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On This Day...27th July
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1979
London Weekend Television is blacked out during an episode of Hawaii Five-O due to an industrial dispute. The programme started at 8pm. Other programmes that evening that fell victim to the strike: 9pm Heartland; 10pm News; 10.30pm A Question of Sex; 11.15pm - 12.45am Film: Die Monster, Die. SOURCE: Twitter User - @ITVonstrike.
Programmes
1964
The final episode of Tales of the Riverbank airs on BBC One.
1979
The final edition of Westminster airs on BBC Two. Presented by David Holmes.
1980
The final edition of The Big Time airs on BBC One.
1984
The final edition of Sixty Minutes airs on BBC One.
1994
The first episode of Wycliffe (series) airs on ITV.
1996
The first edition of The Big, Big Talent Show airs on ITV.
2009
The first edition of Bang Goes the Theory airs on BBC One.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1962
BBC TV tape Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 airs for the final time.
On This Day...26th July
Births
1948
Former TV announcer, Colin Weston.
Deaths
2016
Former TV announcer/presenter, Sylvia Peters.
2018
Former Sky and BBC TV news presenter, Alistair Yates.
Events
1984
Julia Sommerville presents the Nine o'Clock News (BBC One) for the first time. Julia previously worked as a BBC Radio news correspondent and Nationwide reporter.
1997
Alan Towers - long-running presenter of Midlands Today, resigns live on air, with a criticism of BBC management: "For me, this is a personal goodbye now because I am leaving the BBC after 25 years. When I joined the corporation, it was led by giants. Now I'm afraid, it's led by pygmies in grey suits, wearing blindfolds. How sad. But, times do change. From me now, for the final time, goodbye".
EXTERNAL LINK: Alan Towers resigns on air.
EXTERNAL LINK: Alan Towers resigns on air.
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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