1993 in British television

List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of British television related events from 1993.

Events

January

February

March

  • 1 March – Screensport and Eurosport merge. Consequently, Screensport closes down. They merge to try to turn two loss making channels into a single profitable channel.[22]
  • 5 March – ITV begins airing Doctor Finlay, a continuation series of the original Dr. Finlay's Casebook that aired during the 1960s.
  • 6 March – An IRA bomb scare at BBC Television Centre means that the live Saturday night programme Noel's House Party cannot be shown. Instead, after a repeat of the previous year's Noel's Christmas Presents, host Noel Edmonds is forced to introduce a Tom and Jerry cartoon in its place, The Zoot Cat.
  • 8 March — Games World makes its debut on Sky One.
  • 12 March – BBC1 airs Total Relief, the 1993 Comic Relief telethon.[23]
  • 23–24 March – Sky One transmits Episodes 170 and 171 of Australian soap E Street, which features a hard-hitting storyline involving extreme character Sonny Bennett (Richard Huggett), who kills three characters in a car-bomb explosion. Because the series is aired in an early evening timeslot these episodes are preceded by a warning to viewers that they contain scenes that some may find upsetting. The 12.30pm repeat the following day (24 and 25 March) is dropped entirely and replaced by episodes of The Simpsons.
  • 26 March – ITV airs "The Final Straw", an episode of The Bill in which Detective Constable Viv Martella (played by Nula Conwell) is killed off when she is shot by a gunman after approaching his car.
  • 27 March – BBC1 airs the British television premiere of Eddie Murphy's gangster comedy Harlem Nights.
  • 28 March – The Bluebells' 1984 recording of "Young at Heart" reaches number one in the UK Singles Chart following a re-release after being featured in a Volkswagen Golf commercial. It tops the charts for four weeks.
  • 29 March – Central TV becomes the first ITV region to begin screening the New Zealand medical soap opera Shortland Street.

April

  • 2 April – BBC1 transmits its new comedy drama The Riff Raff Element.
  • 3 April – The 1993 Grand National is declared void after 30 of the 39 runners begin the race, and carry on despite there having been a false start.
  • 4 April – Children's BBC begin to repeat the children's drama series Grange Hill from its first series in 1978, on Sunday mornings on BBC2, as part of the show's 15th anniversary celebrations. These repeats end in 1999 with series 16, Prior to the repeats, Rugrats begins showing on the same date.[24][25]
  • 6 April – BBC1 airs This Is Michael Bolton, a recording of Michael Bolton in concert.[26]
  • 13 April – A new look is introduced across all of the BBC's television news bulletins, with a studio that is almost entirely computer-generated and features a cut-glass model of the Corporation's coat of arms.
  • 17 April –
    • BBC1 airs the final edition of its Saturday morning magazine programme, Going Live! after six series and 179 editions.[27]
    • Arena presents a new four-part series "Tales of Rock 'N' Roll" on BBC2 looking at the story of 4 rock songs of how they came about and the history behind them and who and what they involved. Starting with Peggy Sue who was tracked down in Sacramento, California to be found running her own drain-clearing company Rapid Rooter and then to be taken back to Lubbock, Texas to recall how she knew Buddy Holly and how her marriage to drummer Jerry Allison turned out. Heartbreak Hotel where the song came to be written after the two songwriters discovered an article about a suicide in a hotel in Miami after reading about it in the Miami Herald. Walk On The Wild Side looks at all the characters that were involved in the song and how Lou Reed used to spend time at Andy Warhol's studio where they all did (Holly Woodlawn & Joe Dallesandro were the only ones still around to tell the tale) and Highway 61 Revisited which looked at Bob Dylan's roots and everything that was connected with U.S. Route 61. The series ran for four weeks on Saturday nights on 17 April, 24 April, 1 May, and 8 May.
  • 23 April – Pearson Television launches a friendly takeover bid for Thames Television, valuing the company at £99m.[28]
    • Episode 1681 of Neighbours which is the first episode not to feature the 80s style titles and theme music is shown in the United Kingdom, having previously made its debut in Australia in May 1992.

