1 April – Debut of the Scottish soap Garnock Way, a short-lived soap that was made for ITV.
3 April – The first edition of BBC Scotland's rural affairs series Landward is broadcast. It was shown on Sunday lunchtimes as an opt-out as the rest of the UK received Farming, and from 1988 Countryfile.
12 May – Transmission of European Cup Final from Hampden Park, the biggest sporting outside-broadcast ever undertaken by an ITV company.[1]