1958

1958
The first episode of Big Guns broadcast. Cecil Musk's Blow Your Own Trumpet - starring Michael Crawford, Peter Butterworth, Gillian Harrison and Martyn Shields, Francis Searle's Murder At Site Three - starring Geoffrey Toone, Barbara Shelley, John Warwick and Jill Melford and Peter Cotes' The Young & The Guilty - starring Phyllis Calvert, Andrew Ray, Edward Chapman and Janet Munro - premiered. Keith Williams and Bill Dodd both scored hat-tricks as Tranmere Rovers thumped York City six-one in the third Division (North).
The first UK TV showing of Race For Life. Michael Relph's Davy - starring Harry Secombe, Alexander Knox, Susan Shaw and Ron Randell and David MacDonald's A Lady Mislaid - starring Phyllis Calvert, Alan White, Thorley Walters and Gillian Owen - premiered.
The first episode of Quite Contrary More Contrary Still Contrary and Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson Invite You To A Late Date broadcast. Elvis Presley's 'I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone'/'How Do You Think I Feel?', Frank Sinatra's 'Witchcraft'/'Tell Her You Love Her', Ron Goodwin & His Concert Orchestra's 'Colonel Bogey & The River Kwai March'/'Laughing Sailor', The Vipers' 'Baby Why?'/'No Other Baby' and Larry Williams' 'Bony Moronie'/'You Bug Me Baby' released. The first episode of This Wonderful World broadcast on STV. It would debut on Associated-Rediffusion on 15 September.

The first episodes of The World Is Our Stage, Saturday Playhouse - Patrick Hamilton's The Man Upstairs - and War In The Air broadcast. The FA Cup Third Round saw wins for Middlesbrough (five-nil over Derby County), West Bromwich Albion (five-one against Manchester City), Sheffield United (five-one over Grimsby Town), Spurs (four-nil against Leicester City), Fulham (four-nil against Yeovil, Jimmy Hill scoring twice), West Ham United (five-one over Blackpool, Vic Keeble netting three), Newcastle United (six-one at Plymouth Argyle, Len White hitting three, George Eastham two) and Portsmouth (five-one against Aldershot). Bristol Rovers beat Mansfield Town five-nil, Burnley defeated Swansea Town four-two, Sheffield Wednesday won three-nil at Hereford and, in the giant-killing of the round, Third Division Northampton Town beat Arsenal three-one. Peter Dobing scored three as Blackburn Rovers won four-one at Rotherham. Dennis Viollet also hit three as Manchester United won three-one at Workington. The Vipers and The Martians Skiffle Group featured on Saturday Skiffle Club. Miss Roach broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The Cherry Orchard broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand.
The Boat Show broadcast. Wendy Toye featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Thing On The Mountain broadcast.
The first episode of Robinson's Roundabout broadcast.
Gaol Delivery broadcast in the Big Guns strand. York City defeated Birmingham City three-nil in a delayed FA Cup Third Round fixture. Meanwhile, Everton Beat Sunderland three-one and Liverpool won three-two at Southend United in replays. The first episode of Ivanhoe - Freeing The Surfs, starring Roger Moore - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Act Of Living broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Guided Missile. Caroline Langrishe born in Marylebone.
The first UK TV showing of Bachelor Knight in The Saturday Film strand. First Division highlights include Aston Villa's five-two victory over Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday beating Portsmouth four-two. Alan Peacock scored three in Middlesbrough's four-one victory over Cardiff City in the Second Division. Tommy Johnston also hit three in Leyton Orient's four-nil win against bristol City. Carlisle United beat Accrington Stanley six-one in the Third Division (North) with Alf Ackerman scoring three. Brentford had the win of the day in the third Division (South) thrashing Norwich City seven-one. Southampton scored six without reply against Exeter City.
An Excerpt From Winter Wonderland broadcast. Women Of Troy broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand.
The Goon Show episode The String Robbery broadcast. Stoke City knocked Aston Villa out of the FA Cup winning a second replay two-nil at Molineux.
Gentlemen At Twilight broadcast. Basil Dearden's Violent Playground - starring Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, Peter Cushing and David McCallum (and, featuring Freddie Starr as one of the extras) - premiered. Manchester United defeated Red Star Belgrade two-one in the first leg of a European Cup Quarter Final tie. Bobby Charlton and Eddie Colman scored the goals. TWW, the first ITV franchise for South Wales and the West of England, began transmissions.
Northern Ireland beat Italy two-one in Belfast to qualify, for the first time, for the World Cup finals. The first UK broadcast of The Perry Como Show. Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse - starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Jean Seberg - and Joseph Losey's The Gypsy & The Gentleman premiered.
A production of Verdi's Rigoletto broadcast. Michael Anderson's Chase A Crooked Shadow - Richard Todd, Anne Baxter and Herbert Lom - premiered.
The first episode of Characters In Action broadcast. The John Barry Seven's 'Every Which Way'/'You've Gotta Way', Little Willie John's 'Dinner Date (With His Girl Friend)'/'Uh, Uh, Baby', Tiny Topsy & The Charms's 'Come On, Come On, Come On'/'Ring Around My Finger', The Imps' 'Let Me Lie'/'Dim Dumb Blonde', Jeremy Lubbock's 'Catch A Falling Star'/'The Man Who Invented Love' and Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra's 'Volare (Nol Blu Dipinto Di Blu)'/'Which End Bites' released.
The Distaff Side broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Manchester United defeated Bolton Wanderers seven-two with Bobby Charlton scoring a hat-trick, Dennis Viollet two and further goals from Duncan Edwards and Albert Scanlon. Forty three goals were scored in eleven top-flight fixtures including Blackpool beating league-leaders Wolves three-two, Spurs and Preston North End sharing six goals and West Bromwich Albion defeating Sheffield Wednesday three-one. West Ham United went to the top of the Second Division with a six-two victory over Swansea Town. Promotion-chasing Scunthorpe & Lindsey United won five-three at Mansfield Town in the Third Division (North) whilst division leaders Bury thrashed York City four-one. The first UK broadcast of M Squad - starring Lee Marvin - on ABC Weekend. It debuted on Associated-Rediffusion on 6 November.
The first episode of The Black Arrow broadcast.
The Northern Scene: No Clogs, No Shawls But The North Is Still The North broadcast in the Mainly For Women strand. Max Jaffa featured in the Desert Island Discs strand. The Goon Show episode The Moriarty Murder Mystery broadcast.
An Excerpt From The Happy Man broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The New Radio Series broadcast on The Light Programme. Herbert Wilcox's The Man Who Wouldn't Talk - starring Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle and Zsa Zsa Gabor - premiered.
Heinz Sielmann's Summer Meadow broadcast in the Look strand. Harry Keller's The Female Animal - starring Hedy Lemar, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling and George Nader - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Arthur Kavanagh's The Birthday Party in the Canadian Television Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of Mussolini - The Rise & Fall Of Il Duce. The first episode of Pride & Prejudice broadcast. Julian Miles Holland born in Blackheath. Elvis Presley's 'Jailhouse Rock'/'Treat Me Nice', Marvin Rainwater's 'Whole Lotta Woman'/'Baby, Don't Go', Ferlin Husky's 'Wang Dang Doo'/'What'cha Doin' After School' and Perry Como's 'Magic Moments'/'Catch A Falling Star' released. The Quarrymen Skiffle Group supported The Merseysippi Jazz Band at The Cavern Club. This was the first documented occasion since Paul McCartney had joined the group the previous summer that they played at the club although it is believed The Quarrymen appeared at The Cavern, unbilled, on several occasions since their previous advertised show on 7 August 1957.
Alma Cogan appeared on The Ted Ray Show. Highlights of the FA Cup Fourth Round included Wolves five-one defeat of Portsmouth, Sheffield United's three-nil victory at Tottenham, a thrilling three-all draw between West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest and Chelsea and Darlington sharing six goals at Stamford Bridge. The big giant-killing came from Scunthorpe United who won three-one at Newcastle United. The first episode of Sword Of Freedom - Francesca - broadcast on ATV London.
The Dark is Light Enough broadcast in the Television World Theatre.
Louie Ramsay was the guest on This is Your Life. Victor Silvester featured on Desert Island Discs.The Goon Show episode The Curse Of Frankenstein broadcast.
John Mortimer's I Spy broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Scandal Magazine broadcast on The Light Programme. Francis Seartle's Undercover Girl - starring Paul Carpenter, Kay Callard and Bruce Seton - premiered. In FA Cup replays, West Brom thrashed Nottingham Forest five-one whilst Second Division Bristol Rovers won three-two at Burnley.
Ginger Rogers and Jerry lewis featured on The Perry Como Show. In an FA Cup Fourth Round replay Darlington beat Chelsea four-one at Feethams (Tommy Moran scoring twice). Sheffield Wednesday defeated Hull City four-three, Blackburn Rovers won two-one at Everton. Linda Helen Smith born in Erith, Kent.
Ray Rigby's Shut Out The Night broadcast.
The first episode of Ronald Eyre's adaptation of Macbeth broadcast.
The first episode of The Riddle Of The Red Wolf broadcast. Heroes Don't Care broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. A thrilling First Division match at Highbury saw Manchester United defeat Arsenal five-four in front of over sixty three thousand. Other highlights included Preston North End's eight-nil thrashing of Birmingham City (Sammy Taylor and Toomy Thompson scoring hat-tricks, Tom Finney two) and a two-two draw in the Tyne-Wear derby between Newcaqstle and Sunderland. Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Leicester City five-one. Billy McAdams scored three in Manchester City's four-one victory over West Bromwich Albion. The Bill Bailey Skiffle Group and The Hi-Fi Skiffle Group featured on Saturday Skiffle Club. Explorer 1, the first satellite launched by the United States and part of the US participation in the International Geophysical Year, reached obit. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after four months. It remained in orbit until 1970 and was followed by more than ninety scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. The first episode of The Man Who Sold Death - Rules Of The Game - broadcast in the ATV London The Saturday Special strand.
The first episode of Monitor - Huw Wheldon introduing Simon Raven's interview with Kingsley Amis - broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of the famous 'Elvin Pelvin' episode of The Phil Silvers Show (Rock 'N' Roll Rookie). The Goon Show episode The White Needle Trade broadcast.
Morton Wishengrad's Hunted broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Male Suffragettess broadcast on The Light Programme. Vincent Sherman's The Naked Earth - starring Richard Todd, Juliette Gréco, John Kitzmiller, Finlay Currie, Laurence Naismith and Christopher Rhodes - premiered. The first episode of East End, West End broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
On The Edge Of Dartmoor broadcast in the Look strand. Patrick Moore discussed with Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy was increasing knowledge of the Universe in The Sky At Night. Two goals from Bobby Charlton helped Manchester United to a three-all draw and an aggregate win against Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup Quarter Final second leg.
John Darran's Legal Action broadcast. The Munich Air Disaster. Roger Byrne, Billy Whelan, David Pegg, Eddie Colman, Mark Jones, Tommy Taylor and Geoff Bent were among those killed when British Airways Flight 609 carrying the Manchester United team back from Belgrade crashed on the runway of München Airport. Duncan Edwards died fifteen days later from his horrific injuries. Trainer Tom Curry and former England goalkeeper Frank Swift covering the game as a journalist were also among the twenty three fatalities. Harry Gregg gained heroic status by returning to the burning plane and helping several of the survivors to safety. Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet, who were strapped into their seats had been thrown clear of the wreckage. Of those who survivors, Johnny Berry and Jackie Blanchflower never played football again whilst manager Matt Busby remained in a coma in hospital for weeks afterwards and was, twice, given the last rites. The tragedy destroyed the nucleus of what promised to be one of the greatest generations of players in English football history. It took ten years for the club to fully recover. Busby rebuilt the squad and, eventually, won the European Cup in 1968 with a new generation of Babes (including Munich survivors Charlton and Bill Foulkes). The probable date that The Quarrymen played another show at Wilson Hall in Garston. Fourteen year old George Harrison would subsequently, recall this perfomance as being the first time he had met the group containing his friend Paul McCartney (though sources differ).
Mortimer Wheeler's Buried Treasure: The Greeks In The Himalayas broadcast. Ralph Thomas's adaption of A Tale Of Two Cities - starring Dirk Bogard and Dorothy Tutin - premiered. Little Richard's 'Good Golly Miss Molly'/'Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey', Jerry Lee Lewis's 'You Win Again'/'I'm Feelin' Sorry', Connie Francis's 'Who's Sorry Now?'/'You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling In Love)', Spike Milligan's 'Will I Find My Love Today'/'Wish I Knew', Jim Dale's 'Sugartime'/'Don't Let Go' and The Silhouettes' 'Get A Job'/'I Am Lonely' released.
The first UK showing of Tall In The Saddle in The Saturday Film strand. First Division highlights included Tottenham Hotspur's five-one victory over Manchester City (Bobby Smith scoring three), Leicester City beating Aston Villa six-one and Luton Town's seven-one defeat of Sunderland (Gordon Tunrer hit four). In the Third Division (North), Chester thrashed York City nine-two with Barry Jepson scoring five. Leaders Bury beat Oldham Athletic four-nil. Peter Cotes's The Young & The Guilty - starring Phyllis Calvert, Andrew Ray, Edward Chapman and Janet Munro - premiered.
An adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector starring Tony Hancock broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand.
An excerpt from Don't Go Near The Water shown in Picture Parade. The Goon Show episode Ten Snowballs That Shook The World broadcast. Rupert Nicholas Vansittart born in Cranleigh.
The first episodes of Run To Earth and Your Life In Their Hands broadcast. NC Hunter's A Touch Of The Sun broadcast in the Theatre Night strand featuring the TV debut of Vanessa Redgrave. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Insurance Policy broadcast on The Light Programme.
The first episode of More Than Robbery broadcast.
Elaine Morgan's You're A Long Time Dead broadcast. A by-erection was covered on UK TV for the first time when Granada broadcast coverage of the Rochdale by-erection; Ludovic Kennedy took second place for the Liberals, considerably increasing their share of the vote.
