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This is a list of
British television
related events from 1979.
Events
January
2 January
BBC2 airs the first episode of
Michael Wood
's groundbreaking history documentary series,
In Search of the Dark Ages
.
Debut of the game show
Give Us a Clue
on ITV.
3 January – The children's series
The Book Tower
makes its debut on ITV, featuring dramatizations of books as well as interviews with authors.
3 January – ITV programming resumes in the Yorkshire Television region at 5.45pm, with the station off air for the previous 17 days due to industrial action.
6 January – The US police series
CHiPs
makes its debut on ITV.
16 January – David Attenborough's innovative nature documentary
Life on Earth
debuts on BBC2.
18 January – The long-running game show
Blankety Blank
makes its debut on BBC1, presented by
Terry Wogan
.
28 January –
Thomas & Sarah
, a spin-off of
Upstairs, Downstairs
, makes its debut on ITV. It runs for only one series.
February
18 February – Debut of the long-running series
Antiques Roadshow
on BBC1.
25 February – The children's series
Worzel Gummidge
makes its debut on ITV, starring
Jon Pertwee
.
March
3 March
BBC1 begins showing
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
.
The US action-comedy series
The Dukes of Hazzard
makes its UK debut on BBC1.
10 March – The US sitcom
Mork and Mindy
makes its UK debut on ITV, starring
Robin Williams
.
16 March
The long-running US children's series
Sesame Street
is shown for the first time on STV.
ITV Midlands show the 1973 cult
folk horror
film
The Wicker Man
, starring
Edward Woodward
,
Christopher Lee
and
Britt Ekland
. ITV Granada, Yorkshire and Southern show the film on 2 April, 29 June and 15 December respectively.
19 March –
Richard Beckinsale
, best known for
The Lovers
,
Rising Damp
,
Porridge
and its spin-off
Going Straight
and
Bloomers
, dies of a congenital heart defect at the age of 31 or 32.
24 March –
Tales of the Unexpected
, an Anglia series based on the short stories of
Roald Dahl
, makes its debut on ITV.
April
No events.
May
3–4 May – BBC1 and ITV air coverage of the 1979 General Election which is won by the Conservatives and sees
Margaret Thatcher
become the first female Prime Minister of the UK.
[
1
]
The election sees both the Conservatives and Labour include plans for a fourth channel in their election manifestos. Labour favours an Open Broadcasting Authority community service aimed at minority groups while the Conservatives plan is for the channel to be given to ITV, but expresses a preference for a fourth channel to be an independent entity.
[
2
]
Both parties also pledge to launch a separate Welsh language television service for Wales.
[
3
]
21 May –
John Craven's Newsround
goes on its Summer break as it has done since its launch in 1972. When it returns on 10 September, it will run all year round.
June
9 June – Debut of the long-running entertainment series
The Paul Daniels Magic Show
on BBC1 which goes on to attract an audience of 15 million viewers.
June – BBC2 launches the world's first computer-generated ident, the
'Computer Generated 2'
.
July
7 July – The final episode in the original run of
Celebrity Squares
is broadcast on ITV, although it would be revived at the start of 1993.
10 July – The supernatural science-fiction series
Sapphire & Steel
makes its debut on ITV, starring
Joanna Lumley
and
David McCallum
.
28 July – The long-running variety show
The Cannon and Ball Show
makes its debut on ITV, starring comedians
Tommy Cannon
and
Bobby Ball
.
August
6 August
Technicians at Thames go on strike following a long-running dispute.
[
4
]
Debut of the
motorcross
game show
Kick Start
on BBC1.
A Picture of
Tom Keating
is rebroadcast with a new sequence covering Keating's trial in February.
10 August – The whole of the ITV network, except Channel Television,
is affected by a technicians strike
for eleven weeks.
25 August – BBC1 show the 1966
Batman
movie. This is the first UK wide broadcast after previously being shown on only a select few ITV regions.
27 August –
Lord Mountbatten of Burma
is murdered by a
Provisional Irish Republican Army
bomb. His death sets a record audience for a news bulletin as 26 million viewers watch the coverage on BBC1. Strike action at ITN has led to the record viewing figures.
September
2 September – Subtitling of programmes on Ceefax begins.
3 September –
Battle of the Planets
, the US adaptation of the popular Japanese science-fiction animated series
Gatchaman
, makes its debut on BBC1. It is shown until 1985.
7 September – BBC1 begin showing the US children's series
The Red Hand Gang
.
10 September – The first episode of
John le Carré
's
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
airs on BBC2 with
Alec Guinness
as
George Smiley
.
