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1929 In British Television
This is a list of British television related events in 1929. Events Births * 17 February – Patricia Routledge, actress * 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973) * 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009) * 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001) * 14 April – Gerry Anderson, puppeteer, television producer and director (died 2012) * 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999) * 25 May – Arthur Montford, Scottish sports journalist (died 2014) * 26 May – Lloyd Reckord, Jamaican-born actor (died 2015) * 9 July – Christopher Morahan, director and production executive (died 2017) * 30 August – Ian McNaught-Davis, television presenter (died 2014) * 14 September – Michael Peacock, television executive (died 2019) * 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005) * 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017) * 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (''Doctor Who'') (died 2011) * 25 December – Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television
Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 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 channel owners who are responsible for most material viewed. There are 27,000 hours of domestic content produced a year, at a cost of £2.6 billion.Taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Peacock (television Executive)
Ian Michael Peacock (14 September 1929 – 6 December 2019) was a British television executive, who from 1963 until the spring of 1965 was the first Controller of BBC2, the Corporation's second television channel. Early life and career Michael Peacock was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, on 14 September 1929. After graduating with an upper second class degree in sociology from the London School of Economics in 1952, he immediately joined BBC Television as a trainee producer, working under Grace Wyndham Goldie in the Television Talks Department, based at Alexandra Palace, which moved to the Lime Grove Studios the following year. Career Peacock became the producer of ''Panorama'', the Corporation's first weekly TV current affairs series, in 1955, at the age of twenty-six. Under his editorship, with Richard Dimbleby as anchorman, the programme developed a high reputation, and during the Suez crisis in 1956 audiences reached 12 million viewers. Peacock was responsible for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1929 in the United Kingdom. This year sees the start of the Great Depression. Incumbents * Monarch – George V * Prime Minister ** Stanley Baldwin ( Conservative) (until 5 June) ** Ramsay MacDonald ( Labour) (starting 5 June) * Parliament ** 34th (until 10 May) ** 35th (starting 25 June) Events * 23 January – The Lancashire Cotton Corporation is set up by the Bank of England to rescue the Lancashire cotton milling (spinning) industry by means of horizontal integration. * 18 March – An underground fire at Coombs Wood colliery near Halesowen kills 8 miners, the last major disaster in the Black Country coalfield. * 30 March – Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi. * 22 April – Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport. * 10 May ** Age of Marriage Act 1929 passed, raising the legal marriageable age to sixteen years for both parties to a marriage. ** York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In British Music
This is a summary of 1929 in music in the United Kingdom. Events *22 January – Gordon Jacob's First String Quartet is premiered by the Spencer Dyke Quartet in London. *13 June – Eugene Goosens conducts the UK premieres of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, with the composer as soloist, and of Ottorino Respighi's ''Feste Romane'', at the Queen's Hall, London. *27 June – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky, '' Apollon musagète'' and '' Le baiser de la fée'', conducted by the composer at the Kingsway Hall and broadcast on the wireless. *12 October – Sir Thomas Beecham, supported by Peter Warlock, launches a six-day festival of the work of Frederick Delius, at the Queen's Hall in London. The composer attends in his wheelchair. *October – George Formby has a recording session with Dominion Records. *''date unknown'' **Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly form their music publishing company as a result of the success of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nixon (magician)
David Porter Nixon (29 December 1919 – 1 December 1978)GRO Register of Births: MAR 1920 3a 1125 EDMONTON - David P. NixonGRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1978 17 1052 SURREY SE - David Porter Nixon, DoB = 29 Dec 1919 was an English magician and television personality. At the height of his career, Nixon was the best-known magician in the UK. Early life Born in Muswell Hill, London, Nixon attended the Westcliff High School for Boys in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. His father was a lawyer whose hobby was magic and who took Nixon to watch performers such as Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant. One magician who made an early impression on the young boy was Stanley Collins, who had a gentlemanly image which influenced Nixon's later performing style. Nixon started performing magic himself after an aunt bought him an Ernest Sewell Magic Box for Christmas. On leaving school he gained a job with the ''Henley Telegraph'', the in-house magazine of the W. T. Henley Telegraph company, a publication wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Shubik
