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On This Day...17th March
Programmes
1953
The first episode of Robin Hood airs on BBC TV. Starring Patrick Troughton.
1984
The first edition of Anything Goes airs on BBC One.
1989
The final edition of The Late Show with Clive James airs on BBC Two.
1990
The first edition of Davro airs on ITV.
1992
The final episode of The Murder Squad airs on ITV.
1992
Black in Blue airs on BBC One. Radio Times: "The Metropolitan Police still needs more black and Asian officers. More than three years ago Desmond Wilcox filmed the progress of seven such recruits - three men and four women - through training and on to the streets. But by the end of the series, two had quit. Since then, one more has left the force and those still serving have learned much about prejudice that should be useful to their bosses. This programme provides an update on the progress of those who stayed the course, and they join those who quit for a debate with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Peter Imbert, on the force's future as a multiracial organisation."
2005
The 4,000th edition of Emmerdale airs on ITV.
2013
Mishal Husain presents the final BBC One news programme to be broadcast from BBC Television Centre. Mishal signed off from studio N6 at 10.15pm, concluding almost 45 years of broadcast news from the building.
2023
The first episode of Redemption airs on ITV 1. Police drama. Starring Paula Malcomson.
2023
The 300th edition of The Last Leg airs on Channel 4. Presented by Australian comic Adrian Hills.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1992
BBC One tape Europa Time airs for the first time.
EXTERNAL LINK: test card and Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Europa Time (30th August 1993).
EXTERNAL LINK: test card and Pages from Ceefax accompanied by some tracks from Europa Time (30th August 1993).
2001
BBC Two tape Before the Breeze airs for the final time.
On This Day...17th March
Births
1946
TV/radio presenter, Gavin Campbell.
1960
TV presenter, Ruth Langsford.
1962
Actress, singer and TV presenter, Clare Grogan.
Deaths
1999
Former TV presenter, Rod Hull.
2015
Former TV presenter/announcer, Shaw Taylor.
2016
Former TV/radio presenter, Cliff Michelmore.
Events
1980
Fern Britton makes her TV debut, as a continuity announcer on Westward Television in Plymouth.
2018
Aengus MacGrianna presents his final live news programme on RTÉ - the St Patrick’s Day edition of Six-One News and Sport.
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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