1951 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 1951.
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Events
January – June
- No events.
July
- 16 July – What's My Line? debuts on the BBC Television Service. It will be one of the top-rated programmes for the rest of the decade and make a star of its host, Eamonn Andrews, who takes over from Gilbert Harding from the second episode.
August
- No events.
September
- No events.
October
- 12 October – The Holme Moss transmitter is opened in Northern England, making the BBC Television Service available to the region for the first time.
November
- 20 November – T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
December
- No events.
Debuts
- 16 July – What's My Line? (1951–1963)
- 20 October – Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Continuing television shows
1920s
- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)
1930s
- Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
- BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2021–2024)
1940s
- Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
- Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
- Café Continental (1947–1953)
- Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
- Come Dancing (1949–1998)
- How Do You View? (1949–1953)
1950s
- Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)
Ending this year
- 20 October – Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Births
- 7 January – Helen Worth, born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth, actress
- 6 February – Kevin Whately, actor
- 15 February – Jane Seymour, born Joyce Frankenberg, actress
- 18 March – Paul Barber, actor
- 13 April – Peter Davison, actor
- 20 April – Louise Jameson, actress
- 11 May – Kay Mellor, born Kay Daniel, scriptwriter and actress
- 13 May – Selina Scott, journalist, newsreader and television presenter
- 4 June – David Yip, actor
- 28 June – Lalla Ward, actress
- 4 September – David Renwick, scriptwriter
- 10 September – Sally Grace, satirist, actress and voice actress
- 30 September – John Lloyd, producer
- 6 November – Nigel Havers, actor
- 15 November – Billy McColl, actor (died 2014)
- 24 November – Margaret Mountford, lawyer, businesswoman and television personality
- 20 December – Peter May, novelist and television dramatist
See also
- 1951 in British music
- 1951 in British radio
- 1951 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1951
References
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