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Overview of the events of 1982 in British television
This is a list of
British television
related events from 1982.
Events
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January
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- 1 January
- 2 January
- 3 January ? The final edition of
The Generation Game
to be presented by
Larry Grayson
is broadcast on BBC1. It is a compilation of highlights of the previous series. The show will return with
Bruce Forsyth
presenting again in 1990.
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- 4 January ?
Peter Davison
makes his first full appearance as the
Fifth Doctor
in the
Doctor Who
serial
Castrovalva
.
- 5 January ?
Let's Pretend
, a television programme for preschoolers and the replacement programme for
Pipkins
, makes its debut on ITV.
- 8 January
- January ?
John Birt
replaces
Michael Grade
as Director of Programmes at London Weekend Television and makes major changes to output aimed at maximising audiences with some niche programming, such as arts and science, moving out of primetime to the schedule margins to make way form more entertainment shows at peak time.
February
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- 3 February ? The network television premiere of
John Carpenter
's 1978 slasher
Halloween
on ITV, starring
Jamie Lee Curtis
and
Donald Pleasence
.
- February ? The first ever 3D broadcast in the UK is shown by TVS. The programme includes excerpts of test footage shot by Philips in the Netherlands. Red/green 3D glasses were given away free with copies of
TV Times
, but the 3D sections of the programme are shown in monochrome.
March
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- 2 March ? The second TV adaptation of
John Mortimer
's play
A Voyage Round My Father
, produced by Thames for ITV, airs with
Laurence Olivier
as Mortimer's blind barrister father,
Alan Bates
as the young Mortimer,
Elizabeth Sellars
as the mother and
Jane Asher
as Elizabeth as well as blind actor
Esmond Knight
as a sighted judge.
- 5 March ? The BBC is given permission by the Government to start broadcasting television programmes on two satellite channels from early 1986.
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However, the channels are not launched.
- 5 March ? The network television premiere of the 1973
Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry sequel
Magnum Force
on ITV, six months before the BBC show the first
Dirty Harry
film.
- 21 March ? The network television premiere of
Michael Anderson
's 1976 science-fiction thriller
Logan's Run
on BBC1, starring
Michael York
,
Jenny Agutter
,
Richard Jordan
,
Roscoe Lee Browne
,
Farrah Fawcett-Majors
and
Peter Ustinov
.
- 27 March ? The final edition of the Saturday morning children's magazine show
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
is broadcast on BBC1.
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- 28 March ? The network television premiere of the 1977 James Bond film,
The Spy Who Loved Me
, on ITV, starring
Roger Moore
. The broadcast of the film is reportedly watched by 22 million viewers.
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- 29 March ? The US police drama
Cagney & Lacey
makes its UK debut on BBC1.
April
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- 2 April ? The
Falklands War
begins as Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
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Both the BBC and ITV broadcast additional and extended news bulletins throughout the conflict.
- 3 April
- 6 April ? ITV debuts
The Human Race
, a six-part series produced for
Thames Television
and presented by English zoologist
Desmond Morris
, as he travels all over the world and rifled film archives to put together by showing the vast diversity of human culture and behaviour. The series ends on 11 May.
- 15 April ? BBC2's start time moves to the later time of 5:10pm with transmissions beginning with a single Open University programme with regular programmes now beginning at 5:40pm. For the past six months, BBC2 had been starting its weekday broadcasts at the earlier time of 3:55pm.
- 16 April ? Debut of the game show
Odd One Out
on BBC1, presented by
Paul Daniels
.
- 17 April ? The BBC launches its first Summer Saturday morning magazine show,
Get Set
. However, unlike its Winter counterpart, the Summer shows only air for the first half of the morning. This allows for an earlier start to
Grandstand
to accommodate live test cricket and on the weeks that cricket is not being shown, a feature film is broadcast from around 11am until the start of
Grandstand
at 12:30pm.
- 24 April ? The 27th
Eurovision Song Contest
is held in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The contest is presented by
Jan Leeming
and won by Germany's
Nicole
with
Ein bißchen Frieden
.
- 26 April ?
