1961 in British television

Events

January

February

  • 3 February – The final live episode of Coronation Street is aired. From now on all episodes are prerecorded. The next live transmission will not occur until 8 December 2000.

March

April

May

  • No events.

June

  • No events.

July

  • No events.

August

  • No events.

September

October

  • 1 October – Songs of Praise, featuring Christian congregations singing hymns, debuts on BBC Television, the first programme being hosted by Tabernacle Chapel, Cardiff. The series will still be on the air 60 years later.
  • 2 October – Points of View, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and comments on the television of recent weeks, debuts on BBC Television. The series will still be on the air 60 years later.

November

  • No events.

December

Unknown

  • Southern Television launches the UK's first localised news opt-out when it launches a news service for south east England from its new studios in Dover.

Debuts

BBC Television Service/BBC TV

  • 27 January – The House Under the Water (1961)
  • 25 March – Ask Mr. Pastry (1961)
  • 4 April – They Met in a City (1961)
  • 9 April – Rob Roy (1961)
  • 14 April – Amelia (1961)
  • 30 April – Ask Anne (1961)
  • 18 May – Court of Mystery (1961)
  • 4 June – Triton (1961)
  • 16 June – Magnolia Street (1961)
  • 7 June – Moody In... (1961)
  • 20 June – Walk a Crooked Mile (1961)
  • 2 July – Hurricane (1961)
  • 1 August –Our Mister Ambler (1961)
  • 24 September – Stranger on the Shore (1961)
  • 1 October – Songs of Praise (1961–present)
  • 2 October – Points of View (1961–present)
  • 3 October – A for Andromeda (1961)
  • 5 October – You Can't Win (1961)
  • 6 October – The Rag Trade (1961–1963, 1977–1978)
  • 4 November – Gamble for a Throne (1961)
  • 16 November – The Seven Faces of Jim (1961–1963)
  • 16 November – Jacks and Knaves (1961)
  • 19 November – The Charlie Chester Music Hall (1961–1962)
  • 21 November – The Escape of R.D.7 (1961)
  • 22 November – A Chance of Thunder (1961)
  • 10 December – Gilbert and Sullivan (1961)
  • 15 December – Comedy Playhouse (1961–1974)

ITV

  • 7 January – The Avengers (1961–1969)
  • 25 January – Jango (1961)
  • 28 January – Supercar (1961–1962)
  • 29 January – The Mask of the Clown (1961)
  • 12 February – Happily Ever After (1961–1964)
  • 5 March – Pathfinders to Venus (1961)
  • 11 March – The Arthur Askey Show (1961)
  • 14 March – A Brother for Joe (1961)
  • 19 March – Drama 61-67 (1961–1967)
  • 29 March – Tales of Mystery (1961–1963)
  • 1 April – Thank Your Lucky Stars (1961–1966)
  • 29 April – If the Crown Fits (1961)
  • 30 April – The Secret of the Nubian Tomb (1961)
  • 15 May – Three Live Wires (1961)
  • 26 June – Harpers West One (1961–1963)
  • 28 June – Family Solicitor (1961)
  • 11 August – Top Secret (1961–1962)
  • 24 August – Echo Four Two (1961)
  • 9 September –
  • 11 September – Home Tonight (1961)
  • 14 September – Hamlet (1961)
  • 15 September – Colonel Trumper's Private War (1961)
  • 22 September – Frontier Drums (1961)
  • 24 September – Plateau of Fear (1961)
  • 24 September – Call Oxbridge 2000 (1961–1962)
  • 12 October – Two of a Kind (1961–1968)
  • 31 October – Thirty Minute Theatre (1961–1965)
  • 12 November – Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
  • Unknown – The Flintstones (1960–1966)
  • Unknown – The Pursuers (1961–1962)

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. "Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol". Radio Times (in Welsh). Vol. 149 no. 1938 (London ed.). BBC Publications. 29 December 1960. p. 16. ISSN 0033-8060. Retrieved 25 January 2020 via BBC Genome Project.
  2. Little. (2000) p.10. Note: both Kershaw and Little make errors in relating the early transmission of the programme. The information here is taken from broadcast details in contemporary editions of The Times and TV Times.
  3. Hayes, Alan; McGinlay, Richard; Hayes, Alys (26 January 2017). Two Against the Underworld: The Collected Unauthorised Guide to The Avengers Series 1. lulu.com. p. 253–254. ISBN 978-1326466268.
  4. "Girl stabbed in TV studio". The Daily Express. 12 April 1961.
  5. TV Ark: ITV South News – Day by Day
  6. Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
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