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1990 in British television

1990 in British television

Overview of the events of 1990 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1990.

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Events

January

  • 1 January
  • 2 January
    • Granada's flagship nightly news programme Granada Reports is rebranded as Granada Tonight.
    • The first episode of the sixth T-Bag series airs in which Georgina Hale debuts as Tabatha Bag, the second T-Bag.
    • The 30-minute weekday 6am Ceefax slot returns to BBC1, but rather than the special pages used for Ceefax AM, the content is the same as for all other Ceefax broadcasts.[2]
  • 3 January – The US animated series Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles makes its debut on BBC1.[3] The show's original US title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is changed for the UK because of controversy surrounding ninjas and related weapons such as nunchaku.[4] The intro sequence is heavily edited because of this, replacing the word ninja with hero or fighting, using a digitally faded logo instead of the animated blob and removing any scenes in which the character Michelangelo wields his nunchaku.[5] Scenes of Michelangelo using his nunchaku are likewise edited out of the episodes themselves, leading the American producers to drop the weapons from the series entirely, in order to make the show more appropriate for the international market.
  • 4 January – Debut of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave on BBC1, starring Richard Wilson.[6]
  • 6 January
    • The US action drama series Baywatch, starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, makes its UK debut on ITV. Made by NBC, the series proves popular with British viewers with audience figures regularly reaching 13 million. When NBC cancels the series after its first season, ITV teams up with an international consortium of broadcasters to sponsor the show for further seasons.[7] The series comes to an end in 2001, following an eleven-year run.[8]
    • Debut of Jekyll & Hyde on ITV, a made-for-television film starring Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd.
  • 8 January – The popular classic children's song Nellie the Elephant has been spawned into a five-minute animated cartoon series on ITV, featuring the voices of singer Lulu and Tony Robinson. The first episode is called Nellie and the Ghost and was shown every Monday until 9 April with the episode Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy. The series will return on 5 September with Nellie Goes Ballooning and will be shifted onto a Wednesday timeslot. The last three episodes will be broadcast in January 1991 with the final one being shown on 21 January.
  • 9 January – The Secret Cabaret, an innovative and shocking magic-based programme hosted by magician Simon Drake, makes its debut on Channel 4.
  • 14 January – The Observer reports that TVS have started searching for a buyer for a 49% stake in US production company MTM Enterprises which it bought in 1988.[9]
  • 24 January–3 February – The BBC broadcasts the 1990 Commonwealth Games. BBC1 stays on the air all night to provide live coverage. This is the first time that BBC1 has provided full live coverage of an overseas Commonwealth Games with around 12 hours of live action broadcast each day.
  • 27 January – The final episode of Bob's Full House is broadcast on BBC1.
  • 31 January – The network television premiere of the James Bond film A View to a Kill on ITV, starring Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken and Grace Jones.[10]
  • January
    • For the first time, Emmerdale is networked across almost all of ITV, airing at 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
    • Chrysalis Television takes over the contract to produce LWT News.[11]

February

  • 2 February – The BBC Schools gay-themed television film Two of Us is given its first daytime showing on BBC2. It is shown in two parts, on consecutive Friday lunchtimes.[12] The channel had previously shown the film late at night in March 1988.[13]
  • 5 February – Sky Movies is fully encrypted and becomes Sky's first pay channel.
  • 11 February
    • Live coverage is aired of the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Sky Movies broadcasts its first special event, the boxing fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas.
  • 13 February – The US science fiction series Quantum Leap makes its UK debut on BBC2, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.[14]
  • 15 February – The hugely popular game show The Crystal Maze makes its debut on Channel 4, presented by Richard O'Brien.
  • 19 February – The documentary series Cutting Edge makes its debut on Channel 4.
  • 20 February – Steve McFadden makes his first appearance as the EastEnders character Phil Mitchell. Ross Kemp's debut as Phil's brother, Grant would air two days later.

