1950 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1950.

Events

• 23 February – First televised report of general election results in the UK.
• 3 April – The BBC aspect ratio changes from 5:4 to 4:3.
• 21 May – The BBC's Lime Grove television studios open.
• 11 July – Andy Pandy premieres on the BBC Television Service.
• 27 August – The first ever live television pictures from across the English Channel are transmitted by the BBC Television Service. The two-hour programme is broadcast live from Calais in northern France to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.^[1]
• 30 September – First BBC Television Service broadcast from an aircraft.

Debuts

• 11 July – Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)

Television shows

1920s

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

1930s

• Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).

1940s

• Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
• Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
• Café Continental (1947–1953)
• Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
• Come Dancing (1949–1998)

Ending this year

• For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)

Births

• 20 January — Liza Goddard, stage and television actress
• 22 January — Pamela Salem, Indian-English actress
• 27 January
  • Derek Acorah, medium and television host
  • Alex Norton, actor and screenwriter
• 3 February — Pamela Franklin, actress
• 22 February — Julie Walters, actress
• 22 March — Mary Tamm, actress (died 2012)
• 30 March — Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
• 3 April — Sally Thomsett, actress
• 9 May — Matthew Kelly, English actor and television host
• 10 May - Sally James (presenter)
• 11 May — Jeremy Paxman, television presented and author
• 9 June — David Troughton, actor
• 8 July — Sarah Kennedy, broadcaster
• 19 July — Simon Cadell, actor (died 1996)
• 26 July — Susan George, actress
• 19 August — Jennie Bond, journalist and television presenter
• 17 September — Sherrie Hewson, actress, television presenter and novelist
• 17 December — Michael Cashman, actor and politician

Deaths

• 4 March — Anthony Holles, actor, 49
• 8 May — Franklin Dyall, actor, 80
• June — Claude Bailey, actor, 54

See also

• 1950 in British music
• 1950 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1950

References