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What We Were Watching

20181 Season7.5

TMDB7.5

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Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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Status: Returning Series
First aired: Dec 23, 2018
Network: BBC Four

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6 hrs

8 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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SERIES

What We Were Watching

20181 Season7.5

TMDB7.5

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Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Dec 23, 2018
Christmas 1988
Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
E2 · Airs Dec 23, 2019
Christmas 1979
Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
E3 · Airs Jul 29, 2020
Summer TV Classics
Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.
E4 · Airs Nov 20, 2020
Song and Dance Spectaculars
Grace Dent invites you to lose yourself on a joyful journey back through the BBC archives, celebrating the broadcaster's song and dance extravaganzas of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
E5 · Airs Dec 19, 2020 · 59m
Christmas 1995
Grace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.
E6 · Airs Dec 20, 2021
Christmas 1991
Writer and broadcaster Grace Dent takes a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1991, as she immerses herself in the sights, sounds and TV schedules of the past.
E7 · Airs Dec 28, 2024 · 58m
Christmas 1984
TV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives, examining all the small screen content that viewers were glued to four decades ago.
E8 · Airs Dec 21, 2025 · 57m
Christmas 1985
Broadcaster, writer and critic Grace Dent travels back in time through the BBC’s television archives for a light-hearted look at What We Were Watching 40 years ago, over the Christmas period of 1985.