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On This Day...9th October
Programmes
1965
The first episode of The Munsters airs on BBC One.
1970
The first edition of the In Concert series airs on BBC Two.
Featuring Joni Mitchell.
Featuring Joni Mitchell.
1971
The first edition of Sale of the Century airs on ITV.
1984
The first episode of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends airs on ITV.
1987
The first edition of Sport on Friday airs on BBC Two.
1989
The final episode of Streets Apart airs on BBC One.
1989
The first edition of Portrait airs on BBC One.
1991
The 1,000th edition of Tomorrow's World airs on BBC One.
1991
The 1,000th edition of Brookside airs on Channel 4.
1994
The first episode of Seaforth airs on BBC One.
1995
The Learning Zone launches on BBC Two in the early hours of the morning. Promoted as "a brand new concept in educational television", The Learning Zone was broadcast overnight on BBC Two, Monday - Friday, for much of the year.
1996
The first edition of Two Fat Ladies airs on BBC Two.
2002
The final edition of Big Break airs on BBC One.
2002
The first episode of Tipping the Velvet airs on BBC Two.
2020
The first edition of Between the Covers airs on BBC Two. Presented by Sara Cox.
2022
The first episode of Wreck airs on BBC Three. Comedy thriller.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1962
BBC TV tape New York City airs for the final time.
1962
BBC TV tape Floride airs for the first time.
On This Day...9th October
Births
1933
TV presenter, Aline "Bunty" James.
1933
Former cartoonist/TV presenter, Bill Tidy.
1946
Former TV announcer, Ruth Anders.
1972
Actress and TV presenter, Sarah Vandenbergh.
1985
TV announcer and radio presenter, Dan Blake.
1987
Actress and TV presenter, Kerry Boyne.
Deaths
2015
Former TV news presenter, <a href="http://Former TV news presenter, Gordon Honeycombe.">Gordon Honeycombe.
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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