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This is a list of British television related events from 1985. ==Events== *1 January – ''Brookside'' is moved from Wednesdays to Mondays which means the soap can now be seen on Mondays and Tuesdays. *3 January – The UK's last VHF television transmitters close down. *4 January – Channel 4 achieves its highest ever audience as 13.8 million viewers tune in for the final part of the mini-series ''A Woman of Substance''. *6 January – The last 405-line transmitters are switched off in the UK. *18 January – Debut of ''The Practice'', a twice-weekly medical drama intended to become Granada's second soap produced for the ITV network. But viewing figures are not as healthy as had been hoped, and the series first run ends in May. It returns for a second series in 1986 before being axed. *20–21 January – Channel 4 airs Super Bowl XIX, the first time the Super Bowl is aired on British television. *20 January – American television sitcom ''The Cosby Show'' is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time. *23 January – A debate in the House of Lords is televised for the first time. *18 February – BBC1 undergoes a major relaunch. At 5.35 p.m., the legendary mechanical "mirror globe" ident, in use in varying forms since 1969, is seen for the last time in regular rotation on national BBC1. Its replacement, the COW (Computer Originated World, a computer generated globe) debuts at 7pm. On the same day, computer-generated graphics replace magnetic weather maps on all BBC forecasts, and Terry Wogan's eponymous talk show is relaunched as a thrice-weekly live primetime programme. ''EastEnders'' launches the following day. *19 February – ''EastEnders'', the BBC1 soap opera, goes on air. *28 April – The World Snooker Championship Final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis draws BBC2's highest ever rating of 18.5 million viewers. *11 May – A fire breaks out at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford during a football match between Bradford City and Lincoln City. The match is being recorded by Yorkshire Television for transmission on their Sunday afternoon regional football show The Big Match the following day. Coverage of the fire is transmitted minutes after the event on the live ITV Saturday afternoon sports programme ''World of Sport''. BBC's ''Grandstand'' also transmits live coverage of the fire. *29 May – Heysel Stadium Disaster televised live by BBC1; at the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, between Liverpool and Juventus, 39 Juventus fans are killed when a wall collapses during a riot at the Heysel Stadium. *5 June – The first episode of Bulman airs. *13 July – Live Aid pop concerts are held in Philadelphia and London and televised around the world. Over £50 million is raised for famine relief in Ethiopia. *31 July * *The BBC announces it has pulled ''At the Edge of the Troubles'', a documentary in the ''Real Lives'' strand in which filmmaker Vincent Hanna secured an interview with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness and his wife. The announcement leads to a one-day strike by members of the National Union of Journalists, and the eventual overturning of the ban. A slightly edited version of the programme is shown in October. The controversy damages the Director-Generalship of Alasdair Milne, who eventually resigns from the post in 1987. * *''The War Game'', made for the BBC's ''The Wednesday Play'' strand in 1965 but banned from broadcast at the time, is finally shown on television as part of BBC2's ''After the Bomb'' season. *August – After a series of high-profile football hooliganism and a dispute between the Football League and the broadcasters over revenue, televised league football is missing from British screens until the second half of the season. The Charity Shield and international games are the only matches screened. *1 August – The nuclear war docudrama ''Threads'' is repeated on BBC2 as part of the ''After the Bomb'' series. *13 August – ITV airs the US intergalactic whodunit ''Murder in Space''. The film is shown without the ending, and a competition held for viewers to identify the murderer(s). The film's concluding 30 minutes are shown a few weeks later, with a studio of contestants eliminated one by one until the winner correctly solves the mystery. There is a prize of £10,000. *30 August – Debut of Granada's ill-fated "continuing drama series", ''Albion Market''. The series – set in a market in Salford and intended as a companion for ''Coronation Street'' – is panned by critics and suffers from poor ratings. It is axed a year later. *3 September – BBC1's ''EastEnders'' moves from 7.00pm to 7.30pm to avoid clashing with ITV's ''Emmerdale Farm'', which airs in the 7.00pm timeslot on Tuesdays and Thursdays in many ITV regions. *10 September – ITV airs the Wales vs Scotland World Cup qualifier from Cardiff's Ninian Park. The match – played against the backdrop of escalating football hooliganism – is notable for the death of Scotland manager Jock Stein, who collapsed shortly before Scotland secured their place in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. *15 September – ITV airs ''Murder in Space: The Solution'', in which the puzzle of the sci-fi murder mystery is finally solved. *28 September – After 20 years ITV's Saturday afternoon sports programme ''World of Sport'' is aired for the last time. *3 October – Roland Rat, the puppet rodent who saved an ailing TV-am in 1983 transfers to the BBC. Commenting on the move, he says, "I saved TV-am and now I'm here to save the BBC." *28 October – A documentary in ITV's ''World in Action'' series casts doubt on evidence used to convict the Birmingham Six of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. *November – The 1,000th episode of ''Emmerdale Farm'' is celebrated with a special lunch attended by Princess Michael of Kent. Not recognising any of the cast members she later admits that she never watches the show. *9 December – 25th anniversary of the first episode of ''Coronation Street''. *25 December – ''Minder on the Orient Express'', a feature-length episode of the television series ''Minder'', receives its UK television debut as the highlight of ITV's Christmas Day schedule. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1985 in British television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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