The Satellite Channel
launches. However, to be able to view the channel in the UK, a satellite dish approximately 10 feet (3 meters) wide is required due to the satellite on which the channel is broadcast. In 1984, it is renamed Sky Channel after it is purchased by
Rupert Murdoch
and in 1989 it is renamed Sky One alongside the launch of Sky's satellite television service.
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- 1 May ? The US soap opera
Dynasty
makes its UK debut on BBC1.
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- 4 May ? The long-running chat show
Wogan
makes its debut on BBC1, presented by
Terry Wogan
. It would be shown three times a week from 1985 and would continue until July 1992.
- 9 May ? BBC1 airs live coverage of the
London Marathon
for the first time.
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It had aired highlights of the event under the
International Athletics
strand the previous year.
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- 26 May ? The network television premiere of
Don Taylor
's 1978 horror sequel
Damien: Omen II
on ITV, starring
William Holden
.
- 28 May?2 June ? The BBC and ITV provide extensive live coverage of
Pope John Paul II
's visit to the UK.
June
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July
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August
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- 2 August ? Test broadcasts commence for Channel 4 and S4C. These mainly consist of showing the IBA's testcard ETP-1 between 9am and 8pm.
September
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October
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- 2 October ? The first edition of the Saturday morning children's show
Saturday Superstore
is broadcast on BBC1. It adopts a similar format to its predecessor,
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
.
- 3?9 October ? As part of its coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the BBC airs a two-hour breakfast programme called
Breakfast with Brisbane
. It includes regular news summaries and is the first time the BBC has broadcast a scheduled news bulletin at breakfast and comes three months ahead of the launch of their own breakfast television programme
Breakfast Time
.
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Other coverage of the Games consists of highlights programmes aired at lunchtime and early evening.
- 6 October ? BBC1 starts airing
season 6
of the US drama series
Dallas
.
- 10 October ?
Alan Bleasdale
's hard-hitting Liverpool-set drama
Boys from the Blackstuff
makes its debut on BBC2, starring
Bernard Hill
as the downtrodden character
Yosser Hughes
. The final episode was shown on 7 November.
- 17 October ? The network television premiere of
Peter Brook
's 1963 adventure
Lord of the Flies
on BBC2.
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- 23 October ? ITV begins showing the Japanese science-fiction marionette series
Star Fleet
, with the theme tune written and performed by
Queen
guitarist
Brian May
.
- 24 October ? The network television premiere of
George Lucas
' epic 1977 science-fiction blockbuster
Star Wars: A New Hope
on ITV, starring
Mark Hamill
,
Harrison Ford
,
Carrie Fisher
and
Alec Guinness
. At the time it is the most money ITV has spent on a single film ($4 million dollars) for three showings over seven years, however they go on to show
Star Wars
a total of five times (October 1982, September 1983, December 1984, January 1987 and January 1988). The debut 1982 showing draws in an estimated audience of over 16.8 million viewers.
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- 25 October ? ITV debuts
Harry's Game
, a three-part drama miniseries made by
Yorkshire Television
closely based on
Gerald Seymour
's 1975 novel of the same name starring
Ray Lonnen
,
Derek Thompson
and
Benjamin Whitrow
. The drama is noted for its
haunting theme song
by the Irish musical group
Clannad
reaching top five of the
UK Singles Chart
, bringing the band its first major international exposure. The serial continues on 27 October.
- 31 October ? Programmes in Welsh are broadcast both on the BBC and HTV for the final time.
November
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- 1 November ?
S4C
, the first Welsh language TV service, is launched.
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- 2 November ?
Channel 4
starts broadcasting at 4:45pm.
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- 3 November ? Debut of the nostalgic coming-of-age film
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
on Channel 4, written by
Jack Rosenthal
, produced by
David Puttnam
and directed by
Michael Apted
as part of the
First Love
series.
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- 4 November ? The first of six episodes of
Tom Keating
on Painters
is broadcast. Channel 4 entices viewers to their pioneering instructional programme with an ad in
The Times
that invites them to: "Watch the great 16th century Italian painter Tom Keating [who] believes the spirits of the
Old Masters
sometimes enter him as he works on a canvas. Tonight, in the first of a series, watch
Titian
paint
Tarquin and Lucretia
through Keating."
