List of years in British television (table)
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This is a list of British television related events from 1973.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • 13 June – The long-running children's sports themed game show We Are the Champions begins on BBC1.

July

August

September

  • 10 September – The Goodies makes its debut in Zambia on ZBS.
  • 26 September – Scottish and Grampian show live coverage of a Scotland home football international for the first time when they broadcast the World Cup qualifier between Scotland and Czechoslovakia.[3]
  • 28 September – BBC1 begin showing The New Scooby-Doo Movies, with Mystery Inc teaming up with Batman and Robin.

October

  • 8 October – Pat Phoenix leaves the role of Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street after thirteen years although she will make a return to the soap on 5 April 1976.
  • 17 October – ITV shows a home England football international live from Wembley for the first time when it broadcasts the World Cup qualifier between England v Poland.[4]
  • 31 October

November

December

  • 17 December – The government announces severe measures to reduce electricity consumption due to the ongoing overtime ban by the National Union of Mineworkers, strike action in the electricity supply industry and effects of the 1973 oil crisis. Part of these measures are that both BBC and ITV television are ordered to end their broadcasting day earlier than usual, at around 10:30pm in order to save energy. The early closedowns commence that day and continue until Sunday 23 December. They are then lifted so that Christmas and New Year programming can air as normal and provide some light relief to the public. The restrictions will be reimposed from Monday 7 January 1974 and remain for a further month.[6]

Unknown

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

  • 16 January – Look and Read: Joe and the Sheep Rustlers (1973)
  • 15 February – Weir of Hermiston (1973)
  • 4 March – The Pearcross Girls (1973)
  • 25 March – Seven of One (1973)
  • 1 April – Away from It All (1973)
  • 19 April – Cheri (1973)
  • 1 May – A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973)
  • 5 May — The Ascent of Man (1973)
  • 20 May – M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
  • 24 May – The Song of Songs (1973)
  • 28 June – Two Women (1973)
  • 26 July – A Pin to See the Peepshow (1973)
  • 14 August – Black and Blue (1973)
  • 6 September – Then and Now (1973)
  • 23 September – The Dragon's Opponent (1973)
  • 15 October – Second City Firsts (1973–1978)
  • 8 December – Vienna 1900 (1973–1974)
  • 14 December – Frost's Weekly (1973–1974)
  • 27 December – The Vera Lynn Show (1973–1975)

ITV

  • 1 January – Pipkins (1973–1981)
  • 17 January – Whose's Baby? (1973; 1977; 1982–1988)
  • 14 February – All Our Saturdays (1973)
  • 3 February – No Man's Land (1973)
  • 25 February – The Upper Crusts (1973)
  • 28 February – The Jensen Code (1973)
  • 12 March – Hickory House (1973–1977)
  • 13 March – So It Goes (1973)
  • 8 April – Our Kid (1973)
  • 11 April – Armchair 30 (1973)
  • 14 April – Thriller (1973–1976)
  • 18 April – Night Gallery (1969-1973)
  • 30 April – The Tomorrow People (1973–1979, 1992–1995)
  • 2 May – Dolly (1973)
  • 11 May – Between the Wars (1973)
  • 15 May – Hey Brian! (1973)
  • 30 May – The Kids from 47A (1973–1974)
  • 4 June – Hunter's Walk (1973–1976)
  • 12 June – Sam (1973–1975)
  • 26 June – Nobody Is Norman Wisdom (1973)
  • 11 July – Shabby Tiger (1973)
  • 13 July – Sir Yellow (1973)
  • 29 July – Bowler (1973)
  • 12 August – Once Upon a Time (1973)
  • 15 August
  • 17 August – Kung Fu (1972-1975)
  • 1 September – Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973–1974)
  • 4 September – Up the Workers (1973–1976)
  • 21 September – Helen: A Woman of Today (1973)
  • 29 September – New Faces (1973–1978, 1986–1988)
  • 30 September – The Brontës of Haworth (1973)
  • 3 October – Men of Affairs (1973)
  • 26 October – Billy Liar (1973–1974)
  • 29 October – Tell Tarby (1973)
  • 30 October – Marked Personal (1973–1974)
  • 31 October
  • 1 November – Beryl's Lot (1973–1977)
  • 4 November – Oranges & Lemons (1973)
  • 12 November
  • 19 November – The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

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

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ""1973: First Open University degrees awarded", BBC On This Day". BBC News. 11 January 1973. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
  2. BBC Trade Test Colour Films
  3. http://tvset.byethost12.com/utm/itv/ITVclubs.html?19730926!!X
  4. http://tvset.byethost12.com/utm/itv/ITVclubs.html?19731017!!I
  5. "Television's crowning moments". BBC News. 24 August 1999. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. Fuel and Electricity (Control) Act 1973.
  7. Henwood, Flis; Miller, Nod; Senker, Peter; Wyatt, Sally (2002). Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society. Routledge. pp. 52–53. ISBN 9780203134504.
  8. Walker, John Albert (1993). Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain. Indiana University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780861964352.
  9. "OK for local tv". New Scientist. 27 January 1972. p. 205.
  10. Byrne, Ciar (2 May 2006). "Ridley Scott's Hovis advert is voted all-time favourite". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  11. Mark Duguid "Armchair Theatre (1956–74)", BFI screenonline
  12. "What the Papers Say in pictures". The Guardian. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  13. "Dad's Army". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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