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{{Year nav topic5|1992|British television}}This is a list of British television related events from 1992. EventsJanuary- 1 January –
- New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the first network television showing of Michael Jackson's film Moonwalker.[1]
- On BBC2, New Year's Day highlights include the network television premieres of Radio Days and Australia.[2]
- 2 January – BBC1 shows the network television premiere of The Accused, a graphic and disturbing film starring Jodie Foster, loosely based on the 1983 Cheryl Araujo case.[3]
- 4 January – BBC2 airs Freddie Mercury: a Tribute, a special programme introduced by Elton John and that celebrates the life and work of Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991.[4]
- 7 January –
- Debut of Cold Blood – The Massacre of East Timor, an edition of the documentary strand First Tuesday concerning the Santa Cruz massacre.[5]
- Children's stop motion puppet series Joshua Jones made and produced by Bumper Films the company behind Fireman Sam screens on BBC1.[6]
- 13 January – The Parliamentary Channel, operated by United Artists Cable and funded by a consortium of British cable operators,[7] is launched.[8] It was later taken over by the BBC and relaunched as BBC Parliament in 1998.
- 14 January – The Dreamstone, the children's animated series returns for a brand new series and second season on ITV.
- 21 January – BBC Select launches overnight on BBC1 and BBC2 as a subscription service showing specialist programmes for professionals including businessmen, lawyers, teachers and nurses. The service ends in 1994.
February- 8 February – Channel 4 launches TV Heaven, a series of 13 themed Saturday evenings celebrating the best of archive British television. The programme is hosted by Frank Muir with each edition focusing (with one exception) on a particular year. The first week's episode takes a look at 1967, featuring classic episodes of Coronation Street, At Last the 1948 Show, Armchair Theatre and The Frost Programme.
- 8–22 February – The BBC provides live and recorded coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games.
- 25 February – Children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is revived on ITV with Michael Angelis taking over as storyteller.
- 27 February – BBC 1 airs "Cascade", the sixth series finale of Casualty.[9] The episode, featuring a plane crash and originally scheduled to air on 20 December 1991, was postponed because the airdate fell on the eve of the third anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster.
- February – Sky One begins airing the Australian "adult soap" Chances on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9.00pm. However, after proving unpopular with viewers, it drops to one episode a week and is shown on Thursdays at 10.00pm, before ending in early 1993. The series is repeated in a late night slot in 1995, but on both occasions of its transmission the final nineteen episodes are not shown.
- February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News.
March- 2 March – The News at 5.40 is renamed ITN Early Evening News.
- 6 March – ITV airs "If Only We Hadn't", the final new episode of Rainbow to be produced by Thames Television. The programme continues to air until 31 December, but with repeats of previous episodes.
- 26 March – Television entertainer Roy Castle (59), who currently presents Record Breakers, announces that he is suffering from lung cancer.
- 27 March – During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie famously pours a glass of orange juice over Labour's Peter Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands based debate show Central Weekend has finished airing.[10] Speaking about the incident later, Currie said "I just looked at my orange juice, and looked at this man from which this stream of abuse was emanating, and thought 'I know how to shut you up.' ".[10]
- 28 March – Amanda Normansell wins the third series of Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Patsy Cline.
April- 5 April – The Australian soap E Street makes its British television debut on Sky One with a two-hour pilot, before picking up the series at Episode 47 the following day (the opening episodes having achieved poor ratings in Australia). Due to the violent nature of some of the soap's storylines and its broadcast before the 9.00pm watershed, some episodes are heavily edited for their UK transmission.
- 6 April – Ahead of the election, Sue Lawley presents an edition of The Granada 500 in which a studio audience are given the opportunity to question the three main party leaders; John Major (Conservative), Neil Kinnock (Labour) and Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats).
- 9–10 April – Coverage of the results of the 1992 general election are broadcast both on BBC1 and ITV.
- 10 April – ITV airs the first episode of Heartbeat, a long running police drama set in North Yorkshire during the 1960s.
- 14 April – The Independent Television Commission (ITC) issues an invitation to apply for the licence to run a fifth UK television channel.[11]
- 20 April – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, an open-air concert in tribute to the late Freddie Mercury is held at London's Wembley Stadium. The concert is broadcast on BBC2 in the UK and televised worldwide.[12][13]
- April – Launch, on cable, of the music video channel The Box.
