1988 in Scottish television

Overview of the events of 1988 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1988.

## Events

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### January

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* 19 January – Debut of the BBC Scotland television film Down Where the Buffalo Go.

### February

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* 13 February – Scottish Television (STV) begins 24-hour broadcasting.[1]

### March to June

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* No events.

### July

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* 19 July – Debut on ITV of the STV produced game show Wheel of Fortune.

### August

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* No events.

### September

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* 2 September – Grampian and Border begin 24-hour transmission. Their overnight programming comes from Granada Television's Night Time service.[1]

## Autumn

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* 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

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* No events.

### November

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* No events.

### December

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* 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

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### ITV

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* 19 July – Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)

## Television series

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* Scotsport (1957–2008)[3]
* 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)[4]
* Taggart (1983–2010)[5]
* James the Cat (1984–1992)
* Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
* City Lights (1984–1991)[6]
* The Campbells (1986–1990)
* Naked Video (1986–1991)[7]

## Births

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* 27 January – Iain Stirling, comedian

## See also

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* 1988 in Scotland

## References

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1. ^ a b "TV Live – ITV Night Time". Retrieved 31 March 2020.
2. ^ "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
3. ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1\. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
4. ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194\. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
5. ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27\. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
6. ^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
7. ^ Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104\. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.

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