title: 1981 in Scottish television
text: # 1981 in Scottish television
  
  This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1981.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January to June
  
  * No events.
  
  ### July
  
  * 29 July – The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral. More than 30,000,000 viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.
  
  ### August
  
  * No events.
  
  ### September
  
  * 1 September - 20th anniversary of Border Television.
  * 8 September - BBC One Scotland changes its name to BBC Scotland.
  * 30 September - 20th anniversary of Grampian Television.
  
  ### October
  
  * October - Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional Oracle teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information.
  * 17 October - The first edition of a new Sunday lunchtime current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.
  
  ### November
  
  * No events.
  
  ### December
  
  * No events.
  
  ### Unknown
  
  * Scottish Television airs The Shepherds of Berneray, a 50-minute television documentary revolving around the people on the island of Berneray, North Uist, and how they lived at that time.
  * Alistair Moffat is appointed Head of Arts at Scottish Television.
  
  ## Debuts
  
  ### ITV
  
  * 5 January - Now You See It (1981–1986)
  
  ## Television series
  
  * Scotsport (1957–2008)
  * Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
  * Top Club (1971–1998)
  * Scotland Today (1972–2009)
  * Sportscene (1975–Present)
  * The Beechgrove Garden (1978–Present)
  * Grampian Today (1980–2009)
  * Take the High Road (1980–2003)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 10 March - Nicci Jolly, television presenter
  * Unknown
     * Shabana Akhtar, actress
     * Cat Cubie, weather presenter
     * Shauna Macdonald, actress
     * Catriona Shearer, news presenter
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 6 January - A. J. Cronin, 84, writer (Doctor Finlay's Casebook)
  