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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year nav topic5 This is a list of British television related events from 1972.

Events

January

  • 19 January – The government of Edward Heath announces the lifting of all restrictions on broadcasting hours on television and radio.

February

  • No events.

March

April

  • 4 April
  • 14 April – Hosted by Chris Kelly, Clapperboard, the long-running cinema themed children's programme makes its debut on ITV.
  • 18 April – ITV Anglia begins showing the first series (following two previous TV movies) of the American detective series Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the titular "Lieutenant Frank Columbo" in the episode "Murder by the Book". Other ITV regions commence broadcasting the series shortly after.

May

  • No events.

June

July

August

September

  • 8 September – The department store-based comedy series Are You Being Served? makes its debut on BBC1. It becomes one of the longest-running BBC comedy shows and goes on to spawn a 1977 British feature film and the spin-off series Grace & Favour which begins in 1992.
  • 11 September
    • The long-running quiz show Mastermind airs for the first time on BBC1, hosted by Magnus Magnusson.
    • Nationwide starts broadcasting five days a week. Previously, it has been broadcast only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
    • After eight years of episodes being shown different days at various ITV regions, Crossroads finally gets broadcast across the network with Granada Television showing it for the first time. The series is still being shown at different times across the regions.
  • 17 September – The family adventure series The Adventures of Black Beauty is broadcast on ITV.

October

  • 1 October – London Weekend Television launches the UK's first Sunday politics programme Weekend World. It runs until 1988.
  • 2 October – Following the lifting of restrictions on broadcasting hours, BBC1 and ITV are allowed to begin broadcasting during the day. BBC1's afternoon schedule launches with the first edition of a new lunchtime magazine programme Pebble Mill at One.
  • 16 October – ITV launches its afternoon service. As part of the new service, the first episode of rural soap opera Emmerdale Farm is broadcast, produced by Yorkshire Television and ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown. ITV Schools is now shown in a single morning block, between the hours of 9:30am and 12pm.
  • 23 October – The BBC announces that development work has begun on the Ceefax teletext service.

November

  • 5 November – BBC2 begins showing the horror anthology series Dead of Night with the episode "The Exorcism".
  • 12 November – ITV airs the first episode of the influential children's programme Rainbow, featuring the characters "Zippy", "George" and "Bungle the Bear". It would run until 1992.

December

Unknown

  • The BBC Schools and Colleges service is converted to colour and starts using the Diamond ident which stays until 1977.
  • The UK's Minister for Posts and Telecommunications authorises five experimental community cable television channels.[1]
  • London Weekend Television opens its purpose-built studios called The London Studios although they are not fully operational until 1974.

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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External links

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