1988 in Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1988.
Events
January
- 19 January – Debut of the BBC Scotland television film Down Where the Buffalo Go.
February
- 13 February – Scottish Television begins 24-hour broadcasting.
July
- 19 July – Debut on ITV of the STV produced game show Wheel of Fortune.
September
- 2 September – Grampian and Border begin 24-hour transmission. Their overnight programming comes from Granada Television's Night Time service.
Autumn
- The BBC takes its first tentative steps into later closedowns – previously weekday programmes ended no later than 12:15am and weekend broadcasting had finished by 1:30am.
December
- 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.
Debuts
ITV
- 19 July – ''Wheel of Fortune''
Television series
- Scotsport
- Reporting Scotland
- Top Club
- Scotland Today
- Sportscene
- The Beechgrove Garden
- Grampian Today
- Take the High Road
- Taggart
- James the Cat
- Crossfire on Grampian
- City Lights
- The Campbells
- ''Naked Video''
Births
- 27 January – Iain Stirling, comedian