1960

1960
The first episodes of How Green Was My Valley and Harry Worth's The Trouble With Harry broadcast. Sir Hugh Greene became the Director General of the BBC. William Hammond's Rocket In The Dunes - starring Christopher Witty, Gena Yates, Heather Lyons and James Luck, Jeremy Summers' Depth Charge - starring Alex McCrindle, David Orr and Elliot Playfair and Michael Winner's Climb Up The Wall - starring Jack Jackson, Glen Mason, Russ Conway, Craig Douglas, Cherry Wainer, Libby Morris, Aleta Morrison and George Calypso Browne - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Range Rider. A Woman of No Importance broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre Oscar Wilde Festival strand. Newcastle United beat Manchester United seven-three at St James Park. Len White scored a hat-trick with George Eastham and Ivor Allchurch also amongst the goals. Albert Quixall scored two of Manchester's goals. Elsewhere, Burnley won five-two at West Ham United and Arsenal and Wolves shared a thrilling four-four draw. League leaders Tottenham won one-nil at Birmingham. Ipswich Town beat Leyton Orient six-three in the Second Division with Doug Millward scoring a hat-trick. Chris Joyce also scored three in Notts County's seven-one defeated of Crystal Palace in the Fourth Division.
The first episode of The Secret Garden broadcast. The first episode of Interpol Calling broadcast on ATV London. John Lemont's The Shakedown - starring Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Bill Owen, Robert Beatty and Harry H Corbett - premiered.
The Challenge Of The Sixties broadcast in the Panorama strand. A dramatisation of Brighton Rock - starring James Kenney broadcast in The Home Service's A Play For A Star strand. Julia St John born in Hammersmith.
Nesta Pain's Portrait Of Man - starring John Carson - broadcast. Ernest Morris's Night Train For Inverness - starring Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Silvia Francis and Valentine Dyal - premiered.
Facts & Figures: What Price Art? broadcast. Nigella Lucy Lawson born in Wandsworth. Even then, she had her knockers.
The first episode of A House Called Bell Tower broadcast. The Goon Show episode The Chinese Leg broadcast.
Eddie Cochran's 'Hallelujah, I Love Her So'/'Little Angel', Anthony Newley's 'Why?'/'Anything You Wanna Do' and The Everly Brothers' 'Let It Be Me'/'Since You Broke My Heart', Maureen Evans's 'The Big Hurt'/'I Can't Begin To Tell You', Paul Raven's 'Alone In The Night'/'Too Proud', The Viscounts' 'That's All Right'/'Rockin' Little Angel', Johnny Gentle's 'Darlin' Won't You Wait'/'This Friendly World' and The Vernons Girls' 'Boy Meets Girl'/'We Like Boys' released.
Conflict At Kalanadi broadcast in the Highlights of the FA Cup Third Round included Brighton & Hove Albion's narrow victory at Bath City, Manchester United's four-two win at Derby County, Newcastle and Wolverhampton Wanderers' two-two draw (Wolves won the replay), Southampton's shock five-one defeat of Manchester City at Maine Road (Derek Reeves hitting four), Chelsea beating Bradford Park Avenue by the same score and Rotherham United's two-all draw with Arsenal (the tie went to a second replay which Rotherham eventually won). Second Division pace-setters Aston Villa knocked out First Division Leeds with a two-one victory. Midlands League Peterborough United, however, created the biggest surpriase with a three-two win at Ipswich Town (Dennis Emery scoring twice). Duffy Power, Dinah Kaye, Ken Kirkham, The Polka Dots, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, The Bert Weedon Quartet and The Ken Jones Five featured on Saturday Club. Billy Fury's 'Collette'/'Baby How I Cried' released.
Dear Octopus broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand.
Alicia Markova was the guest on This Is Your Life. Semprini featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of The Champion broadcast. The first of a five test series between the West Indies and England at Bridgetown was drawn. Centuries from Ken Barrington and Ted Dexter ensured that England made a big score - Four Hundred and eighty two. West Indies captain Gerry Alexander took five catches. In response, West Indies were one hundred and two for three, but then a mammoth fourth wicket partnership of three hundred and ninety nine by Gary Sobers and Frank Worrell took them into a first innings lead. Fred Trueman took four for ninety three. David Allen for England made his test debuts.
Mission To No-Man's Land - presented by Yul Brynner - broadcast. In FA Cup replays, Huddersfield Town won five-one at First Division West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers beat Sunderland four-one.
The Musical Fifties and Allan Prior's Man At The Door: The Planning Officer broadcast. The Goon Show episode Robin's Post broadcast. Bobby Darin's 'La Mer (Beyond The Sea)'/'That's The Way Love Is' released.
A profile of William Wyler, introduced by by Dilys Powell, broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'A Voice In The Wilderness'/'Don't Be Mad At Me', Adam Faith's 'Poor Me'/'The Reason', Johnny Preston's 'Running Bear'/'My Heart Knows' and The Vernons Girls' 'Boy Meets Girl'/'We Like Boys' released.
Saturday Playhouse strand. First Division highlights included Wolves' four-two victory over Manchester City. Fifty eight thousand were at White Hart Lane where two goals from Les Allen helped Tottenham Hotspur win the North London derby three-nil. Newcastle United won two-one at Preston North End. Aston Villa went four point clear at the top of the Second Division after a four-one victory over Bristol Rovers. Roger Hunt scored twice in Liverpool's three-nil defeat of Sheffield United. Third Division leaders Bury won five-one at Mansfield Town (Don Watson scoring three). Brian Bedford also hit three in Queens Park Rangers' three-two victory at Newport County.
Colombe - starring Dorothy Tutin and Sean Connery - broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. The first episode of Counter-Attack broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Dick Bagnall-Oakeley's Birds In Winter broadcast. Don Lang was the guest of Your Turn Now. Presumably, going ooh-ee/ooh-ah-ah/ting-tang/walla-walla-bing-bang. And, why not? Fresh Fish For Supper broadcast on The Home Service. Second Division Rotherham United knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with a two-victory in a Third Round second replay. Keith Kettleborough and Brian Sawyer scored the goals.
Giles Cooper's Where The Party Ended broadcast.
The Great Spiral broadcast in The Sky At Night strand.
The first episode of A Life Of Bliss broadcast. The Goon Show episode The Silver Doubloons broadcast.
Little Miss Music and I Want To Go To School broadcast.
Hedda Hopper, the Hollywood columnist featured on Small World. Leeds United's three-one victory at Chelsea saw the league debut of seventeen year old Billy Bremner - the first of seven hundred and seventy two games for The Peacocks in a glittering career that lasted until 1976. His appearance total was just one short of Jack Charlton's record for the club, established in 1973. Also in the First Division, Everton defeated Nottingham Forest six-one (Eddie Thomas scoring three). The biggest gate of the day, sixty two thousand six hundred and two, saw Tottneham Hotspure beat Manchester United two-one (with Bobby Smith hitting both goals). In the Third Division, Bradford City thumped Newport County six-two with a hat-trick from Derek Stokes.
An adaptation of Man & Superman broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. The News Of The World began a serialisation of the memoirs of Diana Dors - having paid thirty six for the particularly naughty bits. Dors revealed details of the 'wild sex parties' held at her home in Sunningdale. 'There were no half-measures at my parties,' she was quoted as claiming. 'Off came the sweaters, bras and panties. In fact it was a case of everything off except the lights.'
The Uk broadcast of Philip Marlowe - starring Philip Carey. Pride & Prejudice broadcast in The Home Service's A Play For A Star strand.
John Mortimer's David & Broccoli broadcast. Robert Day's Two-Way Stretch - starring Peter Sellers, Wilfred Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins, Liz Fraser and Lionel Jeffries - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Space Explorers. Ronald Kelly's documentary Dark Gods broadcast.
Adventure With Hans & Lotte Hass: The Lamp Wreck broadcast. The final episode of The Goon Show until 1972, The Last Smoking Seagoon broadcast.
The first episode of Sykes & A ... and Lord Beaverbrook broadcast.
Philip Holland's The Difficult Age broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the FA Cup Fourth Round, Manchester United won three-one at Liverpool. Aston Villa knocked-out another First Division side, winning two-one at Chelsea. Derek Pace scored a hat-trick as Sheffield United defeated cup-holders Nottingham Forest three-nil. Peterborough United's remarkable cup run came to and end, defeated two-nil at Sheffield Wednesday.
The White Guard broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. Cold Fury broadcast in ATV London's Armchair Theatre strand. Southern Television's broadcast area expanded when it began transmitting to Kent and East Sussex.
