For over 40 years, ITV’s It’ll Be Alright On The Night has been a staple of the TV schedules. Often airing around Christmas time, the show collects behind-the-scenes moments where stars of the day struggled with malfunctioning props, tripped over stray cables, or simply forgot their lines.
But the idea for the show has its beginnings in a secret BBC video that sparked a national scandal. The BBC Christmas Tape was compiled by the corporation’s video editors and was never intended for public consumption.
But in December 1978 all that changed when a copy of that year’s BBC Christmas Tape ... Read even more