May- 2 May – TV Heaven draws to a close after thirteen weeks, with a selection of programmes from 1968: an episode of Please Sir!, "The Cats Eyes Man", an edition of The World of Whicker, an edition of Do Not Adjust Your Set, and "The Girl Who Was Death", an episode of The Prisoner.
- 8 May – Liberal Democrat MP, and subsequent leader, Charles Kennedy makes his debut appearance as a panellist on the BBC satirical news quiz Have I Got News for You.
- 9 May – Ireland's Linda Martin wins the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest with "Why Me?".
- 14 May – Final onscreen appearance of Willy, one of two EastEnders dogs to have appeared in the show since the first episode (the other being Roly). Having been killed off in the series, the dog who played Willy dies on 30 May, two weeks after his final scenes are shown.
- 18 May – It is announced that Sky Sports will provide live coverage of football's new Premier League. It will show two live matches a week, on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. Sky have outbid ITV Sport for the rights, with highlights awarded to the BBC, meaning the return of Match of the Day on a weekly basis.
- 24 May – BBC1 airs the Everyman documentary "E is for Ecstasy", a film exploring the use of the Ecstasy drug in rave culture.[14]
- 25 May – BBC1 shows the British network television premiere of Psycho III.[15]
June- 9–10 June – Episodes 1450–1454 of Australian soap Neighbours are heavily censored by the BBC because they contain an incest storyline between the characters Glen Donnelly (played by Richard Huggett) and Lucy Robinson (Melissa Bell), who had not realised they were half-siblings when they began a relationship. Scenes involving the story are cut from Episode 1450, aired on 9 June, while Episodes 1451–1454 are edited together into one episode, which is transmitted the following day.[16][17] The scenes were shown uncut in repeats aired by another channel some years later.[18]
- 14 June – An edition of The South Bank Show, The Making of Sgt. Pepper, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[19]
- 21 June – ITV airs the first of four editions of Frankie's On..., a series of stand up shows recorded by the late Frankie Howerd shortly before his death in April. Six episodes had been planned, but only four were recorded before he died. The episodes are Frankie's On Board!, Frankie's On The Coals!, Frankie's On Fire! and Frankie's On Call!
- 25 June – A British adaptation of the US informational docudrama television series Rescue 911 known as 999 begins on BBC1 airing for 11 years up until 2003.
- 26 June – The final lunchtime edition of Business Daily is shown on Channel 4. The breakfast editions, which are part of Channel Four Daily, continue for another three months.
- 29 June – Susie Dent premieres as lexicographer on Countdown, a role she holds to this day.
- June – Yorkshire and Tyne Tees television merge as a result of financial strain brought on by the amount each paid to retain their ITV franchises.[20] The merger begins a process that will see the consolidation of ITV over the next decade.
July- 3 July –
- Columbia TriStar and Canwest, two backers of the four strong Channel 5 Holdings Ltd consortium, withdraw their support for the project, leaving Thames Television and Canadian businessman Moses Znaimer to take the project forward. As Channel 5 Holdings are the only current bidders for the Channel 5 licence there are concerns for the future of the process ahead of the deadline, but Channel 5 Holdings says it intends to put forward its bid as planned.[21]
- After more than seven years on air, Terry Wogan's thrice-weekly chat show Wogan is broadcast for the final time.[22][23]
- 6 July – BBC1 launches the ill-fated Eldorado, a soap about a group of ex-pats living in Spain.[24] The series is axed the following year.
- 7 July – Date of the initial deadline for applications to run the Channel 5 service. One application to run the channel is submitted by Channel 5 Holdings Ltd.[11]
- 18–19 July – ITV stages its third and final nationwide Telethon fundraising effort. The 28-hour show attracts criticism from disability campaigners, who protest outside London Weekend Television's headquarters, feeling that ITV's charity appeal films for the programme used "pitiful" stereotypes that would not help them to achieve equality.[25]
- 19 July – Vanessa Binns wins the 1992 series of MasterChef.
- 25 July−9 August – The BBC becomes the exclusive broadcaster of the Summer Olympic Games in the UK when it shows live coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Around 15 hours a day of mainly live coverage is provided although Games coverage is interrupted for coverage of other sport, mostly cricket and horse racing, rather than showing non-Olympic sport on the other BBC channel.
- July – The former BSB satellite Marcopolo 2 is sold to Norway's Telenor and renamed Thor 1.
