1966 in British television

Events

January

February

  • No events.

March

  • 3 March – The BBC announces plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year.[1]

April

May

June

July

  • 9 July – BBC2 Scotland goes on the air, the last regional area to receive BBC2 (including the Gaelic language strand BBC Dhà Alba). It ceases broadcasting on 17 February 2019 to make way for the new BBC Scotland channel launching on 24 February 2019.
  • 30 July – England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley, attracting an all-time record UK television audience of more than 32,000,000.[3]

Summer

  • Summer – Patrick McGoohan quits the popular spy series Danger Man after filming only two episodes of the fourth season, in order to produce and star in The Prisoner, which begins filming in September.

August

  • No events.

September

  • No events.

October

November

December

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

  • 7 January – This Man Craig (1966–1967)
  • 11 January – The Idiot (1966)
  • 15 January – The Man in the Mirror (1966)
  • 15 February – A Farewell to Arms (1966)
  • 26 February – A Game of Murder (1966)
  • 8 March – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1966)
  • 19 March – Mild and Bitter (1966)
  • 5 April – The Money Programme (1966–2010)
  • 10 April – Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966)
  • 26 April – Lord Raingo (1966)
  • 16 June – This Is Petula Clark (1966–1968)
  • 18 June – Cooperama (1966)
  • 23 July – Mr. John Jorrocks (1966)
  • 20 October – Breaking Point (1966)
  • 25 October – Broome Stages (1966)
  • 26 November – Bat Out of Hell (1966)
  • 9 November – On the Margin (1966)

ITV

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

See also

References

  1. "BBC tunes in to colour". BBC On This Day. 1966-03-03. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  2. Williams, John. "Weavers Green (1966)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  3. ""Football glory for England" BBC On This Day". BBC News. 1966-07-30. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  4. Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
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