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1958 In British Television
This is a list of British television related events from 1958. Events January *14 January – TWW, the first ITV franchise for South Wales and the West of England, goes on the air. February *13 February – A by-election is covered on UK television for the first time when Granada broadcasts coverage of the 1958 Rochdale by-election; broadcast presenter Ludovic Kennedy takes second place for the Liberals, considerably increasing their share of the vote. *17 February – Pope Pius XII designates St. Clare of Assisi as the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set is said to improve reception. *18 February – Footage of the annual Shrove Tuesday Atherstone Ball Game is shown on television for the first time. March *31 March – Debut of the BBC's serial '' Starr and Company'', set in an engineering firm. The programme is aired for nine months. April *14 April — The newly magnetic videotape machine Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus or VER ... [...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] |
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach share of any broadcaster in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys
''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'' is a British historical television series which was originally broadcast on the BBC in 1958. Based on the diaries of the naval administrator Samuel Pepys, it portrays life at the court of Charles II during the 1660s. Main cast * Peter Sallis as Samuel Pepys * Susan Maryott as Elizabeth Pepys * Alan Rowe as William Hewer * Diana Fairfax as Lady Castlemaine * David Peel as Duke of York * Douglas Wilmer as King Charles II * Manning Wilson as Lord Sandwich * Paul Eddington as Sir William Coventry * John Arnatt as Duke of Albemarle * Howard Lamb as William Bowyer * Anthony Newlands as Sir William Penn * John Sharplin as John Evelyn * Frederick Peisley as John Pepys * Raymond Rollett as Sir John Minnes * Jill Carey as Duchess of York Review This series was Peter Sallis's first appearance as a principal character on television. A reason for this was that he bore a resemblance when compared to contemporary picture portraits of Samuel Pepys. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Than Robbery
''More Than Robbery'' is a British thriller television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1958.Baskin p.30 Main cast * Terence Morgan as Durbin * Helen Cherry as Norma Tredford * Owen Holder as Morley * David Horne as Dr. Nesbitt * Richard Wordsworth Richard Curwen Wordsworth (19 January 1915 – 21 November 1993) was an English character actor. He was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth. As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading D ... as Tredford * Patricia Cree as Miss Li * John Brooking as Bartrup * Yah Ming as Willie References Bibliography *Baskin, Ellen . ''Serials on British Television, 1950-1994''. Scolar Press, 1996. External links * {{IMDb title, id=1628030 BBC television dramas 1958 British television series debuts 1958 British television series endings British English-language television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Government Inspector
''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia. The dream-like scenes of the play, often mirroring each other, whirl in the endless vertigo of self-deception around the main character, Khlestakov, who personifies irresponsibility, light-mindedness, and absence of measure. "He is full of meaningless movement and meaningless fermentation incarnate, on a foundation of placidly ambitious inferiority" (D. S. Mirsky). The publication of the play led to a great outcry in the reactionary press. It took the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I to have the play staged, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monitor (British TV Programme)
''Monitor'' is a British arts television programme that was launched on 2 February 1958 on BBC and ran until 1965. Huw Wheldon was the editor from 1958 to 1962. He was also the principal interviewer and anchor until 1964. Wheldon set about moulding a team of talents, including W. G. Archer, Melvyn Bragg, Humphrey Burton, John Berger, Patrick Garland, Peter Newington, Ken Russell, John Schlesinger, Nancy Thomas, and Alan Tyrer. ''Monitor'' ranged in subject over all the arts. The role as editor of the series was passed to Humphrey Burton in July 1962, lasting a year. He was succeeded by David Jones who had worked on the series since the beginning. The hundredth programme, made in 1962, was a film directed by Ken Russell and written by Wheldon, the celebrated ''Elgar''. The ''Elgar'' film was innovative because it was the first time that an arts programme showed one long film about an artistic figure instead of short items, and it was the first time that re-enactments we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Life In Their Hands
''Your Life in Their Hands'' is a long-running BBC TV documentary series on the subject of surgery, examining surgical practice from the point of view of both surgeons and patients. Its first run was produced by Bill Duncalf and Mary Adams, consisted of five seasons (1958 to 1964) and was presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher. An early 1970s revival (the first in colour) was presented by Jonathan Miller, and another revival, lasting from 1979 to 1987, was presented by Robert Winston on BBC One. The series was revived again in 1991 for five editions, this time narrated by Andrew Sachs on BBC Two and again in 2004 and 2005 on BBC One with Barbara Flynn Barbara Flynn (born Barbara Joy McMurray, 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series '' A Family at War'' (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy ... as narrator. Episodes Series 1 The first series was broadcast on 9.30pm Tuesdays be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pride And Prejudice (1958 TV Series)
