1949

1949
The Light Programme's Golden Slipper Club featured Edmundo Ros & His Rumba Band. Sue Jones-Davies born in Wales. John E Blakeley's School For Randle premiered. Having hauled themselves off the foot aof the First Division table with a big win on Boxing Day, Aston Villa returned to type, losing five-two at home to Blackpool. The top three (Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Derby County) all lost enabling Manchester United (who beat Liverpool two-nil in front of over sixty one thousand at Maine Road) to close the gap. West Bromwich Albion suffered four-nil thumping at Bury in the Second Division. Southampton, who beat Cardiff two-nil, went top. Forty nine goals were scored in eleven Third Divison (North) matches (highlight: Darlington's six-one victory over Rochdale). Jay Lewis' A Man's Affair - starring Hamish Menzies, Cliff Gordon and Diana Decker - premiered.
An adaptation of The Importance Of Being Earnest broadcast. Jack Lee's Once A Jolly Swagman - starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano and Bill Owen - premiered.
John Keir Cross's adaptation of Treasure Island broadcast in The Light Programme's Monday Matinee. William C Hammond's The Fool & The Princess - starring Bruce Lester, Lesley Brook and Adina Mandlová - premiered.
Francis Searle's The Man In Black - starring Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell, Sid James, Anthony Forwood and Valentine Dyall and Donald Wilson's Warning To Wantons - starring Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon and David Tomlinson - premiered.
The third South Africa versus England test at Cape Town ended in a draw. Len Hutton top scored for England eith eighty seven in the second innings whilst Denis Compton took five for seventy and Roly Jenkins four for forty eight.
Gordon Parry's Third Time Lucky - starring Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh and Charles Goldner - premiered.
In the FA Cup Third Round there were victories for Wolverhampton Wanderers (six-nil against Chesterfield), Sheffield United (five-two over New Brighton), Portsmouth (seven-nil over Stockport County), holders Manchester United (six-nil against Bournemouth), Rotherham (four-two against Darlington) and non-league Yeovil Town (three-one over Bury). Burnley beat Charlton two-one whilst Bradford Park Avenue won two-nil at Newcastle. The largest crowd of the day - sixty three thousand - saw Everton and Manchester City draw.
George Edward Foreman born in Marshall, Texas.
The comedy thriller Someone At The Door broadcast.
The first episode of The Charlie Chester Show broadcast, featuring the TV debut of Arthur Haynes.
In the First Division, Arsenal beat Sheffield United five-three whilst Portsmouth widened the gap at the top, Jack Froggatt scoring the winner in their one-nil victory against Stoke City. Promotion-cashing Fulham defeated Bury seven-two in the Second Division (Arthur Rowley scoring four). In the Third Division (South) Notts County thrashed Newport eleven-one (Jackie Sewell and Tommy Lawton netting four each).
Caroline Jane Munro born in Windsor.
Douglas Peirce's Love In Waiting - starring David Tomlinson, Andrew Crawford, Peggy Evans and Elspet Gray - premiered.
Richard Llewelyn's Poison Pen broadcast.
Robert Siodmak's Criss-Cross - starring Burt Lancaster - premiered.
Joseph Mankiewicz's A Letter To Three Wives - starring Kirk Douglas - premiered.
There were three crowds of more than sixty thousand in the First Division. The day's highest saw Aston Villa beat Arsenal one-nil. Portsmouth won with a late winner at Charlton whilst the Manchester derby ended in a goalless draw. Arthur Rowley hit his second hat-trick in a fortnight as Fulham defeated Plymouth six-one in the Second Division. Another attendance topping sixty thousand watched Spurs beat league leaders West Brom two-nil.

Robert Barr's adaptation of The Time Machine broadcast.
Harry Watt's Eureka Stockade - starring Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert and Gordon Jackson and David Lean's The Passionate Friends - starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard - premiered.
Richard Dimbleby introduced a visit to Madame Tussauds. Southern League Yeovil Town reached the Fifth Round of the FA Cup defeating First Division Sunderland two-one at Huish Park. Which was funny. West Bromwich Albion won three-one at Gateshead whilst Manchester United drew one-all with Bradford Park Avenue. The game eventually went to a second replay with United winning five-nil. Liverpool stuggled to beat Third Division Notts County at Anfield, only scraping through thanks to Billy Liddell's late winner. Wolves won one of several all First Division clashes at Bramall Lane, beating Sheffield United three-nil. Harry Watt's Eureka Stockade - starring Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert and Gordon Jackson - premiered.
The first episode of Late Night Serial (later, A Book At Bedtime) - John Buchan's The Three Hostages read by Arthur Bush - broadcast on The Light Programme. Carol Hawkins born in Barnet.
Ken Annakin's Vote For Huggett - starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark and Diana Dors and Lance Comfort's Silent Dust - starring Sally Gray, Stephen Murray, Derek Farr and Nigel Patrick - premiered.
Ralph Thomas' Once Upon A Dream - starring Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and Guy Middleton - premiered.
Robert Z Leonard's The Bribe - starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton and Vincent Price - premiered.
The first episode of Authors In Focus broadcast. Eberhard Klagemann's Träum' Nicht, Annette - starring Jenny Jugo, Max Eckard vand Karl Schönböck - premiered.
Third Division Newport County knocked Huddersfield Town out of the FA Cup, winning three-one at Leeds Road. In the First Division Chelsea beat Preston North End five-three whilst Arsenal handed Sunderland a five-nil scudding. Derby defeated Wolves three-two, two Tommy Waler goals gave Newcastle victory over Charlton and league-leaders Portsmouth won three-one against Manchester City.
Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord broadcast.
Vernon Sewell's The Jack Of Diamonds - starring Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carroll and Dolly Bouwmeester - premiered.
Anthony Pelissier's adaptation of The History of Mister Polly - starring John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Moore Marriott and Finlay Currie - premiered.
