1981 in Scottish television

Events
  • 29 July – The marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral. More than 30,000,000 viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.[1]
  • 1 September - 20th anniversary of Border Television.
  • 8 September - BBC One Scotland changes its name to BBC Scotland.
  • 30 September - 20th anniversary of Grampian Television.
  • October - Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional Oracle teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information.[2]
  • Unknown - Scottish Television airs The Shepherds of Berneray, a 50-minute television documentary revolving around the people on the island of Berneray, North Uist, and how they lived at that time.
  • Unknown - Alistair Moffat is appointed Head of Arts at Scottish Television.

Debuts

ITV
  • 5 January - Now You See It (1981–1986)

Television series

Births

Deaths
  • 6 January - A. J. Cronin, 84, writer (Doctor Finlay's Casebook)
gollark: I thought verification wasn't meant to *do* anything until October.
gollark: You're one of... five? guilds to have autobotrobot.
gollark: We should DEFINITELY keep all unverified bots which might run into problems around because we can show how cool we are.
gollark: Discord verification BAD.
gollark: robot is help

See also

References
  1. "1981: Charles and Diana marry". On This Day. BBC. 29 July 1981. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. "Turn to the Oracle to be kept in the picture". Glasgow Herald. 12 October 1981. p. 11. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
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