
On This Day...
22nd May
Programmes
1970
The final episode of The Culture Vultures airs on BBC One.
Comedy. Starring Leslie Phillips, Peter Sallis, Richard Caldicott and Jonathan Cecil.
1995
The final edition of Rainbow airs on ITV.
2004
The final edition of Love on a Saturday Night airs on ITV 1.
Presented by Davina McCall.
2023
The first episode of Maryland airs on ITV 1.
Drama. Starring Suranne Jones, Eve Best and Stockard Channing.
2024
The 10,000th episode of Emmerdale airs on ITV 1.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1994
BBC One tape Twilight Break airs for the final time.

On This Day...
22nd May
Births
1933
Former actor, writer, musician and TV presenter,
Gordon Clyde.
1941
Former actor and TV announcer, Alex Monteath.
1943
Choreographer and TV presenter, Dame Arlene Phillips.
1959
TV news reporter/presenter, Jon Sopel.
Deaths
2025
Former TV presenter, Peter Clark.
Events
1990
Peter Sissons suffers an asthma attack while reading the headlines on the
Six o'Clock News.
He was co-presenting, alongside
Anna Ford. He managed to recover and continue with the rest of the bulletin.
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.