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6 January – The children's supernatural comedy series Rentaghost debuts on BBC1. 7 January – Debut of the Michael Palin and Terry Jones comedy anthology series Ripping Yarns on BBC2. 13 January – BBC1 screen the Mike Leigh comedy drama Nuts in May as part of the Play for Today series. 25 January – ITV screen the network premiere of the ...
The Beat of London – variety. Beasts – horror. Beat the Clock – game show. Beat the Crusher – game show. Beat the Star – game show. Beat the Teacher – game show. Beautiful People – comedy drama. Beauty and the Geek (UK) – reality television. Beauty School Cop Outs – reality television.
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Saturday Live (retitled Friday Night Live for the 1988 series and 2022 one-off special) is a British television comedy and music show, made by LWT [2] and initially broadcast on Channel 4 from 1985 to 1988, with a brief revival on ITV in 1996. [3]
16 September – Lorne Spicer, presenter (Cash in the Attic) 24 September – Sheryl Gascoigne, television personality. 14 October – Steve Coogan, British comedian and actor. 15 October – Stephen Tompkinson, British actor. 31 October – Rob Rackstraw, British voice actor. 4 November – Shaun Williamson, British actor.
3–6 January – The UK's last VHF 405-line television transmitters close down with transmissions in 405-lines ending in Scotland on the 4th. 4 January. The network television premiere of the 1980 smash hit sequel Superman II on ITV, starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman.
ITV's Saturday morning children's show MoM is relaunched under the new title of Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown. 9 January Debut of the offbeat police drama Life on Mars on BBC One and ITV's pilot programme of Dancing on Ice. [4] 14 January Coronation Street actor Richard Fleeshman wins the first series of ITV's Soapstar Superstar. [5]
22 February – The Police appear in an advert for Wrigley's chewing gum. 24 February – The BBC airs Going Straight. The sitcom is a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the real-life Slade Prison where Porridge had been set.