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On This Day...6th November
Programmes
1960
The first edition of Seeing and Believing airs on BBC TV.
1962
The 200th edition of This Is Your Life airs on BBC TV.
1975
The first edition of Q6 airs on BBC Two.
1978
The first edition of The Body in Question airs on BBC Two.
1981
The 20th anniversary edition of Points of View - Points Review - airs on BBC One, in a 30-minute slot. Radio Times: "Barry Took examines the development of BBC TV's longest-running correspondence column and talks to those people who have shared an interest or involvement in this weekly whirlwind of words."
1982
The first edition of A Week in Politics airs on Channel 4.
1983
The final edition of Sale of the Century airs on ITV.
1984
The final episode of Rentaghost airs on BBC One.
1988
The final edition of Piece of Cake airs on ITV.
1989
The first episode of About Face airs on ITV.
1999
The final episode of Roger Roger airs on BBC One.
1999
The first edition of Friends Like These airs on BBC One. Presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
2003
The final edition of Meet the Stans airs on BBC Two. The first of Simon Reeve's travel documentaries.
2022
Wales Today at 60 airs on BBC One Wales. Presented by Lucy Owen, Nick Servini and Jennifer Jones.
2023
The final episode of The Long Shadow airs on ITV 1. Real-life crime drama based on the five-year hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1976
BBC Two tape Everything Is a Dream airs for the first time.
1997
BBC One tape In the Open airs for the final time.
2011
BBC Two server compilation Whatever it Takes airs for the final time.
On This Day...6th November
Births
1925
Former TV news presenter/announcer, Nan Winton.
1926
Former TV announcer/presenter/news reporter, Jacqueline MacKenzie.
1953
TV news presenter/reporter, Vyvyan Mackeson.
1962
Former TV weather presenter, Suzanne Charlton.
1967
TV presenter, Andrea Boardman.
Deaths
2019
Former TV news presenter/reporter, Richard Lindley.
Events
1989
The BBC announces that Moira Stuart will join the Six o'Clock News (BBC One) presenting team, appearing on Mondays and Fridays. She would continue to present weekend bulletins also.
1989
Peter Sissons presents the Six o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time. He joined the BBC earlier in the year from ITN and also presented Question Time (BBC One), from June 1989.
1989
John Humphrys presents the Nine o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time since its relaunch on 31st October 1988.
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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