
On This Day...
22nd July
Programmes
1965
The pilot episode of Till Death Us Do Part airs on BBC One.
1978
The first episode of Revolver airs on ITV.
1980
The final episode of The Enigma Files airs on BBC Two.
1980
The final edition of Q9 airs on BBC Two.
1987
The first edition of The Cook Report airs on ITV. Hard-hitting investigative series. Presented by Roger Cook.
1989
The final edition of The Week in the Lords airs on BBC Two.
1990
The final edition of Speaking Volumes airs on BBC One.
1991
The 1,000th edition of Wogan (the series launched in February 1985) airs on BBC One. It features an interview with Madonna.
1995
The first edition of Bob Monkhouse on the Spot airs on BBC One.
1996
The first episode of An Independent Man airs on ITV.
2024
The final episode of The Jetty airs on BBC One. Crime drama. Starring Jenna Coleman.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1977
BBC Two tape El Camino airs for the first time.
1985
BBC Two tape House of the Rising Sun airs for the final time.

On This Day...
22nd July
Births
1924
Former TV/radio weather presenter,
Norman Ellis.
1932
Former TV presenter,
Jeremy Carrad.
1934
Former TV/radio weather presenter,
Peter Walker.
1964
TV/radio weather presenter, Evelyn Cusack.
1986
TV presenter, Andrew McEwan.
Deaths
2009
Former animator and TV presenter, John Ryan.
Events
1989
BBC TV News Tokyo Bureau becomes fully operational. Head of bureau is radio correspondent William Horsley and TV News correspondent is Gordon Brewer.
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.