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This is a list of British television related events from 1988.

Events

January

  • 4 January – BBC1 moves the repeat episode of Neighbours to a 5:35pm evening slot, the decision to do this having been made by controller Michael Grade on the advice of his daughter.
  • 6 January – All ITV regions network Emmerdale Farm in the Wednesday and Thursday 6.30pm slot.
  • 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.[1]
  • 25–29 January – TV-am airs a week of live broadcasts from Sydney to celebrate Australia's bicentenary.

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • 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.[7]

August

September

October

November

December

  • 1 December – ITV's ORACLE Teletext service launches Park Avenue, a teletext based soap opera. It is written by Robert Burns and runs until ORACLE loses its franchise at the end of 1992.
  • 3 December – Comedian Steve Tandy wins New Faces of '88.
  • 11 December – Launch date of the Astra Satellite. The satellite will provide television coverage to Western Europe and is revolutionary as one of the first medium-powered satellites, allowing reception with smaller dishes than has previously been possible.
  • 13 December – Central airs the final episode of Sons and Daughters making it the first ITV region to complete the series.
  • 22 December –
  • 25 December –
    • The final edition of It's a Knockout to air on BBC1 is another celebrity special, It's a Charity Knockout From Walt Disney World, featuring teams of celebrities from the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. The series returns to S4C in 1991.
    • "Ding Dong Merrily", the London's Burning Christmas special, and the only episode of the series to have a title, is broadcast by ITV as part of its Christmas Day line up.
  • 26–30 December – As part of a Christmas special, Channel 4 soap Brookside airs five episodes over five consecutive days.

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Television shows

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic 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 actor

References

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  2. ^ "6 MURDERS LINKED IN BELFAST COURT". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. 23 March 1988. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
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  4. ^ "T-shirt worn during lesbian invasion of BBC news on show in Haringey". Pink News. 9 February 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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  7. ^ Jeffries, Stuart (11 July 2013). "Anna Wing obituary". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Sinn Fein chief's TV invitation withdrawn". The Times. News international. 9 September 1988.
  9. ^ Heller Anderson, Susan (23 September 1988). "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  10. ^ "BBC presenters in helicopter crash". BBC On This Day. 1988-09-10. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
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  12. ^ Political Debate and the Role of the Media: The Fragility of Free Speech. European Audiovisual Observatory. 2004. p 91 footnote 14. ISBN 978-92-871-5675-4.
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  14. ^ West, Michael (3 November 1988). "Thatcher wins backing for IRA-TV ban". The Telegraph. p. 34. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  15. ^ Simon, Jane (13 October 1996). "101 Neighbours Facts To Oz-tonish You!". The People. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  16. ^ "Is Kylie really so lucky, lucky, lucky?". Belfast Telegraph. Independent News and Media. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2014. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ "Blue Peter: Inside The Archives by Richard Marson (page 252, Series 1988–1989 Programme 22)". Kaleidoscope Publishing. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
  18. ^ "Dear Blue Peter...: The Best of 50 Years of Letters to Britain's Favourite Children's Programme 1958–2008 by Biddy Baxter (pages 20–21)". Short Books. 4 September 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  19. ^ "Top of the Pops: Episode dated 22 December 1988". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
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  21. ^ How to Be Cool at the BFI database