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This is a list of
British television
related events from 1975.
Events
January
2 January – The police drama series
The Sweeney
premieres on ITV, with
John Thaw
and
Dennis Waterman
.
6 January – Due to financial cutbacks at the BBC, BBC1 scales back its weekday early afternoon programming. Consequently, apart from schools programmes, adult education and live sport, the channel now shows a trade test transmission between 2pm and the start of children's programmes and when not broadcasting actual programmes, BBC2 begins fully closing down on weekdays between 11:30am and 4pm.
22 January–26 February – Drama series
The Love School
, about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is broadcast on BBC2.
February
15 February – ITV show the 1969 comedy film
Carry On Camping
, starring
Sid James
,
Kenneth Williams
,
Joan Sims
,
Charles Hawtrey
,
Terry Scott
and
Barbara Windsor
.
25 February – BBC1 begin showing the American Western family drama
Little House on the Prairie
, starring
Michael Landon
.
March
14 March – After less than two years on the air,
The Bristol Channel
closes.
[1]
17 March – BBC1 begins showing the
Hanna-Barbera
cartoon series
Hong Kong Phooey
.
24 March –
Wellingborough Cablevision
closes.
[1]
April
1 April – Premiere of
Edward the Seventh
, a drama series made by
ATV
in 13 one-hour episodes and based on the biography of King
Edward VII
by Sir Philip Magnus.
3 April – Meg Richardson (
Noele Gordon
) marries Hugh Mortimer (
John Bentley
) on the ATV soap opera
Crossroads
.
4 April – The
Richard Briers
and
Felicity Kendal
-starring sitcom
The Good Life
makes its debut on BBC1.
13 April – Game show
The Golden Shot
(hosted by
Bob Monkhouse
) airs its final episode on ITV after an eight-year run.
May
31 May –
Jim'll Fix It
hosted by
Jimmy Savile
makes its debut on BBC1.
June
3 June – BBC2 show
Ken Loach's
1969 drama film
Kes
, starring
David Bradley
as fifteen year old Billy Casper who befriends a wild kestrel.
7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first
Cricket World Cup
.
[2]
[3]
The BBC also shows full coverage of the
1979 World Cup
.
[4]
11 June – A pilot of the sitcom
The Melting Pot
, written by and starring
Spike Milligan
(in brownface) with
Neil Shand
, is broadcast on BBC2. The following year, a full series of six episodes is recorded but never broadcast.
July
5 July – BBC1 launches the long-running Summer variety show
Seaside Special
.
14 July –
New Broadcasting House (Manchester)
starts broadcasting programming for BBC North West. It becomes fully operational by September.
20 July – ITV first airs the
Bob Monkhouse
-hosted game show
Celebrity Squares
.
August
2 August – BBC2 launch a season of Saturday evening horror movie double bills with
Midnight Movie Fantastic
. It will continue to be shown until 1983.
13 August – BBC1 begins showing the U.S. detective series
The Rockford Files
, starring
James Garner
.
September
2 September –
Runaround
, the long-running children's game show hosted by comedian
Mike Reid
is first broadcast on ITV.
3 September – ITV begins showing the supernatural children's anthology series
Shadows
.
4 September –
Gerry Anderson's
live-action science fiction series
Space: 1999
airs on ITV, starring
Martin Landau
.
19 September –
BFBS Television
broadcasts for the first time, in Celle, near Hanover in the West Germany from Trenchard Barracks.
[5]
The service consists of taped broadcasts from the BBC and ITV, flown to Germany from London which are then rebroadcast using low-power UHF transmitters.
[6]
19 September –
John Cleese
's much-loved hotel comedy series
Fawlty Towers
debuts on BBC2, with the episode "A Touch of Class".
20 September – ITV Southern show the 1972
made for television
horror film
The Night Stalker
, starring
Darren McGavin
, ahead of other ITV regions.
25 September –
Yorkshire Television
premieres
Animal Kwackers
, the British version of the American television series
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
which ended almost six years earlier but shorter and very different from the U.S. version. It goes on to air for 3 series.
October
1 October – The long-running arts documentary series
Arena
makes its debut on BBC2.
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. No
, with
Sean Connery
starring as
Ian Fleming
's British secret agent.
[7]
November
No events.
