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((Year nav topic5|1937|British television))
This is a list of events related to [[British television]] in 1937.

==Events==

===January===
*19 January – [[BBC Television]] broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from its London station, the first play written for [[television]].<ref>((cite web|first=David|last=Fisher|title=1937|work=Chronomedia|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1937.htm|publisher=Terra Media|date=2011-12-30|accessdate=2014-01-13))</ref>

===February===
*6 February – The [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]] drops the [[John Logie Baird|Baird]] system in favour of the [[Marconi Company|Marconi]]-[[EMI]] [[405-line|405 lines]] system.

===March===
*No events.

===April===
*14 April – An exhibition snooker match between [[Horace Lindrum]] and [[Willie Smith (billiards player)|Willie Smith]] is shown on the BBC. This is the first time that snooker is shown on television.<ref>((cite news |title=Television |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123829859/television/ |newspaper=The Observer |date=11 April 1937 |page=13))</ref>

===May===
*12 May – The BBC use their [[outside broadcast]] unit for the first time, to televise the [[coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]]. 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 [[8 mm film|8 mm]] cine camera. A short section of this footage is 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.
*14 May – The BBC Television Service broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', the first known instance of a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] play on television. Among the cast are [[Greer Garson]] and [[Peggy Ashcroft]] who appears in a 1939 telecast of the entire play.

===June===
*18 June – Broadcast of the [[Agatha Christie]] play ''[[Wasp's Nest (Christie TV play)|Wasp's Nest]]'', the only instance of Christie adapting one of her works for television, a medium she later came to dislike.
*21 June – [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon Championships]] (tennis) first shown on the BBC Television Service.<ref>((cite web|title=Wimbledon and the BBC 1927–2017|work=History of the BBC|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/programming/wimbledon|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 October 2018))</ref>

===July===
*No events.

===August===
*No events.

===September===
*16 September – Football is televised for the first time. It is a specially-arranged [[friendly match]] between [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] and [[Arsenal Reserves]] at [[Arsenal Stadium|Highbury]].<ref>((cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/2260280.stm|title=Happened on this day – 16 September|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=22 August 2006|date=16 September 2002))</ref>

===October===
*No events.

===November===
*11 November ([[Armistice Day]]) – BBC Television devotes the evening to a broadcast of ''[[Journey's End]]'' by [[R. C. Sherriff]] (1928, set on the [[Western Front (World War I)]] in 1918), the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play and the first time that a whole evening's programming has been given over to a single play. [[Reginald Tate]] plays the lead, Stanhope, a role he has performed extensively in the theatre.<ref>((cite news|title=Televised Drama; ''Journey's End''|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1937-11-12|page=14))</ref><ref>((cite book|title=British Television: An Illustrated Guide|first=Tise|last=Vahimagi|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press; [[British Film Institute]]|isbn=0-19-818336-4|page=8))</ref>

===December===
*31 December – 2,121 television sets have been sold in England.

==Debuts==
*19 January – ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' (1937)
*12 April – ''[[Cabaret Cruise]]'' (1937-1939; 1946; 1949)
*17 April – ''[[The Disorderly Room]]'' (1937–1939)
*24 April – ''[[For the Children]]'' (1937–1939, 1946–1952)
*14 May - ''Twelfth Night'' (1937)
*19 May – ''The School for Scandal'' (1937)
*18 June – ''[[Wasp's Nest]]'' (1937)
*7 July – ''[[How He Lied to Her Husband]]'' (1937)
*21 October – ''[[Night Must Fall]]'' (1937)
*11 November – ''[[Journey's End]]'' (1937)
*14 December – ''Tele-Ho!'' (1937)
*20 December – ''[[The Ghost Train (play)|The Ghost Train]]'' (1937)
*Unknown – ''Sports Review'' (1937)
*Unknown – ''Starlight'' (1937-1939; 1946-1949)

==Continuing television shows==
===1920s===
*''BBC Wimbledon'' (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)

===1930s===
*''[[Picture Page]]'' (1936–1939, 1946–1952)

==Births==
* 1 January – [[Anne Aubrey]], actress
* 9 January – [[Michael Nicholson]], journalist (died [[2016 in British television|2016]])
* 30 January – [[Vanessa Redgrave]], actress
* 25 February – [[Tom Courtenay]], actor
* 8 March – [[Justine Lord]], actress
* 27 March – [[Alan Hawkshaw]], theme tune composer (died [[2021 in British television|2021]])
* 9 April – [[Valerie Singleton]], presenter
* 11 April – [[Jill Gascoine]], actress and novelist (died [[2020 in British television|2020]])
* 26 April – [[Gareth Gwenlan]], Welsh-born television comedy producer and executive (died [[2016 in British television|2016]])
* 1 May – [[Una Stubbs]], actress (died [[2021 in British television|2021]])
* 12 May – [[Susan Hampshire]], actress
* 19 May – [[Pat Roach]], actor and wrestler (died [[2004 in British television|2004]])
* 5 August – [[Carla Lane]], comedy writer (died 2016)
* 6 August – [[Barbara Windsor]], actress (died 2020)<ref>((cite web |title=Obituary: Dame Barbara Windsor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24954672 |website=BBC News |access-date=11 December 2020 |date=11 December 2020))</ref>
* 18 August – [[Willie Rushton]], comedian, actor and writer (died [[1996 in British television|1996]])
* 20 August – [[Jim Bowen]], comedian and host (died [[2018 in British television|2018]])<ref>((cite web |title=Jim Bowen obituary |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-jim-bowen-comic-host-of-tv-quiz-bullseye-1-4706780 |website=The Scotsman|accessdate=10 October 2018))</ref>
* 2 September – [[Derek Fowlds]], actor (died [[2020 in British television|2020]])
* 5 September – [[Dick Clement]], comedy scriptwriter
* 16 September – [[Bella Emberg]], born Sybil Dyke, comedy actress (died 2018)<ref>((cite web |title=Bella Emberg: Actress who became a comedy hero thanks to Blunder Woman |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bella-emberg-blunder-woman-russ-abbott-benny-hill-a8172861.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bella-emberg-blunder-woman-russ-abbott-benny-hill-a8172861.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |accessdate=10 October 2018))((cbignore))</ref>
* 14 November – [[Alan J. W. Bell]], director and producer
* 17 November – [[Peter Cook]], comedian and writer (died [[1995 in British television|1995]])
* 27 November – [[Rodney Bewes]], actor (died [[2017 in British television|2017]])
* 29 November  – [[Ingrid Pitt]], actress (died [[2010 in British television|2010]])
* 20 December – [[Charles Denton (television and film producer)|Charles Denton]], producer
* 29 December – [[Barbara Steele]], actress
* [[Brian Cooke]], scriptwriter

==See also==
* [[1937 in British music]]
* [[1937 in the United Kingdom]]
* [[List of British films of 1937]]

==References==
((Reflist))

((Years in TV by country|1937))

[[Category:1937 in British television| ]]

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