1988 in British television

Events

January
  • 1 January –
    • New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the first network television showing of Roger Donaldson's historical drama, The Bounty.[1]
    • BBC2 airs a five-hour Whistle Test special to welcome 1988. The special, aired from 9:35 pm on New Year's Eve to 2:55 am on New Year's Day, takes a look back through the archives in what is the programme's final outing.[2] It will be three decades later in 2018 before a new edition of the programme is broadcast.[3]
    • Michael Grade takes on the role of Chief Executive of Channel 4.[4]
  • 4 January – BBC1 moves the repeat episode of Neighbours to a 5:35 pm evening slot,[5] the decision to do this having been made by controller Michael Grade on the advice of his daughter.
  • 5 January – Actor Rowan Atkinson launches the new Comic Relief charity appeal.
  • 6 January – All ITV regions network Emmerdale Farm in the Wednesday and Thursday 6:30 pm slot.
  • 8 January – Launch of LWT News, a news service from London Weekend Television providing at least eight bulletins each weekend for the ITV London region, and created as a response to IBA concerns about the lack of a proper news service in London at weekends.
  • 9 January – ITV airs the British television premiere of the 1984 film Supergirl, starring Helen Slater.
  • 11 January – The first episode of the game show Fifteen to One airs on Channel 4. The show's first winner is Gareth McMullan, a teacher from Northern Ireland.[6]
  • 14 January – Talks between TV-am's management and the ACTT union begin aimed at resolving the ongoing strike.[7]
  • 25–29 January – TV-am airs a week of live broadcasts from Sydney to celebrate Australia's bicentenary, and featuring Anne Diamond and Mike Morris.[7]
  • 30 January – British television premiere of the James Bond film Octopussy on ITV.[8]

February
  • 1 February –
    • TV-am celebrates its fifth birthday, with Anne Diamond joined by Richard Keys, Gyles Brandreth, Su Pollard and Jimmy Greaves. It is the first time TV-am has been able to get its daily output down to an hour of pre-recorded material since the beginning of the strike. However, the station continues to air imports of old US shows for several months.[7]
    • The deadline on which the ACTT must accept TV-am's "Ten Point Plan" aimed at resolving the strike. However, the plan is rejected by a ballot and the union refuses to resume negotiations.[7]
  • 5 February – The inaugural Red Nose Day sees Comic Relief air its first A Night of Comic Relief fundraiser on BBC1.[9]
  • 10 February – Debut on BBC1 of Moondial, a six part series adapted from the novel by Helen Cresswell.[10][11] The series is repeated by BBC1 in 1990.[12]
  • 13 February –
    • Scottish and Granada[13] begin 24-hour broadcasting.
    • Central, which had been keeping its transmitters on air since last April by filling its closedown period with its Jobfinder service, launches a full overnight schedule. Jobfinder also launches on both Granada and Scottish and all three companies broadcast Jobfinder for one hour beginning at 4 am.
  • 13–28 February – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta and broadcast to television audiences around the world. In the UK, the BBC provides around five hours of live and recorded coverage each day.
  • 15 February –
    • An early morning 60-minute news programme – ITN Early Morning News – is launched but is only available in areas which have 24-hour broadcasting. The first 30 minutes of the programme includes a full broadcast of ITN's international news bulletin ITN World News. The new bulletin is supplemented by the launch of additional, brief news summaries which are broadcast at various points through the night.
    • Red Dwarf makes its debut on BBC2.[14]
  • 16 February – TV-am Managing Director Bruce Gyngell sacks the station's locked out staff, and calls a meeting of its remaining employees the following morning to announce that the ACTT will never again organise itself at TV-am's studios. His decision fails to resolve the crisis, however, as picketing continues and the quality of its output remains unchanged.[7]
  • 20 February –
  • February – Channel 4 starts broadcasting into the early hours, closing down between 2 am and 3 am. Previously Channel 4 had closed down at just after midnight.

