1987 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events from 1987.

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

The Children's Channel

Channels

New channels

DateChannel
30 January Super Channel
1 August MTV Europe
17 September [29] CNN International

Defunct channels

DateChannel
30 January Music Box
JulyStar 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
2 January Arthur Gould-Porter 81actor
25 January William Devlin 75actor ( The Avengers )
4 February Patrick Waddington 85actor ( Dad's Army )
19 February Hugh Carleton Greene 76television director
25 February John Collin 58actor ( The Saint , Z-Cars )
9 March Arthur Tolcher 64harmonica player and co-actor ( Morecambe and Wise )
11 March Joe Gladwin 81actor ( Last of the Summer Wine )
18 March Elizabeth Poston 81theme tune composer
28 March Patrick Troughton 67actor ( Doctor Who )
7 May Colin Blakely 56actor ( King Lear , The Beiderbecke Affair , Paradise Postponed )
27 May Cecil Madden 84television producer
6 June Fulton Mackay 64actor ( The Saint , The Avengers , Porridge , Fraggle Rock (as the only human))
13 July Patience Collier 76actress ( Who Pays the Ferryman? , Sapphire & Steel )
15 July Polly Elwes 59television announcer
16 July Alfie Bass 71actor ( Till Death Us Do Part , Are You Being Served? )
30 July McDonald Hobley 70continuity announcer
31 July Michael Staniforth 44actor ( Rentaghost )
14 August Sydney Bromley 78actor
Brewster Mason 64actor ( The Pallisers , Quatermass , Tales of the Unexpected )
27 August Joan Haythorne 72actress ( Thriller , Hadleigh )
1 September Philip Friend 72actor
7 September Harry Locke 73actor ( Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) , War and Peace , Just William )
9 September Bill Fraser 79actor ( Love Thy Neighbour , The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole , Rumpole of the Bailey )
11 September Hugh David 62television director
21 September John Chandos 70actor ( The Avengers )
25 September Emlyn Williams 81dramatist and actor
30 September Geoffrey Burridge 38actor ( Emmerdale Farm , Blake's 7 )
8 October Donald McWhinnie 66television director
24 October Raymond Francis 76actor ( No Hiding Place )
5 November Eamonn Andrews [64] 64Irish born television presenter
23 November Sarah Long 39actress and television presenter
29 November Irene Handl 85actress ( For the Love of Ada , Maggie and Her , Mapp and Lucia )

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