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On This Day...23rd February
Programmes
1950
The first coverage of a General Election airs on BBC TV.
1960
The first episode of Torchy, The Battery Boy airs on ITV.
1969
The first edition of Civilisation airs on BBC Two.
1973
The first episode of Val Meets the VIPs airs on BBC One.
1976
The 400th edition of Opportunity Knocks! airs on ITV.
1983
The first episode of The Machine Gunners airs on BBC One.
1987
The first episode of Hello Mum airs on BBC One.
1992
The first episode of So Haunt Me airs on BBC One.
1994
The final edition of The Day Today airs on BBC Two.
1995
The first episode of Crown Prosecutor airs on BBC One.
1995
The first edition of Jobs for the Girls airs on BBC One.
1999
The first episode of Queer as Folk airs on Channel 4.
2005
The first edition of Jamie's School Dinners airs on Channel 4.
2009
The first episode of Law and Order UK airs on ITV.
2010
The final episode of Survivors airs on BBC One.
2012
HRH The Princess Royal officially opens the new Blue Peter garden, with presenters Barney Harwood and Helen Skelton, outside the programme's new studios at Media City UK in Salford. The bronze statue of Petra, the show's first pet, was moved from the old garden at Television Centre. A statue of Mabel (another of the show's longest-serving pet dogs) was moved to the reception area along with a sculpture of the Blue Peter ship logo.
2022
The first edition of Unspun World airs on BBC Two. Presented by John Simpson.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1968
BBC One tape Fury airs for the final time.
1968
BBC One tape Apron Strings airs for the first time.
1968
BBC Two tape Yankee Doodle Rag airs for the final time.
1968
BBC Two tape Chelsea Chick airs for the first time.
1973
BBC Two tape La Belle Hélène (2) airs for the first time.
1979
BBC Two tape To Break a Record airs for the first time.
1983
BBC Two tape Don Fernando airs for the final time on BBC One, accompanying Ceefax AM. It aired on BBC One for the first time on 17th January 1983.
EXTERNAL LINK: recreation of Don Fernando.
EXTERNAL LINK: recreation of Don Fernando.
1988
BBC Two tape Jog Trot (2) airs for the final time.
On This Day...23rd February
Births
1929
Former actor and TV announcer/presenter, David Stevens.
1959
Former singer and TV presenter, Linda Nolan.
1959
Former actor and TV presenter, Ray Kingsley.
1969
TV news presenter, Martine Croxall.
1972
TV presenter, Kirsten O'Brien.
1972
TV news presenter, Lorna Dunkley.
Events
1993
Jennie Bond co-presents the Six o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time.
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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