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On This Day...30th November
Programmes
1958
Actor Gareth Jones suffers a fatal heart attack whilst off-screen during a live edition of ITV's Armchair Theatre (Underground). The drama about nuclear survivors carried on with the other actors working round his absence on screen.
1983
The first episode of Up the Elephant and Round the Castle airs on ITV.
1985
The first edition of Blind Date airs on ITV.
1985
The first edition of Copy Cats airs on ITV.
1986
The final edition of Twenty Years of the Two Ronnies airs on BBC One.
2008
The first episode of Wallander airs on BBC One.
2009
The first edition of Rip-Off Britain airs on BBC One. Consumer series presented by Jennie Bond (series 1/2), Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville (from series 3).
2016
The final episode of The Missing airs on BBC One.
2019
The final edition of The X-Factor: Celebrity airs on ITV. Presented by Dermot O’Leary.
Teletext
1990
Ceefax subtitles are available on the Nine o'clock News (BBC One) for the first time.
On This Day...30th November
Births
1959
TV presenter, Lorraine Kelly.
1964
TV news reporter/presenter, Liz MacKean.
1975
TV/radio presenter, Richard Bacon.
1982
TV presenter, Ayo Akinwolere.
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
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