Bransby Williams: Solo Performance broadcast. The Quiet Road broadcast on The Home Service. George Pollock's And The Same To You - starring Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Tommy Cooper, Vera Day and Sid James - premiered.
Terence Dudley's Song In A Strange Land broadcast. Jayne Mansfield and Charlie Drake interviewed on Picture Parade. John Gilling's The Flesh & The Fiends - starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick and Donald Pleasence - premiered. Preston North end thrashed Bristol Rovers five-one in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay, whilst Fourth Division Watford reached the Fifth Round with a one=nil victory over Third Division Southampton.
The Medium broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Harold MacMillan made the 'winds of change' speech in Cape Town. England won the second test in Port of Spain by two hundred and fifty six runs. England lost early wickets, but centuries by Ken Barrington and Mike Smith and seventy seven by Ted Dexter ensured a competitive score. The third day's play was severely curtailed, but it was still a decisive one, as West Indies slumped to ninety eight for eight. When their innings ended the following morning, Fred Trueman had figures of five for thirty five and Brian Statham three for forty two. Despite a first innings lead of two hundred and seventy, Peter May did not enforce the follow-on. England found batting difficult, at one point being one hundred and thirty three for seven, before useful contributions from Ray Illingworth (forty one) and Trueman (thirty seven) enabled them to declare, setting West Indies five hundred and one to win. A partnership between Conrad Hunte and Rohan Kanhai of seventy eight gave West Indies some hope of avoiding defeat, but Hunte was out for forty seven. On the final day, only Kanhai offered the prolonged resistance that was needed. A riot on the third day began soon after tea when Charran Singh - making his test debut - was adjudged run out prevented any further play that day. In an FA Cup Fourth Road replay at White Hart Lane, Spurs beat Crewe Alexandra thirteen-two following a two-two draw at Crewe four days earlier. Bobby Smith scored four, Les Allen five and Cliff Jones three. It is alleged that, for their return rail journey the Crewe team left Euston Station from platform thirteen and when they reached Crewe they stopped on platform two. The first episode of Somerset Maugham Stories - Flotsam & Jetsam - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
CM Pennington-Richards' Inn For Trouble - starring Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Leslie Phillips and Charles Hawtrey - premiered.
Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita - starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Yvonne Furneaux - premiered in Rome.
Caribbean Carnival - featuring Cy Grant, Elaine Delmar and Lord Kitchener - broadcast. In the First Division, Arsenal defeated Blackburn Rovers five-two with Mel Charles hiting a hat-trick. Chelsea's four-two defeat at West Ham United (for whom John Bond scored three) saw the league debut of seventeen year old Terry Venables, the first of six hundred and five games for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Crystal Palace and England in a career that last until 1975. In the process he bacame, to date, the only man to be capped by England at every level he qualified for (schoolboy, youth, amateur, under twenty three and full as well as making an appearance for a Football League representative team). Dave Mackay hit a late equaliser to give Spurs a one-all draw at Preston and keep bthem three points clear at the top of the league. Game of the day came in the Second Divisoon, Bristol Rovers' five-four victory at Portsmouth. In the Third Division there were hat-tricks for Bradford City's Derek Stokes (in a four-nil win at Accrington Stanley) and Frank Large (in Halifax Town's five-nil thumping of Barnsley).
The comic science-fiction opera Hands Across The Sky and the uncomfortable episode of Face To Face featuring Tony Hancock broadcast. Ken Hughes's Jazz Boat - starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, James Booth and Leo McKern - premiered.
Virus Research broadcast in the Science For Sixth Forms strand. Herbert Lom featured on Desert Island Discs. Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring- starring Max Von Sydow and Gerard Bryant's The Dover Road Mystery - starring Geoffrey Keen and Leonard Sachs - premiered. Bill Curry scored three in Brighton & Hove Albion's six-nil defeat of Rotherham United in an FA Cup second replay.
John Elliot's adaptation of On The Road broadcast.
The first episode of Slipway Fourteen broadcast. Professor Magnus Pyke was the guest speaker on The Fifty-One Society. Barcelona thrashed Wolves four-nil in the Eueropean Cup Quarter Final first leg at the Nou Camp.
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company broadcast. Stanley Donen's Once More, With Feeling! - starring Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall and Gregory Ratoff, Lewis Gilbert's Sink The Bismarck! - starring Kenneth More, Carl Möhner and Dana Wynter and Robert Day's Two-Way Stretch - starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins - premiered.
Tenth Birthday Of The European Broadcasting Union broadcast. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers' 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball'/'Swagger', Peter Jay & The Blue Men's 'Just Too Late'/'Friendship', Big Joe Turner's 'Honey Hush'/'Tomorrow Night', Ken Jones' 'Two Way Stretch'/'Paper Chase', Percy Faith & His Orchestra's 'The Theme From A Summer Place'/'Go-Go-Po-Go', Rodd-Ken & The Cavaliers''Magic Wheel'/'Happy Valley' and The John Barry Seven Plus Four's 'Hit & Miss'/'Rockin' Already' released.
Alun Richards' Going Like A Fox broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Chelsea defeated Fulham four-two in the First Division. Brian Clough scored three as Middlesbrough defeated Bristol City six-three in the Second Division whilst Cardiff City thumped Lincoln City six-two.
Lawrence Durrell was interviewed on Monitor.
Top Mark For Fashion broadcast. Léon Goossens featured on Desert Island Discs.
Riders To The Sea - starring Sybil Thorndike and Sean Connery and John Arden's Soldier, Soldier broadcast. Val Guest's Life Is A Circus - starring Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo and Jimmy Gold - premiered.
Uranus broadcast in The Sky At Night strand.
Royal Commonwealth Tours 1959 broadcast.
Making A Telescope & What To See With It broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. Ralph Thomas's Conspiracy Of Hearts - Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms and Yvonne Mitchell - premiered. Leslie Ash born in Henley-On-Thames. Bryan Johnson's 'Looking High, High, High'/'Each Tomorrow' released.
Sir Anthony Eden was interviewed by Blair Fraser, the Canadian journalist and broadcaster, about The Suez Intervention, John Foster Dulles and Stalin and Khrushchev. Lonnie Donegan recorded 'My Old Man's A Dustman' live at the Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster. 'Oi, where's me tiger's head?' 'Four foot from 'is tail!' Both Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United lost at home in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup (to Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday resepctively). Wolves won four-one at Luton Town whilst Derek Pace scored a hat-trick in Sheffield United's three-two defeat of Watford. In the First Division, Newcastle united won five-three at West Ham United. In the Fourth Division, Exeter City beat Hartlepools United five-nil with two goals each from Nelson Stiffle and Jack Wilkinson.
The seventy fifth episode of All Your Own broadcast. Henry Moore appeared on Face To Face.
The first episode of Trees In Britain broadcast. Frederick May's adaptation of Lazarus broadcast. The News included a visit to the set of The Mousetrap following the three thousandth West End performance of Agatha Christie's play. Sir Arthur Bryant featured on Desert Island Discs. Paul Abbott born in Burnley.
Michael Cahill's A Chance To Live broadcast. The third test at Sabina Park, Kingston was drawn. Apart from Colin Cowdrey, who scored one hundred and fourteen, none of the England batsmen made more than thirty in the first innings. During his test career, Wes Hall never improved on his figures in this innings, seven for sixty nine. By the end of the second day West Indies had reached eighty one for two in their reply. Next day, they lost only Easton McMorris, retired hurt, as they closed at two hundred and ninety one for two, already with a first innings lead. Sobers was on one hundred and forty two and Seymour Nurse, in his first test, on forty six. However Sobers' early dismissal next morning triggered a collapse and the West Indies led by only seventy six. Cowdrey and Geoff Pullar more than wiped off the deficit, taking their first wicket stand to one hundred and seventy seven before both were out, Cowdrey narrowly missing his second century of the match. The innings then fell away and with one day to go England, led by only two hundred and four. However next morning David Allen and Brian Statham held out for forty five minutes, adding a vital twenty five runs and West Indies needed two hundred and thirty in two hundred and forty five minutes if they were to win. Conrad Hunte began in attacking fashion, scoring forty in an hour before he was the second man out. Sobers was run out when looking dangerous and, although West Indies continued to chase the target, scoring was never easy. When Rohan Kanhai was sixth out at one hundred and fifty two West Indies gave up the chase and England tried to get the four remaining wickets in the forty-five minutes that were left. During the first day part of a tin roof collapsed from the weight of spectators standing on it and several people were injured. Ray Pointer and Jimmy Robson each scored twice as Burnley thumped Bradford City five-nil in an FA Cup replay. Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Luton Town three-two in the First Division. The first episode of Gerry Anderson's Torchy The Battery Boy broadcast in Associated-Rediffusion's Small Time strand.