Quest For A Brig broadcast in the Sea & Ships strand. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' 'Walkin' Home From School'/'I Got A Baby', Victor Labati's 'One Blade Of Grass (In A Meadow)'/'His Arms', Johnny Pate Quintet's 'Swinging Shepherd Blues'/'The Elder' and Donnie Elbert's 'Wild Child'/'Let's Do The Stroll' released.
Britannia Of Billingsgate broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the FA Cup Fifth Round, Bristol Rovers won four-three at Bristol City, Wolves beat Darlington six-one (Jimmy Murray scoring three) and Fulham had a three-two victory at West Ham United. Bolton Wanderers beat Stoke City three-one. In the first Division, Jimmy Greaves scored a hat-trick as Chelsea won three-two at Sheffield Wednesday and Blackpool won four-one at struggling Sunderland. Johnny Summers scored three in Second Division table-topeprs Charlton Athletic's six-two defeat of Middlesbrough. Third Division (North) leaders Bury won four-one against Rochdale whilst in the Third Division (South), Brighton & Hove Albion won two-one at Newport County.
From Stage & Screen broadcast. The Judge broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand.
Pope Pius XII designated St Clare of Assisi 'the patron saint of television.' Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set was said to 'improve reception.' Or, you could just get a better aerial. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Man Who Never Was broadcast.
September Tide broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Publicity Photograph broadcast on The Light Programme. Lewis Gilbert's Carve Her Name With Pride - starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner and Derek Twist's Rx Murder - starring Rick Jason, Lisa Gastoni, Marius Goring, Sandu Scott, Mary Merrall and Vida Hope - premiered.
Audience Research broadcast in the Facts & Figures strand. On Tonight, Peter the Home Office Cat was given his Civil Service performance review. Manchester United played for the first time since the Munich Air Disaster. In a highly emotional game for both players and fans, United - managed by Busby's assistant, Jimmy Murphy and with a team of reserves, youngsters and emergency signings Stan Crowther and Ernie Taylor - beat Sheffield Wednesday three-nil in the FA Cup Fifth Round. Shay Brennan scored twice and Alex Dawson added the third. West Bromwich Albion beat Sheffield United four-one in a replay. Wolverhampton Wanderers went five points clear at the top of the First Division with a three-two victory over Leeds United.
The first episode of Get Ahead broadcast. Richard Brooks's adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov - starring Yul Brynner, Lee J Cobb, Claire Bloom and William Shatner - premiered. James Jonathon Wilby born in Rangoon. West Ham United returned to the top of the Second Division with a four-one at Leyton Orient.
The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus, Cannonballs & Candlesticks and Fashion Focus On Beautiful Girls In Lovely Clothes broadcast. Laurie London's 'The Gospel Train'/'Boomerang', Bonnie Lou & Rusty York's 'Let The School Bell Ring Ding-A-Ling'/'La Dee Dah', The King Brothers & The Rita Williams Singers' 'Six-Five Jive'/'Hand Me Down My Walking Cane', The Teddy Layton Jazz Band's 'Down By The Riverside'/'Wooden Joe's Weary Blues' released. The first UK broadcast of Sea Hunt on Granada. It debuted on ATV London on 28 December.
The first showing of I Remember Mama in The Saturday Film strand. In the First Division, Leicester City beat Manchester City eight-four at Filbert Street. Jimmy Walsh scored four for The Foxes. Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur drew four-all whilst Wolves beat Birmingham City five-one (Jimmy Murray grabbing another hat-trick). Arthur Bottom, recently signed from York, scored twice on his debut for Newcastle United as they won, two-one at Everton. Sixty six thousand were at Old Trafford to see Manchester United's one-all draw with Nottingham Forest. In the Second Division, Fulham thrashed Grimsby Town six-nil. Southampton defeated Coventry City seven-one in the Third Division (South).
A Talent For Nonsense, Michael Lennard's profile of Edward Lear, broadcast in the Sunday Special strand.
The first episode of Animals with Backbones broadcast. The Goon Show episode World War One! broadcast. The first British rock and/or roll movie, Rock You Sinners - starring Philip Gilbert, Adrienne Scott, Colin Croft, Jackie Collins and Art Baxter & His Rock 'n' Roll Sinners - premiered.
Sphinx Apple broadcast in The O Henry Playhouse strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Unexploded Bomb broadcast on The Light Programme.
Doctor Jacob Bronowski featured on Speaking Personally. The Volcanoes Of The Sahara broadcast.
Stuart Burge's adaptation of The Voice Of The Turtle - starring Alec McCowan - broadcast.
The first episode of Stop & Look! broadcast. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Don't'/'I Beg Of You', Buddy Holly's 'Listen To Me'/'I'm Gonna Love You Too' and The Crickets' 'Maybe Baby'/'Tell Me How' released. Rudolf Schündler's Mikosch, Der Stolz Der Kompanie - starring Gunther Philipp, Walter Gross, Kurt Großkurth, Renate Ewert and Steffi Stroux - premiered.
Emlyn Williams's The Corn Is Green broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The FA Cup Sixth Round saw victories for Blackburn Rovers (two-one over Liverpool), Bolton Wanderers (two-one against Wolves) and Fulham (who beat Bristol Rovers three-one). West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United drew two-two. The First Division highlight was Manchester City's four-three win over Blackpool. Sheffield Wednesday beat Luton Town two-one leaving Sunderland (beaten three-nil at Preston North End) bottom of the table. Sheffield united won six-one at Rotherham in the Second Division.
Amphitryon 38 broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand - starring Googie Withers and David McCallum and featuring electronic effects by Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
All About Magnets broadcast in the Studio E strand. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Spon Plague broadcast. Miranda Jane Richardson born in Southport.
Elaine Morgan's docudrama Black Furrow broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Hancock's School broadcast on The Light Programme. Roy Boulting's Happy Is The Bride - starring Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell, William Fairchild's The Silent Enemy - starring Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, John Clements, Michael Craig and Sid James, Montgomery Tully's Escapement - starring Rod Cameron and Mary Purphy and Gilbert Gunn's The Strange World Of Planet X - starring Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Wyndham Goldie and Alec Mango - premiered.
The Plough broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. José Ferrer's I Accuse! and Ray Milland's The Safecracker premiered. The London Xi drew two-two with Barcelona in the first leg of the first European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final at Stamford Bridge. Jimmy Greaves and Fulham's Jim Langley scored.
She Too Was Young broadcast. Colin Webster scored the winner for Manchester United in their FA Cup Quarter Final replay against West Bromwich Albion.

The first episode of The Diary Of Samuel Pepys and Eye To Eye: The More We Are Together broadcast. Richard Michael Mayall born in Epping. Robin Gray's 'Made For Each Other'/'Dancing With My Shadow', The Barnstormers Spasm Band's 'Whistling Rufus'/'Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey' and Eve Boswell's 'I Do'/'Love Me Again' released.
Galaxy broadcast in The World Our Stage strand. This included Ian Carmichael, Dilys Laye and William Franklyn in a telerecorded excerpt from The Tunnel Of Love from Her Majesty's Theatre, London. The first colour photograph of The Quarrymen - John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison - was taken at the Liverpool wedding reception of McCartney's cousin, Ian Harris and his bride, Jackie, held at the home of Paul's Auntie Gin. The photographer was Paul's younger brother, Mike who titled the photograph John, Paul, George & Dennis, in reference to the fourth figure visible in the image, Dennis Littler, a neighbour of Ian Harris. The other Quarrymen - pianist John Duff Lowe, tea-chest bassist Len Garry and drummer Colin Hanton - had not been invited. There is, however, on the far left of the image, the tip of the headstock of a fourth guitar. This may have been The Quarrymen's other guitarist, Eric Griffiths. If so, it would have been his final appearance with the group before he was asked to leave by their manager, Nigel Whalley. Forty six goals were scored in the First Division, the highlights including Arsenal's five-four defeat of Chelsea (David Herd scoring three), Eddie Thomas neting all four in Everton's four-two victory over Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion winning four-nil at Manchester United and relegation-threatened duo Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday sharing six goals at Roker Park. League leaders Wolves beat Newcastle United three-one with goals from Peter Broadbent, Norman Deeley and Bobby Mason. SAecond Division table-toppers West Ham United thumped Rotherham United eight-nil with four goals from Johnny Dick and two each from Vic Keeble and John Smith. Bury, top of the third Division (North) drew three-all at Bradford City. In the Third Division (South) Southend United defeated Coventry City five-one (John McGuian and Dudley Prcie both scoring twice), Port Vale thrashed Watford five-nil and Jim Kelly scored a hat-trick for Swindon Town in their four-one victory over Brentford. John Skull scored the fourth.
The first episode of The Invisible Armies broadcast. The first episode of Land Of Song broadcast on ATV London. Robin Day interviewed Vice President Richard Nixon on Tell The People! Vendetta broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand.
Stanley Unwin's Uncle Stan's Workshop broadcast in the Studio E strand. Deep joy. Eccentric octogenarian thespian AE Matthews, hater of lamp posts, lover of brandy, was interviewed on Panorama. Wings Over the Commonwealth broadcast. Beryl Grey featured on Desert Island Discs. Mansfield Town defeated Workington six-three in the Third Division (North). Ken Griffiths, Dennis Uphill and player-manager Charlie Mitten each hit two. The Goon Show episode Tiddlywinks broadcast. JB Priestley's anti-nuclear play Doomsday For Dyson broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
An extract from Roar Like A Dove broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Around The World In Eighty Days broadcast on The Light Programme. Henry Cass's Bond Of Fear - starring Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett and John Colicos - premiered. Wolverhampton Wanderers took their lead at the top of the First Division to seven points with a two-one victory at Chelsea.
Billy Smart's Big Top Time broadcast. The third Eurovision Song Contest, in the Netherlands, was won by France's André Claveau with 'Dors, Mon Amour'. Domenico Modugno's 'Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)' came third for Italy. The United Kingdom decided to withdraw from the contest after initially planning to submit an entry. Desire Under The Elm - starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins - premiered. Youth Wants To Know: How To Fight Crime broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Rudolph cartier's adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy - starring Peter Cushing - broadcast. The Whispering Giant broadcast. Scunthorpe & Lindsey United went to the top of the third Division (South) with a four-nil win over Stockport County. The Quarrymen appeared at The Morgue Skiffle Cellar, an illegal club held in the basement of a Victorian house in the Broadgreen area of Liverpool. The Morgue was run by eighteen-year-old Alan Caldwell, who was the singer with Al Caldwell's Texans and his friend, Johnny Guitar Byrne. Drummer Richy Starkey, at this time still with The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, would joined The Texans in 1959 and the group changed their name to Rory Storm & The Hurricanes. The Texans and The Quarrymen were among a number of groups who played on this, the club's opening night. Live music was held at The Morgue on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a few weeks before the club was shut down by Plod in April. It is likely that The Quarrymen played other dates during The Morgue's short lifespan but (due to the rather secretive nature of the venue) details woill probably never surface. Linda Patricia Mary Robson born in Islington.
Fact In Fiction: Children At Work In The Last Century broadcast. Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen'/'Reelin' & Rockin' and Danny & The Juniors' 'Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay'/'School Boy Romance' released. Francine Stock born in Devon.
David Hemmings' TV début in an episode of Dixon Of Dock Green - The Cats & The Fiddles. Alex Atkinson's Design For Murder broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. First Division highlights included Blackpool's four-one win at Chelsea, Newcastle United's five-three victory over Leicester City (Len White scored a hat-trick, Arthur Bottom two), Wolves four-one defeat of Nottingham Forest (Jimmy Murray hitting three) and West Bromwich Albion beating Everton four-nil. Wins for both Sunderland (one-nil at Spurs with Don Revie scoring) and Sheffield Wednesday (who beat Bolton thanks to Albert Quixall's winner) dragged Leeds United into the relegation zone, having lost three-nil at Preston North End. Jimmy Hill scored five in Fulham's six-one win at Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division. Middlesbrough beat Bristol Rovers four-three with Alan Peacock and Brian Clough both scoring twice. The first episode of The Killing Stones - The Carefulness Of Kleiber - broadcast on ATV London.
The Clandestine Marriage broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand. Denise Black born in Emsworth, Hampshire.
The Corporation Of London Welcomes Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother broadcast. Frankie Vaughan featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Evils Of Bushey Spon broadcast. Vanguard 1 became the fourth artificial Earth orbital satellite to be successfully launched. Vanguard was the first satellite to have solar electric power and was designed to test the launch capabilities of a three-stage launch vehicle and the effects of the space environment on a satellite and its systems in Earth orbit. It was also used to obtain geodetic measurements through orbit analysis. Although communication with the satellite was lost in 1964, it remains the oldest human-made object still in orbit. Montgomery Tully's The Diplomatic Corpse - starring Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw, Liam Redmond, Harry Fowler and André Mikhelson - premiered.
Willis Hall's One Man Absent broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Americans Hit Town broadcast on The Light Programme. The first episodes of Time Is The Enemy and Hotel Imperial broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Wild Spain broadcast in the Look strand. Joshua Logan's South Pacific - starring Mitzi Gaynor - premiered.
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin's The Little Beggars broadcast. The Battle Of Cassino broadcast in the Epic Battles strand, presented by Sir Brian Horrocks. Leslie Norman's Dunkirk - starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee - premiered.
Never Never broadcast in the Eye To Eye strand. John Ford's Gideon's Day - starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Cyril Cusack and Andrew Ray - premiered. Gary Leonard Oldman born in London.
The first episode of Captain Moonlight - Man Of Mystery broadcast. Bolton Wanderers beat Blackburn Rovers two-one in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Maine Road. Bobby Charlton scored twice as Manchester United and Fulham drew two-two at Villa Park. First Division highlights included Wolverhampton Wanderers three-all draw with Manchester City and Everton beating Portsmouth four-two. George Meek scored the winner as Leeds beat Burnley to haul themselves clear of the rleegation zone whilst Sunderland also won, Don Kitchenbrand scoring a late goal to secure a two-nil victory over West Bromwich Albion. Peter James Wylie born in Liverpool. The first UK TV Broadcast of Cheyenne on ATV London.
Strange Interlude broadcast in the Television World Theatre.
