1959

1959
Geoffrey Trease's Time Out Of Mind broadcast. Lifeline 'resumes its fortnightly series to examine the psychological and moral problems of our time. There is an increasing demand in Britain for tougher treatment of men and youths convicted of crimes of violence and cruelty. The issue is simple, can whipping reform?' Japage Three performed at Wilson Hall, Liverpool. The event was a late Christmas party for The Speke Bus Depot Social Club. George Harrison's father, Harry, was the club's chairman. It was, by subsequently accounts, a rather drunken and ramshackle performance. Bury The Hatchet broadcast on The Home Service.
Helen Wills-Moody weas profiled in the Hall of Fame strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Underpaid! Or Grandad's SOS broadcast. The Soviet Union's Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. A malfunction in the ground-based control system caused an error in the upper stage rocket's burn and the spacecraft missed the Moon by five thousand nine hundred kilometres. Luna 1 was subsequenly renamed Mechta.
Rod Stirling's The Dark Side Of The Earth broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The first episode of Dig This! broadcast. Earl Attlee's A Prime Minister Remembers broadcast. In the First Division, Newcastle United defeated Everton four-nil, Arsenal won three-two at Leicester City and Chelsea won two-one at league leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers. Liverpool moved into the Second Division promotion places for the first time all season after a three-one victory over Sunderland. Bill Bradbuy scored a second hat-trick in a wekk for Hull City who beat Bradford City four-nil in the Third Division. Notts County and Halifax Town shared eight goals at Meadow Lane.
The first episode of the BBC's second adaptation of The Cabin In The Clearing broadcast. EDS Corner's The Stone Ship - starring Barry Foster, Ian Hendry and Kenneth Cope - broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. John Paddy Carstairs' The Square Peg - starring Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman and Edward Chapman and Darrell Catling's The Cat Gang - starring Francesca Annis, John Pike and Jeremy Bulloch - premiered.
Australia won the second Ashes test at Melbourne by eight wickets. England scored two hundred and fifty nine in their first innings with Peter May hitting one hundred and thirteen. Australia replied with three hundred and eight, Neil Harvey top-scoring with one hundred and sixty seven. Brian Statham took seven for fifty seven. In England's second innings Ian Meckiff's alleged 'bowling' skittled the tourists for eighty seven. The English press, predictably, thought England had been 'thrown out.' The Goon Show episode Ned's Atomic Dustbin broadcast. A report on Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution featured on Panorama. Max Varnel's The Great Van Robbery - starring Denis Shaw and Kay Callard - premiered.
The first episodes of New Faces and It Happened To Me broadcast. Barbed Wire & Bracken broadcast. Jack Lee's The Captain's Table - starring John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, Nadia Gray and Maurice Denham - premiered.
The first episode of The Nightwatchman's Stories and Robert Barr's Medico broadcast.
Donald Wilson's The Gentle Art broadcast in the Two's Company strand. The Water Of Irwell broadcast.
Science On Show broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Set That Failed broadcast. Elvis Presley's 'One Night'/'I Got Stung', Maureen Evans's 'Kiss Me Honey, Honey Kiss Me'/'To Know Him Is To Love Him', Neil Sedaka's 'The Diary'/'No Vacancy', Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band's 'Saturday Jump'/'The Bear Steps Out', Bobby Freeman's 'Shame On You Miss Johnson'/'Need Your Love', Lloyd Price's 'Stagger Lee'/'You Need Love' and Jerry Lee Lewis's 'High School Confidential'/'Fools Like Me' released.
The first episode of Small World broadcast. Highlight of the FA Cup Third Round was Southern League Tooting & Mitcham United holding First Division Nottingham Forest to a two-two draw. Elsewhere, Wolves won four-two at Barrow and Luton Town thrashed Leeds United five-one. There were some surprises, notably Third Division Norwich City beating Manchester united three nil (Terry Bly scoring twice). Other Third Division sides who had victories over higher league sides included Bradford City (who won two-nil at Brighton & Hove Albion) and Brentford (who beat Barnsley by the same score). Rosemary Squires, Johnny Wiltshire & The Trebletones and Kenny Ball's Jazzmen With Kenny Baker featured on Saturday Club. As did 'folk, spasm and skiffie music' from The Terry Renn Group.
A Sleeping Clergyman broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Gordon Parry's Friends & Neighbours - starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing - premiered.
The first episode of John Sankey's Mammals In Britain broadcast. The latest Soviet rocket successes and recent volcanic activities on the Moon were featured on The Sky At Night. Ronald Searle appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode Who Is Pink Oboe? broadcast. Michael McCarthy's Operation Amsterdam - starring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox and Malcolm Keen - premiered.
Henry Cooper defeated Brian London on points to take the vacant British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
The first UK TV showing of No Minor Vices.
John Elliot's High Fidelity broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. A Year In Kathmandu broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Second Division Liverpool suffered a shock FA Cup Third Round exit losing two-one to Southern League Worcester City. Eighteen year old Tommy Skuse and Dick White own-goal did for The Reds. The third Ashes test at Sydney was drawn. Richie Benaud took five wickets in England's first innings of two hundred and nineteen and Australia had a first innings lead of one hundred and forty but a century from Colin Cowdrey and ninety two from Peter May enabled England to declare on two hundred and eighty seven for seven. Australia, set one hundred and fifty one to win in two hours, settled for a draw. Jim Laker took seven wickets in the match and Tony Lock four. Roy Swetman made his test debut. The opening night of Tyne-Tees Television, including the first episodes of Sports Desk (presented by George Taylor) and George & Alfred Black Present The Big Show.
The January Sky broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The New Nose broadcast. Eddie Cochran's 'C'mon Everybody'/'Don't Ever Let Me Go' and Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' 'Say Mama'/'Be Bop Boogie Boy' released. The first episodes of Tyne Tees' Let's Get Together and North East Roundabout broadcast.
The first episode of The Honey Siege broadcast. In the First Division, Arsenal beat Everton three-one.
The Skin Game broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Five Chinese Brothers broadcast. John Osborne featured on Desert Island Discs. Billy Fury's 'Maybe Tomorrow'/'Gonna Type A Letter' released. Several much-postponed FA Cup Third Round games took place, Chelsea winning four-one at Newcastle United whilst West Bromwich Albion beat Sheffield Wednesday two-nil. The first episode of Folks With Jokes broadcast on Tyne Tees.
An adaptation of A Quiet Man broadcast. The Goon Show episode The Call Of The West broadcast.
Alma Cogan appeared on Crackerjack.
Nesta Pain's Result Of An Accident broadcast. Jack Clayton's Room At The Top - starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret - premiered.
The Void broadcast in the Experiment strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Flight Of The Red Shadow broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Drifters' 'Livin' Lovin' Doll'/'Steady With You', and Jim Dale's 'Gotta Find A Girl'/'The Legend Of Nellie D' released.
Worcester City's FA Cup run ended with a two-nil home defeat to Sheffield United. The other two remaining non-league sides left in the competition also fell in much-delayed Third Round replays, Fulham winning one-nil at Peterborough United and Nottingham Forest beating Tooting & Mitchum united three-nil. However Second Division Grimsby Town knocked-out Manchester City, winning two-one at Maine Road. Norwich City accounted for another club from a higher-tier, beating Second Division Cardiff City three-two in the Fourth Round. James Roderick Moir born in Leeds. Japage Three probably appeared at an advertised dance at The Woolton Village Club. The group was, reportedly, booked due to their availability; the club was located close to Menlove Avenue, where John Lennon lived.
Lynn Foster's The Exiles: The Bird Laughed broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. David Eady's The Man Who Liked Funerals - starring Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont and Bill Fraser - premiered.
Rolf Harris Sings broadcast in the Focus strand. Joseph Conrad's Victory broadcast on The Home Service. The Goon Show episode Dishonoured - Again broadcast.
The Other Dear Charmer broadcast.
Frankie Howerd's Shakespeare Without Tears broadcast. All eight First Division sides playing in FA Cup Fourth Round or Fourth Round replays survived, although Birmingham City could only draw with Fulham. A record ground attendance of seventy four thousand seven hundred and eighty two crammed into Goodison Park to watch Everton beat Charlton Athletic four-one in a game that was almost abandoned several times due to thick fog. Luton Town beat Leicester City, Nottingham Forest defeated Grimsby Town and Portsmouth overcame Accrington Stanley, all four-one. Arsenal beat Colchester Uniteed four-nil.
Scenes from Eighty In The Shade broadcast.
The first episode of The Last Chronicle Of Barset broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Horror Serial broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?)'/'Aunt Rhody (The Old Grey Goose)' and The Platters' Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'/'No Matter What You Are' released.
The first UK TV showing of Dark Waters in The Saturday Film strand. First Division highlights included Wolverhampton Wanderers' five-nil victory over Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United's five-three defeat of Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Newcastle United drawing four-all at Old Trafford, West Bromwich Albion's four-two win at Preston North End and Bolton beating Luton Towen by the same score.
The Exiles: The Long Summer broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Ted Willis's Hot Summer Night broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand on ATV London featuring what is believed to be the first interacial kiss on British television - between Lloyd Reckord and Andrée Melly. Geoffrey Muller's The Unseeing Eye - starring Russell Napier and John Stone - premiered.
The first British heat of The Eurovision Song Contest broadcast, featuring performances by Alma Cogan, Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson, Glen Mason, Don Rennie, Steve Martin and Sheila Buxton. Bernard Hepton's Fratricide Punshied broadcast on The Home Service. The Goon Show episode The Scarlet Capsule (aka Quatermass OBE) broadcast. Terry Bishop's Model For Murder - starring Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Jean Aubrey and Michael Gough - premiered. In the Third Division, Southampton thrashed Rochdale six-one.
CS Abraham's Ice Blink broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. The Day The Music Died. JP Richardson (The Big Bopper), Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash on the way to Fargo. They had boarded the plane at Mason City, Iowa, along with pilot Roger Peterson. Waylon Jennings had given his seat to Richardson and Valens and Holly's guitarist, Tommy Allsup, had flipped a coin to see who would get the other seat. Herbert Wilcox's The Lady Is A Square - starring Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott, Anthony Newley, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Kenneth Cope - premiered.
Lord Birkett was the guest on the opening episode of Face To Face. Roy Castle appeared on Crackerjack.
Emlyn Williams's reading of Dylan Thomas's The Fight and the first episode of The Cinema Today broadcast. Australia won the fourth Ashes test at Adelaide by ten wickets. Colin McDonald scored one hundred and seventy in Australia's first innings of four hundred and seventy six. England were bowled out for two hundred and forty and, following on, for two hundred and seventy. With Ian Meckiff injured, Australia replaced him with another fast bowler with a very questionable action, Gordon Rorke although it was Richie Benuad whose nine wickets in the match caused most of England's problems. Taking a three-nil lead in the series meant Australia regained the Ashes they lost in 1953.
Backyards & Industrial Towns broadcast in the Gardening Club strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Italian Maid broadcast.
Spirit Of The People shown in The Saturday Film strand. Wolverhampton Wanderers went top of the First Division with a thrilling four-three victory at Newcastle. Elsewhere, Luton Town beat Burnley six-two, Birmingham City defeated Preston North End five-one and Manchester United won three-one at Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea's three-two victory over West Ham United included a goal for seventeen year old debutant, Bobby Tambling.
The first episode of Jo's Boys broadcast.
The first episode of Francis Durbridge's The Scarf broadcast. Life & Death Of The Sun broadcast in The Sky At Night strand in which Patrick Moore described the life-cycle of a star and compared the Sun's history with that of Betelgeuse, the red giant visible in Orion. Chris Barber featured on Desert Island Discs. The Goon Show episode The Tay Bridge broadcast.
Kenneth John's Skeleton In The Sand broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
The first episode of The Davy Jones Saga broadcast. The Hanging Tree - starring Gary Cooper, Max Varnel's The Child & The Killer starring Patricia Driscoll and Robert Arden and Rolf Thiele's Die Halbzarte - starring Romy Schneider - premiered.
Scenes from Robert Morley's adaptation of Hook, Line & Sinker broadcast. Alvin Rakoff's Passport To Shame - starring Diana Dors, Herbert Lom, Eddie Constantine, Brenda De Banzie, Jackie Collins and Lana Morris - premiered.
Smog broadcast in the Second Enquiry strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Matrimony - Almost broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Meet Mister Lincoln. Domenico Modugno's 'Ciao Ciao Bambina (Piove)'/'Resta Cu'umme' and Buddy Holly's 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore'/'Raining In My Heart' (posthumously) released.
Murder On The Agenda broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Frank Norman and Lionel Bart's Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be - a musical comedy about East End Cockney life, including spivs, prostitutes, Teddy-boys and corrupt policemen - was first performed, produced and directed by Joan Littlewood at The Theatre Royal, Stratford East. It subsequently played at The Garrick in the West End, starting in February 1960, ran for eight hundred and eighty six performances and propelled several of its cast - including Mirian Karlin, Barbara Windsor, Yootha Joyce, Glynn Edwards and Bryan Pringle - to wider acclaim. A bowdlerised version of the title song (replacing the line 'There's Toffs wiv toffee noses and Poofs in coffee houses' with 'There's Teds wiv drainpipe trousers and Debs in coffee houses') was a hit for Max Bygraves the following year. Fulham's five-two victory over Leyton Orient in the Second Division, in which Johnny Haynes scored a hat-trick, saw the league debut of Alan Mullery, the first of six hundred and seventy six games - for Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and England - in a career that lasted until 1976. In the FA Cup Fifth Round, Aston Villa won four-one at Everton and Luton Town five-two at Ipswich Town. Wolves remained top of the First Division with a six-two victory over Leeds United. Manchester United won the derby with neighbours City four-one. Hull City went top of the Third Division winning four-nil against Halifax Town. Fourth Divsiion table-toppers Coventry City won six-one ta Carlisle United, George Stewart scoring four. Don Lang & The Frantic Five With Joan Small and Vince Taylor featured on Saturday Club.

