Events
- 4 January – The record breaking, long-running comedy series in the UK and the world "Last of the Summer Wine" starts as a 30-minute pilot on BBC1's Comedy Playhouse show. (The first series started on 12 November the same year). This programme is still active 36 years later.
- 11 January- The Open University awards its first degrees.
- 25 January – English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey.
- 21 March – Are You Being Served? begins first regular series (pilot aired 8 September 1972).
- 25 March – The pilot episode of Open All Hours airs as part of Ronnie Barker's series Seven of One on BBC1.
- March – Experimental Ceefax teletext transmissions begin.
- 1 April – Prisoner and Escort, the pilot episode of Porridge, airs as part of Seven of One.
- 5 May-28 July - BBC Television series The Ascent of Man, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski, airs; there is also an accompanying bestselling book.
- 6 August – James Beck, who stars as Private Joe Walker in the popular UK sitcom Dad's Army, dies of a burst pancreas at the age of 44. Although the series continues until 1977, the part of Walker is not recast and the show carries on without him.
- 8 October – Patricia Phoenix leaves the role of Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street after thirteen years.
- 31 October – Thames Television's landmark 26 part documentary The World at War begins.
- 12 November – The record breaking, long-running comedy series "Last of the Summer Wine" starts as a series on BBC1. The programme continued to air until August 2010.
- 23 November – 10th anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who.
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