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24 November – The first episode of the influential satire show That Was the Week That Was airs on BBC TV. [27] 1963. 13 January – BBC TV airs the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan. 30 September – BBC TV begins using a globe as their ...
The world's first scheduled, high-definition (as then defined; meaning 240-line) television programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. They had been preceded by a number of low-definition BBC test broadcasts, as well as a 180-line Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk service, from Berlin, since March 1935.
The use of both formats made the BBC's service the world's first regular high-definition television service; it broadcast from Monday to Saturday between 15:00 and 16:00, and 21:00 and 22:00. [9] The first programme broadcast – and thus the first ever, on a dedicated TV channel – was "Opening of the BBC Television Service" at 15:00. [10]
5 April – The Money Programme – the BBC's first regular programme devoted to business and finance – debuts on BBC2. [29] 17 April – The first regular stereo radio transmissions begin, from the Wrotham transmitter. A government White Paper paves the way for the launch of a small number (eight) of two-year experimental BBC Local Radio ...
Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used. Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.
1937. 24 April – The first children's television show For the Children is broadcast.; 1939. 1 September – The BBC Television Service is suspended, about 20 minutes following the conclusion of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (Mickey's Gala Premier), owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War amid fears that the VHF transmissions would act as perfect guidance beams for enemy bombers ...
20 April – Debut of the US comedy series The Phil Silvers Show on the BBC. 21 April – Historical documentary series Men, Women and Clothes begins airing. It is the first BBC programme filmed in colour, although it can only be transmitted in black and white. 24 April – The Sky at Night appears for the first time, presented by Patrick Moore ...
2013 in British television – BBC Two launches in high-definition for the first time 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years after BBC One did, Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary since BBC Wimbledon in 1987 The Boat Race in 1998 and BBC Cricket in 1999, More4 also launches in HD for the first time ...