The Exiles: Full Circle broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Yehudi Menuhin was interviewed on Monitor.
The first episode of Through Wooden Eyes broadcast. An adaptation of Naomi Mitchison's The Conquered broadcast on The Home Service. The Goon Show episode The God Plate Robbery broadcast.
The first episode of The Budds Of Paragon Row broadcast. William Castle's House On Haunted Hill - starring Vincent Price - and Don Chaffey's Danger Within - starring Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding and Richard Attenborough - premiered.
The first episode of Men Of Action broadcast. Australia won the fifth and final Ashes test at Melbourne by nine wickets. John Mortimore made his test debut. Terry Bly scored the winner as Norwich City became the first Third Division side to reach an FA Cup Quarter-Final since York four years earlier with a one-nil victory over Tottenham at Carrow Road. Second Division Sheffield United beat Arsenal two-nil.
Geoffrey Bellman and John Whitney's documentary Outside broadcast. Charles Saunders' Nudist Paradise - starring Anita Love - premiered. The film was a considerable success at the box office, recouping its cost in a matter of days. It inspired a number of similar films set in nudist camps. Erik Ode and Arthur Maria Rabenalt's Was Eine Frau Im Frühling Träumt - starring Rudolf Prack, Winnie Markus, Ivan Desny and Chariklia Baxevanos - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Frontier. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Beauty Contest broadcast.
The fiftieth episode of Billy Cottom's The Wakey Wakey Tavern broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Drifters, The Betty Smith Quintet, Diz Disley's String Quintet, Wally Whyton & The Vipers and Marion Ryan featured on Saturday Club. Manchester United moved level on points with First Division leaders Wolves, winning two-one at Old Trafford. Spurs and Portsmouth shared eight bgoals at White Hart Lane (Ron Saunders scoring three for the visitors). Manchester City won four-nil at Leeds United. Sheffield United won the steet city derby, beating Wednesday one-nil at Bramall Lane in front of forty nine thousand in the Second Division. Ray Crawford scored three for Ispwich intheir three=two victory against Swansea Town.
The Picnic At Sakkara broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Muriel Box's Subway In The Sky - starring Van Johnson and Hildegard Knef - premiered.
The Goon Show episode The Fifty Pound Cure broadcast. Peter Cushing featured on Desert Island Discs. Bolton Wanderers edged past Preston North End (one-nil) and Nottingham Forest thrashed Birmingham City (five-nil) in FA Cup Fifth Round second replays.
Vincent Tilsley's Sammy's Consent broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. An adaptation of The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse - starring Valantine Dyall - broadcast on The Home Service. Lance Comfort's Make Mine A Million - starring Arthur Askey, Dermot Walsh, Sid James and Olga Lindo - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Wim Sonneveld Show. The Individual & The Universe broadcast. Charles Crichton's The Battle of The Sexes - starring Peter Sellers, Robert Morley and Constance Cummings, Lance Comfort's Make Mine A Million and Anthony Young's Hidden Homicide premiered.
John Prebble's Body Found broadcast.
South Of The Roaring Forties broadcast in the Look strand. The John Barry Seven's 'Long John'/'Snap 'N' Whistle' and Vince Eager's 'The Railroad Song'/'When's Your Birthday, Baby?' released. Robert Day's First Man Into Space - starring Marshall Thompson and Marla Landi - premiered. Sheffield Wednesday went four points clear at the top of the Second Division with a four-one victory over Charlton Athletic.
The first episode of Garry Halliday broadcast. Golden Rain broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Wolves won four-one at Manchester City. Arsenal remained top with a three-two victory over Manchester United. Newcastle United won one-nil at relegation-threatened Leicester City. Three of the four FA Cup Quarter-Finals were drawn. Only Nottingham Forest progressed at the first attempt, beating Bolton Wanderers two-one (Tommy Wilson scoring twice). Brian Clough hit a hat-trick in Middlesbrough's three-nil Second Division win at Scunthorpe United. Plymouth Argyle kept their promotion chase on-track in the Third Division, with a four-three win at Swindon Town (Jimmy Gauld scoring three).
A Father & His Son broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre.
The Underwater Horse broadcast. Cyril Fletcher featured on Desert Island Discs. England won the first of a two test series against New Zealand at Christchurch. Ted Dexter scored one hundred and forty one and Tony Lock took eleven wickets in the match. Port Vale returned to the top of the Fourth Divsiion with a two-nil defeat of Workington. Japage Three supported The Stan Clarke Orchestra at Teenage Night at La Scala Ballroom, Runcorn. It was the sole gig arranged for the trio by their temporary manager, John Lennon's art school contemporary Derek Hodkin.
Denis Constanduros's The Birthday broadcast in the Television Playwright strand. Pioneer 4 was launche on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric orbit making it the first probe of the United States to escape from the Earth's gravity. It carried a payload which included a lunar radiation environment experiment using a Geiger–Müller tube detector and a lunar photography experiment. It passed within sixty thousand kilometres of the Moon's surface. It was the only successful lunar probe launched by the US in twelve attempts between 1958 and 1963. Eugène Lourié and Douglas Hickox's Behemoth, The Sea Monster - starring Gene Evans and André Morell - and J Lee Thompson's No Trees In The Street - starring Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Stanley Holloway and David Hemmings - premiered. Aston Villa won two-nil at Burnley in an FA Cup Sixth Round replay.
Bertrand Russell appeared on Face To Face. Third Division Norwich City beat Sheffield United three-two in another FA Cup Sixth Round replay. Terry Bly scored twice and Bobby Brennan hit the winner. In the First Division, Bolton thrashed Chelsea six-nil (Freddie Hill netting a hat-trick).
Scenes from Jack Popplewell's A Day In The Life Of ... and John Allegro Presents: The Dead Sea Scrolls broadcast. Carry On Nurse - starring Shirley Eaton, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams - premiered.
Birds Of Holland broadcast in the Look strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Wrong Man broadcast. Teddy Johnson & Pearl Carr's 'Sing Little Birdie'/'If Only I Could Live My Life Again', Johnny Gentle's 'Wendy'/'Boys & Girls (Were Meant For Each Other)' and Ken Mackintosh &d His Orchestra's 'Rock-A-Conga'/'Hampden Park' released.
Eric Sykes's Gala Opening broadcast. It was another high-scoring day in the First Division; Birmingham City won seven-one at Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Arsenal six-one to go back to the top of the table, Tottenham Hotspur also scored six without reply against Leicester City, Manchester City won four-three at Portsmouth and Blackburn Rovers beat Bolton Wanderers four-one. In all fifty six goals were scored in eleven matches. Sheffield Wednesday won two-nil at Grimsby Town to remain top of the Second Division whilst second-placed Fulham and third-placed Liverpool shared a goalless draw at Anfield. Third Division leaders Hull City wree without a game, but second-placed Plymouth Argyle closed to within a point of them with a remarkble eight-three victory over Mansfield Town.
A Policeman's Lot broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Mario Zampi's Too Many Crooks - starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw - premiered.
Mercury & The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Saunders Lewis's Treason broadcast on The Home Service. Peter Graham Scott's Breakout - starring Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, Terence Alexander and Dermot Kelly - premiered. Jim Towers scored four for Brentford in their six-nil Third Division victory at Southampton.
The Truth About Pyecraft broadcast. Roy Boulting and Jeffrey Dell's Carlton-Browne Of The FO - starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - premiered.
The Eurovision Song Contest was won by The Netherlands' Teddy Scholten (singing 'Een Beetje'). Britain's entry, Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr's 'Sing Little Birdie' came second. Honorary Academician Extraordinary broadcast. Bill Curry scored three for Newcastle United in their five-one win at Portsmouth in the First Division. Burnley won four-two at West Bromwich Albion.
They Made History broadcast. Ralph Thomas's adaptation of The Thirty Nine Steps - starring Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda De Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith and Sid James and Sidney Hayers' Violent Moment - starring Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Jill Browne and Rupert Davies - premiered.
An Astronomer's Observatory broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Oak Tree broadcast. Tony Hatch's 'Chick'/'Side Saddle', Dickie Henderson's 'Come To My Arms Baby'/'(They're Writing Songs Of Love) But Not For Me' and Dotty Frederick's 'Ricky'/'Just Wait' released.
Nottingham Forest beat Aston Villa one-nil in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Hillsborough. The other Semi-Final, at White Hart Lane, resulted in a one-all draw between Luton Town and Norwich City. Wolves stayed at the top of the First Division with a three-nil win at Birmingham City. Manchester United remained close behind, three-one winners at West Bromwich Albion. Joe Bradford scored four in Bristol Rovers four-one defeat of relegation-threatened Rotkerham United in the Second Division. Johnny Langland hit three in Hartlepools United's four-two win at Aldershot in the Fourth Division.
No Deadly Medicine broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Panorama produced their notoriously sneering profile of pop manager Larry Parnes and four of his stable of singers - Billy Fury, Vince Eager, Johnny Gentle and Duffy Power. The piece, fronted by Oxford graduate, Olympic athlete and future Tory MP Christopher Chataway, presented Parnes as a sly manipulator (which he unquestionably was) and Billy, Vince, Johnny and Duffy as bone-thick morons (which was horribly unfair). Ernest Thesiger featured on Desert Island Discs. Nottingham Forest won five-three at Preston in the First Division.
The first episode of Barry Bucknell's Spring Decorating broadcast in the Short Cuts strand. The Golden City Dixies and A Look At Man broadcast. Imitation Of Life - starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore - premiered. Chuck Berry's 'Almost Grown'/'Little Queenie' and Neil Sedaka's 'I Go Ape'/'Moon Of Gold' released.
Sidney Harrison's Liszt Gets The Bird broadcast. Third Division Norwich City - who had already defeated Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur in earlier FA Cup rounds - lost to a Billy Bingham goal in a Semi Final replay against Luton Town. In the First Division Aston Villa's Gerry Hitchens and Birmingham City's Tommy Briggs both scored hat-tricks (in a three-one win at Bolton Wanderers and a four-two victory at Leciester City respectively). George Stevens's The Diary Of Anne Frank, Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo - starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson and Karl Reisz's We Are The Lambeth Boys premiered. The rain-affected second test at Auckland ended in a draw. Peter May scored an undefeated century. Billie Holiday appeared on Associated-rediffusion's Chelsea At Nine with extraordinary performances of 'Strange Fruit', 'Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone' and 'I Loves You, Porgy'. She died five months later of cirrhosis of the liver whilst, courtesy of the NYPD, handcuffed to a hospital bed.
The Cinema Today: Poland - introduced by Lindsay Anderson - broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Knighthood broadcast. The Coasters' 'Charlie Brown'/'Three Cool Cats' released.
J Lee Thompson's Tiger Bay - starring John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills and Yvonne Mitchell - premiered. The first episode of Zoo Quest In Paraguay broadcast.
The first episode of Whicker's World: Six Films Of Six Places broadcast. In the First Division, Wolves beat West Bromwich Albion five-two (Mickey Lill netting a hat-trick), West Ham United defeated Bolton Wanderers four-three and Manchester United beat Leeds United four-nil (Dennis Viollet scoring three). Leicester City (who lost at Blackpool) and Portsmouth (who drew against Birmingham City) remained at the foot of the table. Brian Clough scored four in Middlesbrough's six-two defeat of swansea Town in the Second Division whilst bottom side Rotherham uNited beat table-toppers Sheffield Wednesday at Millmoor (Alan Kirkman scoring the only goal). The first UK broadcast of Maverick on ATV London.
Mary Rose broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Gilbert Davey's Build Your Own Pocket Transistor Radio broadcast in the Focus strand. NJ Crisp's People of The Night broadcast. Malcolm Arnold featured on Desert Island Discs. Ian Fleming's Goldfinger published.
Maura Laverty's Tolka Row broadcast. John Gilling's Idol On Parade - starring Anthony Newley, Sid James, David Lodge, Dilys Laye and Lionel Jeffries - premiered.
Denis Mitchell's acclaimed Liverpool documentary, Morning In The Streets broadcast.
Peter Nichols's Walk On The Grass broadcast in the Television Playwright strand.
Paul Almond's The Hill broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Servants broadcast. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' 'Who's Pushin' Your Swing?'/'Over The Rainbow' and Bruce Forsyth's 'I'm In Charge'/'So Far So Good' released. First Division highlights included Manchester United's six-one thuymping of hapless Portsmouth which took The Red Devils top, Blackpool defeating Chelsea five-nil and Bolton and Leicester sharing six goals at Burnden Park. Fulham leap-frogged Sheffield Wednesday at the top of the Second Division with a six-two victory over The Owls (Jimmy Hill scoring three).
While The Sun Shines broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Stoke City's two-one victory over Charlton Athletic in the Second Division saw the club debut of Eric Skeels - the first of five hundred and ninety games for The Potters in a career that lasted until 1976. In the process he broke John McCue's appearance record for the club, established in 1960. In the First Division, Burnley defeated Manchester United four-two, Luton Town beat Newcastle United by the same score and Bolton Wanderers won four-one against Tottenham Hotspur. Leeds United thumped Chelsea four-nil. Wolverhampton Wanderers returned to the top wioth a two=one vicotry at Preston North End.
