25 August 1983

Thursday 25 August

1983-08-25

TV

 * BBC One
 * 6.30 pm Doctor Who Season 19 Kinda Part 4
 * 6.55 pm Top of the Pops A live edition. Introduced by Mike Smith and Simon Bates. (see below)
 * 10.25 pm Secrets (new series) The first of four films that look at those parts of officialdom other series seldom reach. It throws light on those who too often turn harmless information into confidential documents.
 * 11.20 pm 1984 Thirty-five years ago in London, George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. This classic work warned of an oppressive future in which freedom was virtually extinct, privacy abolished, history erased and language altered. CBS News Correspondent Walter Cronkite looks at how close we've come to Orwell's fictional world and compares the world of Big Brother to the world of today.
 * BBC Two
 * 6.15 pm Pop Carnival An enthusiastic audience of over 15 000 people packed Sefton Park, Liverpool, for tonight's open-air concert featuring Nick Heyward. Introduced by Janice Long

Top of the Pops

 * Playlist: (10) David Grant – Watching You Watching Me, (27) Rod Stewart – What Am I Gonna Do (I’m So In Love With You) (video), (26) Carmel – Bad Day (9), UB40 – Red Red Wine (28) Shalamar – Disappearing Act, (14) Level 42 – The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up), (3) The Style Council – Paris Match, (1) KC & The Sunshine Band – Give It Up (audience dancing/credits)