1966 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events from 1966.

Events

January

February

  • No events.

March

April

May

  • 21 May – ITV Midlands (ABC) and ITV London and Southern begin broadcasting Batman, the American live-action series, starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Other ITV regions broadcast it soon afterwards, with STV first showing it on 2nd July, and Border on 13th August. Episodes are shown in two parts over Saturday and Sunday evenings.
  • 23 May – Julie Goodyear makes her Coronation Street debut as Bet Lynch. She will become a regular character between 1970 and 1995.

June

  • 6 June – BBC1 sitcom Till Death Us Do Part begins its first series run.
  • 11 June – BBC2 Northern Ireland goes on the air.
  • 16 June – The Beatles perform live on BBC television's Top of the Pops, the UK's major television pop music show, for the first and only time, miming to both "Paperback Writer" and its b-side, "Rain". The appearance is subsequently lost due to the BBC's habit of wiping expensive video tape for reuse, but in 2019 a collector unearths 11 seconds of the performance and a longer 92 seconds is found later in the year.

July

  • 9 July – BBC2 Scotland goes on the air, the last regional area to receive BBC2 (including the Gaelic language strand BBC Dhà Alba). It ceases broadcasting on 17 February 2019 to make way for the new BBC Scotland channel launching on 24 February 2019.
  • 30 July – England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley, attracting an all-time record UK television audience of more than 32,000,000.

Summer

  • Summer – Patrick McGoohan quits the popular spy series Danger Man after filming only two episodes of the fourth season, in order to produce and star in The Prisoner which begins filming in September.

August

  • No events.

September

  • No events.

October

November

December

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

Ending this year

Births

See also


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