This is a list of British television related events from 1992.
Events January 1 January New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of Michael Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker. New Year's Day highlights on BBC2 include the network television premieres of Radio Days and Australia. 2 January – The network television premiere of The Accused on BBC1, a graphic and disturbing film starring Jodie Foster, loosely based on the 1983 Cheryl Araujo case. 4 January – BBC2 airs Freddie Mercury: a Tribute, a special programme introduced by Elton John which celebrates the life and work of Freddie Mercury who died on 24 November 1991. 7 January Debut of GamesMaster on Channel 4, presented by Dominik Diamond and Patrick Moore. Debut of Cold Blood – The Massacre of East Timor, an edition of the documentary strand First Tuesday on ITV, concerning the Santa Cruz massacre. The children's stop-motion puppet series Joshua Jones, made and produced by Bumper Films, the company behind Fireman Sam makes its debut on BBC1. 10 January – Debut of the sitcom Grace & Favour on BBC1, a spin-off of the long-running series Are You Being Served?. 12 January – The sitcom As Time Goes By makes its debut on BBC1, starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. 13 January – The Parliamentary Channel, operated by United Artists Cable and funded by a consortium of British cable operators, is launched. 21 January – BBC Select launches on BBC Television as an overnight subscription service, showing specialist programmes for professionals including businessmen, lawyers, teachers and nurses. However, the first series, The Way Ahead, made for the Department of Social Security, is distributed free, on condition that no financial gain is made from it. Includes link to YouTube clips of BBC Select programmes. The subscription service launches shortly after, showing specialist programmes for professionals including businessmen, lawyers, teachers and nurses, although some programmes continue to be shown free-to-air.BBC Select: A Failed Subscription Service 22 January – The Dreamstone, the children's animated show, returns for a second series on ITV. 29 January – ITV shows the 1985 Vampire comedy horror film Fright Night, starring Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowall. 31 January – The Adult Channel launches, a satellite-delivered subscription service featuring cable versions of adult movies and top quality erotic programmes which broadcasts for four hours a day commencing from midnight to 4am.
February 6 February – BBC1 airs the documentary Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. 8 February – Channel 4 launches TV Heaven, a series of 13 themed Saturday evenings celebrating the best of archive British television. The programme is hosted by Frank Muir with each edition focusing, with one exception on a particular year. The first week's episode takes a look at 1967, featuring classic episodes of Coronation Street, At Last the 1948 Show, Armchair Theatre and The Frost Programme. 8–22 February – The BBC provides live and recorded coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics from France. 15 February – The network television premiere of Leonard Nimoy's 1987 comedy film Three Men and a Baby on ITV, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson. 18 February – Debut of the sitcom Men Behaving Badly on ITV, later on BBC1, starring Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey (from series 2), Leslie Ash and Caroline Quentin. 19 February – To outcry and scandal, Channel 4 airs an episode of Dispatches entitled "Beyond Belief", claiming to reveal video footage of Satanic ritual abuse. The footage is quickly revealed to be a performance art piece by Psychick TV called "First Transmission". 24 February – After a 24 year absence, the game show Take Your Pick is revived on ITV, presented by Des O'Connor. 25 February – The children's series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends is revived on ITV with Michael Angelis taking over as its narrator, replacing Ringo Starr just after two series. 27 February – BBC1 airs Cascade, the sixth series finale of Casualty. The episode, featuring a plane crash and originally scheduled to air on 20 December 1991, was postponed because the airdate fell on the eve of the third anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster. February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News.
March 2 March – The News at 5.40 is renamed ITN Early Evening News, with John Suchet becoming the main anchor of the programme. 4 March – Sky One begins airing the Australian "adult soap" Chances on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9pm. However, after proving unpopular with viewers, it drops to one episode a week and is shown on Thursdays at 10pm, before ending in early 1993. The series is repeated in a late-night slot in 1995, but on both occasions of its transmission, the final 19 episodes are not shown. 6 March – The final episode of Rainbow in its original format is broadcast on ITV, ahead of Thames losing their franchise at the end of the year. The show is rebooted in 1994 by Tetra Films but without any of the presenters. 9 March – The Learning Channel, based on the American network of the same name, launches on cable. 13 March – BBC One airs the UK network television premiere of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. 26 March The entertainer and presenter Roy Castle, who presents Record Breakers, announces that he is suffering from lung cancer. The final episode of the long-running children's series You and Me is broadcast on BBC2, although repeats of the show would continue until 1995. 27 March – During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie pours a glass of orange juice over Labour's Peter Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands-based debate show Central Weekend has finished airing. Speaking about the incident later, Currie said "I just looked at my orange juice and looked at this man from which this stream of abuse was emanating and thought 'I know how to shut you up.'". 28 March Amanda Normansell wins the third series of Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Patsy Cline on ITV, the last to be presented by Leslie Crowther. Channel 4 screens Wes Craven's 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.
