1950 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1950.

List of years in British television (table)
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Events

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January

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  • No events.

February

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March

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  • No events.

April

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  • 21 May – The BBC's Lime Grove television studios open officially.

June

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  • No events.

July

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August

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  • 27 August – The first ever live television pictures from across the English Channel are transmitted by the BBC Television Service. The two-hour programme, Calais en fête, is broadcast live from Calais in northern France to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.[2]

September

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  • 8 September–27 October — No issues of Radio Times are published, due to a printing dispute.
  • 8 September – The first outside broadcast of snooker takes place, at Leicester Square Hall.[3]
  • 30 September – First BBC Television Service broadcast from an aircraft.

October

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November

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  • No events.

December

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  • 20 December – Poet T. S. Eliot expresses concerns about "the television habit" in a letter to The Times (London).
  • 23 December – Gala Variety with Tommy Cooper, becomes the first programme to be broadcast by the BBC from the former Gainsborough Studios in Lime Grove, purchased by the corporation in the previous year.[5]

Undated

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  • A cable network is launched in Gloucester, to provide better television reception than is possible at this time via a rooftop aerial.[6]
  • The first film made specifically for British television, A Dinner Date With Death, shot in 1949,[7] is premiered, giving rise to an anthology series, "The Man Who Walks by Night".[8]
  • The BBC sets up a Children's Department.

Debuts

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Continuing television shows

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1920s

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  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)

1930s

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1940s

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "General Election Results", The Radio Times (1375): 47, 17 February 1950, retrieved 27 March 2018 – via BBC Genome.
  2. ^ "Television crosses the Channel". BBC On This Day. 1950-08-27. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
  3. ^ "untitled article". Lincolnshire Echo. 9 Sep 1950. p. 6.
  4. ^ Tony Currie (2004). A Concise History of British Television, 1930-2000. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-903053-17-1.
  5. ^ Chris Perry (3 February 2016). The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013. Lulu.com. p. 528. ISBN 978-1-900203-60-9.
  6. ^ "The Michael Aldrich Archive – Cable Systems". Aldricharchive.com. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  7. ^ "Today in History". Metro. London. 2023-07-11. p. 2.
  8. ^ "A Dinner Date with Death". Plex. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  9. ^ Howard Maxford (8 November 2019). Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company. McFarland. p. 387. ISBN 978-1-4766-2914-8.
  10. ^ "British Television Appearances – The Fifties". Petula Clark. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  11. ^ "Little Women". Film and TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  12. ^ Theatre World Annual (London): A Pictorial Review of West End Productions with a Record of Plays and Players. Rockcliff. 1950. p. 22.
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