1965 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1965.

List of years in British television (table)
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Events

January

February

  • No events.

March

April

  • 7 April – BBC1 airs Three Clear Sundays, a Wednesday Play about the events leading to a man's conviction for capital murder.[3] It is repeated on BBC2 on 16 July.[4]

May

June

July

August

  • 1 August – Cigarette adverts are banned from British television. Pipe tobacco and cigar adverts will continue until 1991.
  • 6 August – The War Game, a drama-documentary by director Peter Watkins depicting the events of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom, is controversially pulled from its planned transmission in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand. The BBC has been pressured into this move by the British government, which does not want much of the play's content to become public.[5] It is released to cinemas, and wins the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature; the BBC finally screens the play in 1985.

September

October

  • 2 October – American science-fiction series Lost in Space debuts on ITV, it is later adapted for the feature film version in 1998 and then again for the revived television series in 2018, after the original series ends in 1968.
  • 4 October
    • United! premieres on BBC1.
    • Science-fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown premieres on BBC2.
    • 24 Hours premieres on BBC1.
    • The BBC announces plans to introduce a new service for Asian immigrants starting the following week.[7]
  • 10 October – The BBC Asian service, broadcast on Sunday mornings, launches with a programme called In Logon Se Miliye and at the start of 1966 it is renamed Apma Hi Ghar Samajhiye. Later in the decade it is called Nai Zindagi-Naya Jeevan and in June 1982 it is renamed and relaunched as Asian Magazine.
  • 18 October – The British version of children's stop-motion animation The Magic Roundabout, with narration by Eric Thompson, debuts on BBC1; it continues until 1977.
  • 31 October – BBC2 in the North of England goes on the air.

November

December

Undated

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

  • 18 January – Hit and Run (1965)
  • 27 January – Night Train to Surbiton (1965)
  • 11 February – Naked Island (1965)
  • 21 February – The Mill on the Floss (1965)
  • 22 March – A Man Called Harry Brent (1965)
  • 5 May – Call It What You Like (1965)
  • 9 May – The Scarlet and the Black (1965)
  • 13 May – Londoners (1965)
  • 13 June – The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau (1965)
  • 9 July – Legend of Death (1965)
  • 11 July – Jury Room (1965)
  • 31 July – Gaslight Theatre (1965)
  • 8 September – A Slight Case of... (1965)
  • 2 October – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)
  • 4 October – Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
  • 7 October – Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
  • 17 October – Call My Bluff (1965–1988, 1994, 1996–2005)
  • 17 October – An Enemy of the State (1965)
  • 4 November – Man Alive (1965–1981)
  • 5 December – The Big Spender (1965–1966)

ITV

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Shows Moved from Moved to
Match of the Day BBC2 BBC1

Continuing television shows

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)

1930s

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

1940s

1950s

1960s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. "RTÉ Libraries and Archives: preserving a unique record of Irish life". RTÉ.ie. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  2. "Not Only.... But Also – – BBC Two England – 9 January 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. "The Wednesday Play: Three Clear Sundays – BBC One London – 7 April 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  4. "Encore: Three Clear Sundays – BBC Two England – 16 July 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  5. Chapman, James (2006). "The BBC and the Censorship of The War Game". Journal of Contemporary History. 41 (1): 84. doi:10.1177/0022009406058675. S2CID 159498499.
  6. "BBC-2 Comes to Wales – BBC Two England – 12 September 1965 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. "Immigrants feel at home with BBC". BBC On This Day. 1965-10-04. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  8. Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
  9. "What the Papers Say in pictures". The Guardian. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
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