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56 unusual facts about BBC One


2003–04 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

They then went on a 4-game winning streak, before hitting a bad patch, when they won only one game in 7, including losing in all three cup competitions (1-0 to Reading in the League Cup, 2-0 to Carlisle United in the Football League Trophy & 1-0 to Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup live on BBC One).

2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles final

The match was watched by a peak television audience of 17.3 million in the UK on BBC One.

Alfie Moon

During December 2013, Richie announced that he would be taking a short break from EastEnders to film Reflex, a game show on BBC One, and his last appearance on EastEnders was on 17 January 2014.

Annie Cartwright

WPC/DC Annie Cartwright is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars.

BBC North East and Cumbria

BBC North East & Cumbrias television output, broadcast on BBC One, consists of the flagship regional news service Look North, the topical magazine programme Inside Out, a twenty minute opt-out during Sunday Politics and the football magazine show Late Kick Off, co-produced with independent production company Bite Yer Legs Ltd.

The on-screen name was adapted slightly to BBC NE & Cumbria in 2002, following the adoption of the Dancer idents for BBC One, as the regional name needed to fit inside the box logo.

Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches

In December 2009, Gyles Brandreth presented a piece on the history of the painting for BBC One’s The One Show.

British Sign Language

BBC One also broadcasts in-vision signed repeats of the channel's primetime programmes between 00:30 and 04:00 each weekday.

Broadchurch

It once again won its competitive time slot beating Embarrassing Bodies and BBC One's Shetland.

Captain Peacock

Captain Stephen Peacock is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Charles Samuel Franklin

In 1935 the trustees leased part of Alexandra Palace to the BBC, which used it as the production and transmission center for their new BBC Television Service.

Colin McCormack

While still in school, at the age of fourteen in 1955, he was chosen after an audition to play a young crime victim on an early episode of BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green.

Colin McCormack (2 December 1941 – 19 June 2004) was a professional Welsh actor who enjoyed considerable success in classical stage performances and television shows over a career approaching fifty years from his debut as a child actor in a BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green episode, a show he returned to twenty years later when he played a police constable.

Cragside

Cragside was featured during the 21 August 2011 episode of BBC One's Britain's Hidden Heritage programme.

DJ Campbell

His skills were showcased in the 2004–05 FA Cup against Newcastle United on 9 January 2005, a game which was televised on BBC One.

Earthanasia

Tim asks: "What have you done?" to which Graeme replies: "I put the clock forward; only about 1/2 minute." The world then explodes (an explosion sound is played with the white background, followed by a BBC1 ident with the mirror globe spinning until it blows up).

Escape to L.A.

"Escape to L.A." is the fourth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Torchwood, and was broadcast in the United States on Starz on 29 July 2011, in Australia on UKTV on 30 July 2011, in Canada on Space on 30 July 2011, and in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 4 August 2011.

Falling for a Dancer

It first aired on BBC One in four 50-minute episodes on September 13, 1998.

Gairloch

The village was featured on the BBC One TV series When Love Comes to Town in 2007.

Gynaephora groenlandica

The sequence became part of the BBC's sequel to Planet Earth called Frozen Planet, broadcast on BBC One in Autumn 2011 (with the US broadcast following on Discovery Channel in spring 2012).

Harry Epworth Allen

In April 2013, two of Allens' paintings, dating from 1942 and 1943, of scenes in Achill Island, County Mayo, were featured on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow.

He Knew He Was Right

It was adapted for BBC One in 2004 by Andrew Davies as He Knew He Was Right.

Jack Morton Worldwide

The pyrotechnic display over the River Thames and the London Eye is viewed by millions of people on BBC One and live by hundreds of thousands more lining both banks of river.

Lambton Castle

In 2012, Lambton Castle was the setting of the new BBC One drama The Paradise.

Leap Confronting Conflict

On 20 November 2011; Leap was the feature of a BBC Lifeline documentary, originally broadcast on BBC One.

Michael Landes

On television, in Love Soup, a British television comedy-drama produced by BBC Television and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005, Michael Landes was the male lead as Gil Raymond in Series 1.

Miss Brahms

Miss Shirley Brahms is a fictional character from the BBC1 comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Mrs. Slocombe

Betty Slocombe is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Open Air

Open Air was BBC1's flagship programme for their new daytime service which began on 27 October 1986.

