This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1984.
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Events
editJanuary
edit- No events.
February
edit- No events.
March
edit- No events.
April
edit- 20 April – 20th anniversary of BBC Two Scotland.
May
edit- No events.
June
edit- 1 June – The final edition of current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. It had been on air for less than three years.
July
edit- 27 July – The final edition of Sixty Minutes is broadcast on BBC1, ending less than a year after it first went on air. Consequently, Scotland Sixty Minutes ends.
- 30 July – To fill the gap between the end of Sixty Minutes and the launch of BBC1's teatime news hour, BBC Scotland's regional news programme is broadcast for 20 minutes, beginning at 5.55pm, and the change sees the return of the Reporting Scotland name.
August
edit- No events.
September
edit- 3 September – BBC1's teatime news hour is relaunched and now runs from 6pm until 7pm. The change results in Reporting Scotland moving to a new time of 6.35pm and the programme's length is extended to 25 minutes.
October
edit- 8 October – Scotland Today is relaunched as a features-led magazine format with the news relegated to brief summaries before and after the programme.[1]
November
edit- No events.
December
edit- No events.
Unknown
edit- Unknown – Debut of the Grampian Television current affairs programme Crossfire.
- Unknown – Scottish airs Scotland's Story, a 24-part series on the history of Scotland.[2]
Debuts
editBBC
edit- Unknown – City Lights (1984–1991)[3]
ITV
edit- Unknown – Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
Returning this year
edit- 30 July – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
Television series
edit- Scotsport (1957–2008)[4]
- Top Club (1971–1998)
- Scotland Today (1972–2009)
- Sportscene (1975–present)
- The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
- Grampian Today (1980–2009)
- Take the High Road (1980–2003)[5]
- Now You See It (1981–1986)
Births
edit- 16 February – Kari Corbett, actor
- 18 December – Tiffany Mulheron, actress
Deaths
edit- 4 January – Jameson Clark, 76, actor
- 6 September – Donny MacLeod, 52, television presenter
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Kelly gets his eye in, Gavin Docherty, Evening Times, 8 October 1984
- ^ "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
- ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.