Construction of the M1, Britain's first full-length motorway, began. Flora Robson featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Great Statue Debate broadcast. George Pollock's Rooney - starring John Gregson and Muriel Pavlow - premiered. Peter Dobing scored four in Blackburn Rovers five-nil defeat of Bristol City in the Second Division. Ray Straw hit three in Coventry City's four-one Third Division (South) win over Walsall.
Davy Jones' Clock broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Election Candidate broadcast on The Light Programme. Philip Leacock's Innocent Sinners - starring Flora Robson, David Kossoff, Susan Beaumont, June Archer and Christopher Hey - premiered.
Ken Hughes's Sammy - featuring Anthony Newley - broadcast.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets made their only UK TV appearance on Off The Record, performing 'Maybe Baby'. Ronnie Hilton and Spike Milligan also featured. Alex Dawson scored three as Manchester United beat Fulham five-three in the FA Cup Semi-Final replay.
Thirty Three Days To Go broadcast, featuring Brian Johnston and the Yorkshire cricket team. John Ford's Gideon's Day - starring Jack Hawkins - premiered. The John Barry Seven's 'Big Guitar'/'Rodeo', Edna Savage's 'My Shining Star'/'Once' and Jeremy Lubbock's 'Lemon Twist'/'Tonight' released.
Bill Naughton's My Flesh, My Blood broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Everton's two-one defeat at Birmingham City saw the First Division debut of Brian Labone - the first of five hundred and thirty four games for The Toffees in a career that lasted until 1971. In the process he broke Ted Sagar's appearance record for the club, established in 1953. Labone's total was subsequently beaten by Neville Southall. Portsmouth beat Arsenal five-four whilst Spurs defeated Aston Villa six-two (Bobby Smith scoring four). Newcastle United eased their relegation worries with a three-two victory over Luton Town. Wolves won again, three-nil at West Bromwich Albion, to lead the division by six points. The Second Division saw a glut of goals, Billy Russell scoring three in Sheffield United's four-one win at Bristol City, Ron Hewitt hitting three for Cardiff City, who beat Blackburn Rovers four-three and Rotherham United thrashed Swansea Town five-two. Jimmy Melia, James Harrower and Alan A'Court scored for liverpool in their three-one defeat of Ipswich Town, Brian Clough netted another brace as Middlesbrough enjoyed a three-one victory over Notts County and Fulkam won three-nil at Huddersfield Town. Leaders West Ham United won four-one at Stoke City (top scorer Vic Keeble getting another two). Tranmere and Hull City shared eight goals at Prenton Park in the Third Division (North). Performance of the day came in the Third Division (South) where Northampton Town beat Millwall seven-two (Alan Woan scoring four). Ken Smith hit three in Shrewsbury Town's five-one thumping of Aldershot.
The first episode Joy Harington's Jesus Of Nazarath broadcast. Gerald Thomas's The Duke Wore Jeans - starring Tommy Steele and June Laverick - premiered. David Jacobs Presents Pick Of The Pops featured, for the first time, the BBC Top Twenty singles.
The first episode of Starr & Company broadcast. Ian Fleming's Doctor No published.
Peter Sellers' The Eighth Of April Show broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Hancock's Car broadcast on The Light Programme. Teacher's Pet - starring Clark Gable, Doris Day and Gig Young - premiered.
The first episodes of You Are There and Gerald Durrell's To Bafut For Beef broadcast. Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions - starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin - premiered.
The Miracle Of Dunkirk broadcast. The Long, Hot Summer - starring Paul Newman, Joanna Woodward and Orson Welles - premiered. The Chirping Crickets and Jimmy McCracklin's 'The Walk'/'I'm To Blame' released.
Charles & Mary broadcast. Carl Perkins' 'Lend Me Your Comb'/'That's Right', John Zacherle's 'Dinner With Drac'/'Conclusion', Boyd Bennett & His Rockets' 'Click Clack'/'Move' and Larry Williams' 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy'/'Slow Down' released. Charles Saunders' The Woman Eater - starring George Coulouris and Vera Day - premiered. Four hat-tricks were scored in the Football League programme. Derek Hennin hit one for Bolton Wanderers who beat Aston Villa four-nil in the First Division. Stuart Leary (in Charlton's four-nil defeat of Rotherham), Bryan Douglas (for Blackburn Rovers in a five-one win at Doncaster) and Tommy Briggs (in Grimsby's four-one victory over Middlesbrough) did likewise in the Second Division.
The first episode of The Money Man broadcast. Suspicion shown in The Saturday Film strand. In the First Division, Tottenham Hotspur won four-three at Everton, Leicester City beat Burnley five-three, Birmingham City won six-one at relegation-threatened Sunderland and leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers moved closer to the title with a one-nil victory over Portsmouth thanks to an Eddie Clamp penalty. In the Second Division, the top two, West Ham United and Charlton Athletic shared a goalless draw at Upton Park. Blackburn Rovers thrashed rotherham united five-nil. In the Third Division (North), Colin Smith and Bill Bradbury both scored hat-tricks in hull City's nine-nil hammering of Oldham Athletic. Scunthorpe & Lindsey United remained top with a two-nil victory over Hartlepools United. Crewe lost at home to Chesterfield and became the first team to be required to apply for re-election.
JB Priestley's Eden's End broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Andrew Cartmel born in Woolwich.
The Sadler's Wells production of The Merry Widow broadcast. Ian Carmichael featured on Desert Island Discs. Ernest Morris's A Woman Of Mystery - starring Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court and Montgomery Tully's Print Of Death premiered. All of the First Division's bottom three sides, Sunderland Newcastle United and Sheffield Wednesday, lost two-one (against Manchester United, Manchester City and Burnley, respectively). Brian Clough scored three as Middlesbrough beat Grimsby Town five-one in the Second Division. Charlton Athletic won at Ritherham United by the same score. Brighton & Hove Albion topped the Third Division (South) after a four-two win against Millwall. The first UK broadcast of Wagon Train on Associated-Rediffusion.
Charles Morgan's The Confession broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The East Cheam Drama Festival broadcast on The Light Programme. Ivor Allchurch second a hat-trick in Swansea Town's seven-nil defeat of Derby County in the Second Division. The first episode of Chelsea At Eight broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
It's My Opinion's contributors included John Arlott and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Max Bygraves' 'You Need Hands'/'Tulips From Amsterdam' released. Tragically, some people actually bought it so he kept on making records.
An excerpt from Simple Spymen broadcast. Godfrey Grayson's Innocent Meeting premiered.
The first episode of The Common Room broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'The Grand Coulee Dam'/'Nobody Loves An Irishman', Jim Dale's 'Tread Softly Stranger'/'Jane Belinda', The Silhouettes' 'Headin' For The Poorhouse'/'Miss Thing', Vic Damone's 'On The Street Where You Live'/'Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome)', Laurie London's 'I Gotta Robe'/'Casey Jones' and Jerry Lee Lewis's 'Breathless'/'Down The Line' released.
Ladies In Retirement broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse. Woking beat Ilford three-nil in the final of the FA Amateur Cup. Wolves drew one-all at Burnley but Preston North end missed a chance to close the gap at the top, also drawing against Aston Villa. Bobby Robson scored three in West Bromwich Albion's six-two defeat of Leciester City. Newcastle united picked up a vital point, drawing three-all with Arsenal whilst Sunderland were going down three-one at Manchester City. West Ham United stayed top of the Second Division with a three-nil win at Cardiff City. Eddie Werge scored three in Charlton Athletic's four-one victory over Notts County. In the Third Division (South) Northampton Town thrashed Exeter City nine-nil with Alan Woan and Bobby Tebbutt both scoring three. Jimmy Whoitehouse hit all four in Reading's four-nil defeat of Gillingham as The Royals went top of the division.
A Breath Of Fresh Air broadcast. The Lost Men broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Montgomery Tully's The Strange Awakening (released in the US as Female Fiends) - starring Lex Barker, Carole Mathews, Lisa Gastoni, Raf De La Torre and Peter Dyneley - premiered.
Sir Harold Bishop, BBC Director of Engineering, demonstrated on Panorama an early video recording machine called VERA (the Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus). Anthony Asquith's Orders To Kill - starring Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Philip Bond, Leslie French and John Crawford - premiered. Peter Dougan Capaldi born in Glasgow. Newcastle moved out of the First Division relegation zone with a four-one victory over Manchester City in front of fifty three thousand at St James' Park.
Arabian Nights broadcast in The O Henry Playhouse strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Foreign Legion broadcast on The Light Programme. Val Guest's The Camp On Blood Island - starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown, Walter Fitzgerald, Phil Brown, Barbara Shelley and Michael Goodliffe - premiered. The first episode of Lucky Dip broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of Auto Biography. Jimmy Moran scored three and Terry Allcock two in Norwich City's five-two win over Newport County in the Third Division (South). The Boyd QC episode Mustapha, King Of Reefers broadcast on Associated Rediffusion. 'The smoking of reefers is the commonest illegal drug tendency today. It is habit forming and dangerous. In this episode we see how the vice squad of Scotland Yard are determined in their efforts to stem the supply.'
As Far As The Flagstaff broadcast.
Hall Of Fame: The Wembley Story broadcast. Borivoj Zeman's Páté Kolo U Vozu - starring Zdenka Baldová, Vlasta Fabiánová, Jaroslava Tvrzníková and Jirí Kríz - premiered.
Saturday Magic broadcast. England beat Scotland four-nil in the Home International championship at Hampden Park. Derek Kevan scored twice with further goals from Bryan Douglas and teenage debutant Bobby Charlton. Fulham's Jimmy Langley also made his England debut. England and Northern Ireland shared the championship with four points each. Wolverhampton Wanderers the First Division championship, beating their nearest challengeners, Preston North End, two-nil. Manchester City won five-two at Everton and Tottenham Hotspur defeated Leciester city three-one. Blackburn's Roy Vernon, Bristol City's Bert Tindall and Swansea Town's Mel Charles all scored Second Division hat-tricks (against Leyton Orient, Fulham and Stoke City respectively). Doncaster Rovers won five-nil at Notts County. Barrie Thomas scored four in Mansfield Town's six-four victory over Bury in the Third Division (North). Ian McIntosh scored three for the visitors.
The Land Of Promise broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Ernesy Morris's A Woman Of Mystery - starring Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Jennifer Jayne and Ferdy Mayne - premiered. First Division champions Wolves won four-nil at Manchester United with goals from Peter Broadbent, Norman Deeley, Eddie Clamp and Ron Flowers. Preston won four-nil at Bolton. Scunthorpe & Lindsey United lost their second game in a row, two-one at Stockport, but remained top of the Third Division (North) and still had a game in hand on second-placed Accrington Stanley. The Third Division (South)'s top side, Plymouth Argyle, also lost three-two at home to Southend United.
The first episodes of Railway Roundabout and Five Hundred Million Years broadcast. John Mortimer's Call Me A Liar broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Sunday Afternoon At Home broadcast on The Light Programme.
The Dinah Shore Show broadcast. Orson Welles's Touch Of Evil - starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Welles himself - released. Len White's second-half equaliser earned Newcastle United a point at Manchester United to virtually assure The Magpies of First Division survival. Swindon Town won one-nil at Exeter City through an Andy Micklewright goal to join Plymouth Argyle and Brighton & Hove Albion on fifty six points at the top of the Third Division (South). Reading, who had led the division with four games to go, ended their season with a whmiper rather than a bang, losing two-one at home to Brentford (who, themselves, still had an outside chance of promotion).
John Gay's The Devil As A Roaring Lion broadcast. Irving Rapper's Marjorie Morningstar - starring Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly and Claire Trevor - and Clive Donner's Heart of A Child - starring Jean Anderson and Donald Pleasence - premiered. Both Scunthorpe & Lindsey United and Accrington Stanley won (at Bradford City and at home to Barrow, respectively) to take the third Division (North) title race into the final week of the season. Scunthorpe remained one point ahead and with one game in hand.
Better Late, featuring Ronnie Hilton, broadcast. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Wear My Ring Around Your Neck'/'Don'cha Think It's Time?' released.
A Likely Tale broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Wolverhampton Wanderers were First Division Champions after scoring their one hundred and third goal of the season, though they were beaten two-one by already-relegated Sheffield Wednesday in their final game. Preston North End finished runners-up, while Tottenham Hotspur were third thanks, largely, to the influence of captain and Footballer of the Year, Danny Blanchflower and the thirty six goals of Bobby Smith. West Bromwich Albion finished fourth and the top five was completed by Manchester City, who became the first - and so far only - club to both score and concede one hundred goals in a league season. After the Munich disaster, Manchester United won only one more league game and dropped to ninth place. Wednesday propped up the First Division and were the first side to go down, being joined, soon afterwards, by Sunderland who had been in the First Division for nearly seventy years, despite The Black Cats winning two-nil at fellow strugglers Portsmouth. West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers were promoted, the latter pipping Charlton Atheltic to second place with a four-three win at The Valley. Tommy Johnston, signed by Rovers from Leyton Orient in March, was the divison's top scorer with forty three goals. Doncaster Rovers were relegated. Lincoln City, who still had one game to play, kept their survival hopes alive with a one-nil win at Huddersfield Town. Scunthorpe & Lindsey United clinched the Third Division (North) title with two games left, winning two-one against Chester. Carlisle united's Alf Ackerman ended the season with thirty five goals. Plymouth Argyle went to the top of the Third Division (South), ending their season with a two-one win at Colchester united, but Brighton & Hove Albion (who won at Watford) were level on points and still had two games to play. The first episode of The Truth About Melandrinos broadcast in ATV London's The Saturday Serial strand.
Michael Gilbert's The Body Of A Girl broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Direct From Brussels - featuring Mario Lanza - broadcast. Ruby Miller featured on Desert Island Discs. Brentford beat Brighton & Hove Albion one-nil to go top of the Third Division (South), though Albion still had one game to play.
The Transmogrification Of Chester Brown broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Grappling Game broadcast on The Light Programme.
