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1951 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events from 1951.

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Events

  • 16 July – What's My Line? debuts on the BBC Television Service. It will be one of the top-rated programs for the rest of the decade and make a star of its host, Eamonn Andrews, who takes over from Gilbert Harding from the second episode.
  • 12 October – The Holme Moss transmitter is opened in Northern England, making the BBC Television Service available to the region for the first time.
  • 20 November – T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.

    • Debuts

  • 16 July – What's My Line? (1951–1963)

    • 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)

    • 1950s

  • Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)

    • Births

  • 7 January – Helen Worth, actress
  • 6 February – Kevin Whately, actor
  • 15 February – Jane Seymour, actress
  • 1 March – Mike Read, television presenter and radio disc jockey
  • 18 March – Paul Barber, actor
  • 13 April – Peter Davison, actor
  • 20 April – Louise Jameson, actress
  • 13 May – Selina Scott, journalist, newsreader and television presenter
  • 4 June – David Yip, actor
  • 28 June – Lalla Ward, actress
  • 6 November – Nigel Havers, actor
  • 15 November – Billy McColl, actor (died 2014)
  • 24 November – Margaret Mountford, lawyer, businesswoman and television personality
  • 20 December – Peter May, novelist and television dramatist

    • References

    1951 in British television Wikipedia
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