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1984 Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1984.
Events
April
20 April – 20th anniversary of BBC Two Scotland.
June
1 June – The final edition of current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. It had been on air for less than three years.
July
27 July – The final edition of Sixty Minutes is broadcast on BBC1, ending less than a year after it first went on air. Consequently, Scotland Sixty Minutes ends.
30 July – To fill the gap between the end of Sixty Minutes and the launch of BBC1's teatime news hour, BBC Scotland's regional news programme is broadcast for 20 minutes, beginning at 5.55pm, and the change sees the return of the Reporting Scotland name.
September
3 September – BBC1's teatime news hour is relaunched and now runs from 6pm until 7pm. The change results in Reporting Scotland moving to a new time of 6.35pm and the programme's length is extended to 25 minutes.
October
8 October – Scotland Today is relaunched as a features-led magazine format with the news relegated to brief summaries before and after the programme.Kelly gets his eye in, Gavin Docherty, Evening Times, 8 October 1984
Unknown
Unknown – Debut of the Grampian Television current affairs programme Crossfire.
Unknown – Scottish airs Scotland's Story, a 24-part series on the history of Scotland.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
BBC
Unknown – 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
ITV
Unknown – Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
Returning this year
30 July – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
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
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 8 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
Now You See It (1981–1986)
Births
16 February – Kari Corbett, actor
18 December – Tiffany Mulheron, actress
Deaths
4 January – Jameson Clark, 76, actor
6 September – Donny MacLeod, 52, television presenter
See also
1984 in Scotland
References
1984
Category:Television in Scotland by year
Category:1980s in Scottish television