1982 in British television

none 1982 British television This is a list of British television related events from 1982. Events January 1 January Associated Television (ATV) is restructured into Central Independent Television but still broadcasts in the Midlands. Television South (TVS) starts broadcasting to the South and South East of England, replacing Southern Television and Television South West (TSW) starts broadcasting to the South West, replacing Westward Television. The Bluebell Hill transmitter in Kent is transferred from Thames/LWT to TVS, to increase the size of TVS's new South East sub-region and the Kendal transmitter, covering much of southern Cumbria, is transferred from Granada to Border.Peter Fiddick "ITV's framework for survival in the eighties", The Guardian; 25 January 1980; p.2 Yorkshire Television extends its coverage on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, when transmitters covering Todmorden and Walsden are transferred from the Granada region.ITV's framework for survival in the eighties: Expectations of a harsh ... The Guardian 25 January 1980.£5m for staff who seek TV franchise Kenneth Gosling The Times 12 May 1980 In London, the Friday handover hour for Thames and LWT is moved from 7pm to 5:15pm. The network television premiere of Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind on ITV, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut and Melinda Dillon. The network television premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey on BBC1.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/247288bb07394e938c693da1e16af4ae 2001: A Space Odyssey – BBC One London – 1 January 1982 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 25 November 2018 25 November 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181125204640/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/247288bb07394e938c693da1e16af4ae dead 2 January The US action series The Fall Guy makes its UK debut on ITV, starring Lee Majors. The late night comedy show O.T.T., made by Central Independent Television, makes its debut on ITV, presented by Tiswas regulars Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry and Bob Carolgees; the adult-oriented series runs for 12 episodes only, but gives Alexei Sayle his first high-profile television exposure. 3 January – The final edition of The Generation Game to be presented by Larry Grayson is broadcast on BBC1. It is a compilation of highlights of the previous series. The show will return with Bruce Forsyth presenting again in 1990.http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/58771f42b5424c438ce6b4e38d234359 Larry Grayson's Generation Game – BBC One London – 3 January 1982 BBC BBC Genome 18 August 2017 2 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201002002629/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/58771f42b5424c438ce6b4e38d234359 dead 4 January – Peter Davison makes his first full appearance as the Fifth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Castrovalva. 7 January – BBC1 begins showing the US children's series Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, based on the stories by Mark Twain. 5 January – Let's Pretend, a television programme for preschoolers and the replacement programme for Pipkins, makes its debut on ITV. 8 January The Post-World War II era set family drama series Shine on Harvey Moon makes its debut on ITV, starring Kenneth Cranham. Launch of London Weekend Television's Friday evening magazine programme The Six O'Clock Show. Until December 1987, it includes a fifteen minute news bulletin produced by Thames and is called Thames Weekend News. 11 January – World snooker champion Steve Davis becomes the first player to make a maximum 147 break on television during ITV's coverage of the Lada Classic. January – John Birt replaces Michael Grade as Director of Programmes at London Weekend Television and makes major changes to output aimed at maximising audiences with some niche programming, such as arts and science, moving out of primetime to the schedule margins to make way for more entertainment shows at peak time. February 3 February – The British television premiere of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher Halloween on ITV, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. February – The first ever 3D broadcast in the UK is shown by TVS. The programme includes excerpts of test footage shot by Philips in the Netherlands. Red/green 3D glasses are given away free with copies of TV Times, but the 3D sections of the programme are shown in monochrome. March 2 March – The second TV adaptation of John Mortimer's play A Voyage Round My Father, produced by Thames for ITV, airs with Laurence Olivier as Mortimer's blind barrister father, Alan Bates as the young Mortimer, Elizabeth Sellars as the mother and Jane Asher as Elizabeth as well as blind actor Esmond Knight as a sighted judge. 