This article looks at the forgotten history of a television programme on venereal disease for teenagers broadcast in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) in 1973. It was produced by BBC Schools and Colleges and deemed to be very successful. The production was one of a trio of programmes entitled ‘Health Hazards’, from the series Twentieth Century Focus, which reflected issues relevant to teenagers over a period of social change from the 1960s to the 1970s. The archive record is lean on schools programming and this programme is very well documented from concept to delivery, representing a discrete, but ephemeral, intervention into 1970s sex educational broadcasting. This research contributes something new about public health and sexual education in the period immediately before AIDS.

Saward, A. (0AD) ‘Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK’, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, {volume}({issue}), p. {page}. Available at: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.239.

Saward, A. “Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK”. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, vol. {volume}, no. {issue}, 0AD, p. {page}, doi:10.18146/view.239.

Saward, A. (0AD). Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, {volume}({issue}), {page}. https://doi.org/10.18146/view.239

Saward, Angela. 0AD. “Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process Behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK”. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture {volume} ({issue}): {page}. https://doi.org/10.18146/view.239.

1. Saward A. Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture. 0AD;{volume}({issue}):{page}. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.239

1. Saward A. Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture. 0AD;{volume}({issue}):{page}. doi:10.18146/view.239

Saward A, ‘Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process Behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK’ (0AD) {volume} VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture {page} DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.239

[1]A. Saward, “Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK”, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, vol. {volume}, no. {issue}, p. {page}, 0AD, doi: 10.18146/view.239.

<h2>Tele(visualizing) Health</h2> Co-edited by Tricia Close-Koenig, Angela Saward and Jessica Borge This thematic issue of VIEW brings together articles that show how television has been an instrument for, as well as a mirror of, public service and specifically health services. Two approaches to this are featured and teased out. The first approach concerns health communication and campaigns, where information is diffused via television and strengthened or reinforced by visual and filmic means. The second concerns the structures that offer, manage and model norms of health and healthcare services. In introducing elements of the history of health, we hope to draw attention to the intersection of public health and television over the twentieth century, such that thinking about the relationship between them might change our understanding of both. Cover image credit: La journée d'un médecin, réalisé par Nestor Almendros (IPN, 1967). Copyright Réseau Canopé

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