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On This Day...27th April
Programmes
1956
The first episode of The Tony Hancock Show airs on ITV.
1956
The first Ministerial TV Broadcast airs, featuring Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden.
1964
The final edition of This Is Your Life (original BBC series) airs on BBC One.
1964
The first edition of Impromptu airs on BBC Two. Unscripted comedy show. Devised by David Croft. Hosted by Jeremy Hawk, with Lance Percival, Victor Spinetti, Peter Reeves, Anne Cunningham, Betty Impey, Joe Melia and dance by Una Stubbs.
1968
The final episode of Mad Movies airs on ITV.
1971
The first episode of ...and Mother Makes Three airs on ITV.
1975
The first episode of Doctor on the Go airs on ITV.
1977
Lord Mountbatten is the subject of This Is Your Life on ITV. The programme attracted an audience of 22.22m.
1984
The first episode of Marlow - Private Eye airs on ITV.
1991
The first edition of You Gotta Be Jokin' airs on BBC One.
1991
The first edition of Bob's Your Uncle airs on ITV.
1992
The first episode of Side by Side airs on BBC One.
1992
The first edition of Gloria airs on BBC One.
1994
The first episode of The Lifeboat airs on BBC One.
1995
The final episode of Crown Prosecutor airs on BBC One.
1996
The final episode of The Shane Ritchie Experience airs on ITV.
1996
The final episode of The Governor airs on ITV.
2003
The final episode of High Road airs on STV.
2004
The first edition of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares airs on Channel 4.
2016
The final episode of Scott & Bailey airs on ITV.
2020
The first episode of Normal People airs on BBC One. The series began on BBC Three on 26th April 2020 and was shown weekly on BBC One.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1974
BBC Two tape Tijuana Taxi airs for the first time. A number of tracks were later removed and a revised version of this tape was in use from 12th March 1975.
1977
BBC One tape Dixieland Parade (2) airs for the final time.
On This Day...27th April
Births
1930
Former TV announcer/presenter, Don Moss.
1935
Former TV/radio weather presenter, Frank Greene.
1944
Former TV/radio weather presenter, Michael Fish.
1969
TV presenter, Tess Daly.
Deaths
2006
Former TV presenter and writer, Jeremy Bruce-Watt.
Events
1964
Rick Jones presents Play School (BBC Two) for the first time.
1999
Moira Stuart presents the Six o'Clock News (BBC One) for the final time, alongside Martyn Lewis.
2005
Gethin Jones presents Blue Peter (BBC One) for the first time.
2005
Eamonn Holmes presents GMTV for the final time, after 12 years with the ITV breakfast station.
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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