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BBC1's afternoon schedule launches with the first edition of a new lunchtime magazine programme Pebble Mill at One. 16 October – ITV launches its afternoon service. As part of the new service, the first episode of rural soap opera Emmerdale Farm is broadcast, produced by Yorkshire Television and ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First ...
3 January – BBC Open University broadcasts begin on BBC2. [1] [2] [3]21 January The third Emley Moor transmitting station in Yorkshire begins broadcasting. A tapered, reinforced concrete tower, it is the tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom at a height of 1,084 feet (330 m).
3 August – The UK's final 405-lines television transmitter is switched on at Newhaven, East Sussex. All future transmitters are at the higher definition 625-lines . 6 August – A BBC2 broadcast of Christopher Marlowe 's 16th century drama Edward II features the first same-sex kiss on British television, between Ian McKellen (as Edward ) and ...
The Prisoner has its UK premiere on ATV and Grampian Television. The world premiere of the series occurs on 5 September when the series debuts on CTV in Canada. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, the popular science fiction Supermarionation series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson debuts on ITV.
20 January – The largest ever British TV audience for a film is recorded when some 23,500,000 viewers tune in for the ITV showing of the James Bond film Live and Let Die, released in 1973 and starring Roger Moore, making his debut as Ian Fleming's secret agent 007. [2] 21 January – The final episode of Jamie and the Magic Torch airs on ITV.
1986 in British television – BBC One begins a full daytime schedule service for the first time with Australian soap Neighbours making its UK debut as part of the schedule, while Yorkshire becomes the first ITV region to begin broadcasting 24 hours a day. 1986 also sees Neighbours make its British television debut along with Pingu, Casualty ...
25 September – Declan Donnelly, TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec; 28 September – Kelly Cates, née Dalglish, Scottish sports presenter; 26 October – Michael Underwood, television presenter; 7 November – Francine Lewis, comedian, actress and model; 18 November – Anthony McPartlin, TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec
1 March – The monopoly on listings magazines ends with the deregulation of TV listings. Before today, Radio Times published only BBC listings and TVTimes ITV only (and from 1982, Channel 4, including S4C in a pull-out supplement Sbec). However, from this day, they can carry listings for all channels.