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1963 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events from 1963.

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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  • No events.

May

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  • No events.

June

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  • No events.

July

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  • 3 July – ITV Northern debuts the Hanna Barbara family cartoon seriesThe Jetsons ahead of other ITV regions.
  • 8 July – The English comedy sketch Dinner for One with Freddie Frinton, having been shown live on Peter Frankenfeld's show GutenAbend in 1962, is recorded in English by Norddeutscher Rundfunk before an audience at the Theater am Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, West Germany. Regularly repeated on New Year's Eve in Germany and elsewhere, it is not seen in its entirety on British television until 2018.[2]
  • 20 July - BBC Grandstand features live coverage from the first day of the 3rd women's Test between England and Australia at The Oval.[3] This is the earliest known live television broadcast of women's Test cricket.

August

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September

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  • 30 September – BBC TV begins using a globe as their symbol. They will continue to use it in varying forms until 2002.

October

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  • No events.

November

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December

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  • 21 December – First episode of the seven-part serial The Daleks broadcast in the Doctor Who series, introducing the titular aliens (revealed fully in the following week's episode).
  • 28 December – The satirical BBC show That Was the Week That Was (TW3) airs for the last time.

Debuts

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BBC Television Service/BBC TV

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ITV

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Continuing television shows

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1920s

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  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)

1930s

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  • Trooping the Colour (1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present)
  • 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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Ending this year

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Dylan in the Madhouse". BBC Four. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  2. ^ Bolzen, Stefanie (2018-12-30). "Dinner for One: the British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  3. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 1963-07-20. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  4. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  5. ^ Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
  6. ^ "What the Papers Say in pictures". The Guardian. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
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