Remember That Night

BBC One aired an hour of footage from the main concert on 8 September 2007, repeated on 25 May 2008 on BBC Four.

Richard Hillman

In January 2002, it was rumored that Coronation Street executive producer Carolyn Reynolds would be axing a number of character in a bid for the show to beat BBC One soap opera EastEnders in the ratings.

Russian deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-28

The story of the submarine's rescue was featured on the BBC One documentary Submarine Rescue.

Sickness and Wealth

A repeat that aired on 5th March 2013 on BBC One removed around two seconds of dialog referring to the disgraced TV and Radio personality Jimmy Savile.

So Haunt Me

So Haunt Me aired on BBC1 as 18 half-hour episodes in three series and one special from 1992 to 1994.

Spine Chillers

Spine Chillers was a 1980 British children's supernatural television series broadcast on BBC1.

Spooks: The Greater Good

Spooks: The Greater Good is an upcoming British spy film, continuing from the British spy series Spooks, which aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2011.

Suzy Branning

Suzy Branning (originally known as Sue) is a fictional character from the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, played by Julie Christian-Young for a brief appearance in 1996, and Maggie O'Neill in 2008, who began filming in May that year, and she made her first on-screen appearance on 8 July 2008, departing on 26 December 2008.

Tactical Vehicle Crime Unit

The TVCU featured on the BBC One documentary "X Cars" in the 1990s and later "Car Wars" in 2006 and early 2007.

Take Three Girls

Take Three Girls is a drama series on BBC1 which ran between 1969 and 1971 about the lives of three girls sharing a flat in 'Swinging' London (17 Glazbury Road W14).

The After-Dinner Joke

The After-Dinner Joke is a television play in the epic form written by the English playwright Caryl Churchill for the BBC1 Play for Today series which was broadcast on 14 February 1978.

The Afternoon Play

The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons.

The Big Question

The Big Questions, a panel discussion TV series on faith and ethics broadcast on the UK's BBC One starting in September 2007.

The Buccaneers

Independently, in the same year, the BBC hired screenwriter Maggie Wadey to adapt and finish the novel for a television serial adaptation, which was produced by the BBC and American PBS broadcaster WGBH, and screened on BBC One in the UK and in the Masterpiece Theatre series in the United States, airing in 1995.

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show

It will be first broadcast on BBC One in spring 2014, with the first series consisting of six episodes, each lasting 45 minutes.

The Office Christmas specials

To get as many viewers as possible for the Christmas specials, the BBC's director of television Jana Bennet allowed it to be moved to BBC One.

The first 45-minute part was broadcast on BBC One on 26 December 2003, and the second 50-minute part was shown the following evening.

The One...

The One Ronnie was a one-off comedy television sketch show that aired on BBC One on Christmas Day 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ronnie Corbett.

The Tip-Off

It was originally broadcast on digital channel BBC Three on 28 October 2008, and repeated on frontline channel BBC One on 3 November.

The episode was originally broadcast on the digital channel BBC Three from 11 pm on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, after the broadcast of the second episode on BBC One.

The Truth About Crime

The first programme (BBC One 9pm Tuesday 21 July 2009) looked at violent crime and revealed that almost all woundings involved victims who had been drinking or who had been assaulted by someone who was drunk, and took place close to a licensed premise.

Themes in Blade Runner

"That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment.

Travelodge UK

On 24 October 2006 the BBC One Watchdog programme highlighted Travelodge's policy of overbooking their hotels, turning guests away even when they have booked against a credit card.

Vanity Fare

In his spare time, Brice sings second tenor with the City of Bath Male Choir, who reached the final of BBC One's Last Choir Standing.

Wakefield Cathedral

Wakefield Cathedral Choir, directed by Thomas Moore assisted by Simon Earl (assistant director of music) and Daniel Justin (organ scholar), consists of boys, girls and men who perform at the cathedral and have appeared on BBC One's Songs of Praise and BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong.

World at Your Feet

A news reporter on BBC One was in a Bristol pub at the time and had several people listen and review the song.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance

The Air Ambulance is also the subject of BBC One programme Helicopter Heroes, which follows the crew during a typical working day.


Accidents Can Happen

Accidents Can Happen is a television series produced by Twofour, which was broadcast on daytime BBC One in three series from 2004 to 2006.

