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'The First Colour Television' by Richard Cavendish, History Today, July 7, 2008. Early BBC Colour Tests, www.meldrum.co.uk; Colour Television in Britain, by Iain Baird, Science + Media Museum, May 15, 2011; How colour TV crossed an ocean before it arrived in UK homes, by Chris Smith, BT, July 16, 2018.
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 ...
Debut of the game show The Golden Shot on ITV. Initially presented by Canadian entertainer Jackie Rae, he would soon be replaced by the show's best known host Bob Monkhouse and would become hugely popular. 2 July – The BBC's colour Test Card F, featuring Carole Hersee, is broadcast for the first time. 3 July – News at Ten premieres on ITV ...
Introduction of color television in countries by decade. This is a list of when the first color television broadcasts were transmitted to the general public. Non-public field tests, closed-circuit demonstrations and broadcasts available from other countries are not included, while including dates when the last black-and-white stations in the country switched to color or shutdown all black-and ...
1 January – The colour television licence is introduced when a £5 "colour supplement" is added to the £5 monochrome licence fee, therefore making the cost of a colour licence £10. 5 January – Gardeners' World is broadcast for the first time. The programme would still be running over fifty years later.
15 November – National colour broadcasting commences on both BBC1 and ITV (following BBC2, who carried out the first UK colour broadcast on 1 July 1967). BBC1 launches their colour programmes with a concert by Petula Clark from the Royal Albert Hall at midnight on 14–15 November. Also, the first colour television advert, on ATV (Midlands ...
14 January – The American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air airs in the UK for the first time, making its debut on BBC2 as part of the DEF II programming strand. [97] 18 January – BBC2 airs a special edition of Arena in which playwright Arthur Miller meets ANC leader Nelson Mandela. In the film, Mandela talks for the first time about his ...
11 June – BBC2 Northern Ireland goes on the air. 16 June – The Beatles perform live on BBC television's Top of the Pops. Although the group had previously pre-recorded appearances on the show, this would be their first and only live broadcast, miming to both "Paperback Writer" and its b-side, "Rain".