1963 in British television

Events

January

  • 7 January – Granada Television first broadcasts World in Action, its influential investigative current affairs series, which will run for 35 years.
  • 13 January – BBC TV broadcasts the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan.

February

March

April

  • No events.

May

  • No events.

June

  • No events.

July

  • No events.

August

September

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

October

  • No events.

November

December

  • 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

BBC Television Service/BBC TV

  • 5 January – The Chem. Lab. Mystery (1963)
  • 18 January – Mr Justice Duncannon (1963)
  • 21 February – Moonstrike (1963)
  • 24 February – The Desperate People (1963)
  • 7 April – Jane Eyre (1963)
  • 18 May – The Stanley Baxter Show (1963–1971)
  • 19 May – Epitaph for a Spy (1963)
  • 10 July – Taxi! (1963–1964)
  • 13 July – The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981)
  • 16 August – Marriage Lines (1963–1966)
  • 1 September – No Cloak - No Dagger (1963)
  • 3 September – Swallows and Amazons (1963)
  • 22 September – First Night (1963–1966)
  • 30 September – Spotlight South-West (1963–present)
  • 5 October – The Telegoons (1963–1964)
  • 6 October – Dig This Rhubarb (1963–1964)
  • 13 October – Kidnapped (1963)
  • 1 November – Teletale (1963–1964)
  • 23 November – Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
  • 28 November – Bold as Brass (1963–1964)
  • 26 December – Laughter from the Whitehall (1963–1965)
  • 28 December – Meet the Wife (1963–1966)
  • Unknown – Bleep and Booster (1963–1977)

ITV

  • 3 January – Hancock (1963)
  • 5 January – Dimensions of Fear (1963)
  • 5 January – Once Aboard the Lugger (1963)
  • 6 January – Best of Friends (1963)
  • 7 January – World in Action (1963–1998)
  • 2 February – 24-Hour Call (1963)
  • 4 February – The Plane Makers (1963–1965)
  • 30 March – Jezebel ex UK (1963)
  • 30 March – The Human Jungle (1963–1964)
  • 2 April – Crane (1963–1965)
  • 7 April – Space Patrol (1963–1968)
  • 7 May – Sierra Nine (1963)
  • 29 May – The Des O'Connor Show (1963–1973)
  • 3 June – Love Story (1963–1974)
  • 9 June – Sergeant Cork (1963–1968)
  • 26 July – Bud (1963)
  • 6 August – Smugglers' Cove (1963)
  • 8 August – A Little Big Business (1963–1965)
  • 9 August – Ready Steady Go! (1963–1966)
  • 25 September – Our Man at St. Mark's (1963–1966)
  • 28 September – The Sentimental Agent (1963)
  • 2 October – Espionage (1963–1964)
  • 1 November – Friday Night (1963)
  • 9 November – Emerald Soup (1963)
  • 10 November – That's My Boy (1963)

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

Ending this year

  • Zoo Quest (1954–1963)
  • That Was The Week That Was (1962–1963)
  • The Jetsons (1962–1963, 1985–1987)

Births

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See also

References

  1. Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
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