August- 4 August – ITV airs Katie and Eilish, an edition of the documentary strand First Tuesday about Siamese Twins in Ireland. The film, narrated by Julie Christie is a 1993 Peabody Award winner.[26]
- 6 August – Lord Hope, the Lord President of the Court of Session, Scotland's most senior judge, permits the televising of appeals in both criminal and civil cases, the first time that cameras have been allowed into courts in the United Kingdom.[27]
- 15 August –
- Match of the Day returns to BBC screens on a weekly basis following the BBC's purchase of highlights of the newly formed Premier League.
- Sky Sports launches Sports Saturday to co-inside with the launch of the new Premier League. It follows the same format as the BBC's Grandstand programme featuring a mix of sporting action, concluding with the day's football results.
- 16 August – Sky Sports shows its first live Premier League match. The channel launches an afternoon-long football programme called Super Sunday which allows for two hours of pre-match build-up and one hour of post match analysis.
- 18 August – Emma Bunton, who would later achieve fame as a member of the Spice Girls, makes her television acting debut in an episode of EastEnders, playing a mugger.
- 20 August – Central Television broadcasts the final episode of the Australian soap The Young Doctors, making it the first ITV region to complete the series.
- 21 August – The final edition of London Weekend Television's Friday evening magazine programme Six O'Clock Live is aired; the programme is ending to make way for changes to London's regional news service for ITV that will come in from January 1993.
- 30 August – BBC1 airs the network television premiere of Dad, Gary David Goldberg's 1989 comedy drama starring Jack Lemon and Ted Dansen, and based on the novel of the same name by William Wharton.[28]
- 31 August – BBC2 spends the evening in TV Hell.[29]
September- 1 September – Sky Sports becomes a subscription channel.
- 4 September – London Weekend Television launches a new logo, sometimes dubbed the flying blocks logo.[30]
- 6 September – Channel 4 launches its live coverage of Italian football's Serie A. The first match to be shown is Sampdoria v Lazio. The channel continues to show Italian football for the next ten years.[31]
- 12 September –
- Casualty returns to BBC 1 for a seventh series,[32] moving from its previous Friday evening slot to Saturday evenings.
- Channel 4 airs the first edition of its magazine programme Gazzetta Football Italia, presented by James Richardson.[31]
- 17 September –
- Comedienne Victoria Wood narrates and voices a new animated series for children on BBC1 called Puppydog Tales. The series focus on four dogs lead by the streetwise Rosie in which she tries to teach her naughty friend Ruff some lessons along with jokes, stories and songs that appear at the very end.[33]
- Children's stop-motion animated series Noddy's Toyland Adventures based on the original works by Enid Blyton debuts on BBC1.[34]
- 19 September – The Times reports that the US media company International Family Entertainment (IFE) has made an offer to buy TVS for £38.2m.[35]
- 23 September – Channel 4 begins a rerun of the cult 1960s science fiction series The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan as the series marks its 25th anniversary.
- 25 September – Channel 4 airs the final Channel Four Daily. The news based breakfast television show was axed due to poor ratings. From Monday 28 September it is replaced by The Big Breakfast, a programme which takes a lighter tone and proves to be more popular with viewers.
October- 1 October – Sky Movies Gold, a channel dedicated to classic movies, launches. It replaces The Comedy Channel.
- 3 October –
- Comedian and television presenter Leslie Crowther sustains serious head injuries after his Rolls Royce veers out of control and crashes on the M5 near Cheltenham. He subsequently undergoes surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain.[36][37]
- British television premiere of the James Bond film The Living Daylights on ITV.[38]
- 8 October – BBC2 airs the first edition of Later... with Jools Holland. Artists and groups featuring on this edition are The Neville Brothers, The Christians, Nu Colours and D'Influence.[39]
- 10 October – Gladiators a British adaptation of the U.S. competition program American Gladiators premieres on ITV.
- 12 October – Anne Diamond and Nick Owen present a brand new daytime program on BBC1 called Good Morning with Anne and Nick. A potential rival to ITV's This Morning, the programme reunites Diamond and Owen, who had previously presented together on Good Morning Britain during the 1980s.[40][41]
- 20 October – Channel 4 airs Burning Books on Sex, a programme reviewing Madonna's book, Sex which is published the following day. On 21 October the channel airs Ross Meets Madonna, in which Jonathan Ross talks to the singer.
- 29 October – Veteran children's television presenters Andy Crane and Violet Berlin present a brand new factual program including videogames and computer technology called Bad Influence!.