John Chear's The Romance Of Pompeii broadcast in the Wednesday Magazine strand. David and Jonathan Dimbleby took a journey to The English Lakes in No Passport. Robert Stevenson's Kidnapped - starring Peter Finch, James MacArthur and Bernard Lee - premiered.
Fission & Nuclear Energy broadcast in the Science For Sixth Forms strand. Carry On Constable - starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams and Joan Sim - premiered. The first episode of Four Feather Falls broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of Emma broadcast. Max Bygraves' 'Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'/'When The Thrill Has Gone' released.
Malcolm Stewart's The Return Of Peggy Atherton broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Manchester United won six-nil at Blackpool (Bobby Charlton scored three and Dennis Viollet two). Spurs topped the league, winning four-one at Blackburn Rovers. Second-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers beat West Bromwich Albion three-one. Graham Leggat scored four in Fulham's five-nil hammering of Leeds United. Everton beat Preston North End four-nil (Roy vernon scoring two). Cardiff City headed the Second Division, winning four-three at Leyton Orient whilst Aston Villa were losing three-one at home to Sheffield United (Derek Pace hit a hat-trick). In the Fourth Division, Northampton Town defeated bottom club Oldham Athletic eight-one.
The first episodes of Pinky & Perky's Pop Parade and The Splendid Spur broadcast. Allan Monkhouse's The Conquering Hero broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. The first episodes of Inside Story and Suspense broadcast on ATV London.
The first UK broadcast of One Summer's Day. Roots - starring Joan Plowright - broadcast on The Home Service.
Eyes Without A Face and The Wreck Of The Mary Deare featured on Picture Parade. The first episode of Siwan broadcast. George Cukor's adaptation of Louis L'Amour's Heller In Pink Tights - starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn - premiered. The first episode of Francis Storm Investigates broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Facts & Figures: Noise & Fire introduced by Dick Taverne broadcast. Barcelona knocked Wolves out of the European Cup with a five-two victory at Molineux, Sándor Kocsis scoring four. Living For Kicks, a documentary focusing on the life of teenagers in Brighton, Northampton and London, presented by Daniel Farson, broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion. It brought beat poet Royston Ellis to national attention and controversy through his remarks on teenage lifestyle, including the memorably forthright opinion 'no teenager will marry a virgin!'
Morecambe & Wise appeared on Little Miss Music.
The first episode of Stories In Pictures broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Cold broadcast. Cyril Frankel's Never Take Sweets From A Stranger - starring Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford and Felix Aylmer premiered. Chuck Berry's 'Let It Rock'/'Too Pooped To Pop' and Joy & Dave's 'Let's Go See Gran'Ma'/'Belive Me' released.
The first UK TV showing of The Magnificent Ambersons. Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent & The Wildcats - just beginning their much-anticipated UK tour - appeared on The Light Programme's Saturday Club. They would also feature on the following week's show. Forty goals were scored in the First Division, Leicester City beating Manchester City five-nil (Ken Leek and Gordon Willis scoring two). Spurs defeated Sheffield Wednesday four-one (Cliff Jones scoring three), Newcastle had a three-one victory over Fulham and Ray Charnley hit three in Blackpool's four-two win at Leeds United. In the Second Division, Liverpool beat Stoke City five-one. Southampton went four points clear at the top of the Third Division following a three-one defeat of York City. Eden Phillpotts' Devonshire Cream broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The first episode of International Detective broadcast on ATV Lonndon.
Journey's End - starring Richard Johnson - and Murder By Neglect broadcast. The first episode of Formula For Danger - A Red Dawn Tomorrow broadcast on ATV London.
Richard Todd was Eamonn Andrews' victim on This Is Your Life. Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand featured on Desert Island Discs. Francis Searle's Trouble With Eve - starring Hy Hazell, Sally Smith, Robert Urquhart and Garry Marsh - premiered.
The first episode of Androcles & Tthe Lion broadcast. Ancient Monuments Of Egypt broadcast. Mario Zampi's Bottoms Up! - starring Jimmy Edwards in a big-screen spin-off of Whack-O! and Muriel Box's Too Young To Love - starring Thomas Mitchell, Pauline Hahn and Joan Miller - premiered.
A journey to The English Riviera with Dilys, Nicholas, and Sally Dimbleby featured in the No Passport strand.
Show Business Salutes Prince Philip and The Variety Club Of Great Britain Awards For 1959 broadcast.
MPs Maurice Edelman and Gerald Nabarro featured on Who Goes Home? The - classic - Hancock's Half Hour episode The Missing Page broadcast. Pioneer 5 launched from Cape Canaveral, to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus. Among other accomplishments, the probe confirmed the existence of interplanetary magnetic fields. Robert Lewis Glenister born in Watford.
Rosemary Anne Sisson's Home & The Heart broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The first episode of Captain Moonlight: Man Of Mystery - starring Bernard Horsfall - broadcast. Seven Thieves - starring Edward G Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins and Eli Wallach - premiered. The Sixth Round of the FA Cup saw wins for Sheffield Wednesday (two-nil at Sheffield United in front of over sixty vone thousand), Aston Villa (two-nil against Preston North End) and Wolves (two-one at Leicester City). The fourth game was a thrilling three-all draw between Burnley and Blackburn Rovers (Blackburn won the replay, two-nil, four days later). In the First Division Newcastle United won four-one at Bolton and Everton beat Chelsea six-one (Tommy Ring scoring twice). League leaders Tottenham Hotspur two three-one at Nottingham Forest (Dave Mackay, John White and Les Allen scoring). In the Fourth Division, Aldershot thumped Bradford Park Avenue six-one.
Monitor featured an interview with Orson Welles by Huw Weldon.
Islands Of The Frozen Sea broadcast. Jodrell Bank Observatory made radio contact with NASA's Pioneer Five as it approached Venus over a record-breaking distance of four hundred thousand miles. Larry Parnes's promotion of the Gene Vincent & The Wildcats and Eddie Cochran package tour reached Liverpool for a week of performances at The Empire Theatre. At least one of these shows was attended by most of - if not all of - the future Beatles along with near enough every other aspiring rocker on Merseyside. The bill also featured Billy Fury, Joe Brown, Georgie Fame and The Tony Sheridan Trio.
An adaptation of Night On The Highway broadcast. Manchester City paid Huddersfield Town a club record fifty five thousand pounds transfer fee for Denis Law. Guy Green's The Angry Silence - starring Richard Attenborough - premiered. The fourth test at Georgetown, was drawn. Again Colin Cowdrey top-scored in England's first innings and WesHall was the most successful bowler. Again Gary Sobers scored a century for West Indies, who once more secured a sizeable first innings lead but scored too slowly to have enough time to press home their advantage. There were a number of changes in the sides from the previous test. With Peter May too ill to play and being forced to fly home, Cowdrey took over the England captaincy and Raman Subba Row came into the side. West Indies were without Sonny Ramadhin because of a shoulder injury. Lance Gibbs was the intended replacement, but he had damaged his spinning finger, so Reg Scarlett was retained and Charran Singh was included as a second spinner. Clyde Walcott, who had supposedly retired from test cricket, was recalled and Frank Worrell, who had not been fit for the previous test, returned at the expense of Joe Solomon. Between them, the two English off-spinners, David Allen and Ray Illingworth, bowled eighty five overs for only one hundred and forty seven runs. Thanks to centuries by Ted Dexter and Subba Row, England had no difficulty in saving the game.
Why Stars Twinkle broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Lonnie Donegan & His Group's 'My Old Man's A Dustman (The Ballad Of A Refuse Disposal Officer)'/'The Golden Vanity' released. Jenny Clare Hargreaves born in Kuala Lumpur.
The Men Behind The Music: Jerome Kern broadcast.
A Boy's Day In Venice broadcast in the Blue Peter strand. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Emigrant broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Fall In Love With You'/'Willie & The Hand Jive', The Fabulous Flee-Rakkers' 'Green Jeans'/'You Are My Sunshine' and Anthony Newley's 'Do You Mind?'/'Girls Were Made To Love & Kiss' released.
