1995 in British television explained
This is a list of British television related events from 1995.
Events
January
- 2 January – The network television premiere on BBC2 of The Doors, Oliver Stone's critically acclaimed biopic of Jim Morrison, starring Val Kilmer.[1]
- 3 January – The legal drama Kavanagh QC makes its debut on ITV, starring John Thaw.
- 4 January – The network television premiere on ITV of Chris Walas's 1989 horror sequel The Fly II, starring Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson and John Getz with a special appearance from Jeff Goldblum.
- 5 January – Jack Dee guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[2]
- 9 January – Sky One begins 24-hour broadcasting, filling the overnight hours with music videos under the name Hit Mix Long Play.
- 24 January – Martine McCutcheon makes her EastEnders debut as Tiffany Raymond, later Mitchell.
- 26 January – Eternal guest present an edition of Top of the Pops.[3]
- 27 January – Debut of the medical drama Dangerfield on BBC1, starring Nigel Le Vaillant.
- 29 January – The start of BBC2's weekly roundup of proceedings in the O. J. Simpson murder trial with The Trial of O. J. Simpson.[4]
- 30 January – The most watched episode of Brookside is broadcast on Channel 4, in which the body of Trevor Jordache is found under the patio.
February
- 1 February – The US medical drama series ER makes its British debut on Channel 4.
- 2 February – Kylie Minogue guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[5]
- 3 February – An edition of the live morning ITV discussion show The Time, The Place abruptly ends ten minutes early after an item about men's fashion featured a black male model wearing a skirt while another black man in the audience starts complaining that the show is racist, eventually making his way onto the stage.[6] [7]
- 5 February – The network television premiere on ITV of Chris Columbus's 1990 holiday comedy Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard and Catherine O'Hara.
- 9 February – Gary Olsen guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[8]
- 10 February – After a pilot episode was broadcast in December 1993, the first full series of The Mrs Merton Show starts on BBC2, presented by Caroline Aherne as the titular character.[9]
- 13 February – The network television premiere on ITV of Deceived, starring Goldie Hawn and John Heard.
- 14 February – Sky One hosts Sky's first telethon, to raise money for the Variety Club.
- 16 February – Cable channel Wire TV is sold to Mirror Television, owned by the parent company of the Daily Mirror newspaper.[10] It plans to launch Sportswire as a full-time channel and replace Wire TV with a new channel called L!VE TV.
- 19 February – The 10th anniversary of the launch of the soap EastEnders on BBC1. As part of the celebrations, the first 25 episodes from 1985 are repeated each day at 10am during February and March, starting from episode one on Monday 20 February[11] and ending on Friday 26 May.[12] while selected episodes from 1985 and 1986 are also repeated on BBC1 on Fridays at 8:30pm for a short while. Billed as The Unforgettable EastEnders the episodes aired are as follows:
- 17 February: The identity of the father of Michelle Fowler's baby is revealed in October 1985.[13]
- 24 February: Michelle and Lofty's wedding day in September 1986.[14]
- 3 March: Den Watts hands Angie divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986, an episode originally watched by more than 30 million viewers.[15]
- 10 March: Two-hander episode featuring Dot and Ethel from July 1987.[16]
- 23 February – Peter Cunnah of guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[17]
- 25 February
- BBC2 airs a documentary about the Rev. W. Awdry called The Thomas the Tank Engine Man as part of their Bookmark series. It is narrated by Hilary Fortnam, Awdry's daughter, and includes a look at the Thomas merchandise, the success of Thomas, images from the original Railway Series books with stock narration by John Gielgud, interviews with several people such as Mr Awdry himself, fans of Thomas, Awdry's son Christopher, children's author and poet Michael Rosen, various people who worked on the books and toys, Brian Sibley who also wrote the Reverend's autobiography, the people behind the television broadcasts and rights of Thomas in Japan and the producers of the television series Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, plus a special behind the scenes peek of the 100th episode Thomas and the Special Letter and Mr Awdry criticising the third series episode Henry's Forest.
- The final episode of the light entertainment series Don't Forget Your Toothbrush is broadcast on Channel 4.