The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Ascent Of Annapurna IV broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Eighteen thousand were at Sincil Bank as Lincoln City's three-one defeat of Cardiff City ensured The Imps Second Division survival and sent Notts County down to the third tier. Brighton & Hove Albion got the result they needed to swap places with County, thrashing Watford six-nil to snatch the Third Fivision (South) title. Adrian Thorne scored five.
Jean McConnell's The Pick Of The Season broadcast.
The first episode of Ages Ago broadcast. England beat Young England four-two at Stamford Bridge. Tom Finney, Johnny Haynes, Bryan Douglas and Derek Kevan scored for England with Alan A'Court and Brian Clough replying for Young England. The first European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup competition which had started almost three years previously, in June 1955, finally came to an end with Barcelona winning the title after thrashing the London XI six-nil in the Nou Camp. The next competition (which would begin in October, took a mere eighteen months to complete). The Everly Brothers' 'All I Have To Do Is Dream'/'Claudette' and Tommy Steele's 'It's All Happening'/'What Do You Do?' released. Lewis Allen's Another Time, Another Place - starring Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns and Sean Connery - premiered. Southend United's Sammy McCrory scored his twenty ninth, thirtieth and thirty first goals of the season in a six-three victory over Northampton Town ending the season as the Third Division (South)'s joint-top goalscorer with Southampton's Derek Reeves.
Nat Lofthouse bundled Harry Gregg into the net at Wembley as Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester United two-nil in the FA Cup Final. A still frail-looking Matt Busby, recently released from hospital in Munich, attended the game. Sandra Birgitte Toksvig born in Copenhagen.
On Monday Next broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
An extract from Up The Creek featured on Picture Parade. Chuck Willis's 'What Am I Living For?'/'Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes', Paul Beattie's 'Me, Please Me'/'Wanderlust', Link Wray & The Ray men's 'Rumble'/'The Swag' and Billie Holiday's Blue EP ('Gloomy Sunday', 'Am I Blue'/'Body & Soul', 'Long Gone Blues') released.
Bunny Webber's Angela Dined Out broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Junk Man broadcast on The Light Programme.
BBC Scotland viewers watched the first episode of The White Heather Club - featuring Andy Stewart - whilst the rest of the UK had Peter West presenting Good Companions. George Marshall's The Sheepman - starring Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine and Leslie Nielsen - premiered. England beat Portgual two-one in a friendly international at Wembley. Bobby Charlton scored both goals.
Manchester United's first European Cup game post-Munich was a pulsating two-one victory over AC Milan at Old Trafford despite the absence of Bobby Charlton (away on international duty). Owen Brannigan's Music Room broadcast.
Prison Without Bars broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo - starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes - premiered. Joan Small's 'Afraid'/'How Many Times (Can I Fall In Love)?' and Little Willie John's 'Talk To Me, Talk To Me'/'Spasms' released.
And No Birds Sing broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle premiered.
John Alderson's EL Dorado and Caribbean Journey - 1958 broadcast. Peter Wyngarde told the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in Sunday Special. England were thumped five-nil by Yugoslavia in a friendly international in Belgrade. Aleksandar Petaković scored a hat-trick. Robert Day's The Haunted Strangler - starring Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan and Anthony Dawson - premiered. Stacey Dorning born in London.
The first episode of Trouble For Two broadcast. Roy Plomley swapped the interviewer's chair on Desert Island Discs for a place on the island. Eamonn Andrews performed Roy's usual task. Terence Young's No Time To Die - starring Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Bonar Colleano and Anthony Newley - premiered.
The first episode of The Dangerous Game broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Hancock's War broadcast on The Light Programme. Val Guest's Up The Creek - starring Peter Sellers, David Tomlinson and Wilfred Hyde-White - premiered.
The first episode of Armand & Michaela Denis: On Safari broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. The first UK broadcast of Edward Murrow's See It Now episode Fallout. Manchester United lost their European Cup Semi-Final second leg four-nil to AC Milan in the San Siro.
The Legend Of The Loch broadcast. Vincente Minnelli's Gigi - starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chaevalier - premiered.
Robert McKenzie's Portraits Of Power: Khrushchev broadcast. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' 'Baby Blue'/'True To You', Gene Ross' 'Endless Sleep'/'The Only One', The Vipers' 'Make Ready For Love'/'Nothing Will Ever Change (My Love For You)', The Hoplites' 'The Stranger'/'Proud As A Peacock' and Johnnie Pate's 'Muskeeta'/'Pretty One' released.
The first episode of Duty Bound broadcast. Paul Julian Whitehouse born in Stanleytown, Glamorgan. Lonnie Donegan, Chas McDevitt, Russell Qualye, Nancy Whiskey and Wally Whyton were invited to choose their favourite record on Saturday Skiffle Club.
Sir Vivian Fuchs's The Crossing Of The Antarctic broadcast. England drew one-all in their first ever friendly international with the USSR in the Lenin Stadium, Moscow. Derek Kevan was on target for the visitors. Burnley's Colin McDonald, Bolton's Tommy Banks and Wolves' Eddie Clamp all made their England debuts. England might have won but for the superb goalkeeping of Lev Yashin and the intervention of the woodwork when, first Tom Finney and then Kevan, struck the post. The shock after the match was Middlesbrough's Brian Clough being told that he had been excluded from England's World Cup squad. Clough had scored forty two goals in League and Cup matches and was in red-hot form. Cloughie, then and subsequently, made no secret of his extreme displeasure at this right-shite state of affairs. Also excluded were the experienced Nat Lofthouse and Chelsea's teenage sensation Jimmy Greaves. For some reason never fully explained, the selectors chose to take only twenty players to Sweden, when twenty-two were allowed in each squad by FIFA. The Fourth Division was created by the Football Association alongside a new, national, Third Division by merging the regionalised Third Division (North) and Third Division (South). The original economic reasons for having the two regional leagues had become less apparent and, thus, it was decided to create two national leagues at levels three and four. The twelve best teams from each regional league in the 1957–58 season went into the Third Division and the rest became founder members of the Fourth Division. Toyah Ann Willcox born in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
Looking At Women's Programmes broadcast in the Mainly For Women strand. An adaptation of James Hanley's The Ocean - starring Leo McKern, Jack MacGowran and Frank Windsor - broadcast on The Home Service.
The first episode of Airport Story broadcast. John Elliot's The Golden Egg broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Prize Money broadcast on The Light Programme.
Ignorants Abroad - starring Joe Baker and Jack Douglas - broadcast. Muriel Spark's The Interview broadcast on The Third Programme.
The UK premiere of Terence Fisher's Dracula - starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Melissa Stribling. David McDonald's The Moonraker - starring George Baker, Sylvia Syms and Marius Goring - premiered. Patrick Alexander's Paper Money broadcast. Jacqueline Denise Welch born in Tynemouth.
Whitsun Parade and the first episode of Masterpieces Of Painting broadcast. Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B Goode'/'Around & Around' and The Platters' 'Twilight Time'/'Out Of My Mind' released.
Carry On Admiral broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The Ray Ellington Quartet featured in The Light Programme's in The Juke Box Club.
John Hunter Blair and Bunny Webber's Castle Dangerous broadcast. John William Paul Weller born in Woking.
The Harlem Globetrotters Versus The United States Stars boadcast.
People Like Maria broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Threatening Letters broadcast on The Light Programme. Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey first staged at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
Jupiter broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Real Madrid came from behind twice to win the European Cup for the third time, beating AC Milan three-two in The Heysal Stadium, Brussels. Di Stéfano, Rial and Gento scored for Real, the winner coming late in extra time.
South Pacific Island Children and The Desk Set broadcast.
Ken Dodd featured on Ticket For Friday broadcast. Who Goes Home? broadcast.
Primrose Path shown in The Saturday Film strand. The Light Music Festival broadcast on The Light Programme.
The first episode of The Adventures Of Ben Gunn broadcast. Don Siegel's The Lineup - starring Eli Wallach and Ernest Morris's On The Run - starring Neil McCallum, Susan Beaumont and William Hartnell - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Vacant Chair in the Canadian Television Theatre strand. Eric Robinson featured in Desert Island Discs.
Giles Cooper's Liberty Hall broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Sleepless Night broadcast on The Light Programme. Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without A Face - starring Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour and Kim Parker - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Gingerbread Cottage.
Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry broadcast.
The Story Of A Giraffe broadcast broadcast in the Look strand. John Sturges's The Law & Jake Wade - starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark - premiered. Buddy Holly's 'Rave On'/'Take Your Time', Ferlin Husky's 'The Drunken Driver'/'Slow Down Brother', Ron Goodwin & His Concert Orchestra's 'Jumping Jupiter'/'Indiscreet', Eddie Silver's 'Put A Ring On Her Finger'/'Seven Steps To Love', Tony Crombie & His Men's 'Ungaua'/'Piakukaungcung' and Bobby Freeman's 'Do You Want To Dance?'/'Big Fat Woman' released. Danny Webb born in London.
French Without Tears broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse. British Caribbean Writers braodcast on The Third Programme. Motive The Only Clue broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday Matinee strand.
The Opening Ceremony of the 1958 World Cup broadcast live from Stockholm. England drew their first match with the USSR, two-two in Gothenburg. Trailing two-nil with twenty minutes remaining, a Derek Kevan goal and a Tom Finney penalty gave England a point. In the closing moments a crushing tackle on Finney damaged his knee and put him out of the tournament. For the first - and, so far only - occasion all four home nations had qualified for a World Cup finals tournament. In Halmstead, Northern Ireland opened with a fine one-nil victory over Czechoslovakia (Billy Cush of Leeds United scoring, Portsmouth's Derek Dougan making his international debut), Scotland drew one-all with Yugoslavia in Västerås (Jimmy Murray of Heart of Midlothian was on target) and Wales also drew one-one with Hungary thanks to a goal from John Charles.
England won the first of a five test series against New Zealand at Edgbaston by two hundred and five runs. Peter Richardson scored a second innings century whilst Fred Trueman took five for thirty one in the Kiwis first innings. Mike Smith made his test debut. The first episode of Ask Me Another broadcast.
Rex Tucker's And Her Romeo broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. John Paddy Carstairs' The Big Money - starring Ian Carmichael, Belinda Lee, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Helpmann and Jill Ireland, Charles Crichton's Law & Disorder - starring Michael Redgrave and Robert Morley and Herbert Wilcox's Wonderful Things! - starring Frankie Vaughan and Jackie Lane - premiered.
England drew their second World Cup group game with the eventual champions Brazil, nil-nil in Gothenburg. The result forced the Brazilians to call up two exceptional, but untested, individuals for their next match, Garrincha and seventeen year old Pelé. Elsewhere, Northern Ireland lost three-one against Argentina, Scotland lost three-two to Paraguay and Wales drew one-all with Mexico (Ivor Allchurch scoring). Richard Fleischer's The Vikings - starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh - premiered. Nigel Le Vaillant born in Pakistan.
The Music Master - written by and starring Eynon Evans - broadcast.
Little Richard's 'Ooh' My Soul'/'True, Fine Mama', Bert Weedon's 'Big Note Blues'/'Rippling Tango' and Neville Taylor's 'House Of Bamboo'/'Mercy, Mercy Percy' released.
The first episode of The Black & White Minstrel Show broadcast.
England drew for the third time at the World Cup, two-two with Austria in Borås. Derek Kevan and Johnny Haynes scored. Raymonde Kopa and Just Fontaine were on target as France beat Scotland two-one to eliminate the Scots. Northern Ireland produced one of the performances of tournament, drawing two-two with reigning World Champions West Germany (Peter McParland scored twice for the Irish who were leading before Uwe Seeler's late equaliser). Like both England and Northern Ireland, Wales were required to play-off for a place in the Quarter-Finals after a goalless draw with hosts Sweden.
The first UK broadcast of Mister Bell's Creation in the Canadian Television Theatre strand. Victor Borge Presents: Comedy In Music broadcast. Jean Sablon featured on Desert Island Discs. Mark Lewisohn born in London.
Colin Morris's docudrama The Brittle Bond broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. England were knocked out of the World Cup, losing one-nil to the USSR. Chelsea winger Peter Brabrook made his England debut along with Wolves inside-forward Peter Broadbent. Bobby Charlton, to the fury of the nation, was left out. It was better news for the other surviving home nations with Northern Ireland beating Czechoslovakia two-one (Peter McParland again scoring both goals, the second in extra-time). Wales achieved a famous victory over Hungary, two-one. The Swansea duo Ivor Allchurch and Terry Medwin were on target.
John Carthy's Food & Food Chains broadcast in the Living In Water strand.
In the World Cup Quarter Finals, Pelé scored as Brazil eliminated Wales, France beat Northern Ireland four-nil, Sweden knocked-out the USSR and West Germany defeated Yugoslavia. DT Davies's Pancakes broadcast.
The first episode of The Royalty broadcast. Dwarf & Giant Stars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand.
England won the second test at Lord's by an innings and forty eight runs. The match's highlight was Tony Lock's nine wickets for twenty nine. The first UK broadcast of Death Minus One in the Canadian Television Theatre strand. Johnny Duncan & His Blue Grass Boys and Nancy Whiskey & Her Teetotallers featured on Saturday Skiffle Club.
Biography broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Robert Stevens's Never Love A Stranger - starring John Drew Barrymore and Steve McQueen - premiered.

The Revenge broadcast in the Studio E strand. Geraldine Cowper born in London. I Hear: I See - 'an experiment conducted by Anthony Wedgwood Benn to find out whether an unseen person's occupation and physical appearance can be deduced from the way he (or she) speaks' broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of The Firm Of Girdlestone broadcast. The Goddess - starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges - and Ice Cold In Alex - starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews - premiered. Brazil beat France five-two in a World Cup Semi Final at Solna. Pelé scored a hat-trick with Vavá and Didi also on target. Hosts Sweden defeated West Germany three-one with Kurt Hamrin in outstanding form.
The First Night Of Vortigern broadcast in the You Are There strand.
Virginia Vernon's Yvette broadcast. Stanley Donen's Indiscreet - starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of With Malice Towards One. Laurie London's 'Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)'/'Basin Street Blues' and Glen Mason's 'I Know Where I'm Going'/'Autumn Souvenir' released.
