1988 in Scottish television

none December 2023 1988 Scottish television This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1988. Events January 19 January – Debut of the BBC Scotland television film Down Where the Buffalo Go. February 13 February – Scottish Television (STV) begins 24-hour broadcasting.https://tv-live.co.uk/tv-presentation/itv/itv-night-time TV Live – ITV Night Time 31 March 2020 July 19 July – Debut on ITV of the STV produced game show Wheel of Fortune. September 2 September – Grampian and Border begin 24-hour transmission. Their overnight programming comes from Granada Television's Night Time service. Autumn The BBC takes its first tentative steps into later closedowns – previously weekday programmes ended no later than 12:15am and weekend broadcasting had finished by 1:30am. December 31 December – Transmission of Tony Roper's The Steamie, about life in a Glasgow wash-house during the 1950s, starring Dorothy Paul and Eileen McCallum.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 Debuts ITV 19 July – Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001) 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) Take the 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 James the Cat (1984–1992) Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004) City Lights (1984–1991)Williams Craig A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/tv/look-back-classic-glasgow-comedy-18177694 GlasgowLive 24 May 2022 en 30 April 2020 The Campbells (1986–1990) Naked Video (1986–1991)Tait Derek A 1980s Childhood 15 November 2019 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-9242-5 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=OVe-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT104 en Births 27 January – Iain Stirling, comedian See also 1988 in Scotland References 1988 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:1980s in Scottish television