
On This Day...
22nd June
Programmes
1953
The first episode of Bengo airs on BBC TV.
2003
The final episode of State of Play airs on BBC One.
2007
The final episode of Dalziel and Pascoe airs on BBC One.
2020
The first edition of EastEnders: Secrets from the Square airs on BBC One.
2022
The first edition of Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain airs on BBC Two.
2022
The final episode of Suspect airs on Channel 4.
Psychological crime thriller. Starring James Nesbitt.
2023
The final episode of Litvinenko airs on ITV 1.
Drama. Based on real-life events. Starring David Tennant, as former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died from poisoning in London.
Originally available on ITV X.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1992
BBC Two tape
Winter Sun airs for the first time.
EXTERNAL LINK: Pages from Ceefax accompanied by Winter Sun (21st October 1996).

On This Day...
22nd June
Births
1935
Former TV/radio presenter/announcer,
Walter Love.
1940
TV presenter and campaigner, Dame Esther Rantzen.
1947
TV executive/producer and former TV presenter, Douglas Rae.
1950
Former TV/radio weather presenter,
Jim Bacon.
1952
TV presenter, Alastair Stewart.
1980
TV presenter, Charlene White.
Deaths
2009
Former composer and TV presenter, Steve Race.
Events
1989
John Craven presents Newsround (BBC One) for the final 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.