From episode 14 on Wednesday 25 January 1961, Tyne Tees Television broadcast the programme.

Northumbria may have been divided by this time between the Viking kings in York and the local rulers, perhaps represented by Eadulf, based at Bamburgh who controlled the lands from the River Tyne or River Tees to the Forth in the north.

It also features in an ITV Tyne Tees programme Diary of an Island which started on 19 April 2007 and on a DVD of the same name.

Aberdeen, Avonmouth, Barry, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dover, Edinburgh / Leith, Falmouth, Fishguard, Glasgow, Gloucester, Grangemouth, Harwich, Heysham, Holyhead, Hull, Kirkwall, Larne, Liverpool, London, Londonderry, Manchester, Milford Haven, Oban, Peterhead, Plymouth, Poole, Port Talbot, Portishead, Portsmouth, Scapa Flow, Stornoway, Stranraer, Sullom Voe, Swansea, Tees, Tyne.

Wolstenholme later commentated for Tyne Tees Television in the mid to late 1970s.

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

* Trader Horne ( Tyne Tees, 1959 – 60 )

* Home and Around ( Tyne Tees, 1965 – 66 )

Bilsdale, the region's other main TV transmitter which covers North Yorkshire and transmits BBC North East and Cumbria and Tyne Tees Television, will change in 2012.

The group has recently cut the number of regional news programmes offered from 17 in 2007 to 9 by 2009, resulting several regions being merged to form on programme, including the Border and Tyne Tees regions, the Westcountry and West regions and the removal of sub regional programming, with some regions only represented by pre-recorded segments.

According to Simeon of Durham it extended from the Humber to the Tyne, but the land was waste north of the Tees.

* Alright Now, was a short-lived rock music television series made by Tyne Tees Television for ITV in 1979 – 1980.

* The North East England franchise was awarded to Tyne Tees Television, from eleven applications.

Granada wanted to consolidate with Yorkshire and Tyne Tees Television to ' counter the potential dominance of the south east ', and the prospect of being taken over by Thames Television.

Each series would have a ' home region ' which would administrate and coordinate central functions ( Tyne Tees Television for Highway and Anglia Television for The Time, The Place ), with the production of each programme being handled by the local ITV contractor ; thus, when the shows came to the Channel Islands, they used Channel's facilities.

Between 1986 and 1991, ITV's summer Saturday morning children's programming would take the form of a travelling roadshow, which again would be produced by the local ITV franchise of the visited area in partnership with a ' home region ' ( in this case Tyne Tees ).

In October 1970, Charlton famously appeared on a Tyne Tees football programme, where he said he'd once had a " little black book " of names of players whom he intended to hurt or exact some form of revenge upon during his playing days.

Tyne Tees finally decided to take Tiswas for its final series in 1981.

Officially titled the Tyne Wear & Tees Alfred Wood Munition Girls Cup, it was popularly known as The Munitionettes ' Cup.

In 2004 he presented the Regionnaires, a six part north-east regional panel show broadcast on ITV Tyne Tees, which he co-wrote with his former Viz partner Alex Collier.

The franchises that use the ITV1 brand are Anglia Television, Border Television, Carlton Television, Central Independent Television, Channel Television, Granada Television, ITV Wales & West, London Weekend Television, Meridian Broadcasting, Tyne Tees Television, Westcountry Television and Yorkshire Television.

However as far back as 1974, Yorkshire Television and its North East neighbour, Tyne Tees Television, formally created Trident Television, a merged entity of the two companies.

In the United Kingdom, for example, shipyards were established on the River Thames ( King Henry VIII founded yards at Woolwich and Deptford in 1512 and 1513 respectively ), River Mersey, River Tees, River Tyne, River Wear and River Clyde – the latter growing to be the World's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre.

Together they created a single pilot episode featuring kids aged 8 – 11 at an out-of-school club ( transmitted on Tyne Tees TV in 1988 ).

* British ITV company Tyne Tees Television

The comic was started in Newcastle upon Tyne in December 1979 by Chris Donald, who produced the comic from his bedroom in his parents ' Jesmond home with help from his brother Simon and friend Jim Brownlow.

In 2005 the last 3, 000 bottles produced in Newcastle were given commemorative labels " 121 years of brewing history, last bottles produced at Tyne Brewery April 2005.

Croft relocated to the Northeast of England to work at Tyne Tees Television, where he produced many editions of the variety show The One O ' Clock Show.

For Tyne Tees Croft also directed and produced the admags Ned's Shed and Mary Goes to Market, as well as producing his first sitcom, Under New Management, set in a derelict pub in the North of England.

After leaving Tyne Tees Television to work at the BBC in the mid-1960s, he produced a number of the Corporation's popular sitcoms such as Beggar My Neighbour, Further Up Pompeii!

Where most independent television companies published their schedules in the magazine TV Times, Tyne Tees produced their own listings magazine.

It was produced to satisfy " ' Tyne Tees ' policy to be most regional of all the independent stations ".

The generic ident were replaced with ones produced by Tyne Tees, featuring a large reflective block which the viewpoint rotated around, before panning up to reveal it is the Tyne Tees logo.

For Tyne Tees, Croft also directed and produced the Ned's Shed and Mary Goes to Market admags, as well as producing his first sitcom, Under New Management, set in a derelict pub in the North of England.

A monthly political programme, Around the House, continues to be produced for ITV Tyne Tees and Border.

With independent production company Festival Films and Television, Tyne Tees produced several adaptations of books by local novelist Catherine Cookson.

Long-running soap opera Coronation Street was briefly produced at Tyne Tees ' City Road studios in 1963 while all of the studios at the show's home, Granada Television in Manchester, were occupied by a production of the opera Orpheus in the Underworld.

Tyne Tees has also produced a wide range of music programming.

French also undertook translations of Miss Julie ( August Strindberg ), The Forest ( Alexander Ostrovsky ), and of Anton Chekhov ’ s The Seagull, a version of which was produced on Broadway starring Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, and Tyne Daley.

It was produced in Newcastle upon Tyne for Channel 4 by Tyne Tees Television, which had previously produced the similar music show Alright Now and the music-oriented youth show Check it Out for ITV ; production of the latter ended in favour of The Tube.

Lifetime Television produced a biopic of Georgia O ' Keeffe premiering on September 19, 2009, starring Joan Allen as O ’ Keeffe, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Simmons as Jean Toomer, Ed Begley, Jr. as Stieglitz's brother Lee, and Tyne Daly as Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Their second album Fog on the Tyne ( 1971 ), produced by Bob Johnston, began their commercial success.

The company has since produced or co-produced most of Green's television work, as well as local productions at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne.