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Events

• February 6 - The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
• May - Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly article, the "Errors of Television".
• May 12 - The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of King George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television - filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8mm cine camera, a short section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
• May 14 - The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play on television. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
• May 15 - RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
• June 21 - Wimbledon Championships (tennis) first televised by the BBC.
• November 11 - The BBC broadcasts an adaptation of the World War I-set play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, starring Reginald Tate as Stanhope. Shown in commemoration of Armistice Day, it is the first time that a whole evening's programming has been given over to a single play.
• CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.

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Debuts

• April 17 - The Disorderly Room (UK) premieres on the BBC Television Service (1937 & 1939).
• April 24 - For The Children (UK), the BBC's first programme for young children, debuts (1937-1939; 1946-1950).
• Sports Review, the first sports programme, debuts (1937-1939).

April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... The Disorderly Room was a very early British television comedy production, written by Eric Blore and starring Tommy Handley. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... For The Children was a British television programme, the first to be designed especially for young children of school age. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Television shows

• Picture Page (UK) (1936-1939; 1946-1952)
• Starlight (UK) (1936-1939; 1946-1949)
• Theatre Parade (UK) (1936-1938)

Picture Page was a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the services hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Theatre Parade was a British television programme, one of the worlds very first regular shows, running on the BBC Television Service from its inception in 1936 until 1938. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Births

• February 1 - Garrett Morris, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live
• July 12 - Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
• December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress