AI tools

1997 in British television

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of British television related events from 1997.

Quick Facts List of years in British television (table) ...
List of years in British television (table)
+...
Close

Events

January

  • 1 January –
    • New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include a TV film adaptation of The Mill on the Floss and Global Sunrise, an 80-minute film presented by Julian Pettifer. It also includes the culmination of a project that saw camera crews at twenty locations around the world on 1 January 1996, recording the rising sun through six continents and all time zones.[1]
    • ITV introduces a third weekly episode of Emmerdale.
  • 2 January – Test transmissions begin for Channel 5 in some areas. Details of them are made available on Ceefax page 698 for a few weeks.[2]
  • 3 January
  • 5 January – The network television premiere of Jim Sheridan's 1993 biographical drama In the Name of the Father on BBC2, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson.
  • 6 January – Channel 4 closes down for the last time with 24-hour transmissions commencing at 6am the following day. Consequently, after nearly 15 years on the air, 4-Tel On View ends.
  • 7 January – Carlton presents Monarchy: The Nation Decides, a live studio debate discussing the future of the monarchy in the UK, fronted by Trevor McDonald, John Stapleton, Michele Newman and Roger Cook. Viewers are encouraged to vote on the issue in what is the UK's largest television phone poll. However, Carlton is forced to extend the deadline for calls following complaints from people unable to get through. Of the 2.6 million callers who vote, 66% are in favour of retaining a monarch.[3]
  • 8 January – The serialised children's series The Wild House makes its debut on BBC1.[4]
  • 9 January – BT releases an advert featuring Letitia Dean and nine other former EastEnders stars in its Friends and Family promotion despite the BBC threatening them with legal action. The BBC subsequently withdraws its threat to sue after BT pays them an undisclosed five-figure amount.[5]
  • 11 January – John Fashanu co-hosts his final edition of Gladiators, which is a sports celebrity special. He would later return to the show for its final mini-series in 1999.
  • 14 January – Viewing figures released for 1996 indicate that BBC1 and BBC2 as the only terrestrial channels to increase their audience share during the year.[6]
  • 29 January – Debut of the spoof documentary series Brass Eye on Channel 4.
  • 31 January
    • The Independent Television Commission receives two applications for the licence to operate digital terrestrial television in the UK. They come from British Digital Broadcasting (BDB), a joint venture between Carlton, Granada and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB)[7] and from Digital Television Network (DTN), a company created by cable operator CableTel, later known as NTL.[8]
    • Details of Channel 5's schedule are leaked to Broadcast magazine. A spokeswoman for the channel confirms the schedule is largely accurate but that the amount of imported content has been distorted, Channel 5's schedule will be made up of 70% UK-produced content.[9]

February

  • 2 February – BBC2 airs George A. Romero's cult 1978 zombie horror Dawn of the Dead, starring David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger and Gaylen Ross.
  • 3 February
    • Trouble launches, broadcasting programmes aimed at teenagers and young adults. It shares space with Bravo, the broadcasting hours of which change to 8pm to 6am.
    • The Family Channel relaunches as a game show channel called Challenge TV, although Family Late continues to broadcast as an overnight programming block.
    • Pre-school programmes block Tiny TCC which aired every day from 6am until 9am is transferred to UK Living and is renamed Tiny Living with its airtime being changed to 7am to 9am on weekdays and 7am to 10am during the weekend.
  • 5 February – The first Wednesday edition of the National Lottery is broadcast on BBC1 with the introduction of a second weekly draw.[10]
  • 5 February – Debut of the comedy sketch series Armstrong and Miller on the Paramount Comedy Channel and later on Channel 4, starring Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
  • 9 February – The live final of the 1997 Masters on BBC2 is interrupted by snooker's first ever streaker, 22-year-old secretary Lianne Crofts, who invaded the playing area at the beginning of the third frame. After stewards removed her from the arena, Ronnie O'Sullivan amused the crowd by comically wiping the brow of veteran referee John Street who was refereeing the final match of his career.[11][12][13]
  • 12 February – Channel 5 releases details of its programme scheduling. It will introduce the concept of stripping and stranding to British television, stripping being where a programme is shown at the same time each day and stranding being where similar programmes are shown at the same time each day.[14] A full schedule is published on 18 February.[15]
  • 14 February – The cable-only entertainment channel Carlton Select replaces SelecTV which it acquired when Carlton bought Pearson Television.
  • 15 February – The Simpsons is shown for the last time on BBC1 with the episode Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish.
  • 19 February – Ceefax ceases to provide information on Channel 5 test transmissions.[16]
  • 24 February – The final episode of the sitcom The Brittas Empire is broadcast on BBC1.
  • 28 February – The BBC sells its transmitters and transmission services to Castle Transmission Services for £244 million to help fund its plans for the digital age.
  • February – The Paramount Channel relaunches as the Paramount Comedy Channel, a channel dedicated solely to comedy.[17] Previously, the channel had aired drama alongside its comedy output.

