1951 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 1951.
Events
July
- 16 July – What's My Line? debuts on the BBC Television Service. It will be one of the top-rated programmes for the rest of the decade and make a star of its host, Eamonn Andrews, who takes over from Gilbert Harding from the second episode.
October
- 12 October – The Holme Moss transmitter is opened in Northern England, making the BBC Television Service available to the region for the first time.
Unknown
- The BBC broadcasts horse racing for the first time when it televises races from Ascot.
Debuts
- 6 February – The Railway Children
- 20 May – The Black Arrow
- 17 June – Five Children and It
- 16 July – What's My Line?
- 29 July – The Final Test
- 12 August – Albert
- 2 September – Treasure on Pelican
- 25 September – Puck of Pook's Hill
- 20 October
- *Sherlock Holmes
- *Stranger from Space
- 6 November – Sara Crewe
- Unknown
- *The Charlie Chester Show
- *''The Inch Man''
Continuing television shows
1920s
- ''BBC Wimbledon''
1930s
- Picture Page
- For the Children
- Trooping the Colour
- The Boat Race
- ''BBC Cricket''
1940s
- Kaleidoscope
- Muffin the Mule
- Café Continental
- Television Newsreel
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- Come Dancing
- ''How Do You View?''
1950s
- ''Andy Pandy''
Ending this year
- 23 January - Little Women
- 24 November – ''Sherlock Holmes''
Births
- 7 January – Helen Worth, born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth, actress
- 21 January – Rosemary Shrager, chef and presenter
- 6 February – Kevin Whately, actor
- 15 February – Jane Seymour, born Joyce Frankenberg, actress
- 18 March – Paul Barber, actor
- 13 April – Peter Davison, actor
- 20 April – Louise Jameson, actress
- 11 May – Kay Mellor, born Kay Daniel, scriptwriter and actress
- 13 May – Selina Scott, journalist, newsreader and television presenter
- 4 June – David Yip, actor
- 28 June – Lalla Ward, actress
- 4 September – David Renwick, scriptwriter
- 10 September – Sally Grace, satirist, actress and voice actress
- 30 September – John Lloyd, producer
- 6 November – Nigel Havers, actor
- 15 November – Billy McColl, actor
- 24 November – Margaret Mountford, lawyer, businesswoman and television personality
- 20 December – Peter May, novelist and television dramatist