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* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".
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* 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician
* 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor
* 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit ( a prototype of Bugs Bunny ).
* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
* 1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director
* 1938 – Gary Collins, American actor
* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author
* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )
* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor
* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
* 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and coach
* 1938 – Dave " Baby " Cortez, American pianist
The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.
The remaining five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times ( 1938, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1968 ) and England retaining it once ( 1972 ).
Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).
* 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2007 )
* 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician
* 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier ( d. 2006 )
4, No. 1 ( Feb., 1938 ), pp. 14 – 33 in JSTOR
* 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish-English broadcaster
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The first known piece of television science fiction anywhere in the world was produced by the BBC on February 11, 1938, a thirty-five-minute adaptation of a section of the play R. U. R ..
In February 1938, a thirty-five minute adaptation of a section of the play was broadcast on BBC Television – the first piece of television science-fiction ever to be broadcast.
Murdoch had his radio break in the BBC comedy programme Band Waggon ( 1938 – 40 ) as part of a double act with Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname " Stinker " as a result.
He first appeared on television in 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of " The Marvellous History of St Bernard ".
He first appeared on television in April 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of " The Marvellous History of St Bernard ", a production adapted by Henri Gheon from a 15th century manuscript.
By 1938 on Sundays upwards of 80 % of the British audience turned their dials away from the BBC to these IBC stations which followed an American format of commercial broadcasting.
* Theatre Parade ( UK ) premieres on the BBC ( 1936 – 1938 )
Reith was invited to resign his post at the BBC in 1938 by Neville Chamberlain by being made the offer of the chairmanship of Imperial Airways.
In 1938, Mutual started rebroadcasting news reports from the BBC and English-language newscasts from the European mainland.
A 2005 BBC report on the broadcast suggests that the innovative style of Knox's programme may have influenced Orson Welles ' radio broadcast War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938 and foreshadowed it in its consequences.
* A British television show called Spelling Bee, featuring adult contestants and broadcast by the BBC on 31 May 1938, is generally held to have been the world's first television game show.
A recording of his participation in a 1938 performance of Verdi's Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini has been released on CD, too.
In 1938 it bought Amalgamated Studios in Elstree and in 1941 it absorbed the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, ( which the Rank Organisation later sold to BBC Television.
Johnny Ball ( born Graham Ball, 23 May 1938 ) is a British television personality, a populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.
The marriage was not happy, however, and in 1938 she left him for Edward Clark, a distinguished conductor and BBC producer who had studied with Schoenberg, and whose influence may have been a decisive factor in her adopting serial techniques.
Alan Coren ( 27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007 ) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff.
* James Morgan ( journalist ) ( 1938 – 2002 ), BBC World Service economics correspondent
In addition to the 1991 BBC series, television adaptations of Red Peppers were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969.
Televised game shows prior to the debut of CBS Television Quiz were " test episodes " for experimental purposes ; one of these was Truth or Consequences ( NBC Radio, July 1, 1941 ), while a show called Spelling Bee was broadcast ( BBC, 1938 ).
This originally opened in 1937 at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London and, after a shaky start, gained popularity when the BBC broadcast it live on radio on 13 January 1938.
After working as a clerk for Liverpool Corporation, Education Department, he was in a touring concert party and the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, Band Waggon on the BBC.
In September 1938, Potter appeared on the BBC Television Service with Jack Hylton and his Band.
Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie ( 7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 ( aged 45 ) to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot.
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