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On This Day...13th December
Channels
1969
STV airs its first colour programme.
Programmes
1965
The first edition of Jackanory airs on BBC One.
1965
The first episode of The Power Game airs on ITV.
1974
The first episode of Rising Damp airs on ITV.
1987
The first episode of The Beiderbecke Tapes airs on ITV.
1999
The final episode of Dr Willoughby airs on ITV.
2006
The final episode of Bodies airs on BBC Three.
2009
The final edition of Delia's Classic Christmas airs on BBC Two.
2011
The first episode of This Is England '88 airs on Channel 4.
Co-written and directed by Stanley Meadows.
Co-written and directed by Stanley Meadows.
2012
The final episode of The Hour airs on BBC Two.
2017
The final episode of Detectorists airs on BBC Four.
Written and directed by Mackenzie Crook and co-starring Toby Jones.
Written and directed by Mackenzie Crook and co-starring Toby Jones.
2018
The final edition of Amazing Hotel: Beyond the Lobby airs on BBC Two.
2020
The final episode of Small Axe airs on BBC One.
2021
The final episode of You Don't Know Me airs on BBC One.
2024
Alan Bennett: 90 Years On airs on BBC Two.
Documentary celebrating one of Britain’s best loved playwrights.
Documentary celebrating one of Britain’s best loved playwrights.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1976
BBC Christmas tape Santa Claus Is Coming to Town airs on BBC One for the first time.
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (18th December 1995).
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (18th December 1995).
1979
BBC Christmas tape Unto Us a Child Is Born airs on BBC Two for the first time.
EXTERNAL LINK: recreation of Unto Us a Child Is Born.
EXTERNAL LINK: recreation of Unto Us a Child Is Born.
1994
BBC One tape Summer High airs for the first time.
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Summer High (9th April 1996).
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Summer High (9th April 1996).
On This Day...13th December
Births
1981
TV news/sports reporter/presenter, Gavin Ramjaun.
Deaths
1999
Former documentary maker and TV presenter, Jill Craigie.
2023
Former inventor and TV presenter, Wilf Lunn.
Events
2018
David Dimbleby presents Question Time (BBC One) for the final time.
He first presented the programme on 13th January 1994.
He first presented the programme on 13th January 1994.
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
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