1978 in Scottish television

none June 2018 1978 Scottish television This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1978. Events 22 January – Scottish Television airs a seven-part adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GPJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6238%2C3501986 TV Times. Tomorrow The Evening Times 21 January 1978 9 Google News Archive 2 January 2026 14 April – Debut of the BBC Scotland series The Beechgrove Garden.Brocklehurst Steven Beechgrove Garden's Jim McColl at 80 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-34338468 BBC News 18 June 2018 27 September 2015 3 July – The final edition of the Scottish politics programme Public Account is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. 21 December – BBC announce that Alastair Hetherington will leave his post of Controller of BBC in Scotland and take up a post of station manager for BBC Highland in Inverness.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3vBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5457%2C4362907 Hetherington axed The Evening Times 21 December 1978 1 Google News Archive 2 January 2026 Scotland Today’s annual summer break is scrapped. Consequently, the programme is now on air all year round. Grampian Television becomes the first British television station to adopt ENG video cameras for news coverage. This move finally allows its regional news programme, Grampian Today, to extend from three to five nights a week. Grampian also develops its own outside broadcast unit, initially using studio equipment. Debuts BBC 14 April - The Beechgrove Garden on BBC1 (1978–Present) April - The Standard on BBC1 (1978) 30 September - Scotch and Wry on BBC1 (1978–92) ITV 22 January – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) 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 8 August 2025 6 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250811222945/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko 11 August 2025 live Garnock Way (1976–1979)Garnock Way https://player.stv.tv/summary/garnock-way STV Player 24 May 2022 en Ending this year Public Account (1976–1978) Births 14 April - Michelle Duncan, actress 15 September - David Sneddon, singer and musician 10 December - Gordon Chree, broadcast journalist See also 1978 in Scotland References 1978 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:1970s in Scottish television