly, the young unemployed, incest and sexual abuse in the family, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and the burgeoning New Romantic scene.
Twentieth Century Box aired in the LWT transmission area on Sundays at 1:30 pm. Unusually, it was filmed and broadcast in black & white.
Video
Related Posts
Tom Tom 1 9 6 5 - 1 9 7 0 (UK) 198 x 25 minute episodes Presented as a cross between Blue…
These Are The Days 1 9 7 4 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes Early 20th-century rural life was depicted in this short-lived animated…
Doddy’s Music Box 1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) 18 x 45 minute episodes Produced by ABC and shown…
Look! Hear! 1 9 7 7 - 1 9 8 1 (UK) 30 minute episodes This teen-orientated show from the BBC covered…
Revolver 1 9 7 8 (UK) 8 x 45 minute episodes Producer Mickie Most devised a fictional setting for his new live…
Omnibus 1 9 6 7 - 2 0 0 3 (UK) 756 x 50 minute episodes This long-running BBC documentary series about…
Who Do You Do? 1 9 7 2 - 1 9 7 3 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 7 5 (UK)…
Edge Of The Wedge 1 9 8 6 (Australia) ABC TV's short-lived Edge of the Wedge was a controversial rock and youth affairs programme that screened…
