On This Day...
29th October
Channels
1984
The technicians strike at Thames Television continues. A management-run service is in operation.
Programmes
1973
The final episode of Casanova 73 airs on BBC One.
1979
The first episode of Minder airs on ITV.
1979
The first episode of Only When I Laugh airs on ITV.
1982
The final edition of Jeux Sans Frontierers airs on BBC One. European It's a Knockout competition.
1984
The first edition of Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee airs on BBC Two.
1984
The first edition of Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery airs on BBC Two.
1986
The final episode of Life and Loves of a She Devil airs on BBC Two.
1986
The first edition of Strike It Lucky airs on ITV.
1988
The first edition of Hearts of Gold airs on BBC One.
1989
The first episode of Mother Love airs on BBC One.
1990
The first episode of Keeping Up Appearances airs on BBC One.
1993
The final edition of Every Second Counts airs on BBC One.
1994
The final edition of Strike It Lucky airs on ITV. The show returned in December 1996 under a new title: Michael Barrymore's Strike It Rich.
1995
The final episode of Pride and Prejudice airs on BBC One.
2020
The final episode of The Sister airs on ITV.
On This Day...
29th October
Births
1933
TV announcer and radio presenter, Douglas Cameron.
1967
TV presenter, Derek Brockway.
Events
1988
Laurie Mayer presents the weekend news on BBC One for the first time.
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.