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On This Day...12th October
Programmes
1961
The first episode of Two of a Kind airs on ITV.
1961
The first edition of The Morecambe and Wise Show airs on ITV.
1965
The first episode of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe airs on BBC One.
1975
The first edition of On the Move airs on BBC One. Educational series aimed at adults with literacy issues.
1979
The first episode of Penmarric airs on BBC One.
1981
The first episode of Brideshead Revisited airs on ITV.
1982
The final episode of Take Three Women airs on BBC Two.
1984
The first episode of Diana airs on BBC One.
1986
The first edition of Twenty Years of The Two Ronnies airs on BBC One.
1987
The first edition of Kilroy! airs on BBC One.
1987
The first edition of Going for Gold airs on BBC One.
1987
The first edition of Hudson and Halls airs on BBC One.
Daytime cookery show. Presented by Peter Hudson and David Halls.
Daytime cookery show. Presented by Peter Hudson and David Halls.
1987
The first episode of My Family and Other Animals airs on BBC One.
Starring Brian Blessed and Hannah Gordon.
Starring Brian Blessed and Hannah Gordon.
1988
The first edition of Blind Justice airs on BBC Two.
1989
The final episode of US series Police Squad airs on BBC Two.
1989
The first edition of Fight Cancer airs on BBC One.
1990
The final edition of Five-to-Eleven airs on BBC One.
1992
The first edition of Good Morning...with Anne and Nick airs on BBC One.
1995
The first episode of Agony Again airs on BBC One.
1996
Alright on the Night's Cockup Trip airs on ITV.
1996
The 100th edition of The National Lottery airs on BBC One.
2004
The first edition of Who Do You Think You Are? airs on BBC Two.
2012
Gavin Esler presents the final edition of Newsnight to be broadcast from BBC Television Centre.
2019
The first edition of The X Factor: Celebrity airs on ITV. Presented by Dermot O’Leary.
2023
The first episode of Interview with the Vampire airs on BBC Two. Vivid reimagining of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Starring Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid.
2024
Angela Rippon at the BBC airs on BBC Four. An evening of programmes to celebrate the broadcaster's 80th birthday.
On This Day...12th October
Births
1929
Former TV presenter, Magnus Magnusson.
1944
TV presenter, Angela Rippon.
Deaths
2008
Former actor and TV announcer, Philip Ashley.
2021
Former radio/TV sport commentator/presenter, Renton Laidlaw.
Events
2015
Tom Bradby becomes the regular presenter of ITV News at Ten (ITV). From this point, the programme reverted to a single presenter (previously the case 1992 - 1999).
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.
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