Part 1: 1936-68 starts with a feature on black dance duo Buck and Bubbles who appeared in Britain's first ever television transmission. American entertainers such as Adelaide Hall Buck and Bubbles and Elisabeth Welch were probably the first images British audiences saw of Black people on television.

It highlights drama of the 1950s, for example John Elliot's Man from the Sun (1956) to the late 1960s when the first televised inter-racial kiss on Emergency: Ward 10caused a national uproar. Agents, actors, directors, writers and producers tell the story of their struggle for recognition.

Part 2: 1969-92 begins in the late 1960s which produced controversial comedies such as Till Death Us Do Partand Love Thy Neighbour. It discusses the impact of Roots, produced in 1977, and the more recent history of black people on television with television personalities and cultural commentators.