1988 in Scottish television
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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1988.
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 19 January – Debut of the BBC Scotland television film Down Where the Buffalo Go.
February[edit]
- 13 February – Scottish Television (STV) begins 24-hour broadcasting.[1]
March to June[edit]
- No events.
July[edit]
- 19 July – Debut on ITV of the STV produced game show Wheel of Fortune.
August[edit]
- No events.
September[edit]
- 2 September – Grampian and Border begin 24-hour transmission. Their overnight programming comes from Granada Television's Night Time service.[1]
Autumn[edit]
- The BBC takes its first tentative steps into later closedowns – previously weekday programmes ended no later than 12:15 am and weekend broadcasting had finished by 1:30 am.
October[edit]
- No events.
November[edit]
- No events.
December[edit]
- 31 December – Transmission of Tony Roper's The Steamie, about life in a Glasgow wash-house during the 1950s, starring Dorothy Paul and Eileen McCallum.[2]
Debuts[edit]
ITV[edit]
- 19 July – Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
Television series[edit]
- Scotsport (1957–2008)
- Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
- 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)[3]
- Taggart (1983–2010)[4]
- James the Cat (1984–1992)
- Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
- City Lights (1984–1991)[5]
- The Campbells (1986–1990)
- Naked Video (1986–1991)[6]
Births[edit]
- 27 January – Iain Stirling, comedian
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "TV Live – ITV Night Time". Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
- ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
- ^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.