A Nest Of Robins broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of The Navy Lark - The Missing Jeep - broadcast on The Light Programme. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot - starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, Michael Powell's Honeymoon - starring Anthony Steel and Ludmilla Tchérina and Charo Urueta's No Soy Monedita De Oro premiered.
Cecile Hummel's Cool Suits For Smart Lads broadcast in the Focus strand. A Sparrow In Fleet Street broadcast in the Musical Playhouse strand. Guy Hamilton's Katharine Hepburn profile, The Great Katharine broadcast. The Stanley Holloway Story broadcast on The Home Service. In the Second Division Eddy Brown scored four in Leyton Orient's six-nil thrashing of Sunderland. Huddersfield Town beat Middlesbrough five-one and Bristol Rovers and Swansea town shared eight goals at Eastville. The top two, Sheffield Wednesday and Fulham drew two-all at Hillsborough.
A Farthing Damages broadcast. Wolves remained top of the First Division - a point ahead of Manchester United and with two games in hand - following a three-one win at Leeds United.
Brian Nolan and Larry Morrow's After Hours broadcast. The first episodes of The Glory That Was Greece and Their World broadcast.
James Bridie's Meeting At Night broadcast.
The first episode of Love & Mister Lewisham broadcast. Larry Williams' 'She Said Yeah'/'Bad Boy', The Pinewood Studio Orchestra's 'Sapphire'/'Tiger Bay', Ron Goodwin & His Concert Orchestra's 'The Whirlpool Theme'/'Herman's Theme From Whirlpool' and Vince Taylor & His Playboys' 'Brand New Cadillac'/'Pledging My Love' released.
The first episodes of Drumbeat - featuring The John Barry Seven, The Barry Sisters, The Kingpins, Vince Eager, Roy Young, Sylvia Sands, Adam Faith and Russ Conway - and Charlesworth broadcast. Steppin' Out With Trinder broadcast. In the First Division, Manchester United defeated Bolton Wanderers three-nil and West Ham United beat Everton three-two. Ray Charnley scored three in Blackpool's three-nil victory over Leeds United. Performance of the day came in the Fourth Division at Victoria Park where Hartlepools United spanked Barrow ten-one. Jack Smith scored a hat-trick and George Luke and Harry Clark added two each. The division's top two sides met with Port Vale beating Coventry City three-nil.
John Hopkins' adaptation of The Small Back Room broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of Great Expectations broadcast.
The first episode of The Infamous John Friend broadcast. Twin Stars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Sylvia Syms featured on Desert Island Discs. Lewis Allen's Whirlpool - starring Juliette Gréco, OW Fischer, Muriel Pavlow and Marius Goring - premiered. Mark Strickson born in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
The first episode of The Pocket Lancer broadcast. Blackmail Is So Difficult broadcast.
The first episodes of A Dog's Chance and The Two Charleys broadcast. The first episode of Crime Sheet Lockhart Rings The Bell - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
An adaptation of Willis Hall's The Long & The Short & The Tall - directed by Lindsay Anderson - broadcast. The Buddy Holly Story, Bert Weedon's 'Guitar Boogie Shuffle'/'Bert's Boogie' and Shirley Bassey's 'Love For Sale'/'Crazy Rhythm' released. Robert Day's Life In Emergency Ward Ten - starring Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Dorothy Alison - premiered. Allan Brown scored four and Billy Bingham added a fifth in Luton Town's five-one First Division defeat of Nottingham Forest in a dress-rehearsal for the forthcoming FA Cup Final.
The Giant Planet broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'A Fool Such As I'/'I Need Your Love Tonight' released.
England beat Scotland one-nil at Wembley in the Home International championship with Bobby Charlton scoring the winner. Billy Wright became the first man to achieve one hundred caps for England. His wife Joy, of The Beverley Sisters, had given birth to their daughter, Victoria, six days earlier and was allowed out of hospital to watch the game. Bolton's Doug Holden made his international debut. Both teams wore black armbands as a tribute to former England international Jeff Hall who had died from polio earlier in the week. In the First Division, Birmingham City thrashed Tottenham Hotspur five-one, Preston North End defeated Aston Villa four-two and both West Bromwich Albion and Wolverahmpton Wanderers were held to two-all draws (by Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers respectively). Liverpool's three-nil defeat in the Second Division all-but confirmed promotion for Sheffield Wednesday (who beat Cardiff City three-one) and Fulham (who defeated Huddersfield Town one-nil). Leyton Orient moved clear of the relegation zone with a morale-boosting six-one victory over Charlton Athletic. In the Third Division, Rochdale became the first side to have their relegation confirmed after a two-one defeat at leaders Hull City. Brian Houghton scored four in Southend United's four-one win at Mansfield Town. Fourth Division leaders Port Vale lost a seven-goal thriller at Shrewsbury Town for whom Ray Russell scored three. Vince Taylor & The Playboys featured on Saturday Club.
Elwyn Jones's adaptation of Treason broadcast. Paul Robeson appeared on Monitor which also featured John Schlesinger's Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum.
Into Thin Air broadcast. Edric Connor featured on Desert Island Discs. Wolverhampton Wanderers moved a step closer to retaining the First Division title with a one-nil victory at Blackpool.

Marghanita Laski's The Offshore Island broadcast.
Dubrovnik broadcast. Emma Thompson born in Cambridge. Portsmouth were relegated from the First Division following a three-two defeat at home to Everton. Sheffield United could only draw at Rotherham United in the Second Division, which confirmed neighbours Wednesday's promotion to the top flight.
An adaptation of DH Lawrence's Samson & Delilah broadcast.
The Little Fellow - celebrating the seventieth birthday of Charlie Chaplin - broadcast. Quincy Jones & His Orchestra's 'The Syncopated Clock'/'Tuxedo Junction' released.
The first UK showing of The People Versus McQuade in The Saturday Film. In the First Division, Wolves beat Luton Town five-nil whilst Spurs defeated West Bromwich Albion by the same score (Bobby Smith scoring four). Leicester City won four-one at Nottingham Forest to keep their survival hopes alive and Manchester City dropepd into the relegation places with a two-one defeat at Blackburn Rovers. Fulham's promotion to the top flight was confirmed with a four-two win at Barnsley. In the Third Division whilst the promotion places were still up for grabs, the second and third relegation slots were decided with Notts County (who had a goalless draw at Bournemouth) and Doncaster Rovers (who drew one-all against Wrexham) suffering the drop along with already relegated Rochdale. Tranmere Rovers thrashed Accrington Stanley nine-nil (Tony Rowley scoring four). Port Vale clinched promotion from the fourth Division with a point in a one-all draw with Darlington. Crook Town beat Barnet three-two in the FA Amateur Cup Final at Wembley. Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks born in Chippenham.
Proud Passage broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
How To Make Your Own Films broadcast in the Focus strand. Tyrone Guthrie featured on Desert Island Discs. Manchester City's troubles in the First Division increased with a five-one thumping at West Ham United. York City kept alive their Fourth Division promotion hopes with a two-one victory over Northampton Town.
Robert Kemp's The Highlander broadcast. Basil Dearden's Sapphire - starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles and Earl Cameron - premiered.
Denis Mitchell's A Soho Story - A Film About Mac The Busker broadcast. John Gilling's The Bandit Of Zhobe - starring Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey and Anthony Newley - premiered. Wolverhampton Wanderers were confirmed as First Division champions for the second year running following a three-nil defeat of Leicester City. Elsewhere Leeds United won three-nil at Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City beat Blackburn Rovers by the same score.
AR Rawlinson's This Desirable Residence broadcast. Earl Mountbatten of Burma was interviewed by Richard Dimbleby in the Speaking Personally strand.
The first episode of Looking At Films - presented by Hugh David - broadcast. Anthony Newley's 'I've Waited So Long'/'Sat'day Night Rock-A-Boogie' released.
Steppin' Out With Formby broadcast. In the last full season of captain Billy Wright's playing career, Wolves retained their First Division title - the third time they had been league champions in six seasons, winning their final game one-nil at Everton. Manchester United enjoyed a fine season following the Munich tragedy, as new signings and younger players integrated with several crash survivors to achieve runners-up spot. Arsenal (who beat relegated Portsmouth five-two with a Vic Groves hat-trick), Bolton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion completed the top five, while newly promoted West Ham United recorded their highest league finish yet, sixth. Eighteen year old Jimmy Greaves of Chelsea was the top scorer in the First Division with thirty three goals whilst Middlesbrough's Brian Clough was the Second Division's leading marksman for the second season running with forty two. Sheffield Wednesday finished the season as second tier champions with a five-nil victory over Barnsley. Grimsby Town lost four-nil at Stoke and were relegated. Hull City and Plymouth Argyle, who had led the third Division for most of the season, clinched promotion with a game to spare, Brentford (despite a six-one defeat of Southend being the unlucky team to miss out) even though they had the division's leading scorer, Jim Towers who scored thrity two. Stockport County joined Doncaster, Notts County and Rochdale in relegation. Coventry City secured the second promotion spot in the Fourth Division with a one-nil win over Watford. Lyndon Brook's Lost Love broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The Woodcarver broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The Cinema Today: Sweden included contributions from Mai Zetterling, Max von Sydow, Harriet Andersson, Carl Anders Dymling, Marianne Hook and Lars Eric Kjellgren. Gilbert Phelps' The Winter People broadcast on The Home Service. Neil John Pearson born in London. York City were promoted from the Fourth Division after a one-nil win over Gateshead.
Duncan Ross's Some Call Me Sister broadcast.
Home Winner - 'a football comedy' by Gadfan Morris - broadcast. Arthur Crabtree's Horrors Of The Black Museum - starring Michael Gough and Shirley Anne Field - premiered. Chelsea defeated a Belgrade XI one-nil in the first leg of the European Inter-City Fairs Cup Quarter Final with a Peter Brabrook goal. Manchester City beating Leicester City three-one coupled with Aston Villa's one-all draw at West Bromwich Albion sent Villa, under new manager Joe Mercer, down to the Second Division for only the second time in their history. Barnsley's three-one defeat at home to Leyton Orient condemned them to defeat from the Second Division. Rotherham and Lincoln City surviving.
The Duke's Journey broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Have Guns - Will Travel on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of Frankly Howerd broadcast. The Young Land - starring Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig and Dennis Hopper - premiered. Cliff Richard & The Drifters' 'Mean Streak'/'Never Mind' released.
Roy Dwight scored the opening goal as Nottingham Forest beat Second Division Luton Town in the FA Cup Final. Dwight - Elton John's cousin - later broke his leg in a tackle with Bernard McNally. Forest had to play the last hour of the game with ten men. The game was televised on Grandstand, which introduced score captions into their broadcast for the first time in an FA Cup final. This, however, caused much annoyance in Nottingham where their team's name was displayed on the screen at regular intervals as 'Notts Forest.' Commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme apologised live on-air for the mistake. During the game the Forest fans were heard to sing the theme tune to the then-popular The Adventures Of Robin Hood, this being one of the first occasions that popular TV culture had made its way into a terrace song. Larry Page, Ronnie Aldrich & The Squadcats, The Raindrops and The Les Collins Quintet featured on Saturday Club. Why Vote Next Week? broadcast on The Home Service.
This Is My Story: Ordeal By Brainwashing broadcast in the Meeting Point strand. Mooney's Wreck broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Godfrey Grayson's High Jump - starring Richard Wyler, Lisa Daniely and Leigh Madison - premiered. Benjamin Charles Elton born on London.
Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson's Thursday's Children - narrated by Richard Burton - broadcast. The Shape Of Our Galaxy broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Lord Brabazon of Tara featured on Desert Island Discs. François Truffaut's Les Quatre Cent Coups (The Four Hundred Blows) and Terence Fisher's The Hound Of The Baskervilles - starring Peter Cushing, André Morell and Christopher Lee - premiered.
Stuart Burge's adaptation of Julius Caeser broadcast in the World Theatre strand. Ian Stephen McCulloch born in Liverpool. Max Varnel's No Safety Ahead - starring James Kenney, Susan Beaumont and Denis Shaw - premiered.
England drew two-two with Italy in a friendly international at Wembley. Bobby Charlton and his Manchester United teammate Warren Bradley, making his international debut, were on target. Two-nil up, England were reduced to ten men when Ron Flowers withdrew with a broken nose and Italy recovered with two goals in five minutes from Sergio Brighenti and Amos Mariani. There was an embarrassing start to the event. Before the match the Italian players were horrified to hear the banned Mussolini-era national anthem being played. Birmingham City beat a Zagreb XI in the first leg of their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final with a Bunny Larkin goal. Adam Faith's 'Ah, Poor Little Baby!'/'Runk Bunk', Ruby Wright's 'Three Stars'/'I Only Have One Lifetime' and Terry Dene's 'There's No Fool Like A Young Fool'/'I've Come Of Age' released.
Aidan Crawley's documentary The Unemployed broadcast. The Way Of An Angel - starring Wilfred Pickles - broadcast. The first UK broadcast of The Great Satchmo. The final remaining issue of the Football League season was decided as Shrewsbury Town won four-one at Watford to clinch promotion from the Fourth Division by a point over Exeter City. Shrewsbury's opening goal was the thirty seventh of the season for Arthur Rowely, the highest in the division.
