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Robert St. John took over as host for the second season. The series' final episode was on October 5, 1950, more than a year-and-a-half following Ripley's death. Don "Creesh" Hornsby: Presenter and star performer Broadway Open House: 0 1950-05-22 Polio: 1 Scheduled to be the show's host, but died a week before the May 29, 1950, premiere.
4 October – Christopher Fairbank, English actor; 12 October – Les Dennis, game show host, actor; 27 October – Peter Firth, actor; 30 October – Nigel McCrery, television screenwriter (died 2025) 13 November – Diana Weston, actress; 16 November – Griff Rhys Jones, comedian, actor and writer; 13 December – Jim Davidson, comedian
26 March – Kay Benbow, 63, British television executive . [136] (death announced on this date) 27 March George Gilbey, 40, English television personality and reality show contestant (Celebrity Big Brother). [137] David Jackson, 87, English footballer (Bradford City, Tranmere Rovers, Halifax Town).
19 September – Twiggy, model and television presenter; 23 September – Floella Benjamin, Trinidad-born children's TV presenter and actress; 6 October – Sarah Cullen, television and radio journalist (died 2012) 20 October – Jane Tucker, actress, singer and musician; 7 November – Su Pollard, actress and singer; 12 December – Bill Nighy ...
7 Deaths. 8 See also. 9 References. ... This is a list of British television related events from 1955. ... 15 October – The Dave King Show (1955–1957)
2 October – Points of View, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and comments on the television of recent weeks, debuts on BBC Television. The series will still be on the air 60 years later. 12 October – ITV debut the popular Morecambe and Wise show Two of a Kind, which runs until 1968.
6 August – Mark Speight, British television presenter (died 2008) 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
24 October – BBC2 broadcast the iconic Fawlty Towers episode The Germans, in which a concussed Basil starts goose-stepping and impersonating Adolf Hitler to his German guests, 28 October – ITV shows a James Bond film on British television for the first time: Terence Young's 1962 big screen debut of 007 in Dr.