5 January – Hanna-Barbera's popular family cartoon series The Flintstones debuts in the ITV London region. Other regions begin broadcasting the popular show later, with ITV North on 31 August.
3 February – The final live episode of Coronation Street is aired. From now on all episodes are prerecorded. The next live transmission will not occur until 8 December 2000.
March – An edition of ABC's Sunday evening religious programme The Sunday Break features a performance of the controversial Passion Play "A Man Dies", depicting Jesus Christ dressed in a pair of jeans.[3][4]
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4 April – Southern launches a weeknight 30-minute regional news programme called Day By Day.[5]
2 October – Points of View, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and comments on the television of recent weeks, debuts on BBC Television. The series will still be on the air 60 years later.
25 December – Debut of Disney Time on the BBC, the long running Walt Disney themed clips based television specials. Broadcast on Bank Holidays as well as Christmas Time, it would run until 1998. Each episode was hosted by a different celebrity, with Julie Andrews being the first presenter after a change in the original title from 'The World of Walt Disney'.
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Southern Television launches the UK's first localised news opt-out when it launches a news service for south east England from its new studios in Dover.
^"Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol". Radio Times (in Welsh). Vol. 149, no. 1938 (London ed.). BBC Publications. 29 December 1960. p. 16. ISSN 0033-8060. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^Little. (2000) p.10. Note: both Kershaw and Little make errors in relating the early transmission of the programme. The information here is taken from broadcast details in contemporary editions of The Times and TV Times.
^Hayes, Alan; McGinlay, Richard; Hayes, Alys (26 January 2017). Two Against the Underworld: The Collected Unauthorised Guide to The Avengers Series 1. lulu.com. pp. 253–254. ISBN 978-1326466268.
^"Girl stabbed in TV studio". The Daily Express. 12 April 1961.