- 27–28 February – Sky One airs Episode 404 of E Street, the final episode of the Australian soap, splitting the hour-long edition into two half-hour episodes.
March
- 1 March – TV Asia is renamed Zee TV following the sale of the business to Zee's owner Subash Chandra.[18] [19]
- 2 March – Keith Allen guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[20]
- 4 March – Channel 4 airs "Pot Night", eight hours of programming dedicated to cannabis.[21]
- 11 March – Channel 4 begins airing a rerun of the Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, which made its debut on ITV on 11 November 1983. Also this day sees the debut of "Red Light Zone", a season of "late-night programming focusing on sex, the sex industries and sexual tourism". The strand runs weekly for eight weeks.[22]
- 12 March – Debut of Kay Mellor's crime drama series Band of Gold on ITV, starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, which focuses on a group of prostitutes who live and work in Bradford's red-light district.
- 15 March – As part of the Modern Times series, BBC2 airs Death on Request, a Dutch documentary showing a doctor giving a terminally-ill patient a lethal injection of drugs.[23] The programme is criticized by groups opposed to euthanasia.
- 16 March – Lenny Henry guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[24]
- 17 March – The Night of Comic Relief, the 1995 Comic Relief telethon is broadcast on BBC1.[25]
- 24 March
- Following the recent death of James Herriot (Alf Wight), BBC1 airs A Tribute to James Herriot in which Robert Hardy introduces a 1980 episode of the series All Creatures Great and Small, which was based on Herriot's memoirs as a Yorkshire vet.[26]
- The final episode of The Word is broadcast on Channel 4 after five years on the air.
- 29 March – Trinity College, Cambridge wins the 1994–95 series of University Challenge on BBC2, beating New College, Oxford 390–180.[27]
- 30 March
- P.J. and Duncan guest present an edition of Top of the Pops.[28]
- The third series of the hugely popular sitcom Absolutely Fabulous begins on BBC1.[29]
April
- 1 April
- 3 April – A Scottish Court imposes a prohibition on BBC Scotland airing an edition of Panorama that includes an interview with Prime Minister John Major amid concerns it could affect local elections to be held on 6 April. However, the edition is broadcast in England and Wales.
- 10 April – Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken calls a televised press conference three hours before the transmission of a World in Action film, Jonathan of Arabia, demanding that allegations about his dealings with leading Saudis to be withdrawn.[33] He promises to wield "the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play ... to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism."[34] After launching a subsequent libel case against the makers of the film, Aitken is sentenced to 18 months in prison for perjuring himself.[35]
- 13 April – Phill Jupitus guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[36]
- 17 April – ITV airs an adaptation of the Joanna Trollope novel A Village Affair.[37]
- 21 April – Channel 4 airs the first episode of the Irish sitcom Father Ted starring Dermot Morgan and Ardal O'Hanlon.
- 22 April – Fully Booked replaces Parallel 9 as BBC1's Saturday morning Summer children's show.
- 27 April – Chris Evans guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[38]
- 28 April – The hugely popular US sitcom Friends makes its UK debut on Channel 4.[39] [40]
- 29 April
- The final edition of ITV's Saturday morning show What's Up Doc? is broadcast. It is replaced the following Saturday by Scratchy & Co..
- The final episode of You Bet! presented by Matthew Kelly is broadcast on ITV.
May
- 1 May – ITV airs what is billed as a one-off episode of Boon. The episode, Thieves Like Us, was originally due to air at the end of series 7 in 1992/93.
- 2 May
- Closing date for applications to run Channel 5. Four bids are received, from New Century TV Ltd (British Sky Broadcasting, Goldman Sachs, Granada Group, Hoare Govett, Kinnevik, Polygram, Really Useful Group and TCI International) who bid £2,000,000, Virgin TV Ltd with a bid of £22,002,000, UKTV (CanWest Global Communications Corp., Scandinavian Broadcast System SA, SelectTV Plc, The Ten Group Ltd) who bid £36,261,158 and Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd (MAI (now United News and Media Plc), CLT/UFA, Pearson Plc, Warburg Pincus & Co) with a bid of £22,002,000.[41]
- Debut of News '45, a news bulletin-style programme presented by Sue Lawley to mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day on BBC1.
