1979 in British television

List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of British television related events from 1979.

Events

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Shows Moved from Moved to
Noggin the Nog BBC One BBC Two

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
28 February Jane Hylton 51 actress (The Adventures of Sir Lancelot)
6 March John Robinson 70 actor (Quatermass II)
19 March Richard Beckinsale 31 actor
24 March Yvonne Mitchell 63 actress (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
30 May Jack Raine 82 actor
4 July Marjorie Rhodes 82 actress
6 July Malcolm Hulke[4] 54 screenwriter (Doctor Who)
7 July Ian Mackintosh[5] 39 TV writer (air crash) (disappeared, presumed dead)
24 July Archie Duncan 65 actor (Little John in The Adventures of Robin Hood)
7 September Alan Browning 53 actor (Coronation Street)
23 September Catherine Lacey[6] 75 actress
20 November Michael Darbyshire 62 actor (Rentaghost)
30 November Joyce Grenfell 69 actress, comedian and singer-songwriter

References

  1. ""Election victory for Margaret Thatcher" BBC On This Day". BBC News. 1979-05-04. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  2. Aylett, Glenn. "Talk of Thames: Strike Out". Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  3. "Britain's Most Watched TV – the 1980s". British Film Institute. 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  4. "Malcolm Hulke". randomhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  5. "Did spy writer's disappearance mirror his fiction?", John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier, 3 January 2013. Accessed 2 April 2015
  6. John Parker (ed), Who's Who in the Theatre 15th edition, Pitman Publishing 1972
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