This is a list of British television related events from 1975. Events January 2 January – The police drama series The Sweeney premieres on ITV, with John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. 6 January – Due to financial cutbacks at the BBC, BBC1 scales back its weekday early afternoon programming. Consequently, apart from schools programmes, adult education and live sport, the channel now shows a trade test transmission between 2pm and the start of children's programmes and when not broadcasting actual programmes, BBC2 begins fully closing down on weekdays between 11:30am and 4pm. 22 January–26 February – Drama series The Love School, about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is broadcast on BBC2. February 25 February - BBC1 begin showing the American western family drama Little House on the Prairie, starring Michael Landon. March 14 March – After less than two years on the air, The Bristol Channel closes. 24 March – Wellingborough Cablevision closes. April 1 April – Premiere of Edward the Seventh, a drama series made by ATV in 13 one-hour episodes and based on the biography of Edward VII by Sir Philip Magnus. 3 April – Meg Richardson (Noele Gordon) marries Hugh Mortimer (John Bentley) on the soap opera Crossroads. 4 April – The Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal-starred Sitcom The Good Life premieres on BBC1. May 31 May – Jim'll Fix It makes its debut on BBC1. June 11 June – A pilot of the sitcom The Melting Pot, written by and starring Spike Milligan with Neil Shand, is broadcast on BBC2. The following year, a full series of six episodes is recorded but never broadcast. July 5 July – BBC1 launches the long-running Summer variety show Seaside Special. 14 July – New Broadcasting House (Manchester) starts broadcasting programming for BBC North West. It becomes fully operational by September. 20 July – ITV debuts the Bob Monkhouse hosted game show Celebrity Squares. August 2 August – BBC2 launch a season of Saturday evening horror movie double bills with Midnight Movie Fantastic. It would continue to be shown until 1983. 13 August – BBC1 begins showing the US detective series The Rockford Files, starring James Garner. September 2 September – Runaround, the long-running children's game show hosted by comedian Mike Reid is first broadcast on ITV. 3 September – ITV begins showing the supernatural children's anthology series Shadows. 4 September – Gerry Anderson's live-action science fiction series Space: 1999 airs on