EPISODE 5: January 2000

Through the Square Window

Jan 14, 2026•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 5

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Episode description

HELLLLOOO!!!

And a Happy New Year. This month, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes that greeted the New Millennium in January 2000. And they are...

05:07 - Blue Peter's first edition of the year, in which they unearth the time capsule buried on the show back in 1971.

15:33 - The Coronation Street hour-long New Year's Day special, revealing how the residents of Weatherfield rang in 2000.

29:28 - The very first episode of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV.

41:35 - The BBC's grand, ill-fated "social" experiment, Castaway 2000.

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