This is a list of events related to British television in 1933.

• 21 April – The first television revue, Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
• September – BBC Television Policy, Rumours and Facts is published.^[1]

• 12 January – Michael Aspel, journalist and television presenter
• 15 January – Frank Bough, journalist and television presenter (died 2020)
• 18 January – David Bellamy, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner (died 2019)
• 6 February – Leslie Crowther, television comedian and game show host (died 1996)^[2]
• 22 February – Sheila Hancock, actress
• 11 April – Derek Martin, actor
• 16 April – Joan Bakewell, broadcaster
• 24 April – Claire Davenport, actress (died 2002)
• 30 April – Dickie Davies, television presenter (died 2023)
• 14 May – Siân Phillips, actress
• 15 May – Shirley Dynevor, Welsh actress (died 2023)^[3]
• 23 May – Joan Collins, actress
• 2 August – Tom Bell, actor (died 2006)
• 21 August – Barry Norman, film critic (died 2017)^[4]
• 25 September – Eric Chappell, sitcom writer (died 2022)
• 30 September – Barbara Knox, actress
• 10 October – Daniel Massey, actor (died 1998)^[5]
• 3 November – Jeremy Brett, actor (died 1995)
• 13 December – Brian Elliott (Patton Brothers), comedy performer
• 22 December – Richard Whitmore, newsreader

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