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The Day Today: Series 1

6 episodes Premiered Jan 19, 1994 Updated Oct 4, 2026

Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Main News Attack

Jan 19, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on Prince Charles volunteering to go to prison, the London Jam Festival, bullying in the Church of England, medieval alternative medicine, and a sheepdog piloting

S1·E2 Core

The Big Report

Jan 26, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on the Junior Minister for health resigning, Marlon Brando being sold at auction in Sotheby's, illegal back street dentists, and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan reporting

S1·E3 Core

Meganews

Feb 2, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on an infestation of wild horses in the London underground, the BBC's new soap opera The Bureau (replacing the Nine O'Clock News), a fight between Queen Elizabeth

S1·E4 Core

Stretchcast

Feb 9, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on suspicions that British police officers are eating their suspects, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan interviewing the government minister for ships regarding recent accu

S1·E5 Mytharc

Magnifevent

Feb 16, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on the British Pound being stolen, the plummeting ratings of The Bureau, the clamping of the homeless in London, a reminiscence of events in 1944, government minis

S1·E6 Mytharc

Factgasm

Feb 23, 1994 · 29 min

Features reports on Buckingham Palace culling 40 members of staff, passengers stuck on a train in Hampshire, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan reporting on General Motors making 35000 worke