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On This Day...14th March
Channels
1952
Formal opening of BBC Television Service in Scotland, with Mary Malcolm introducing Television Comes to Scotland.
Programmes
1973
The first episode of Are You Being Served? airs on BBC One.
1974
The characters from Headmaster appear in a one-off play as part of Play for Today (BBC One).
1977
The first episode of Headmaster airs on BBC One.
1982
The first episode of Play for Tomorrow airs on BBC One.
1982
The first episode of Whoops Apocalypse airs on ITV.
1989
The final episode of Hannay airs on ITV.
1994
The first episode of Men of the World airs on BBC One.
2005
The 4,000th edition of Blue Peter airs on BBC One. Ewan McGregor (in the studio) and David Beckham (pre-recorded) were awarded gold badges.
2008
The final episode of The Royal Today airs on ITV.
2022
The first edition of Bridge of Lies airs on BBC One. Quiz. Presented by Ross Kemp.
2022
The first episode of Holding airs on ITV. Comic crime drama. Starring Conleth Hill. Adapted from Graham Norton’s best-selling novel.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1962
BBC TV tape It's a Fine Day for Walkin' Country Style airs for the first time.
1984
BBC One Ceefax AM tape You're Gonna Need Me airs for the final time.
1984
BBC One Ceefax AM tape French Candies airs for the final time.
1990
BBC One tape Spring Swing airs for the first time.
On This Day...14th March
Births
1958
Radio/TV presenter, Francine Stock.
1965
Actor and TV weather presenter, Des Coleman.
1977
TV news presenter, Faye Barker.
1985
TV presenter, Joel Defries.
Deaths
1974
Former TV news reporter, Thomas Barman.
1986
Former TV presenter/executive, Sir Huw Wheldon.
2003
Former TV announcer, Pamela Patterson.
2011
Former TV news reporter/presenter, Bob Greaves.
Events
1987
Philip Hayton presents NewsView (BBC Two) for the first time.
1988
Caroline Righton presents the daytime BBC TV news summaries for the first time. Viewers were already familiar with Caroline presenting news summaries on Breakfast Time (BBC One).
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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