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Revisiting the BBC1 schedule from Xmas Day 1985

I have set up this blogspot purely for this entry, but I may yet go on to write other entries if they take my fancy and/or the idea ends up taking off and attracting attention. For a few years now I have been watching each episode of Only Fools And Horses on the 40th anniversary of its first UK broadcast, having so far watched the first three series and the first three Xmas specials. The next episode to reach its 40th anniversary will be the feature length special 'To Hull And Back' which first aired on 25th December 1985 and will be 40 years old in just a couple of days time. Having known all year that I would be watching that episode on Xmas Day (since I have the luxury of living alone and spending Xmas alone) I decided to make it more fun by attempting to be able to watch (or at least have on in the background) as much of the BBC1 schedule from that year as I could possibly find. I set to work identifying what I already had on DVDs, what I could find online on youtube or els...