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1959 In British Television
This is a list of British television related events from 1959. Events January *1 January – The first broadcast of the Vienna New Year's Concert from Austria airs on BBC Television. *15 January – Tyne Tees Television, the ITV (TV network), ITV franchise for North East England, goes on air. February *1 February – The first interracial kiss on television occurs during a live performance of the play ''Hot Summer Night (play), Hot Summer Night'', broadcast in the ABC Weekend TV, ABC ''Armchair Theatre'' strand. The kiss is between Andrée Melly and Lloyd Reckord (who will feature in another early televised interracial kiss three years later in the play ''You in Your Small Corner''). March *No events. April *No events. May *No events. June *1 June – ''Juke Box Jury'' premieres on the BBC Television Service. July *No events. August *No events. September *25 September – 5th series of ''Hancock's Half Hour'' begins broadcast, all made as telerecordings. It includes, on 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there are basically 485 TV channels, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010 for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six main TV channel owners who are responsible for most material viewed. There are 27,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 United Kingdom General Election
The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under the leadership of incumbent prime minister Harold Macmillan won a landslide victory with a majority of 100 seats. This was their third election victory in a row. The Conservatives won the largest number of votes in Scotland, but narrowly failed to win the most seats in that country. They have not made either achievement ever since. Both Jeremy Thorpe, a future Liberal leader, and Margaret Thatcher, a future Conservative leader and eventually Prime Minister, first entered the House of Commons following this election. Background Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Anthony Eden, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Prime Minister, became unpopular. He resigned early in 1957, and was succeeded by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan. At that point, the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, whose leader Hugh Gaitskell had succeeded Clement Attlee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Mr Lewisham (1959 TV Series)
''Love and Mr Lewisham'' (subtitled "The Story of a Very Young Couple") is a 1900 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells. It was among his first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre. Wells took considerable pains over the manuscript and said that "the writing was an altogether more serious undertaking than I have ever done before." He later included it in a 1933 anthology, ''Stories of Men and Women in Love''. Events in the novel closely resemble events in Wells's own life. According to Geoffrey H. Wells: "referring to the question of autobiography in fiction, H. G. Wells has somewhere made a remark to the effect that it is not so much what one has done that counts, as where one has been, and the truth of that statement is particularly evident in this novel. ... Both Mr Lewisham and Mr Wells were at the age of eighteen, assistant masters at country schools, and that three years later both were commencing their third year at The Normal School of Science, South Kens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning In The Streets
''Morning in the Streets'' is a 1959 BBC television documentary directed by Denis Mitchell and Roy Harris. It was produced by the BBC Northern Film Unit and was first broadcast on 25 March 1959. The documentary was described simply as "an impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a northern city in the morning". It is an impressionistic slice-of-life documentary, featuring footage of working-class people and street scenes, accompanied by a montage soundtrack of voices conveying opinions and philosophies on life. The film was researched by a writer on Liverpool life and dialect, Frank Shaw. The music was specially composed by Thomas Henderson and Liverpool songwriter Stan Kelly, and featured the harmonica of classical musician Tommy Reilly. ''The Talking Streets'' ''The Talking Streets'' was a radio feature produced by Denis Mitchell for the BBC North Region, as part of his ''People Talking'' series, and broadcast on 27 October 1958. The programme was a kaleidos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Halliday
''Garry Halliday'' is a British television series for children on the BBC from 1959 to 1962. The show starred Terence Longdon as airman Garry Halliday. The series was credited to the writer 'Justin Blake': this was in fact a pseudonym for the scriptwriters John Griffith Bowen and Jeremy Bullmore, who also wrote some novelisations of the ''Garry Halliday'' TV stories under the same name. Plot Reminiscent of Biggles, Halliday was a pilot for a commercial airline, Halliday Charter Company, and flew to his adventures in an aircraft with the call sign Golf Alpha Oboe Roger George. He was assisted by co-pilot Bill Dodds, played by Terence Alexander, who was later Charlie in '' Bergerac''. The airline's control base station was Lima Foxtrot. Their enemy was The Voice, played by Elwyn Brook-Jones, so called because he was never seen by other characters, so that at the end of each series he could escape and reappear in the next. Invisible even to his own gang, The Voice at first remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarf (TV Series)