The first UK TV showing of Citizen Kane. The Shadows, Duffy Power, Dinah Kaye, Wally Whyton, Group One and The Geoff Taylor Quintet featured on Saturday Club. Fifty four goals were scored in eleven First Division fixtures, the highlight being West Bromwich Albion's six-two victory over Everton in which Derek Kevan scored five. Bolton Wanderers won five-two at Birmingham City, Newcastle United beat Luton Town three-two, Burnley defeated Arsenal by the same score and Sheffield Wednesday won four-three at Preston North End. Denis Law scored on his Manchester City debut, but ended on the losing side as Leeds United beat City four-three.Aston Villa returned to the top of the Second Division, Gerry Hitchens scoring twice in a two-one victory at Scunthorpe United. Portsmouth pulled four points lcear of the relegation zone with an impressive four-one win at promotion-chasing Cardiff City. Bronco Layne scored a hat-trick in Swindon Town's three-one victory at Southend United in the Third Division. Bury's promotion hoped took a hit, losing one-nil at home to struggling Accrington Stanley. Shewsbury Town thumped Grimsby Town five-two. In the Fourth Division, Peter Clark scored four in Doncaster Rovers six-two win at Hartlepools United.
Young Woodley broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. Anthony Simmons's Your Money Or Your Wife - starring Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, Richard Wattis, Peter Reynolds, Georgina Cookson, Gladys Boot and Barbara Steele - premiered.
Highlights of Barcelona's three-one victory over Real Madrid in La Liga's El Clásico broadcast on Sportsview Special. Dulcie Gray's Murder On The Stairs broadcast on The Home Service. W Lee Wilder's Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons - starring George Sanders, Corinne Calvet and Jean Kent - premiered.
Beverley Cross's The Dark Pits Of War broadcast. The first UK TV showing of The Boy With The Green Hair. Peter Graham Scott's Let's Get Married - starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Hermione Baddeley and Diane Clare - premiered.
Whose Pigeon? broadcast in the Viewpoint strand.
Robert Hamer's School For Scoundrals - Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott and Alastair Sim - premiered.
Blue Peter: Animal Friends broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Reunion Party broadcast.
The Grand National was televised for the first time on Grandstand. It was won by Gerry Scott on Merryman II. Derek Dougan scored twice for Blackburn Rovers as they defeated Sheffield Wednesday two-one in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Maine Road. Norman Deeley scored the winners as Wolves beat Aston Villa at The Hawthorns. The First Division's highlight was Manchester United's five-nil victory at Fulham. Mister Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band, The Five Dallas Boys, The Bert Weedon Quartet, Frank Ifleld, Paddy Edwards, The Eric Delaney Band With Marion Williams & Gene Williams featured on Saturday Club. Pilgrim On The Island broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
I Have Been Here Before broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. Vernon Sewell's Urge To Kill - starring Patrick Barr and Ruth Dunning - premiered.
Close Up: The Electron-Microscope broadcast. Sir Adrian Boult featured on Desert Island Discs. Christopher Jonathan Brown born in Hanover.
Birmingham City drew nil-nil with Barcelona in the first leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final. The Eurovision Song Contest was won by France's Jacqueline Boyer (singing 'Tom Phillibi'). Britain's entry, 'Looking High, High, High' by Bryan Johnson, came second.
Sound In Vision broadcast in the Experiment strand. Sold Down The River broadcast in the Wednesday Magazine strand. On the First Division, Wolverhampton Wanderers went level with Tottenham at the top of the league following a six-one vicotry over third-placed Burnley (Gerry Mannion scoring twice). Sheffield Wednesday defeated Manchester United four-two. Aston Villa and Liverpool shared eight goals at Villa Park in the Second Division.
Cliff Richard featured on Crackerjack. The fifth test at Port of Spain was drawn. Brian Statham had flown home because his son was seriously ill and Alan Moss replaced him. Roy Swetman, the wicket-keeper, had managed only fifty eight runs in the first four tests and was dropped. With Keith Andrew, the other wicket-keeper in the party, having few pretensions as a batsman, Jim Parks - who had been coaching in Trinidad - took Swetman's place. His only previous test appearance had been as a specialist batsman in 1954. West Indies included a third fast bowler, the fearsome Charlie Griffith, making his test debut. For the third test in succession, Colin Cowdrey and Gary Sobers top-scored in their respective sides' first innings. The first day ended with Cowdrey and Ted Dexter having added one hundred and ninety one for the third wicket before Dexter was out for seventy six. Next day, though Ken Barrington took his score to sixty nine and Parks made forty three, England only added another one hundred and thirty seven for their last seven wickets. In reply, West Indies were at one point one hundred and ninety for two, thanks to Sobers and Clyde Walcott (fifty three), but collapsed to two hundred and thirty for six. Conrad Hunte, who had retired hurt when the total was twenty four, returned to make seventy two by the time that West Indies declared fifty five runs behind in the hope of forcing a win. With England declining to one hundred and forty eight for six when Dexter was run out for forty seven, they seemed likely do so. However Mike Smith and Parks then put on one hundred and ninety seven, which remains England's seventh wicket record partnership against all countries. Cowdrey's declaration left West Indies a notional four hundred and six to win. Godfrey Grayson's An Honourable Murder - starring Norman Wooland, Margaretta Scott, Lisa Daniely, Douglas Wilmer, Philip Saville and John Longden and John Haggarty's Caught In The Net - starring Jeremy Bulloch, James Luck and Joanna Horlock - premiered.
Bill Griggs of Northampton first marketed the Doctor Martens 'AirWair' style boots. They were classless, matchless, ageless and waterproof and retailed for only nineteen pounds and ninety nine pee. Apparently. The Hancock's Half Hour episode Sid In Love broadcast. The UK premiere of Richard Lester's The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film - starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Mario Fabrizi. The first episodes of Biggles and The Roving Reasons broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Oxford won The Boat Race. Cambridge came second. Preston North End beat Fulham four-one in the First Division. Bradford City's three-nil defeat at Shrewsbury Town in the third Division saw the debut of sixteen year old Trevor Hockey, the first fifty hundred and ninety games, for City, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Birmingham City, Sheffield united, Norwich City, Aston Villa and Wales, in a career that lasted until 1976.
Troy Kennedy Martin's adaptation of The Price Of Freedom and James Morris's Reflections In A Village broadcast. Alun Owen's After The Funeral broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand on ATV London. Geoffrey Muller's The Last Night - starring Norman Johns and Lisa Daniely and Charles Saunders' Operation Cupid - starring Charles Farrell, Avice Landone, Wallas Eaton and Harold Goodwin - premiered.
The first episode of Don't Do It Dempsey! broadcast. Sid James featured on Desert Island Discs. Terry Bishop's Danger Tomorrow - starring Zena Walker, Robert Urquhart, Lisa Daniely and Rupert Davies - premiered.
The first episode of Holliday at Home broadcast. Harry Secombe and Roy Castle appeared on Be my Guest. Basil Dearden's The League Of Gentlemen - starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Bryan Forbes and Richard Attenborough - premiered.
The Start Of It All broadcast in the Look strand. Compton Bennet's Beyond The Curtain - starring Richard Green, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim and Andree Melly - premiered.
The State Visit: At The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden broadcast. Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley - premiered.
John Elliot's The Boy Who Carried A Torch broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Baby Sitters broadcast. The Everly Brothers' 'Cathy's Clown'/'Always It's You', Adam Faith's 'Someone Else's Baby'/'Big Time', The Pinewood Studio Orchestra's 'League Of Gentlemen March'/'Golden Fleece Theme', Shirley Bassey's 'With These Hands'/'The Party's Over', Joe Gordon & His Folk Four's 'Football Crazy'/'By The Bright Shining Light Of The Moon', Ricky Wayne With The Fabulous Flee-Rakkers' 'Chicka'roo'/'Don't Pick On Me', Lynn Cornell's 'Demon Lover'/'Like Love', Norah Brockstedt's 'Big Boy'/'Tell Me No Lies', Jacqueline Boyer's 'Tom Pillibi'/'Ce Soir-La', Marv Johnson's 'I Love The Way You Love'/'Let Me Love You', Barrett Strong's 'Money (That's What I Want)'/'Oh I Apologise' and Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Stuck On You'/'Fame And Fortune' released.
Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Paul Carpenter and Nancy Spain appeared on Juke Box Jury. Sidney Hayers' Circus Of Horros - starring Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur and Donald Pleasence - premiered. England and Scotland drew one-all at Hampden Park in the Home International championships. Bobby Charlton scored a penalty but, subsequently, missed another which would have given England victory. Graham Leggat, partnering Ian St John and Denis Law in the Scottish attack, scored the host's goal following a suicidal back pass from Bill Slater. Huddersfield's Ray Wilson, starting his distinguished England career at left-back, played despite collecting a broken nose in the second minute. Tottenham Hotspur refused to release their three Scottish players, Bill Brown, Dave Mackay and John White, for the game though it didn't do them much good, losing their First Division game two-one at Everton. Burnley moved a step closing to securing the league title with a one-nil win at Nottingham Forest. Accrington Stanley's disastrous Third Division season culminated in relegation with five games left, losing five-nil at home to Halifax Town (Tom Holmes hitting three). Walsall's lead at the top of the Fourth Division extended to five points after a four-one win at Southport.
