NOVEMBER 2 IN TV HISTORY

British soap opera

43 years ago

American sitcom television series

27 years ago

TV miniseries

11 years ago

American crime drama television series

8 years ago

Psychological thriller web television series

7 years ago

American television series

2 years ago

British television comedy series, 1983–89

Ran 1983–1989

Mexican telenovela

17 years ago

South Korean TV series

15 years ago

Korean 2014 TV series

11 years ago

Italian-American television miniseries by Luca Guadagnino

5 years ago

American television series

2 years ago

The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.

British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.