16th July 1931
Bergerac creator Robert Banks Stewart is born
Edinburgh-born screenwriter and producer Robert Banks Stewart devised the Jersey-set BBC police drama, Bergerac. He had previously worked on The Sweeney, The Avengers and Doctor Who. The end of the 1970s saw him working on two series of Shoestring and, between 1981 and 1991, he was occupied with his best-known work, Bergerac. Stewart died in 2016, aged 84.
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Other events that occured in July
Island at War debuts on ITV
- Island at War took inspiration from events that occurred in both Guernsey and Jersey, but was set on a fictional stand-in, St Gregory.
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Reform Jersey registered as a political party
- The centre-left Reform Jersey political party was registered at the Royal Court on 4 July and contested the 15 October election.
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Circumstantial evidence sends a man to the gallows
- Jersey's Royal Court took just two days to sentence a man to death for murder even though there was no hard evidence against him.
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Channel Island steamer hits the rocks and runs aground
- The SS Caesarea was leaving St Helier when she struck Pignonet Rock, off Moilmont Point, and was holed below the water line.
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