- 31 October – The controversial one-off drama Ghostwatch is broadcast on BBC1, a 'live' investigation into a haunted North London house.[42][43]
November- 1 November – UK Gold is launched. It is a joint venture between the BBC and Thames Television and shows programmes from the archives of both broadcasters.
- 2 November – Channel 4 celebrates ten years on air. On that day, the Fourscore theme used in the idents is replaced.
- 3 November – An artile in Variety magazine indicates that a number of American companies are interested in acquiring TVS, including TCW Capital, International Family Entertainment Inc. (IFE) and Lorne Michaels.[44] TCW Capital subsequently goes on to make an offer to rival IFE,[45] but pulls out a few weeks later after reviewing the TVS accounts.[46]
- 12 November – The first episode of Absolutely Fabulous, a sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, airs on BBC2. The series also features Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and June Whitfield.[47]
- 20 November – Bob Mills presents a late night programme on ITV set in his home called In Bed with Medinner in which he specialised in a cynical view of life and its everyday objects, and in pastiches of popular culture icons.
- 26 November – The Times reports that IFE have increased their offer to purchase TVS to £45.3m.[48]
December- 3 December – Noddy's Toyland Adventures begins airing in Namibia on NBC.
- 5 December – BBC1 shows the network television premiere of Ted Kotcheff's black comedy Weekend at Bernie's.[49]
- 7 December – Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends starts airing in Malaysia in its original UK format on TV3 replacing Art Attack.
- 11 December – The Times reports that IFE's bid to buy TVS has been blocked on technical grounds by Julian Tregar amid concerns that the offer is too low.[50]
- 17 December – Ahead of the loss of its franchise, the final edition of the Thames Television-produced current affairs series This Week is broadcast.
- 20 December – The famous classic children's stories written and illustrated by beloved author and illustrator Beatrix Potter are brought to life with traditional hand drawn animation from TVC London (the company behind the UK's best known animated works such as Yellow Submarine, Father Christmas and The Snowman) in a brand new animated series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. The series will be played on BBC1 starting off with The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (as The Tale of Peter Rabbit was the first book Potter wrote and Peter always comes first).
- 23 December –
- Thames Television produces its final full-length edition of Thames News.
- ITV airs the 1988 film Buster, starring Phil Collins as great train robber Buster Edwards.
- 25 December –
- Christmas Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premieres of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Shirley Valentine.[51]
- BBC2's Christmas Day schedule includes highlights of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert that was held in April.[52]
- 26 December – BBC1 airs the network television premiere of When Harry Met Sally.[53]
- 27 December – Joan Hickson makes her final appearance as Miss Marple in the BBC1 TV series, with a feature-length adaptation of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.[54]
- 28 December –
- As part of a theme night devoted to (rival) broadcaster Granada Television, BBC2 airs the first new edition of University Challenge in five years.[55] The programme returns for a full series two years later, presented by Jeremy Paxman.[56]
- ITV transmits the 1000th episode of Home and Away.
- 29 December – BBC1 airs the first network television showing of the Dian Fossey biopic Gorillas in the Mist.[57]
- 30 December – BBC2 airs Unplugged – Eric Claptin, in which Eric Clapton plays acoustic versions of some of his tracks.[58]
- 31 December –
- After losing its broadcasting franchise, Thames Television goes off-air after 24-years. Television South, Television South West, breakfast television station's TV-am and ITV and Channel 4 teletext service ORACLE also go off air after losing their franchises.
- Channel 4's testcard ETP-1 is shown for the final time.
- Sky stops broadcasting via the Marco Polo satellite.
- December – The ITC rejects the Channel 5 Holdings Ltd bid to run the UK's fifth television channel amid concerns about its business plan and investor commitment to the project.[11]
Unknown- John Birt is appointed to succeed Sir Michael Checkland as Director-General of the BBC.