The FA Cup Fifth Round saw Yeovil's run end with an eight-nil defeat at Manchester United (Jack Rowley scoring five). Elsewhere, Luton Town and Leicester city drew five-all (Jack Lee scored four for Leicester who won the replay five-three a week later), Brentford defeated Burnley four-two and Hull City won two-nil at Stoke. Portsmouth defeated the previous rounds other giant-killer, Newport, three-two. In the Third Division (North) Oldham Athletic beat Darlington seven-one.
Brian Deacon born in Oxford.
The fourth test at Johannesburg was drawn. Allan Watkins and Len Hutton scored centuries for England, Dudley Nourse also hit a hundred for South Africa.

The first episode of Opportunity Knocks - presented by the most sincere Hughie Green - broadcast on The Light Programme.

With the First Division's top three sides all losing, Charlton Athletic were the latest club to move into the top four with a two-nil defeat of Middlesbrough. Peter McKennan scored five in Brentford's eight-two win over Bury in the Second Division. Sixty two thousand were at White Hart Lane where Tottenham and West Ham drew one-all. Crystal Palace remained rooted to the foot of the Third Division (South), thrashed at home again, this time five=one by Notts County. Swansea Town went six points cllear at the top, winning six-one against Torquay United.
George More O'Ferrall's adaptation of The Tragedy Of Macbeth broadcast.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Small Back Room - starring David Farrer, Kathleen Byron and Jack Hawkins - premiered.
Nicholas Ray's Knock On Any Door - starring Humphrey Bogart and John Derek - premiered.
Claude Binyon's Family Honeymoon - starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Rita Johnson - premiered.
Jack Hulbert's adaptation of Under The Counter - starring Cicely Courtneidge - broadcast. In the FA Cup Sixth Round, there were victories for Leicester City (two-nil at Brentford), Manchester United (Stan Pearson scoring the winner at Hull City), Portsmouth (who beat Derby two-one at Fratton Park) and Wolves (Jimmy Mullen hitting the only goal in an all Midlands clash against West Bromwich Albion). Arsenal beat Bolton Wanderers five-nil in the First Division. And, Crystal Palace lost again (at Walsall).
Douglas Allen's adaptation of Ernest George's Down Our Street broadcast.
George King's Forbidden - starring Douglass Montgomery, Patricia Burke and Hazel Court and John Irwin's Badger's Green - starring Barbara Murray, Brian Nissen and Garry Marsh - premiered.
George Cukor's Edward, My Son - starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr and Frank Lauder's The Blue Lagoon - starring Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, James Hayter and Cyril Cusack - premiered.
Derek Twist's All Over The Town - starring Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam, Stanley Baker and Bryan Frobes - premiered.
Lesley Selander's Rustlers - starring Tim Holt, Richard Martin and Martha Hyer - premiered.
The Five Smith Brothers' 'Thge Blaydon Races'/'(Meet Me Tonight) By The Old Willow Tree' released.
John Sturges's The Walking Hills - starring Randolph Scott - premiered. Newcastle United's two-one victory over Sunderland in the First Division saw the club debut of Scottish international Bobby Mitchell - the first of four hundred and ten games for The Magpies in a career that lasted until 1963, during which time he would win three FA Cup winners medals. Eddie Wainwright scored four in Everton's five-nil victory against Blackpool. Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Wanderers shared eight goals at Ayresome Park. Portsmouth beat Aston Villa three-nil.
JB Fagan's And So To Bed broadcast.
England won the fifth test at Port Elizabeth by three wickets. The highlight of the match was George Mann's one hundred and thirty six not out. Henry Cass's The Glass Mountain - starring Emery Bonnet, John Cousins, John Hunter and Joseph Janni - premiered.
Mervyn LeRoy's adaptation of Little Women - starring June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford - premiered.
Fletcher Markle's Jigsaw - starring Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick and Marc Lawrence - premiered.
Portsmouth's four-one victory at Sunderland took then five points clear at the top of the First Division. Denis Wilshaw scored a hat-trick in Wolverhampton's three-nil win over Newcastle as did Willie Moir in Bolton's four-one victory against Middlesbrough. Gateshead beat Bradford City six-two in the Third Division (North) whilst reading won six-nil at Aldershot in the Third Division (South).
Caro and Hugh Burden's Myself A Stranger broadcast.
Frederick Wilson's Floodtide - starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert, Jimmy Logan and Janet Brown - premiered.
Thorold Dickinson's The Queen Of Spades - starring Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell - premiered.
The largest First Division crowd of the day, fifty five thousand one hundred and forty eight, saw Newcastle beat Arsenal three-two at St James' Park. Joe Harvey, Bobby Mitchell and George Robeldo scored for The Magpies. Stoke won four-nil against Bolton and Portsmouth defeated Derby Count one-nil.
The first episode of Music-Hall - introduced by Benny Hill - broadcast.
Adrienne Luanne Poster born in Hampstead.
Portsmouth's hopes of being the first club in the Twentieth Century to win the League and FA Cup double ended when they were beaten three-one by Leicester City in the Cup Semi-Final at Highbury. Don Revie scored twice for City. The other Semi ended in a one-all draw betwen Manchester United and Wolves. (Charlie Mitten and Sam Smyth scoring, respectively). Newcastle United moved to within three points of Portsmouth at the top of the First Division with a two-nil win at Huddersfield Town. Derby Count, who beat Manchester City two-nil, remained third.
Patrick Hamilton's The Governess - featuring Roger Moore's TV début - broadcast.
The astronomer Fred Hoyle first coined the term 'The Big Bang' to describe the beginning of the universe during the Third Programme science show Continuous Creation. Kevin Reardon Lloyd born in Derby.
Walter Forde's Carboard Cavalier - starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood, Jerry Desmonde and Jack McNaughton - premiered.
Jean Negulesco's The Forbidden Street - starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara and Sybil Thorndike - premiered.
