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This is a list of British television related events from 1992. ==Events== *7 January – Debut of ''Cold Blood – The Massacre of East Timor'', an edition of the documentary strand ''First Tuesday'' concerning the Santa Cruz massacre. *13 January – The Parliamentary Channel, operated by United Artists Cable and funded by a consortium of British cable operators,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Broadcasting Select Committee Minutes Of Evidence, 1997 )〕 is launched.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= House of Commond Debate, 27 January 1992 )〕 It was later taken over by the BBC and relaunched as BBC Parliament in 1998. *14 January - ''The Dreamstone'', the children's animated series returns for a brand new series and second season on ITV. *21 January – BBC Select launches overnight on BBC1 and BBC2 as a subscription service showing specialist programmes for professionals including businessmen, lawyers, teachers and nurses. The service ends in 1994. *8 February – Channel 4 launches ''TV Heaven'', a series of 13 themed Saturday evenings celebrating the best of archive British television. The programme is hosted by Frank Muir with each edition focusing (with one exception) on a particular year. The first week's episode takes a look at 1967, featuring classic episodes of ''Coronation Street'', ''At Last the 1948 Show'', ''Armchair Theatre'' and ''The Frost Programme''. *18 February - Children's television series ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' returns to ITV for a brand new series at 3:55pm with Michael Angelis taking over as narrator. *8–23 February – The 1992 Winter Olympics are held in Albertville, France. *26 March – Television entertainer Roy Castle (59), who currently presents ''Record Breakers'', announces that he is suffering from lung cancer. *27 March – During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie famously pours a glass of orange juice over Labour's Peter Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands based debate show ''Central Weekend'' has finished airing. Speaking about the incident later, Currie said "I just looked at my orange juice, and looked at this man from which this stream of abuse was emanating, and thought 'I know how to shut you up.' ".〔 *28 March – Amanda Normansell wins the third series of ''Stars in Their Eyes'', performing as Patsy Cline. *6 April – Ahead of the election, Sue Lawley presents an edition of ''The Granada 500'' in which a studio audience are given the opportunity to question the three main party leaders; John Major (Conservative), Neil Kinnock (Labour) and Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats). *9–10 April – Coverage of the results of the 1992 general election are broadcast both on BBC1 and ITV. *10 April – ITV airs the first episode of ''Heartbeat'', a long running police drama set in North Yorkshire during the 1960s. *20 April – ''The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness'', an open-air concert in tribute to the late Freddie Mercury is held at London's Wembley Stadium. The concert is broadcast on BBC1 in the UK and televised worldwide. *April – Launch of the music video channel The Box. *9–10 June – Episodes 1450–1454 of Australian soap ''Neighbours'' are heavily censored by the BBC because they contain an incest storyline between the characters Glen Donnelly and Lucy Robinson, who had not realised they were half-siblings when they began a relationship. Scenes involving the story are cut from Episode 1450, aired on 9 June, while Episodes 1451–1454 are edited together into one episode, which is transmitted the following day. The scenes were shown uncut in repeats aired by another channel some years later. *14 June – An edition of ''The South Bank Show'', ''The Making of Sgt. Pepper'', celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of The Beatles album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. *21 June – ITV airs the first of four editions of ''Frankie's On...'', a series of stand up shows recorded by the late Frankie Howerd shortly before his death in April. Six episodes had been planned, but only four were recorded before he died. The episodes are ''Frankie's On Board!'', ''Frankie's On The Coals!'', ''Frankie's On Fire!'' and ''Frankie's On Call!'' *6 July – BBC1 launches the ill fated ''Eldorado'', a soap about a group of ex-pats living in Spain. The series is axed the following year. *19 July – Vanessa Binns wins the 1992 series of ''MasterChef''. *25 July–9 August – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona. *July – The former BSB satellite Marcopolo 2 is sold to Norway's Telenor and renamed Thor 1. *4 August – ITV airs ''Katie and Eilish'', an edition of the documentary strand ''First Tuesday'' about Siamese Twins in Ireland. The film, narrated by Julie Christie is a 1993 Peabody Award winner. *6 August – Lord Hope, the Lord President of the Court of Session, Scotland's most senior judge, permits the televising of appeals in both criminal and civil cases, the first time that cameras have been allowed into courts in the United Kingdom. *17 September – Children's stop-motion animated series ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' based on the original works by Enid Blyton debuts on BBC1. *23 September – Channel 4 begins a rerun of the cult 1960s science fiction series ''The Prisoner'' starring Patrick McGoohan as the series marks its 25th anniversary. *25 September – Channel 4 airs the final ''Channel Four Daily''. The news based breakfast television show was axed due to poor ratings. From Monday 28 September it is replaced by ''The Big Breakfast'', a programme which takes a lighter tone and proves to be more popular with viewers. *1 October - Sky Movies Gold a channel dedicated to classic movies, launches. *3 October – Comedian and television presenter Leslie Crowther sustains serious head injuries after his Rolls Royce veers out of control and crashes on the M5 near Cheltenham. He subsequently undergoes surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. *10 October – Gladiators premieres on ITV. *31 October – The controversial one-off drama ''Ghostwatch'' is broadcast on BBC1, a 'live' investigation into a haunted North London house. *1 November – UK Gold is launched, a joint venture between the BBC and Thames Television. *2 November – Channel 4 celebrates ten years on air. *28 December – As part of a theme night devoted to (rival) broadcaster Granada Television, BBC2 airs the first new edition of ''University Challenge'' in five years, paving the way for a full-scale revival. *31 December – After losing its broadcasting franchise, Thames Television goes off-air after 24-years. Television South, Television South West, breakfast television station's TV-am and ITV and Channel 4 teletext service ORACLE also go off air after losing their franchises. *Unknown – John Birt is appointed to succeed Sir Michael Checkland as Director-General of the BBC. 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「1992 in British television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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