December
9 December – 15th anniversary of the first episode of
Coronation Street
.
16 December – BBC1 show the courtroom drama
Rumpole of the Bailey
, as part of the
Play for Today
series. The titular character played by
Leo McKern
proves so popular that the ITV would develop it into a full series in 1978.
17 December
The
Thames Television
film
The Naked Civil Servant
, based on
Quentin Crisp
's memoirs, is broadcast on British television. The film stars
John Hurt
in the title role.
The final episode of sitcom
Till Death Us Do Part
is broadcast on BBC1.
22 December – ITV screen the network premiere of
David Lean's
1962 epic historical film
Lawrence of Arabia
, starring
Peter O'Toole
as
T. E. Lawrence
with
Alec Guinness
,
Omar Sharif
,
Anthony Quayle
and
Claude Rains
. The film is split into two parts and shown over consecutive nights.
23 December
The animated children's series
Bod
debuts on BBC1.
BBC1 show the television premiere of the 1968 comedy film
Carry On Up the Khyber
, starring
Sid James
,
Kenneth Williams
,
Charles Hawtrey
,
Joan Sims
,
Bernard Bresslaw
and
Roy Castle
.
25 December – As part of the Christmas Day highlights BBC1 screens the UK television premiere of the 1939
MGM
fantasy musical
The Wizard of Oz
, starring
Judy Garland
. The film will go on to be shown regularly on the BBC during the Christmas period until the 1990s. Also receiving a world television premiere on BBC1 is
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
starring
Robert Redford
and
Paul Newman
.
[8]
26 December – BBC1 Boxing Day network premiere of the popular 1970 family film
The Railway Children
, starring
Jenny Agutter
and
Bernard Cribbins
.
27 December – BBC1 show the 1973
made for television
horror drama
Frankenstein: The True Story
, starring
Jane Seymour
and
James Mason
.
31 December – BBC2 show
Tom Stoppard's
adaptation of
Jerome K. Jerome's
critically acclaimed boating holiday comedy
Three Men in a Boat
, directed by
Stephen Frears
and starring
Michael Palin
,
Tim Curry
and
Stephen Moore
.
Debuts
BBC1
1 January –
The Secret Garden
(1975)
6 January
Philbert Frog
(1975)
Public Account
(1975–1978)
The Changes
(1975)
7 January –
The Venturers
(1975)
26 January –
Anne of Avonlea
(1975)
25 February –
Little House on the Prairie
(1974–1983)
5 March –
You're on Your Own
(1975)
9 March –
The Master of Ballantrae
(1975)
17 March –
Hong Kong Phooey
(1974)
4 April –
The Good Life
(1975–1978)
16 April –
Survivors
(1975–1977)
23 April –
Wodehouse Playhouse
(1975–1978)
24 April –
Sam and the River
(1975)
2 May –
Private Affairs
(1975)
31 May –
Jim'll Fix It
(1975–1994)
11 June –
The Melting Pot
(1975)
5 July –
Seaside Special
(1975–1979)
14 July –
My Honourable Mrs
(1975)
16 July –
The Rough with the Smooth
(1975)
27 July –
Zot the Dog
(1975)
9 August –
Sportscene
(1975–present)
13 August –
The Rockford Files
(1974–1980)
26 August –
Oil Strike North
(1975)
27 August –
I Didn't Know You Cared
(1975–1979)
29 August –
Quiller
(1975)
1 September –
Angels
(1975–1983)
2 September –
The Growing Pains of P.C. Penrose
(1975)
11 September –
Days of Hope
(1975)
24 September –
The Hill of the Red Fox
(1975)
26 September –
The Invisible Man
(1975)
5 October
Ballet Shoes
(1975)
Poldark
(1975–1977)
Little Monsters
(1975–1978)
Maya the Honey Bee
(1975-1976)
12 October –
On the Move
(1975–1976)
15 October –
Cooper
(1975)
18 November –
Emu's Broadcasting Company
(1975–1980)
23 November –
The Legend of Robin Hood
(1975)
25 November –
Francis Durbridge Presents: The Doll
(1975)
4 December –
State of Emergency
(1975)
23 December –
Bod
(1975–1976)
31 December –
Striker
(1975)
BBC2
22 January –
After That, This
(1975)
22 January –
The Love School
(1975)
29 March –
A Legacy
(1975)
2 April –
The Fight Against Slavery