5 March – The BBC is given permission by the Government to start broadcasting television programmes on two satellite channels from early 1986. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article1037261.ece On This Day – March 5, 1982 Times Online 5 March 2004 6 June 2009 LondonSeptember 2024 medicmedic However, the channels are not launched. 5 March – The network television premiere of the 1973 Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force on ITV, six months before the BBC shows the first Dirty Harry film. 21 March – The network television premiere of Michael Anderson's 1976 science-fiction thriller Logan's Run on BBC1, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Peter Ustinov. 27 March – The final edition of the Saturday morning children's magazine show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop is broadcast on BBC1.http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bf32ea5d939941d08115e2c6cb16b49d Swap Shop – BBC One London – 27 March 1982 BBC Genome Project 5 March 2016 8 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160308095942/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bf32ea5d939941d08115e2c6cb16b49d dead 28 March – The network television premiere of the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me on ITV, starring Roger Moore. The broadcast of the film is reportedly watched by 22 million viewers.https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/history_bond_on_tv.php3 James Bond On TV – Movies MI6 – The Home Of James Bond 007 5 April 2011 26 January 2018 6 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201106124333/https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/history_bond_on_tv.php3 dead 29 March – The US police drama Cagney & Lacey makes its UK debut on BBC1. April 2 April – The Falklands War begins as Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 Both the BBC and ITV broadcast additional and extended news bulletins throughout the conflict. 3 April The final edition of the children's Saturday morning series Tiswas is broadcast on ITV. It has been shown, albeit originally as a regional show made by ATV, since 1974. The network television premiere of Michael Crichton's 1979 heist comedy The First Great Train Robbery on ITV, starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down. 6 April – ITV debuts The Human Race, a six-part series produced for Thames Television and presented by English anthropologist Desmond Morris, as he travels all over the world and rifles film archives to show the vast diversity of human culture and behaviour. The series ends on 11 May. 12 April – The network television premiere of the film The Boys from Brazil starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Lilli Palmer is shown on ITV. 14 April – Actor Arthur Lowe gives a live interview on BBC's Pebble Mill at One.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdJrZ9uS30 Arthur Lowe – Pebble Mill at One – BBC – 1982 Last interview Complete YouTube 16 July 2014 22 December 2015 He collapses in the evening and dies the following day. 15 April – BBC2's start time moves to the later time of 5:10pm with transmissions beginning with a single Open University programme with regular programmes now beginning at 5:40pm. For the past six months, BBC2 has been starting its weekday broadcasts at the earlier time of 3:55pm. 16 April – Debut of game show Odd One Out on BBC1, presented by Paul Daniels. 17 April – The BBC launches its first Summer Saturday morning magazine show, Get Set. However, unlike its winter counterpart, the summer shows air for the first half of the morning only. This allows for an earlier start to Grandstand to accommodate live test cricket and on the weeks that cricket is not being shown, a feature film is broadcast from around 11am until the start of Grandstand at 12:30pm. 24 April – The 27th Eurovision Song Contest is held in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The contest is presented by Jan Leeming and won by Germany's Nicole with "Ein bißchen Frieden". 26 April – The Satellite Channel launches, but to be able to view the channel in the UK a satellite dish approximately 10 feet (3 meters) wide is required due to the satellite on which the channel is broadcast. http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/bitstream/channelguide/skyone.php Sky One Transdiffusion Broadcasting System Ian Beaumont 23 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090719092509/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/bitstream/channelguide/skyone.php 2009-07-19 dead May 1 May – The US soap opera Dynasty makes its UK debut on BBC1.