1950 in British television
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This is a list of British television related events from 1950.
Events
January
- No events.
February
March
- No events.
April
- 3 April – The BBC aspect ratio changes from 5:4 to 4:3.
May
- 21 May – The BBC's Lime Grove television studios open.
June
- No events.
July
- 11 July – Andy Pandy premieres on the BBC Television Service.
August
- 27 August – The first ever live television pictures from across the English Channel are transmitted by the BBC Television Service. The two-hour programme 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.[1]
September
- 30 September – First BBC Television Service broadcast from an aircraft.
October
- No events.
November
- No events.
December
- No events.
Unknown
- A cable network is launched in Gloucester, to provide better television reception than was possible at the time via a roof-top aerial.[2]
Debuts
- 11 July – Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)
Television shows
1920s
- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2024)
1930s
- Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
- BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)
1940s
- Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
- Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
- Café Continental (1947–1953)
- Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
- Come Dancing (1949–1998)
Ending this year
- For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
Births
- 20 January — Liza Goddard, stage and television actress
- 22 January — Pamela Salem, Indian-English actress
- 27 January
- Derek Acorah, medium and television host
- Alex Norton, actor and screenwriter
- 3 February — Pamela Franklin, actress
- 22 February — Julie Walters, actress
- 22 March — Mary Tamm, actress (died 2012)
- 30 March — Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
- 3 April — Sally Thomsett, actress
- 9 May — Matthew Kelly, English actor and television host
- 10 May - Sally James (presenter)
- 11 May — Jeremy Paxman, television presented and author
- 9 June — David Troughton, actor
- 8 July — Sarah Kennedy, broadcaster
- 19 July — Simon Cadell, actor (died 1996)
- 26 July — Susan George, actress
- 19 August — Jennie Bond, journalist and television presenter
- 17 September — Sherrie Hewson, actress, television presenter and novelist
- 17 December — Michael Cashman, actor and politician
Deaths
- 4 March — Anthony Holles, actor, 49
- 8 May — Franklin Dyall, actor, 80
- June — Claude Bailey, actor, 54
See also
References
- ↑ "Television crosses the Channel". BBC On This Day. 1950-08-27. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- ↑ "The Michael Aldrich Archive - Cable Systems". Aldricharchive.com. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
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