25 September –
Robin Day
presents the first edition of the long-running political debate programme
Question Time
on BBC1 with the panellists
Michael Foot
,
Edna O'Brien
,
Teddy Taylor
and
Derek Worlock
. It continues to air into the 2020s.
27 September – Debut of the short-lived sitcom
Bloomers
on BBC2, starring
Richard Beckinsale
in his final TV appearance.
30 September – BBC1 launch the massively popular sitcom
To the Manor Born
, starring
Penelope Keith
and
Peter Bowles
. The final episode of the series, shown on 11 November, is watched by 23.95 million viewers, the all-time highest figure for a recorded programme in the UK.
[
5
]
September – Home Secretary
Willie Whitelaw
outlines plans for a fourth channel.
[
6
]
However, he backs away from establishing a Welsh language channel for Wales, instead favouring a continuation of the status quo whereby Welsh language content is aired by BBC Wales and HTV.
[
3
]
October
16 October – The comedy sketch show
Not the Nine O'Clock News
makes it debut on BBC2, starring
Rowan Atkinson
,
Pamela Stevenson
,
Mel Smith
and
Griff Rhys Jones
.
24 October
The sitcom
Terry and June
makes its debut on BBC1, starring
Terry Scott
and
June Whitfield
.
On ITV's first night back on the air after the strike,
Quatermass
, the fourth and final serial featuring Professor
Bernard Quatermass
, begins its run. The title character is played by
John Mills
.
25 October – "Basil the Rat", the final episode of the
John Cleese
sitcom
Fawlty Towers
, is broadcast on BBC2.
29 October – The comedy-drama series
Minder
makes its debut on ITV, starring
George Cole
and
Dennis Waterman
.
November
16 November – The Japanese martial arts fantasy series
Monkey
makes its debut on BBC2 with dubbed English dialogue.
December
18 December – BBC1 airs
Gawain and the Green Knight
, Stephen Weeks' 1973 film starring
Murray Head
and
Nigel Green
and based on the
medieval poem of the same name
.
[
7
]
21 December – BBC1 show a season of
The Beatles
movies, starting with
Magical Mystery Tour
,
Help!
on 22 December and
Yellow Submarine
on 24 December.
23 December – BBC1 screen the blockbuster 1972 disaster film
The Poseidon Adventure
, starring
Gene Hackman
,
Ernest Borgnine
,
Red Buttons
,
Roddy McDowall
and
Shelley Winters
.
25 December
Christmas Day highlights on BBC1 includes the network television premiere of the 1973 crime caper movie
The Sting
, starring
Paul Newman
and
Robert Redford
.
ITV shows the
Richard Lester
-directed 1973 film version of
The Three Musketeers
, starring
Michael York
,
Oliver Reed
,
Raquel Welch
,
Faye Dunaway
,
Charlton Heston
and
Christopher Lee
.
26 December – Network television premieres of:
1968 WWII action-adventure film
Where Eagles Dare
on BBC1, starring
Clint Eastwood
and
Richard Burton
.
Nicolas Roeg
's 1973 horror film
Don't Look Now
on BBC2, starring
Donald Sutherland
and
Julie Christie
.
Unknown
The Independent Broadcasting Authority begins broadcasting
its own test card
on ITV instead of
Test Card F
.
