Channel Four launches in the TV Times

On November 2nd, 1982 at 4.45pm, Channel Four launched in the UK, giving us a whopping four channels of choice  - at least in peak viewing time. In the early days, C4 broadcast evenings only. The opening show was indestructible quiz show Countdown (with long forgotten hostesses Beverley Isherwood and Kathy Hytner) and other highlights of the first half-week included The Paul Hogan Show, The Comic Strip Presents... Five Go Mad In Dorset, the rather grim documentary The Animals Film, The Munsters, The Tube, Pleasure Palaces (a series about cinema going) and Woodstock. None of these things seem to involve Hot Gossip, who nevertheless get a nipply shot on the front cover.