📺 ' New Year's Eve at the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club'. Wednesday 31 December 1975 ~ ITV: 23.00 Peter Gordeno might be best remembered for his short stint on Gerry Anderson's sci-fi series 'UFO', but his main talents it appears lay elsewhere. Here he is spreading a little Fever round the Wheeltappers. Settle down now, I’ve just been informed, the meat pies have arrived and are ready behind t'bar. | Bernie Briffa

On This Day 1974 📺 The first edition of 'The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club' is broadcast. Settle down now. Quiet around the room please. This raucous Granada comedy/variety show featured performers and audiences in a fictional northern working men’s club setting with tuxedo clad Bernard Manning as the compere and Colin Crompton as the Chairman of the club committee, who kept order in the club with a fire bell. The atmosphere was almost palpable, the illusion was perfect. The audience –