Debuts
BBC1
3 January
The Aphrodite Inheritance
(1979)
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
(1979)
4 January –
Anne of Green Gables
(1979)
5 January –
Running Blind
(1979)
7 January
Telford's Change
(1979)
The Fourth Arm
(1979)
17 January –
Rebecca
(1979)
18 January –
Blankety Blank
(
1979–1990, 1997–1999
, ITV 2001–2002)
30 January –
Blue Remembered Hills
(1979)
18 February –
Antiques Roadshow
(1979–present)
23 February –
The Dawson Watch
(1979–1980)
1 March –
Potter
(1979–1983)
3 March
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries
(1977-1979)
The Dukes of Hazzard
(1979–1985)
18 March –
My Son, My Son
(1979)
21 March –
The Perishers
(1979)
17 April –
The Mourning Brooch
(1979)
11 May –
Two Up, Two Down
(1979)
26 May –
Goodbye Darling
(1979–1981)
6 June –
The Deep Concern
(1979)
9 June –
The Paul Daniels Magic Show
(1979–1994)
13 June –
The Omega Factor
(1979)
28 June –
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
(1977–1980)
16 July –
Jigsaw
(1979–1984)
6 August –
Kick Start
(1979–1988)
3 September –
Battle of the Planets
(1978–1980)
4 September
A Moment in Time
(1979)
Prince Regent
(1979)
7 September –
The Red Hand Gang
(1977)
11 September –
Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
(1979–1987)
25 September –
Question Time
(1979–present)
30 September
To the Manor Born
(
1979–1981
, 2007)
Shoestring
(1979–1980)
3 October –
Grandad
(1979–1984)
4 October –
The All-New Popeye Show
(1978–1983)
7 October –
The Legend of King Arthur
(1979)
12 October –
Penmarric
(1979)
24 October –
Terry and June
(1979–1987)
7 November –
The Enchanted Castle
(1979)
25 November –
Suez 1956
(1979)
4 December –
Anne of Green Gables
(1979)
9 December –
The Old Curiosity Shop
(1979–1980)
23 December –
Shalcken the Painter
(1979)
24 December –
What-a-Mess
(1979–1980, 1990)
BBC2
16 January –
Life on Earth
(1979)
17 January –
The Innes Book of Records
(1979–1981)
15 March –
Malice Aforethought
(1979)
18 April –
Matilda's England
(1979)
22 May –
Crime and Punishment
(1979)
24 June
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
(1979–1981)
Turning Year Tales
(1979)
2 September –
Diary of a Nobody
(1979)
6 September –
Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack
(1979)
10 September –
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(1979)
26 September –
The Camerons
(1979)
27 September –
Bloomers
(1979)
16 October –
Not the Nine O'Clock News
(1979–1982)
28 October –
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
(1979–1982)
4 November –
Testament of Youth
(1979)
15 November –
Kelly Monteith
(1979–1984)
16 November –
Monkey
(1978–1980)
ITV
2 January
Give Us a Clue
(
1979–1992
, ITV, 1997, BBC)
Room Service
(1979)
3 January –
The Book Tower
(1979–1989)
6 January
CHiPs
(1977–1983)
Dick Turpin
(1979–1982)
Dick Barton - Special Agent
(1979)
8 January
The Ken Dodd Laughter Show
(1979)
Feet First
(1979)
Danger UXB
(1979)
11 January –
The Jim Davidson Show
(1979–1982)
14 January –
Thomas & Sarah
(1979)
17 January –
Take My Wife
(1979)
2 February –
Flambards
(1979)
21 February –
Park Ranger
(1979)
23 February –
House of Caradus
(1979)
25 February –
Worzel Gummidge
(
1979–1981
ITV, 1987–1989, 2019 BBC)
27 February –
How's Your Father?
(1979–1980)
10 March –
Mork & Mindy
(1978–1982)
11 March –
Agony
(1979–1981)
22 March –
The Secret Hospital
(1979) (documentary)
24 March –
Tales of the Unexpected
(
1979–1985
, 1987–1988)
2 April –
Chalk and Cheese
(1979)
7 April
Kidnapped
(1979)
Lovely Couple
(1979)
15 April –
End of Part One
(1979–1980)
23 April
The Boy Merlin
(1979)
Turtle's Progress
(1979–1980)
28 April –
After Julius
(1979)
21 May –
In Loving Memory
(1979–1986)
22 May –
Thundercloud
(1979)
3 June –
The Danedyke Mystery
(1979)
10 June –
The Mallens
(1979-1980)
9 July –
Spooner's Patch
(1979–1982)
10 July –
Sapphire & Steel
(1979–1982)
11 July –
Murder at the Wedding
(1979)
12 July –
Shelley
(
1979–1984
, 1988–1992)
27 July
Charles Endell Esquire
(1979–1980)
Heartland
(1979–1980)
28 July –
The Cannon and Ball Show
(1979–1988)
29 July
Screenplay
(1979–1981)
Tropic
(1979)
8 August –
Border Country
(1979)
12 August –
Sally Ann
(1979)
24 October –
Quatermass
(1979)
29 October
Only When I Laugh
(1979–1982)
Minder
(
1979–1994
, 2009)
10 November –
Two People
(1979)
11 November
The Glums
(1979)
Quest of Eagles
(1979)
21 November –
The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game
(1979–1980)
1 December –
The Allan Stewart Tapes
(1979)
23 December –
Cribb
(1979–1981)
31 December –
The Ravelled Thread
(1979)
Unknown
The Sullivans
(1976–1983)
Don't Just Sit There!
