
On This Day...
17th November
Programmes
1955
An edition of Press Conference on BBC TV is the first live TV programme to be broadcast from Northern Ireland.
1958
The final episode of The Hot Chestnut Man airs on BBC TV.
1966
The first episode of The Illustrated Weekly Hudd airs on BBC One.
1967
The final episode of The World of Wooster airs on BBC One.
1969
The first episode of Take Three Girls airs on BBC One.
1985
Romance on the Orient Express airs on ITV.
1987
The first episode of Fireman Sam airs on BBC One.
1987
The first edition of It's My Pleasure airs on BBC Two.
1988
The first edition of The Bottom Line airs on ITV.
1989
The first episode of Mornin' Sage airs on BBC Two.
1991
The first edition of Biteback airs on BBC One.
1993
The final episode of Hartbeat airs on BBC One.
1995
The first episode of Faith in the Future airs on ITV. Spin-off to Second Thoughts.
1997
The first edition of Wogan's Best of Blankety Blank airs on BBC One.
2007
The first edition of The National Lottery: Who Dares Win! airs on BBC One.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1977
BBC One tape Bill Bailey airs for the final time.
1987
BBC Two tape Heaven Makes You Happy airs for the first time.
1991
BBC One tape Together Again airs for the final time.

On This Day...
17th November
Births
1954
Former actor and TV presenter, Aaron Shirley.
1957
TV presenter, Debbie Thrower.
1985
TV/radio presenter, Ore Oduba.
Deaths
2018
Former TV/radio presenter,
Richard Baker.
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.