- 4 May – Whigfield guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[42]
- 8 May
- 9 May – The US/Canadian police comedy drama Due South makes its UK debut on BBC1.[44]
- 13 May – Norway's Secret Garden win the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest (staged in Dublin) with "Nocturne".
- 15 May – Bruce Gyngell, the former chairman of the breakfast station TV-am, becomes Yorkshire–Tyne Tees Television's managing director.[45]
- 25 May – Stewart Lee and Richard Herring guest present an edition of Top of the Pops.[46]
- 25 May–24 June – ITV provides coverage of the 1995 Rugby World Cup from South Africa as the first Rugby World Cup to be held entirely in one country, since it was banned during the apartheid regime.
- 31 May
- Debut of the new twice-weekly soap Castles on BBC1, focusing on the lives of the middle-class Castle family. The series attracts a relatively poor peak time audience of 3.2 million, leading the corporation's head of Drama, Charles Denton to brand it a failure.[47] It is cancelled after 26 episodes with the last episode airing on 20 August.[48]
- Cable channel Wire TV is closed by its new owner as part of a plan to split it into two separate channels: L!VE TV which would replace Wire, with their evening Sportswire programming block launching as a full-time service.
June
- 1 June – SelecTV launches on cable. Broadcasting drama, comedy and entertainment, the channel airs on weekdays between 17:00 and 00:00 and at the weekend between 12:00 and 00:00.
- 2 June – The new British adult pay-per-view service Television X – The Fantasy Channel is launched, which broadcasts between 10.00pm and 5.30am.
- 5 June
- Granada's Night Time presentation is dropped after seven years.
- ITN's Early Evening News is revamped with a new look inspired by News at Ten. The new titles are produced by Lambie-Nairn. The new look is rolled out across weekend and overnight bulletins by July, having been introduced on the lunchtime bulletin in March.
- 12 June – Mirror Group Newspapers launches the cable channel L!VE TV.[49] It launches as a channel which broadcasts live programming based around three blocks of live broadcasting each day from its base on the 24th floor of London's Canary Wharf. The output is orientated towards a rolling mix of celebrities, interviews, reviews, lifestyle features and reports from events and happenings across the UK, devised by Janet Street-Porter.
- 15 June – Michelle Gayle guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[50]
- 20 June – The network television premiere on ITV of Tony Scott's 1991 buddy action comedy The Last Boy Scout, starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.
- 22 June – Prime Minister John Major's intention to resign and stand in a Conservative Party leadership election is announced on screen as England are playing France in the Rugby World Cup third place play off.
- 29 June – Debut of Gaytime TV on BBC2, the BBC's first gay magazine programme.[51]
- June – TCI, owner of Telewest and NYNEX, does a deal with BSkyB, which includes a clause that the cable operators do not launch any rival channels to those already operated by Sky. This marks the end of Cable Program Partners One (CPP1) which had been set up to try to provide alternative content to the satellite-dominated multi-channel environment of the time and causes the collapse of sports channel Sportswire days before its launch as a sister channel to L!VE TV.
July
- 3 July – Bell Cablemedia is formed when a number of cable companies, including Jones Cable UK, merge.
- 6 July – Wendy Lloyd guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[52]
- 8 July
- BBC1 repeats the documentary Girl Friday, in which Joanna Lumley spends nine days on a desert island with just a basic survival kit and a film crew.[53]
- Lee Griffiths wins the sixth series of Stars in Their Eyes on ITV, performing as Bobby Darin.
- The final edition of the long-running darts-based game show Bullseye is broadcast on ITV. It would be briefly revived on Challenge in 2006.
- 9 July
- 13 July – Dale Winton guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[54]
- 20 July – Gayle Tuesday guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[55]
- 26 July – BBC Enterprises, the BBC's commercial arm, is restructured as BBC Worldwide Ltd.