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/21d2b8b1b3cc4b3fb7080bc392691c97 Dynasty – BBC One London – 1 May 1982 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 1 September 2018 1 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180901221331/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/21d2b8b1b3cc4b3fb7080bc392691c97 dead 4 May – The long-running live evening chat show Wogan makes its debut on BBC1, presented by Terry Wogan. It will be shown three times a week from 1985 and will continue until July 1992. 9 May – BBC1 airs live coverage of the London Marathon for the first time.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/94865a4704f748968babeb0706ad5d81 London's Marathon – BBC One – 9 May 1982 BBC BBC Genome 18 April 2019 18 April 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190418214532/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/94865a4704f748968babeb0706ad5d81 dead It had aired highlights of the event under the International Athletics strand the previous year.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9c7130c3e25b43b18eb62dc8b7f19f65 International Athletics – BBC One – 29 March 1981 BBC BBC Genome 18 April 2019 29 October 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141029112619/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9c7130c3e25b43b18eb62dc8b7f19f65 dead 26 May – The network television premiere of Don Taylor's 1978 horror sequel Damien: Omen II on ITV, starring William Holden. 28 May–2 June – The BBC and ITV provide extensive live coverage of Pope John Paul II's visit to the UK. 31 May – ITV premiers the 1973 animated film Charlotte's Web 1973 film. June 12 June – The network television premiere of Philip Kaufman's 1978 science-fiction horror remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers on ITV, starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy. 14 June – The Falklands War ends after Argentina surrenders. 17 June – The US musical high school drama Fame makes its UK debut on BBC1. 20 June – The BBC relaunches its Sunday morning programme for the Asian community, and changes the title to Asian Magazine.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1982-06-20 BBC One London – 20 June 1982 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 1 September 2018 29 January 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210129155544/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1982-06-20 dead 22 June – ITV shows Ray Harryhausen's 1977 fantasy adventure film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. July 11 July – The network television premiere of Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror Alien on ITV, starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton. 26 July – Alasdair Milne succeeds Ian Trethowan as Director-General of the BBC. August 2 August – Test broadcasts commence for Channel 4 and S4C. These mainly consist of showing the IBA's testcard ETP-1 between 9am and 8pm. 19 August – Final broadcast of Welsh language serial Pobol Y Cwm shown on BBC1 in England on some transmitters as the series would move to S4C when the channel launches in November along with other Welsh language programmes. The series would make a brief return on BBC TV with a trial run for a network screening in 1994. September 4 September – Debut of The Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, presented by Noel Edmonds. 8 September – The network television premiere of Don Siegel's 1971 American thriller Dirty Harry on BBC1, starring Clint Eastwood. 19 September – Clive James on Television makes its debut on ITV in which Australian-born TV critic and journalist Clive James looks at bizarre television shows from around the world. 20 September – The BBC Schools computer-generated ident launches. 23 September – HTV launches a weekly current affairs programme Wales This Week.Wales this Week celebrates thirty years of success http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-12-11/wales-this-week-celebrates-thirty-years-of-success/ 2012-12-11 ITV https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084642/http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-12-11/wales-this-week-celebrates-thirty-years-of-success/ 2016-03-04 live 25 September – ITV screens the 1979 feature length made for TV movie Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. October 1 October – BBC2’s weekday daytime four-hour transmitter shutdown is suspended for the next four months. This is to assist riggers adjust aerials during the lead up to, and the launch of, Channel 4.Suspension of daytime BBC2 transmitter shutdowns 2 October – The first edition of Saturday morning children's show Saturday Superstore is broadcast on BBC1. Hosted by Mike Read, Sarah Greene and Keith Chegwin, it adopts a similar format to its predecessor, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. 