March
  • 3 March – BBC1 airs Around the World with Willy Fog with former CBBC and Broom Cupboard presenter Andy Crane singing the theme tune. A special event called "National Willy Fog Day" which Crane invented will also appear on 28 April to air the final episode and celebrate the final airing.
  • 7 March – ITV's lunchtime news programme returns to the 1 pm timeslot.
  • 18 March – The final US edition of Top of the Pops airs in the United States.
  • 19 March – Two off-duty British soldiers are killed after stumbling into an IRA funeral procession in Belfast. Footage of the incident is captured by journalists and widely broadcast.[16]
  • 21 March – Anglia's silver statue of a knight on horseback ident is consigned to history, having even used as Anglia's ident since the station went on air 29 years earlier. It is replaced by a new identity a quasi-heraldic stylised 'A' made of triangles, designed by Robinson Lambie-Nairn at a cost of £500,000.[17] About Anglia is also given a new look to co-inside with the ident change.
  • 22 March – Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tells the House of Commons that journalists have a "bounden duty" to assist the police investigation into the corporals killings by handing over their footage. Many have refused to do so fearing it could place them in danger.[18]
  • 23 March – Film of the corporals killings is seized from the BBC and ITN under the Prevention of Terrorism and Emergency Provisions Acts.[18]
  • 25 March – BBC2 shows Two of Us, a gay-themed television film.[19] It was produced as part of the BBC Schools SCENE series, and intended for young adults. It confronted the Thatcherite government's attempt to ban gay sex education in schools via the controversial (and since repealed) section 28 legislation.[20] Given this backdrop, the BBC opted not to show it during the day and it was screened late at night on this day, even though it was originally created for a school audience. In 1990 the play was finally shown during the day, when it was broadcast in a lunchtime slot.[21][22]

April

May
  • 9 May – The youth strand DEF II is launched on BBC2.[25]
  • 19 May – Anita Dobson makes her last appearance in EastEnders, when her character, Angie Watts departs for a new life in Spain.
  • 23 May – Three gay rights activists invade the BBC studios during a Six O'Clock bulletin of the BBC News to protest about the introduction of Section 28, a law preventing schools from teaching their students about homosexuality. Protesters can be heard chanting as Sue Lawley continues to read the news, prompting the presenter to comment "we have been rather invaded by some people who we hope to be removing very shortly".[26]
  • 29–30 May – ITV stages the first Telethon, a 27-hour nationwide fundraising effort involving participation and input from all of the regional broadcasters around the country. Its aim is to raise money for disability charities across the United Kingdom.
  • 30 May –
    • Yorkshire Television resumes 24-hour broadcasting.
    • TV-am does not go on air, with its airtime instead taken up by coverage of ITV's Telethon '88. The ACTT had asked its members to boycott the programme on this date, and fearful of sparking a nationwide dispute, TV-am's acting Managing Director, Adrian Moore, allows ITV to use the early morning airtime.[7]
  • 31 May –

June

July
  • 1 July – Australian series The Flying Doctors makes its British television debut on BBC 1.[36] Initially aired on Fridays at 8:10 pm, from 20 August, it is moved to a Saturday early evening slot.[37]
  • 7 July – The Times reports that TVS have bought US production company MTM Enterprises for £190m.[38]
  • 15 July – London Weekend Television airs the final edition of its Friday evening programme The Six O'Clock Show. It is replaced by Friday Now!, a smaller scale current affairs programme from October.
  • 17 July – After 1,576 episodes, Farming is broadcast on BBC1 for the final time. It is replaced the following week by Countryfile whose brief was to look at issues reflecting all aspects of the countryside rather than just focussing on farming.[39]
  • 19 July – The Bill broadcasts the first episode of its fourth season and switches to a year-round serial format.
  • 26 July – Anna Wing makes her final appearance as EastEnders matriarch Lou Beale, dispensing words of wisdom and advice to her family before retiring to her bedroom to slip away. Her final words in the soap are: "That's you lot sorted. I can go now." The character has died by the following episode, and at her funeral, her on-screen son Pete (played by Peter Dean) proposes a toast to that "bloody old bag". Wing herself died, aged 98, in 2013.[40]
  • July – Stephen Barden is appointed TV-am's new Managing Editor. With the station facing criticism from the IBA over the quality of its output, he acts quickly to improve matters. Repeats of imported US programmes finally come to an end, while new programming is launches, and programmes such as Frost on Sunday (off air since the strike began) are restored.[7]