Otto Preminger's The Fan - starring Madeleine Carroll and George Sanders - premiered.
Sam Smyth's eighty sixth minute winner in the FA Cup Semi-Final replay saw Wolverhampton Wanderers overcome Manchester United. Portsmouth got back to winning ways in the First Division, defeating Liverpool three-two. Chelsea thrashed bottom club Huddersfield five-nil. Jackie Milburn scored twice as Newcastle beat Blackpool three-one. Tom Finney was amongst the scorers for Preston North End who overcame Sheffield United, four-one. Charlie Vaughan scored a hat-trick for Charlton Athletic in their three-one win over Everton. Southampton remained in the hunt for promotion from the Second Division with a vital one-nil win at Tottneham.
Richard John Thompson born in Notting Hill Gate.
Alfred Roome and Roy Rich's It's Not Cricket - starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham - premiered.
Oswald Mitchell's The Temptress - starring Joan Maude, Arnold Bell, Don Stannard, Shirley Quentin, John Stuart, Ferdy Mayne and Conrad Phillips - premiered.
Portsmoputh increased their lead at the top of the First Division to five points with a thumping five-nil victory as second-palced Newcastle. Jack Froggatt scored three and Peter Harris the other two. West Bromwich Albion moved above Fulham in the Second Division promition race with a one-nil defeat of Leeds United. Hull City, top of the Third Division (North) lost three-two at home two York City in a match watched by forty thousand.
Thomas William Stevenson Rowbotham born in Marylebone. A three-year-old girl, Kathy Fiscus, fell into an abandoned well in California and, despite a massive rescue effort involving three giant cranes, power drills and fifty floodlights rushed from Hollywood, the little girl died from a lack of oxygen. A local television crew arrived and was the first to provide live coverage of a rescue attempt such as this. It took two days for them to reach the body, by which time twelve thousand people had turned up to gawp at the tragic event.
Scotland beat England three-one at Wembley to win the Home International championship for the first time since 1936. Jimmy Mason, Billy Steel and Lawrie Reilley scored for the visitors with Jackie Milburn replying for England. Even without Milburn, Necwastle continued their challenge for the First Division title, winning four-two at Derby County with George Robeldo neting twice. Leaders Portsmouth lost to a Rex Adams goal at Blackpool. Sorcha Cusack born in Dublin. Jill Cragie's Blue Scar - starring Emrys Jones, Gwyneth Vaughan, Rachel Thomas, Anthony Pendrell and Prysor Williams - premiered.
Emlyn Williams' The Last Days Of Dolwyn - starring Edith Evans, Richard Burton, Anthony James, Allan Aynesworth and Barbara Couper - premiered.
John Drinkwater's A Man's House broadcast. Portsmouth beat Birmingham City three-one in the First Division. Newcastle beat Middlesbrough one-nil in front of sixty four thousand at St James' Park. Manchester City moved third, beating Chelsea one-nil. Swansea Town were eight points clear at the top of the Third Division (South), winning five-two at Newport County.
In the First Division, Portsmouth moved a step closwr to the title, defeating Wolverhampton Wanderers five-nil at Fratton Park. Middlesbrough's relegation worried increased with a home loss to Liverpool. Promotion-chasing West Bromwich Albion beat Bradford Park Avenue seven-one in the Second Division (Davy Wlash scored four and jack Haines, two). Hull and Rotherham both effectively clinched promotion from the Third Division (North) with victories over Crewe and York resepctively. In the Third Division (South) Torquay United thrashed Leyton Orient seven-one and Reading beat Brighton & Hove Albion six-one.
David MacDonald's The Bad Lord Byron - starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling and Joan Greenwood - premiered. Liverpool increased Huddersfield's First Division relegation fears with a four-nil victory at Leeds Road. Middlesbrough beat Newcastle three-two in the Tees-Tyne derby (George Hardwick scoring twice) to ease their own position at the foot of the table. Portsmouth, surprisingly, lsot three-nil at Birmingham. Accrington Stanley defeated Bradford City six-nil in the Third Division (North).
AA Milne's Sarah Simple - featuring the TV début of Fulton Mackay - broadcast.

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst went up the Yangtze River to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's Communist forces. Under heavy fire, it ran aground off Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt on 26 April, it anchored ten miles upstream. Negotiations with the Communist forces to let the ship leave dragged on for weeks until late July, during which time the ship's cat, Simon, 'raised the crew's morale' in various, never-entirely-defined ways. Colin Dean's A Yank Comes Home - starring Burgess Meredith - premiered.
The Man On the Beat broadcast. Alberto Cavalcanti's For Them That Trespass - starring Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Rosalyn Boulter, Mary Merrall and Vida Hope - premiered.
Portsmouth, two-one winners at Bolton Wanderers, won the First Division champions, as none of the chasing sides - Newcastle United, Derby County and Manchester United - could catch them even if they lost their final three games. In the Second Division, Leeds United's goalless draw at Blackburn Rovers saw the league debut of seventeen yeard old John Charles at centre-half, the first of six hundred and thirty games in all competitions for Leeds, Juventus, AS Roma, Cardiff City and Wales in a career that lasted until 1966. Luigi Carpentieri and Ladislao Vajda's The Golden Madonna - starring Phyllis Calvert, Tullio Carminati and Michael Rennie - premiered.
Diane Morgan's A House In The Square broadcast.
Charlotte Cornwell born in Marylebone.
Henry Cornelius's Passport To Pimlico - starring Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Paul Dupuis, Raymond Huntley, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne - premiered.