The first episode of Denis Mitchell's The Wind Of Change broadcast. Val Guest's Hell Is A City - starring Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomelty, George A Cooper, Vanda Godsell and Warren Mitchell - premiered.
Visitor From Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. John Freeman featured on Desert Island Discs. Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only published. Wolverhampton Wanderers went to the top of the First Division with a five-nil thumping of West ham United. Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson born in Doncaster.
The first episodes of Scotland Yard - Nightbeat - and The Pen Of My Aunt broadcast. Picture Parade broadcast scenes from Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. Walsall clinched promotion from the Fourth Division with a four-two victory at Oldham Athletic (top-scorer Colin Taylor netting two).
Derek Wellman's Black Spot broadcast. Eintracht Frankfurt all-but secured a place in the European Cup Final with a six-one win over Glasgow Rangers. Alfred Pfaff and Dieter Lindner both scored twice whilst Dieter Stinka and Erwin Stein were also on target. Eric Caldow scored Rangers' consolation.
The True Mistery Of The Passion broadcast.
Arthur Wilmurt's adaptation of Noah broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Ladies' Man broadcast. The Coasters' 'Besame Mucho Parts 1 & 2', Jimmy Reed's 'Baby What You Want Me To Do?'/'Caress Me Baby' and John Barry & His Orchestra's 'Beat For Beatniks'/'Big Fella' released. The largest attendance of the Football League season, sixty seven thousand eight hundred and nineteen, were at Stamford Bridge to see Tottenham return to the top of the First Division, Bobby Smith scoring a hat-trick in a three-one win against Chelsea. Over sixty five thousand were at Goodison Park where Everton beat Blackpool four-nil. Newcastle United and Sheffield Wednesday drew three-all at St James' Park.
Eric Sykes appeared on The Billy Cotton Band Show: The Wakey-Wakey Tavern. Liverpool's four-nil Second Division victory over Bristol Rovers saw the league debut of eighteen year old Ian Callaghan - the first of eight hundred and fifty seven games for The Reds in a career that lasted until 1978. In the process he broke Billy Liddell's appearance record for the club, established in 1960. Callaghan's career total was one thousand and two games for Liverpool, Swansea City, Crewe Alexandra and England. Having games in hand over both of the sides above3 them, Burnley's three-nil victory over Luton Town, Tottenham Hotspur's home loss to Manchester City and second-placed Wolves one-nil defeat to a Len White goal at Newcastle meant the First Division title appeared likely to be heading to Turf Moor. Cardiff City defeated title-rivals Aston Villa to also clinch Second Division promotion. Southampton moved to the brink of Third Division promotion with a five-one vicotry over already-relegated Accrington Stanley.

RF Delderfield's The Queen Came By broadcast. Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash on the A4 near Chippenham at the age of twenty one. Cochran's girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley, tour manager Pat Thompkins, Gene Vincent and the driver, George Martin (no relation) survived the crash though Vincent sustained injuries to his - already damaged - leg which would affect him for the rest of his life.
Nigeria: The Freedom Explosion broadcast. Anne Heywood featured on Desert Island Discs. The most exciting climax to a First Division title race in several years continued; Wolves returned to the top with a three-one victory over Nottingham Forest whilst Spurs were losing one-nil to a Jimmy Graves goal against Chelsea and Burnley slipped-up with a two-one defeat at Leciester City. West Bromwich Albion enjoyed a seven-one victory at Birmingham City (Ronnie Allen and Derek Kevan both scoring three) and Manchester United beat West Ham United five-three. Bristol City kept their faint Second Division survival hopes alive, winning five-one against Ipswich Town. Gateshead's three-one defeat by Darlington meant they joined Hartlepools United and Oldham Athletic in needing to apply for re-election to the Fourth Division.
Report From Paris, introduced by Robin Scott, broadcast. Mark Greenstreet born in London. Coventry City's two-nil loss at home to Grimsby Town confirmed Southampton's promotion from the Third Division.
The Story Of A Hyena broadcast in the Look strand. Ian Curtis's Dartmoor documetnary The Last Wilderness broadcast. The first episode of The Love Of Mike broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of The People Of Paradise and Jon Manchip White's Who Killed Menna Lorraine? broadcast. Real Madrid defeated Barcelona three-one in the European Cup Semi-Final first leg. Alfredo Di Stéfano scored twice and Ferenc Puskás added a third for the hosts.
Pamela Fry's Meeting With Johnny broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Photographer broadcast. The first episode of Glencannon broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion. Keith Dewhurst's Think Of The Day broadcast in the Television Playhouse strand.
The Country Boy broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, performing as The Nerk Twins, appeared at The Fox & Hounds pub in Caversham, Berkshire. The pub was owned by McCartney's cousin, Bett Robbins and her husband, Mike. Lennon and McCartney visited them during the Easter holidays, worked behind the bar and performed twice over the weekend before hitching back to Liverpool. Luton Town were relegated from the First Division despite beating West Ham United three-one. Birmingham City's four-two victory at Sheffield Wednesday condemned The Hatters to the drop. Jimmy Bloomfield scored three in Arsenal's five-two defeat of Manchester United. Fifty six thousand crammed into Molineux where Spurs beat Wolves three-one to return to the top of the table. However Burnley, who drew at Blackpool, still had two games in hand on the top two sides. Bristol City (who were defeated three-one at Leyton Orient) and Hull City (who drew at Portsmouth) were relegated from the Second Division. Southport became the fourth club needing to apply for re-election after their one-nil defeat at home to Crewe Alexandra in the Fourth Division. Promotion-chasing Millwall thrashed Chester seven-one. Torquay United moved to the brink of promotion to the third tier with a two-one victory against Crystal Palace. The first episode of Jack Good's Wham!! - presented by Keith Fordyce - broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of The Long Way Home broadcast. An adaptation of Love On The Dole broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. Ken Russell's Cranks At Work broadcast in the Monitor strand. The first episode of Target Luna, Harold Pinter's A Night Out and Philip Levene's Trump Card broadcast on ATV London.
Hallucinations & Delusions broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Anthony Newley featured on Desert Island Discs. Robert James Kenneth Peston born in London. Despite beating Port Vale six-three, Mansfield Town were relegated from the Third Division after fellow strugglers Tranmere Rovers beat Bury two-nil.
Settling Into Sunshine broadcast. David Storey and Muriel Spark appeared on The Home Service's Two Of A Kind.
An interview with Leslie Caron featured on the Wednesday Magazine strand. Real Madrid reached their fifth consecutive European Cup Final after a three-one victory over Barcelona in the Semi-Final second leg. Brian Pilkinson scored the winner as Burnley won one-nil at Birmingham City in the First Division.
The Hollow Crown the first episode of An Age Of Kings and David Attenborough's The People Of Paradise: Cargo Cult broadcast.
King George's Jubilee Trust 1935-1960 Silver Jubilee Appeal broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The East Cheam Centenary broadcast. Jess Conrad's 'Cherry Pie'/'There's Gonna Be A Day' released.
The first UK broadcast of Pelle Has An Idea. Wolves finished their season in fine style, top of the First Division with a five-one victory at Chelsea. Burnley (who drew with Fulham) remained one point behind but with still one game to play. purs also ended the season with a big win, four-one against Blackpool. Birmingham City's one-nil defeat of Blackburn Rovers meant that Leeds United (who beat Nottingham Forest by the same score) were relegated. Norwich City won three-nil against Chesterfield to clinch the second third Division promotion spot. Wrexham and York City vjoined Mansfield and Accrington in relegation. Watford's one-nil win at Workington meant they joined Walsall, Torquay and Notts County im promtoion from the Fourth Division.
The Vortex broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. Soviet surface-to-air missiles shot down an American U-2 near Sverdlovsk. Its CIA pilot, Gary Powers, was captured. Ramsey Herrington's The Nudist Story (also known as Pussycat's Paradise) - starring Shelley Martin, Brian Cobby, Natalie Lynn and Anthony Oliver - premiered.
The Sky In May broadcast in the Focus strand. Burnley clinched their first Division One title since the 1920s with a two-one win at Manchester City thanks to goals from Trevor Meredith and Brian Pilkington. They had not topped the table until the last match was played. Only two players in their suqad - Alex Elder and Jimmy McIlroy - had cost a transfer fee, the others being recruited from the club's youth academy. During the season, manager Harry Potts called on just eighteen players, with Jimmy Adamson, Brian Miller and Ray Pointer present in all fifty competitive matches they played. The team's top goalscorer was John Connelly with twenty four goals, including twenty in the league. Wolves had finished their season on fifty four points and, therefore, missed out on a third successive title by one point. Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion and newly promoted Sheffield Wednesday completed the top five. Manchester United dipped to seventh despite thirty two goals from Dennis Viollet and the mid-season signing of Maurice Setters. Luton Town, last season's FA Cup finalists, went down with Leeds United. Aston Villa earned an immediate return to the top flight as Second Division champions. Cardiff City were also promoted. Liverpool's change of manager from Phil Taylor to Bill Shankly was not quite enough to earn them promotion as they finished in third place, eight points adrift. Huddersfield Town could only finish sixth despite the goals of Denis Law, who was sold to Manchester City for a national record fee. Gateshead - who had only ever needed to apply for re-election once previously - were, nevertheless, voted out of the Football League and replaced by Midlands League side and FA Cup giant-killers Peterborough United. Erik Balling's Poeten Og Lillemor Og Lotte - starring Henning Moritzen, Helle Virkner, Ove Sprogøe, Lis Løwert, Dirch Passer, Judy Gringer and Bjørn WattasBoolsen - premiered.
The first episode of Men Of The Past - introduced by Brian Hope-Taylor - broadcast. A mere seventeen days after surviving the car crash that killed his firend Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent was back in Liverpool headlining the Allan Williams promotion at The Liverpool Stadium which lit the fuse under Liverpool's emergent rock and/or roll scene. The bill also included Davy Jones, Nero & His Gladiators, Lance Fortune, Dean Webb, The Viscounts, Colin Green & The Beat Boys and Julian X plus several local groups including Cass & His Cassanovas, Gerrry & The Pacemakers, Derry & The Seniors and Rory Storm & The Hurricanes (with Richy Starkey on drums) who, reportedly, stole the show with a rousing rendition of 'What'd I Say?'
Barcelona won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup for the second successive competition, beating Birmingham City four-one at the Camp Nou. Halifax Town's one-nil defeat at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division saw the league debut of sixteen year old Peter Downsborough, the first of six hundred and fifty games for Halifax, Swindon Town, Brighton & Hove Albion and Bradford City in a career that lasted until 1978. Filty albino kiddie-fiddler Jimmy Savile's Young At Heart began an eight-episode run on Tyne Tees. None of the other ITV regions seem to have touched it with a bargepole.
The first UK broadcast of The Children & The Swallows. Arthur Swinson's The Property In Question broadcast. Nicholas Ray's The Savage Innocents - starring Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani and Peter O'Toole - premiered.
The first episode of The Secret Kingdom broadcast. The Hancock's Half Hour episode The Poisoned Pen Letters broadcast. Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones (later, Lord Snowden) at Westminster Abbey. Brian Fahey & His Orchestra's 'Waltz For Beatniks'/'Street Of A Thousand Bongoes' released.
An adaptation of The Man Who Came To Dinner broadcast in The Saturday Playhouse strand. Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Blackburn Rovers three-nil in the FA Cup Final, with a Norman Deeley double after Blackburn defender Mick McGrath had scored an own goal.
Elmer Rice's Judgment Day broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand. The first UK broadcast of Bonanza on ATV London.
Schizophrenia broadcast in the Lifeline strand. The first episode of Alistair MacLean's Night Without End - read by John Slater - broadcast. Jack Cardiff's Sons & Lovers - starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller and Mary Ure - premiered.
Robert Robinson interviewed Spike Milligan and Shirley Ann Field on Picture Parade. Charles Friend's Cone Of Silence - starring Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, George Sanders and Bernard Lee - premiered. London-based music promoter Larry Parnes travelled to Liverpool to audition groups to back some of his stable of singers, including local boy Billy Fury, on forthcoming tours. The audition took place at The Blue Angel, a club run by local hustler Allan Williams. The auditions were filled with several Liverpool acts, among them Cass & The Cassanovas, Derry & The Seniors, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Cliff Roberts & The Rockers and a last-minute addition. Although they hadn't performed together live for some months, the newly renamed Silver Beatals - including recent addition, learner bassist Stuart Sutcliffe - were hopeful on the day, despite their new drummer, Tommy Moore, showing up late (they borrowed The Cassanovas' Johnny Hutchinson for a few songs). In the event, the group did enough to pass the audition - probably because, unlike several of the other groups, they were mostly unemployed and, therefore, available for work immediately - and, subsequently, played a (disastrous) seven-date tour of Scotland with Parnes singer Johnny Gentle in late May.
England and Yugoslavia drew three-all in a thrilling friendly international at Wembley. Bryan Douglas, Jimmy Greaves and Johnny Haynes were on target for the hosts for whom Sheffield Wednesday centre-back Peter Swan made his debut.
The Growing Teenager broadcast in the Family Affairs strand.
The first episode of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's The Grandeur That Was Rome broadcast. Billy Fury's 'That's Love'/'You Don't Know', Maureen Evans's 'Paper Roses'/'Please Understand' and The Vernons Girls & Filthy Albino Kiddie-Fiddler Jimmy Savile's 'Madison Time'/'The Oo-We' released.
The first episode of Leave It To Pastry broadcast. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers, Terry Burton, The Brooks Brothers, The Ted Taylor Four and The Alex Welsh Band featured on Saturday Club. The Soundtrack segment included songs from Elvis Presley's Loving You. Jack Cardiff's Sons & Lovers premiered at Cannes. The Silver Beatals performed - as The Silver Beats - for promoter Brian Kelly at the Lathom Hall. Also on the bill were The Deltones and King Size Taylor & The Dominoes.
England lost three-nil in a friendly international against Spain in the Bernabéu. The Spanish side included four of Real Madrid's trophy-laden squad, Pachín, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Paco Gento and Luis del Sol. The Silver Beatlas' made their only known performance at The Iron Door Club on Temple Street in Liverpool. It was a lunchtime show which also featuring Cass & The Cassanovas.
The first episode of A Matter Of Degree broadcast. Brian Rix featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of Bill Naughton and Allan Prior's Yorky - starring Wilfred Pickles - broadcast. John Gilling's The Challenge - starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle - and John Guillermin's The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England - starring Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars and Peter O'Toole - premiered.
Real Madrid won the European Cup for the fifth time, beating Eintract Frankfurt seven-three in an astonishing display of free-flowing football at Hampden Park in front of one hundred and twenty seven thousand enthralled fans in the stadium and millions watching at home. Eddie Cochran's 'Three Steps To Heaven'/'Cut Across Shorty' posthumously released.
The first UK broadcast of The Milton Berle Show. Tobias & The Angel broadcast.
How Satellites Work and Tempo Sixty broadcast. Buddy Holly's 'True Love Ways'/'Moondreams', Billy Fury's The Sound Of Fury, The Pinewood Studio Orchestra's 'French Horn Blues (Augie's Theme)'/'Elevator Ride' and Lonnie Donegan's 'I Wanna Go Home (The Wreck Of The John B)'/'Jimmie Brown The Newsboy' released. The (Silver) Beatles seven-date tour of Scotland, backing singer Johnny Gentle, began with a performance at the Town Hall in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. They were never billed on the tour; all posters merely referred to 'Johnny Gentle & His Group.' However, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe decided to adopt stage names for the duration. The tour was something of a disaster, disrupted by a collison involving their van and a car which left Tommy Moore hospitalised.
Marriage Settlement broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand.
England lost two-nil to Hungary in a friendly international in Budapest. Hungary's emerging eighteen-year-old superstar Flórián Albert of Ferencvárosi scored both goals. Manchester United's Dennis Viollet made his England debut. A Bunch Of Sweet Peas broadcast in The Home Service. Gregory Ratoff's Oscar Wilde - starring Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert and John Neville - premiered.
Central Africa: Can Partnership Succeed? broadcast in the Panorama strand. Music Of The Ballroom & Battlefield: No More Gallantry broadcast. Liberace featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of L Pilot broadcast. Black Orpheus, The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England and The Guns Of Navarone featured on Picture Parade.
Beryl Reid, Bill Owen, Barry Took and Kenneth Williams appeared on Laugh Line. Sportsview: Three Months To Rome broadcast. Anthea Turner born in Stoke-On-Trent.