August
  • 3 August – Brookside is moved from Tuesdays to Wednesdays which means the soap can now be seen on Mondays and Wednesdays.
  • 4 August – The band All About Eve perform their single "Martha's Harbour" on Top of the Pops. The group, ready to do a mimed (as was BBC policy at the time) performance of their hit, are not played the backing track through their monitors, and so sit motionless while the television and studio audience hear the song.[41] Due to this error on the part of the BBC, the band are invited back the following week and insist on playing the song live.
  • 5 August – The eight part New Zealand thriller Steel Riders debuts on BBC1.[42]
  • 10 August – Debut of Crimewatch File, a BBC1 documentary series in which detectives tell the inside stories of some of the UK's major criminal investigations during which police appealed to viewers of the BBC's Crimewatch for help.[43]
  • 19 August – Following concerns about the quality of TV-am's programming, an emergency meeting of the IBA considers whether to review the station's franchise in early 1989. However, it is ultimately decided not to proceed with the review since the next franchise round is approaching, and the IBA feels the success of both organisations is mutually exclusive.[7]
  • 22 August – HTV begins 24-hour broadcasting.
  • 31 August – ITV airs a version of The Hound of the Baskervilles starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.

September
  • 1 September – To celebrate BBC Radio 1's FM "switch on day", BBC1's Top of the Pops is simulcast with Radio 1 for the first time, allowing listeners to hear the programme in stereo. This edition is presented by Steve Wright and Mark Goodier.[44] Top of the Pops is then simulcast weekly with Radio 1 until August 1991.[45]
  • 2 September – TSW, Grampian and Border begin 24-hour broadcasting.
  • 5 September – BBC1 airs Bros Special, a 30-minute programme showing exclusive footage of pop band Bros in concert and on their UK tour.[46] The programme is repeated on 29 December.[47]
  • 6 September – ITV premieres a new animated series on Children's ITV Count Duckula (a sequel to the popular children's animated TV series Danger Mouse) featuring the voice of David Jason.
  • 7 September – Repeat showing of Paul Hamann's death row documentary Fourteen Days in May, telling the story of the final days of Edward Earl Johnson as he awaits execution on Mississippi's death row.[48] The film is followed on 14 September by The Journey, in which lawyer Clive Stafford Smith returns to Mississippi in an attempt to posthumously clear Johnson of the crimes to which he always professed his innocence.[49]
  • 8 September – Channel 4 drops plans to invite Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to appear on an edition of its late night discussion programme After Dark following objections from other contributors.[50]
  • 9 September – Casualty returns to BBC1 for a third series,[51] moving from its previous Saturday evening slot to Friday evenings.
  • 12 September – Debut of Stoppit and Tidyup,[52] a 13-part series narrated by Terry Wogan, and partly funded by the Tidy Britain Group charity.
  • 13 September – A brand new children's cartoon series PC Pinkerton gets its debut on BBC1.[53] The series was produced by Trevor Bond who has also worked on the original Mr. Men series and Bananaman with veteran animation producer Terry Ward and featured the voice of Ian Lavender best known for the playing the role of Private Pike in the hit sitcom Dad's Army.
  • 14 September – Debut of the eight-part Australian series The True Story of Spit MacPhee on BBC1.[54] The series concludes on 2 November.[55]
  • 17 September–2 October – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea and broadcast to television audiences around the world. BBC Television provides live coverage, as does ITV, in conjunction with Channel 4. This was to be the final time that ITV broadcast the Olympic Games, and Channel 4's only broadcast of the Olympics. ITV shows daytime coverage while Channel 4 airs the overnight and breakfast coverage.
  • 18 September – Debut of the BBC political discussion programme On the Record, presented by Jonathan Dimbleby.[56]
  • 20 September – Death, at the age of 54, of actor Roy Kinnear, who the previous day had fallen from a horse during the making of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain. He sustained a broken pelvis and internal bleeding, and was taken to hospital in Madrid, where he died from a heart attack, brought on by his injuries.[57]
  • 30 September – Television presenters Mike Smith and Sarah Greene are seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Gloucestershire.[58]