3–9 October – As part of its coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the BBC airs a two-hour breakfast programme called Breakfast with Brisbane. It includes regular news summaries and is the first time the BBC has broadcast a scheduled news bulletin at breakfast and comes three months ahead of the launch of their own breakfast television programme Breakfast Time.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1982-10-03 BBC One London – 3 October 1982 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 1 September 2018 26 July 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180726011549/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1982-10-03 deadhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9805607/Breakfast-television-the-revolution-embraced-by-the-nation.html Breakfast television: the revolution embraced by the nation Neil Midgley 16 January 2013 Telegraph Media Group 27 February 2019 The Telegraph Other coverage of the Games consists of highlights programmes aired at lunchtime and early evening. 6 October – BBC1 starts airing season 6 of the US drama series Dallas. 10 October – Alan Bleasdale's hard-hitting Liverpool-set drama Boys from the Blackstuff makes its debut on BBC2, starring Bernard Hill as the downtrodden character Yosser Hughes. The final episode is shown on 7 November. 17 October – The network television premiere of Peter Brook's 1963 adventure Lord of the Flies on BBC2.https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/74c748a627dd4101944df4af01679475 Film of the Week: Lord of the Flies – BBC Two England – 17 October 1982 – BBC Genome genome.ch.bbc.co.uk 25 November 2018 26 November 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181126010307/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/74c748a627dd4101944df4af01679475 dead 23 October – ITV begins showing the Japanese science-fiction marionette series Star Fleet, with the theme tune written and performed by Paul Bliss. 24 October – The network television premiere of George Lucas' epic 1977 science-fiction blockbuster Star Wars: A New Hope on ITV, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness. At the time it is the most money ITV has spent on a single film, $4 million for three showings over seven years; however they go on to show Star Wars a total of five times (October 1982, September 1983, December 1984, January 1987 and January 1988). The debut 1982 showing draws in an estimated audience of over 16.8 million viewers.Haliwell's Horizon: A Store of Riches 9781447742050 https://books.google.com/books?Fawcett=vOc5AwAAQBAJ&dq=star+wars+itv+1982+viewing+figures&pg=PA203 Binder Michael July 2011 25 October – ITV debuts Harry's Game, a three-part drama miniseries made by Yorkshire Television closely based on Gerald Seymour's 1975 novel of the same name starring Ray Lonnen, Derek Thompson and Benjamin Whitrow. The drama is noted for its haunting theme song by the Irish musical group Clannad reaching top five of the UK Singles Chart, bringing the band its first major international exposure. The serial continues on 27 October. 31 October – Programmes in Welsh are broadcast both on the BBC and HTV for the final time. November 1 November – S4C, the first Welsh language TV service, is launched. 2 November – Channel 4, the fourth UK television service, starts broadcasting outside Wales at 4:40pm as a free-to-air public broadcast channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, publicly owned but funded entirely from commercial activities, with continuity announcer Paul Coia. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7062390.stm 25 facts from Channel 4's 25 years BBC News 2 November 2007 23 April 2009 At 4:45pm, the first programme shown is the game show Countdown, presented by Richard Whiteley, which, barring the news, is the only programme from the launch night which will still be running over forty years later. At 7:00pm, the first edition of Channel 4 News, the UK's first hour-long news programme, is broadcast. At 8:00pm, the first ever episode of the soap opera Brookside is broadcast. It is shown on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8pm and will run until 2003. Phil Redmond's production company Mersey Television has acquired a real street of new houses in