- Sir Michael Bishop succeeds Sir Richard Attenborough as Chairman of Channel 4.[59]
DebutsBBC1- 3 January – Love Hurts (1992–1994)
- 4 January – Moon and Son (1992)
- 6 January – Goodbye Cruel World (1992)
- 7 January – {{flagicon|WAL}} Joshua Jones (1992)
- 8 January – Fiddley Foodle Bird (1992)
- 10 January –
- Grace & Favour (1992–1993)
- Hangar 17 (1992–1994)
- 12 January – As Time Goes By (1992–2005)
- 15 January – {{flagicon|USA}}/{{flagicon|FRA}} Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars (1991)
- 18 February – Rides (1992–1993)
- 23 February – So Haunt Me (1992–1994)
- 24 February – Mulberry (1992–1993)
- 27 February – Us Girls (1992–1993)
- 16 March – The Old Devils (1992)
- 7 April – {{flagicon|USA}} The Pirates of Dark Water (1991–1993)
- 19 April – {{flagicon|CAN}}/{{flagicon|FRA}} Favorite Songs (1990–1992)
- 25 April – Parallel 9 (1992–1994)
- 27 April – Side by Side (1992–1993)
- 16 May – Growing Pains (1992–1993)
- 25 June – 999 (1992–2003)
- 6 July – Eldorado (1992–1993)
- 23 July – {{flagicon|NZ}} The Night of the Red Hunter (1989)
- 24 July – Virtual Murder (1992)
- 4 September – Between the Lines (1992–1994)
- 14 September – {{flagicon|USA}}/{{flagicon|JPN}} Peter Pan and the Pirates (1990–1991)
- 17 September –
- Noddy's Toyland Adventures (1992–1999)
- Puppydog Tales (1992)
- 18 September –
- Christopher Crocodile (1992)
- {{flagicon|USA}} The Chipmunks Go to the Movies (1990)
- 22 September – Civvies (1992)
- 26 September – Run the Risk (1992–1996)
- 29 September –
- SpaceVets (1992–1994)
- {{flagicon|WAL}}/{{flagicon|UK}} Funnybones (1992)
- 12 October – Good Morning with Anne and Nick (1992–1996)
- 21 October – Pole to Pole (1992)
- 1 November – Tell Tale Hearts (1992)
- 19 November – Sitting Pretty (1992–1993)
- 22 November – Look at It This Way (1992)
- 20 December – The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992–1995)
- 25 December – Juniper Jungle (1992–1993)
BBC2- 6 January – The Pall Bearer's Revue (1992)
- 11 June – Pandora's Box (1992)
- 23 September – {{flagicon|USA}} Ghostwriter (1992–1995)
- 8 October – Later... with Jools Holland (1992–present)
- 8 November – The Borrowers (1992)
- 12 November – Absolutely Fabulous (1992–1996, 2001–2004, 2011–2012)
- 18 November – Nice Town (1992)
ITV- 3 January – The Good Guys (1992–1993)
- 10 January – Truckers (1992)
- 25 January – The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)
- 9 February – Maigret (1992–1993)
- 16 February – The Old Boy Network (1992)
- 18 February –
- Men Behaving Badly (1992–1998)
- Just Us (1992–1994)
- 22 February – The Brian Conley Show (1992–2002)
- 9 March – Junglies (1992–1993)
- 10 March – Extraordinary People (1992–1993)
- 10 April – Heartbeat (1992–2010)
- 19 April – White Bear's Secret (1992)
- 24 April – The Gingerbread Man (1992)
- 25 April – Gimme 5 (1992–1994)
- 8 May – Wilderness Edge (1992)
- 12 May – Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992)
- 17 May – Root into Europe (1992)
- 26 July – TV Squash (1992)
- 30 July – Me, You and Him (1992)
- 5 September – What's Up Doc? (1992–1995)
- 11 September – Astro Farm (1992–1996)
- 10 October – Gladiators (1992–2000, 2008–2009)
- 29 October – Bad Influence! (1992–1996)
- 16 November – Brill (1992–1996)
- 20 November – In Bed with Medinner (1992–1999)
- 6 December – A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
- 24–25 December – Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean (1992)
- Unknown – {{flagicon|USA}} Doug (1991–1994)
Channel 4- 7 January – GamesMaster (1992–1998)
- 18 January – {{flagicon|CAN}} Little Rosey (1990)
- 8 February – TV Heaven (1992)
- 5 March –
- The Camomile Lawn (1992)
- The Big One (1992)
- 15 April – Sean's Show (1992–1993)
- 17 April – {{flagicon|CAN}} Tooth Fairy, Where Are You? (1991)
- 4 July – {{flagicon|USA}} ProStars (1991)
- 6 September – Football Italia (1992–2002 Channel 4, 2002–2005 British Eurosport, 2005–2006 Bravo, 2007–2008 Five)
- 11 September – Terry and Julian (1992)
- 28 September – The Big Breakfast (1992–2002)
