Time Line

1950s

• Korean War
• Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (Important event in the evolution of British TV; first time tv had a bigger audience then radio's.
• ‘The Grove Family’ (First British soap for adults. About a couple who struggle to build a home for their family after the war. Had ¼ of the population as its audience)
• First Daily TV news programme: US segregation made illegal in USA.
• US starts sending $216 million in aid to Vietnam.
• Average UK annual salary £101. USA average annual salary $2992
• ITV starts broadcasting (Ends BBC’s monopoly. Has commercials)
• Montgomery bus boycott (US civil rights movement)
• Suez crisis (Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns as a result )
• Black and White Minstrel show
• ITV screens the Arm Chair Theatre (represents the real working class in contrast to the BBC’s more conventional plays)
• Television cameras are allowed inside the PM's residence for the first time
• The growth of the 'Nuclear Families'
• End of Hollywood's Golden Age.

1960s

• JFK takes over as president from Nixon.
• Introduction of the contraceptive pill. o ’62: Marylyn Monroe found dead (Drug overdose – age 36)
• JFK assassinated
• Nelson Mandela sentenced to imprisonment
• Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho terrifies audiences and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers
• Lee Harvey Oswald, accused Kennedy assassin, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby - Viewers tuned into NBC witness Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera – the first live telecast of a murder.
• BBC Two Launch- 20/4/1964- The opening night of BBC Two is wrecked by a power failure that throws London into chaos and takes down Television Centre.
• Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —take first walk on the Moon (July 20).
• the 'Age of Youth' which were the children from the post war of the 'Baby Boom'.
• Issue such as racism and women became important in America

1970s

• Break up of the Beatles
• Death of Elvis
• Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans
• Thatcher Elected (Conservative party – ‘Iron lady’ – First female Prime Minister)
• Newsround- 4/4/1972- In the first news programme specifically for children
• The world's first teletext system is devised by BBC technicians, who realised that digital signals could be broadcast with analogue transmissions.
• Steven Spielberg's Jaws will be the first film to earn more than $100 million
• The Steadicam is used for the first time in Rocky.
• Rap music goes beyond the streets of New York.
• The earthquake that happened in Peru, which killed 50,000 people.
• Tonga and Figi gained independence from Britain
• The God Father (1972)- the number one gangster film ever made.
  

1980s

• Women Cops: Shows on BBC1 and ITV showing taking proper notice of female cops (women have been policewoman since 1949)
• Brixton race riots
• Launch of satellite TV John Lennon of the Beatles shot dead in New York City
• Prince Charles and Lady Diana Wed- A worldwide TV audience of 750 million watch the Royal wedding,
• Channel 4 Launches
• Michael Jackson releases Thriller, which sells more than 25 million copies, becoming the biggest-selling album in history
• The Simpsons, animated cartoon, introduced on Fox TV.
• Sky launches the UK's first satellite television service, with four channels: Sky Channel, Eurosport, Sky Movies and Sky News.
• The Falklands War: Britain declared a war on Argentina.
• John Paul II signed a new Roman catholic code which had new changes by the second vatican council.

1990s

• Thatcher steps down, is succeeded by John Majoro
• 'Black Wednesday: (Britain crashed out of the ERM – Huge devaluation of the £ - Gov loses £22bn)
• Gaytime TV: On the BBC for gays and lesbians.
• Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister – Labour (more women mps)
• Channel 5 launches
• For the first time a cartoon, Beauty and the Beast, is up for best picture Oscar
• Toy Story is the first totally digital feature-length film
• President blocks ban on late-term abortions
• Viagra Goes on Sale
• Men across Britain get a new lease of life as the British-based firm Pfizer releases a new treatment for impotence.
• Iraq invades Kuwait (the Gulf War)
• Sheindler's List- directed by Steven Spielberg, which has won him an Oscar.
  

2000s

Big Brother

9/11

More reality TV: The salon, Wife Swap.

Start of Iraq war

Hutton Report published: Conclusion –BBC’s claim that allegations had been ‘sexed up’ were unfounded. Dyke resigns.

Asian Tsunami

The secret policeman

7/7

Phone in scandals

Black actors won top Oscars. Denzel Washington and Halle Berry

Saddam Hussein captured by the US troops.

Saddam Hussein killed.

Finding Nemo- which replaced the Lion King. this was seen as the best animated film ever made, because it made a huge profit.

Homosexuality became an accepted issue.

same sex marriages became accepted, in some nations such as Canada, the Netherlands, Britain and Spain.

Increasing demands of the Fossil Fuels in the middle East.