Wolverhampton Wanderers, under manager Stan Cullis and captain Billy Wright, won their first major trophy for more than forty years when they beat Leicester City three-one in the FA Cup final. This was the beginning of a great run of success for the West Midlands side. Jesse Pye scored twice. Portsmouth had already won the First Division title for the first time with a team of no recognised stars and few international players, mainly thanks to a superb defence and the goals of their wingers, Peter Harris and Jack Froggatt. They finished five points ahead of their nearest challengers, Manchester United and Derby County and six ahead of fourth-placed Newcastle United. The relegation battle was a tight one; Sheffield United and Preston North End finished the season in the bottom two, a single point behind Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough. A mere five points separated the bottom ten clubs. Fulham and West Bromwich Albion were promoted (the latter, clinching second place with a three-nil victory at Leicester on 5 May). Southampton - who had led the division for much of the season and for whom Charlie Wayman was the Second Division's top scorer - missed out by a single point. Hull City were promoted from the Third Division (North) and Swansea Town from the Third Division (South).
The second moon of Neptune, Nereid, was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on photographic plates taken with the eighty two-inch telescope at the McDonald Observatory. Lesley Selander's Stampede - starring Rod Cameron, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Castle and Gale Storm - premiered.
Oswald Mitchell's The Man From Yesterday - starring John Stuart, Henry Oscar and Marie Burke - premiered.
Ken Annakin's The Huggetts Abroad - starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark and Dinah Sheridan - premiered.
The Barkleys Of Broadway - starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - premiered.
Gillian Blake born in Buckingham.
Sam Wood's The Stratton Story - starring James Stewart and June Allyson - premiered. The Soviet blockade of Berlin was finally ended after three hundred and twenty seven days, when roads, railways and waterways were opened to traffic to deliver much-needed supplies to the West of the city. The huge airlifts provided mainly by the British and American air forces continued to drop additional supplies for another four months to help to build up a surplus of goods.
England lost three-one to Sweden in Stockholm in a friendly international. Tom Finney scored England's goal whilst Blackpool's Eddie Shimwell and Chelsea's Roy Bentley made their England debuts. Zoë Wanamaker born in New York.
Laurier Lister's Oranges & Lemons broadcast. Rustlers - starring Tim Holt and Martha Hyer - premiered.

The House of Lords approved the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty and the creation of NATO, acknowledging that the lack of cooperation of the Soviet Union since the war and its insistence in furthering its own influence to the detriment of other nations had led inevitably to this new collective defence organisation of twelve states to maintain the future peace.
England beat Norway four-one in Oslo in a friendly international with goals from Jimmy Mullen, Tom Finney, debutant Johnny Morris of Derby County and a Bjørn Spydevold own goal. Southampton's Bill Ellerington and Portsmouth's Jimmy Dickinson also made their international debuts.
Márton Keleti's Janika - starring Ida Turay and Sándor Szabó - premiered.
Mark Robson's Champion - starring Kirk Douglas - premiered.
England completed their three-match summer continental tour with a three-one victory over France at the Olympic Stadium in Paris. Johnny Morris scored twice and Billy Wright was also on target (his first international goal) after France's Georges Moreel had scored in the opening minute. Wolves' goalkeeper Bert Williams made his England debut. Cheryl Campbell born in St Albans. Lawrence Huntington's Man On The Run - starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Howard Marion-Crawford and Alfie Bass - premiered. James Forrestal, who had resigned as the first United States Secretary of Defense [sic], two months earlier, was killed when he fell from a sixteenth-floor window at the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland, where he was being treated for severe depression.
Bernard Knowles's The Perfect Woman - starring Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick and Miles Malleson, John Paddy Carstairs' Fools Rush In - starring Sally Ann Howes, Guy Rolfe, Nigel Buchanan and Nora Swinburne and Ralph Smart's A Boy, A Girl & A Bike - starring John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt, Diana Dors, Maurice Denham, Leslie Dwyer and Anthony Newley - premiered.
James Broadbent born in Holton Cum Beckering, Lincolnshire. Gordon Parry's Now Barabbas - starring Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Burton and Beatrice Campbell - premiered.
Susan Joan Pringle Holderness born in Hampstead.
JB Priestley's I Have Been Here Before broadcast.
Robert George Willis born in Sunderland.
Harold French's Adam & Evelyn - starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons - premiered.
Bruce Bould born in Bradford.
Michael Barry's Stop Press Girl - starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice and Kenneth More and John E Blakeley's School For Randle - starring Frank Randle, Dan Young, Alec Pleon and Terry Randall - premiered.
Godfrey Grayson's Dick Barton Strikes Back - starring Don Stannard, Bruce Walker and Sebastian Cabot - premiered.
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and HG Stoker's Deep Waters broadcast.
Val Guest's Murder At The Windmill - starring Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwee, Peter Butterworth and Diane Decker - premiered.
Terence Fisher's Marry Me! - starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Zena Marshall - premiered.
George Orwell's Nineteen Eight Four published.
Neptune's Daughter - starring Esther Williams - premiered.
Witness for the Prosecution, The Call To Arms and Box For One broadcast in the Triple Bill strand. Don Seigel's Night Unto Night - starring Ronald Reagan - premiered.
Nicholas John Young born in London.
The Mountains Of The Crimea & Lake Taimir broadcast. Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts & Coronets - starring Valerie Hobson, Dennis Price and a dozen Alec Guinness's - premiered.
England drew the first of a four test series against New Zealand at Headingley. Dennis Compton and Cyril Washbrook both scored centuries whilst debutant Trevor Bailey took six for one hundred and eighteen. Alan Wharton also made his test debut.
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow born in Streatham.
The radio début of Professor Stanley Unwin on The Home Service's The June Review. Deep joy. Alexander Mackendrick's Whisky Galore! - starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson, Catherine Lacey and John Gregson - premiered.
John E Blakeley's What A Carry On! - starring Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss - premiered.
The Case Of Mr Clare broadcast. Stacey Tendeter born in Hemel Hempstead.
Lew Landers's Stagecoach Kid - starring Tim Holt and Jeff Donnell and Godfrey Grayson's Doctor Morelle - starring Valentine Dyall, Peter Drury, Hugh Griffith and Julia Lang - premiered.