Irene Shubik (26 December 1929 – 26 September 2019) was a British television producer and story editor, known for her contribution to the development of the single play in British television drama. Beginning her career in television at ABC Weekend TV, she worked on ''Armchair Theatre'' as a story editor, where she devised the science fiction anthology series '' Out of this World''. Moving to the BBC, she briefly worked as a story editor before being promoted to producer, creating the science fiction anthology television series ''Out of the Unknown''. Leaving ''Out of the Unknown'' after two seasons, Shubik co-produced ''The Wednesday Play'', overseeing its transition into ''Play for Today'' in 1970. She left the BBC in 1976, and subsequently produced the first season of ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' for Thames Television before joining Granada Television where she produced ''Staying On'' and devised '' The Jewel in the Crown''. She also wrote film scripts and a novel, ''The Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Hall (presenter)
James Stuart Hall Jr. (born 25 December 1929) is an English former media personality. He presented regional news programmes for the BBC in North West England in the 1960s and 1970s, while becoming known nationally for presenting the game show ''It's a Knockout'' (which was part of the international ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' franchise). Hall's later career mainly involved football reporting on BBC Radio. In June 2013, he was convicted of multiple sexual offences against children, effectively ending his media and broadcasting career. Early life Stuart Hall was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the eldest son of baker James Stuart Hall, and his Irish-born wife, Mary (née Hennessey). He was brought up in Hyde, Greater Manchester, Hyde, Cheshire, and Glossop, Derbyshire, attending the local grammar school. Hall directed plays when at school and chaired its debating society. While studying at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, he was offered a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney (16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011) was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Early life Courtney was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British diplomat father and half-American mother. His paternal grandfather was the journalist William Leonard Courtney. He was educated in France, Kenya and Egypt. On his maternal side, Courtney was descended from New Zealand politician John Cuff. He did his national service in the British Army, leaving after 18 months as a private, not wanting to pursue a military career. He moved to England to join London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. After two years doing repertory theatre in Northampton, he became resident in London in 1961. Courtney's first television work was in the 1957 series ''Escape''. He made guest appearances in several cult television series, including '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)
Alan Francis Simpson (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017) was an English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton. Together they devised and wrote the BBC sitcom ''Hancock's Half Hour'' (1954–1961), the first two series of ''Comedy Playhouse'' (1961–1963), and ''Steptoe and Son'' (1962–1974). Early life Simpson was born in Brixton, south London, and was educated at Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys. He was a football fan and supported Brentford. After leaving school he worked as a shipping clerk and was a member of a church concert party. He contracted tuberculosis aged 17 in 1947 and was admitted to Milford Sanatorium near Godalming in Surrey, where he spent 13 months. How we met, Alan Simpso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as '' Porridge'', ''The Two Ronnies'', and ''Open All Hours''. Barker began acting in Oxford amateur dramatics whilst working as a bank clerk, having dropped out of higher education. He moved into repertory theatre with the Manchester Repertory Company at Aylesbury and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's ''The Real Inspector Hound''. During this period, he was in the cast of BBC radio and television comedies such as ''The Navy Lark''. He got his television break with the satirical sketch series ''The Frost Report'' in 1966, where he met future collaborator, Ronnie Corbett. He joined David Frost's production company and starred in ITV shows. After rejoining the BBC, Barker achieved signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McNaught-Davis
Ian McNaught-Davis (30 August 1929 – 10 February 2014) was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series ''The Computer Programme'', '' Making the Most of the Micro'' and '' Micro Live'' in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare Inc. Early life and career The son of Stanley McNaught-Davis, an ex RAF pilot, he was educated at Rothwell Grammar School in Lofthouse, West Yorkshire (originally built in Rothwell, West Yorkshire), followed by national service in the RAF where his poor eyesight thwarted his ambitions to become a pilot. He achieved a first in Mathematics at the University of Manchester, where he also became an active mountaineer. After university he had a variety of jobs including digging ice tunnels for glaciologists on Monte Rosa in Switzerland; fixing roofs and teaching. Eventually he settled as a geophysicist for British Petroleum (BP), specialising in Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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