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On This Day...1st July
Channels
1967
BBC Two becomes the first European TV channel to broadcast in colour, with live coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
1999
VH 1 Classic begins broadcasting in the UK.
Programmes
1967
The first edition of The Golden Shot airs on ITV.
1967
The final episode of The Forsyte Saga airs on BBC Two.
1975
The final episode of Edward the Seventh airs on ITV.
1976
The final episode of Second Verdict airs on BBC One. Featuring fictional characters Barlow and Watt examining real-life murders.
1981
The first edition of Three of a Kind airs on BBC One.
1987
The first episode of Home James! airs on ITV.
1988
The first episode of Australian series The Flying Doctors airs on BBC One.
1993
The final episode of Every Silver Lining airs on BBC One.
1993
The final episode of Up the Garden Path airs on ITV.
2003
The final edition of Carol Vorderman's Better Homes airs on ITV.
2003
The final episode of The Vice airs on ITV.
2018
The first edition of The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan airs on BBC Two.
2023
The first episode of Champion airs on BBC One. Drama. Created by bestselling novelist Candice Carty-Williams. Starring Malcolm Kamulete as rapper Bosco Champion.
2023
The first episode of Irvine Welsh's Crime airs on ITV 1. Crime thriller. Adapted by Irvine Welsh from his own novel. Starring Dougray Scott. Series originally available on Britbox in 2021.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1977
BBC One tape Tropicana airs for the final time.
1989
BBC One tape Stretching airs for the first time.
On This Day...1st July
Births
1932
Former TV presenter, Donny MacLeod.
1942
Former singer and TV presenter, Susan Maughan.
Deaths
2018
Former artist, puppet-maker and TV presenter, Peter Firmin.
Events
1994
Edward Stourton presents the Six o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time (alongside Martyn Lewis).
2005
Richard Whiteley presents Countdown (Channel 4) for the final time. The programme was recorded some time prior to Richard's death on 26th June.
2018
Jeremy Vine presents Points of View (BBC One) for the final time, after 10 years at the helm.
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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