The second test at Lord's was drawn. England's first innings of three hundred and thirteen including one hundred and sixteen from Denis Compton and ninety three by Trevor Bailey. New Zealand replied with four hundred and eighty four, Martin Donnelly scoring two hundred and six and Eric Hollies taking five wickets. In England's second innings Jack Robertson scored a century.
Don Seigel's The Big Steal - starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer - premiered.
King Vidor's adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead - starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neil and Raymond Masssey - premiered.
Susan Penhaligon born in Manila. Robert S Baker and Monty Berman's Melody Club - starring Terry-Thomas, Gwynneth Vaughan and Michael Balfour - premiered.
Alan Cullimore's Vengeance Is Mine - starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd and Ethel Coleridge and Maclean Rogers' The Story Of Shirley Yorke - starring Derek Farr, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott and John Robinson - premiered.
Frederick Wilson's Poet's Pub - starring Derek Bond, Rona Anderson, James Robertson Justice, Joyce Grenfell and Maurice Denham - premiered.
Michael Anderson and Peter Ustinov's Private Angelo - starring Godfrey Tearle, María Denis, Marjorie Rhodes and James Robertson Justice - premiered.
Stefan Osiecki's No Way Back - starring Terence De Marney, Eleanor Summerfield, Jack Raine and John Salew - premiered.
Roy Ward Baker's Paper Orchid - starring Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell, Sid James and Garry Marsh - premiered.
Jan Bussell's adaptation of Shooting Star broadcast.
Old English broadcast.
Martin Stephens born in Southgate. Arthur Crabtree's Don't Ever Leave Me - starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair and Anthony Newley - premiered.

Ian Atkins' adaptation of Mile Away Murder broadcast.
Robert Jordan Hill's Melody In The Dark - starring Ben Wrigley and Eunice Gayson - premiered.
John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - starring John Wayne - premiered. The third test at Old Trafford was drawn. Reg Simpson made a century for England, Bert Sutcliffe did likewise for New Zealand. Eighteen year old Brian Close and Les Jackson made their test debuts.
Mighty Joe Young premiered.
David Butler's Look For A Silver Lining - starring Gordon MacRae, June Haver, Charlie Ruggles, Rosemary DeCamp and Lee and Lyn Wilde, Godfrey Grayson's Doctor Morelle - starring Valentine Dyall, Peter Drury, Hugh Griffith and Julia Lang and Norman Lee's The Case of Charles Peace - starring Michael Martin-Harvey, Chili Bouchier, Valentine Dyall, Bruce Belfrage and Ronald Adam - premiered.
Madeline Smith born in Hartfield, East Sussex. Helli Louise Brunchmann Jacobson born in Copenhagen.
Edward Dmytryk's Obsession - starring Robert Newton, Phil Brown and Sally Gray - premiered.
Charles Terrot and Michael Barry's adaptation of The Passionate Pilgrim broadcast. Ralph Thomas's Helter Skelter - starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Peter Hammond, Richard Hearne, Jon Pertwee and Zena Marshall - premiered.
John Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer - was extremely hanged at Wandsworth Prison for the murder of six people. Brian Desmond Hurst's Trottie True (aka The Gay Lady) - starring Jean Kent, James Donald and Hugh Sinclair - premiered.
Henry Levin's Jolson Sings Again - starring Larry Parks - premiered. Elizabeth Estensen born in Stockton-On-Tees.
Godfrey Grayson's The Adventurews Of PC Forty Nine - starring Hugh Latimer, John Penrose and Annette D Simmonds - premiered.
Leslie Arliss's Saints & Sinners - starring Kieron Moore, Christine Norden and Sheila Manahan - premiered.
The final test at The Oval ended, like the previous three, in a draw. The highlight of the game was Len Hutton's two hundred and six and a century for Bill Edrich. Malcolm Raymond McFee born in Forest Gate, Essex.
The portmanteau film Train Of Events - starring Jack Warner, Peter Finch, Valerie Hobson and Mary Morris - premiered.
Billy Minton's Party broadcast. Howard Hawks's I Was A Male War Bride - starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan - premiered.
An adaptation of Ten Little N*ggers broadcast (and, yes, sadly it was still called that rather than the 'slightly less racist' or 'not racist at all' alternative titles). The football season opened with thirty five goals scored in eleven First Division matches. There were big wins for Blackpool (four-one at home to Huddersfield Town), Bolton Wanderers (four-nil over Stoke City), Liverpool (four-two against Sunderland) and champions Portsmouth (three-one at Newcastle United). Manchester City and Aston Villa shared six goals at Maine Road. Brentford's four-one defeat at Tottenham in the Second Division saw the league debut of Ken Coote - the first of five hundred and fifty nine games for The Bees in a career that lasted until 1963. Coote's career virtually ran in parallel with goalkeeper Gerry Cakebread who made his debut four years later; both players were named on the teamsheet together three hundred and fifty seven times. Relegated Sheffield United got off to a good start in the Second Division, winning four-two at Coventry City. Southampton, who narrowly missed out on promotion, were disappointed to lose two-one at home to Grimsby Town. Stockport County were the Third Division (North)'s big winners, four-nil at Chester.
Muriel Box and Bernard Knowles' The Lost People - starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhán McKenna, Maxwell Reed, William Hartnell, Gerard Heinz, Zena Marshall and Olaf Pooley - premiered.
Vincente Minnelli's adaptation of Madame Bovary - starring Jennifer Jones and James Mason - premiered.
Howard Hawks' I Was A Male War Bride - starring Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan and Marion Marshall - premiered.
Stan Mortensen scored twice as Blackpool won three-two at Portsmouth in the First Division. Wolverhampton Wanderers were the table's early leaders, winning their first three games (the latest a two-one victory over Newcastle). Sunderland beat Arsenal four-two with Len Shgackelton on dazzling form. Darlington defeated Halifax Town six-nil in the Third Division (North).