Patrick Moore discussed Venus on Seeing Stars. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' 'Please Don't Touch'/'Growl', Terry White & The Terriers' 'Blackout'/'Rock Around The Mailbag', Craig Douglas's 'A Teenager In Love'/'The Thirty Nine Steps' and Wilbert Harrison's 'Kansas City'/'Listen, My Darling' released. The first episode of Crime Sheet broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Barry Thomas's adaptation of The Cat & The Canary - starring Bob Monkhouse - broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Billy Fury and Dickie Pride featured on Saturday Club.
Jack Brabham won the Monaco Grand Prix. JB Priestley's The Fortrose Incident broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Paddy Chayefsky and Leonard Bernstein featured on Monitor. Robert Kee reported from Berlin on life in the East and West of the city in Panorama. Ray Ellington appeared on Desert Island Discs.
John Elliot's Roundabout broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of The Silent Sentinel. England lost two-nil to Brazil in a friendly international in Rio. Blackpool's Jimmy Armfield and Wolves' Norman Deeley made their England debuts. Chelsea lost their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final, defeated four-one in the second leg in Belgrade. Partizan's Branislav Mihajlović scored twice for the hosts.
Gore Vidal's Dark Possession broadcast. Beat poet Royston Ellis ('a Weirdie from Weirdsville' according to the Daily Mirror) published his first collection, Jiving To Gyp: A Sequence Of Poems on Scorpion Press. Soon afterwards he was filmed, backed by The Drifters (shortly before they became The Shadows), performing 'rocketry'. Crazy, daddio. Terence Young's Serious Charge - starring Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill, Andrew Ray, Irene Browne and Cliff Richard - premiered.
The first episode of Hilda Lessways broadcast. Little Richard's 'Kansas City'/'She Knows How To Rock', Lloyd Price & His Orchestra's 'Personality'/'Have You Ever Had The Blues?' and Charlie Drake's 'Sea Cruise'/'Starkle, Starkle Little Twink' released.
Lonnie Donegan and The King Brothers appeared on Drumbeat. Tracy Constance Margaret Hyde born in Fulham.
Nap Hand broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. England lost four-one to Peru in a friendly international in Lima. Chelsea's Jimmy Greaves made his England debut and scored their only goal, a bright moment in an otherwise highly forgettable performance. Juan Seminario, about to sign for Sporting Lisbon, scored a hat-trick for the home nation.
The first UK broadcast of Eric Maschwitz's Carissima - starring Ginger Rogers. An adaptation of The Playboy Of The Western World broadcast in The Home Service's World Theatre strand.
The first episode of Joy Harrington's adaptation of Heidi - with Sara O'Connor and Lesley Judd - broadcast.
Leo Lehman's Cabbage & Caviar broadcast in The Common Room strand. Bpbby Darin's 'Dream Lover'/'Bullmoose' and Bert Weedon & His Music For Dancing's 'Sing Little Birdie'/'The Lady Is A Tramp' released.
The Torrents Of Spring - starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfred Brambell - Tom Lehrer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau broadcast. Mars & Venus Speak To Earth broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Michael Anderson's Shake Hands With The Devil - starring James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Cusack, Harry H Corbett, Allan Cuthbertson, Richard Harris, William Hartnell and John Le Mesurier - premiered.
The first episode of The Mighty Elements broadcast. The Legend & The Man - a centenary tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - broadcast. Stephen Patrick Morrissey born in Davyhulme, Lancashire. Jonathan Sopel born in London.
Russ Conway appeared on Drumbeat. Robert Renwick Mortimer born in Middlesbrough.
When In Rome broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. England's disastrous tour of the Americas continued with their third successive defeat, two-one, against Mexico. Derek Kevan scored England's goal. An earthquake - measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale - occured five minutes into the second half, just after Salvador Reyes scored Mexico's winner. The earthquake centered in Oaxaca three hundred miles South of Mexico City. Birmginham City survived a tricky second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final drawing three-all in Zagreb to win four=three on aggregate. Nula Conwell born in London.
The Ivor Novello Awards broadcast. Alfred Marks featured on Desert Island Discs. Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison born in Marylebone.
Lord Boothby was interviewed by John Freeman on Face To Face. Paul Kelly born in Glasgow.
Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman's How Say You? broadcast. England concluded their summer tour with an eight-one victory over the USA at Wrigley Field baseball stadium in Los Angeles. Bobby Charlton scored a hat-trick and Ron Flowers twice with the other goals coming from Warren Bradley, Derek Kevan and Johnny Haynes after the US had taken an early lead. Billy Wright played his one hundred and fifth - and final - international match. Billy Fury's 'Margo'/'Don't Knock Upon My Door', Craig Douglas' 'A Teenager In Love'/'The Thirty Nine Steps' and Knuckles O'Toole's 'If You Knew Susie'/'Yes, We Have No Bananas' released. Monty Berman and Robert S Baker's Jack The Ripper - starring Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier and Ewen Solon - premiered.
The first episode of The Island Of Skomer broadcast in the Living Things In Their Surroundings strand. Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' 'Kansas City'/'The Twist' released.
Secombe At Large broadcast. The Grooving Guitar Of Don Sandford, The Hound Dogs and The Clarinet Plus Five featured on Saturday Club. The Young Philadelphians - starring Paul Newman and Robert Vaughn - premiered.
Berkeley Square broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Max Varnel's Web Of Suspicion - starring Philip Friend, Susan Beaumont and Robert Raglan - premiered.
The first episodes of Juke Box Jury - presented by David Jacobs and featuring Alma Cogan, Pete Murray, Gary Miller and Susan Stranks 'a typical teenager' - and The Widow Of Bath broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Bronco. The God Of The Crossroads broadcast on The Home Service. The first episode of Don't Tell Father broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of a translation of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding in the World Theatre strand. David Eady's In The Wake Of A Stranger - starring Tony Wright and Shirley Eaton - premiered.
The first episode of On The Bright Side broadcast. Tom Graeff's Teenagers From Outer Space - starring David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B Dunn and King Moody - premiered.
Ada Abbott's Mother Of Men broadcast. David Eady's The Crowning Touch - starring Ted Ray, Greta Gynt, Griffith Jones, Sydney Tafler, Dermot Walsh and Maureen Connell - premiered.
The Sky In Anger broadcast in The Mighty Elements strand. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'The Battle Of New Orleans'/'Darling Corey' and Connie Francis's 'Lipstick On Your Collar'/'Frankie' released.
Joseph Colton's The Gay Dog and Eurovision Presents: Vision On - Europe broadcast. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates featured on Saturday Club. Amanda Pays born in London.
Eurovision 1954-1959: Journey Through Europe broadcast. The Driving Force broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Ken Russell's The Guitar Craze broadcast in the Monitor strand.
England won the first of a five test series against India at Trent Bridge by an innings and fifty nine runs. England began nervously against Surendranath and Desai, but Peter May hit one hundred and six and fifties from Ken Barrington, Martin Horton (on debut) and a quick-fire seventy three from Godfrey Evans meant that the hosts ended the first day at three hundred and fifty eight for six. They added a further sixty four the following morning. India began very slowly with spinner Tommy Greenhough - in his first test - conceded a mere sixteen runs in his first sixteen overs, also taking the first wicket, Nari Contractor. Two wickets for Fred Trueman were followed by late rain and on the third day Chandu Borde was unable to resume his innings, having broken a finger the previous evening. India's batting, with Bapu Nadkarni also handicapped by injury, subsided against hostile bowling from Fred Trueman, Brian Statham and Alan Moss and the innings of two hundred and six took over one hundred overs. Only Pankaj Roy reached fifty whilst in the follow-on he made a further forty nine. But apart from Vijay Manjrekar (forty four), Datta Gaekwad (thirty one) and Polly Umrigar (twenty) no other batsman reached double figures. Ken Taylor made his test debut. Night Without Sleep broadcast on The Home Service.
Asmodee Or The Intruder broadcast.
The Minor Planets broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour premiered at Cannes.
The Cinema Today: India broadcast. James Hugh Calum Laurie born in Oxford. The Marino Marini Quartet's 'The Honeymoon Song'/ 'Pimpollo' released.
The first episode of The Adventures Of Brigadier Wellington-Bull broadcast. John Ford's The Horse Soldiers and Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus premiered. The Coasters' 'Along Came Jones'/'That Is Rock & Roll', Enoch Light & The Light Brigade's 'With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming'/'I Cried For You', Bert Weedon's 'Teenage Guitar'/'Blue Guitar', Jerry Keller's 'Here Comes Summer'/'Time Has A Way' and Freddie Cannon's 'Tallahassee Lassie'/'You Know' released.
Marty Wilde and Don Lang appeared on Drumbeat. Jim Dale, Dickie Pride, Franklyn Boyd, Bob Cort, The Lana Sisters and The Trebletones featured on Saturday Club.
The Philadelphia Story broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Peter Graham Scott's The Headless Ghost - starring Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane and David Rose - premiered. The first episode of Sunday's Child - starring Mandy Miller - broadcast on ATV London.
Music For Flutes With Lambert Flack broadcast in the Focus strand. Scandal At Coventry broadcast on The Home Service.
Volpone broadcast in the World Theatre strand. Liberace won a libel action against the Daily Mirror. In 1956, an article in the Mirror by columnist Cassandra (William Connor) described Liberace as '... the summit of sex - the pinnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want. A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love"' a description which strongly implied that Liberace was gay. Which, of course, he was. Nevertheless, he sued and won - twenty two thousand pounds. Afterwards he told reporters 'I cried all the way to the bank!' Robert Aldrich's The Phoenix - starring Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite, Virginia Baker, Richard Wattis, Wesley Addy and Dave Willock - premiered.
Guy Halahan's opera The Spur Of The Moment broadcast. Lawrence Huntington's Deadly Record - starring Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley, Geoffrey Keen and John Paul - premiered.
Foreign Field broadcast. The Five Pennies - starring Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes and Louis Armstrong - premiered.
Laboratory In The Sky broadcast in the The Mighty Elements strand. Eddie Cochran's 'Teenage Heaven'/'I Remember' and The John Barry Seven's 'Little John'/'For Pete's Sake' released.
England won the second test at Lord's by eight wickets. Nari Contractor, hit by Brian Statham, batted with a cracked rib but still made almost half of India's first innings runs, with a determined eighty one. Tommy Greenhough took five for thirty five as the last six wickets fell for just twenty four runs. The Indian bowlers then reduced England to eighty for six, but Ken Barrington, with eighty, found unlikely batting partners in Statham and Alan Moss and England had a lead of fifty eight. Fred Trueman dismissed Pankaj Roy and Polly Umrigar in the first over and, though Vijay Manjrekar and Kripal Singh added eighty nine for the fifth wicket, the last six wickets fell for thirty four and England required only one hundred and eight, which an unbeaten sixty three from Colin Cowdrey easily achieved. Cliff Richard & The Drifters featured on Saturday Club. The Bells Of St Macaire broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Jack Pulman's first TV play, All You Young Lovers, broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Rolf Harris 'with his squeezebox' appeared on Focus. Eric Sykes was amongst the panellists of Juke Box Jury. Hugh David introduced scenes from the film of John Osborne's Look Back In Anger in From Stage To Screen. Lotte Lehmann featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of Hi, Summer! and Spindrift broadcast. Sidney Gilliat's Left, Right & Centre - starring Ian Carmichael, Alistair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis and Eric Barker - premiered.
Look, Here's Alma broadcast. Otto Preminger's adaptation of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess - starring Sidney Poitier, Dorthy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jnr - premiered. Samuel Beckett's Embers starring Jack MacGowram and Patrick Magee - broadcast on The Third Programme. Leonie Mellinger born in Berlin.
Douglas Rae's The Withered Look Of Summer broadcast. Ray Kellogg's The Killer Shrews - starring James Bestand Ingrid Goude and The Giant Gila Monster - starring Don Sullivan and Lisa Simone - premiered.
The first episode of The Eustace Diamonds broadcast. Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps' 'Summertime'/'Frankie And Johnnie' and Anthony Newley's 'Personality'/'My Blue Angel' released.
Cliff Richard & The Drifters appeared on Drumbeat. Adam Faith, Johnny Webb, Mick Mulligan & His Band With George Melly and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates featured on Saturday Club.
Sweet Thames Run Softly broadcast. Alfred Shaughnessy's Release broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Vernon Sewell's Wrong Number - starring Peter Reynolds, Lisa Gastoni and Olive Sloane - premiered.
The Sacred Isle: Iona broadcast. Shadow Of A Pale Horse broadcast on The Home Service.
Full Fathom Five broadcast in the Eye On Research In America strand. Mother Courage & Her Children broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand. Gilbert Gunn's Operation Bullshine - starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray and Carole Lesley - premiered.
Mock Auction broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest- starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Martin Landau - and Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder - starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and George C Scott - premiered.
The Seventh Age, A Visit To The Terrace Room and Festival In Berlin broadcast. Lewis Gilbert's Ferry To Hong Kong - starring Curt Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms and Jeremy Spenser and Harry Watt's The Siege Of Pinchgut - starring Aldo Ray and Heather Sears - premiered. The first episodes of Skyport and Farson's Guide To The British broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Morecambe and Wise appeared on Blackpool Show Parade.
England won the third test at Headingley by an innings and one hundred and seventy three runs. England made six changes from the second test and one of the newcomers, Harold Rhodes, took wickets with his fourth and twelfth balls in test cricket to reduce India to twenty three for four, with wicketkeeper Roy Swetman taking three catches. Later Indian batsmen did better, but no one reached thirty on what appeared to be a bland wicket. England's new opening pair of Gilbert Parkhouse and Geoff Pullar put on one hundred and forty six for the first wicket and then Colin Cowdrey and Ken Barrington put on one hundred and ninety three for the fourth wicket, Cowdrey going on to make one hundred and sixty. After early wickets for Alan Moss and Fred Trueman, Brian Close and John Mortimore finished things off by five o'clock on the third day. The first episode of Trinder Box broadcast. Black Chiffon broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand.