Sky One- February – {{flagicon|AUS}} Chances (1991–1992)
- 5 April – {{flagicon|AUS}} E Street (1989–1993)
- 8 May – {{flagicon|USA}} The Flash (1990–1991, 2014–present)
- 3 October – {{flagicon|USA}} Knights and Warriors (1992–1993)
- 6 October –
- {{flagicon|USA}} Teech (1991)
- {{flagicon|USA}} Anything but Love (1989–1992)
- {{flagicon|USA}} Gabriel's Fire (1990–1991)
- Unknown – {{flagicon|CAN}} The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
Sky Sports- 15 August – Sports Saturday (1992–1998)
- 16 August – Super Sunday (1992–present)
- 17 August – Monday Night Football (1992–2007, 2010–present)
MTV Europe- 14 April – MTV's Most Wanted (1992–1995)
ChannelsNew channelsDate | Channel |
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January | The Adult Channel | 13 January | The Parliamentary Channel | March | TLC | April | The Box | May | Wire TV | 1 October | Sky Movies Gold | October | CMT Europe | 1 November | UK Gold |
Defunct channelsDate | Channel |
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30 September | The Comedy Channel | 31 December | Sky Arts |
Television showsChanges of network affiliation Shows | Moved from | Moved to |
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FRA}} The Magic Roundabout | BBC1 | Channel 4 | Paddington | The Wombles | The Herbs | University Challenge | ITV | BBC2 | Stingray | The Dreamstone | The Children's Channel |
Returning this year after a break of one year or longer- Take Your Pick (1955–1968, 1992–1998)
- The Tomorrow People (1973–1979, 1992–1995)
1920s- BBC Wimbledon (1927–present)
1930s- BBC Cricket (1939–1999, 2020–2024)
1940s1950s- Panorama (1953–present)
- What the Papers Say (1956–2008)
- The Sky at Night (1957–present)
- Blue Peter (1958–present)
- Grandstand (1958–2007)
1960s- Coronation Street (1960–present)
- Songs of Praise (1961–present)
- World in Action (1963–1998)
- Top of the Pops (1964–2006)
- Match of the Day (1964–present)
- Mr. and Mrs. (1964–1999)
- Jackanory (1965–1996, 2006)
- Sportsnight (1965–1997)
- Call My Bluff (1965–2005)
- The Money Programme (1966–2010)
1970s- Emmerdale (1972–present)
- Newsround (1972–present)
- Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)
- That's Life! (1973–1994)
- Wish You Were Here...? (1974–2003)
- Arena (1975–present)
- Jim'll Fix It (1975–1994)
- One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
- Grange Hill (1978–2008)
- The Paul Daniels Magic Show (1979–1994)
- Antiques Roadshow (1979–present)
- Question Time (1979–present)
1980s- Children in Need (1980–present)
- Danger Mouse (1981–1992, 2015–present)
- Timewatch (1982–present)
- Brookside (1982–2003)
- Countdown (1982–present)
- Right to Reply (1982–2001)
- First Tuesday (1983–1993)
- Highway (1983–1993)
- Blockbusters (1983–93, 1994–95, 1997, 2000–01, 2012)
- Spitting Image (1984–1996)
- The Bill (1984–2010)
- Channel 4 Racing (1984–2016)
- Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984–present)
- Busman's Holiday (1985–1993)
- EastEnders (1985–present)
- The Cook Report (1985–1998)
- Crosswits (1985–1998)
- Telly Addicts (1985–1998)
- Comic Relief (1985–present)
- Beadle's About (1986–1996)
- The Chart Show (1986–1998, 2008–2009)
- Casualty (1986–present)
- Every Second Counts (1986–1993)
- Lovejoy (1986–1994)
- The Raggy Dolls (1986–1994)
- Allsorts (1987–1995)
- Going Live! (1987–1993)
- Watching (1987–1993)
- Going for Gold (1987–1996, 2008–2009)
- The Time, The Place (1987–1996)
- Chain Letters (1987–1997)
- ChuckleVision (1987–2009)
- Count Duckula (1988–1993)
- You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–1993)
- You Bet! (1988–1997)
- Playdays (1988–1997)
- London's Burning (1988–2002)
- On the Record (1988–2002)
- Fifteen to One (1988–2003, 2013–present)
- This Morning (1988–present)
- Fun House (1989–1999)
- Absolutely (1989–1993)
- KYTV (1989–1993)
- Press Gang (1989–1993)
- Birds of a Feather (1989–1998, 2014–present)
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995)
- Desmond's (1989–1994)