March

  • 3 March – Dave Spikey becomes the sixth host for the final series of the ITV weekday morning game show Chain Letters in the same year as its 10th anniversary.
  • 4 March – The BBC and Flextech agree on a deal to provide BBC-branded channels. BBC Showcase, for entertainment, BBC Horizon, for documentaries, BBC Style, for lifestyle programming, BBC Learning, for schools and BBC Arena, for the arts plus three other channels: BBC Catch-Up, for repeats of popular programmes within days of their original broadcast, a dedicated BBC Sport channel and a TV version of Radio 1.[18]
  • 8 March – ITV takes over the UK television rights to Formula One after 18 years of coverage on the BBC. It shows full coverage of qualifying as well as the race itself, something that the BBC generally did not do, although it is also criticised for showing advertisement breaks during the races.
  • 10 March – The Simpsons is moved from BBC1 to BBC2 and is shown between Monday and Friday at 6pm.
  • 14 March – Among the highlights of that year's Comic Relief telethon is Prime Cracker, a short spoof crossover of ITV stablemate crime dramas Prime Suspect and Cracker, starring Helen Mirren and Robbie Coltrane as their respective characters.[19]
  • 18 March – The final episode of Come Outside is broadcast on BBC2.
  • 21 March – Campaign magazine reports that the BBC and Flextech have ratified their joint venture. They will create two new operational ventures, one that will develop and launch subscription channels in the UK and Ireland and one that will acquire and run UK Gold.[20]
  • 23 March
    • The science documentary The Language Master makes its debut on BBC2 in which language teacher Michel Thomas taught French to sixth form students for five days at a further education college in London.[21] As a result of the interest generated by this documentary, the publisher Hodder & Stoughton commissioned Thomas to produce commercial versions of his courses.[22]
    • Debut on ITV of the long-running crime drama Midsomer Murders, starring John Nettles.
  • 25 March – ITV's Network First strand presents a ground-breaking documentary about Edinburgh's Royal Blind School, a boarding school for visually impaired students.[23]
  • 26 March – The network television premiere on ITV of Alan J. Pakula's 1993 American thriller The Pelican Brief, based on John Grisham's novel of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
  • 28 March – The final episode of the children's series Playdays is broadcast on BBC2.
  • 30 March
  • 31 March

April

  • 1 April
    • At 4:40am, Channel 5 begins a rerun of the Australian soap Prisoner: Cell Block H. This is the series first networked broadcast in the UK as during its earlier run on ITV, scheduling of the show had varied from region to region.
    • Quincy, a series that was previously shown on ITV, begins airing on BBC1 as part of their daytime schedule.[30]
  • 3 April
    • BBC1 airs Episode 2710 of Neighbours in which the character Cheryl Stark, played by Caroline Gillmer, is killed when she is hit by a vehicle while trying to cross a road to save her daughter. Scenes involving the accident are censored by the BBC before the episode is broadcast. Five seconds of the episode had also been cut before it aired in Australia in September 1996.[31][32]
    • Postman Pat returns for a new series of 13 episodes on BBC1, copyrighted the previous year. Two special episodes were aired two and a half years prior to making another 15 episodes in total.[33]
    • The Learning Channel is renamed Discovery Home & Leisure.[34]
  • 5 April
    • The 1997 Grand National is delayed after a suspected IRA bomb threat.[35] The race is eventually run on 7 April at 5pm.[36] It was the last of 50 Nationals, including the void race of 1993 to be commentated by Peter O'Sullevan.
    • Debut on Channel 5 of the music game show Night Fever, presented by Suggs.
    • Debut on BBC1 of the game show Whatever You Want, presented by Gaby Roslin.
  • 5–6 April – BBC1 airs a two-part adaptation of The Ice House, the debut novel of crime writer Minette Walters. The miniseries stars Daniel Craig, Corin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge and Frances Barber.[37][38]
  • 6 April
  • 7 April
    • Debut on BBC1 of the children's game show 50/50, presented by Sally Gray.
    • HTV's main evening news programme is renamed The West Tonight, as the change coincides with the opening of a digital broadcast centre at Bristol studios.
    • Peter Baldwin makes his final appearance as popular character Derek Wilton in Coronation Street, having appeared on and off since 1976, with Derek dying of a heart attack following a road rage incident. The character was axed in a high-profile cull by producer Brian Park.
  • 8 April
    • BBC journalist Martin Bell announces that he is to stand as a candidate against Neil Hamilton in the Tatton constituency on an anti-corruption platform.[40]
    • The American/Canadian children's animated series Arthur makes its UK debut on BBC1.
  • 12 April – The final edition of the game show You Bet! is broadcast on ITV after 9 years on the air.[28]
  • 13 April – The network television premiere of Brian Gibson's 1993 biographical drama What's Love Got to Do with It on Channel 4, based on the life of the legendary American singer Tina Turner and stars Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne and Vanessa Bell Calloway.
  • 14 April – June Brown returns to EastEnders as Dot Cotton after a four-year break.
  • 15 April – The Bookmark documentary film The Thomas the Tank Engine Man airs on BBC2 again as a tribute to the author and creator of The Railway Series and Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, the Rev. W. Awdry, who died in his home in Stroud, Gloucestershire after being bedridden and suffering from health problems on 21 March.
  • 16 April – The network television premiere on ITV of Andrew Davis's 1993 American action thriller The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
  • 23 April – Channel 5 launches on satellite so that the third of the UK who live outside of its broadcast area can view the newly launched channel.[41]
  • 25 April – The final edition of the daytime game show Chain Letters is broadcast on ITV after 10 years on the air.
  • 27 April – The BBC confirms that the comedy duo Hale and Pace have signed a £1 million two-year deal that will see them move from ITV.[42]

May

  • 1 May – General Election night: for the first time, brothers David and Jonathan Dimbleby anchor rival results programmes on BBC1 and ITV, respectively. The same arrangement will occur for the General Elections in 2001 and 2005.
  • 2 May – The network television premiere of Falling Down on BBC1, a 1993 American action thriller starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey.[43]
  • 3 May – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Love Shine a Light, the first time the UK has won the competition since 1981.
  • 10 May – Debut on BBC1 of the crime mystery series Jonathan Creek, starring Alan Davies as the titular character.
  • 13 May – Jeremy Paxman speaks to Michael Howard on Newsnight on BBC2 and the interview becomes the programme's most notorious. Howard, who had been Home Secretary until thirteen days earlier, had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of the Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott. Howard, having given evasive answers, was asked by Paxman the same question, "Did you threaten to overrule him [Lewis]?", a total of twelve times in succession, 14 if the first two enquiries worded somewhat differently and some time before the succession of 12 are included. Howard did not give a direct answer, instead repeatedly saying that he "did not overrule him" and ignoring the "threaten" part of the question.[44][45][46] Howard finally answered Paxman's question on his final edition of Newsnight in 2014, saying "No, Jeremy, I didn't. But feel free to ask another eleven times."[47]
  • 21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1.
  • 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme.[48]
  • 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms. It features classic episodes, 1970s spin-off films and documentaries about the genre's appeal.
  • 25 May – The network television premiere of John Waters 1994 American black comedy Serial Mom on Channel 4, starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston and Ricki Lake.
  • 26 May – BBC1 airs the documentary Lenny's Big Amazon Adventure, which sees Lenny Henry travel to Peru with survival expert Lofty Wiseman.[49]
  • 30 May
  • 31 May
    • Michael Grade steps down from the role of Chief Executive of Channel 4. He is succeeded by Michael Jackson who takes over the following day.[50]
    • Channel 5 airs its first international football coverage, a match between England and Poland. The channel experiments with a new presenting format which tries to recreate the atmosphere of a bar with presenters supplying coverage against the backdrop of chatter from an invited audience. The format draws criticism with The Independent's Glenn Moore describing it as a "shambles"[51] However, the coverage gives the channel its largest audience so far with a viewership of five million.[52]