March

  • 4 March – The Observer newspaper reports that it has formed a partnership with Central to create Central Observer, making environmental themed films for British Satellite Broadcasting and other terrestrial channels with funding from the charity Television Trust for the Environment.[15]
  • 12 March
    • Ahead of the first free legislative election in the German Democratic Republic, BBC1 airs an edition of Panorama in which Fred Emery reports from the GDR and West Germany on the opportunities and strains facing the Germans.[16]
    • The final episode of Blankety Blank presented by Les Dawson is broadcast on BBC1, although it would return in 1997 with Lily Savage as its host.
  • 20 March – Chancellor John Major delivers the first budget to be broadcast on television.[17]
  • 25 March – British Satellite Broadcasting launches on cable in the as a rival to Sky Television which launched the previous year.
  • 26 March
    • The science-fiction soap Jupiter Moon makes its debut on the Galaxy channel. 150 episodes are commissioned, but only 108 are aired before the series is cancelled in December.
    • Debut of the game show Turnabout on BBC1, presented by Rob Curling.
  • 27 March – BBC1 airs the first of two flashback episodes of EastEnders as part of a storyline in which Diane Butcher, played by Sophie Lawrence, ran away from home. The episodes show Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) going to meet his teenage daughter at King's Cross station after she contacted him following a three-month absence. Scenes showing Frank waiting for Diane and their subsequent reunion are interspersed with flashbacks to January showing her leaving home and living rough on the streets.[18] Sophie Lawrence did research among real homeless people for the storyline.[19]
  • 28 March – ITV airs the Granada documentary drama Who Bombed Birmingham?. The programme, which looks at the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the conviction of the Birmingham Six, names several people believed to have actually been behind the bombings.[20]
  • 31 March – Opportunity Knocks returns to BBC1 for the 1990 series with its original title and with Les Dawson as host.[21]

April

  • 3 April – ITV airs the First Tuesday documentary Sonia's Baby, the story of a woman's fight with the medical establishment to have a test tube baby using her late husband's sperm.[22]
  • 6 April – The Australian children's science-fiction comedy Round the Twist makes its UK debut on BBC1.[23]
  • 10 April – The UK's first Asian TV channel TV Asia launches and becomes Europe's first entertainment and information channel for the South Asian community from the Indian subcontinent. It initially broadcasts through the night during Sky One's downtime.
  • 14 April – BBC2 begins showing the 91-part 1988 Indian serial Mahabharat, a dramatisation of the epic poem the Mahabharata. The programme is shown in Hindi with English subtitles and is repeated the following day in a late-night slot on BBC1.[24][25]
  • 16 April
  • 17 April – The Channel Four Daily is revamped in a bid to attract more viewers. Some of the segments are changed and the programme starts 30 minutes later, at 6:30am.
  • 19 April – Original airdate of a French and Saunders episode featuring the sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter", which forms the basis of the hugely popular sitcom Absolutely Fabulous that starts in 1992.
  • 21 April
  • 29 April – British Satellite Broadcasting launches on satellite television.

May

June

July

August

  • 9 August – Debut of the sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey on Channel 4.
  • 10 August – Debut of The Word on Channel 4.
  • 14 August – BBC1 begins a repeat of the eight-part New Zealand action thriller Steel Riders.[43]
  • 18 August – BSB's second Marcopolo satellite is launched.
  • 20 August – The final episode of Miami Vice, Freefall, is broadcast on BBC1.[44]
  • 25 August – The first series of Stars in Their Eyes on ITV is won by Maxine Barrie, performing as Shirley Bassey.
  • 31 August – The network television premiere of Miracles on BBC1, Jim Kouf's 1986 comedy starring Tom Conti and Teri Garr.[45]