Liverpool for the filming.Brookside Close on Google Maps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=Brookside+Close,+Liverpool,+United+Kingdom&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.275297,93.076172&hnear=Brookside+Close,+Liverpool+L12+0,+United+Kingdom&z=16&iwloc=A 2011-03-24 At 10:15pm is the debut of comedy The Comic Strip Presents... Five Go Mad in Dorset, first of six comedies parodying The Famous Five (including dog) doing some detective work while on holiday in the West Country, featuring early TV appearances from Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.2 November 1982 The Comic Strip Presents...Five Go Mad In Dorset 27 The Times Dear Peter London It captures the Broadcasting Press Guild prize for 'best comedy'.Gosling Kenneth 18 March 1983 Channel 4 wins two awards 5 The Times London Also debuting this evening in the UK is Australian comedy The Paul Hogan Show. 3 November – Debut of the nostalgic coming-of-age film P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang on Channel 4, written by Jack Rosenthal, produced by David Puttnam and directed by Michael Apted as part of the First Love series.http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/507334/index.html BFI Screenonline: P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) www.screenonline.org.uk 7 November 2018 4 November – The first of six episodes of Tom Keating on Painters is broadcast. Channel 4 entices viewers to their pioneering instructional programme with an ad in The Times that invites them to: "Watch the great 16th century Italian painter Tom Keating [who] believes the spirits of the Old Masters sometimes enter him as he works on a canvas. Tonight, in the first of a series, watch Titian paint Tarquin and Lucretia through Keating."Channel 4 4 November 1982 Watch the great 16th century Italian painter Tom Keating 13 The Times London The art restorer and notorious art forger secures for Channel 4 one of two Broadcasting Press Guild awards for its very first season: ‘Best on-screen performance in a non-acting role’ for Keating.Gosling Kenneth 18 March 1983 Channel 4 wins two awards 5 The Times A Times television critic writes, "Tom Keating does more than just break new ground in art appreciation... Instruction by example: that is the Keating approach."11 November 1982 Today's television programmes – Choice: Tom Keating on Painters 25 The Times Davalle Peter 5 November Debut of Channel 4's innovative music show The Tube, presented by Jools Holland and Paula Yates. The network television premiere of Woodstock on Channel 4, Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary about the counterculture 1969 festival which took place near Bethel, New York and was a great commercial and critical success. The opening and closing acts are the same in the film as they appeared on stage with Richie Havens opening the show and Jimi Hendrix closing it. Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm airs on S4C for the first time, after the last episode was shown on BBC Wales the previous week. 6 November – Channel 4 airs its first terrestrial television showing of Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satirical drama Network, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Ned Beatty. The film was shown during the launch of S4C six days earlier. 7 November – Coverage of American football is first shown on Channel 4 at 5:30pm, beginning the channel's association with the sport. The programme is initially presented by Nicky Horne and Miles Aiken, but due to an NFL players strike over pay negotiation rules, it is forced to show matches played earlier in the season. In spite of this and of the British viewing public's limited knowledge of American football, coverage of the sport proves to be popular. The players have ended their action by January 1983, enabling Channel 4 to air live coverage of that year's Super Bowl.http://index22d6.html/?page_id=1255 Part One (1982–1992): "Suddenly The Refrigerator Was a Bigger Name Than Gary Lineker" : Off The Telly 23 January 2019May 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes 7–28 November – The London Weekend Television epic production The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is aired by Channel 4 over its first four Sunday evenings on the air. 8 November – Channel 4 begins airing basketball coverage, presented by Simon Reed and Miles Aiken. Each week sees coverage of a match from Division One of the National Basketball League with highlights of the first half of the game and live coverage of the second half. The first match to be shown is a game between the Birmingham Bullets and Crystal Palace. 