The car bringing Mr Callaghan from Buckingham Palace after his resignation was shown and the television man asked the Home Secretary whether that meant he was no longer Home Secretary. The Home Secretary replied no, that it would all be sorted out in the next few days, but he was still Home Secretary at the present time.

I think it was the 1979 election when in the night television crews were in the street outside Mrs Thatcher's residence and the BBC presenter said they were going to take us to outside Mrs Thatcher's residence and on came the picture, showing Anna Ford, a then ITN news reporter, and the BBC man said "Oh, I don't think we should be seeing her."

Is that why the 1960s television series All Our Yesterdays had the title that it did?

That seems an entirely reasonable assumption! It should be easy enough to look it up if you feel inclined to check.

It always feels slightly alarming that I can remember things from forty or fifty years ago more easily than I can remember things from forty or fifty minutes ago! Having said that, I don’t actually remember much detail from old election broadcasts. I do, however, remember the flavour of them, as so neatly encapsulated in a Monty Python sketch:

Interviewee: Can I just say this is the first time I’ve been on television?

Interviewer: I’m sorry, there isn’t time.

The programme each week showed cinema newsreels fom 25 years ago that week.

So long ago to me was 25 years ago when I saw those programmes.

Yet now, remembering election night broadcasts from the 1970s ...

Tomorrow -- and tomorrow ---

… and tomorrow,

To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

“Tomorrow never comes.”

Tomorrow -- and tomorrow --- creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Unit … referendum