September

  • 1 September — Sky Movies begins broadcasting 24 hours a day. Previously the channel had broadcast shopping programmes between 6am and 2pm.
  • 2 September
  • 3 September – The children's series Rosie and Jim makes its debut on Children's ITV.
  • 5 September – The new BBC building at White City opens.
  • 7 September – After an eight-year absence, The Generation Game returns to BBC1 with Bruce Forsyth as its returning host and Rosemarie Ford as its hostess.[48]
  • 8 September
    • Ahead of the UK broadcast of the 1,000th episode of Neighbours, BBC1 airs Neighbours 1,000th Episode Celebration, a TV special produced by Australia's Network Ten which brought together past and present cast members to mark the occasion.[49]
    • Debut of Unsolved Mysteries on Sky One. It uses a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries featuring re-enactments of unsolved crimes, conspiracy theories and unexplained paranormal phenomena.
  • 9 September – As part of the Screen One series, BBC1 airs the groundbreaking comedy-drama Frankenstein's Baby which explores the subject of male pregnancy.[50][51]
  • 10 September – ThunderCats returns to BBC1 with the second half of the first series. However, because of the concerns involving the use of weapons brought about by Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, the next batch of episodes will have all scenes of Panthro with his nunchakus entirely cut out.
  • 13 September – BBC1 airs the 1,000th episode of Neighbours which features a storyline in which the characters Des Clarke and Jane Harris, played by Paul Keane and Annie Jones, become engaged.[52]
  • 15 September
  • 16 September – Cliff Michelmore introduces BBC1's coverage of the Battle of Britain Service from Westminster Abbey, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. and Rt Hon. Dr Robert Runcie.[54]
  • 17 September – BBC1 airs a special edition of Blue Peter in which Yvette Fielding travels to Montserrat to report on efforts to rebuild the island which experienced widespread damage when it was struck by Hurricane Hugo on 17 September 1989.[55]
  • 23 September – Debut of the Screen One drama Sweet Nothing which deals with the subject of homeless young people in London.[56]
  • 24 September
    • Yorkshire Television launches a third sub-regional news opt-out for south Yorkshire and north Derbyshire called South and is broadcast from Sheffield while East (Hull) continues to air in east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north Norfolk and Calendar News is broadcast to the rest of the region, west and north Yorkshire.
    • Joan Bunting wins the 1990 series of MasterChef on BBC1.
  • 25 September – The children's animated fantasy series The Dreamstone makes its debut on ITV.
  • 26 September
  • 28 September – Debut of the panel game show Have I Got News For You on BBC2, presented by Angus Deayton.
  • 30 September – The BSB channel Galaxy airs the pilot episode of Heil Honey I'm Home!, a controversial sitcom featuring a fictionalised Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The show attracts much criticism and is cancelled after one episode. Several other episodes were recorded, but none has ever been broadcast.

October

  • 2 October – The First Tuesday documentary Swing Under the Swastika airs on ITV. The programme looks at jazz music under the Nazi regime and is narrated by Alan Plater.[58]
  • 3 October – The BBC Radio 1 comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience comes to television with a series on BBC2.[59]
  • 6 October – ITV screen the network television premiere of Tony Scott's blockbuster 1986 film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis.
  • 15 October
    • BBC1 launches a new weekday morning service called Daytime UK.[60] Linked live from Birmingham and running for four hours, from 8:50am until lunchtime, the new service includes hourly regional news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour news bulletins.
    • Fireman Sam returns to BBC1 for a new series with a new character named Penny Morris.
  • 18 October – That day's edition of BBC1's Question Time from Edinburgh becomes the first edition of the programme to feature six panellists after delays require the last-minute substitution of two guests. Tony Benn, Margaret Ewing, Andrew Neil and Malcolm Rifkind were originally scheduled to appear, but Menzies Campbell and Magnus Linklater are drafted in when Benn and Neil are late. They then arrive 20 minutes into the programme and join the discussion.
  • 23 October – David Lynch's critically acclaimed serial drama Twin Peaks makes its UK debut at 9pm on BBC2.[61]
  • 29 October – Debut of the popular sitcom Keeping Up Appearances on BBC1, starring Patricia Routledge.[62]
  • 30 October – Debut of The Sentence, an eight-part BBC2 documentary series looking at life inside Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute near Leicester, Europe's largest prison of its type. It is the first time a television crew has been given access to the prison.[63]

November

  • 1 November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry and will have many consequences for the ITV system.[64][65] The Act also sets out the terms of a license for a fifth UK television channel which would need to be a general entertainment channel with a remit for some public service broadcasting. Additionally, it is estimated that the channel's coverage would reach only 74% of the UK and a video retuning operation would need to be undertaken.[66]
  • 2 November – BSB merges with Sky Television, becoming British Sky Broadcasting. Of BSB's five channels, only two, The Movie Channel and The Sports Channel, remain on the air long-term, though both are eventually renamed. Galaxy is closed with its transponders handed over to Sky One, Now is replaced in the most part with Sky News and The Power Station remains on the air until 8 April 1991 before being replaced with MTV.
  • 8 November – The comedy sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme, later called Harry Enfield & Chums, makes its debut on BBC2. Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke star.
  • 9 November – The Word is moved from 6pm to a late-night timeslot on Channel 4.
  • 11 November – At 10:40pm, ITV airs an ITN News special in which Trevor McDonald talks to Saddam Hussein. In his first interview with a British broadcaster since his country's invasion of Kuwait in August, the Iraqi President calls for talks and attempts to link the ongoing Gulf crisis with the Palestinian issue.[67]
  • 12 November – The British/Swiss children's series Pingu makes its debut on BBC1.[68]
  • 14 November – Tim Whitnall succeeds Tyler Butterworth as alien Angelo in the ITV children's sitcom Mike and Angelo.
  • 18 November–23 December – The BBC's serialisation of The Chronicles of Narnia concludes with the fourth and final story, The Silver Chair, being aired in six parts.[69][70]
  • 20 November
    • Broadcaster John Sergeant's famous encounter with Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the British embassy in Paris. He is waiting for Thatcher in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, when Thatcher emerges from the building. Sergeant later wins the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year.
    • BBC1 airs The Maze – Enemies Within, an Inside Story special looking at life inside Northern Ireland's Maze Prison.[71]
    • On today's episode of Emmerdale, Malandra Burrows (as Kathy Merrick) sings "Just This Side of Love", a song that is released by Burrows as a single on 26 November. The song enters the UK Singles Chart at #44, before spending eight weeks in the top 60 and peaking at #11 on 22 December.
  • 22 November – Following Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister, this evening's edition of Question Time, broadcast from London's Barbican Centre, is transmitted in two parts, with two different panels. The first part features Enoch Powell, David Owen, James Callaghan and Simon Jenkins while Michael Howard, Nigel Lawson, Paddy Ashdown and Roy Hattersley are the panellists for the second part.
  • 25 November
    • The final episode of Howards' Way is broadcast on BBC1.[72]
    • Original airdate of episode three of the ninth series of Spitting Image which concludes with a film showing footage of Britain's homeless crisis over which plays a parody of Dionne Warwick's 1964 song "Walk on By". The piece is introduced as one of the legacies of Margaret Thatcher's government and is rare for the series in that no puppets are used.[73]

December

  • 1 December – With the media watching, the two ends of the service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel are joined together, linking Britain and France for the first time since the Ice Age. A handshake then takes place between Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette, after which British and French workers board trains to complete the first journey between the two countries.[74][75]
  • 2 December
    • ITV airs a repeat of the first-ever episode of Coronation Street as the soap approaches its 30th anniversary.
    • Galaxy and Now are closed down and are replaced on the Marcopolo satellite by Sky One and Sky News, although arts programmes are shown for a short time as a weekend opt-out service from Sky News.
  • 7 December – BBC2 airs Your Move, a pioneering interactive show in which the home audience are invited to play chess against grandmaster Jonathan Speelman using telephone voting to select each move.[76]
  • 9 December
    • Cilla Black hosts Happy Birthday Coronation Street, an evening of entertainment on ITV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the long–running soap.[77]
    • The Greek language channel Hellenic TV, the UK's first foreign-language service to be given a broadcast licence by the Independent Television Commission goes on the air in London.
  • 16 December – The network television premiere of The Muppets Take Manhattan on BBC1, the third feature-length film starring The Muppets.[78]
  • 24 December
  • 25 December
  • 26 December
  • 27 December
  • 31 December – New Year's Eve highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of the 1987 romantic comedy Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.[86]

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

S4C

  • 17 September – Heno (1990–2003, 2012–present)

Sky One

  • 2 September – The Simpsons (1989–present) (Repeated on BBC1 & BBC2 from 1996–2004 and Channel 4 from 2004–present)
  • 3 September – Love at First Sight (1990–1992)
  • 8 September – Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002, 2008–2010, 2020)
  • 3 October – Alien Nation (1989–1990)

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Continuing television shows

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  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

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  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

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See also

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