April 4 April – The final edition of the Saturday morning show Motormouth is broadcast on ITV. The programme ends following the announcement that TVS will lose its ITV franchise at the end of 1992. 5 April – The Australian soap E Street makes its UK debut on Sky One with a two-hour pilot, before picking up the series at Episode 43 the following day (the opening episodes having achieved poor ratings in Australia). But due to the violent nature of some of the soap's storylines and its broadcast before the 9pm watershed, some episodes are heavily edited for their UK transmission. 6 April – Ahead of the election, Sue Lawley presents an edition of The Granada 500 in which a studio audience are given the opportunity to question the three main party leaders John Major (Conservative), Neil Kinnock (Labour) and Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats). 9–10 April – Coverage of the results of the 1992 General Election are broadcast on BBC1, ITV and for the first time on Sky News. 10 April – ITV airs the first episode of Heartbeat, the long-running police drama set in North Yorkshire during the 1960s. 14 April – The Independent Television Commission issues an invitation to apply for the licence to run a fifth UK television channel. 20 April – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, an open-air concert in tribute to the late Freddie Mercury, is held at London's Wembley Stadium. The concert is broadcast on BBC2. 25 April The interactive music video channel The Box goes on the air. It is initially carried by four operators, UA, Telewest in London and Bristol, Nynex in the south of England and Videotron which is also based in London and over the next few years, The Box is rolled out on a regional basis across all of the UK's cable system. Parallel 9 replaces The 8.15 from Manchester as BBC1's Saturday morning Summer magazine programme. 30 April – The Independent Television Commission announces that Teletext Ltd will replace ORACLE as the teletext provider for ITV and Channel 4 at the end of the year.
May 2 May – TV Heaven draws to a close after thirteen weeks, with a selection of programmes from 1968 with an episode of Please Sir!, The Cats Eyes Man, an edition of The World of Whicker, an edition of Do Not Adjust Your Set, and The Girl Who Was Death, an episode of The Prisoner. 4 May – Wire TV launches. Branding itself as 'The Cable Channel', this is the flagship channel of CPP1. Wire TV broadcasts a mix of entertainment, lifestyle and sport from 1pm until 11pm and includes two hours each day of regional programming. 8 May – Liberal Democrat MP and subsequent leader, Charles Kennedy makes his debut appearance as a panellist on the satirical news quiz Have I Got News for You on BBC2. 9 May – Ireland's Linda Martin wins the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest (staged in Sweden) with "Why Me?". 14 May – Final on-screen appearance of Willy, one of two EastEnders dogs to have appeared in the show since the first episode in 1985 (the other being Roly). Having been killed off in the series, the dog who played Willy dies on 30 May, two weeks after his final scenes are shown. 18 May – It is announced that Sky Sports will supply live coverage of football's new Premier League. It will show two live matches a week, on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. Sky outbid ITV Sport for the rights. The highlights contract is awarded to the BBC, meaning the return of Match of the Day on a weekly basis. 22 May – The network television premiere of Ken Russell's 1988 horror comedy The Lair of the White Worm on Channel 4, starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg and Peter Capaldi. 24 May – BBC1 airs the Everyman documentary E is for Ecstasy, a film exploring the use of the Ecstasy drug in rave culture. 25 May – The network television premiere of Psycho III on BBC1, starring Anthony Perkins. 29 May – Sky One cancels its showing of Australian soap opera The Young Doctors at episode 589 due to catching up with some ITV regions.
June 9–10 June – Episodes 1450–1454 of the Australian soap Neighbours are heavily censored by the BBC because they contain an incest storyline between the characters Glen Donnelly, played by Richard Huggett, and Lucy Robinson (Melissa Bell), who had not realised they were half-siblings when they began a relationship. Scenes involving the story are cut from episode 1450, aired on 9 June, while episodes 1451–1454 are edited together into one episode which is transmitted the following day. The scenes are shown uncut in repeats aired by UK Gold in 1998. 10–26 June – The BBC and ITV show live coverage of the Euro 92 football championship from Sweden. 14 June – An edition of The South Bank Show, The Making of Sgt. Pepper, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is broadcast on ITV. 21 June – ITV airs the first of four editions of Frankie's On..., a series of stand-up shows recorded by the late Frankie Howerd shortly before his death in April. Six episodes had been planned, but only four were recorded before he died. The episodes are Frankie's On Board!, Frankie's On The Coals!, Frankie's On Fire! and Frankie's On Call!. 25 June – The British adaptation of the US informational docudrama series Rescue 911, called 999, begins on BBC1, presented by Michael Buerk; it runs for 11 years. 26 June – The final lunchtime edition of Business Daily is shown on Channel 4. The breakfast editions. which are part of Channel Four Daily, continue for three more months.