(1975)
3 May –
The Girls of Slender Means
(1975)
12 May –
Rutland Weekend Television
(1975–1976)
24 May –
Looking for Clancy
(1975)
13 June –
Ten from the Twenties
(1975)
18 June –
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
(1975)
2 August –
Midnight Movie Fantastic
(1975)
19 September –
Fawlty Towers
(
1975
, 1979)
22 September –
Madame Bovary
(1975)
25 September –
Making Faces
(1975)
26 September –
The Wild West Show
(1975)
1 October –
Arena
(1975–present)
29 October –
The Philanthropist
(1975)
21 November –
Trinity Tales
(1975)
26 November –
Moll Flanders
(1975)
1 December –
North and South
(1975)
21 December –
The Punch Review
(1975–1977)
29 December –
How Green Was My Valley
(1975–1976)
31 December –
Three Men in a Boat
(1975)
ITV
2 January –
The Sweeney
(1975–1978)
4 January –
Carry on Laughing
(1975)
6 January –
The Life of Riley
(1975)
10 January –
Dog of Flanders
(1975)
12 January –
Joby
(1975)
14 January –
Nightingale's Boys
(1975)
15 January –
Cilla's Comedy Six
(1975)
15 February –
The Hanged Man
(1975)
19 March –
The Wackers
(1975)
24 March –
Noddy
(1975)
1 April –
Edward the Seventh
(1975)
7 April –
Sky
(1975)
20 April –
Winner Takes All
(1975–1988, 1997)
21 April –
Sadie, It's Cold Outside
(1975)
26 April –
Tarbuck and All That!
(1975)
27 April –
Doctor on the Go
(1975–1977)
7 May –
The Loner
(1975)
28 May –
You Must Be Joking!
(1975–1976)
8 June –
The Siege of Golden Hill
(1975)
12 June –
Dawson's Weekly
(1975)
3 July –
Three Comedies of Marriage
(1975)
13 July –
Against the Crowd
(1975)
20 July –
Celebrity Squares
(
1975–1979
, 1993–1997, 2014–2015)
22 July –
Johnny Go Home
(1975)
[9]
23 July –
Down the 'Gate
(1975–1976)
2 August –
The Summer Show
(1975)
7 August –
Comedy Premiere
(1975)
8 August –
Rule Britannia!
(1975)
2 September –
Runaround
(
1975–1981
, 1985–1986)
3 September –
Shadows
(1975–1978)
4 September
The Stars Look Down
(1975)
Space: 1999
(1975–1978)
6 September –
Two's Company
(1975–1979)
7 September –
My Brother's Keeper
(1975–1976)
8 September
Hogg's Back
(1975–1976)
My Son Reuben
(1975)
9 September –
Shades of Greene
(1975–1976)
19 September –
Larry Grayson
(1975–1977)
25 September –
Animal Kwackers
(1975–1978)
8 October –
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
(1975)
14 October –
Couples
(1975–1976)
16 October –
Get Some In!
(1975–1978)
27 October –
The Cuckoo Waltz
(1975–1980)
17 December –
The Naked Civil Servant
(1975)
Unknown –
The Brady Bunch
(1969–1974)
Television shows
Changes of network affiliation
Shows
Moved from
Moved to
Ivor the Engine
ITV
BBC One
BBC Two
Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
Ivor the Engine
(1959,
1975–1977
)
Continuing television shows
1920s
BBC Wimbledon
(1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
1930s
Trooping the Colour
(1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present)
The Boat Race
(1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
BBC Cricket
(1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)
1940s
Come Dancing
(1949–1998)
1950s
The Good Old Days
(1953–1983)
Panorama
(1953–present)
Dixon of Dock Green
(1955–1976)
Crackerjack
(1955–1984, 2020–present)
Opportunity Knocks
(1956–1978, 1987–1990)
This Week
(1956–1978, 1986–1992)
Armchair Theatre
(1956–1974)
[10]
What the Papers Say
(1956–2008)
[11]
The Sky at Night
(1957–present)
Blue Peter
(1958–present)
Grandstand
(1958–2007)
1960s
Coronation Street
(1960–present)
Songs of Praise
(1961–present)
Z-Cars
(1962–1978)
Animal Magic
(1962–1983)
Doctor Who
(1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
World in Action
(1963–1998)
Top of the Pops
(1964–2006)
Match of the Day
(1964–present)
Crossroads
(1964–1988, 2001–2003)
Play School
(1964–1988)
Mr. and Mrs.
