26 August

Behind the scenes

 * 1915 - Humphrey Searle, who provided incidental music for TV: The Myth Makers, was born.
 * 1969 - Martin Miller, who played Kublai Khan in TV: Marco Polo, died from a heart attack in Austria.
 * 1991 - TV: The Pilot Episode was first broadcast on BBC2 to 1.7 million viewers.
 * 1994 - Tariq Yunus, who played Cass in TV: The Robots of Death, died.