1929 in British television

none August 2019 1929 British television This is a list of British television related events in 1929. Events Month Day Event August 20 First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC in London. The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 November The BBC and John Logie Baird begin daily experimental broadcasting of 30-line television transmissions using the BBC's 2LO transmitter.Baird and the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/tvstory3 https://web.archive.org/web/20150313034011/http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/tvstory3 dead 13 March 2015 BBC 11 May 2018November 1929 – John Logie Baird tests television, History of the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0166zpp BBC 11 May 2018 Births 17 February – Patricia Routledge, actress (died 2025) 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973) 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009) 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001) 14 April – Gerry Anderson, puppeteer, television producer and director (died 2012) 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999) 25 May – Arthur Montford, Scottish sports journalist (died 2014) 26 May – Lloyd Reckord, Jamaican-born actor (died 2015) 9 July – Christopher Morahan, director and production executive (died 2017) 19 July – Denis Goodwin, comedy scriptwriter (suicide 1975) 30 August – Ian McNaught-Davis, television presenter (died 2014)https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-patron-uiaa-president-ian-mcnaught-davis-dies BMC Patron Ian McNaught-Davis (1929–2014) Thebmc.co.uk 2014-02-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140222003529/https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-patron-uiaa-president-ian-mcnaught-davis-dies 2014-02-22 14 September – Michael Peacock, television executive (died 2019) 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005) 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017) 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (Doctor Who) (died 2011) 25 December – Stuart Hall, journalist and television presenter 26 December – Irene Shubik, television drama producer (died 2019) See also 1929 in British music 1929 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1929 References 1929