1990 in British television

Events

January
  • 1 January –
  • 2 January – Granada Television's flagship nightly news programme Granada Reports is rebranded as Granada Tonight.
  • 3 January – Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles makes its debut on BBC1.[2] The show's original US title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is changed for the UK market because of controversy surrounding ninjas and related weapons such as nunchaku.[3] The intro sequence is heavily edited because of this, replacing the word ninja with hero or fighting, using a digitally faded logo instead of the animated blob, and removing any scenes in which the character Michelangelo wields his nunchaku.[4] Scenes of Michelangelo using his nunchaku are likewise edited out of the episodes themselves, leading the American producers to drop the weapons from the series entirely in order to make the show more appropriate for the international market.
  • 6 January –
    • Baywatch, a series made by NBC in the United States, makes its British television debut on ITV. The series proves popular with ITV viewers, with audience figures regularly reaching 13 million. When NBC cancels the series after its first season, ITV teams up with an international consortium of broadcasters to sponsor the show for further seasons.[5] The series comes to an end in 2001, following an eleven-year run.[6]
    • ITV airs the British television debut of Jekyll & Hyde, a made-for-television film starring Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd.
  • 8 January – The popular classic children's song Nellie the Elephant has been spawned into a 5-minute animated cartoon series on ITV featuring the voices of singer Lulu and veteran actor, comedian, author, presenter, historian and political activist Tony Robinson. The first episode "Nellie and the Ghost" airs on ITV and was shown every Monday and will keeping until 9 April with "Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy". The series will return on 5 September with "Nellie Goes Ballooning" and will be shifted onto a Wednesday timeslot. The last three episodes will be broadcast in January 1991 with the final episode being shown on 21 January.
  • 9 January – The Secret Cabaret, an innovative and shocking magic based programme hosted by magician Simon Drake, premieres on Channel 4.
  • 14 January – The Observer reports that TVS have started searching for a buyer for a 49% stake in US production company MTM Enterprises, which it bought in 1988.[7]
  • 24 January–3 February – The BBC broadcasts the 1990 Commonwealth Games. BBC1 stays on air all night to provide live coverage.
  • 31 January – British television premiere of the James Bond film A View to a Kill on ITV.[8]
  • January – For the first time, Emmerdale is networked across almost all of ITV, airing at 19:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  • January – Chrysalis Television takes over the contract to produce LWT News.[9]

February
  • 2 February – The BBC Schools gay-themed television film Two of Us is given its first daytime showing on BBC2. It is shown in two parts, on consecutive Friday lunchtimes.[10] The channel had previously shown the film late at night in March 1988.[11]
  • 5 February – Sky Movies is encrypted and becomes Sky's first pay channel.
  • 11 February – Live coverage is aired of the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa.
  • 13 February – The US science fiction series Quantum Leap makes its British television debut on BBC2.[12]
  • 19 February – The first edition of Channel 4's documentary series Cutting Edge is shown.
  • 20 February – Steve McFadden makes his first appearance as the EastEnders character Phil Mitchell. Ross Kemp debuts as Phil's brother, Grant in an episode aired two days later.

March
  • 4 March – The Observer newspaper reports that it has formed a partnership with Central Television to create Central Observer, making environmental themed films for British Satellite Broadcasting and terrestrial channels, with funding from the charity Television Trust for the Environment.[13]
  • 12 March – Ahead of the first free legislative election in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), BBC1 airs an edition of Panorama in which Fred Emery reports from the GDR and West Germany on the opportunities and strains facing the Germans.[14]
  • 20 March – Chancellor John Major delivers the first budget to be shown on television.[15]
  • 25 March – British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) launches on cable in the UK as a rival to Sky Television which launched the previous year.
  • 26 March – The science fiction soap Jupiter Moon makes its debut on the Galaxy channel. 150 episodes are commissioned, but only 108 are aired before the series is cancelled in December.
  • 27 March – BBC 1 airs the first of two flashback episodes of EastEnders as part of the storyline in which Diane Butcher (played by Sophie Lawrence) ran away from home. The episodes show Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) going to meet his teenage daughter at King's Cross station after she contacted him following a three-month absence. Scenes showing Frank waiting for Diane and their subsequent reunion are interspersed with flashbacks to January showing her leaving home and living rough on the streets.[16] Sophie Lawrence did research among real homeless people for the storyline.[17]
  • 28 March – ITV broadcasts the Granada Television documentary drama, Who Bombed Birmingham?. The programme, which looks at the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the conviction of the Birmingham Six names several people believed to have actually been behind the bombings.[18]
  • 31 March – Opportunity Knocks returns to BBC1 for the 1990 series with its original title, and with Les Dawson as host.[19]