(1965–1999)
Call My Bluff
(1965–2005)
World of Sport
(1965–1985)
Jackanory
(1965–1996, 2006)
Sportsnight
(1965–1997)
It's a Knockout
(1966–1982, 1999–2001)
The Money Programme
(1966–2010)
Playhouse
(1967–1982)
Reksio
(1967–1990)
Dad's Army
(1968–1977)
[12]
Magpie
(1968–1980)
The Big Match
(1968–2002)
Nationwide
(1969–1983)
Screen Test
(1969–1984)
1970s
The Goodies
(1970–1982)
The Onedin Line
(1971–1980)
The Old Grey Whistle Test
(1971–1987)
The Two Ronnies
(1971–1987, 1991, 1996, 2005)
Love Thy Neighbour
(1972–1976)
Thunderbirds
(1972–1980, 1984–1987)
Clapperboard
(1972–1982)
Crown Court
(1972–1984)
Pebble Mill at One
(1972–1986)
Are You Being Served?
(1972–1985)
Rainbow
(1972–1992, 1994–1997)
Emmerdale
(1972–present)
Newsround
(1972–present)
Weekend World
(1972–1988)
Pipkins
(1973–1981)
We Are the Champions
(1973–1987)
Last of the Summer Wine
(1973–2010)
That's Life!
(1973–1994)
Porridge
(1974–1977)
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
(1974–1977)
Happy Ever After
(1974–1978)
Rising Damp
(1974–1978)
Within These Walls
(1974–1978)
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
(1974–1981)
Tiswas
(1974–1982)
Wish You Were Here...?
(1974–2003)
Ending this year
31 March –
Up Pompeii!
(
1969–1975
, 1991–1992)
7 April –
Public Eye
(1965–1975)
12 April –
My Old Man
(1974–1975)
13 April –
The Golden Shot
(1967–1975)
31 May –
Vicky the Viking
(1974-1975)
17 June –
Captain Pugwash
(
1957–1975
, 1997–2002)
23 June –
Churchill's People
(1974–1975)
10 August –
Top of the Form
(1962–1975)
29 August –
Not On Your Nellie
(1974–1975)
6 December –
Don't Drink the Water
(1974–1975)
17 December –
Till Death Us Do Part
(1965–1975)
21 December –
Upstairs, Downstairs
(
1971–1975
, 2010–2012)
31 December –
Dog of Flanders
(1975)
Unknown –
Watch with Mother
(1952–1975)
Births
15 January –
Claire Marshall
, BBC journalist
13 February –
Katie Hopkins
, reality show contestant and journalist
25 February –
Naga Munchetty
, presenter and journalist
3 March –
Patricia Potter
, actress
16 May –
Charlotte Hawkins
, journalist and newsreader
21 May –
Ruth Wignall
, journalist and broadcaster
27 May –
Jamie Oliver
, chef and television personality
29 May –
Mel B
, singer (
Spice Girls
), actress and television presenter
25 June –
Sunetra Sarker
, actress
1 July –
Trey Farley
, television presenter
2 July –
Melanie Clark Pullen
, actress (died 2022)
15 July –
Jill Halfpenny
, actress
17 July –
Konnie Huq
, television presenter
22 July –
Hannah Waterman
, actress
22 August –
Sheree Murphy
, actress
25 August –
Sarah Manners
, actress
25 September –
Declan Donnelly
, TV presenter and one half of
Ant and Dec
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
11 December –
Dawn Steele
, actress
Unknown
Jason Mohammad
, radio and television presenter
Laura Jones
, television journalist
Deaths
26 February –
Denis Goodwin
, 45, comedy scriptwriter (
Fast and Loose
,
Bright's Boffins
), suicide.
23 April –
William Hartnell
, 67, actor (
Doctor Who
).
18 October –
Graham Haberfield
, 33, actor (
Coronation Street
).
See also
1975 in British music
1975 in British radio
1975 in the United Kingdom
List of British films of 1975
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