9 November – The first episode of the anarchic sitcom The Young Ones is broadcast on BBC2, starring Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan and Alexei Sayle and written by Mayall, Ben Elton and Lise Mayer. 14 November – The viewer complaints programme Right to Reply is first broadcast on Channel 4.BFI.org.uk (episode capsule) 16 November – A dispute over new technology forces Border to close for around a month.News in Brief The Times London 16 December 1982 3 20 November – BBC1 begins showing the five-part historical Japanese-set drama Shōgun, based on James Clavell's acclaimed novel and starring Richard Chamberlain. 29 November – ITV conducts a national 3D experiment with red/blue glasses allowing colour 3D to be shown for the first time. The programme, an episode of the weekly science magazine The Real World produced by TVS is shown on a weekday evening and repeated that weekend on Sunday afternoon, followed by a rare showing of the Western Fort Ti on 5 December, starring George Montgomery and Joan Vohs. December 2 December – 10.2 million viewers see a classic comedy scene from the Only Fools and Horses episode "A Touch of Glass" in which the Trotters accidentally smash a priceless chandelier. 23 December – Service Information is broadcast on BBC2 for the final time. 25 December – The network television premiere of the 1979 Disney science-fiction adventure The Black Hole on ITV, starring Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Bottoms, Anthony Perkins and Ernest Borgnine. TSW choose to opt out and show a different movie instead. 26 December – Debut of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman on Channel 4. The acclaimed children's animated short film will go on to be repeated each Christmas.http://index0a89.html/?page_id=907 1982 : Off The Telly 23 January 2019May 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes 27 December The network television premiere of the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker on ITV, starring Roger Moore. BBC1 shows the network television premiere of the 1976 version of King Kong, starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. Channel 4 airs its first theme night, Fifties to the Fore. The evening includes episodes of ABC and ATV shows such as Armchair Theatre and Oh Boy!. 28 December The network television premiere of the 1978 blockbuster musical Grease on BBC1, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The network television premiere of Hal Needham's 1977 American comedy Smokey and the Bandit on ITV, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason. Debuts BBC1 3 January – Gulliver in Lilliput (1982) 4 January – Police (1982) 6 January – The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1982) 7 January – Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979–1980) 8 January – Fame is the Spur (1982) 10 January – King's Royal (1982–1983) 28 January – Goodbye, Mr Kent (1982) 31 January – Stalky & Co. (1982) 16 February – Legacy of Murder (1982) 1 March – Alexa (1982) 25 March – Love Is Old, Love Is New (1982) 29 March – Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988) 11 April – Badger by Owl-Light (1982) 13 April – Play for Tomorrow (1982) 16 April – Odd One Out (1982–1985) 22 April – Bird of Prey (1982) 1 May – Dynasty (1981–1989) 4 May – Wogan (1982–1992) 5 May – Secrets (1982) 1 June – Take Two (1982–1996) 17 June – Fame (1982–1987) 17 August – An Inspector Calls (1982) 4 September – The Late, Late Breakfast Show (1982–1986) 5 September – Cousin Phillis (1982) 9 September – Claire (1982) 28 September – With My Little Eye (1982) 29 September – The Jockey School (1982) 2 October Carrott's Lib (1982–1983) Saturday Superstore (1982–1987) 3 October – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) 19 October – Squadron (1982) 31 October – Beau Geste (1982) 10 November – Billy Boy (1982) 17 November – Break Point (1982) 20 November – Shōgun (1980) 30 December 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982) Then Churchill Said to Me (made but not screened until 1993) 31 December – Ghost in the Water (1982) BBC2 7 January – Ennal's Point (1982) 13 January – The Bell (1982) 25 January – West Country Tales (1982–1983) 10 February – Nancy Astor (1982) 18 February – County Hall (1982) 5 March – Dear Heart (1982) 14 April – The Woman in White (1982) 19 May – Frost in May (1982) 6 July – Food and Drink (1982–2002) 14 July – Cloud Howe (1982) 2 August – Jane (1982) 1 September – Timewatch (1982–present) 20 September Smiley's People (1982) There's a Lot of It About (1982) 21 September – Take Three Women (1982) 8 October – L for Lester (1982) 10 October – Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) 