1926 in British television
This is a list of British television- related events for 1926.
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Events
- 26 January – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his pioneering greyscale mechanical television system (which he calls a "televisor") at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.[1][2][3][4]
Births
- 25 January – Richard Davies, Welsh actor (died 2015)
- 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comedy actor (died 1988)
- 8 May – David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster
- 13 May – Eric Morecambe, comedy performer (died 1984)
- 21 October – Leonard Rossiter, comedy actor and writer (died 1984)
- 31 October – Jimmy Saville, disc jockey, television presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)
- 30 November – Sydney Lotterby, comedy producer (died 2020)
- 19 December – Stephen Lewis, comedy actor (On the Buses) (died 2014)
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References
- "BBC - History - John Logie Baird". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- "Baird demonstrates TV". History com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- "John Logie Baird | British inventor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- Burns, R. W. (1986). British Television: The Formative Years. No. 7. IET.
- Crisell, A. (2002). An introductory history of British broadcasting. Routledge.
- Toye, R. (2011). "History on British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory - By Robert Dillon". History. 96 (322): 226–227.
- Cooke, L. (2003). British television drama : a history . London: BFI Pub.
- "History of the BBC - 1920s". BBC. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
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