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On This Day...23rd September
Channels
1998
The BBC's new digital-only channel, BBC Choice, begins broadcasting. It would be replaced by BBC Three in 2003.
Programmes
1955
The first edition of Take Your Pick airs on ITV.
1955
The first episode of US series Dragnet airs on ITV.
1955
The first episode of Sixpenny Corner airs on ITV.
The UK's first soap, centred on a recently married couple Bill and Sally Morton played by Howard Pays and Patricia Dainton.
None of the 181 x 15-minute episodes are believed to exist in the ITV Archive.
The UK's first soap, centred on a recently married couple Bill and Sally Morton played by Howard Pays and Patricia Dainton.
None of the 181 x 15-minute episodes are believed to exist in the ITV Archive.
1960
The first episode of Bootsie and Snudge airs on ITV.
1966
The final edition of Five o’Clock Club airs on ITV.
1972
The first episode of The Adventures of Black Beauty airs on ITV.
1979
One-off play Churchill and the Generals airs on BBC One.
1984
Threads airs on BBC Two. The story of a nuclear attack, by Barry Hines. Starring Karen Meagher as Ruth Beckett and Reece Dinsdale as Jimmy Kemp.
1985
The first episode of From the Top airs on ITV.
1985
The first episode of Tender is the Night airs on BBC Two.
1986
The first edition of Floyd on Food airs on BBC Two.
1988
The first edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway? airs on Channel 4.
1988
The first episode of A Gentleman’s Club airs on BBC Two.
1988
The first episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Shake Hands Forever airs on ITV.
1995
40 Years of ITV Laughter airs on ITV.
2018
The final episode of Bodyguard airs on BBC One.
Drama. Starring Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.
Drama. Starring Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1981
BBC One tape The Green Leaves of Summer airs for the final time.
2005
BBC Two tape Sunbright airs for the first time.
2012
BBC Two server compilation Graceful Moves airs for the final time.
On This Day...23rd September
Births
1908
Former TV announcer, David Hofman.
1932
Former TV/radio weather presenter, Graham Parker.
1933
Former musician and TV/radio presenter, Wally Whyton.
1949
TV presenter, Floella Benjamin.
1953
TV news presenter/reporter, Nicholas Witchell.
1968
TV presenter, Yvette Fielding.
Events
1955
Barbara Mandell becomes the first female to present the news on a national television service in the UK. She anchored the ITN midday news on ITV.
1978
Larry Grayson presents The Generation Game (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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