- 27 July – Craig McLachlan guest presents an edition of Top of the Pops.[56]
August
- 2 August – Channel 4 begins a season of documentaries and features for gay and lesbian viewers.[51]
- 10 August – The final episode of The Crystal Maze is broadcast on Channel 4; it will be revived in 2016.
- 14 August – The sitcom Oh, Doctor Beeching! makes its debut on BBC1.
- 15 August – Sue Lawley presents News '45: VJ Day on BBC1 to mark the 50th anniversary of VJ Day and the conclusion of World War II.
- 17 August – ITV airs the 2,000th episode of Emmerdale.
- 27 August – Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Michael Mansfield QC, one of Britain's leading barristers, calls for television cameras to be admitted into English courts to help demystify the legal process and restore public confidence in it.[57]
- 28 August – The Krypton Factor returns to ITV after a two-year break with a new format, presented by Gordon Burns with Penny Smith.
- 30 August – The first National Television Awards are held at the Wembley Conference Centre and presented by Eamonn Holmes.
September
- 2 September
- Dyke TV, the first television series aimed at lesbians, makes its debut on Channel 4.[51]
- The game show Raise the Roof makes its debut on ITV; it is presented by Bob Holness, and contestants can win a house worth £100,000. However, the series is not a success and it is axed in January 1996.
- 4 September
- 5 September
- 10 September – BBC Wales relaunches its rugby union coverage under the name of Scrum V. It replaces Rugby Special Wales.
- 11 September
- The children's stop-motion animated series Oakie Doke makes its debut on BBC1.[59]
- The final edition of the long-running dance competition Come Dancing is broadcast on BBC1, although special editions would air until 1998.
- 12 September
- 14 September – Debut of the sports-themed comedy panel show They Think It's All Over on BBC1, presented by Nick Hancock.
- 24 September
- 28 September – makes its UK debut on BBC2 with the feature-length episode Emissary.[64]
- September
- STV acquires a 20% stake in HTV worth £36 million as part of a deal with Flextech.[65]
- Janet Street-Porter resigns from L!VE TV and is replaced by Kelvin MacKenzie who axes the rolling content and replaces it with programmes that quickly earn it a reputation as tabloid television.
- The BBC Select name for overnight educational programming is used for the final time.[66]
October
- 1 October
- Six years after it was originally planned, the British version of the Disney Channel goes on the air.
- The Sci-Fi Channel launches. However, its full schedule, 8am to 2am, is only available to cable viewers as satellite subscribers are only able to see the channel for a few hours each day as it shares transponder space with a number of other channels.
- The UK's first Christian channel, Christian Channel Europe, launches. It broadcasts for three hours each day, between 4am and 7am.
- 7–28 October – Cable channel L!VE TV broadcasts matches from the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. It shows many of them exclusively, because, apart from the opening game, the BBC does not show any live matches until the semi-final stage.
- 8 October
- BBC2 airs the final edition of The Trial of O. J. Simpson as coverage of the trial draws to a conclusion.[67]
- The BBC's subscription service BBC Select ends after three years on the air.
- 9 October – Launch of The Learning Zone, an education service shown overnight on BBC2.
- 12 October – ITV airs Bait, an episode of The Bill that concludes a three-part story and sees the exit of the character Jo Morgan, played by Mary Jo Randle, who is shot while trying to warn June Ackland (Trudie Goodwin) of an impending attack on her car.
- 15 October – The final edition of Challenge Anneka is broadcast on BBC1.
- 16 October
- After 25 years as Coronation Street landlady Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) makes her final regular appearance in the soap. She briefly returns to the show in 2002 and 2003 and stars in a spin-off series, Coronation Street: After Hours, in 1999. At the time of her departure, Goodyear has recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural National Television Awards.
- ITV airs a five-part documentary every weekday celebrating 40 years of their children's input since the launch of the network in 1955, Simply the Best: CITV.
- 20 October – Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited is awarded the licence to launch Channel 5.[68] [69] It is a consortium of four investors, Pearson, United News and Media, CLT-Ufa and Warburg Pincus.[70]
- 21 October
- 22 October – Jenna Tinson wins the 1995 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1.
- 23 October – The first episode of the soap Hollyoaks is broadcast on Channel 4.