Evening On The River broadcast.
A ride to Birmingham in a long-distance lorry featured in the Friday Magazine strand. The Royal Variety Performance broadcast of the first time on ITV.
Sammy Davis, Jnr broadcast. Marty Wilde & The Wildcats, Johnny Preston and Tony Crombie & The Rockets featured on Saturday Club. Ken Hughes's The Trials Of Oscar Wilde - starring Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries and John Fraser - premiered.
Rank Silver Jubilee - introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas - broadcast. The Assassin broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand.
Marjorie Ward's The Big Cats broadcast in the Living With Danger strand. The Pillars Of Society broadcast in The Home Service's World Theatre strand. Back on Merseyside after their Scottish misadventures, The (Silver) Beatles performed the first of approximately a dozen shows at their agent Allan Williams's Jacaranda Coffee Bar. Williams asked them to play a residency on Mondays when the normal house band, The Royal Caribbean Steel Band, had a night off. The Beatles were, it was subsequently claimed, 'paid' with beans on toast and Coca-Cola (though Williams denied this).
Russ Conway and Michael Holliday featured on Be My Guest. Jacqueline Mackenzie Discovers America broadcast.
Irene Pye, East Africa's first gazetted woman police officer, talked about the work of women police in Tanganyika in the Wednesday Magazine strand. Robert Graves was interviewed on Small World. Montgomery Tully's Dead Lucky - starring Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, Alfred Burke and Michael Ripper and Frank Marshall's Identity Unknown - starring Richard Wyler, Richard Stapley, Pauline Yates, Nyree Dawn Porter and Patricia Plunkett - premiered.
Summer With The Storks broadcast in the Look strand. Leonard Cottrell and Richard Wade's Beginners Please broadcast. The Beatles played the first of six consecutive Thursday night shows at The Institute, Neston, in the Wirral. The dates were arranged by Allan Williams while the group had been on tour in Scotland and were promoted by Les Dodd's Paramount Enterprises. The Heswall & Neston News And Advertiser published a brief review of the first show, which stated: 'A Liverpool rhythm group, The Beatles [sic], made their debut at Neston Institute on Thursday night.' This was, almost certainly, the first show at which they used the shortened version of their name.
Dennis Potter's TV début on the documentary Between Two Rivers broadcast. Johnny & The Hurricanes' 'Down Yonder'/'Sheba' and Sam Cooke's 'Wonderful World'/'Along The Navajo Trail' released.
Warren Chetham-Strode's The Guinea Pig broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The End Of The Track broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The first UK broadcast of The Flying Doctor on Associated-Rediffusion. The Roy Castle Show broadcast in the Val Parnell's Saturday Spectacular strand. Two days after performing at The Neston Institute, The Beatles played at another of promoter Les Dodd's venues, the Grosvenor Ballroom in Liscard, Wallasey. The beat combo returned to the venue two days later on Bank Holiday Monday when they were supported by Gerry & The Pacemakers, the first time that these two groups had appeared on the same bill. Bradley John Walsh born in Watford.
Ted Willis's adaptation of Doctor In The House broadcast in the Brian Rix Presents strand. Scenes from The Caretaker and an interview with its author, Harold Pinter featured on Monitor. The first episode of Associated-Rediffusion's Armchair Mystery Theatre - Leslie Sands' Eye Witness - broadcast. Bill Karn's Ma Barker's Killer Brood - starring Lurene Tuttle and Tristam Coffin - premiered.
The Company Of The Lord's Taverners Presents: Upgreen-And-At-'Em Or A Maiden Nearly Over and The Ivor Novello Awards broadcast. Dickie Henderson appeared on Desert Island Discs.
The Unforgiven, Kidnapped and Never Let Go - starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith - featured on Picture Parade.
The first episode of The Days Of Vengeance and scenes from Leonard Spigelgass's A Majority Of One broadcast. Star Clouds Of Sagittarius broadcast in The Sky At Night strand.
International Battle Of Magic: Great Britain Versus Italy broadcast. Gerald and Jacquie Durrell's Patagonian Journey broadcast in the Look strand.
The White Country broadcast. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' 'Shakin' All Over'/'Yes Sir, That's My Baby', Kenny Ball & His Jazz Band's 'Teddy Bear's Picnic'/'Waltzing Matilda' and Tommy Steele's 'What A Mouth (What A North & South)'/'Kookaburra' released.
Jazz A La Carte broadcast. Alan Bromly's Follow That Horse! - starring David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Dora Bryan and Mary Peach - premiered. The Ray Ellington Quartet, Rosemary Squires, The Zodiacs and Johnny Angel featured on Saturday Club. The Beatles played a third concert at the Grosvenor Ballroom, despite their drummer, Tommy Moore, having quit for a more lucrative job on the night shift of Garston Bottle Works. John Lennon, according to legend, asked if anyone present was able to play drums. The ploy backfired when a Teddy Boy gang leader - perhaps called Ronnie, though this has been questioned - took to the stage. 'Ronnie' had evidently never played the drums before, but nobody had the courage to ask him to leave.
The first episode of Rex Tucker's adaptation of St Ives broadcast. Stirling Moss appeared on Face To Face.
The Cinema Today featured an interview with François Reichenbach. Geoffrey Household's Thy Children In Darkness broadcast on The Home Service. The first episode of Deadline Midnight broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Royal Society Tercentenary Year: Life Before Birth broadcast. England won the first of a five test series against South Africa at Edgbaston by one hundred runs. Rama Subba Row, Ted Dexter and Mike Smith scored fifties for England whilst Fred Trueman (seven wickets), Ray Illingworth (six) and Brian Statham (five) twice bowled out the tourists. Bob Barber and Peter Walker made their test debuts. Giles Cooper's adaptation of Night Of The Big Heat broadcast in Associated-Rediffusion's Play Of The Week strand.
Johnny Morris's Master Diver broadcast. John Reeve's The Young Jacobites - starring Francesca Annis, Jeremy Bulloch and Frazer Hines - premiered.
Maisie Sharman's Late Harvest broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh and John Gavin - premiered. The Beatles played another gig in their six-week Thursday night residency at The Institute, Neston; this was probably their first show with temporary drummer Norman Chapman. Also during this period on a series of unconfirmed dates Allan Williams arranged for The Beatles to back a stripper (possibly called Janice) at an illegal drinking club on Upper Parliament Street, Toxteth, which Williams ran with his business partner, Lord Woodbine. Paul reportedly played drums, accompanied by John, George and Stuart on a tiny stage whilst Janice, in the best possible taste, whipped her tits oot for The Lads.
The First Australians - narrated by Peter Finch - broadcast. Ken Hughes's In The Nick - starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters and James Booth - premiered. Gene Vincent & The Beat Boys' 'Pistol Packin' Mama'/'Weeping Willow', Adam Faith's 'Johnny Comes Marching Home'/'Made You', Bobby Darin's 'Bill Baiey Won't You Please Come Home'/'Tall Story', The Fendermen's 'Mule Skinner Blues'/'Torture', John Charles' 'Love In Portofino'/'Sixteen Tons', Tom Lehrer's 'Poisoning Pigeons In The Park'/'Masochism Tango' and James Brown & The Famous Flames' 'Think'/'You've Got The Power' released.
Millicent Martin featured on Juke Box Jury. W Somerset Maugham's The Breadwinner broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Freddie Cannon, Tony Brent, The Avons and Chris Wayne featured on Saturday Club. Roger Corman's House Of Usher - starring Vincent Price - premiered.
Josef Čapek's The Insect Play broadcast in the Twentieth Century Theatre strand.
Nan Winton became the BBC's first national female newsreader. Hysteria broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Julian Slade appeared on Desert Island Discs.
Used In Evidence broadcast in the Scotland Yard strand.
Facts & Figures: Background To Berlin broadcast. Tennessee Williams was interviewed on Small World.
Seashore broadcast in the Look strand.
Threesome Reel broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Please Don't Tease'/'Where Is My Heart?', Roy Orbison's 'Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel)'/ 'Here Comes That Song Again' and John Barry & His Orchestra's 'Blueberry Hill'/'Never Let Go' released.
The Ken Dodd Show broadcast from the Grand Continental Theatre, Bolton. Stanley Kramer's Inherit The Wind - starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly - premiered.
Tony Soper and Johnny Morris's Out Of The Blue broadcast. Evelyn Waugh featured on Face To Face.