France beat West Germany six-three in the World Cup Third Place Play-Off. Just Fontaine scored four of France's goals, taking his total for the tournament to thirteen in six matches, a records which still stands.
Pelé scored twice as Brazil beat Sweden five-two in the World Cup Final in Stockholm. Vavá also scored two with Mario Zagallo adding a fifth. Nils Liedholm and Agne Simonsson scored for the Swedes. British Art & Artists profiled Henry Moore.
Sarah Vaughan featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of My Wife & I broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice's This Day In Fear - with Patrick McGoohan and Billie Whitelaw - broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The first episode of Beyond Our Ken broadcast on The Light Programme.
Carol Reed's The Key - starring William Holden, Sophia Loren and Trevor Howard - premiered. The first episode of The Verdict Is Yours broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles appeared on The Perry Como Show. The Ballad Of John Axon, the first of Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seegar's Radio Ballads strand broadcast on The Home Service. Michael Curtiz's Kid Creole - starring Elvis Presley - premiered.
Edward Percy and Reginald Denham's Suspect broadcast. Charles Murray Higson born in Frome. Roy Ward Baker's A Night To Remember - starring Kenneth More - premiered.
Presenting Six Wonderful Girls broadcast. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Hard Headed Woman'/'Don't Ask Me Why', The Kirby Stone Four's 'Baubles, Bangles & Beads'/'In The Good Old Summertime', 'Take The Lady', The John Barry Seven's 'Pancho'/'Hideaway', The Kalin Twins' 'When'/'Three O'Clock Thrill', Bobby Darin's 'Splish Splash'/'Judy Don't Be Moody', The Bachelors' 'Platter Party'/'Love Is A Two-Way Street' and The Crickets' 'Think It Over'/'Fool's Paradise' released. The first episodes of Turnabout and The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour (renamed The Dickie Henderson Show from November 1960) broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of Fair Game broadcast. High Heaven broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Peter Maxwell's Blind Spot - starring Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, Anne Sharp, John Le Mesurier and Michael Caine - premiered.
Grand National Night broadcast in the Sunday Night Theatre strand, featuring Tony Britton and the UK TV debut of Barbara Shelley. The first episodes of Dial 999 - The Killing Job, starring Robert Beatty - and White Hunter broadcast on ATV London. Noon On Doomsday broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand. Jennifer Jane Saunders born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Ice Cold In Alex featured in the Picture Parade strand, broadcast from the Berlin International Film Festival. Quentin Lawrence's The Trollenberg Terror - starring Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro and Jennifer Jones - premiered. The Abyssinian Cat broadcast on The Home Serivce.
Sian Phillips's TV début in Thomas Clarke's A Game For Eskimos, in the Television Playwright strand. England won the third test at Headingley by an innings and seventy one runs despite the first two days being washed out. Peter May scored an undefeated century whilst Jim Laker picked up five wickets in New Zealand's first innings and Tony Lock seven in their second. Arthur Milton made his test debut.
Alfie's Penny Gaff - with Alfie Bass - broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Charles Templeton's Absentee Murderer in the Canadian Television Theatre strand. Philip Johnson's Lover's Leap broadcast. Frank Sinatra's 'Come Fly With Me', 'Isle Of Capri'/'It's Nice To Go Trav'ling' released. Playback Doctor No broadcast on The Home Service - a discussion between Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler about the differences between British and American thrillers.
The first episode of The Sky Larks broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'Sally Don't You Grieve'/'Betty, Betty, Betty', Domenico Modugno's 'Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)'/'Nisciuno Po' Sape', Charlie Drake's 'Splish Splash'/'Hello, My Darlings', Earl Bostic & His Orchestra's 'Twilight Time'/'Over The Waves Rock' and Buddy Holly released. Mark Letzer born in Oxford.
Fiesta broadcast. The probable date that The Quarrymen (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Colin Hanton and John Lowe) recorded two songs - Buddy Holly's 'That'll Be The Day' and the McCartney/Harrison composition 'In Spite Of All The Danger' - at Phillips Sound Recording Services, a home studio in Liverpool. The recording cost the group seventeen shillings and three pence and was pressed onto a ten inch aluminium and acetate disc to be played at 78rpm. The precise date has since been disputed, with the former members of The Quarrymen remembering it taking place on different dates. A blue plaque installed on the front the house in 2005 lists the session as taking place on 14 July.
Statue Of David broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Next To Jump broadcast. Wilfrid Hyde-White featured on Desert Island Discs. Art Napoleon's Too Much, Too Soon - starring Dorothy Malone and Errol Flynn - Ralph Kemplan's The Spaniard's Curse - starring Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern and Susan Beaumont - and Ralph Thomas's The Wind Cannot Read - starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser - premiered.
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise featured on Wish You Were Here. The first episode of Sid Caesar Invites You broadcast. High-Blown Lady broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. Don Chaffey's A Question Of Adultery - starring Julie London and Anthony Steel - premiered.
The first episode of Ask Your Dad broadcast. Kurt Neumann's The Fly - starring Vincent Price and Al Hedison - and Jack Cardiff's Intent To Kill - starring Richard Todd and Betsy Drake - premiered.
The Castiglioni Brothers - starring Peter O'Toole and featuring the TV debut of Peter Jeffrey - broadcast.
The first episode of Buried Treasure broadcast. The British Empire & Commonwealth Games began in Cardiff.
Barbara Windsor appeared on Six-Five Special. The Ware Case broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Great Britain (Mike Davies, Billy Knight and Bobby Wilson) beat France five-nil in The Davis Cup European Zone-Semi-final at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club, Manchester.
The first episode of Queen's Champion broadcast.
The first episode of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's Armchair Voyage: Hellenic Cruise broadcast. Doubly Dead broadcast on The Home Service.
Northern Lights - starring Morecambe & Wise, Lonnie Donegan, Chic Murray & Maidie, The Diamond Twins, The Three Quarters and The BBC Northern Dance Orchestra - broadcast. Hugo Fregonese's Harry Black - starring Barbara Rush, Stewart Granger, IS Johar, Anthony Steel, Martin Stephens and Frank Olegario - premiered.
Patrick Moore explained 'what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the Moon' on The Sky At Night. Peter Maxwell's Blind Spot - starring Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, Anne Sharp, John Le Mesurier and Michael Caine - premiered.
Milkha Singh, The Flying Sikh, won India's first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the four hundred and forty yards. Bongo - 'songs and dances of The West Indies introduced by Boscoe Holder' - broadcast. Joseph McGann born in Liverpool.
Keith Collin won the Commonwealth Games gold in the men's three metres springboard diving - according to legend, the board he was diving off was made by Richy Starkey, an apprentice joiner at the Liverpool school equipment manufacturer Henry Hunt & Sons. The Coasters' 'Yakety Yak'/'Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart' released.
Australia's Herb Elliott won the Commonwealth Games mile gold; he had already won the eight hundred and eighty yards event four days earlier. The Games Closing Ceremony broadcast.
A 'Dig for Victory' Gardening Club and A Breath Of Fresh Air: Afternoon In Portofino broadcast. Walter Macken's Home Is The Hero broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of the Summer Festival Of BBC Documentary Films, Norman Swallow's Line Of Defence, broadcast. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf featured on Desert Island Discs.
England won the fourth test at Old Trafford by an innings and thirteen runs. Peter May scored his second consecutive test century whilst, again, New Zealand were demolished in their second innings by Tony Lock (seven for thirty five). Ted Dexter, Ray Illingworth and Raman Subba Row all made their test debuts. Denis Mitchell's Night In The City broadcast. John Guillermin's The Whole Truth - starring Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders and Gianna Maria Canale - premiered. Marcus Gilbert born in Bristol.
Southampton: The Waterway To Fortune and Sportsview Goes To Moscow broadcast. Catherine Bush born in Bexleyheath.
Michael Orrom's No Title To Life and James Bridie's Daphne Laureola broadcast. Susan Elizabeth Jenkins born in Liverpool.
The first episode of Living With Danger broadcast. The Everly Brothers' 'Bird Dog'/'Devoted To You', Lorrae Desmond's 'Soda Pop Hop'/'Blue Blue Day' and Bertice Reading's 'Rock Baby Rock'/'It's A Boy' released.
The Fourth Wall broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Montgomery Tully's Crime Of Honour - starring Russell Napier and Ivan Craig - premiered.
The Royal Family Of Broadway broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first TV showing of Robert Flaherty's Nanook Of The North. The Light Programme's Welcome To London broadcast live from the London Coliseum to commemorate the Cardiff British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It featured a nine-minute Hancock's Half Hour sketch. Don Sharp's The Golden Disc - starring Mary Steele, Lee Patterson, Terry Dene and Nancy Whiskey - premiered.
Wendy Toye's The Stranger Left No Card, Paris By Night and Henry Hall's Guest Night broadcast. Eamonn Andrews featured on Desert Island Discs. Montgomery Tully's The Long Knife premiered.
The first episode of Pepe Moreno broadcast. Max Varnel's A Woman Possessed - starring Margaretta Scott, Francis Matthews, Kay Callard, Alison Leggatt and Jan Holden - premiered.
Anthony De Lotbiniere's Crime In A Big City broadcast. Duane Eddy & His Twany Guitar's 'Rebel-Rouser'/'Stalkin' released.
The Rake's Progress broadcast from Glyndebourne. John Braine featured on Speaking Personally. Ken Annakin's Nor The Moon By Night - starring Michael Craig, Belinda Lee, Anna Gaylor and Patrick McGoohan - premiered.
Arne Sucksdorff's Wind From The West broadcast. Buddy Holly's 'Early In The Morning'/'Now We're One' released.
The last Semi-Final of Stanley Dale's National Skiffle Contest between The Dark Town of Liverpool, The Vikings of the Elephant and Castle, The Woodlanders of Plymouth and The Teenage Vipers of Glasgow featured on Six-Five Special. Henry Cornelius's Next To No Time - starring Kenneth More, Betsy Drake, Roland Culver, Harry Green, Patrick Barr, Maureen Connell, John Laurie, Sid James and Irene Handl - premiered.
Norman King's The Shadow Of Doubt broadcast in Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Come To The Caribbean broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Aldous Huxley On Thought Control. Scenes from Vertigo were shown on Picture Page. Elsie & Doris Waters featured on Desert Island Discs. John Joseph Wardle born in Stepney.
Red Rose For Ransom broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. Disney's White Wilderness and Lewis Gilbert's A Cry From The Streets - starring Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray and Dana Wilson - premiered.
Facts & Figures: Oil & The Middle East broadcast. William Wyler's The Big Country - starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston and Carroll Baker - premiered.
Michael Gilbert's Crime Report broadcast. Paula Rotha's Cat & Mouse - starring Lee Patterson, Ann Sears and Victor Maddern - premiered.
Excerpts from Bernard Delfont's Light Up Again - featuring Ruby Murray and Tommy Cooper - broadcast in the Seaside Stars strand. A profile of Jean Cocteau broadcast. Chuck Berry's 'Beautiful Delilah'/'Vacation Time', Connie Francis's 'Stupid Cupid'/'Carolina Moon' and The Pony-Tails' 'Born Too Late'/'Come On Joey Dance With Me' released.
The first episode of Charlesworth At Large broadcast. Montgomery Tully's The Cross-Roads Gallows - starring Russell Napier, Tim Turner and David Lodge - premiered.
Harry Belafonte broadcast. 'Singing for the first time on British Television, the distinguished American artist, in a specially arranged programme of music and song.' The Long Sunset broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Opera From Salzburg: Cosi Fan Tutte broadcast. John Read's Walter Sickert broadcast in the British Art & Artists strand. Gordon Parry's Tread Softly Stranger - starring Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan, Patrick Allen and Jane Griffiths - premiered. The actor Bruno Colleano died at the age of thirty four, when he crashed his Jaguar XK140 in Birkenhead shortly after leaving the Queensway Tunnel. He was driving back from Liverpool's New Shakespeare Theatre, where he had been appearing in a stage production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? His passenger, fellow actor and friend Michael Balfour, required ninety eight stitches, but eventually recovered.
The first episode of Does Class Matter? broadcast. Val Gielgud's Mediterranean Blue broadcast on The Home Service.
Do You Like Snakes? broadcast in the Out Of Doors strand. David Whitaker's The Marrying Of Milly broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
Wolves At Home broadcast in the Sportsview strand. The Andromeda Galaxy was the focus on The Sky At Night. DG Bridson's The Bullet broadcast.
The first episode of Royal Occasions broadcast. CM Pennington-Richards' Stormy Crossing - starring John Ireland, Derek Bond, Leslie Dwyer, Maureen Connell, Joy Webster, John Horsley, Arthur, John Schlesinger and Anita Sharp-Bolster - premiered.
Target: The Moon! broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. Pariah and The Stronger broadcast in the Double Bill strand. The first UK broadcast of Professor Hideki Yukawa's lecture The Heart Of The Atom. Montgomery Tully's Man With A Gun - starring Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson and John Le Mesurier - premiered.
The Twelfth Edinburgh International Military Tattoo broadcast. The Football League season started with big wins in the First Division for champions Wolverhampton Wanderers (five-one against Nottingham Forest, Bobby Mason scoring a hat-trick), newly-promoted Blackburn Rovers (five-one at Newcastle playing under new manager Charlie Mitten) and Manchester United (five-two against Chelsea, Bobby Charlton scoring three). Bolton Wanderers thrashed Leeds United four-nil whilst Manchester City won four-three at Burnley. The other promoted team, West Ham United won two-one at Portsmouth. Brian Clough scored five as Middlesbrough kicked-off the Second Division season with a nine-nil victory over newly-promoted Brighton & Hove Albion. Bristol City beat Rotherham United six-one whilst Fulham thrashed Stoke City by the same score (Maurice Cook metting three). Derek Reeves continued his scoring form from the previous season, hitting four in Southampton's six-one victory at Mansfield Town in the Third Division. Harry Priest scored a hat-trick in Halifax Town's three-two win at Chesterfield. Crystal Palace began the first season of the Fourth Division with a six-two win over Crewe Alexandra - Mike Deakin and Johnny Byrne both hitting three. Watford beat Southport five-one. In all, one hundred and seventy four goals were scored across all four divisions. York City's one-nil win at Oldham Athletic saw the club debut of Barry Jackson - the first of five hundred and thirty eight games for The Minstermen in a career that lasted until 1970. In the process he broke Tommy Forgan's appearance record for the club, established in 1954.
