2.9M views · 21K reactions | #OnThisDay 1971: James Burke was road testing the car of the future on Tomorrow’s World. | BBC Archive | Facebook

141K views · 1.2K reactions | #OnThisDay 1973: "Here's a brand new idea from the United States that can turn your television into a game that two can play" Raymond Baxter tried his hands at the latest in electronic entertainment. For more TW goodness - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrows-world--1970s/zmvqgwx | BBC Archive | Facebook

42K views · 269 reactions | #OnThisDay 1974: "On a test run, there's little point in pussyfooting around" Raymond Baxter tried out a new device which aimed to help drivers save petrol. Careful now. | BBC Archive | Facebook

Raymond Baxter one of my childhood hero’s and famous presenter of “Tomorrow World” 🇬🇧 “TV presenters like this inspired me as a kid” . . . In August 1940, during World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a fighter pilot in Canada. He first flew Supermarine Spitfires with No. 65 Squadron RAF in Britain, based in Scotland. He joined No. 93 Squadron RAF, flying over Sicily in 1943, where he was mentioned in dispatches. He returned to England in 1944 as an instructor and was later