
On This Day...
21st June
Programmes
1938
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships are televised for the first time - on BBC TV.
1969
Royal Family (documentary film) airs on BBC One. Repeated on ITV on 28th June. The combined TV audience was 30.69m, making it the third most-watched TV special event in UK history.
2015
The first episode of Black Work airs on ITV. Drama. Starring Sheridan Smith and Matthew McNulty.
2020
The first episode of The Luminaries airs on BBC One.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1963
BBC TV/BBC One tape Bugle Call Rag airs for the first time.
1984
BBC Two tape Mon Bijoux airs for the final time.
2003
BBC Two tape
Groovin' airs for the final time.
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by Groovin' (22nd January 2001).

On This Day...
21st June
Births
1938
Former TV announcer/presenter, Nicholas Tresilian.
1980
TV weather presenter, Behnaz Akhgar.
Deaths
2010
Former actor and TV presenter, Dibbs Mather.
Events
1999
Stuart Miles presents Blue Peter (BBC One) for the final time.
2022
George Alagiah presents the
BBC News at Six (BBC One) from the revamped Studio B in BBC Broadcasting House 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.