The Lady From The Sea broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Sequences from King Creole featured on Picture Parade. Caryl Brahms's Nymphs & Shepherds Go Away! broadcast on The Home Service. Vernon Sewell's Battle Of The V-1 - starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Medina - premiered. Blackburn Rovers continued their thumping started to the First Division season scoring another five goals against Leicester City.
Thirty Pieces Of Silver broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. What Is It Like To Be Crippled? broadcast in the Outlook strand. The miserably rain-affected fifth test at The Oval was drawn. Only three overs play was possible on the second day and the third and fourth were both abandoned without a ball being bowled. England won the series four-nil. The Renewal Of Democracy broadcast on The Third Programme. Cy Endfield's Sea Fury - starring Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen and Luciana Paluzzi - premiered.
Richard Brooks's Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives and Terence Fisher's The Revenge Of Frankenstein - starring Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson and Michael Gwynn - premiered. Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur four=two in the First Division whilst Manchester united won three-nil at Nottingham Forest. In the Second Division, Lol Chappell scored four for Barnsley and styill ended up on the losing side as Bristol City won seven-four at Oakwell (Johnny Atyeo hit a hat-trick for The Robins). Sunderland continued their miserable start to the season after relegation, losing for the second time, tow-one at home to Fulham.
An adaptation of Rosemary Anne Sisson's The Queen & The Welshman broadcast. The Battle Against Leprosy broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Henry Cass's Blood of The Vampire - starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball and Victor Maddern - premiered. The Everly Brothers' 'Bird Dog'/'Devoted To You' released.
Living Cinema: Edinburgh 1958 broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Drifters' 'Move It!'/'Schoolboy Crush' and Elvis Presley's King Creole soundtrack LP released. Lenworth George Henry born in Dudley.
Allan Prior's A Young Affair broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In another high-scoring day in the First Division, Arsenal beat Leicester City five-one, Nottingham Forest defeated Portsmouth by the same score, Blackburn Rovers beat Tottenham Hotspur five-nil, Chelsea thrashed Wolves six-two (Jimmy Greaves hitting five) and West Ham United defeated Aston Villa seven-two. Newcastle United got their first win of the season, two-nil at Everton. In all, forty five goals were scored in eleven fixtures and one hundred and fifty one across all four divisions. The Notting Hill race riots took place. Southern Television, the ITV franchise for the South of England, began transmissions. Muriel Janet Gray born in East Kilbride.
Emlyn Williams profiled Dylan Thomas's A Visit To America. Graham Sutherland featured in the British Art & Artists strand. Gerald Thomas's Carry On Sergeant - the first of the franchise, starring William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Hattie Jacques and Gordon Parry's Tread Softly Stranger - starring Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan and Patrick Allen - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Adventures Of Willie Skunk. Jack Payne appeared on Desert Island Discs. Giles Cooper's Without The Grail broadcast on The Home Service. Anthony Young's Them Nice Americans - starring Bonar Colleano, Vera Day and Renée Houston - premiered.
The Inside Chance broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. Frank Launder's Geordie - starring Bill Travers - premiered. Maureen Evans's 'Carolina Moon'/'Stupid Cupid' and Paul Beattie's 'Banana'/'A House, A Car And A Wedding Ring' released.
Gerald Thomas's Chain Of Events - starring Susan Shaw, Dermot Walsh, Jack Watling, Freddie Mills, Alan Gifford and Joan Hickson - premiered. West Bromwich Albion enjoyed a six-nil hiding of Birmingham City at St Andrews in the First Division. Portsmouth beat Aston Villa five-two (Peter Harris scoring all five), Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Chelsea four-nil (Terry Medwin hitting three) and Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City four-one. Fulham were the Second Division's early pace-seters, thrashing Sunderland six-two with a Johnny Haynes hat-trick. By contrast, the other relegated side, Sheffield Wednesday seemed to be enjoying life in the second tier, winning for the third time in four matches, four-one against Stoke City. Brighton & Hove Albion suffered a second heavy defeat of the season, five-nil at Liverpool whilst Lincoln and Grimsby Town shared eight goals (Ron Raffert scoring all four of Grimsby's).
Uncertain Mercy broadcast. Max Varnel's Moment Of Indiscression - starring Ronald Howard and Lana Morris - premiered.
The Blackpool Illuminations broadcast. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'King Creole'/'Dixieland Rock', Tony Mansell's 'Impossible'/'Who Are They To Say?' and The Olympics' 'Western Movies'/'Well! (Baby Please Don't Go)' released. John Kirsh's The Salvage Gang - starring Amanda Coxell, Frazer Hines and Christopher Warbey - premiered.
The first episode of Jennings At School and George Formby Presents Formby Favourites broadcast. Blackburn Rovers' impressive start to the First Division came to a shattering end with the six-one defeat at Manchester United. Arsenal beat Everton by the same score at Goodison Park (David Herd scoring four). Newcastle United won three-one at Tottenham. Bolton Wanderers went top of the table with a two-nil victory over Birmingham City. Phil Woosnam scored three in Leyton Orient's five-one defeat of Barnsley in the Second Division. Fulham's one hundred per cent start was maintained as they beat Ipswich Town three-two. Ken Booth scored four in Bradford Park Avenue's four-one win at Gateshead in the Fourth Division.
The Heiress broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Johnn Gilling's The Man Outside - starring Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick and Anthony Newley - premiered.
Tonight In Geneva broadcast. Alun Owen's Progress In The Park - starring Frances Cuka and Kenneth Cope - broadcast on The Home Service. Seventeen year old Bobby Moore made his debut for West Ham United in a three-two victory over Manchester United that took The Hammers top of the First Division. It was the first of nine hundred and sixty first class matches for in a career - with West Ham, Fulham and England - that lasted until 1977. In the process he broke Jimmy Ruffell's appearance record for West Ham, established in 1937. (Moore's West Ham appearance record was, subsequently, broken by both Old Frank Lampard and Billy Bonds.)
Old Acquaintance and The Woolwich Searchlight Tattoo broadcast. Matthew Hodgart's Lots Of Fun At Finegans Wake broadcast on The Third Programme. Arsenal thrashed Bolton Wanderers six-one in the First Division (Gordon Nutt scoring twice). Everton lost their sixth consecutive game, three-one at Burnley.
Yolande Pompey knocked out Randolph Turpin inside two rounds in a light-heavyweight bout at Perry Barr Stadium, Birmingham. In the First Divison, Chelsea won a remarkable game against Newcastle United, six-five at Stamford Bridge. In the Second Division, Malcolm Graham scored four in Barnsley's seven-one victory against Charlton Athletic. Fulham won again, four-two at Lincoln City. Johnny Edgar hit four in Gillingham's four-two defeat of barrow in the Fourth Division.
Robert Barr's Flying Ambulance broadcast. Stuart Urban born in Newport, Isle Of Wight.
The TV début of John Woodvine in the opening episode of Champion Road. Irvin Yeaworth's The Blob - starring Steve McQueen - premiered. Lord Rockingham's XI's 'Hoots Mon'/'Blue Train', Little Willie John's 'Let's Rock While The Rockin's Good'/'You're A Sweetheart', Jeremy Lubbock's 'Odd Man Out'/'Too Bad You're Not Around' and Laurie London's 'My Mother'/'Darktown Strutters Ball' released.

The Dover Road broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Nottingham Forest defeated West Ham United four-nil meaning that Arsenal, winners of the North London derby with a three-one victory at Highbury, went top of the table. Sixty five thousand watched that game whilst sixty thousand were at St James' Park where Newcastle and Manchester United drew one-all. Everton won their first game of the season, thre-one at Manchester City. Charlie Livesey scored four in Southampton's six-one defeat of Hull City in the Third Division. Principal photography began on Terence Fisher's The Hound Of The Baskervilles. The first episodes of The Adventures Of William Tell, Mary Britten MD and Jack Good's Oh Boy! broadcast on ATV London, the latter instantly turning seventeen year old Cliff Richard - who performed 'Move It', 'Don't Bug Me, Baby' and, with house band Lord Rockingham's XI, 'Hoots Mon' - into a superstar overnight. Robert Christopher Nankeville born in Ashford, Middlesex.
The first episode of Good Wives broadcast. The first episodes of HG Wells' Invisible Man - Secret Experiment, Dotto and It Can Happen Tomorrow broadcast on ATV London. The Pillars Of Midnight broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand.
Picture Parade featured reviews of The Defiant Ones and Carry On Sergeant. Dickie Valentine featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Rush Hour - 'a Musical Weekly by Hazel Adair' - broadcast on Associated-rediffusion. The first UK broadcast of Make Me Laugh on Granada.
The Commentator broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
Patrick Moore interviewed Doctor Harlow Shapley about his theories on the size and scale of the universe in The Sky At Night. Guy Green's The Snorkel - starring Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John and Mandy Miller - premiered. In the First Division, Eddy Brown scored four in Birngham City's four-one defeat of Leeds United. Albert Scanoln scored a hat-trick for Manchester United, who beat West Ham United by the same score. Luton Town thrashed Manchester City five-one to go top, ahead of Wolves who had a four-nil victory against Aston Villa whilst West Bromwich Albion won six-two at Portsmouth. Johnny Haynes scored all of Fulham's goals in their four-two defeat of Lincoln City in the Second Division. Sheffield Wednesday thumped Sunderland six-nil (Redfern Froggatt socring three).
Scenes from Brouhaha - starring Peter Sellers - broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Lester Powell's Night Of The Plague. Linda Frances Elide Lusardi born in Wood Green.
Sceptre's Challenge broadcast. George Abbott and Stanley Donen's adaptation of Damn Yankees! - starring Gwen Verdon and Tab Hunter - premiered. In the UK, the movie was retitled What Lola Wants, allegedly due to the BBFC's refusal to grant a certificate to anything with the word 'damn' in the title. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'Times Are Getting Hard, Boys'/'Lonesome Traveller', Sparkie Williams' 'Philip Marsden Introduces Sparkie The 1958 Champion Talking Budgerigar'/'Sparkie The Fiddle (Sparkie Williams - Jailbird)', Neville Taylor's 'Tears On My Pillow'/'I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire', Joy & David's 'Whoopee!'/'My Oh My' and Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues'/'Love Again' released. The first episode of The Larkins broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion. Philip Broadley's Annabella broadcast in the Television Playhouse strand.
Jean Renoir's Woman On The Beach shown in The Saturday Film strand. In the First Division, West Ham United beat Chelsea four-two, Newcastle United won three-one at Wolves, Arsenal defeated Manchester City four-one and Everton beat Leeds United three-two. Bolton Wanderers returned to the top of the table with a three-two win over Nottingham Forest. Fulham remained unbeaten at the top of the Second Division, beating Derby County four-two. The first episode of The Bob Monkhouse Show broadcast on ATV London.
The Noble Spaniard broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. John Guillermin's I Was Monty's Double - staring Clifton James, John Mills, Michael Hordern and Leslie Phillips - premiered. Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo born in Southgate. Penelope Jane Smith born in Eastwiid, Noittinghamshire.
Tara Sirkar read Bhakti The Dog in the A Tale from India strand. Day of Wrath broadcast in The Home Service strand. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Mummified Priest broadcast. Preston North End topped the First Division after a three-one win against Leicester City. Plymouth Argyle remained top of the Third Division, beating Doncaster Rovers four-nil. Colin Addison scored twice for York City who headed the Fourth Division following a four-nil defeat of Crewe Alexandra. Coventry City thrashed Aldershot seven-one (Jimmy Rogers scoring four and Ray Straw three).
John Manchip White's Hour Of The Rat broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
The Gun Fight at OK Corral broadcast in the You Are There strand. Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones - starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier - premiered.
Friend Of The People broadcast. Rudolph Cartier's Passionate Summer - starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell - premiered.
Using Our Eyes: Have You A Seeing Eye? broadcast. The first episodes of the TV version of Educating Archie and Dick & The Duchess - starring Patrick O'Neil and Hazel Court - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Day Of Retirement broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The First Division highlights included Luton Town's four-one victory over Preston North End. Jimmy Greaves scored three in Chelsea's four-one defeat of Nottingham Forest. Birmingham City beat Leciester City four-two. Everton remained bottom of the table despite a three-two victory at West Bromwich Albion. The Second Division's two runaway leaders, Fulham and Sheffield Wednesday both won again (two-nil at Leyton Orient and four-one at Scunthorpe United respectively). Basement side, Sunderland, lost again - two-one at Bristol Rovers.
The first episode of Look Here - introduced by Max Jaffa - broadcast. Florence Hayes Turner's The Untouchable broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Leave It To Todhunter broadcast. Hardy Amies featured on Desert Island Discs. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Mountain In The World broadcast.
The first episode of Eye On Research broadcast. Don Chaffey's The Man Upstairs - starring Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee and Donald Houston - and Cyril Frankel's She Didn't Say No! - starring Eileen Herlie, Perlita Neilson, Niall MacGinnis, Jack MacGowran, Ray McAnally and Ian Bannen - premiered. Chelsea made their European debut, winning three-nil in Denmark against Stævnet Copenhagen in the Firtst Round of the Inter-Citiies Fairs Cup.
The first episode of Claude Arthaud and Francois Hebert-Stevens's Chinese Journey broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. AMPEX video-recording equipment were used for the first time at Lime Grove studios. Max Varnel's Links Of Justice - starring Jack Watling and Sarah Lawson and Don Sharp's The Adventures of Hal Five - starring William Russell, John Glyn-Jones, David Morrell and Edwin Richfield - premiered.