The first episode of The Golden Spur - featuring the TV debut of Oliver Reed - broadcast.
John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman's The Case Before You broadcast. Hermione Baddeley featured on Desert Island Discs. Herbert Wilcox's The Heart Of A Man - starring Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton and Michael Medwin - premiered. The first episode of Jack Hylton Presents Something In The City broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Clash By Night broadcast. Edward Bernds's Return of The Fly - starring Vincent Price - premiered. Ray Charles's 'What'd I Say (parts 1 & 2)' released. Stephen Garlick born in Stockwell.
The Magic Paintbrush, For Services To Football and Charles Lagus's Kariba broadcast. Life On Venus broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Pauline Perpetua Quirke born in Hackney. John Guillermin's Tarzan's Greatest Adventure - starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane, Niall MacGinnis, Sean Connery and Scilla Gabel - premiered.
Jean Hunt's From Out Of The West broadcast.
Dickie Henderson, Jimmy Clitheroe and Ronnie Hilton featured on Blackpool Show Parade. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'A Big Hunk O' Love'/'My Wish Came True', Neil Sedaka's 'You Gotta Learn Your Rhythm & Blues'/'Crying My Heart Out For You' and Cliff Richard & The Drifters' 'Living Doll'/'Apron Strings' released.
The Poni-Tails appeared on Drumbeat. Big Ben: The Great Bell Of St Stephens broadcast. Val Guest's Yesterday's Enemy - starring Stanley Baker and Gordon Jackson - premiered.
Farewell My City broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of Cannonball broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of The Naked Lady broadcast. Harold Abrahams featured on Desert Island Discs. Cyril Frankel's Alive & Kicking - starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway - premiered. The first episode of Nick Of The River broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Henry IV broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand.
Nubar Gulbenkian appeared on Face To Face. Frank Capra's A Hole In The Head - starring Frank Sinatra and Edward G Robinson - premiered.
Douglas Ross's dramatised documentary Fireground broadcast.
The Worm Who Wouldn't Turn broadcast. Jack Arnold's The Mouse That Roared - starring Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, Leo McKern, William Hartnell and Peer Guldbrandsen's Onkel Bill Fra New York - starring Dirch Passer and Helle Virkner - premiered. Chuck Berry's 'Back In The USA'/'Memphis, Tennessee', Craig Douglas' 'Only Sixteen'/'My First Love Affair', Frankie Avalon's 'Bobby Sox To Stockings'/'A Boy Without A Girl', Johnny Gentle's 'Milk From The Coconut (Honey From The Bee)'/I Like The Way' and Maureen Evans's 'Lipstick On Your Collar'/'What A Diff'rence A Day Made' released.
My Young Brother broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Fred Zinnerman's The Nun's Story - starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch - premiered. Johnny Duncan & His Blue Grass Boys, Elaine Delmar, Adam Faith, Danny Williams, Roy Young and Bob Miller & The Rocking Miller Men featured on Saturday Club. Robert Day's Bobbikins - starring Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Billie Whitelaw and Barbara Shelley - premiered.
Shadow Of Heroes broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
World Of Make Believe broadcast.
Thomas Clarke's Nothing Is For Ever broadcast. Alvin Rakoff's The Treasure Of San Teresa - starring Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring and Christopher Lee - premiered.
Adlai Stevenson was interviewed by John Freeman on Face To Face. Ed Wood's memorably dreadful Plan Nine From Outer Space premiered.
Scenes from Rodney Ackland's adaptation of Farewell Farewell, Eugene and Lost Without Trace: The First Draft of Seven Pillars Of Wisdom broadcast.
Seaquaria broadcast in the Look strand. Henry Levin's Holiday For Lovers - starring Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St John, Gary Crosby and Carol Lynley - premiered.
The Ken Dodd Show broadcast from the Manchester Hippodrome, Ardwick Green. The first episode of Crusade In The Pacific broadcast.
The Sadler's Wells production of The Land Of Smiles broadcast. A Small Revolution broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Joseph Cooper's An Eternal Triangle broadcast. Six Characters In Search Of An Author broadcast in The Home Service's World Theatre strand.
England won the fourth test at Old Trafford by one hundred and seventy one runs. Geoff Pullar became the first Lancashire player to hit a century in a Manchester test and Mike Smith also made a century. With eighty seven from Ken Barrington and sixty seven from Colin Cowdrey, England made the highest total of the series - four hundred and ninety. Surendranath took five for one hundred and fifteen. India's batting again let them down, though Chandu Borde made seventy five and guided the tail to a total of more than two hundred. Cowdrey, captaining England as Peter May was ill, did not enforce the follow-on, but England batted with little urgency. Gilbert Parkhouse, Barrington, Ted Dexter and Ray Illingworth all hit forties. The declaration set India five hundred and forty seven to win. A second wicket stand of one hundred and nine between Nari Contractor, who made fifty six and Abas Ali Baig, making his debut, was India's best of the series. Baig reached eighty five when he was struck on the head by a bouncer from Harold Rhodes and had to retire very hurt. He was able to resume the next morning and, in partnership with Polly Umrigar, threatened to save the match. Both reached centuries but once Baig was run out for one hundred and twelve, the innings quickly folded. Robert Day's Bobbikins - starring Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Billie Whitelaw and Barbara Shelley - and Kevin McClory's The Boy & The Bridge - starring Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond, James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen and Arthur Lowe - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Pierre Berton's Women On The March. Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache broadcast on The Third Programme. William Castle's The Tingler - starring Vincent Price - and John Sturges's Last Train From Gun Hill - starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn - premiered.
George Scott-Moncrieff's Fotheringhay broadcast.
Stars At Scarborough broadcast, introduced by Michael Holliday. Little Willie John's 'Leave My Kitten Alone'/'Let Nobody Love You' released. Andrew William Stevenson Marr born in Glasgow.

Stella Martin Currey's Love & Miss Figgis broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Herbert Wilcox's The Lady Is A Square - starring Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan and Janette Scott - premiered.
Montgomery Speaks His Mind and The Kalanag Show broadcast. Francis Searle's Murder At Site Three - starring Geoffrey Toone, Barbara Shelley and John Warwick - premiered.
Ivor Novello's Perchance To Dream broadcast in the Musical Playhouse strand. Highlights from the 1959 Beaulieu Jazz Festival broadcast. An adaptation of The Third Man broadcast on The Home Service. Leslie Arliss' Danger List - starring Philip Friend and Honor Blackman - premiered.
John Hopkins's adaptation of Mine Own Executioner broadcast. The Big Fisherman - starring Howard Keel, Herbert Lom and Susan Kohner - premiered.
Great Moments In Sport: Fame In Four Minutes and Mission: Outer Space broadcast. Lights In The Sky broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Frank Lauder's The Bridal Path - starring Bill Travers, George Cole and Bernadette O'Farrell - premiered.
Percy Pilcher's Engine broadcast in the Lost Without Trace strand. Reece Dinsdale born in Normanton, West Yorkshire.
The Big Show Of 1959 broadcast. W Somerset Maugham's The Traitor broadcast.
Andrew Cruickshank's Unfinished Journey broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand.
Dan Sutherland's The Fifty Mark broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Crane Wilbur's The Bat - starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorhead - and Lance Comfort's The Ugly Duckling - starring Bernard Bresslaw and Jon Pertwee - premiered.
The first episode of Margery Allingham's Dancers In Mourning broadcast, starring Bernard Horsfall as Campion. Norman Fisher featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Gert & Daisy broadcast on Associated-rediffusion.
The Men Behind The Music featured Sidney Torch conducting music by Richard Rodgers. Ibsen's Brand broadcast in the World Theatre strand.
Sails Off Singapore broadcast.
Frances Rich's The Gentle Alliance broadcast. John Boulting's I'm All Right Jack - starring Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Rutherford - premiered.
An excerpt from Tom Arnold's The Lonnie Donegan Show broadcast from The Royal Aquarium, Great Yarmouth. Fritz Rémond's Immer Die Mädchen - starring Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Renate Ewert, Vivi Bach, Susi Nicoletti, Marianne Borck and Helga Martin - premiered.
The Cathedral broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse. Vince Eager, Adam Faith, Sylvia Sands and The Malcolm Mitchell Trio With Terry Burton featured on Saturday Club.
Rescue Dig, introduced by Glyn Daniel from the Roman fort of Segontium near Caernarvon, broadcast. Whistling In The Dark broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of Jimmy Edwards' Music For Jim broadcast. Sidney Hayers' The White Trap - starring Lee Patterson, Conrad Phillips, Michael Goodliffe, Yvette Wyatt and Felicity Young - premiered.
Enid Blyton's Bom broadcast. Bessie Love featured on Desert Island Discs.
Guilty Together broadcast. First Division champions Wolverhampton Wanderers beat FA Cup holders Nottingham Forest three-one in the FA Charity Shield at Molineux.
The first UK showing of The Big Steal.
Love's Labour's Won broadcast in the Lost Without Trace strand. Joseph Losey's Blind Date - starring Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, John Van Eyssen, Gordon Jackson, Robert Flemyng and Jack MacGowran - and Guy Hamilton's The Devil's Disciple - starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Janette Scott - premiered.
Mister Bossom's Day broadcast.
Battle For The Marianas broadcast in the Crusade In The Pacific strand. The First Division season started; Champions Wolves won one-nil at Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion beat Manchester United three-two, Spurs thrashed Newcastle United five-one at St James' Park (Cliff Jones scoring three), Chelsea and Preston North End drew four-four (Jimmy greaves hitting three for the home side) and Blackburn Rovers defeated promoted Fulham four-nil. The other promoted side, Sheffield Wednesday enjoyed a one-nil victory at Arsenal. Huddersfield Town got off to a flying start in the Second Division with a four-one win at Ipswich Town. Game of the day took place in the Fourth Division with Gillingham beating Gateshead five-four (Pat Terry scoring a hat-trick for the home side). Halifax Town's two-one victory over Southend United in the Third Division saw the league debut of Frank Large, the first of five hundred and eighty six league games (with over two hundred goals) for Halifax, Queens Park Rangers, Nothampton Town, Swindon Town, Carlisle United, Oldham Athletic, Leicester City, Fulham and Chesterfield in a career that lasted until 1974.
The first episode of The Moonstone broadcast. Figure Of Fun broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Godfrey Grayson's Woman's Temptation - starring Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres and John Pike - premiered.
England won the fifth test at The Oval by an innings and twenty seven runs to complete a five-nil series win by lunch on the fourth day. India batted poorly against Fred Trueman and Brian Statham and only a late partnership of fifty eight for the eighth wicket between Naren Tamhane and Surendranath brought any smiles to Indian faces. England relied on a third wicket partnership of one hundred and sixty nine between Raman Subba Row, who made ninety four and Mike Smith (ninety eight) and then Ray Illingworth and Roy Swetman both made maiden test fifties in putting on one hundred and two for the seventh wicket. India's second innings was more spirited than their first, with Bapu Nadkarni making seventy six. Charles Mackerras featured on Desert Island Discs. Sheffield United thrashed Hull City six-nil in the Second Division.
The Silver Box broadcast in the Television World Theatre strand. Burnley were the first leaders of the First Division season, winning for the second time, five-two against Everton (John Connelly scoring twice).
The first episode of Lee Loeb's Call Me Sam broadcast. The first Mark 1 Mini went on sale. Danny Clapton scored a hat-trick in Arsenal's three-nil win at Nottingham Forest in the First Division. Birmingham City beat Newcastle four-three, Fulham won five-two against Manchester City, Wolves had a three-one victory over Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn Rovers won three-nil at Bolton Wanderers.
Cedric Wallis's Virtuoso broadcast. Ralph Thomas's Upstairs & Donwstairs - starring Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot and Claudia Cardinale - premiered.
The first episode of The History Of Mister Polly broadcast. Buddy Holly's 'Peggy Sue Got Married'/'Crying, Waiting, Hoping' released. Finbar Lynch born in Dublin.
Brian Blessed's TV début in Willis Hall's Last Day In Dreamland, in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Sylvester broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Having reverted to their original name and gained a fourth guitarist, Ken Brown, The Quarrymen played the opening night of The Casbah Coffee Club in Hayman's Green, run by Mona Best. The quartet continued with their Casbah Saturday night residency throughout the remainder of 1959 and into the new year, occasionally securing other - mostly unadvertised - gigs around the Greater Merseyside area. Also on Merseyside, Liverpool beat Hull City five-three in the Second Division whilst Alan Peacock scored four in Middlesbrough's seven-one victory at Derby County. Huddersfield vTown, who beat Scunthorpe United two-nil, led the division.
James Parish's The Gentle Goddess broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Robert Hamer's The Scapegoat - starring Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis - premiered.
Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower made a joint television broadcast from Downing Street in the Panorama strand. Saturn: The Ringed Planet broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. John Snagge featured on Desert Island Discs. Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United continued their unbeaten starts in the First Division, (defeating Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End respectively). Shrewsbury Town topped the third Division following a five-nil defeat of Accrington Stanley.
