1987 in Scottish television

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1987.

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Events

January

• No events.

February

• No events.

March

• 3 March – Debut of the BBC Scotland drama Tutti Frutti.

April

• No events.

May

• No events.

June

• 11 – 12 June – Coverage of the results of the 1987 general election are broadcast both on BBC1 and ITV.

July

• No events.

August

• 31 August – 30th anniversary of Scottish Television.

September

• 14 September – After 30 years on ITV, the schools service ITV Schools moves to Channel 4 allowing ITV to concentrate on building a fully commercial daytime schedule. Scotland continues to opt out of the network schedule to broadcast its own schools programmes and to this date, this is the only time that Scotland has opted out of the Channel 4 schedule.

October to December

• No events.

Debuts

BBC

• 3 March – Tutti Frutti (1987)

Television series

• Scotsport (1957–2008)
• Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
• Top Club (1971–1998)
• Scotland Today (1972–2009)
• Sportscene (1975–present)
• Public Account (1976–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Grampian Today (1980–2009)
• Take the High Road (1980–2003)
• Taggart (1983–present)
• James the Cat (1984–1992)
• Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
• City Lights (1984–1991)
• The Campbells (1986–1990)
• Naked Video (1986–1991)

Ending this year

• 7 April – Tutti Frutti (1987)

Births

• 8 August – Katie Leung, actress

Deaths

• 4 February – Fyfe Robertson, 84, television journalist
• 6 June – Fulton Mackay, actor (Porridge)
• Unknown – Finlay J. MacDonald, 61, radio and television presenter

See also

• 1987 in Scotland