Cedric Cliffe and Arthur Benjamin's opera A Tale Of Two Cities broadcast. Gilbert Gunn's Girls At Sea - starring Guy Rolfe, Alan White, Anne Kimbell, Michael Hordern and Ronald Shiner - premiered. Daniel Peacock born in Hammersmith. Plymouth Argyle returned to the top of the Third Division with a six-four victory at Doncaster Rovers.
Lion's Den broadcast, General Sir Brian Horrocks meeting Quakers who challenged his negative attitude towards Pacifism. Eddie Fontaine's 'Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)'/'Don't Ya Know', Tommy Steele's 'Come On, Let's Go'/'Put A Ring On Her Finger', Tommy Edwards' 'It's All In The Game'/'Please Love Me Forever', Ivan's 'Real Wild Child'/'Oh, You Beautiful Doll', Ron Goodwin & His Concert Orchestra's 'Wagon Train'/'Josita (Theme From The Film Sea Fury)', Maureen Evans's 'Fever'/'Born Too Late', Bobby Freeman's 'Betty Lou Got A New Pair Of Shoes'/'Starlight' and Charlie Drake's 'Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)'/'Itchy Twitchy Feeling' released.
England and Northern Ireland drew three-three in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Bobby Charlton scored twice with Tom Finney adding a third (his thirtieth international goal, passing Nat Lofthouse's record). For Ireland, Billy Cush, Bertie Peacock and Tommy Casey were on target. Manchester United's Wilf McGuinness made his England debut. Without Charlton, McGuinness and Harry Gregg, United lost four-nil to Wolves in the First Division at Molineux. Elsewhere, Arsenal beat West Bromwich Albion four-three (Derek Kevan hitting three for the visitors and still ending on the losing side), Burnley defeated Chelsea four-nil and West Ham United beat Blackburn Rovers six-three (Vic Keeble scored four). There were goals aplenty in the Third Division, with Colchester United thrashing Stockport Count eight-two, Bury defeating Rochdale six-one and Southend United beating Doncaster rovers five-nil. Queens Park Rangers won four-three at Mansfield Town. Fourth Division leaders York City won five-one at Hartlepools united with Peter Wragg scoring three. The first episode of The Light Programme's newly renamed and extended Saturday Club broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of The Steve Allen Show. Arms & The Man broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Facts & Figures: Race broadcast. Desert Island Discs featured Harry Belafonte. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Great Bombardon broadcast. FA Cup winners Bolton Wanderers beat League champions Wolves four-one in the FA Charity Shield at Burnden Park (Nat Lofthouse scoring twice).
AL Barker's Pringle broadcast. John Sturges's The Old Man & The Sea - starring Spencer Tracy - premiered. Rosalyn Landor born in Hampstead.
The first episode of Riverside One broadcast. Duane Eddy, His Twangy Guitar & The Rebel's 'Ramrod'/'The Walker' and Bobby Darin's 'Queen Of The Hop'/'Lost Love' released.
A Shaft Of Light broadcast. Maxwell Munden's The Bank Raiders - starring Peter Reynolds, Sandra Dorne and Sydney Tafler - premiered.
Highlights of the London Film Festival broadcast. Chuck Berry's 'Carol'/'Hey Pedro' and Dick Francis' 'Take Me In Your Arms'/'It Must Be Magic' released.
The first episode of Grandstand broadcast. Tottenham Hotspur beat Everton ten-four in the First Division with Bobby Smith scoring four. Earlier in the day, former club cpatain Bill Nicholson had been appointed as Spurs' new manager succeeding Jimmy Anderson. West Bromwich Albion won four-one at Aston Villa whilst Blackburn Rovers defeated Preston North End by the same score. Newly signed from Swansea Town, Ivor Allchurch scored twice on his Newcastle debut in their three-one victory over Leicester City. Pioneer 1, the first NASA spacecraft was launched to study Earth's magnetic fields. The third stage provided insufficient thrust to reach its intended target, the Moon, leaving it sub-orbital. Robert Day's The Haunted Strangler - starring Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan and Anthony Dawson - premiered.
Gracie broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Aldous Huxley was interviewed by John Lehmann on Monitor. Wolverhampton Wanderers played their first European Cup game, drawing two-two at home to Schalke 04 in the First round First leg. They lost the second leg in Germany two-one six days later.
Checkmate broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. Richard Dimbleby featured on Desert Island Discs. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Vanishing Room broadcast. John Pomeroy's Dublin Nightmare - starring William Sylvester, Marla Landi and Richard Leech - premiered.
Peter R Newman's Yesterday's Enemy broadcast. Pat Jackson's Virgin Island - starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier - premiered. Birmingham City began their second Inter-Citieis Fairs Cup campaign with a two-two draw in West Germany against a Cologne XI.
Dan Mannix's Hunting With Eagles broadcast in the Travellers Tales strand. Ernest Morris's Three Crooked Men - starring Gordon Jackson, Sarah Lawson, Eric Pohlmann, Warren Mitchell and Michael Goodliffe - premiered.
The first episode of Blue Peter - presented by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams - broadcast. John Huston's The Roots Of Heaven - starring Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles, Herbert Lom and Jacqueline Fogt - premiered. The first episode of African Patrol broadcast on Associated Rediffusion.
The first episode of Richard and Dilys Dimbleby's Passport broadcast. The Teddy Bears' 'To Know Him, Is To Love Him'/'Don't You Worry My Little Pet', Vince Eager's 'No More'/'Five Days, Five Days', Eddie Silver's 'Rockin' Robin'/'The Ways Of A Woman In Love', Glen Mason's 'The End'/'Fall In Love' and The Vipers' 'Summertime Blues'/'Liverpool Blues' released.
The first showing on Crossfire in The Saturday Film strand. Australian Walkabout: Outposts broadcast. Tottenham Hotspur won four-three at Leicester City in the First Division whilst Newcastle United won by the same score at Preston (Len White scoring a hat-trick). Everton beat Manchester United three-two, Bolton Wanderers returned to the top with a four-nil victory over Blackpool. Sheffield Wednesday remained at the head of the Second Division with a six-nil defeat of Grimsby Town. Fulham lost for the first time all season, one-nil at home to Liverpool. Wilf Carter scored three as Plymouth Argyle won four-one at Mansfield Town in the Third Division.
Despite Stirling Moss winning the Moroccan Grand Prix at Casablanca, Mike Hawthorne finished second and won the World Drivers' Championship by one point. The Three Daughters Of Monsieur Dupont broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
You Can't Die Twice broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. Elizabeth Seal featured on Desert Island Discs. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Great Bank Of England Robbery broadcast.
Who Fought Alone: Epitaph On A Scottish Soldier broadcast.
England beat the USSR five-nil at Wembley in a friendly international. Johnny Haynes scored a hat-trick with further goals from Nat Lofthouse (his thirtieth international strike) and a Bobby Charlton penalty. Sheffield United's Graham Shaw made his England debut. Tom Finney made his seventy sixth and final appearance for the national side. On Call To A Nation broadcast.
Devil Fish broadcast in the Look strand. Conway Twitty's 'It's Only Make Believe'/'I'll Try' released.
Alamein Reunion broadcast. The Last Laugh broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. The Vipers' 'Summertime Blues'/'Liverpool Blues' and Conway Twitty's 'It's Only Make Believe'/'I'll Try' released. Maxwell Munden's The Bank Raiders - starring Peter Reynolds, Sandra Dorne, Sydney Tafler and Rose Hill - and Brian Desmond Hurst's Behind The Mask - starring Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner, Niall MacGinnis and Vanessa Redgrave - premiered.
The Brookwood Memorial broadcast. Rachel Grieve's Four For Solitaire broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group and Cliff Richard featured on Saturday Club. First Division highlights included Chelsea's five-two defeat of Leicester City, Newcastle's four-one win against Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers' four-two victory over Arsenal. In the Second Division, Graham Leggat scored three as Fulham won three-two at Middlesbrough. Simon Trevor Kent born in London. Philip William Daniels born in Islington.
Wanted - One Body! broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Lost City With JB Priestley broadcast. PG Wodehouse featured in an interview filmed in New York in Monitor. The first episode of After Hours broadcast on ATV London.
Ted Donovan's Crime Time broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. Plot On The Moon broadcast on The Home Service. A remake of The Goon Show episode The Albert Memorial broadcast.
Philip King and Alan Bromly's Postman's Knock broadcast. The State Opening Of Parliament broadcast for the first time. Val Guest's Further Up The Creek - starring David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd and Shirley Eaton - premiered.
King Solomon's Mines broadcast in the Buried Treasure strand. Robert Wise's I Want To Live! - starring Susan Hayward - premiered.
The first episode of You Take Over - John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman's The Governor - broadcast. Cowslip 58 broadcast.
The Miss With The Yellow Hair broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. The Crickets''It's So Easy'/'Lonesome Tears' and Bertice Reading's 'My Big Best Shoes'/'No More In Life' released. Debra Ann McGee born in Surrey. Ted Willis' Strictly For The Sparrows broadcast in the Television Playhouse strand on Associated Rediffusion, featuring the TV debut of Billy Fury. The first episode of Cooper's Capers broadcast.
Sports Special featured highlights of First Division leaders Arsenal's three-two victory over Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion's two-one defeat of Wolves. Elsewhere Manchester City beat Tottenham five-one. Forty six goals were scored in the Second Division with Sheffield Wednesday remaining top after a five-nil victory over Rotherham United. Exeter City went top of the Fourth Division, winning four-nil against Bradford Park Avenue. Jimmy Rushing, Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band and June Marlow & Matt Monro With The Bill McGuffie Trio featured on Saturday Club.
The first episode of The Lost King broadcast. George Sherman's The Son of Robin Hood - starring Al Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, Marius Goring, Philip Friend and Delphi Lawrence - premiered.
The Window broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. Edmundo Ros featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Sahara Desert Statue broadcast.
The first episode of The Mad O'Haras broadcast. Maclean Rogers' Mark Of The Phoenix - starring Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence, Anton Diffring and Roger Delgado - premiered. Chuck Berry's One Dozen Berrys, rtha Kitt's 'I Want To Be Evil'/'Oh John' and Jane Morgan's 'The Day The Rains Came'/'Le Jour Ou La Pluie Viendra' released.
The Board Of Management broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
Robin Hill's Love Thy Neighbour broadcast in the Personal Playhouse strand. George Pollock's Don't Panic Chaps! - starring Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Nadja Regin and Harry Fowler and Veit Harlan's Ich Werde Dich Auf Händen Tragen - starring Kristina Söderbaum, Hans Holt, Hans Nielsen and Barbara Haller premiered. Ingrid Marcella Lacey born in Godalming.
The first episode of Our Mutual Friend broadcast. The John Barry Seven's 'Farrago'/'Bee's' and Ritchie Valens' 'Come On, Let's Go'/'Dooby Dooby Wah' released. Guy Green's Sea Of Sand - starring Michael Craig, John Gregson, Richard Attenborough, Barry Foster and Percy Herbert - premiered.
Ruby Murray, Ronnie Carroll, Russ Conway, Audrey Jeans, Vince Eager and Craig Douglas featured on Six-Five Special. In the First Division, Nottingham Forest defeated Manchester City four-nil. Brian Clough and Alan Peacock both scored hat-tricks in Middlesbrough's six-one victory over Scunthorpe United in the Second Division. Port Vale topped the Fourth Division, beating Exeter City five-three.
A Midsummer Night's Dream broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Solo For Canary broadcast. Tommy Steele featured on The Home Service's People Today strand. The Goon Show episode I Was Monty's Treble broadcast.
Willis Hall's Air Mail From Cyprus broadcast. The first episode of Charlie Drake - The Patriotic Singer - broadcast. Bell, Book & Candle - starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon, The Horse's Mouth - starring Alec Guinness and Montgomery Tully's I Only Arsked! - starring Bernard Bresslaw, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass, Charles Hawtrey, Norman Rossington, David Lodge, Michael Bentine and Francis Matthews - premiered.
The Eye On Research episode Breakthrough - featuring Professor Fred Hoyle - broadcast. Wolverhampton Wanderers kicked-off their European Cup campaign with a two-all draw against Schalke 04.
Excerpts From London Sketches broadcast.
The first episode of Second Inquiry broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'Tom Dooley'/'Rock O' My Soul', Peter Sellers' 'I'm So Ashamed'/'A Drop Of The Hard Stuff', Maureen Evans's 'The Hula Hoop Song'/'Hoopa Hoola', The Vernons Girls' 'White Bucks & Saddle Shoes'/'Lost & Found' and Cliff Richard & The Drifters' 'High Class Baby'/'My Feet Hit The Ground' released.
The first episode of The Rebel Heiress broadcast. In the First Division Bolton Wanderers defeated Manchester United six-three and Leicester City beat Aston Villa by the same score (Derek Hines hitting four). Manchester City won five-one against Chelsea. The First Round of the FA Cup the major giant-killing saw Tooting & Mitchum United defeated Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic three-one. Buxton thrashed Crook Town four-one, Hereford United won two-one at Guildford City, Headington United beat Margate three-two, King's Lynn defeated Merthyr Tydfil two-one and Blyth Spartans won two-one at Morecambe. Accrington Stanley beat Workington five-one, Oldham Athletic won two-nil at Denaby United, Doncaster Rovers thumped Consett five-nil, Carlisle United won five-one at Heanor Town, Southampton hammered Woking four-one, Tranmere Rovers thrashed Bishop Auckland eight-one and Coventry City won five-two at Weymouth. Peter Hooper scored three in Bristol Rovers seven-three victory over Grimsby Town in the Second Division. Ipswich Town beat Brighton & Hove Albion five-three with Ray Crawford scoring a hat-trick.
The Lower Depths broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first episode of The Idiot's Guide To Good Manners broadcast in the Focus strand. June Paul featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The One Million Pound Penny broadcast. Andre De Toth's The Two-Headed Spy - starring Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox, Geoffrey Bayldon, Kenneth Griffith and Michael Caine - premiered. In an FA Cup replay, Millwall beat Athenian League Hitchin Town two-one.
Atlantic Station broadcast. Charles Crichton's Floods of Fear - starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack and Harry H Corbett - premiered. Schalke 04 knocked Wolves out of the European Cup at the First Round stage with a two-one win in Gelsenkirchen.