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The
art restorer
and notorious
art forger
secures for Channel 4 one of two
Broadcasting Press Guild
awards for its very first season: ‘Best on-screen performance in a non-acting role’ for Keating.
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A
Times
television critic writes, "Tom Keating does more than just break new ground in art appreciation... Instruction by example: that is the Keating approach."
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- 5 November
- 6 November ? Channel 4 airs its first terrestrial television showing of
Sidney Lumet
's 1976 American satirical drama
Network
, starring
Faye Dunaway
,
William Holden
,
Peter Finch
and
Ned Beatty
. The film was shown during the launch of S4C six days earlier.
- 7 November ? Coverage of American football is first shown on Channel 4 at 5:30pm, beginning the channel's association with the sport. The programme is initially presented by
Nicky Horne
and
Miles Aiken
, but due to an NFL players strike over pay negotiation rules, it is forced to show matches played earlier in the season. In spite of this and of the British viewing public's limited knowledge of American football, coverage of the sport proves to be popular. The players have ended their action by January 1983, enabling Channel 4 to air live coverage of that year's Super Bowl.
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- 7?28 November ? The London Weekend Television epic production
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
is aired by Channel 4 over its first four Sunday evenings on the air.
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- 8 November ? Channel 4 begins airing basketball coverage, presented by
Simon Reed
and
Miles Aiken
. Each week sees coverage of a match from Division One of the National Basketball League with highlights of the first half of the game and live coverage of the second half. The first match to be shown is a game between the Birmingham Bullets and Crystal Palace.
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- 9 November ? The first episode of the anarchic sitcom
The Young Ones
is broadcast on BBC2, starring
Rik Mayall
,
Ade Edmondson
,
Nigel Planer
,
Christopher Ryan
and
Alexei Sayle
and written by Mayall,
Ben Elton
and
Lise Mayer
.
- 14 November ? The viewer complaints programme
Right to Reply
is first broadcast on Channel 4.
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- 16 November ? A dispute over new technology forces Border to close for around a month.
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- 20 November ? BBC1 begins showing the five-part historical Japanese-set drama
Sh?gun
, starring
Richard Chamberlain
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- 29 November ? ITV conducts a national 3D experiment with red/blue glasses allowing colour 3D to be shown for the first time. The programme, an episode of the weekly science magazine
The Real World
produced by TVS is shown on a weekday evening and repeated that weekend on Sunday afternoon, followed by a rare showing of the Western
Fort Ti
on 5 December, starring
George Montgomery
and
Joan Vohs
.
December
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Debuts
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BBC1
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BBC2
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Channel 4
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New channels
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Television shows
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Changes of network affiliation
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Continuing television shows
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1920s
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- BBC Wimbledon
(1927?1939, 1946?2019, 2021?present)
1930s
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- The Boat Race
(1938?1939, 1946?2019, 2021?present)
- BBC Cricket
(1939, 1946?1999, 2020?2024)
1940s
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1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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Ending this year
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Births
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- 3 January ? Amanda Robbins, model
- 20 January ?
Joe Swash
, actor
- 9 March ?
Paul 'Des' Ballard
, television presenter
- 22 March ?
Pete Bennett
, reality show contestant
- 2 April ?
Jenny Ryan
, game show contestant and Chaser on
The Chase
- 24 April ?
Laura Hamilton
, television presenter
- 28 April ?
Nikki Grahame
, model, dancer and television personality (died 2021)
- 7 June ?
Amy Nuttall
, actress and opera singer
- 13 June ?
Davood Ghadami
, actor
- 6 August -
Karl Davies
, actor
- 22 September ?
Billie Piper
, singer and actress
- 28 October ?
Matt Smith
, actor
- 29 November ?
Imogen Thomas
, reality show contestant
- 21 December ?
Tom Payne
, soap actor
Deaths
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See also
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References
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Peter Fiddick "ITV's framework for survival in the eighties",
The Guardian
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Gosling, Kenneth (18 March 1983). "Channel 4 wins two awards".
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