November
- 1 November – Four more satellite and cable channels launch in the UK with European Business News, Playboy TV, The Paramount Channel and Sky Sports Gold.
- 11 November
- 12 November – BBC2 airs , David Lynch's 1992 prequel to the acclaimed series Twin Peaks, starring Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan.[72]
- 13 November – Debut on BBC1 of the sitcom The Thin Blue Line, starring Rowan Atkinson.
- 20 November
- Zee TV launches in the UK.
- The cookery series Can't Cook, Won't Cook makes its debut on BBC1.
- The final edition of The Krypton Factor is broadcast on ITV, although it would be revived in 2009.
- During an hour-long interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC's Panorama, The Princess of Wales speaks about her marriage to The Prince of Wales and his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, and admits to her intimate relationship with James Hewitt.[73] An estimated 22.78 million watch the interview,[74] the all-time record for a British current affairs programme. It is subsequently acknowledged by the BBC that Bashir had used forged documents to win Diana's trust to secure the interview.[75]
- 22 November – After Virgin TV challenges the ITC's decision to award the licence to run the UK's fifth television channel to Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd, the High Court grants leave for a judicial review into the decision.[41]
- 26 November – ITV airs The Beatles Anthology, a six-part documentary series chronicling the career of The Beatles, which leads to the release of two previously unreleased songs, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love".
December
- 2–3 December – Channel 4 airs "Soap Weekend", a weekend of programming dedicated to soap operas with documentaries and classic episodes of series including EastEnders, Neighbours and Brookside.[21]
- 15 December – The final episode of Mr. Bean is broadcast on ITV with The Best Bits of Mr. Bean.
- 24 December – A Close Shave, the third short film starring Wallace and Gromit, makes its debut on BBC2, featuring the voices of Peter Sallis and Anne Reid.
- 25 December
- 31 December – New Year's Eve highlights on BBC1 include Songs of Praise on Ice from the Blackpool Pleasure Beach Ice Arena and the network television premiere of Baz Luhrmann's 1992 comedy romance Strictly Ballroom.[77]
- December – Channel 4 airs the documentary Sex with Paula, in which Paula Yates talks to celebrities about their love lives. Originally made in 1986, the programme was deemed to be unsuitable for audiences at the time, owing to its perceived message of promiscuity at the height of the AIDS epidemic.[21]
Debuts
BBC1
BBC2
ITV
Channel 4
S4C
Channels
New channels
Defunct channels
Television shows
Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
Continuing television shows
1920s
- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
- Family Fortunes (1980–2002, 2006–2015, 2020–present)
- Children in Need (1980–present)
- Danger Mouse (1981–1992, 2015–2019)
- Timewatch (1982–present)
- Brookside (1982–2003)
- Countdown (1982–present)
- Right to Reply (1982–2001)
- First Tuesday (1983–1993)
- Highway (1983–1993)
- Blockbusters (1983–93, 1994–95, 1997, 2000–01, 2012, 2019)
- Spitting Image (1984–1996)
- Surprise Surprise (1984–2001, 2012–2015)
- The Bill (1984–2010)
- Channel 4 Racing (1984–2016)
- Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984–present)
- Busman's Holiday (1985–1993)
- EastEnders (1985–present)
- The Cook Report (1987–1999)
- Crosswits (1985–1998)
- Screen Two (1985–1998)
- Telly Addicts (1985–1998)
- Blind Date (1985–2003, 2017–2019)
- Comic Relief (1985–present)
- ScreenPlay (1986–1993)
- Beadle's About (1986–1996)
- The Chart Show (1986–1998, 2008–2009)
- Equinox (1986–2006)
- The Really Wild Show (1986–2006)
- Casualty (1986–present)
- Every Second Counts (1986–1993)
- Lovejoy (1986–1994)
- The Raggy Dolls (1986–1994)
- Allsorts (1987–1995)
