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TV listings had advertised the 2006 version of Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig as Bond, but the channel instead airs the 1967 version with David Niven as a retired Bond. [176] The 1967 version is also aired by ITV on New Year's Eve, albeit correctly on this occasion. [177] 6
1 December – Punk group The Sex Pistols cause a storm of controversy and outrage in the UK by swearing well before the 9pm watershed on the regional Thames Television news programme Today, hosted by Bill Grundy who has goaded them into doing so and is temporarily sacked. Today is replaced by Thames at Six a year later.
25 December – As part of the Christmas Day highlights BBC1 screens the UK television premiere of the 1939 MGM fantasy musical The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland. The film will go on to be shown regularly on the BBC during the Christmas period until the 1990s.
6 February – The short-lived American action series Blue Thunder, based on the 1983 hit movie of the same name, makes its UK debut on BBC1.; 14 February The first of six episodes of Tom Keating On Impressionism, a follow-up to the award-winning Tom Keating On Painters, [3] is broadcast two days after Keating's death, from a heart attack, at age 66.
6 February – BBC1 airs the documentary Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. [11]8 February – Channel 4 launches TV Heaven, a series of 13 themed Saturday evenings celebrating the best of archive British television.
8 January – The US sci-fi series The New Adventures of Superman makes its UK debut on BBC1, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. [10] 10 January The Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm makes its debut in the rest of the UK when BBC2 begins airing episodes daily from Mondays to Thursdays. [11]
Ghosts is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from April 2019 to December 2023. It follows a group of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing it with its new living occupants.
2 November – The TV licence increases in price from £34 to £46 for a colour TV and £12 to £15 for black and white. 12 November – Noele Gordon, eight times winner of the TVTimes award for best actress, leaves Crossroads after playing Meg Richardson since the series began in 1964, having been sacked from the show.
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