June

  • 2 June – BBC Breakfast News is given a revamp. Its studio and theme tune changes. It is now known as Breakfast News, rather than BBC Breakfast News.
  • 4 June – Magdalen College, Oxford wins the 1996–97 series of University Challenge on BBC2, beating The Open University 250–195.
  • 7 June – Debut on BBC1 of the dating game show The Other Half, presented by Dale Winton.
  • 8 June
  • 10 June
    • BBC2 airs the documentary Homeground: An Exile's Return, telling the story of Martin McGartland, a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army.[53]
    • Debut of the docusoap Driving School on BBC1.
  • 11 June – SMG buys Grampian Television, the ITV contractor for Northern Scotland, for £105 million.[54]
  • 18 June – The final episode of the supernatural soap Springhill is broadcast on Sky1.
  • 19 June – Media agencies reject Granada Group chairman Gerry Robinson's call for the formation of a single ITV company, expressing concerns it would be extremely damaging to advertisers.[55]
  • 25 June
    • The Independent Television Commission award the sole digital terrestrial television broadcast licence to British Digital Broadcasting.
    • Classic children's character Captain Pugwash was announced to be brought back for a new series after The Britt Allcroft Company purchased the rights to the character. The new series would be animated using digital animation.[56]
  • 26 June – Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television plc is acquired by Granada Group plc.[57]
  • 30 June – BBC1 airs a day of coverage of the Hong Kong handover ceremony, marking the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, an event that happens at midnight local time, which is 5pm in the UK.[58]

July

August

  • 1 August – The US animated series King of the Hill makes its UK debut on Channel 4.
  • 3 August – Julie Friend wins the 1997 series of MasterChef on BBC1.
  • 7 August – The final episode of This Life is broadcast on BBC2.
  • 8 August – The children's animated series Postman Pat has been snapped up by Premiere 12 for broadcasting in Singapore.
  • 24 August – Sky1 airs a special episode of The Simpsons, in which Troy McClure introduces three spin-off segments including references to many different television series, as well as American comedian and actor Tim Conway, who makes a guest appearance as himself.
  • 26 August
  • 31 August
    • Sky2 and Granada Talk TV both cease broadcasting.
    • BBC1 stays on the air throughout the night, simulcasting with BBC World News to bring updates of Diana, Princess of Wales's car accident and subsequent death, which is announced at 5am. At 6am, a rolling news programme, anchored by Martyn Lewis and from 1pm by Peter Sissons, is shown on both BBC1 and BBC2 until the latter breaks away at 3pm to provide alternative programming. BBC1 continues to provide coverage until closedown when it once again hands over to BBC World News. ITV initially continues with its normal late night programming before interrupting a repeat of The Chart Show to commence open-ended news coverage from ITN shortly before her death is announced, anchored by Dermot Murnaghan and Nicholas Owen. After handing over to GMTV at 6am, its unbroken news coverage of the tragedy resumes at 9:25am and lasts well into the evening with the first scheduled programme being Coronation Street. In the days following her death, regular programming is abandoned in order to allow for coverage of events.

September

  • 1–5 September – Extended news bulletins and additional programmes are broadcast all week to keep viewers up to date on the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
  • 1 September
    • The National Geographic Channel is launched. It is an evening-only service, on air each day from 7.00 o'clock until 1.00 o'clock.
    • Channel 5's The Jack Docherty Show returns after the summer break with a relaunch which includes new music and titles. The Friday edition is also dropped at Docherty's suggestion, ending the original five-nights-a-week format.[63]
    • Magnus Magnusson hosts his final episode of Mastermind on BBC1. John Humphrys would succeed him upon its return in 2003.
  • 5 September
  • 6 September – The live broadcast of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales is watched by 2.5 billion viewers worldwide.[67] The ceremony's footage goes down in the Guinness World Records as the biggest TV audience for a live broadcast.[68] In the UK, 32.10 million viewers watch the broadcast. It is the UK's second most-watched broadcast of all time, behind 1966's World Cup final.[69]
  • 9 September – The network television premiere on ITV of the 1993 American crime drama A Perfect World, starring Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Laura Dern.
  • 10 September – BBC2 begins showing the six-part documentary series The Nazis: A Warning from History, which examines the rise and fall of the Nazi Party in Germany.[70] The final part is aired on 15 October.[71]
  • 11 September – The US sitcom Suddenly Susan makes its UK debut on Sky1, starring Brooke Shields.
  • 13 September
  • 14 September – Gumby: The Movie is broadcast on The Disney Channel, marking the only time Gumby is aired in the UK.
  • 16 September
    • The BBC announces a radical shake-up of news and current affairs programming that will see television and radio news services produced by the same production teams.
    • BBC1 airs the documentary series Holiday Memories, in which presenter Esther Rantzen revisits Zimbabwe with her daughter.[72] She became severely ill after filming the episode and was subsequently diagnosed with Giardiasis. She is absent from her BBC2 afternoon talk show Esther for a few months while recovering from the condition, returning to television in early 1998.[73]
  • 19 September – Debut of the garden makeover series Ground Force on BBC2, presented by Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh.
  • 20 September – Debut of the BBC promotional film featuring a version of Lou Reed's 1972 song "Perfect Day" performed by various artists including David Bowie, Bono, Brett Anderson and Laurie Anderson. Owing to its popularity, the version is released as a single on 17 November with sales benefiting Children in Need.[74] The song ultimately spends three weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart and raises £2,125,000 for Children in Need. By November 2016, it has sold 1.54 million copies, despite not being available for download.[75][76]
  • 22–25 September – EastEnders airs a series of episodes from Ireland which attract criticism from viewers and the Irish embassy because of their negative and stereotypical portrayal of Irish people. The BBC later issues an apology for any offence the episodes caused.[77][78]
  • 29 September – Two new children's animated series, The Enchanted Lands, based on the book series The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton, and Noah's Island, made by Telemagination, the company behind The Animals of Farthing Wood make their debuts on BBC1. Both of the series first aired in Ireland, prior to airing in their homeland.