October
  • 3 October –
  • 5 October – ITV begins airing the Australian soap Richmond Hill in a 2:00 pm slot on Wednesdays and Thursdays, the first time the channel has networked an Australian soap. However, some regions (including Central and Granada) opt out of networking the series when it is cancelled by Australia's Channel Ten in 1989.
  • 6 October – Thames, Border, Tyne Tees and Ulster air the final episode of The Sullivans, becoming the first ITV regions to complete the series.
  • 7 October – Launch of LWT's current affairs programme Friday Now!.[60]
  • 17 October – First showing of sitcom Wyatt's Watchdogs on BBC1.
  • 19 October – Home Secretary Douglas Hurd issues a notice under clause 13(4) of the BBC Licence and Agreement to the BBC and under section 29(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to the Independent Broadcasting Authority prohibiting the broadcast of direct statements by representatives or supporters of 11 Irish political and military organisations.[61][62] The ban lasts until 1994, and denies the UK news media the right to broadcast the voices, though not the words, of all Irish republican and Loyalist paramilitaries. The restrictions – targeted primarily at Sinn Féin – means that actors are used to speak the words of any representative interviewed for radio and television.[63]
  • 20 October – Debut of children's 13 episode stop motion animated series Charlie Chalk produced by Woodland Animations the company behind Postman Pat on BBC1 featuring the voices of Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Michael Williams and John Wells. The last three episodes will air the next year.
  • 23 October – Final broadcast of Channel 4's groundbreaking youth music and current affairs programme Network 7.
  • 25 October – As the 25th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy approaches ITV airs the two-part documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy, a film which explores discrepancies and inconsistencies in the US Government's official version of events.
  • 30 October –
    • Following the signing of a new four-year deal to show exclusive live coverage of top flight English football, ITV begins showing a live game every Sunday afternoon.
    • First Born, a three-part adaptation of Maureen Duffy's novel Gor Saga, debuts on BBC1.[64]

November
  • 1 November – Having decided to step down from her presenting role on TV-am, Anne Diamond makes her final regular appearance on the station.[7]
  • 2 November –
    • In the House of Commons, an amendment introduced by the opposition Labour Party condemning the government's decision over the broadcasting ban as "incompatible with a free society" is rejected, despite some Conservative MPs voting with Labour.[65]
    • Evacuation, an episode of ITV's The Bill features one of the series early prominent events – an explosion at Sun Hill police station.
  • 7 November – A government white paper on broadcasting, Broadcasting in the '90s: Competition, Choice and Quality, includes provisions for a fifth UK television channel after management consultants Booz Allen recommend it as an option, claiming the extra channel would reduce the current ITV monopoly and also reduce advertising costs.[66]
  • 8 November – BBC1 airs Episode 523 of Neighbours, featuring the wedding of Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell (played by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue), which is watched by 20 million viewers.[67][68]
  • 13 November–18 December – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, is aired as a six-part TV serial by the BBC, featuring actors including Ronald Pickup, Barbara Kellerman and Michael Aldridge.[69][70]
  • 15 November – Premiere of an educational documentary series called Secret Life of Machines on Channel 4. It is hosted by inventor and roboteer Rex Garrod and engineer, cartoonist, artist and writer Tim Hunkin who is also the creator of the series.
  • 21 November – The Welsh children's favourite Fireman Sam is played in Singapore for the first time with the series being shown on MediaCorp Channel 5.
  • 23 November – The BBC science fiction series Doctor Who celebrates its 25th anniversary and begins the three-part serial Silver Nemesis.[71]
  • 24 November – Frank Ruse, a left-wing Labour councillor for Liverpool City Council accompanies Liverpool's Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra to London for an appearance on Blue Peter.[72] He is given a Blue Peter badge, but later receives a BBC headed letter requesting its return. The letter (later discovered to be a forgery) claims the programme had been approached by the office of Labour leader Neil Kinnock expressing concern that a councillor with hard-left views had been given a Blue Peter badge. Upon receiving the returned badge, the BBC writes back to Ruse stating that it had not sent the letter. The incident prompts Ruse to start an enquiry to find out who sent the hoax letter.[73]

December

Undated
  • Autumn – The BBC takes its first tentative steps into later closedowns – previously weekday programmes ended no later than 12:15 am and weekend broadcasting at 1:30 am.

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation
Shows Moved from Moved to
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds BBC1 ITV
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends The Children's Channel
Towser Children 4

Continuing television shows

1920s
  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s
  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths
DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
1 January Margot Bryant 90 actress (Minnie Caldwell in Coronation Street)
7 January Trevor Howard 74 actor
18 March Percy Thrower 75 gardener and broadcaster
15 April Kenneth Williams 62 comic actor
27 April David Scarboro 20 actor (Mark Fowler in EastEnders)
8 June Russell Harty 53 television presenter
9 July Barbara Woodhouse 78 dog trainer (Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way)
20 September Roy Kinnear 53 narrator, actor, voice actor (Towser, Bertha the Machine)

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