April

May
  • 5 May – Italy's Toto Cutugno wins the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest with "Together: 1992".
  • 6 May – Airdate of the Everyman episode A Game of Soldiers, a documentary concerned a group of soldiers exploring their feelings about being trained to kill.[26]
  • 10 May – The Broadcasting Bill receives its third reading in the House of Commons and is passed with 259 votes to 180.[27]
  • 19 May – Helen Rollason becomes the first female presenter on BBC1's Grandstand.[28]
  • 22 May – ITV airs "Trojan Horse", an episode of The Bill in which the character PC Ken Melvin (played by Mark Powley) is killed off while trying to park a booby trapped car, when a bomb explodes.
  • 27–28 May – ITV stages its second nationwide Telethon.
  • 28 May – ITV airs a special edition of Coronation Street as part of its Telethon in which Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) returns for a special visit.

June

July

August
  • 10 August – Debut of Channel 4's music show The Word.
  • 14 August – BBC1 begins a repeat of the eight-part New Zealand action thriller Steel Riders.[40]
  • 18 August – BSB's second Marcopolo Satellite is launched.
  • 20 August – The last ever episode of Miami Vice, Freefall is shown on BBC1.[41]
  • 25 August – The first series of Stars in Their Eyes is won by Maxine Barrie performing as Shirley Bassey.
  • 31 August – BBC1 airs the network television premiere of Miracles, Jim Kouf's 1986 comedy starring Tom Conti and Teri Garr.[42]

September
  • 2 September –
    • BBC1 airs the network television premiere of Heartsounds, a film based on the autobiographical book by Martha Weinman Lear, and starring James Garner and Mary Tyler Moore.[43]
    • The long-running animated series The Simpsons is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, making its debut on Sky1.[44] Call of the Simpsons is the first episode to be shown on Sky.
  • 5 September – New BBC building at White City opens.
  • 7 September – After an eight-year absence, The Generation Game returns on BBC1 with Bruce Forsyth as returning host and Rosemarie Ford as hostess.[45]
  • 8 September – Ahead of the UK screening of the 1,000th episode of Neighbours, BBC1 airs Neighbours 1,000th Episode Celebration, a TV special produced by Australia's Network Ten which brought together past and present cast members to mark the occasion.[46]
  • 9 September – As part of the Screen One series, BBC1 screens the groundbreaking comedy drama Frankenstein's Baby which explores the subject of male pregnancy.[47][48]
  • 13 September – BBC1 screens the 1,000th episode of Neighbours. The episode features a storyline in which the characters Des Clarke and Jane Harris (played by Paul Keane and Annie Jones) become engaged.[49]
  • 15 September – Raymond Baxter introduces BBC1's live coverage of the fly-past and parade at Buckingham Palace as the Royal Air Force marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.[50]
  • 16 September – Cliff Michelmore introduces BBC1's coverage of the Battle of Britain Service from Westminster Abbey, conducted by Archbishop of Canterbury Rev. Dr. Robert Runcie.[51]
  • 17 September – BBC1 airs a special edition of Blue Peter in which Yvette Fielding travels to Montserrat to report on efforts to rebuild the island, which experienced widespread damage when it was struck by Hurricane Hugo on 17 September 1989.[52]
  • 23 September – Debut of the Screen One drama Sweet Nothing, which deals with the subject of homeless young people in London.[53]
  • 24 September –
    • Yorkshire Television launches a third sub-regional news opt-out for south Yorkshire and north Derbyshire called "South" and is broadcast from Sheffield while "East" (Hull) continues to air in east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk and Calendar News is broadcast to the rest of the region (west and north Yorkshire).
    • Joan Bunting wins the 1990 series of MasterChef.
  • 25 September – ITV premieres children's animated fantasy television series The Dreamstone.
  • 26 September – Star Trek: The Next Generation makes its British television debut on BBC 2, with the feature-length episode "Encounter at Farpoint".[54]
  • 30 September – The BSB channel Galaxy airs the pilot episode of Heil Honey I'm Home!, a controversial sitcom featuring a fictionalised Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The show attracts much criticism and is cancelled after one episode. Several other episodes were recorded, but none have ever been broadcast.

