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ITV 70: Around the Regions
Season 1 · Episode 36
A Shopper's Paradise
0.04mSeptember 20, 2025
Tyne Tees reported on a plan that saw a power station’s ash dump transformed into Europe’s biggest shopping centre. Sir John Hall’s vision for a US style shopping mall delighted shoppers in the North East and beyond.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Beatles Visit the ABC Cinema in Carlisle 1963
- Episode 2Granada TV Launch
- Episode 3Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963
- Episode 4Goonhilly's First Transatlantic Broadcast
- Episode 5Anglia Television Launch in 1959
- Episode 6ITV's Birth in the Midlands
- Episode 7The Launch of Commercial Television in Wales
- Episode 8Yorkshire's Archive Treasure Trove
- Episode 9Viewers in the South of England Reminisce About ITV's Launch
- Episode 10The Belfast Shipyards in the Swinging '60s
- Episode 11Iconic ITV Studios Torn Down
- Episode 12Tyne Tees TV Launch in 1959
- Episode 13A Glimpse into LS Lowry's Life in the 1960s
- Episode 14Channel TV Launch in 1962
- Episode 151965 Jersey Plane Crash
- Episode 16The SS Great Britain Returns to Bristol
- Episode 17Expelled Ugandan Asians Arrive in Devon
- Episode 18Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 65-74
- Episode 19Central’s Look Back at News in the West Midlands 65-74
- Episode 20How Anglia TV Grew Through the Swinging Sixties
- Episode 21New Prince of Wales Aired to Millions in Colour
- Episode 22Lady Mary Peters on a Golden Moment
- Episode 23The ITV Shows Shot in the South East
- Episode 24The ITV Shows Shot in the South
- Episode 25Technicolour Tales: How Anglia Made the Switch from Black and White
- Episode 26It Was Supposed to be the UK's Answer to Jaws
- Episode 27Greenham Common Peace Protesters
- Episode 28The Rise and Fall of the Delorean Car
- Episode 29The Birth of Tiswas
- Episode 30Miners' Strike at 40
- Episode 31When Ipswich Town Ruled Europe
- Episode 32Nelson Mandela's Make Poverty History Speech
- Episode 33Leave the Fighting to McGuigan
- Episode 34Life in the South in the 1950s
- Episode 35When Kids TV Ruled the Airwaves
- Episode 36A Shopper's Paradise
- Episode 37A TV Trailblazer in the Eighties
- Episode 38Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 85-94
- Episode 39Michael Heseltine on his Liverpool Legacy
- Episode 40Central’s Look Back at News in the East Midlands 95-04
- Episode 41Birmingham Hosts the G8 Summit
- Episode 42TV's Toughest Quiz - Did You Have the Krypton Factor?
- Episode 43When Anglia News Split into Two Regions
- Episode 44The Football Homecoming
- Episode 45Concorde's Triumphant Return to Bristol
- Episode 46Cornwall's Eden Project Opens
- Episode 47History-Making Election for Wales' National Assembly
- Episode 48The TV Village Experiment that Predicted Changing Viewing Habits
- Episode 49A 1990s Soap and a Game Show Filmed in Jersey
- Episode 50How Norwich Became One of the World's Daytime TV Capitals