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A dip in the Channel Television Archive

As ITV Channel TV prepares to move offices, we've been trawling through the reels and reams of archive reports, documentaries and adverts we've transmitted since Channel first went on air back on the 1st September 1962.

We will be sharing some of the gems we've uncovered from the past five decades.

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A dip in the archive: nightlife in the 1970s and 80s

For this look back, we stop off at some of the popular nightspots in the islands, in the 1970s and 1980s.

Swanson's, Caesar's Palace and the Opera House played host to big names of the day, including John Inman:

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