Shaped By Danish Hands broadcast. Hugh Alan Cornwell born in Tufnell Park. Francis Searle's Celia - starring Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester and John Bailey - premiered.

Fulham and Newcastlr UNited both had their first wins of the First Division season (four-one against Huddersfield and four-nil over Everton respectively). Manchester United kept pace with league leaders Wolves, winning two-one at Bolton.
Carol Reed's The Third Man - screenplay by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles - and Raoul Walsh's White Heat - starring James Cagney - premiered.
Henry Koster's Come To The Stable - starring Loretta Young - premiered. Wolves remained at the top of the First Division with a two-one win at Blackpool. It was a day of hat-tricks, Jackie Milburn scoring one for Newcastle in their three-two defeat of Aston Villa. Peter Harris also scored three as Portsmouth beat Middlesbrough five-one at Ayresome Park. Eddie Wainwright scored the day's third top-flight hat-trick in Everton's three-nil defeat of Huddersfield. Albert Stubbins scored twice for Liverpool who won two-one at Arsenal. In the Second Division, Eddie Quigley scored all four of Sheffield Wednesday's goals in their four-two victory over Chesterfield. There was another hat-trick in the Third Division (North), Gateshead's Eddie Passmore as they won three-nil at Chester. Two days later, Passmore scored all of Gateshead's goals in a five-two victory at Hartlepools United. Former German prisoner-of-war Alois Eisenträger scored four in Bristol City's six-nil defeat of Newport County. And Bryn Allen hit three for Reading in a four-three win at Exeter City.
Cecil Landau's Sauce Tartare - featuring the TV début of Audrey Hepburn - broadcast.
Gregory Ratoff's That Dangerous Age - starring Myrna Loy, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene and Roger Livesey - premiered.
Giuseppe De Santis's Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) - starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling and Silvana Mangano - premiered at Cannes. Thornton Freeland's Dear Mister Prohack - starring Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde and Sheila Sim - premiered.
Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn - starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton premiered.
In the First Division, Portsmouth thrashed Everton seven-nil, Charlton Athletic defeated Newcastle United six-three and league-leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Middlesgbrough three-one. Tottenham Hotspur (two-nil winners over Leeds United) lead the Second Division. Les Owens scored four as Hartlepools United beat Chester five-one in the Third Division (North).
Herbert Wilcox's Maytime In Mayfair - starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding - premiered.
Cyril Campion's Ladies In Waiting broadcast. Vincent Sherman's The Hasty Heart - starring Richard Todd and Ronald Reagan - premiered.
Newcastle United's four-two victory over Manchester City in the First Division saw the club debut of Alf McMichael - the first of four hundred and thirty one games for The Magpies in a career that lasted until 1963. Undefeated league leaders Wolves won again, two-one at Everton. Liverpool moved into the top three with a three-two win at Arsenal. Fifty five thousand punters watched the Sheffield derby at Hillsborough in the Second Division (Wednesday winning two-one). Ipswich and Leyton Orient shared eight goals in a Third Division (South) thriller.
Jack Hulbert's adaptation of Her Excellency broadcast.
England were beaten in a football international on home soil by a non-British team for the first time when they lost two-nil to the Republic Of Ireland at Goodison Park. Con Martin of Aston Villa and Everton's Peter Farrell scored the goals. Derby County's Bert Mozley, Portsmouth's Peter Harris and Jesse Pye of Wolverhampton Wanderers made their international debuts. David MacDonald's Diamond City - starring David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors and Niall MacGinnis and Charles Bennett's Madness Of The Heart - starring Margaret Lockwood, Maxwell Reed, Kathleen Byron and Paul Dupuis - premiered. Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that a central government was to be formed in the country which was to become the People's Republic of China.
Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin born in Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad. Celia Christine Gregory born in London.
Wolves made it eight First Division wins from nine games (with one draw), thumping Huddersfield Town seven-one. Liverpool, who beat Derby County three-one, were second. Birmingham City remained at the foot of the table, losing four-two at Arsenal. Clarrie Jordan scored four of Sheffield Wednesday's six goals in their defeat of Hull City in the Second Division.
The Kingdom Of God broadcast.
Roland Pertwee's Pink String & Ceiling Wax broadcast. John Paddy Carstairs' The Chiltern Hundreds - starring Cecil Parker, AE Matthews, David Tomlinson and Lana Morris - premiered.
Edward Bernds Blondie Hits The Jackpot - starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Ann Carter, Larry Simms and Marjorie Ann Mutchie - premiered.
The Home Service's Film Time - introduced by Leslie Mitchell - focused on The Third Man. Elia Kazan's Pinky - starring Jeanne Crain - premiered.
Big winners in the First Division included Newcastle (four-one over Stoke), Sunderland (three-one at Manchester United) and Arsenal (two-one at Derby). Tottneham won their five successive game in the Second Division (five-nil against Bradford Park Avenue). Third Division (South) leaders Notts Count beat Leyton Orient seven-one.
Luigi Zampa's Children of Chance - starring Patricia Medina, Yvonne Mitchell and Manning Whiley - premiered.
Maclean Rogers' Dark Secret - starring Dinah Sheridan, Emrys Jones and Irene Handl - premiered.
Disney's The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mister Toad premiered.
Edgar Allen Poe Centenary broadcast. William Wyler's The Heiress - starring Olivia De Havilland, Ralph Richardson and Montgomery Clift - premiered.
Judith Catherine Buxton born in Croydon.
In the First Division, Wolves won again (two-one at Derby). As did Liverpool (two-nil against Middlesbrough), Arsenal (five-two over Everton), Newcastle (two-one at Burnley), Portsmouth (three-nil at Birmingham) and Manchester (a three-two victory over Charlton).
Frank Tilsley's The Canvas Rainbow broadcast.
Love Happy - the final movie featuring The Marx Brothers as a trio, Daniel Birt's The Interrupted Jounrey - starring Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden and Tom Walls and David MacDonald's Christopher Columbus - starring Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan and Valentine Dyall - premiered.