The House In Paris broadcast. Donald Taylor's The Dawn Killer - starring Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch and Suzan Farmer - premiered. The first episode of The Secret of Carrick House broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Woodrow Wyatt Looks At The Football Association & The Football League broadcast. First Division highlights included Manchester United's six-three victory at Chelsea and Manchester City beating Fulham three-one. Max Geldray With Wally Stott & His Orchestra's Gone With The Wind EP ('Once In Love With Amy', 'Crazy Rhythm', 'It's Only A Paper Moon'/'Our Love Is Here To Stay', 'Cherie', 'Duke's Joke') released.
The first episode of Spycatcher - starring Bernard Archard - broadcast. Carry On Teacher - starring Ted Ray, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams and Richard O'Sullivan - premiered.
Billy Russell's Grand Circus broadcast from Great Yarmouth. The Olympics' 'Private Eye'/'(Baby) Hully Gully' and Bo Diddley's 'The Great Grandfather'/'Crackin' Up' released.
Sports Special was fortunate to have cameras at Maine Road where Wolves beat Manchester City six-four in the First Division. Elsewhere, West Bromwich Albion defeated Leicester City five-nil and Blackburn Rovers had a three-one victory over Sheffield Wednesday. Brian Clough scored four in Middlesbrough's six-two win over Plymouth Argyle in the Second Division. Charlton Athletic won four-nil at Hull City. Bill Curry scored three in Brighton & Hove Albion's three-one victory against Portsmouth. Third Division leaders Grimsby Town thumped Aaccrington Stanley four-nil whilst Tranmere Rovers were in the goals again, winning six-nil against Port Vale. Cliff Richard & The Drifters, Cleo Laine, The Dene Four, Johnny Webb, Jim Dale and Emil Ford & The Checkmates featured on Saturday Club.
The Eddie Fisher Show broadcast. The Millionairess broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Terry Bishop's Life In Danger - starring Derren Nesbitt and Julie Hopkins - premiered.
Edmundo Ros Says 'Saludos Amigos' broadcast. Sir Leonard Hutton featured on Desert Island Discs. Queens Park Rangers' two-one defeat at York City in the Third Division saw the league debut of Mike Keen, the first of six hundred and sixty three games - for QPR, LUton Town and Watford - in a career that lasted until 1975.
RC Sherriff and Walter Hudd's Cards With Uncle Tom broadcast.
John Betjeman's Dream Amongst Drabness broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. Ray Sharpe's 'Linda Lu'/'Red Sails In The Sunset' and Bobby Darin's 'Mack The Knife'/'Was There A Call For Me?' released. Manchester United thumped Leeds United six-nil in the First Division. In the First Round first leg of the European Cup, Northern Irish championship Linfield beat IFK Göteborg two-one at Windsor Park with two goals from player-manager Jackie Milburn. Unfortunately, in the second leg a fortnight later, they were heavily defeated with Swedish international Owe Ohlsson scoring five in a six-one victory.
Cold - narrated by Michael Flanders - broadcast.
The first episode of The Saga Of Noggin The Nog broadcast. The Coasters' 'Poison Ivy'/'I'm A Hog For You' released.
Newcastle United won two-nil at Leicester City and Tottenham thrashed Manchester United five-one at Old Trafford in the First Division, both matches featuring on Sports Special. The latter game saw the first team debut of Johnny Giles, the first of six hundred and eighty nine games for Manchester United, Leeds United, West Bromwich Albion and the Republic of Ireland in a career that lasted until 1983. Elsewhere, Sheffield Wednesday beat Blackpool five-nil and Bolton Wanderers defeated West Bromwich Albion five-one. Aston Villa beat Ipswich Town three-one to go top of the Second Division. Norwich City headed the third Division following a five-one victory over Port Vale. The biggest win of the day came in the Fourth Division, Watford thumping Oldham Athletic six-nil. Luna 2 became the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon. Craig Douglas, The Bert Weedon Quartet, The Raindrops and Ronnie Aldrich & The Squadcats featured on Saturday Club. The first episodes of The Four Just Men, Suspense: The Man Who Finally Died and Jack Good's follow-up to Oh Boy!, Boy Meets Girls broadcast on ATV London.
A Spoke In The Wheel broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. TH White In Alderney broadcast in the Monitor strand. Max Varnel's Top Floor Girl - starring Kay Callard and Neil Hallett - premiered. The first episodes of Interpol Calling and Jungle Boy broadcast on ATV London. Ted Willis's The Scent Of Fear broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand.
Fashion Festival broadcast from the Scottish Industries Exhibition at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. Val Guest's Yesterday's Enemy - starring Stanley Baker and Gordon Jackson - premiered in the UK. Tottenham Hotspur remained undefeated at the top of the First Division with a two-one victory at West Ham United. Associated-Rediffusion's Seeing Sport focused on rock climbing and featured the TV debut of fifteen year old Michael Jagger of Dartford. The first episode of Probation Officer broadcast.
Wynyard Browne's The Ring Of Truth and CP Snow's A Return To Cambridge broadcast. Tony Richardson's adaptation of Look Back In Anger - starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom - premiered.
A Visit To Konrad Lorenz broadcast in the Look strand. Billy Fury's 'Angel Face'/'Time Has Come' released. Wolves thrashed Fulham nine-nil in the First Division, with Norman Deeley scoring four. Jimmy Greaves hit a hat-trick in Chelsea's four-two win over Birmingham City. In the Second Division, Dennis Wilshaw scored three in Stoke City's six-one thumping og Lincoln City. Sunderland beat Sheffield United five-one. Cy Endfield's Jet Storm - starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Diane Cilento and Bernard Braden - premiered. The first episode of No Hiding Place - The Talking Doll - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of Machines That Think. The first UK broadcast of Rawhide on Associated-rediffusion.
The Virgin Islands broadcast in the Faraway Look strand. Eddie Cochran's 'Somethin' Else'/'Boll Weevil Song' released.
Bill Maynard, Petula Clark, Judy Carne and Peter Noble appeared on Juke Box Jury. Ted Ray's It's Saturday Night broadcast. Manchester City beat Manchester United three-nil in the First Division. Tottenham Hotspur defeated Preston North End five-one to remain top of the table. Leicester City won four-three at Birmingham and West Ham United had a four-two victory at Chelsea. In all, forty four goals were scored in eleven top-flight matches. Ted Phillips and Dermot Curits each scored three in Ipswich Town's six-one humbling of Sunderland in the Second Division. Sheffield United beat Bristol City five-two. Game of the day occurred in the third Division, Accrington Stanley winning five-four at Bradford Park Avenue. The Weavers, The Ray Ellington Quartet With Valerie Masters, Betty Miller and Miki & Griff featured on Saturday Club.
Crime Passionnel broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of A Mask For Alexis broadcast. Eustace Pett's Satan Versus Grandma broadcast on The Home Service. Tulio Demicheli's Carmen, La De Ronda - starring Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral, Maurice Ronet and Germán Cobos - premiered.
Alun Owen's The Rough & Ready Lot broadcast.
The first episode of With Europe In View broadcast. Southampton went level on points with Norwich City at the top of the Third Division following a six-three victory over Shrewsbury Town. In the Fourth Division, Crystal Palace thrashed Watford eight-one with Johnny Byrne, Ray Colfar and John Roche all scoring twice. Glasgow Rangers completed a seven-two aggragate victory over Anderlecht in the European Cup Preliminary Round, winning two-nil in Brussels. Andy Matthews and Ian McMillan scored. The first episode of Jack Hylton Presents Tell It To The Marines broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of The Language Of The Bees. Richard Thorpe's Killers of Kilimanjaro - starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley and Anne Aubrey - premiered.
The first episode of Music Makers broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Economy Drive broadcast. Terence Fisher's The Mummy - starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Yvonne Furneaux - premiered. Chan Romero's 'The Hippy Hippy Shake'/'If I Had A Way', Johnny & The Hurricanes' 'Red River Rock'/'Nuckeye', The John Barry Seven's 'Twelfth Street Rag'/'Christella' and Anthony Newley's 'Someone To Love'/'It's All Over' released.
Eileen Hall's It Isn't Enough broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Preston North End beat Manchester United four-nil, West Ham United defeated West Bromwich Albion four-one, Newcastle United won three-two at Leeds United (reserve centre-half Malcolm Scot scoring twice as an emergency striker) and Chelsea won three-one at Fulham. The Second Division highlight was Charlton Athletic's six-one victory against Derby County. At the top of the Third Division, Norwich City won four-three at Brentford. Joe Armstrong scored three in Gateshead's five-nil defeat of Doncaster Rovers in the Fourth Division. Terry Bishop's Cover Girl Killer - starring Harry H Corbett, Felicity Young and Victor Brooks - premiered.
Winston Clewes's It's An Ill Wind broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of The Artful Dodger broadcast. Topical Events broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Frankie Howerd featured on Desert Island Discs. Following his hat-trick two days earlier, Gateshead's Joe Armstrong scored twice in The Tynesiders four-one victory against Aldershot.
The General Erection: BBC Hustings, scenes from Hugh & Margaret Williams's The Grass Is Greener and Christopher Bond's The Food Of Love broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Smugglers broadcast on The Light Programme.
Is Morality Old-Fashioned? broadcast in the With Europe In View strand. Wolverhamptron Wanderers lost the first leg of their European Cup Preliminary Round tie with Vorwärts Berlin two-one in West Germany.
A production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Othello broadcast. Montgomery Tully's Man Accused - starring Ronald Howard and Carol Marsh - premiered. Phil Tate & His Orchestra's 'Countdown'/'Green Turtle' released.
The first UK broadcast of The Third Man - starring Michael Rennie - broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Two Murderers broadcast. Edmond Sechan's The Golden Fish premiered. The Isley Brothers' 'Shout Parts 1 & 2' and Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Travellin' Light'/'Dynamite' released.
Diana Dors and Petula Clark appeared on Juke Box Jury. Vince Eager, Terry Dene, The Five Dallas Boys, Franklyn Boyd and The John Barry Seven featured on Saturday Club. In the First Division, Wolves won five-one at Luton. Preston north End enjoyed a four-one victory at Blackburn Rovers whilst Manchester united defeated Leicester City by the same score. There were goals aplenty in the Second Division, Brighton & Hove Albion winning five-four at Bristol Rovers, Swansea Town overcoming Liverpool by the same score, Plymouth Argyle beating Charlton Athletic six-four and Huddersfield Town thumping Portsmouth six-three. In all fifty five goals were scored in the eleven games in the division (and two of those were goalless draws). Shrewsbury Town won six-three against Mansfield Town in the Third Division and there were four-three victories in the fourth Division for both Hartlepools United and Watford (against Exeter City and Walsall resepctively).
The opening episode of Showtime, introduced by David Nixon and Stanley Unwin, broadcast. It featured Chico Marx's only solo UK TV appearance. Arnold Bennett's What The Public Wants broadcast as part of the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Luna 3 launched. The Soviet spacecraft was the first mission to photograph the far side of the Moon.
Northern Lights broadcast. A review of the autumn seaside illuminations in some of the Northern holiday resorts, featuring Jayne Mansfield switching on at Blackpool and Professor Stanley Unwin explaining the 'trickly-how of the rotaty mechanics which cause the functionhold of this great autumnal scintillade.' Robertson Hare featured on Desert Island Discs. Robert Siodmak's The Rough & The Smooth - starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Natasha Parry - premiered.
Pillow Talk - starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day - premiered. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Childhood Sweetheart broadcast on The Light Programme.
The Men Behind The Music: George Gershwin broadcast. Wally Whyton's 'Don't Tell Me Your Troubles'/'It's All Over Now', Neil Sedaka's 'Ring A Rockin'/'Fly Don't Fly On Me' and Dee Clark's 'Hey Little Girl'/'If It Wasn't For Love' released. J Lee Thompson's North West Frontier - starring Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom and Wilfrid Hyde-White - premiered. Wolves progressed in the European Cup, beating Vorwärts Berlin two-nil at Molineux to earn a three-two aggragate win. Birmingham City had a four-two victory in Belgium against Union St-Gilloise in the first lego of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final.
The General Erection was held. The Tories won. Selwyn Jepson's 'satire for the beat-generation' Art For Art's Sake broadcast in The Home Service's The Thursday Play strand.
The first episode of Flying Standards broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Lord Byron Lived Here broadcast.
Willis Hall's A Glimpse Of The Sea broadcast. Gary Miller, Milton Subotsky, Venetia Stevenson and Gloria Kindersley featured on Juke Box Jury. In the First Division, leaders Tottneham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers five-one (Bobby Smith scoring four), Blackpool won four-one at Burnley (Dave Durie hitting a hat-trick) and Manchester City defeated Preston North End five-one at Deepdale (Billy McAdams also netting three). Manchester United defeated Arsenal four-two and Fulham won at West Bromwich Albion by the same score. Lincoln City climbed out of the Second Division relegation zone with a morale-boosting five-nil victory at fellow strugglers Hull City. Portsmouth remained bottom of the table, losing one-nil to a Ray Swallow goal at Derby County. Jimmy Wheeler scored three for Reading in their six-three defeat of Chesterfield in the Third Division. Derek Reeves netted four in Southampton's five-one win over Swindow Town whilst Arthur Rowley also hit three for Shrewsbury Town, who beat Newport County six-two. In the Fourth Division, Crystal Palace hammered Barrow nine-nil (Roy Summersby scoring four). br /> Against The Stream broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of Redgaunntlet broadcast. Say One For Me - starring Bing Crosby, Deborah Reynolds and Robert Wagner - and Darcy Conyers' The Night We Dropped A Clanger - starring Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell and Leslie Phillips - premiered.