October
  • 2 October – The First Tuesday documentary Swing Under the Swastika airs on ITV. The programme looks at jazz music under the Nazi regime and is narrated by Alan Plater.[55]
  • 3 October – The BBC Radio 1 comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience comes to television with a series on BBC2.[56]
  • 15 October –
    • BBC1 launches a new weekday morning service called Daytime UK.[57] Linked live from Birmingham and running for four hours, from 8.50am until lunchtime, the new service includes hourly regional news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour news bulletins.
    • Fireman Sam returns to BBC 1 for a brand new series with a new character named Penny Morris being introduced.
  • 18 October – The day's edition of BBC 1's Question Time from Edinburgh becomes the first edition of the programme to feature six panellists after delays require the last minute substitution of two guests. Tony Benn, Margaret Ewing, Andrew Neil and Malcolm Rifkind were originally scheduled to appear, but Menzies Campbell and Magnus Linklater are drafted in when Benn and Neil are late. Benn and Neil then arrive 20 minutes into the programme, and join the discussion.
  • 23 October – David Lynch's critically acclaimed serial drama Twin Peaks receives its British television debut at 9.00pm on BBC2.[58]
  • 29 October – Debut of Keeping Up Appearances, a sitcom starring Patricia Routledge on BBC1.[59]
  • 30 October – Debut of The Sentence, an eight-part BBC2 documentary series looking at life inside Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute near Leicester, Europe's largest prison of its type. It is the first time a television crew has been given access to the prison.[60]

November
  • 2 November – BSB merges with Sky Television, becoming British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). Of BSB's five channels, only two, The Movie Channel and The Sports Channel, remain on air long term, though both are eventually renamed. Galaxy is closed with its transponders handed over to Sky One, Now is replaced in the most part with Sky News and The Power Station remains on air until 8 April 1991 before being replaced by MTV.
  • 9 November – The Word is moved from 6pm to a late night timeslot.
  • 11 November – At 10.40pm ITV airs an ITN News special in which Trevor McDonald talks to Saddam Hussein. In his first interview with a British broadcaster since his country's invasion of Kuwait in August, the Iraqi President calls for talks and attempts to link the ongoing Gulf crisis with the Palestinian issue.[61]
  • 12 November – British/Swiss children's television series Pingu debuts on BBC1.[62]
  • 18 November–23 December – The BBC's serialisation of the Chronicles of Narnia concludes with the fourth and final story, The Silver Chair, being aired in six parts.[63][64]
  • 20 November –
    • Broadcaster John Sergeant's famous encounter with Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the British embassy in Paris. He was waiting for Thatcher in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, when Thatcher emerges from the building. Sergeant later wins the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year.
    • BBC1 airs The Maze – Enemies Within, an Inside Story special looking at life inside Northern Ireland's Maze Prison.[65]
    • Episode of Emmerdale in which Malandra Burrows (as Kathy Merrick) sings "Just This Side of Love", a song later released by Burrows as a single. Released on 26 November, the song enters the UK Singles Chart at #44, before spending eight weeks in the top 60 and peaking at #11 on 22 December.
  • 22 November – Following Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister, the evening's edition of Question Time, broadcast from London's Barbican Centre, is transmitted in two parts, with two different panels. The first part features Enoch Powell, David Owen, James Callaghan and Simon Jenkins, while Michael Howard, Nigel Lawson, Paddy Ashdown and Roy Hattersley are the panellists for the second part.
  • 25 November –
    • BBC1 airs the final episode of Howards' Way.[66]
    • Episode three of the ninth series of Spitting Image concludes with a film showing footage of Britain's homeless crisis over which plays a parody of Dionne Warwick's 1964 song "Walk on By". The piece is introduced as one of the legacies of Margaret Thatcher's government, and is rare for the series in that no puppets were used.[67]
  • November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry, and will have many consequences for the ITV system.[68][69] The Act also sets out the terms of a license for a fifth UK television channel, which would need to be a general entertainment channel with a remit for some public service broadcasting. Additionally, it is estimated that the channel's coverage would reach only 74% of the UK, and a video retuning operation would need to be undertaken.[70]