Françoise Pascal born in Vacoas, Mauritius. Edward Dmytryk's Give Us This Day - starring Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan and Charles Goldner - premiered.

England beat Wales four-one at Ninian Park in the Home International championship. Jackie Milburn scored a hat-trick with Stan Mortensen adding a fourth. Leicester City's Mal Griffiths scored for the hosts. This was also the first World Cup qualifying match England and Wales had played. The four home countries had agreed (albeit reluctantly) to take part in the World Cup for the first time and FIFA dictated that the Home Championship should be the qualifying stage for the finals in Brazil in the summer of 1950. In the First Division, Wolverhampton Wanderers remained undefeated, drawing one-all with West Bromwich Albion. The Tyne-Wear derby ended in a two-all draw. Manchester United won four-nil at Aston Villa.
The Greek Civil War came to an end after three years of fighting when the Communist rebels surrendered, with many fleeing the country into Albania.
Charles Frend's Johnny Frenchman - starring Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Françoise Rosay and Paul Dupuis - premiered.
King Vidor's Beyond The Forest - starring Bette Davis and Joseph Cotton - premiered.
Nancy Mitford's Love In A Cold Climate published and reviewed on The Light Programme's New Books & Old Books. Wolves lost their first game of the season after nine wins and three draws, going down three-nil at Manchester United (Stan Pearson socring twice). Liverpool missed a chance to close the gap at the top of the First Division, dropping a point at home to Newcastle. Derby County beat Huddersfield Town four-two.
Diana Redmond's John Keats Lived Here broadcast.
Edward G Whitling's The Adventures Of Jane - starring Chrystabel Leighton-Porter - premiered.
The first episode of Terry-Thomas's How Do You View? broadcast.
Ken Annakin's Landfall - starring Michael Denison and Patricia Plunkett - premiered.
The first episode of Family Affairs broadcast.
JB Priestley's Summer Day's Dream broadcast.
Edgar Wallace's The Squeaker broadcast.
That Forsyth Woman - starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Janet Leigh - premiered.
Thirty six goals were scored in eleven First Division matches. Manchester United thumped Huddersfield six-nil, West Bromwich Albion beat Everton four-nil, Liverpool went top of the table defeating Manchester City by the same score. Portsmouth won four-one at Chelsea. George Stobbart scored four in Luton Town's five-two victory over Blackburn Rovers in the Second Division.
Robert Rossen's All The King's Men - starring Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge - premiered.
William Wellman's Battleground - starring Van Johnson and Ricardo Montalban - premiered.

Godfrey Grayson's Meet Simon Cherry - starring Hugh Moxey and Jeannette Tregarthen - premiered.
Tottenham Hotspur remained at the top of the Second Division with a saeven-nil spanking of Sheffield United.
Richard Haydn's Dear Wife - starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Edward Arnold and Mona Freeman and Stafford Dickens' Skimpy In The Navy - starring Hal Monty and Max Bygraves - premiered.
England beat Northern Ireland nine-two at Maine Road in the Home International Championship. Jack Rowley - deputising for the injured Jackie Milburn - scored four, Stan Mortensen and Stan Pearson two goals each and debutant Jack Froggatt of Portsmouth was also on target. Luton Town goalkeeper Bernard Streten and Sunderland's Willie Watson also made their international debuts. Wolves' Sammy Smyth and Bobby Brennan of Birmingham City scored for the visitors. A United States Superfortress bomber ran out of fuel on a flight from California to Bermuda and crashed into the North Atlantic Ocean. Two people were killed, but the other eighteen crew on board managed to scramble into rubber life rafts and then drifted for over three days before they were found by a Canadian destroyer some three hundred and eighty five miles North-East of Bermuda.
George Cukor's Adam's Rib - starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn - premiered.
Liverpool's fourth successive win (two-one over Aston Villa) kept them at the top of the First Division. Manchester City's three-nil defeat at Bolton Wanderers saw the league debut of the former prisoner-of-war Bert Trautmann - the first of five hundred and forty five games for The Citizens in a career that lasted until 1964. In the process he broke Eric Brooks's appearance record for the club, established in 1939 (subsequently beaten by Alan Oakes in 1974). Some Manchester City fans were unhappy about signing - from non-league St Helens - an ex-member of the Luftwaffe. Some season ticket holders threatened a boycott and various groups in Manchester and around the country bombarded the club with protest letters. Trautmann quickly won over home fans although he continued to be subjected to abuse during matches away from Maine Road for some time.
Trelawny Of The Wells broadcast.
Woman's Hour included a piece entitled Good Cooking: Ways With Food In China presented by Anges Ingle which was widely recognised in helping to popularise Asian cuisine in the UK.
Charles Frend's A Run For Your Money - starring Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness and Hugh Griffith - premiered.
In the First Round of the FA Cup, Bradford City thrashed Fleetwood Town nine-nil, Doncaster Rovers defeated New Brighton five-one, Exeter City won five-three at Millwall and Stockport County won three-nil against Billingham Syumphonia. Last season's giant-killers Yeovil Town made Round Two with a four-one win over Romford. Netherfield beat North Shields four-three. First Division leaders Liverpool drew one-all at W"olves. Blackpool and Manchester united shared six goals whilst Newcasatle defeated West Brom five-one.
By Candlelight broadcast. Guy Lombardo & His Canadians' hit version of 'Enjoy Youself (It's Later Than You Think)' recorded for Decca Records.
Edmund Grenville's The Romantic Age (aka Naughty Arlette) - starring Hugh Williams, Mai Zettering and Petula Clark and Val Guest's Miss Pilgrim's Progress - starring Michael Rennie, Yolande Donlan, Garry Marsh and Jon Pertwee -premiered. The first TV Weather Forecasts were broadcast.