A scarf is a piece of fabric worn round the neck. Scarf may also refer to: People with the name * Arthur Scarf (1913–1941), Second World War Royal Air Force pilot posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross *Eddie Scarf (1908–1980), Australian freestyle wrestler and boxer * Frederick L. Scarf (1930-1988), American space physicist, twin brother of Herbert Scarf *Herbert Scarf (1930–2015), American mathematician, twin brother of Frederick L. Scarf * Maggie Scarf (born 1932), American writer, journalist and lecturer * Phil Scarf, British statistician and professor * Susan Scarf Merrell, American author Arts, entertainment, media * ''The Scarf'' (film), 1951 American thriller * ''The Scarf'' (opera), 1955 chamber opera *'' The Scarf (novel)'' by Robert Bloch, originally written in 1947, revised 1966 Other uses * Scarf, slang word for gulp or eat "wolfishly" (as in "scarfed down one's food") * Scarf joint (also known as a scarph joint), a method of joining two members end to end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face To Face (British TV Programme)
''Face to Face'' was a BBC interview television programme originally broadcast between 1959 and 1962, created and produced by Hugh Burnett, which ran for 35 episodes. The insightful and often probing style of the interviewer, former politician John Freeman, separated it from other programmes of the time. ''Face to Face'' was revived in 1989 with Jeremy Isaacs as the interviewer and ran until 1998. History BBC talks producer Hugh Burnett had the idea of a simple personal interview programme in the mid-1950s. It took two years to persuade Grace Wyndham Goldie (assistant head of talks television) to commission a programme. Burnett decided on John Freeman as the interviewer "because he was highly skilled at probing closely without causing offence"; he asked Freeman while walking around the BBC block at Lime Grove Studios, and Freeman agreed by the second lap. Freeman had been a reporter on BBC TV's ''Panorama'' since 1957, and had also appeared as an interviewer on ''Press Confe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Chronicle Of Barset (TV Series)
''The Last Chronicle of Barset'' is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope, published in 1867. It is the sixth and final book in the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire'' series, preceded by '' The Small House at Allington''. The novel is set in the fictional county of Barsetshire and deploys characters from the earlier novels, whilst concentrating on the personnel associated with the cathedral. The main narrative thread is catalysed by the loss of a cheque which had been in the possession of the Reverend Josiah Crawley, and the subsequent reactions of his friends and enemies. Trollope drew inspiration from his father and mother in the creation of the Rev. and Mrs. Crawley. In his autobiography, Trollope regarded this novel as "the best novel I have written.", although later commentators do not agree with this judgement. The serialisation was illustrated by G H Thomas who was selected by the publisher, though Trollope had wished for Millais who had illustrated ''The Small House at Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Man (TV Series)
''The Third Man'' is a TV series which ran from 1959 to 1965. It was based on the novel and film ''The Third Man'' and starred Michael Rennie as Harry Lime. In the TV series, Lime is an international private investigator. The series was a co-production between the NTA Film Network and the BBC. The first twenty episodes were shot at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. Later episodes were filmed at Shepperton Studios and Associated-British Elstree Studios (Associated British Picture Corporation) in England. Initially eight episodes were lost due to the BBC’s junking policy, but on 4 October 2024, the Film Is Fabulous project announced the episode "The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk" had been recovered and returned to the BBC archive. In addition, they announced the recovery of a version of "The Man With Two Left Hands", which was in better quality than the one that existed. Cast * Michael Rennie as Harry Lime *Jonathan Harris Jonathan Daniel Harris ( Charasuchin; November 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cabin In The Clearing
''The Cabin in the Clearing'' was a British television series which aired in 1954 on the BBC. All five episodes are believed to be lost. It was a half-hour children's western set in Ohio in the early nineteenth century, and based on the 1890 novel of the same name written by Edward S. Ellis. Episodes were transmitted live, as was usually the case with 1954 BBC series, and don't appear to have been telerecorded. The serial ran from 16 February to 16 March 1954, but a remake - which included some members of the original cast, such as Ann Hanslip, Derek Aylward and Ewen Solon - was shown between 14 January to 1 February 1959. Plot The Sutherlands, a frontier family settling out in Ohio, USA, find themselves under siege in the wilderness when the Miami Indians and Shawnee Indians tribes decide to unite and set about attacking white settlers. With help far away, the Sutherlands have only their friend Bradley Ripley - hidden out in the woods - to help them to have any chance of escap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightwatchman's Stories
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, its population was 1,903,175, making up around 3% of the Demographics of the United Kingdom#Population, UK's population and 27% of the population on the island of Ireland#Demographics, Ireland. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of Devolution, devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, UK Government. The government of Northern Ireland cooperates with the government of Ireland in several areas under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. The Republic of Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