Alan Robson

He has also appeared on dozens of hit TV shows as an expert on the paranormal, including Larry King Live and appeared in the BBC One documentary series Trouble in Store.

Alistair Appleton

In 1999, Appleton returned to the UK, where he scored roles on Sky's Hot TV (2000), Five's House Doctor (2000–2003), BBC Two's Rhona (2000), the Travel Channel's Travel On (2001), BBC One's Garden Invaders (2001), Cash in the Attic (2002–2005), BBC Food's Stately Suppers (2005), and had an appearance as himself on the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts.

Darrien Wright

Darrien Wright (born 26 April 1985) partnered Hollie Robertson in the second series of BBC One show Strictly Dance Fever.

Dominique Atkins

She also starred in the BBC One play, Out Of The Blue as Angelique alongside Cathy Tyson, Colin Firth and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Dougie Colon

Dougie David Colon (pronounced 'cologne') is a British puppet and television presenter best known as the presenter of the BBC One comedy series That Puppet Game Show in 2013.

Élizabeth Bourgine


She was awarded the Prix Romy Schneider Prize in 1985.

In 2011 she appeared in the joint French/British production Death in Paradise, a crime drama/comedy filmed in Guadeloupe for BBC One, but she is best known in France for her roles A Heart in Winter (1992), My Best Friend (2006) and Private Lessons (1986).

Gregg Chillin

Chillin has appeared in many television shows such as BBC One's Inside Men, Waking the Dead and Zen playing the character of Pepe Spadola alongside Rufus Sewell.

Helen Modern

As well as her featured roles in Respectable and Bad Girls, Helen has also had a recurring role in BBC One daytime soap opera, Doctors (2005) as Diane Bishop and various roles in No Angels, Wire in the Blood, The Chase and Messiah - The Harrowing with Ken Stott and Maxine Peake.

Jakki Degg

Degg won the Page 3 model charity special edition of BBC1's The Weakest Link, beating Leilani Dowding in the sudden death round, with her winnings going to the RSPCA.

Johnny One Note

Ted Heath - Big Band Percussion - (1968) an instrumental version, the first eight bars of which were used for many years as the opening theme to BBC One's children's news programme John Craven's Newsround.

Jonas Armstrong

Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981) is an actor best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom, where he played the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood.

Juliet Cadzow

She is known for playing Edie McCredie in the 2002 children's television series Balamory (which ran until 2005 and aired on BBC One, BBC Two, and CBeebies) and for appearing in the 2006 BBC series Still Game in the roles of Winston's fantasy woman and the conductress, whom her character became when he was awakened.

Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

It was broadcast on state-run Korean Central Television in the capital of Pyongyang and clips from the program were later rebroadcast on BBC 1.

Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story

Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story is a Carpenters documentary that aired on BBC One on April 9, 2007.

Rachel Allen: Bake!

In the United Kingdom, the show airs from time to time on the Good Food channel, it has also become part of the Saturday morning schedule on BBC One.

River City

Today, one hour-long episode is broadcast each week - usually Tuesday evenings on BBC One Scotland (while Holby City is broadcast across the rest of BBC One), repeated Sunday afternoons on either BBC One Scotland or BBC Two Scotland.

Samantha Dorrance

Sam has recently played the part of Zoe in BBC One program Doctors which will be aired early next year and will be playing Snow White in Pantomime this December at The Middleton Arena in Manchester.

Tattoo? What Tattoo?

"Tattoo? What Tattoo?" is the eighth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.

Terry Dene

Dene appeared on Juke Box Heroes in 2011 broadcast by BBC One, in a condensed biopic of his life, and played in September 2004 at the Rock 'n' Roll Weekend Festival in Chippenham, alongside Little Richard, the Comets and Charlie Gracie.

The Mysti Show

The Mysti Show was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC One or BBC Two at 10am, with subsequent repeat broadcasts on the CBBC Channel.

The Taxman Cometh

"The Taxman Cometh" is the sixth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.

Tightrope Pictures

The company has been responsible for several high-profile drama productions for the BBC, including the Richard Curtis-written The Girl in the Café (BBC One, 2005) and an adaptation of William Golding's novel To the Ends of the Earth (BBC Two, 2005).

Turk Flu

"Turk Flu" is the fifth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.