1988 in Scottish television

Overview of the events of 1988 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1988.

Events

2 September – Grampian and Border begin 24-hour transmission. Their overnight programming comes from Granada Television's Night Time service.^[1]

The BBC takes its first tentative steps into later closedowns – previously weekday programmes ended no later than 12:15 am and weekend broadcasting had finished by 1:30 am.

31 December – Transmission of Tony Roper's The Steamie, about life in a Glasgow wash-house during the 1950s, starring Dorothy Paul and Eileen McCallum.^[2]

Scotsport (1957–2008)
Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
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)^[3]
Taggart (1983–2010)^[4]
James the Cat (1984–1992)
Crossfire on Grampian (1984–2004)
City Lights (1984–1991)^[5]
The Campbells (1986–1990)
Naked Video (1986–1991)^[6]

^ ^a ^b "TV Live – ITV Night Time". Retrieved 31 March 2020.
^ "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.