October

  • 3 October – The 'Virtual Globe' ident is seen for the final time on BBC1 after six years in use.
  • 4 October
    • BBC One launches its new hot air balloon globe idents to coincide with the introduction of the network's new corporate logo. Also on that day, new idents feature on BBC Two alongside the existing one's first seen in 1991 with the new logo.
    • BBC2 begin showing the six-part documentary series Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, written and presented by the acclaimed horror author and director Clive Barker.
  • 11 October – ITV airs delayed coverage of England's final qualifying match for the 1998 FIFA World Cup against Italy in Rome which is shown exclusively live that evening on Sky Sports, the goalless draw is enough to qualify England for next summer's tournament.
  • 14 October – Debut of the football-based drama series Dream Team on Sky One.
  • 16 October – Emmerdale celebrates its 25th anniversary.
  • 19 October
  • 27 October – UK Living changes its name to Living to distance itself from the forthcoming UKTV network.
  • 30 October – BBC One airs Clive Anderson's infamous interview with the Bee Gees which ends with them storming out of the studio. He repeatedly jokes about their life and career throughout the interview, but they decide to leave after he refers to them as "tossers".[80]
  • 31 October – Queen Elizabeth II opens a £5.5 million interactive visitors centre, the BBC Experience at Broadcasting House. The venture proves to be loss-making for the corporation and is closed in 2001.

November

  • 1 November
    • The UKTV network is launched. Existing channel UK Gold is joined by UK Horizons, UK Arena and UK Style. The channels' full broadcast hours are only available on cable due to limited capacity on satellite.
    • The Movie Channel is rebranded under the Sky Movies banner, now called Sky Movies Screen 1 and Sky Movies Screen 2.[81]
  • 2 November – The network television premiere on BBC2 of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 critically acclaimed thriller Pulp Fiction, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman.[82]
  • 3 November – Debut on BBC Two of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, starring Steve Coogan.
  • 4 November – BBC News Online is launched, BBC News having previously created special websites for the 1995 budget as well as this year's 1 May general election and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.[83]
  • 9 November – At 6pm, BBC News 24 is launched, but only on cable. It is the BBC's first new channel since BBC Two in 1964. It also broadcasts on BBC One through the night after closedown.
  • 12 November – The network television premiere on ITV of In the Line of Fire, starring Clint Eastwood.
  • 20 November – BBC One airs live coverage of the service of thanksgiving, marking the golden wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, held at Westminster Abbey.[84]
  • 21 November – For the first time, Children in Need has its own website, which is launched at 4pm ahead of the evening's telethon on BBC One.[85]
  • 26 November – The network television premiere on Channel 4 of Trainspotting, starring Ewan McGregor.[86]
  • November – The BBC introduces regional news and sports pages to Ceefax. This is the first time that any part of the Ceefax service has been regionalised.

