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1995 Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1995.
Events
January
No events.
February
No events.
March
26 March – Debut of the detective series Hamish Macbeth.
April to July
No events.
August
27 August – Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Michael Mansfield, QC, one of Britain's leading barristers calls for television cameras to be admitted into English courts to help demystify the legal process and restore public confidence in it.Rhys Williams https://www.independent.co.uk/news/cameras-in-court-will-let-justice-be-seen-to-be-done-1598322.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/cameras-in-court-will-let-justice-be-seen-to-be-done-1598322.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Cameras in court 'will let justice be seen to be done' Independent Print Ltd The Independent 28 August 1995 2 May 2012
September
No events.
October
No events.
November
No events.
December
28 December – Pilot episode of McCallum starring John Hannah. The programme is watched by over ten million viewers. It returns for a full series in 1997.http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/fifty-years-on-stv-set-for-studio-switch-1-512174 Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch The Scotsman 3 July 2004 28 April 2012
Unknown
Gus Macdonald is appointed chairman of Scottish Television, while Andrew Flanagan is appointed chief executive.
Debuts
BBC
26 March – Hamish Macbeth (1995–1997)
4 May – Monty the Dog who wears glasses (1995)
ITV
13 April – The Baldy Man (1995–1998)
5 June – The Caribou Kitchen (1995–1998)
28 December – McCallum (1995–1998)
Television series
Scotsport (1957–2008)Haynes Richard BBC Sport in Black and White 17 November 2016 Springer 978-1-137-45501-7 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-GDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 en
Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
Top Club (1971–1998)
Scotland Today (1972–2009)
Sportscene (1975–present)Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko BBC Sport 20 August 2025 6 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250811222945/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko 11 August 2025 live
The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
Grampian Today (1980–2009)
High Road (1980–2003)Brown Ian Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities 13 February 2020 Springer Nature 978-3-030-39407-3 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=gXvQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 en
Taggart (1983–2010)McElroy Ruth Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box 14 October 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-16096-0 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=yColDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 en
Crossfire (1984–2004)
Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
Fun House (1989–1999)
Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)
Doctor Finlay (1993–1996)
Machair (1993–1999)Berberich Christine Campbell Neil Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life: Memory, Place and the Senses 9 March 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-18472-0 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=v8e1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 en
Speaking our Language (1993–1996)
Wolf It (1993–1996)
Hurricanes (1993–1997)
Telefios (1993–2000)
Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18979762.excuse-bbc1-scotland-review/ HeraldScotland 4 November 2021 en
Ending this year
10 February – The High Life (1994–1995)
29 April – What's Up Doc? (1992–1995)
Unknown – The Tales of Para Handy (1994–1995)
Unknown – The Magic House (1994–1995)
Deaths
21 March – Robert Urquhart, 74, actor
See also
1995 in Scotland
References
1995
Category:Television in Scotland by year
Category:1990s in Scottish television