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On This Day...26th July
Programmes
1968
The final edition of Take Your Pick airs on ITV. The programme would return in 1992.
1983
The first episode of Storyboard airs on ITV. A series of one-off dramas intended to serve as possible pilots.
1984
The first edition of Starstrider airs on ITV.
1985
The final episode of Sharon and Elsie airs on BBC One.
1986
The final episode of Terrahawks airs on ITV.
1992
The first episode of Annie Across America airs on ITV.
1995
The first episode of HMS Brilliant A Little Bit of England airs on BBC One.
1995
The first episode of Match of the Seventies airs on BBC One.
1995
The first edition of Parkinson: The Interviews airs on BBC One.
2020
The first episode of A Suitable Boy airs on BBC One.
2023
The final edition of Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure airs on ITV 1.
On This Day...26th July
Births
1948
Former TV announcer, Colin Weston.
Deaths
2016
Former TV announcer/presenter, Sylvia Peters.
2018
Former TV announcer/news presenter, Alastair Yates.
2022
Former TV news reporter/presenter, Ronald Allison.
2024
Former TV announcer/presenter, Katie Glass.
Events
1984
Julia Sommerville presents the BBC Nine o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time. Julia previously worked as a BBC Radio news correspondent and Nationwide reporter.
1997
Alan Towers - long-running presenter of BBC Midlands Today, resigns live on air at the end of a Saturday bulletin, with a criticism of BBC management:
"For me, this is a personal goodbye now because I am leaving the BBC after 25 years. When I joined the corporation, it was led by giants. Now I'm afraid, it's led by pygmies in grey suits, wearing blindfolds. How sad. But, times do change. From me now, for the final time, goodbye".
EXTERNAL LINK: Alan Towers resigns on air.
"For me, this is a personal goodbye now because I am leaving the BBC after 25 years. When I joined the corporation, it was led by giants. Now I'm afraid, it's led by pygmies in grey suits, wearing blindfolds. How sad. But, times do change. From me now, for the final time, goodbye".
EXTERNAL LINK: Alan Towers resigns on air.
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