1937 in British television
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This is a list of events related to British television in 1937.
Events
January
- No events.
February
- 6 February – The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
March
- No events.
April
- No events.
May
- 12 May – The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television – filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera. A short section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
- 14 May – The BBC Television Service broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play on television. Among the cast is Greer Garson. Peggy Ashcroft appeared in a 1939 telecast of the entire play.
June
- 18 June – Broadcast of the Agatha Christie play Wasp's Nest, the only instance of Christie adapting one of her works for television, a medium she later came to dislike.
- 21 June – Wimbledon Championships (tennis) first shown on the BBC Television Service.[1]
July
- No events.
August
- No events.
September
- No events.
October
- No events.
November
- 11 November – The BBC Television Service broadcasts an adaptation of the World War I-set play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, starring Reginald Tate as Stanhope. Shown in commemoration of Armistice Day, it is the first time that a whole evening's programming has been given over to a single play.
December
- 31 December – 2,121 television sets have been sold in England.
Debuts
- 17 April – The Disorderly Room (1937–1939)
- 24 April – For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
Television shows
1920s
- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2024).
1930s
- Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
Births
- 1 January – Anne Aubrey, actor
- 9 January – Michael Nicholson, journalist (died 2016)
- 30 January – Vanessa Redgrave, actress
- 25 February – Tom Courtenay, actor
- 11 April – Jill Gascoigne, actress and novelist
- 12 May – Susan Hampshire, actress
- 19 May – Pat Roach, actor and wrestler (died 2004)
- 5 August – Carla Lane, comedy writer (died 2016)
- 6 August – Barbara Windsor, actress
- 18 August – Willie Rushton, comedian, actor and writer (died 1996)
- 20 August – Jim Bowen, comedian and host (died 2018)[2]
- 2 September – Derek Fowlds, actor
- 16 September – Bella Emberg, born Sybil Dyke, comedy actress (died 2018)[3]
- 14 November – Alan J. W. Bell, director and producer
- 17 November – Peter Cook, comedian and writer (died 1995)
- 27 November – Rodney Bewes, actor (died 2017)
- 29 November – Ingrid Pitt, actress (died 2010)
- 20 December – Charles Denton, producer
- 29 December – Barbara Steele, actress
See also
References
- ↑ "Wimbledon and the BBC 1927-2017 - History of the BBC". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ↑ "Jim Bowden obituary". Scotsman. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ↑ "Bella Emberg: Actress who became a comedy hero thanks to Blunder Woman". The Independent. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
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