December
  • 1 December – With the media watching, the two ends of the service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel are joined together, linking Britain and France for the first time since the Ice Age. A handshake then takes place between Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette, after which British and French workers board trains to complete the first journey between the two countries.[71][72]
  • 2 December –
    • ITV screens a repeat of Episode One of Coronation Street as the soap approaches its 30th anniversary.
    • Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marco Polo satellite by Sky One and Sky News although arts programmes are shown for a short time as a weekend opt-out service from Sky News.
  • 7 December – BBC2 broadcasts Your Move, a pioneering interactive show in which the home audience are invited to play chess against grandmaster Jonathan Speelman using telephone voting to select each move.[73]
  • 9 December –
  • 16 December – BBC1 airs the network television premiere of The Muppets Take Manhattan, the third feature length film starring the Muppets.[75]
  • 24 December –
  • 25 December –
    • Steven Spielberg's 1982 science fiction adventure E.T. makes its British television debut on BBC1.[77]
    • Channel 4 airs The Coronation Street Birthday Lecture, a talk delivered by Labour politician Roy Hattersley in which he discusses aspects of the soap in front of an invited audience, which includes some Coronation Street cast members. The programme also includes some classic clips from the series.[78]
  • 26 December –
  • 27 December –
  • 31 December – New Year's Eve highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of the romantic comedy Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac.[83]

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

S4C
  • 17 September – Heno (1990–2003, 2012–present)

Sky One
  • 2 September – The Simpsons (1987–present) (Repeated on BBC1 & BBC2 from 1996–2004 & Channel 4 from 2004–present)
  • 3 September – Love at First Sight (1990–1992)
  • 3 October – Alien Nation (1989–1990)

Galaxy

The Children's Channel

Channels

New channels
Date Channel
25 March The Movie Channel, The Sports Channel, Galaxy, The Power Station, Now
28 June The Computer Channel

Defunct channels
Date Channel
29 November The Computer Channel
1 December Now
2 December Galaxy

Rebranded channels
Date Old Name New Name
Unknown Sky Movies Sky Movies Plus

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation
Shows Moved from Moved to
Towser The Children's Channel Channel 4
The Bluffers
Kaboodle
The Clangers BBC1
Bagpuss
Ivor the Engine BBC2
Noggin the Nog
The Jetsons ITV BBC1
Rude Dog and the Dweebs The Children's Channel
What the Papers Say Channel 4 BBC2
Bright Sparks The Children's Channel
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles BBC1 Galaxy

Continuing television shows

1920s
  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths
DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
8 January Terry-Thomas 78 actor
14 January Gordon Jackson 66 actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Professionals)
23 January Derek Royle 61 actor
8 April Doreen Sloane 56 actress (Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Brookside)
2 May David Rappaport 38 actor (Time Bandits, The Wizard)
21 May Max Wall 82 comedian and actor
30 June Lynne Carol 76 actress (Coronation Street)
14 November Malcolm Muggeridge 87 journalist, author and media personality

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