17 October – Wagner's Ring (1982) 1 November – The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1982) 4 November – Eureka (1982–1986) 9 November – The Young Ones (1982–1984) 10 November – The Barchester Chronicles (1982) 12 November – Objects of Affection (1982) 14 December – Another Flip for Dominick (1982) 26 December – Spider's Web (1982) 29 December – East Lynne (1982) ITV 1 January – Central News (1982–present) 2 January No. 73 (1982–1988) O.T.T. (1982) The Fall Guy (1981–1986) 3 January – Airline (1982) 4 January Don't Rock the Boat (1982–1983) Let's Pretend (1982–1988) Let There Be Love (1982–1983) 5 January Emu's World (1982–1984) CBTV (1982–1985) 8 January – Shine on Harvey Moon (1982–1985, 1995) 12 January – Muck and Brass (1982) 12 February – We'll Meet Again (1982) 15 February – Dead Ernest (1982) 16 February – On Safari (1982–1985) 18 February – Falcon Crest (1981–1990) 26 February – The Haunting of Cassie Palmer (1982) 28 February – Father Charlie (1982) 1 March – Murphy's Mob (1982–1985) 2 March – A Voyage Round My Father (1985) 14 March – Whoops Apocalypse (1982) 29 March – 3-2-1 Contact (1980–1988) 31 March – All for Love (1982–1983) (Anthology) 4 April – A Kind of Loving (1982) 6 April The Brack Report (1982) The Human Race (1982) 13 April – Horace (1982) 14 April – I Remember Nelson (1982) 16 April – The Bounder (1982–1983) 18 April – Jangles (1982) 19 April – Union Castle (1982) 28 May – On the Line (1982) 9 June – Andy Robson (1982–1983) 10 June – There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982) 14 June – The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982) 30 June – Something in Disguise (1982) 6 July – Pullover (1982) 9 July – Rep (1982) 12 July – A.J. Wentworth, B.A. (1982) 25 July – All for Love (1982–1983) 26 July – Ragdolly Anna (1982–1987) 2 August – Comic Roots (1982–1983) 6 August – Third Time Lucky (1982) 1 September – Radio Phoenix (1982) 7 September – The Agatha Christie Hour (1982) 13 September Hold Tight! (1982–1987) Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982–83) Living in Styal (1982) (prison documentary) 19 September – Clive James on Television (1982–1988) 23 September – Wales This Week (1982–present) 26 September – Ivanhoe (1982) 23 October – Star Fleet (1982–1983) 25 October Foxy Lady (1982–1984) Harry's Game (1982) 27 October – A Country Practice (1981–1994) 30 October – The Saturday Show (1982–1984) 31 October – Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982) 3 November – The Cut Price Comedy Show (1982–1983) 7 November – Sunday Sunday (1982–1990) 9 November – S.W.A.L.K. (1982) 10 November – Nobody's Hero (1982) 13 November – Saturday Night Thriller (1982) 28 December – Anyone for Denis? (1982) Unknown – Fables of the Green Forest (1982) Channel 4 2 November Countdown (1982–present) Brookside (1982–2003) Channel 4 News (1982–present) The Comic Strip Presents (1982–2005) Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (1982) The Paul Hogan Show (1973–1984) 3 November – P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) 4 November – Tom Keating on Painters (1982–1984) 5 November – The Tube (1982–1987) 7 November – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) 14 November Right to Reply (1982–2001) Murun Buchstansangur (1982–1985) 26 December – The Snowman (1982) 28 December – Treasure Hunt (1982–1989) Unknown – Black on Black (1982–1985) S4C 1 November SuperTed (1982–1986) Newyddion (1982–present) 3 November – Y Byd ar Bedwar (1982–present) 4 November – Joni Jones (1982) 5 November – Anturiaethau Syr Wynff a Plwmsan (1982–1989) 11 November – Noson Lawen (1982–present) Unknown – Wil Cwac Cwac (1982–1986) New channels DateChannel26 AprilThe Satellite Channel1 NovemberS4C2 NovemberChannel 4 Television shows Changes of network affiliation Show Moved from Moved toLucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (1982)BBC1Channel 4 Continuing television shows 1920s BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present) 1930s Trooping the Colour (1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present) The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present) BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024) 1940s Come Dancing (1949–1998) 1950s The Good Old Days (1953–1983) Panorama (1953–present) Crackerjack (1955–1984, 2020–present) What the Papers Say (1956–2008)What the Papers Say in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2008/may/29/what.the.papers.say The Guardian 2 April 2022 29 May 2008 The Sky at Night (1957–present) Blue Peter (1958–present) Grandstand (1958–2007) 1960s Coronation Street (1960–present) Songs of Praise (1961–present) Animal Magic (1962–1983) Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present) World in Action (1963–1998) Top of the Pops (1964–2006) Match of the Day (1964–present) Crossroads (1964–1988, 2001–2003) Play School (1964–1988) Mr. and Mrs. (1965–1999) World of Sport (1965–1985) Jackanory (1965–1996, 2006) Sportsnight (1965–1997) Call My Bluff (1965–2005) The Money Programme (1966–2010) Reksio (1967–1990) The Big Match (1968–2002) Nationwide (1969–1983) Screen Test (1969–1984) 1970s The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971–1987) The Two Ronnies (1971–1987, 1991, 1996, 2005) Crown Court (1972–1984) Pebble Mill at One (1972–1986, 1991–1996) Rainbow (1972–1992, 1994–1997) Emmerdale (1972–present) Newsround (1972–present) Weekend World (1972–1988) We Are the Champions (1973–1987) Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010) That's Life! (1973–1994) Wish You Were Here...? (1974–2003) Arena (1975–present) Jim'll Fix It (1975–1994) Gambit (1975–1985, 1995) Rentaghost (1976–1984) One Man and His Dog (1976–present) Open All Hours (1976, 1981–1982, 1985) The Professionals (1977–1983) Butterflies (1978–1983, 2000) 3-2-1 (1978–1988) Grange Hill (1978–2008) Ski Sunday (1978–present) Terry and June (1979–1987) The Book Tower (1979–1989) Blankety Blank (1979–1990, 1997–2002) The Paul Daniels Magic Show (1979–1994) Antiques Roadshow (1979–present) Question Time (1979–present) 1980s Play Your Cards Right (1980–1987, 1994–1999, 2002–2003) Family Fortunes (1980–2002, 2006–2015, 2020–present) The Gentle Touch (1980–1984) Juliet Bravo (1980–1985) Cockleshell Bay (1980–1986) Children in Need (1980–present) The Gaffer (1981–1983) A Fine Romance (1981–1984) Punchlines (1981–1984) Finders Keepers (1981–1985) Freetime (1981–1985) Game for a Laugh (1981–1985) Tenko (1981–1985) That's My Boy (1981–1986) Razzamatazz (1981–1987) Bergerac (1981–1991) BBC News After Noon (1981–1986) Sorry! (1981–1988) Ending this year Unknown Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) Harry's Game (1982) Noggin the Nog (1959–1970, 1979–1982) O.T.T. (1982) 1 January – Clapperboard (1972–1982) 13 February – The Goodies (1970–1982) 6 March – Dick Turpin (1979–1982) 8 March – Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982) 27 March – Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–1982) 2 April – Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1979–1982) 3 April – Tiswas (1974–1982) 10 April – Parkinson (1971–1982, 1998–2007) 25 April – Open All Hours (1976, 1981–1982, 1985, 2013) 30 July – It's a Knockout (1966–1982, 1999–2001) 31 August – Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982) 8 September – Into the Labyrinth (1980–1982) 15 October – Something Else (1978–1982) 20 October – Strangers (1978–1982) 16 December – Only When I Laugh (1979–1982) 27 December – Sorry! (1981–1982, 1985–1988)Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (1982) Births 3 January – Amanda Robbins, model 20 January – Joe Swash, actor 9 March – Paul 'Des' Ballard, television presenter 22 March – Pete Bennett, reality show contestant 2 April – Jenny Ryan, game show contestant and Chaser on The Chase 24 April – Laura Hamilton, television presenter 28 April – Nikki Grahame, model, dancer and television personality (died 2021) 7 June – Amy Nuttall, actress and opera singer 13 June – Davood Ghadami, actor 6 August – Karl Davies, actor 22 September – Billie Piper, singer and actress 28 October – Matt Smith, actor 29 November – Imogen Thomas, reality show contestant 21 December – Tom Payne, soap actor Deaths Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility11 JanuaryRonald Lewis53actor15 JanuaryRobert Lynn63television director21 MarchHarry H. Corbett57actor (Steptoe and Son)26 MarchSam Kydd67actor15 AprilArthur Lowe66actor (Dad's Army, Coronation Street)26 AprilCelia Johnson73actress19 MayElwyn Jones59television scriptwriter and producerCorbet Woodall53television newsreader22 JuneAlan Webb75actor29 JuneMichael Brennan69actor11 JulySusan Littler34actress12 JulyKenneth More67actor19 JulyJohn Harvey70actor2 AugustCathleen Nesbitt93actress14 AugustPatrick Magee60actor22 AugustJohn Boxer73actor6 SeptemberNorman Collins74television executive29 SeptemberLucy Griffiths63actress6 OctoberPhilip Green71theme tune composer4 NovemberTalfryn Thomas60actor (Dad's Army)16 NovemberArthur Askey82comedian26 NovemberRobert Coote73actor30 NovemberEric Thompson53actor and scriptwriter2 DecemberMarty Feldman48comedian and actor (At Last the 1948 Show, Marty) See also 1982 in British music 1982 in British radio 1982 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1982 References External links List of 1982 British television series at IMDb 1982