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On This Day...19th September
Channels
1960
The BBC Television Service uses the Pie Chart ident during the Schools strand for the first time.
Programmes
1958
The first episode of The Larkins airs on ITV.
1967
The final edition of Dusty airs on BBC One. Musical series starring Dusty Springfield.
1969
The first episode of Parkin's Patch airs on ITV.
Police drama. Starring John Flanagan as PC Moss Parkin.
Police drama. Starring John Flanagan as PC Moss Parkin.
1972
The first episode of My Wife Next Door airs on BBC One.
1975
The first edition of Tonight airs on BBC One.
1975
The first episode of Fawlty Towers airs on BBC Two.
1977
The final episode of Yanks Go Home airs on ITV.
1982
The first edition of Clive James on Television airs on ITV.
1983
The weekday morning airing of Play School moved to BBC One from today. The morning screening had previously gone out on BBC Two, for almost 20 years.
1983
BBC TV programmes for schools and colleges move to BBC Two, under the title Daytime on 2.
1985
The first edition of The Giddy Game Show airs on ITV.
1989
The first episode of The Paradise Club airs on BBC One.
1990
The first episode of Portrait of a Marriage airs on BBC Two.
1994
The first edition of Working Lunch airs on BBC Two.
1997
The first edition of Ground Force airs on BBC Two.
1999
The first episode of Smack the Pony airs on Channel 4.
2000
The first episode of My Family airs on BBC One.
2003
The first episode of Peep Show airs on Channel 4.
2022
The funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey is televised. More than 50 UK channels carried the live coverage, including BBC One, BBC Two (with signing), ITV and Sky News.
The overall audience peaked at 12.25pm - at 28 million - as the coffin was carried through the streets from Westminster Abbey. Around 20 million people watched on BBC One at that time, while ITV's audience numbers peaked at 5.3 million.
CBBC and CBeebies ran their planned schedule. Channel 4 showed The Queen's Coronation from 1953 and other royal documentaries and Channel 5 showed the Emoji and Stuart Little movies.
The overall audience peaked at 12.25pm - at 28 million - as the coffin was carried through the streets from Westminster Abbey. Around 20 million people watched on BBC One at that time, while ITV's audience numbers peaked at 5.3 million.
CBBC and CBeebies ran their planned schedule. Channel 4 showed The Queen's Coronation from 1953 and other royal documentaries and Channel 5 showed the Emoji and Stuart Little movies.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1969
BBC One tape Golondrina airs for the final time.
1969
BBC Two tape High Life airs for the first time.
On This Day...19th September
Births
1925
Former actor and TV/radio presenter, Pete Murray.
1934
Former MP and TV presenter, Austin Mitchell.
1934
Former actor and TV presenter, Stephen Cartwright.
1945
Former TV news reporter/presenter, Kate Adie.
1974
TV presenter, Steve Wilson.
Events
1969
Robert Dougall presents the final BBC TV news programme from the news studios at Alexandra Palace (the 10.50pm news on BBC One).
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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