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Month Day Event March: 31: John Logie Baird installs a television receiver at the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's residence in London.: July: 14: First television drama broadcast, a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London, directed by Val Gielgud.
10 July – Mental Treatment Act 1930 provides for free voluntary treatment for psychiatric conditions and for psychiatric outpatient clinics, replaces the term "asylum" with "mental hospital" and reorganises the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.
1976 in British television – The Multicoloured Swap Shop opens on the BBC, Punk group the Sex Pistols cause a storm of controversy and outrage in the UK by swearing well before the watershed on the regional Thames Television news programme Today, hosted by Bill Grundy but Grundy, who has goaded them into doing so, is temporarily sacked making ...
The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK. Consequently, BBC News 24 is now available to all digital viewers. BBC Parliament is carried but due to bandwidth issues, the channel is broadcast in sound only. The first edition of UK Today is broadcast. It airs as a replacement for the regional news bulletins because broadcasting English ...
May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.; July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast.
Television portal; United Kingdom portal; Television series which originated in the United Kingdom in the decade 1930s. i.e. in the years 1930 to 1939.Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United Kingdom should be removed from this category and its sub-categories
Pages in category "1930s in the United Kingdom" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1930 AD until 1949 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.