- Bodger & Badger (1989–1999)
1990s- The $64,000 Question (1990–1993)
- Families (1990–1993)
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
- Waiting for God (1990–1994)
- Mr. Bean (1990–1995)
- The Crystal Maze (1990–1995, 2016–present)
- Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995)
- Turnabout (1990–1996)
- The Upper Hand (1990–1996)
- Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998)
- Stars in Their Eyes (1990–2006)
- The Dreamstone (1990–1995)
- Rosie and Jim (1990–2000)
- Big Break (1991–2002)
- 2point4 Children (1991–1999)
- The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993)
- Spender (1991–1993)
- The House of Eliott (1991–1994)
- The Brittas Empire (1991–1997)
- Bottom (1991–1995)
- Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
- Noel's House Party (1991–1999)
- Darkwing Duck (1991–1992)
- Little Dracula (1991–1999)
- The Animated Series (1991)
Ending this year- 2 January – Canned Carrott (1990–1992)
- 4 January – After Henry (1988–1992)
- 10 February – No Job for a Lady (1990–1992)
- 19 February
- Van der Valk (1972–1973, 1977, 1991–1992)
- The Secret Cabaret (1990–1992)
- 26 February – All Clued Up (1987–1991)
- 2 March – El C.I.D. (1990–1992)
- 6 March – Rainbow (1972–1992, 1994–1995)
- 19 March – Danger Mouse (1981–1992, 2015–present)
- 24 March – Joshua Jones (1992)
- 1 April – Fiddley Foodle Bird (1992)
- 3 April
- In Sickness and in Health (1985–1992)
- Truckers (1992)
- 4 April – Motormouth (1988–1992)
- 6 April – The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1990–1992)
- 10 April – Spatz (1990–1992)
- 26 April – The Big Match (1968–1992)
- 10 May – The Piglet Files (1990–1992)
- 3 July – Wogan (1982–1992)
- 1 September – Shelley (1979–1992)
- 6 September – A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1992)
- 25 September
- The Channel Four Daily (1989–1992)
- Business Daily (1987–1992)
- 28 September – Playbox (1987–1992)
- 16 October – Terry and Julian (1992)
- 17 November – T-Bag (1985–1992)
- 30 November – The Sooty Show (1955–1992)
- 1 December – Boon (1986–1992, 1995)
- 3 December – Rumpole of the Bailey (1975–1992)
- 5 December – The Hit Man and Her (1988–1992)
- 11 December – Christopher Crocodile (1992)
- 16 December – Family Pride (1991–1992)
- 17 December – This Week (1956–1978, 1986–1992)
- 18 December – Puppydog Tales (1992)
- 23 December
- Dooby Duck's Disco Bus (1989–1992)
- Watt on Earth (1991–1992)
- 30 December – 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992)
- 31 December
- Good Morning Britain (1983–1992, 2014–present)
- Wide Awake Club (1984–1992)
- Park Avenue (1988–1992)
- Up Pompeii! (1969–1975, 1991–1992)
- James the Cat (1984–1992, 1998–2003)
- Pigsty (1990–1992)
- Wail of the Banshee (1992)
Births- 14 February – Freddie Highmore, actor
- 17 March – Eliza Bennett, actress and singer
- 14 May – Laya Lewis, actress
- 4 June – Brooke Vincent, actress
- 31 August – Holly Earl, actress
- 3 December – Joseph McManners, actor
- 17 December – Thomas Law, actor
- 24 December – Melissa Suffield, actress
Deaths Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Credibility |
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18 April | H. V. Kershaw | 74 | scriptwriter (Coronation Street) | 19 April | Frankie Howerd | 75 | comedian and actor (That Was The Week That Was and Up Pompeii!) | 20 April | Benny Hill | 68 | comedian (The Benny Hill Show) | 19 May | James Bate | 47 | actor (Sleuth, The Spoils of War) | 5 June | Laurence Naismith | 83 | actor (The Persuaders!) | 29 August | Teddy Turner | 75 | actor (Never the Twain, Emmerdale) | 2 September | Johnnie Mortimer | 61 | scriptwriter (Man About the House, George & Mildred, Robin's Nest, Never the Twain ) | 11 December | Michael Robbins | 62 | actor (On the Buses) |
See also- 1992 in British music
- 1992 in British radio
- 1992 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1992
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{{Years in TV by country|1992}} 1 : 1992 in British television |