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19th February 1985: EastEnders, the BBC’s flagship soap opera, broadcast for the first time

  • 19th February 2023
  • Tagged as: BBC, Britain, Culture, EastEnders, Entertainment, London, Television

EastEnders was first broadcast on 19 February 1985 as part of new BBC One controller Michael Grade’s ‘relaunch’ of the channel. The first episode secured an audience of 17 million.

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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

  • 26th November 2022
  • Tagged as: Culture, Music, Punk, Television

The Damned had released what is recognised as the first ever punk single a month earlier.

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10th November 1969: Sesame Street broadcast for the first time on American television

  • 10th November 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Culture, Education, School, Sesame Street, Television, United States, USA

Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal schooling.

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26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

  • 26th September 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Debate, Election, Kennedy, Nixon, Politics, Television, United States

The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

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11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

  • 11th July 2022
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Culture, France, Satellite, Science, Space, Space Race, Spacecraft, Technology, Television, USA

Telstar’s first broadcast involved  relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.

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7th February 1964: The Beatles arrive in the United States for their first appearance on national television

  • 7th February 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Beatles, Britain, Culture, Ed Sullivan, Music, New York, Television, The Beatles, USA

The band landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport on 7 February to be greeted by 3,000 screaming fans.

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25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

  • 25th January 2022
  • Tagged as: Culture, Electronics, Invention, Patent, Science, Technology, Television

Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.

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9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

  • 9th December 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Comic, Culture, Television, United States, USA

A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.

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23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

  • 23rd November 2021
  • Tagged as: Art, BBC, Britain, Culture, Television

An Unearthly Child was the first of a four-part serial that saw actor William Hartnell take the role of the time-travelling Doctor Who.

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11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

  • 11th October 2021
  • Tagged as: Comedy, Culture, New York, Television, USA

Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.

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