1981 in Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1981.
Events
July
- 29 July – The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral. More than 30,000,000 viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.
September
- 1 September - 20th anniversary of Border Television.
- 8 September - BBC One Scotland changes its name to BBC Scotland.
- 30 September - 20th anniversary of Grampian Television.
October
- October - Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional Oracle teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information.
- 17 October - The first edition of a new Sunday lunchtime current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.
Unknown
- Scottish Television airs The Shepherds of Berneray, a 50-minute television documentary revolving around the people on the island of Berneray, North Uist, and how they lived at that time.
- Alistair Moffat is appointed Head of Arts at Scottish Television.
Debuts
ITV
- 5 January - ''Now You See It''
Television series
- Scotsport
- Reporting Scotland
- Top Club
- Scotland Today
- Sportscene
- The Beechgrove Garden
- Grampian Today
- ''Take the High Road''
Births
- 10 March - Nicci Jolly, television presenter
- 5 April - Shabana Akhtar, actress
- Unknown
- * Cat Cubie, weather presenter
- * Shauna Macdonald, actress
- * Catriona Shearer, news presenter
Deaths
- 6 January - A. J. Cronin, 84, writer