Facts & Figures: The United States Of America broadcast. Dave Brubeck featured on Desert Island Discs. Production began on John Moxey's The City Of The Dead at Shepperton.
The Whistling Sands broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Last Bus Home broadcast on The Light Programme. In the Fourth Division, Watford thumped Hartlepools United seven-two (Cliff Holton scoring three, Freddie Bunce and Dennis Uphill two each). The first episode of Knight Errant '59 - Harry Bonkers - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK TV broadcast of John Rich's Girl On The Subway - starring Natalie Wood. Guy Green's SOS Pacific - starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok and Eddie Constantine and Ladislao Vajda's Ein Mann Geht Durch Die Wand - starring Heinz Rühmann - premiered.
Colin Morris's Who, Me? broadcast. The Cinema Today: France featured contributions from Jean Cocteau, Louis Marcorelles, Jeanne Moreau, Louis Malle, Jean-Claude Brialy and Claude Chabrol.
The first episode of an adaptation of Bleak House broadcast. The - classic - Hancock's Half Hour episode Twelve Angry Men broadcast. 'Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?!'
The first UK broadcast of Laramie. Alma Cogan, Louie Ramsay and filthy albino kiddie-fiddler James Savile featured on Juke Box Jury. An England team featuring five debutants drew one-all with Wales in the Home International championship at Ninian Park. Birmingham City's Trevor Smith, Stoke City's Tony Allen, John Connelly of Burnley and the Middlesbrough duo of Brian Clough and Edwin Holliday all made their first international appearances. Jimmy Greaves scored England's goal. First Division highlights included Fulham's four-three victory over Newcastle United, Blackpool and Leeds United sharing six goals at Bloomfield Road and Wolverhampton Wanderers defeating Manchester United three-two. Without Clough and Holliday, Middlesbrough lost one-nil at Aston Villa who remained top of the Second Division. Queens Park Rangers three-nil victory against Halifax Town took them to the summit of the Third Division. Walsall remained top of the Fourth Division, winning three-nil at Workington.
The first episode of Lenny's Den - with Terry hall and Lenny The Lion - broadcast. Nation Speaking Peace Unto Nation broadcast in the Sunday Special strand. Bruce Mason's The Pohutukawa Tree broadcast in Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Jack Cardiff's Web Of Evidence (aka Beyond The Place) - starring Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams and Bernard Lee - premiered. Alun Owen's groundbreaking No Trams To Lime Street broadcast in ATV London's Armchair Theatre strand.
Richard Evans profile of J Lee Thompson broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock featured on Desert Island Discs.
Rex Tucker's Victory - a play for Trafalgar Day - broadcast. Terence Dudley's Love Story broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Picnic broadcast on The Light Programme. Niamh Cusack born in Dalkey, Dublin.
Angelika Hofer's Moscow Holiday broadcast.
The first episode of Years Of Confusion broadcast in the Family Affairs strand. Carl Jung appeared on Face To Face. Daniel Mann's The Last Angry Man - starring Paul Muni - premiered.
Anthony Asquith's Libel - starring Dirk Bogarde and Olivia De Havilland - premiered. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Train Journey broadcast. Adam Faith's 'What Do You Want?'/'From Now Until Forever' and Emile Ford & The Checkmates' 'Don't Tell Me Your Troubles'/'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?' released.
Haul For The Shore broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Burnley defeated Manchester City four-three whilst Preston beat Wolves by the same score. The day's two biggest wins came in the Third Division, Southend United thumping Tranmere Rovers seven-one and Mansfield Town thrashing Wrexham six-two.
Kenneth Horne's Sleeping Partner broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. William Golding profiled on Monitor.
The Front & The Back Of The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night. L'Aiglon broadcast in The Home Service's World Theatre strand.
John Ruskin's The King Of The Golden River and a translation of Antigone - starring Dorothy Tutin, Basil Sydney, Noel Willman and David McCallum - broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Gourmet broadcast on The Light Programme.
Are Women Second-Class Citizens? broadcast in the Mainly For Women strand. England lost three-two in a friendly international against Sweden at Wemble, only their second ever defeat at home by a nation on the European mainland. John Connelly and Bobby Charlton were on target for the hosts. Agne Simonsson - on the verge of signing for Real Madrid - scored two of Sweden's goals.
Willis Hall's A Ride On The Donkeys broadcast. Richard Thorpe's The House Of The Seven Hawks - starring Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey and Linda Christian - premiered.
The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Cruise broadcast. Emile Ford & The Checkmates' 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?'/'Don't Tell Me Your Troubles' and Neil Sedaka's 'Oh! Carol'/'One Way Ticket' released. Kim Ellen Thomson born in Bath.
Digby Wolfe, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson and Lynn Curtis appeared on Juke Box Jury. The highlight of the First Division programme was Everton's six-one defeat of Leicester City. In the Second Division, Lincoln City beat Derby County six-two. The first episode of Epilogue To Capricorn - All On Tape - broadcast in ATV London's Suspence strand.
John Harrison's Windmill Near A Frontier broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Muriel Spark's You Should Have Seen The Mess broadcast on The Third Programme read by Avril Elgar. George Pollock's Don't Panic Chaps! - starring Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters and Nadja Regin - premiered.

The first episode of The Men From Room Thirteen broadcast. Steve Race featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of Ask For King Billy broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Elopement broadcast on The Light Programme. Don Siegel's Hound-Dog Man - starring Fabian, Stuart Whitman and Carol Lynley - premiered.
The World's A Stage broadcast in the Viewpoint strand.
The first UK TV showing of Journey Into Fear.
Marine Iguanas broadcast in the Faraway Look strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Big Night broadcast. Michael Anderson's The Wreck Of The Mary Deare - starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston - premiered. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's 'San Miguel'/'Talking Guitar Blues', Peter Sellers' 'My Old Dutch'/'Puttin' On The Smile', Michael Holliday's 'Starry Eyed'/'The Steady Game' and Gerry Dorsey's 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'/'Every Day Is A Wonderful Day' released.
The first episode of Three Golden Nobles broadcast. Art-Anti-Art: Marcel Duchamp Speaks broadcast on The Third Programme. In the First Division, Newcastle United defeated Everton eight-two with a hat-trick from Len White and two goals from Ivor Allchurch. In a top-of-the-table clash, Burnley defeated Wolves four-one (Ray Pointer socring twice). Manchester United drew three-all with Fulham, for whom Graham Leggat scored a hat-trick. Tottenham Hotspur lost two-nil at home to Bolton Wanderers. Almost fifty thousand were at Anfield to see Liverpool defeat Second Division leaders Aston Villa two-one. In the Third Division, Southend United thrashed Accrington Stanley six-one. The Frenchman & The Lady broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Where The Wind Blows broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Christopher Isherwood was interviewed by Robert Robinson on Monitor.
The first UK TV showing of Devil In The Flesh. Tony Declan James Slattery born in Stonebridge.
Philip Donnellan's The Steel Goddess broadcast. An adaptation of Rollo broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Fred's Pie Stall broadcast on The Light Programme. Billy Fury's 'My Christmas Prayer'/'Last Kiss' and Tommy Steele's 'Little White Bull'/'Singing Time' released. Ken Annakin's Third Man On The Mountain - starring Michael Rennie, James MacArthur and Janet Munro - premiered.
New Oysters! broadcast. Wolverhampton Wanderers drew one-all with Red Star Belgrade at Molineux in the first leg of their European FCup First Round tie. Birmingham City beat Union St-Gilloise four-two at St Andrews to reach the final of the second European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup competition.
The Julie Andrews Show broadcast. The Girl From Paris broadcast in the Private Investigator strand. Jerry Warren's Teenage Zombies - starring Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Chuck Niles and Brianne Murphy - premiered.
The first episode of Armand and Michaela Denis's Safari To Asia broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Tycoon broadcast. The Vampires' 'Swinging Ghosts'/'Clap Trap' and Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra's 'North West Frontier'/'Third Man Theme' released. Max Varnel's Crash Drive - starring Dermot Walsh and Wendy Williams - premiered.
The Lord Mayor's Show broadcast on Grandstand. Manchester City's one-all draw with Chelsea saw the league debut of Alan Oakes - the first of six hundred and seventy six games for The Citizens in a career that lasted until 1976. In the process he broke Bert Trautmann's appearance record for the club, established in 1964. West Ham United went to the top of the First Division with the three-one win at Arsenal. Alan Shackleton scored three in Everton's four-nil defeat of Bimringham City. Aston Villa remained top of the Second Division with a remarkable eleven-one victory over Charlton Athletic, with Gerry Hitchens scoring five. Portsmouth at last had something to shout about in a miserable season so far, hauling themselves off the botom of the division with a four-nil win over Scunthorpe United. In the First Round of the FA Cup Southern League Bath City beat Millwall three-one, King's Lynn defeated Aldershot three-one and Peterborough United won four-three against Shrewsbury Town. South Shields also defeated Fourth Division opposition, winning two-one at home to Oldham Athletic. Wycombe Wanderers beat Wisbech Town four-two. Midland League Gainsborough Trinity drew three-all at Doncaster Rovers. Enfield Town beat Headington United four-three and Salisbury won one-nil at Barnet. Wrexham beat Blyth Spartans two-one, Gillingham won four-nil at Bedford Town, Bradford Park Avenue thrashed Scarborough six-one, Brentford defeated Ashford Town five-nil, Crewe Alexandra had a three-one victory at Lancashire Combination side Burscough, Crystal Palace beat Chelmsford City five-one, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic had a narrow three-two victory at Isthmian League Walthamstow Avenue, Darlington won four-nil against Prescot Cables and Port Vale won two-one at Western League Dorechester Town. Exeter City beat Barnstable Town four-nil. Notts County had a two-one victory at Hastings Town. Stockport County won six-two at West Auckland Town, Southend United thrashed Oswestry Town six-nil and in an all Fourth Division clash, Graham Bond and Ernie Pym both scored hat-tricks as Torquay United hammered Northampton Town seven-one. The Bert Weedon Quintet, Matt Monro, David MacBeth and Ramblin' Jack Elliott featured on Saturday Club. Paul John McGann born in Liverpool.
Street Scene broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Four members of the Clutter family were horribly murdered by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith at their farm in Holcomb, Kansas. The murderers were arrested six weeks later. The case - and the subsequent trial and execution of the murderers - became the basis for Truman Captoe's acclaimed 'non-fiction novel' In Cold Blood. Inspired by a New York Times article on the murders, Capote and his friend Harper Lee spent several weeks in Holcomb interviewing locals and compiling over eight thousand pages of notes. The book (eventually published in 1966) became one of the biggest selling true-crime works of all time.
Pairs Of Suns broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Benny Hill featured on Desert Island Discs. Charles Saunders' Strictly Confidential - starring Richard Murdoch, William Kendall, Maya Koumani, Neil Hallett and William Hartnell - premiered. Joe Kittinger's first high-altitude parachute jump, from seventy six thousand feet from the Excelsior I balloon, was a near-disaster when an equipment malfunction caused Kittinger to lose consciousness. The automatic parachute opener in his equipment saved his life. He went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of about one hundred and twenty rpm, the g-forces at his extremities having been calculated to be over twenty two times the force of gravity, setting another record. The first episode of Saber Of London - The Captain & The Killers - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Next To No Wife broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Waxworks broadcast on The Light Programme. Henry King's Beloved Infidel - starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr - premiered. Oldham Athletic and Watford avoided tricky FA Cup First Round replays against minor league sides, both winning three-nil (against Shildon and Cheltenham Town respectively).
Ed Murrow's After The Battle - London broadcast. William Wyler's Ben-Hur - starring Charlton Heston - premiered. England beat Northern Ireland two-one at Wembley in the Home International championship. Two of four debutants, Hibernian's Joe Baker and Bolton Wanderers' Ray Parry scored the goals. Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Ron Springett and West Ham United's Ken Brown also made their first international appearances, Springett saving a Jimmy McIlroy penalty. Billy Bingham scored for the visitors. In the FA Cup, Doncaster managed to overcome Gainsborough Trinity, one-nil, at the second attempt whilst Southampton beat Coventry City five-one and Workington defeated Southport three-nil.
Atoms & Molecules broadcast in The Nature Of Things strand. Margate and Crook Town joined the several minor league sides in the FA Cup Second Round with wins against Kettering Town (Freddie Kearns scoring a hat-trick in a three-two win) and Matlock Town resepctively.
Tony Hart presented Blue Peter. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Spanish Interlude broadcast.
Alan Freeman made his BBC TV debut on Juke Box Jury. George & Diana Spear's Bed & Breakfast broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Small World featured an interview with Senator John Kennedy, 'a possible candidate for the Presidency.' Vince Eager, Perry Ford, Group One, The John Barry Seven, Emile Ford & The Checkmates, The Ken Jones Five and Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen featured on Saturday Club. Burnley thumped Nottingham Forest eight-nil in the First Division (Jimmy Robson scoring five), Manchester United beat Luton Town four-one, Arsenal won three-one at Chelsea and Newcastle United defeated Blackburn Rovers by the same score. Table-toppers West Ham United beat Wolverhampton Wanderers three-two with a John Dick hat-trick. Aston Villa won five-nil at Bristol City in the Second Division, Gerry Hitchens scoring three. Brian Clough also hit three in Middlesbrough's five-one defeat of Bristol Rovers. Cardiff City and Stoke City shared eight goals at Ninian Park. Fourth Division leaders Walsall thrashed Southport eight-nil (Colin Taylor netting three). Dave Sexton scored two in Crystal Palace's four-nil defeat of Doncaster Rovers.
