Editing 1937 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 19 – [[BBC Television]] broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from its London station, the first play written for [[television]].<ref>{{cite web|first=David|last=Fisher|title=1937|work=Chronomedia|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1937.htm|publisher=Terra Media|date=2011-12-30|access-date=2014-01-13}}</ref>
*February 6 – The BBC Television service discontinues the [[John Logie Baird|Baird]] system in favour of the [[Marconi Company|Marconi]]-[[EMI]] [[405-line|405 lines]] system.
*March 9 – Experimental broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR).
*May – [[Gilbert Seldes]] becomes the first television critic, with his ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'' magazine article, the "Errors of Television".
*May 12 – The BBC use their [[outside broadcast]] unit for the first time, to televise the [[coronation of George VI]]. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television – filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an [[8 mm film|8 mm]] cine camera. A brief section of this footage is used in a programme during the week of the 1953 [[coronation of Elizabeth II]], and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
*May 14 – The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', the first known instance of a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] play televised. Among the cast are [[Peggy Ashcroft]] and [[Greer Garson]].
*May 15 – [[RCA]] demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]] convention.
*June 21 – [[Wimbledon Championships]] ([[tennis]]) first televised by the BBC.
*July 10 – High definition television with 455 lines is first shown in France at the International Exposition, Paris.
*September – High definition television broadcasts are sent from a new 30&nbsp;kW (peak power) transmitter below the [[Eiffel Tower]] in Paris.
*November 9 – [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]] transmits television signal of 800&nbsp;kHz bandwidth on a coaxial cable laid between New York and Philadelphia.
*November 11 ([[Armistice Day]]) – BBC Television devotes the evening to a broadcast of ''[[Journey's End]]'' by [[R. C. Sherriff]] (1928, set on the [[Western Front (World War I)]] in 1918), the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. [[Reginald Tate]] plays the lead, Stanhope, a rôle he has performed extensively in the theatre.<ref>{{cite news|title=Televised Drama; ''Journey's End''|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1937-11-12|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=British Television: An Illustrated Guide|first=Tise|last=Vahimagi|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press; [[British Film Institute]]|isbn=0-19-818336-4|page=8}}</ref>
*November 27 – [[NBC]] in the United States broadcasts the first of six live teleplays of ''[[The Three Garridebs]]'' (based closely on [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s story "[[The Adventure of the Three Garridebs]]"), the first known [[television pilot]], in which [[Louis Hector]] becomes the first actor to play [[Sherlock Holmes]] on television.
*December 31 – By this time, 2,121 television sets have been sold in England.
*[[CBS]] announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.