England beat Italy two-nil at White Hart Lane in a friendly international with goals from Jack Rowley and Billy Wright. A white ball was used for the second half, to aid the players in failing light. Following the air tragedy which wiped out the Torino team, the Italian national side were barred from flying, they thus travelled to England via boat and road. Pope Pius XII reportedly hurried back from his daily walk in the Vatican grounds to listen to radio coverage of the match. The first (minor) giant-killing of this year's FA Cup saw Southern League Weymouth win three-two at Third Division Aldershot in a replay. Weymouth were two goals down after twenty five minutes and they were then reduced to ten men due to an injury, but forged an amazing comeback to defeat their Third Division hosts. Anthony Pelissier's The Rocking Horse Winner - starring Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, John Mills and Ronald Squire - premiered. The Rank Organisation chairman, J Arthur Rank, was accused of being 'thoroughly extravagant' with the finances of the subsidiary companies of Odeon Theatres Limited, at their annual general meetings, after profits had fallen by over four million pounds. He responded by explaining how much the Entertainment Tax had taken out of the industry and its threat to the continuing production of films.
John Guillermin and Robert Jordan Hill's High Jinks In Society - starring Ben Wrigley, Barbara Shaw and Moore Marriott and Robert Hamer's The Spider & The Fly - starring Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe and Nadia Gray - premiered.
Lloyd Bacon's Mother Is A Freshman - starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson -premiered. Highlight of the day's First Division fixtures was Derby County's seven-nil thumping of Manchester City. In the Third Division (South) Swindon Town also scored seven, against Exeter.
Pamela Helen Stephenson born in Auckland, New Zealand. Montgomery Tully's Boys In Brown - starring Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough and Dirk Bogarde - premiered.
Stanley Donen's On The Town - starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garett - premiered.
Roberto Inglez's 'The Harry Lime Theme - (From The Film The Third Man)'/'So Ends My Search For A Dream'and The Five Smith Brothers' 'Play That Barber Shop Chord'/'Hop Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot)' released. Victor Saville's Conspirator - starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender and Honor Blackman - premiered.
yeovil reached the Third Cound of the FA Cup for the second year running, winning their Second Round tie against fellow Southern League side Gillingham. Liverpool lost three-two at Huddersfield Town but still maintained a three point lead at the top of the First Division.
JB Priestley's Whitehall Wonders broadcast.
William Francis Nighy born in Caterham, Surrey.
Paula Wilcox born in Manchester.
TS Eliot's own adaptation of The Waste Land broadcast on The Third Programme. Allan Dwan's Sands of Iwo Jima - starring John Wayne - premiered.
Sutton Coldfield Transmitting Station begins broadcasting BBC Television to the Midlands, the first programmes to be seen outside the London and Home Counties area.
An adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy broadcast.
Robert Lindsay Stevenson born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Cecil B DeMille's Samson & Delilah - starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature - and Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High - starring Gregory Peck - premiered.
Maurice Ernest Gibb and Robin Hugh Gibb born in Douglas, Isle of Man.
Cinderella On Ice broadcast. Henry King's Prince Of Foxes - starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Dick Barton Strikes Back. LAG Strong's A Suit For Christmas - starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde - broadcast on The Light Programme. Liverpool's three-one victory over Everton in the Merseyside derby kept The Reds at the top of the First Division for Christmas. Second placed Manchester United and Blackpool in third both won two-one (at West Bromwich and against Portsmouth respectively). Arsenal thrashed Sunderland five-nil.
Peter Blackmore's Miranda broadcast. Mark Robson's My Foolish Heart - starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward - premiered.
Tom Ronald's adaptation of So Dear To My Heart broadcast on The Light Programme. Swansea Town's three-nil defeat at West Ham United in the Second Division saw the league debut of Ivor Allchurch, the first of six hundred and ninety one games - for Swansea, Newcastle United, Cardiff City and Wales - in a career that lasted until 1968. The largest First Division crowd of the day, over sixty one thousand, saw Middlesbrough win the Tyne-Tees derby, one-nil at St James' Park. The day's largest attendance overall was in the second teir, watching Tottneham Hotspur beat Chesterfield with an Alf Ramsey penalty. Ralph Thomas' Traveller's Joy - starring Googie Withers, Eric Pohlmann, John McCallum and Maurice Denham - premiered.
Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner broadcast. Joe Fagan scored twice as Liverpool drew two-two with Chelsea in the First Division. Over sixty nine thousand watched Wolves win four-one at Aston Villa. Blackpool kept pressure on the top two with a two=nil win against Burnley.
Alan and Nancy Bush's The Press Gang broadcast. John Gilling's A Matter of Murder - starring Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham and Ivan Craig - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Roberto Rossellini's Open City. Robert Donat's The Cure For Love - starring Renée Asherson, Marjorie Rhodes, Charles Victor, Thora Hird and Dora Bryan - premiered.
London Town, 'a magazine of past and present stories of the world's greatest city told by Richard Dimbleby' broadcast. Barbara Rose Kellerman born in Manchester.
Gordon Parry's Golden Arrow (aka The Gay Adventure) - starring Burgess Meredith and Paula Valenska - premiered. The first UK TV showing of Storm In A Teacup. Liverpool ended the year top of the First Division with a two-nil win over Arsenal (Billy Liddell scored both goals). Manchester United remained hot on their heels, winning the derby over City two-one. Blackpool, in third, lost ground on their Lancashire neighbours, losing three-nil to Wolves. George Hannah scored the only goal of the game for Newcastle at Aston Villa whilst Roy Bentley netted a late winner for Chelsea against West Bromwich Albion. Spurs (two-nil winners over Cardiff City) remained top of the Second Division. Doncaster Rovers led the Third Division (North) in some style, winning five-one against Southport. Third Division (South) table-toppers Notts County lost three-nil and Bounremouth & Boscombe Athletic. The highlight of the day was a ten goal thriller at Newport County, the home side beating Bristol City six-four.