(1979–1980)
BBC Scotland
7 October –
Can Seo
(1979)
Television shows
Changes of network affiliation
Shows
Moved from
Moved to
Noggin the Nog
BBC One
BBC Two
Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
Fawlty Towers
(1975,
1979
)
Noggin the Nog
(1959–1965,
1979–1982
)
Your Life in Their Hands
(1958–1964, 1979–1987, 1991)
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)
Crackerjack
(1955–1984, 2020–present)
What the Papers Say
(1956–2008)
[
8
]
The Sky at Night
(1957–present)
Blue Peter
(1958–present)
Grandstand
(1958–2007)
1960s
Coronation Street
(1960–present)
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)
World of Sport
(1965–1985)
Jackanory
(1965–1996, 2006)
Sportsnight
(1965–1997)
Call My Bluff
(1965–2005)
It's a Knockout
(1966–1982, 1999–2001)
The Money Programme
(1966–2010)
ITV Playhouse
(1967–1982)
Reksio
(1967–1990)
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)
Thunderbirds
(1972–1980, 1984–1987)
Clapperboard
(1972–1982)
Crown Court
(1972–1984)
Pebble Mill at One
(1972–1986)
Rainbow
(1972–1992, 1994–1997)
Are You Being Served?
(1972–1985)
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)
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
(1974–1981)
Tiswas
(1974–1982)
Wish You Were Here...?
(1974–2003)
The Cuckoo Waltz
(1975–1980)
Arena
(1975–present)
Jim'll Fix It
(1975–1994)
The Muppet Show
(1976–1981)
When the Boat Comes In
(1976–1981)
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
(1976–1982)
Rentaghost
(1976–1984)
One Man and His Dog
(1976–present)
Robin's Nest
(1977–1981)
You're Only Young Twice
(1977–1981)
The Professionals
(1977–1983)
Blake's 7
(1978–1981)
Ski Sunday
(1978–present)
Strangers
(1978–1982)
Butterflies
(1978–1983, 2000)
3-2-1
(1978–1988)
Grange Hill
(1978–2008)
Ending this year
5 January –
The Liver Birds
(
1969–1979
, 1996)
11 March –
Return of the Saint
(1978–1979)
7 July –
Celebrity Squares
(
1975–1979
, 1993–1997, 2014–2015)
25 October –
Fawlty Towers
(1975–1979)
16 November –
Sykes
(1972–1979)
19 December –
General Hospital
(1972–1979)
25 December –
George and Mildred
(1976–1979)
Anne of Green Gables
(1979)
Births
8 January –
Tomasz Schafernaker
, Polish-born weather presenter
23 January –
Dawn O'Porter
, Scottish fashion designer and journalist
2 February –
Christine Bleakley
, television presenter
13 February –
Lucy Brown
, actress
10 March –
Laura Rogers
, actress
20 March –
Freema Agyeman
, actress
12 April –
Paul Nicholls
, actor
29 April –
Jo O'Meara
, singer, dancer and actress
10 May –
Lara Lewington
, weather and television presenter
20 May –
Rick Edwards
, television presenter
27 May –
Jeff Brazier
, television presenter and reality show contestant
12 June –
Jodie Prenger
, actress and singer
27 July –
Julia Haworth
, actress
9 November –
Caroline Flack
, television presenter and actress (died 2020)
19 November –
Katherine Kelly
, actress
29 November –
Simon Amstell
, comedian and television presenter
Unknown
Leanne Lakey
, actress
Rosamund Pike
, actress
Deaths
Date
Name
Age
Cinematic Credibility
16 January
Peter Butterworth
63
actor (
Carry On
,
Doctor Who
)
28 February
Jane Hylton
51
actress (
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
)
6 March
John Robinson
70
actor (
Quatermass II
)
19 March
Richard Beckinsale
31
actor
24 March
Yvonne Mitchell
63
actress (
Nineteen Eighty-Four
)
30 May
Jack Raine
82
actor
4 July
Marjorie Rhodes
82
actress
6 July
Malcolm Hulke
[
9
]
54
screenwriter (
Doctor Who
)
7 July
Ian Mackintosh
[
10
]
39
TV writer (air crash; disappeared, presumed dead)
24 July
Archie Duncan
65
actor (
Little John
in
The Adventures of Robin Hood
)
23 August
Richard Hearne
71
comic performer ("Mr Pastry")
7 September
Alan Browning
53
actor (
Coronation Street
)
23 September
Catherine Lacey
[
11
]
75
actress
20 November
Michael Darbyshire
62
actor (
Rentaghost
)
30 November
Joyce Grenfell
69
actress, comedian and singer-songwriter
See also
1979 in British music
1979 in British radio
1979 in the United Kingdom
List of British films of 1979
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