- Going Live! (1987–1993)
- Watching (1987–1993)
- Going for Gold (1987–1996, 2008–2009)
- The Time, The Place (1987–1998)
- Chain Letters (1987–1997)
- ChuckleVision (1987–2009)
- Count Duckula (1988–1993)
- You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–1993)
- You Bet! (1988–1997)
- Playdays (1988–1997)
- Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
- London's Burning (1988–2002)
- On the Record (1988–2002)
- Fifteen to One (1988–2003, 2013–2019)
- This Morning (1988–present)
- Fun House (1989–1999)
- Absolutely (1989–1993)
- KYTV (1989–1993)
- Press Gang (1989–1993)
- Birds of a Feather (1989–1998, 2014–2020)
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995)
- Byker Grove (1989–2006)[79]
- Desmond's (1989–1994)
- Bodger & Badger (1989–1999)
- Children's Ward (1989–2000)
- Mike and Angelo (1989–2000)
1990s
Ending this year
Births
- 23 January – Holly Kenny, actress
- 1 February – Richard Wisker, actor, singer and presenter
- 10 February – Archie Madekwe, actor
- 30 March – Simone Ashley, actress
- 16 April – Poppy Lee Friar, actress
- 17 April – Phoebe Dynevor, actress
- 4 May – Alex Lawther, actor
- 9 July – Georgie Henley, actress
- 17 August – Jessie Mei Li, actress
- 26 August – Hannah van der Westhuysen, actress
- 31 August – Ceallach Spellman, actor and radio DJ
- 15 November – Amy James-Kelly, actress
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Credibility |
|---|
| 7 January | Larry Grayson[81] | 71 | comedian and television presenter |
| 9 January | Peter Cook | 57 | comedian and actor |
| 23 January | Ken Hill | 57 | television scriptwriter |
| 30 January | Gerald Durrell | 70 | naturalist, writer and presenter of natural history programmes |
| 2 February | Donald Pleasence | 75 | actor |
| 8 February | Rachel Thomas | 89 | actress (Pobol y Cwm) |
| 23 February | John Paul | 73 | actor (Marcus Agrippa in I, Claudius) |
| 7 March | Ivan Craig | 83 | actor |
| 11 March | Myfanwy Talog | 50 | actress |
| 17 March | Donald Baverstock | 71 | television producer and executive |
| 21 March | Robert Urquhart | 72 | actor (Pathfinders, Brideshead Revisited) |
| 22 March | Peter Woods | 64 | BBC journalist and newsreader |
| 4 April | Kenny Everett | 50 | comedic performer and DJ |
| 15 April | Michael Aldred | 49 | television presenter (Ready Steady Go!) |
| 16 April | Arthur English | 75 | actor (The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Are You Being Served?, In Sickness and in Health) |
| 2 May | Michael Hordern | 83 | actor (narrator of Paddington Bear and voice of badger from The Wind in the Willows) |
| 10 May | Harold Berens | 92 | actor and comedian |
| 11 May | John Phillips | 80 | actor (Z-Cars) |
| 15 May | Eric Porter | 67 | actor (, The Jewel in the Crown) |
| 22 May | Robert Flemyng | 85 | actor (Compact) |
| 15 June | Charles Bennett | 95 | television scriptwriter |
| 18 June | Arthur Howard | 85 | actor |
| 29 June | Noel Dyson | 78 | actress (Coronation Street, Father, Dear Father) |
| 12 July | Michael Clegg | 62 | naturalist and television presenter |
| Gordon Flemyng | 61 | television producer |
| 10 September | Derek Meddings | 64 | television special effects designer |
| 12 September | Jeremy Brett | 59 | actor (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) |
| 29 September | Susan Fleetwood | 51 | actress (The Buddha of Suburbia, Lovejoy) |
| 6 October | Anthony Newlands | 70 | actor (The Avengers) |
| 12 October | Gary Bond | 55 | actor |
| 16 October | Richard Caldicot | 87 | actor (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em) |
| 4 November | Marti Caine | 51 | actress, dancer, presenter, singer, writer and comedian |
| Paul Eddington | 68 | actor (The Good Life and Yes Minister) |
| 3 December | Jimmy Jewel | 85 | actor (Funny Man) |
| 9 December | Benny Lee | 79 | actor (Are You Being Served?) | |
See also
External links
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