1984 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events from 1984.

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Channels

New channels

DateChannel
29 March Music Box
Screensport
The Entertainment Network
1 September The Children's Channel
Premiere

Rebranded channels

DateOld NameNew Name
16 JanuarySatellite Television Sky Channel

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Continuing television shows

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
4 January Jameson Clark 76actor
11 February John Comer 59actor (Sid in Last of the Summer Wine )
1 March Roland Culver 83actor
4 March Geoffrey Lumsden 69actor (Captain Square in Dad's Army )
12 March Arnold Ridley 88actor (Private Charles Godfrey in Dad's Army)
17 March John Dearth 63actor ( The Adventures of Robin Hood )
27 March Derek Francis 60actor
31 March Jack Howarth 88actor (Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street )
1 April William Kendall 80actor
15 April Tommy Cooper 63comedian and magician
26 April Barry Gray 75theme tune composer
2 May Frank Forsyth 78actor
4 May Diana Dors 52actress ( Queenie's Castle , Just William , The Two Ronnies )
15 May Mary Adams 86television producer and director
27 May Reginald Bosanquet 51journalist and newsreader, presented News at Ten during the 1970s
28 May Eric Morecambe 58comedian (Morecambe and Wise)
30 May Michael Elliott 52television director
6 June Edith Sharpe 89actress
24 June Tommy Godfrey 68actor
11 July Hugh Morton 81actor
18 July Lally Bowers 70actress
23 July Anthony Sharp 69actor
12 August Christine Hargreaves 45actress (Christine Appleby in Coronation Street)
27 August Bernard Youens 69actor (Stan Ogden in Coronation Street)
6 September Donny MacLeod 52television presenter ( Pebble Mill at One )
27 September Toke Townley 71actor (Sam Pearson in Emmerdale )
5 October Leonard Rossiter 57actor ( Rising Damp , The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin )
10 October Alan Lake 43actor
26 October Noel Howlett 81actor ( Please Sir! )
6 November Seymour de Lotbiniere 79pioneer of outside broadcasts
20 November Peter Welch 62actor ( Dixon of Dock Green , Spy Trap , Emmerdale )
23 November Margaret Burton 60actress ( The Tomorrow People )
15 December Lennard Pearce 69actor (Grandad in Only Fools and Horses )
22 December Sidney Vivian 83actor ( Hadleigh )
24 December Ian Hendry 53actor

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