''Pride and Prejudice'' is a 1958 British television adaptation of the Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name, which aired on the BBC. Cast members included Alan Badel, Pamela Binns, Jane Downs, Susan Lyall Grant, Marian Spencer, Vivienne Martin, Hugh Sinclair, William Squire, Joan Carol, Jeanne Elvin, Colin Jeavons, Barbara New, and Greta Watson. Six half-hour episodes were produced, presumably aired live (since that was usually the case with BBC drama of the era), and telerecorded for overseas broadcast. All six episodes were subsequently junked and are believed to be lost. The designer was Stephen Bundy. Cast *Jane Downs as Elizabeth Bennet * Alan Badel as Mr. Darcy *Pamela Binns as Mary Bennet *Susan Lyall Grant as Jane Bennet *Marian Spencer as Mrs. Bennet *Vivienne Martin as Lydia Bennet *Hugh Sinclair as Mr. Bennet * William Squire as Mr. Bingley *Joan Carol as Mrs. Gardiner *Jeanne Elvin as Servant *Colin Jeavons as Mr. Wickham *Barbara New as Charlotte Luca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Playhouse
''Saturday Playhouse'' was a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 4 January 1958 until 1 April 1961. There were sixty-eight episodes, among them adaptations of the plays ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' and '' The Cat and the Canary''. One of the episodes, Alex Atkinson’s classic thriller ''Design for Murder'', was featured twice on the BBC: first on ''Saturday Playhouse'' (Saturday, 15 March 1958; S1/Ep.6) and again from the BBC’s own theatre in Bristol (Thursday, 6 July 1961). Many actors performed for ''Saturday Playhouse'', including: Maxine Audley, John Barrie, Michael Bates, Brian Blessed, Jeremy Brett, Michael Crawford, Anton Diffring, Paul Eddington, Denholm Elliott, Thora Hird, Desmond Llewelyn, Margaret Lockwood, Leo McKern, Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Prunella Scales and Elizabeth Shepherd Elizabeth Shepherd (born 12 August 1936) is an English character actress whose lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Guns (TV Series)
''Big Guns'' is a British crime television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1958.''Radio Times'' p.17 The show was based on the character of Detective Superintendent Charlesworth, played by Wensley Pithey, who had featured a previous series '' Mister Charlesworth'' and would go on to appear further series including '' Charlesworth at Large'' and '' Charlesworth''. Selected cast Main * Wensley Pithey Det. Supt. Charlesworth * Nigel Davenport as Sgt. Spence * Walter Fitzgerald as J. Philimore Sparkes * Anthony Baird as PC Wrothbury * Carl Bernard as Milton * Warren Mitchell as Kegworthy * Anna Burden as Alice Charlesworth Guest * Frank Finlay as Roscoe * Sam Kydd as Raikes * Danny Green as Bronner * Donald Churchill as Taffy Wilkes * Wendy Craig as Rita * Sydney Bromley as Engraver * Frederick Jaeger as Ni Ni Blascoe * Leslie Perrins as Cloker * Anthony Sagar as Jakey Selsby * Alfred Lynch Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was an Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Jones (actor)
Gareth Jones (6 June 1925 – 30 November 1958) was a British actor, chiefly remembered for the circumstances of his death, during the transmission of a live television play, ''Underground'', part of the ''Armchair Theatre'' series. Biography Jones was born in Lampeter, Wales. Career Jones appeared in Dundee Repertory Theatre plays including "Petticoat Influence" (1952), ''The Beaver Coat'' (1952), "The Hollow Crown" (1952), "The Queen's Husband" (1952), "Young Madame Conti" (1952), and '' The Lark'' (1955). He also appeared in three other ''Armchair Theatre'' plays in 1958 - "Noon on Doomsday" (6 July 1958), "Trial By Candlelight" (22 June 1958), and "Miss Olive" (6 April 1958). Other TV appearances included the ITV Television Playhouse production of "Thunder on Sycamore Street" (11 October 1957), the BBC Television adaptation of ''Under Milk Wood'' (9 May 1957), the BBC series "Onion Boys" (1957), and "A Tale of Two Cities" (1957). Death During a live television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground (1958 TV Play)
"Underground" was a science-fiction television play presented as part of the British anthology series ''Armchair Theatre'' which was broadcast live by the ITV commercial network on 30 November 1958. It is chiefly remembered because an actor had a fatal heart attack during transmission. Written by dramatist James Forsyth (1913–2005) the play depicted survivors from a nuclear holocaust living in the London Underground.Quentin Falk and Ben Falk ''Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television'', London: Robson Books, 2005, p.41 It featured actors Donald Houston, Ian Curry, Patricia Jessel, Warren Mitchell, Peter Bowles and 33-year-old Gareth Jones in what would be his last role. A little over halfway through the production, Gareth Jones complained of feeling unwell while off-set in make-up between two of his scenes, and then suddenly collapsed and died as he was about to continue. His character was due to die from a heart attack durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