Stanley Dangerfield visited Billy Smart's Winkfield Zoo in the Good Companions strand. Houseboat - starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren - premiered. Midland League South Shields caused the major shock of the FA Cup First Round, beating Fourth Division Crewe Alexandra five-nil in a replay at Simonside Hill. Don Robson and Norman Crickett both scored twice with Alan Monkhouse adding the fifth. Fourth Division Watford won two-nil at Third Division promotion-chasing Reading.
Murder In Mind broadcast. In a further FA Cup shock, Yeovil Town defeated Third Division Southend United. Peterborough United won three-two at Kettering Town whilst Worcester City beat fellow Southern League side Chelmsford City three-oine. Shrewsbury Town defeated the Hampshire League's Newport five-nil.
Denis Healey and Sir Keith Joseph featured on the Who Goes Home? strand. Buddy Holly's 'Heartbeat'/'Well ... All Right' released. Cooper's Capers broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Emlyn Williams's Trespass broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Cleo Laine, The Mike McKenzie Quartet, The Michael Sammes Singers With The Ken Jones Four and Johnny Christmas & The Sunspots featured on Saturday Club. Arsenal remained top of the First Division with a three-nil win at Chelsea. Alan Shackleton scored three in Leeds United's four-two victory at Blackburn Rovers. Birmingham City won four-nil at Tottenham and Portsmouth beat Burnley four-two. Don Kitchenbrand hit a hat-trick in Sunderland's four-nil win at Rotherham United in the Second Division. Middlesbrough thrashed Derby County five-nil.
The Uninvited broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Inn of The Sixth Happiness - starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jürgens and Robert Donat - premiered.
James Fisher appeared on Speaking Personally. Defy The Foul Fiend broadcast on The Home Service. The Goon Show episode The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy broadcast. The probable date that Johnny & The Moondogs (a name briefly adopted by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison in preference to The Quarrymen) entered Carroll Levis's Search For A Star talent competition, held at The Ardwick Hippodrome, Manchester. Performing two Buffy Holly songs, 'Think It Over' and 'Rave On', according to George's friend Arthur Kelly who accompanied them to the show, they went down quite well with the audience but, unable to afford an overnight stay, had to leave before the finale to catch the last train back to Liverpool. The date of The Moondogs' appearance was, for a long time, claimed to be in November 1959 but research by the historian Mark Lewisohn suggests a 1958 date as more likely.
Clemence Dane's Granite broadcast.
England drew two-two with Wales in the Home International championship at Villa Park. Peter Broadbent scored both goals. Arsenal's Danny Clapton made his international debut. Nat Lofthouse played his thirty third - and final - game for the national side. Alvin Rakoff's Passport To Shame - starring Diana Dors, Herbert Lom and Eddie Constantine - premiered.
Hartlepools United defeated Rochdale two-one in an FA Cup First Round second replay at Old Trafford.
Mother Rabbit's Family broadcast. Neville Taylor's 'The Miracle Of Christmas'/'A Baby Lay Sleeping', Otis Williams & His Charms' 'The Secret'/'Don't Wake Up The Kids', Charlie Drake's 'Tom Thumb's Tune'/'Goggle Eye Ghee', The Vernons Girls' 'White Bucks & Saddle Shoes'/'Lost & Found' and Dick James' 'Daddy's Little Girl'/'When You're Young' released.
Blackpool's four-one victory at Arsenal featured on Sports Special. Elsewhere in the First Division, Manchester United won four-nil at Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion defeated Tottenham Hotspur four-three. Roy Dwight scored a hat-trick in Nottingham Forest's three-nil win at Luton Town. Second Division leaders Fulham and second-placed Sheffield Wednesday both enjoyed big wins, five-two against Barnsley and four-one over Huddersfield Town respectively. Joe Elkwood scored four in Leyton Orient's four-two defeat of Bristol City. John Goodchild hit three in Sunderland's four-one victory over Sheffield United. In the third Division, Joe McCole scored three as Bradford City thrashed Rochdale seven-one. Southampton beat leaders Plymouth Argyle five-one (Terry Paine scoring two). In all, one hundred and seventy six goals were scored across the four divisions. Chesterfield's two-two draw with Colchester united in the Third Division saw the debut of Gordon Banks, the first of six hundred and eighty one, games, for Chesterfield, Leicester City, Stoke City and England, in a caeer that lasted until 1973 when it was cut short by injuries sustained in a car accident.
Clemence Dane's Till Time Shall End broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. During a live production of James Forsyth's Underground in the Armchair Theatre strand, actor Gareth Jones complained of feeling unwell and then collapsed and died from a heart attack. Producer Sydney Newman instructed director Ted Kotcheff to continue with the play and 'shoot it like a football match,' meaning to follow the characters around as they improvised. Kotcheff hurriedly re-structured the story during a commercial break and was able to bring the play to an end without the missing character. While Kotcheff was on the studio floor, production assistant Verity Lambert directed camera movements from the gallery. The other cast members - who included Donald Houston, Ian Curry, Patricia Jessel, Warren Mitchell and Peter Bowles - were not informed that Jones had died until after the play had ended.
The Mighty Terror Sings Calypso broadcast in the Focus strand. Paul Robeson featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Mountain Eaters broadcast. Robert Day's Corridors Of Blood - starring Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Francis Matthews - premiered.
Jacques Gilles' A Bouquet For The President broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
Lonnie Donegan appeared on Crackerjack. Unusual Pets With Maxwell Knight broadcast in the Good Companions strand. The first episode of A Summer In Sicily broadcast. Raoul Wlash's The Sherrif of Fractured Jaw - starring Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull and Bruce Cabot - premiered.
The first episode of Private Investigator broadcast. George Pal's Tom Thumb - starring Russ Tamblin, Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - Auntie Mame and Seth Holt's Nowhere To Go - starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee and Geoffrey Keen - premiered.
Bells, Books & Croziers broadcast in the Buried Treasure strand. The Seventeen-To-Twenty Club broadcast on The Light Programme, presented by 'teenage celebrity' Gerry Dorsey (later Englebert Humperdinck). Vince Taylor's 'Right Behind You Baby'/'I Like Love', Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra's 'Nick Nack Paddy Whack (The Children's Marching Song)'/'The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness', Ken Platt's 'Ting Tong Tang'/'Snowy The Christmas Kitten', The Four Lads' 'The Girl On Page Forty Four'/'The Mocking Bird', Connie Francis's 'You Always Hurt The One You Love'/'In The Valley Of Love' and Shirley Bassey's 'Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me'/'There's Never Been A Night' released.
The Duke In Darkness broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Highlight of the First Division fixtures was Newcastle United's five-two victory over Burnley. Manchester United defeated Leicester City four-one. Arsenal remained top with a one-nil win at Portsmouth. In the FA Cup Second Round, Accrington Stanley thumped Buxton six-one, Stockpprt County won four-three at Blyth Spartans, a Bradford derby ended with City winning two-nil at Park Avenue, Brentford beat King's Lynn three-one, Oldham Athletic defeated South Shields two-nil and Newport County won by the same score at Hereford United. Peterborough United had a four-two victory over Headington United. In the two big surprisies of the round, a late Paddy Hasty goal gave Totting & Mitchum of the Isthmian League a two-one win over Northampton Town whilst Tommy Brown and Harry Knowles both scored twice as Southern Leasgue Worcester City defeated Millwall five-two. Sheffield Wednesday returned to the top of the Second Division with a one-nil win at Barnsley, courtesy of a Roy Shiner goals. Ronnie Barker appeared on The Home Service's Variety Playhouse. Nicholas Wulstan Park born in Preston.
The first episode of Field-Marshal Montgomery's Command In Battle broadcast.
Facts & Figures: Sickness & Health broadcast. The Sky Line broadcast on The Home Service.The Goon Show episode The Childe Harolde Rewarde broadcast.
Troy Kennedy Martin's Incident At Six Echo broadcast. Gerald Thomas's A Solitary Child - starring Philip Friend, Barbara Shelley, Sarah Lawson, Rona Anderson and Julia Lockwood - premiered.
Sports Review Of 1958 broadcast; swimmer Ian Black won the Sports Personality Of The Year award. Australia won the first Ashes test at Brisbane by eight wickets. In a low-scoring match, England were dismissed for one hundred and thirty four in their first innings (Richie Benuad, Alan Davidson and the notorious Ian Meckiff each taking three wickets) and one hundred and ninety eight in the second, Trevor Bailey top scoring in both. Australia had only a small first innings lead, with Peter Loader taking four for fifty six but Norm O'Neill's seventy one helped then to reach the required one hundred and forty seven. EW Swanton described the game as 'the dullest and most depressing I have ever watched.' The England tour manager, Freddie Brown, wanted to make an official complaint about Meckiff's questionable bowling action, but captain Peter May thought this look like sour grapes. Instead they talked, unofficially, to the Australian chairman of selectors Sir Donald Bradman who retorted: 'What of the action of the England bowlers Tony Lock and Peter Loader?' and suggested that they should 'first of all put your own house in order.' The first episode of The State & The Theatre broadcast on The Third Programme. Fourth Division Darlington beat Third Division Halifax Town three-nil at Feethams in an FA Cup Second Round replay.
Scenes from the Saville Theatre's production of Expresso Bongo - featuring Paul Scofield - broadcast. Colchester United won seven-one at Yeovil in an FA Cup replay, with Neil Langman scoring four. Ronald Kinnoch's The Secret Man - starring Marshall Thompson, John Loder and Anne Aubrey - premiered.
Forty Below broadcast in the Experiment strand.
The first UK TV showing of Holiday Affair in The Saturday Film strand. Pye recorded Lonnie Donegan's single, 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)' live at the New Theatre, Oxford. Manchester United won four-three at Preston North End in the First Division. West Bromwich Albion topped the table after a four-nil victory over Chelsea. The Dial 999 episode Fifty Thousand Hands - guest-starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton - broadcast on ATV London.
The Laughing Woman broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The Craters On The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Aaron Copland featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Seagoon Memoirs broadcast.
Frankie Howerd's Pity Poor Francis broadcast. Wolf Rilla's Bachelor Of Hearts - starring Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Eric Barker and Miles Malleson - premiered.
Elaine Morgan's Rest You Merry broadcast. Rayner Heppenstall's adaptation of Muriel Spark's The Comforters broadcast on The Third Programme. Robert Day's Corridors Of Blood - starring Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Betta St John, Finlay Currie and Francis Matthews - and Anthony Asquith's The Doctor's Dilemma - starring Leslie Caron and Dirk Bogarde - premiered.
Arthur Swinson's The Missing Crucifix broadcast in the Private Investigator strand. Separate Tables - starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster and Wendy Hiller - and Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running - starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine - premiered.
Patrick Moore's Seeing Stars: Wanderers In Space broadcast. Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Rock & Roll'/'Joe Joe Gun' released.
The Magistrate broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The probable public debut of Japage Three (formerly The Quarrymen and Johnny & The Moondogs) at the wedding reception of George Harrison's brother, Harry and his bride, Irene McCann. The event was held in Childwell Abbey Hotel, Speke. A photograph taken at the event shows John Lennon without a guitar, his Gallotone Champion - 'guaranteed not to split' - having, seemingly, recently met with a nasty accident. In the First Division, West Ham United defeated Portsmouth six-nil. Bolton won four-three at Leeds United to go top of the league. Brian Clough scored three in Middlesbrough's six-four victory at Brighton & Hove Albion in the Second Division. Derek Pace also scored four as Sheffield United thrashed Charlton Athletic five-nil. Fulham lost for the third time in five games, four-one at Stoke City but still remained clear in second place, behind Sheffield Wednesday, who also lost four-nil at Swansea Town (Mel Charles scoring three). Coventry City won four-one at Darlington to go top of the Fourth Division.
A Cuckoo In The Nest broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.

The first episode of Nigel Kneale's Quatermass & The Pit - starring André Morell - broadcast. Charlie Drake featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode Queen Anne's Rain broadcast. Tracy Louise Ward born in Kensington.
Tom Barnardo broadcast. strand.
The first UK TV showing of Higher & Higher. Marvin Kane's The Bonus broadcast in The Home Service's Wednesday Matinee
The first annual Christmas Night With The Stars broadcast, introduced by David Nixon. May's! Christmas! Cracker! broadcast on The Home Service. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Bill & Father Christmas broadcast on The Light Programme. In the First Division, Bill perry scored three as Blackpool beat Present North End four-two. Alf's Button and Max Bygraves Entertains broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Ericson The Viking episode of Hancock's Half Hour broadcast. Frank Vosper's Love From A Stranger broadcast. The Boxing Day First Divison fixtures saw big wins for Birmingham City (six-one over Manchester City), Luton Town (six-three against Arsenal), Wolverhampton Wanderers (five-three at Portsmouth) and West Ham United (four-one at Tottenham). Wolves went top after previous leaders Bolton Wanderers lost at Everton. Aston Villa, who lost two-one at Manchester united were bottom. Fulham returned to winning ways in the Second Division with a three-one vicotry over Brighton & Hove Albion. Leaders Sheffield Wednesday thrashed Lincoln City seven-nil. Plymouth Argyle stayed top of the Third Division, winning three-two against Queens Park Rangers. Hull City, who beat Mansfield Town five-two, were clear in second. In the Fourth Division, Shrewsbury Town thumped Southport six-two, with four goals from Colin Whittaker. Lonelyhearts - starring Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy and Maureen Stapleton - premiered. The Jubilee Show broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
So Many Children broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Cliff Richard & The Drifters and The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. Wolves defeated relegation-troubled Portsmouth seven-nil in the First Divison. Colin Booth and Norman Deeley both scoring hat-tricks.
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Audrey Russell's This Year Of Space broadcast on the Home Service. The first UK broadcast of Sea Hunt on ATV London. Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice's The Criminals broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand.
Man On The Move: The Motor Car broadcast in the Focus strand. The Goon Show episode The Battle Of Spion Kop broadcast.
Evan Jones's In A Backward Country broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
The first UK broadcast of The Isle Of Favignana. Michael Home's Village Cricket broadcast on The Home Service.