This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1981.
Events
editJuly
edit- 29 July – The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral. More than 30,000,000 viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.[1]
September
edit- 1 September - 20th anniversary of Border Television.
- 8 September - BBC One Scotland changes its name to BBC Scotland.
- 30 September - 20th anniversary of Grampian Television.
October
edit- October - Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional Oracle teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information.[2]
- 17 October - The first edition of a new Sunday lunchtime current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.
Unknown
edit- Scottish Television airs The Shepherds of Berneray, a 50-minute television documentary revolving around the people on the island of Berneray, North Uist, and how they lived at that time.
- Alistair Moffat is appointed Head of Arts at Scottish Television.
Debuts
editITV
edit- 5 January - Now You See It (1981–1986)
Television series
edit- Scotsport (1957–2008)[3]
- Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
- Top Club (1971–1998)
- Scotland Today (1972–2009)
- Sportscene (1975–Present)[4]
- The Beechgrove Garden (1978–Present)
- Grampian Today (1980–2009)
- Take the High Road (1980–2003)[5]
Births
edit- 10 March - Nicci Jolly, television presenter
- 5 April - Shabana Akhtar, actress
- Unknown
- Cat Cubie, weather presenter
- Shauna Macdonald, actress
- Catriona Shearer, news presenter
Deaths
edit- 6 January - A. J. Cronin, 84, writer (Doctor Finlay's Casebook)
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "1981: Charles and Diana marry". On This Day. BBC. 29 July 1981. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ "Turn to the Oracle to be kept in the picture". Glasgow Herald. 12 October 1981. p. 11. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
- ↑ "Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary". BBC Sport. 6 August 2025. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ↑ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
