1984 in Scottish television

Events

April

• 20 April – 20th anniversary of BBC Two Scotland.

June

• 1 June – The final edition of current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. It had been on air for less than three years.

July

• 27 July – The final edition of Sixty Minutes is broadcast on BBC1, ending less than a year after it first went on air. Consequently, Scotland Sixty Minutes ends.
• 30 July – To fill the gap between the end of Sixty Minutes and the launch of BBC1's teatime news hour, BBC Scotland's regional news programme is broadcast for 20 minutes, beginning at 5.55pm, and the change sees the return of the Reporting Scotland name.

September

• 3 September – BBC1's teatime news hour is relaunched and now runs from 6pm until 7pm. The change results in Reporting Scotland moving to a new time of 6.35pm and the programme's length is extended to 25 minutes.

October

• 8 October – Scotland Today is relaunched as a features-led magazine format with the news relegated to brief summaries before and after the programme.

Unknown

• Unknown – Debut of the Grampian Television current affairs programme Crossfire.
• Unknown – Scottish airs Scotland's Story, a 24-part series on the history of Scotland.

Debuts

BBC

• Unknown – City Lights (1984–1991)

ITV

• Unknown – Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)

Returning this year

• 30 July – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)

Television series

• Scotsport (1957–2008)
• Top Club (1971–1998)
• Scotland Today (1972–2009)
• Sportscene (1975–present)
• The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
• Grampian Today (1980–2009)
• Take the High Road (1980–2003)
• Now You See It (1981–1986)

Births

• 16 February – Kari Corbett, actor
• 18 December – Tiffany Mulheron, actress

Deaths

• 4 January – Jameson Clark, 76, actor
• 6 September – Donny MacLeod, 52, television presenter

References

References

1. Kelly gets his eye in, Gavin Docherty, Evening Times, 8 October 1984
2. (3 July 2004). "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman.
3. (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights".
4. (17 November 2016). "BBC Sport in Black and White". Springer.
5. (6 August 2025). "Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary".
6. (13 February 2020). "Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities". Springer Nature.