This is a list of British television related events from 1950.
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.
30 September – First BBC Television Service broadcast from an aircraft.
11 July – Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)
Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
Café Continental (1947–1953)
Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
Come Dancing (1949–1998)
For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
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
4 March — Anthony Holles, actor, 49
8 May — Franklin Dyall, actor, 80
June — Claude Bailey, actor, 54
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