The first episode of The Young Lady From London broadcast.
Tommy The Toreador and Anatomy Of A Murder were among the movies reviewed on Picture Parade. Joan Sutherland featured on Desert Island Discs.
Wolves beat Red Star Belgrade three-nil in the European Cup First Round second leg, Bobby Mason scoring twice. James Lansdale Hodson's The Case Of Private Hamp broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Sid's Mystery Tours broadcast on The Light Programme. Gerald Savory's adaptation of South broadcast in the Play Of The Week strand on Associated Rediffusion. Starring Peter Wyngarde, it is believed to be the first explicit portrayal of homosexuality on British TV. Predictably, it received some hostile reviews (notably from the Daily Sketch which said: 'I do not see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my sitting room. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up').
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's Anzio To Rome broadcast in the After The Battle strand.
Some 'young people' talked with Elaine Grand and Anne Allen about 'the H Bomb, capital punishment, fan clubs and the Colour Bar' in the Mainly For Women strand. The report included film extracts from The Aldermaston March, We Are The Lambeth Boys and The Tommy Steele Story.
Bertrand Russell appeared on Asian Club. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Football Pools broadcast. 'Two-nil, I'd forgotten we changed ends at half-time!' Peter Sellers' 'My Old Dutch'/'Puttin' On The Smile' released.
Small World included interviews with David Ben-Gurion, the Prime Minister of Israel and U Nu, the former Prime Minister of Burma. Dick Lester and Peter Sellers' The Running, Jumping, & Standing Still Film - starring Spike Milligan - premiered. Duffy Power, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and The Zodiacs featured on Saturday Club. In the First Division, Newcastle United won four-three at Manchester City, Sheffield Wednesday thrashed West Ham United seven-nil, Nottingham Forest defeated Leeds United four-one and Preston North end went to the top of the league with a three-one vicotry at Luton Town (Tommy Thompson scoring twice). Ronnie Allen, Bobby Robson and Derek Kevan were all on the scoresheet as West Bromwich Albion won four-two at Arsenal. Wolves beat Chelsea three-one. Aston Villa moved three points clear at the top of the Second Division, crushing Scunthorpe United five-nil. In the Third Division, John McSeveney scored four in Newport County's five-one defeat of Halifax Town. Leaders Bury won three-one at Accrington Stanley. Tommy Mulgrew, Terry Paine and Derek Reeves all scored in Southampton's four-two win at Tranmere Rovers. Jim Mallon scored a hat-trick for Fourth Division basement club Oldham Athletic in a three-one win at Darlington. Wrexham's two-one victory over Reading in the Third Division saw the league debut of Arfon Griffiths the first of seven hundred and forty five games for Wrexham, Arsenal and Wales, in a career lasting until 1979. His five hundred and ninety two league games for Wrexham remains a club record.
The first episode of The Cry Goes Up broadcast. No Friendly Star broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Facts & Figures: Cinemas & Universities broadcast. Billy Cotton featured on Desert Island Discs. Terence Fisher's The Man Who Could Cheat Death- starring Anton Diffring, Hazel Court and Christopher Lee - premiered. Lorraine Kelly born in Glasgow.
Jack Popplewell's And Suddenly It's Spring broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Fete broadcast on The Light Programme. Wolf Rilla's Witness In The Dark - starring Patricia Dainton, Conrad Phillips, Madge Ryan, Nigel Green, Richard O'Sullivan and Fraser Hines - premiered. Maureen Evans's 'Don't Want The Moonlight'/'The Years Between' released. Liverpool appointed former Scotland international and Huddersfield Town boss Bill Shankley as their new manager.
Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole and Rin Tin Tin appeared on The Perry Como Music-Hall. Leslie Norman's Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll - starring Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury and John Mills - premiered. Gwyneth Strong born in London.
Rosemary Anne Sissons's The Vagrant Heart broadcast. Geoffrey Muller's The Ghost Train Murder - starring Russell Napier, Gordon Boyd and Jill Ireland and John Ford's The Horse Soldiers premiered.
David Coleman's Sports Quiz featured on Junior Sportsview, introduced by Billy Wright. Hammer's The Stranglers Of Bombay - starring Guy Rolfe and Allan Cuthbertson - premiered. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' Expresso Bongo EP, Lenny The Lion (With Terry Hall)'s 'I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas'/'I Wish That I Could Be Father Christmas', Mister Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band's 'Summer Set'/'Acker's Away' and Leslie Phillips' 'The Navy Lark'/'The Disc' released.
Eden Phillpotts' The Farmer's Wife broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Blake Edwards's Operation Petticoat - starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis - premiered. The Light Programme's The Seventeen To Twenty Club featured the radio debut of Gerry Dorsey, a few years before he changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck. In the FA Cup Second Round giant-killer Bath City were at it again, winning one-nil at Notts County (Joe O'Neil scorign the winner). Peterborough United caused the shocked of the round, winning three-two at Third Division pace-setters Wallsall. Other minor league sides has mixed-fortunes, Crook Town losing narrowly at home to York City, Enfield being on the end of a five-one thrashing by Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, South Shields defeated by Bradford Park Avenue by the same score, as were Wycombe Wanderers at Watford, King's Lynn losing four-two at Reading and Salisbury going out one-nil to Newport County. However, Margate forced a replay after a goalless draw with Crystal Palace. Forty three goals were scored in the First Division, highlights including Newcastle United beating Arsenal four-one (Ivor Allchurch and Len White both grabbing two), Birmingham City defeating Manchester City four-two, Sheffield Wednesday winning four-nil at Chelsea, Fulham's victory at Leeds United by the same score, West Ham United beating Nottingham Forest also four-one and Leicester City and Luton Town sharing six goals. The top two in the Second Division met at Millmoor, Rotherham United beating Aston Villa two-one. Plymouth Argyle defeated Bristol Robers five-three.
Giles Cooper's dramatisation of Maigret & The Lost Life - starring Basil Sydney, Henry Oscar and Patrick Troughton - broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Gerald Thomas's Please Turn Over - starring Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Julia Lockwood, Charles Hawtrey and Dilys Laye - premiered.
Ben Hur and Expresso Bongo featured on Picture Parade. Yeoman's Hospital broadcast on The Home Service. John Sturges's Never So Few - starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida and Steve McQueen - premiered.
The Wonky Wand and A Question Of Time broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Poetry Society broadcast on The Light Programme. Michael Relph's Desert Mice - starring Alfred Marks, Sid James and Dora Bryan - premiered.
The Concert Artistes Association Annual Dinner broadcast. Peter Maxwell's The Desperate Men - starring Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell and Charles Gray - premiered.
A Car In A Thicket broadcast. Peter Graham Scott's Devil's Bait - starring Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton and Gordon Jackson - premiered.
The first episode of Para Handy, Master Mariner broadcast. Val Guest's adaptation of Expresso Bongo - starring Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Eric Pohlmann, Hermione Baddeley and Gilbert Harding - premiered.
Jack Brabham won the World Drivers' Championship after finishing fourth at the United States Grand Prix at Sebring. As part of Project Excelsior, Captin Joe Kittinger jumped again from Excelsior II at about seventy four thousand feet. And survived. For this leap, he was awarded the A Leo Stevens Parachute Medal. It was another high-scoring day in the First Division (fifty five goals in eleven matches). Blackburn Rovers beat West Ham United six-two (Derek Dougan scoring four), Newcastle United won four-three at Luton Town and Manchester United defeated Nottingham Forest five-one (Dennis Viollet netting a hat-trick). John Connelly scored three in Burnley's four-two win at Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers beat Birmingham City four-one, Manchester City and Leeds United drew three-all and Leciester City won three-nil at Wolverhampton Wanderers. There were also plenty of goals in the Second Division. Middlesbrough thrashed Stoke City five-two at the Victoria Ground (Brian Clough hitting three), Swansea Town defeating Plymouth Argyle six-one (Colin Webster geting a hat-trick) and Huddersfield Town thumped Bristol City by the same scroe. Aston Villa got back to winning ways with a two-nil victory over Cardiff City. Brian Redfern hit four in Darlington's five-two Fourth Division win over Notts County. The first episode of The Voodoo Factor broadcast in ATV London's Suspense strand.
Jack Pulman's Echo From Afar broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.
Patrick Moore gave an astronomer's view of the Star of Bethlehem in The Sky A Night: The Star In The East. Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding broadcast on The Home Service.
Mario broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Hancock In Hospital broadcast on The Light Programme. Robert Asher's Follow A Star - starring Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis, John Le Mesurier, Sydney Tafler, Fenella Fielding, Joe Melia, Ron Moody, Dick Emery and Charles Gray - premiered.
Sports Review Of 1959 broadcast; the Sports Personality Of The Year award was won by John Surtees. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - starring James Mason - and The Gazebo - starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds - premiered.

Bertram Mills Circus Royal Performance broadcast, in the presence of The Dummy Princess Margaret. Probably. Stanley Kramer's On The Beach - starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins - premiered.
Lord Morrison of Lambeth was interviewed by John Freeman on Face To Face. Gene Vincent's 'Wild Cat'/'Right Here On Earth' released.
John Hopkins's adaptation of Through A Glass Darkly broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Chelsea won five-four at Preston. Jiommy Greaves scored all five for the visitors whilst Preston's Tommy Thompson hit a hat-rick and still ended up on the losing side. Tottenham Hotspur returned to the top of the trable with a four-nil victory over Newcastle. Game of the day came in the Second Division where struggling Portsmouth defeated Middlesbrough six-three. Southampton went to the top of the Third Division with a two-one win at Norwich City. Walsall went six points clear at the top of the fourth Division following a five-nil victory at Crewe Alexandra.
A Cup Of Kindness broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Suddenly, Last Summer - starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - premiered.
William Wyler and Charlton Heston were interviewed on Picture Parade. Eve Boswell featured on Desert Island Discs. John Paddy Carstairs' Tommy The Toreador - starring Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sid James, Bernard Cribbins and Eric Sykes - premiered.
Eric Crozier's Christmas Journey broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Christmas Club broadcast on The Light Programme. Gerald Thomas's Please Turn Over - starring Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips and Julia Lockwood - premiered.
Robert Barr's The Ardennes broadcast in the After The Battle strand. Ian Curtis's profile of Leonard Cheshire, Pathfinder and Wendy Toye's On the Twelfth Day broadcast.
Francis Essex's The Gentle Flame - starring Julie Andrews - broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Man From 1997. The BBC's Christmas Scrapbook broadcast on The Home Service. The Goon Show episode A Christmas Carol broadcast.
Christmas Night With The Stars - presented by David Nixon - Songs Of Many Lands - featuring Harry Belafonte - and A Kiss For Cinderella broadcast. Richard Attenborough Invites You To Spend An Evening With Lerner & Loewe broadcast on The Home Service. Seacombe In Cyprus broadcast on The Light Programme. Ken Satchwell scored four in Coventry City's five-three defeated of Wrexham in the Third Division.
The Three Princes broadcast. Adam Faith, Emile Ford & The Checkmates, The Bert Weedon Quartet, Rosemary Squires, Don Rennie, The Ken Jones Five and The Clyde Valley Stompers With Fionna Duncan featured on Saturday Club. The Two-Octave Grandfather broadcast on The Home Service. Spurs remained top of the First Division with a four-two win at Leeds United.
The first UK broadcast of The Edge Of The Sixties - introduced by Lord Boothby. Waters Of The Moon broadcast in the Sunday Night Theatre strand. Gordon Parry's adaptation of The Navy Lark - starring Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips and Elvi Hale - premiered. According to Jon Pertwee, the film was also supposed to star Pertwee and Dennis Price, both of whom were key members of the cast in the BBC radio series. However, Pertwee claimed, the film's producer Herbert Wilcox refused to employ Price 'because he was gay.' Pertwee stated that he was among those who objected to Price not being in the film and believed this contributed to his own replacement. Pertwee noted that the film 'bombed.'
Arthur Askey was the victim on This Is Your Life. Ted Moult featured on Desert Island Discs. Swindon Town's two-nil victory over Bournemouth & Boscombe Atletic in the Third Division saw the league debut of Mike Summerbee, the first of seven hundred and sixteen games for Swindon, Manchester City, Burnley, Blackpool, Stockport County and England in a career that lasted until 1979. Tottenham ended the year still tp of the first Division despite a surprise four-one defeat at home to Leeds United. Bottom side Luton Town lost one-nil at home to Arsenal. Top met botom in the Second Divisioon, with Aston Villa and Hull City playing out a one-all draw. Port Vale were the Third Division's big winners, thrashed Halifax Town seven-nil (Graham Barnett scoring four). Aldershot defeated Crewe Alexandra six-one in the Fourth Division. The first episode of Ivor The Engine broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion's Small Time strand.
AC Thomas's Break In Festivities broadcast. People Today: John Betjeman broadcast on The Home Service. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Impersonator broadcast on The Light Programme. Guy Hamilton's A Touch of Larceny - starring James Mason, George Sanders and Vera Miles - premiered.
Sportsview: Salute To The Fifties broadcast. Louis MacNeice's Mosaic Of Youth: An Experiment In Pen & Tape broadcast on The Home Service. Charles Saunders' Naked Fury - starring Reed De Rouen, Kenneth Cope and Leigh Madison and Carol Reed's Our Man In Havana - starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Maureen O'Hara - premiered. Trace Ullman born in Slough.
The Girl On The Switchboard broadcast. The Goon Show episode The Tale Of Men's Shirts broadcast.