May

June

  • 4 June –
    • When Roy Hattersley fails to appear for that day's edition of Have I Got News for You — the third time he has cancelled at the last minute — he is replaced with a tub of lard (credited as "The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP"), as it is "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance".[34]
    • At 6 pm, UTV unveils a new logo. A new jingle is also introduced with a distinct Celtic sound.[35]
  • 6 June – The Animals of Farthing Wood makes its television debut in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ. It still airs on television in this country to this very day.
  • 11 June – Fawlty Towers begins its first transmission on Namibian television channel NBC in Namibia.
  • 11–13 June – Channel 4 airs the final three episodes of Cheers over three consecutive nights, finishing with the 80 minute finale. However, due to the series' popularity repeats of the series begin from the following weekend.[36]
  • 28 June – Channel 4 airs the last programmes produced for the ITV Schools strand. However, the channel continues to produce its own schools programming for several years afterwards.

July

August

September

  • 1 September –
  • 11 September – Sky One moves E Street from its weekday early evening slot to a weekend daytime slot, where it is shown in hour-long episodes on Saturdays from 6.00pm to 7.00pm and Sundays from 1.00pm to 2.00pm. The weekday 6.30pm slot is used to air episodes of Paradise Beach, but E Street is restored to the weekday slot in January 1994 after the move proves to be unpopular.
  • 17 September – Cartoon Network and classic movie channel TNT launch in the UK. They share the same transponder with Cartoon Network broadcasting during the day and TNT transmitting during the evening and overnight,
  • 21 September – BBC1 airs "A Murderer's Game", an edition of the Crimewatch File series looking at the 1992 hunt for the kidnapper of Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater.[49]
  • 22 September – BBC1 airs "Hostage", an edition of the Inside Story strand in which Terry Waite speaks about his years of captivity in Beirut.[50]
  • 24 September – A five minute animated cartoon series for preschoolers Philbert Frog screens on BBC1.
  • September – Scottish Television reschedules Emmerdale from 19:00 to 17:10, and uses the 19:00 slot to broadcast daily regional programmes, including Take the High Road. This arrangement continues until early 1998 when Emmerdale is moved back to the 19:00 slot.

October

  • 1 October – QVC UK launches in the United Kingdom, becoming the UK's first home shopping channel. The channel had originally launched in the United States in 1986.
  • 2 October – The Saturday morning magazine programme Live & Kicking debuts on BBC1, presented by Andi Peters, Emma Forbes and John Barrowman. The series follows on from Going Live!, retaining many of the features included in the former show, such as Trevor and Simon and Run the Risk with Shane Richie and Peter Simon, as well as new features like Famous for Five Minutes.[51]
  • 19 October – Last on screen appearance of Roly, the EastEnders dog and Queen Vic resident who has been part of the soap since the first episode. Roly is killed off, the episode featuring his demise attracting an audience of 14.8 million viewers. The dog who played Roly died during a heatwave on 2 August 1995.
  • 20 October –
  • 21 October – Channel 4 is granted permission by the High Court to show excerpts from Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange as part of its Without Walls series. The film, Forbidden Fruit, is shown on 26 October. Time Warner, distributors of A Clockwork Orange had sought to prevent Channel 4 from showing scenes from the film, which has been banned in the UK since 1973 after Kubrick withdrew it amid concerns it was encouraging violence.[54]

November

December

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Sky One

The Family Channel

Nickelodeon UK

Cartoon Network UK

The Children's Channel

Unknown

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
1 September The Family Channel
Nickelodeon
UK Living
17 September Cartoon Network
TNT
1 October QVC

Defunct channels

Date Channel
31 January Lifestyle
Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox
1 March Screensport

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
1 September Sky Movies Plus Sky Movies
Unknown Super Channel NBC Super Channel

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Shows Moved from Moved to
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ITV BBC2
James the Cat Nickelodeon
Japan/United States/Netherlands Wowser Channel 4
United States/South Korea Widget The Children's Channel
United States Muppet Babies BBC1 & BBC2 ITV
Wallace and Gromit Channel 4 BBC1 & BBC2
United States Eureeka's Castle Nickelodeon
United States Quick Draw McGraw BBC1 Cartoon Network
United States The Flintstones

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–present)

1930s

  • BBC Cricket (1939–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
18 February Jacqueline Hill 63 actress (Doctor Who)
10 June Les Dawson 62 comedian
31 August Stuart Latham 81 television producer (Coronation Street)
20 September Leonard Parkin 64 newsreader
12 October Patrick Holt 81 actor
28 November Kenneth Connor 75 actor ('Allo 'Allo!)

See also

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