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On This Day...24th November
Programmes
1956
The final edition of In Town Tonight airs on BBC TV.
1960
The first episode of Citizen James airs on BBC TV.
1962
The first edition of That Was the Week That Was airs on BBC TV.
1966
The 150th edition of Top of the Pops airs on BBC One. Presented by Alan Freeman.
1968
The first edition of Nai Zindagi – Naya Jeevan airs on BBC One. Magazine series for viewers from India and Pakistan, produced by BBC Birmingham.
1973
The final edition of It's Lulu airs on BBC One.
1984
The final episode of The Gentle Touch airs on ITV.
1984
The first edition of Tarby and Friends airs on ITV.
1986
The first edition of Day to Day airs on BBC One.
1988
The final episode of The River airs on BBC One.
1993
The final episode The Buddha of Suburbia airs on BBC Two.
1995
The final episode of Medics airs on ITV.
1996
A fourth weekly episode of Coronation Street (ITV) is introduced, on Sundays.
2023
The first edition of The Toy Hospital airs on Channel 5.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1997
BBC Two tape Europa Time airs for the first time. The tape had previously been used on BBC One (17th March 1992 - 7th November 1997).
EXTERNAL LINK: test card and Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Europa Time (30th August 1993).
EXTERNAL LINK: test card and Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Europa Time (30th August 1993).
On This Day...24th November
Births
1927
Former painter and TV presenter, Jonathan Routh.
1944
Former TV announcer/presenter, Lesley Blair.
1957
TV/radio news reporter/presenter, Edward Stourton.
1959
TV/radio news reporter/presenter, Zeinab Badawi.
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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