December

Unknown

  • Michael Jackson is appointed Chief Executive of Channel 4.[97]
  • Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announces that Channel 4's funding formula with ITV will be abolished from 1998.[97]

Debuts

BBC1/One

BBC2/Two

BBC News 24

ITV

Channel 4

S4C

Channel 5

Nickelodeon UK

Cartoon Network UK

Disney Channel UK

Sky 1/One

Paramount Comedy Channel

Channels

New channels

More information Date, Channel ...
Date Channel
3 February Trouble
30 March Channel 5
1 September National Geographic Channel
1 November UK Arena
UK Horizons
UK Style
9 November BBC News 24
22 November Rapture TV
Close

Defunct channels

More information Date, Channel ...
Date Channel
31 August Granada Talk TV
Sky 2 (original)
Close

Rebranded channels

More information Date, Old Name ...
Date Old Name New Name
3 February The Family Channel Challenge TV
14 February SelecTV Carlton Select
3 April The Learning Channel Discovery Home & Leisure
4 October BBC1 BBC One
BBC2 BBC Two
27 October UK Living Living TV
1 November Sky 1 Sky One
Sky Movies Sky Movies Screen 1
The Movie Channel Sky Movies Screen 2
Close

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

More information Shows, Moved from ...
Shows Moved from Moved to
Sale of the Century ITV Challenge
3-2-1
Blockbusters ITV
Sky One		 BBC Two
Close

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

  • Trooping the Colour (1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present)
  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

More information Date, Name ...
DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
11 January Jill Summers 86 actress (Coronation Street)
20 January Dennis Main Wilson 72 television producer
21 January John Glyn-Jones 87 actor
22 January Wally Whyton 67 musician and television presenter
23 January David Waller 76 actor (Cribb, Edward & Mrs Simpson)
30 January Nicholas Mallett 51 television producer
9 February Barry Evans 53 actor (Doctor in the House, Mind Your Language)
24 February Isabelle Lucas 69 actress (The Fosters)
25 February Scott Forbes 76 actor and scriptwriter
9 March Terry Nation 66 television scriptwriter (Doctor Who)
13 March Ronald Fraser 66 actor (The Sweeney, Brideshead Revisited, Minder, Lovejoy)
29 March Ellen Pollock 94 actress
6 April Barbara Yu Ling 63 actress
3 May Hughie Green 77 television presenter (Opportunity Knocks)
11 May Genine Graham 70 television presenter
7 June Paul Reade 54 theme tune composer (The Victorian Kitchen Garden, The Flumps, Crystal Tipps and Alistair, Antiques Roadshow)
19 June Julia Smith 70 television director and producer (EastEnders)
22 June Don Henderson 65 actor (Doctor Who, The Paradise Club, Strangers)
26 June Charlie Chester 83 stand-up comedian and TV and radio presenter
7 July Royston Tickner 74 actor
15 July Rosamund Greenwood 90 actress (Upstairs, Downstairs, All Creatures Great and Small, Angels, Crown Court, A Perfect Spy)
22 July Vincent Hanna 57 television journalist
24 July Brian Glover 63 actor (Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Dixon of Dock Green, Secret Army, Last of the Summer Wine, All Creatures Great and Small, The Bill)
Bill Shine 85 actor (Super Gran)
27 July Isabel Dean 79 actress (I, Claudius, Inspector Morse)
13 August Marjorie Lynette Sigley 68 actress and television producer (The Wall Game, T-Bag)
14 August John Elliot 79 television producer
25 August Peter Dews 67 television stage director
12 September Leonard Maguire 73 actor (Dixon of Dock Green, Emmerdale Farm, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, EastEnders, Bergerac)
17 September Brian Hall 59 actor (Terry Hughes in Fawlty Towers)
19 September Jack May 75 actor (Adam Adamant Lives!)
25 September Paul Bernard 68 television director
30 September Graeme MacDonald 67 television producer
5 October Andrew Keir 71 actor (The Avengers, Z Cars)
Debbie Linden 36 actress (Are You Being Served?, Bergerac, The Bill)
6 October Adrienne Hill 60 actress (Doctor Who)
20 October Ron Tarr 60 Actor (EastEnders as Big Ron)
17 November Wilfred Josephs 70 theme tune composer (Horizon, I, Claudius, Pride and Prejudice)
4 December Richard Vernon 72 actor (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Yes Minister, Yes, Prime Minister)
8 December Stephen Tredre 34 actor (The Bill)
Close

See also

References

External links

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.