The first episode of John Hopkins' adaptation of Death Of A Ghost broadcast. England won the second test at Lord's by an innings and seventy three runs. Highlights included Mike Smith hitting ninety nine and Brian Statham taking eleven wickets in the match. Sir Alec Guinness appeared on Desert Island Discs.
Omnibus 1850-1960 broadcast. Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg's Murder Inc - starring Stuart Whitman and Peter Falk - premiered. The first episode of Mess Mates broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The BBC Television Centre opened. Richard Cawston's This Is The BBC and First Night broadcast. Bo Diddley's 'Road Runner'/'My Story' released.

Expedition To Ascension Island broadcast in the Look strand. Lionel Bart's Oliver! premiered in the West End at The New Theatre. Directed by Peter Coe, it ran for two thousand six hundred and eighteen performances. The original cast included Ron Moody as Fagin, Georgia Brown as Nancy, Barry Humphries as Sowerberry, Keith Hamshere as Oliver and Martin Horsey as The Artful Dodger. Over subsequent months other boys alternated in the juvenile leads, including both Tony Robinson and Davy Jones as Dodger. Danny Sewell's main competitor at the audition for the role of Bill Sikes was Michael Caine, who later said that he 'cried for a week' after failing to secure the part. The show transferred to Broadway with great success in January 1963. Billy Wilder's The Apartment - starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine - premiered.
The first episode of The Herries Chronicle and Fred Emney Picks A Pop broadcast. Emile Ford's 'Red Sails In The Sunset'/'Afraid', Little Willie John's 'Do You Love Me?'/'Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)', Charlie Drake's 'Naughty'/'Old Mister Shadow', Lyn Cornell's 'Teaser'/'What A Feeling' and The Everly Brothers' 'When Will I Be Loved'/'Be-Bop-A-Lula' released.
Top Town Parade broadcast. The Deep River Boys, Duffy Power, Dickie Pride and The Red Price Quintet featured on Saturday Club. The Wallace Case broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Tales Of The Riverbank broadcast. The first UK broadcast of John Frankenheimer's A Town Has Turned To Dust. Ken Russell's The Miner's Picnic broadcast in the Monitor strand. Peter Graham Scott's The Big Day - starring Donald Pleasence, Andrée Melly, Colin Gordon, Harry H Corbett, William Franklyn and Betty Marsden - premiered.
The first episode of Summerhouse broadcast. Michael Edwardes' The Murders In Bokhara broadcast on The Home Service. Maclean Rogers' Just Joe - starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, Anna May Wong and Jon Pertwee - premiered.
Inherit The Wind and The Apartment featured on Picture Parade. Lewis Gilbert's Light Up The Sky! - starring Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Benny Hill and Dick Emery - premiered.
The first episode of The Seal Of Neptune broadcast.
Foxes & Otters broadcast in the Look strand. Elmer Gantry - starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons - Terence Fisher's The Brides Of Dracula - starring Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson and Yvonne Monlaur and John Guillermin's Never Let Go - starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers and Adam Faith - premiered.
How To Go Pond-Hunting broadcast in the Water In Nature strand. Chuck Berry's 'Bye Bye Johnny'/'Mad Lad' released. The first episode of On Trial broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of Men Into Space. Valerie Masters, Frank Ifield, Tommy Bruce, The Shadows, The Bell-Tones and Kenny Ball 's Jazzmen featured on Saturday Club.
Bill Naughton's June Evening - featuring the TV debut of Davy Jones - and the first episode of the TV version of My Word! broadcast.
England won the third test at Trent Bridge by eight wickets. Ken Barrington top-scored in England's first innings with eighty whilst Fred Trueman took nine wickets in the match. Other Moons broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird published. Alan Bromly's Follow That Horse! - starring David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Dora Bryan and Mary Peach - premiered. Caroline Jones born in Reigate.
The first episode of R.C.M.P and Willis Hall's Return To The Sea broadcast. Ralph Thomas's Doctor In Love - starring James Robertson Justice, Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, Carole Lesley and Joan Sims - premiered.
Dafydd Gruffydd's The Little Line broadcast. The Pilkington Committee was established to consider the future of broadcasting. Their report, published in 1962, criticised the 'crass populism' of ITV and recommended that Britain's third national television channel should be awarded to the BBC. The Shadows' 'Apache'/'Quatermasster's Stores' released.
The Richest Man In The World and the first episode of What's It All About? broadcast. Ian David Hislop born in Swansea.
The first UK broadcast of Earle Luby's Down Range!. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'A Mess Of Blues'/'The Girl Of My Best Friend' released.
John Wiles's On The Edge broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Adam Faith, Lance Fortune, The Zodiacs, The Bert Weedon Quartet, The John Barry Seven, Bill Bailey's Hop County Boys and Mister Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band featured on Saturday Club.
You're A Long Time Dead broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand. Tay Garnett's A Terrible Beauty - starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Dan O'Herlihy, Anne Heywood and Cyril Cusack and Montgomeryy Tully's The Price of Slience - starring Gordon Jackson and June Thorburn - premiered.
Panorama Goes To The Democratic Convention broadcast. C Day Lewis featured on Desert Island Discs.
Stanley Kramer: A Film Profile broadcast.
Christopher Railing's The Question For Johnny broadcast. Jonathon Morris born in Urmston, Lancashire. Robert Day's Tarzan The Magnificent - starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine, Betta St John, Al Mulock, Charles Tingwell and Lionel Jeffries - premiered.
Fifty Years Of Guiding broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of CBS's Sabotage! George Pal's adaptation of The Time Machine - Rod Taylor - premiered.
A Light In Nature broadcast.
33 The first episode of The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer broadcast. My Flesh, My Blood broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand.
Berlin: End Of The Line broadcast. The Middle Of The Operation broadcast on The Home Service. Tony Richardson's The Entertainer - starring Laurence Olivier - premiered.
Scenes from Watch It, Sailor! broadcast. The fourth test at Old Trafford was drawn with no play possible on the first two days. Doug Padgett made his test debut.
The first episodes of Michael Pertwee's Golden Girl and Johnny Morris's Ticket To Turkey broadcast. Gabrielle Glaister born in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire.
John Prebble's Point Of No Return broadcast.
The Last Of The Battleships broadcast.
The Professor's Love Story broadcast. Roy Castle, The King Brothers and Maureen Evans featured on Saturday Club. At the fifth annual jazz festival at Beaulieu, Hampshire, fans of trad came to blows with 'progressives.' Wow, what a bunch of squares, dig? Don't you know fighting is for zeroes, daddio?

Evelyn Frazer's The Critical Point broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of Turn Of The Century. Johnny Morris featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK broadcast of The Adventures Of Hiram Holliday. Someone To Talk To ... broadcast. Debbie Russ born in London.
David Attenborough's The Opium People broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Chubby Checker's 'The Twist'/'Toot', Bobby Freemen's '(I Do The) Shimmy Shimmy'/'You Don't Understand Me' and Vince Taylor & His Playboys' 'I'll Be Your Hero'/'Jet Black Machine' released.
The Serpentine Regatta broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was released in the UK. And, if you've never seen it before, Norman was 'mother' all the time ...
Riddle Of The Porpoise broadcast. The Tubby Hayes Combo with Victor Feldman and Cleo Laine featured on Music For Moderns.
Stirling Moss, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Bunny Lewis and Judy Huxtable appeared on Juke Box Jury. The one thousandth episode of In Town Tonight broadcast on The Home Service including appearances by Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Jane Russell and Doris Day. Cliff Richard & The Shadows featured on Saturday Club.
Maurice Edelman and Anthony Steven's A Dream Of Treason broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand. Melville Shavelson's It Started In Naples - starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren and Montgomery Tully's Jackpot - starring William Hartnell, Betty McDowall and Eddie Byrne - premiered.
Celestial Fireworks broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first episode of Here Lies Miss Sabry broadcast. Bob Boothby was Roy Plomley's guest of The Home Service's Desert Island Discs.
David Parry's Stuff & Nonsense and the first episode of Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind broadcast. Robert Asher's Make Mine Mink - starring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques and Billie Whitelaw - premiered.
Bill Duncalf's They Made History: The Van Meegeren Story broadcast.
The first Uk broadcast of Paris In The Twenties. Don Chaffey's Dentist In The Chair - staring Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Ronnie Stevens, Kenneth Connor and Eric Barker - premiered.
Dream Girl broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. First Division champions Burnley and FA Cup winners Wolverhampton Wanderers drew two-two in the FA Charity Shield at Turf Moor.
Michael Flanders' adaptation of The Soldier's Tale - starring Gordon Jackson - broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Not So Long Ago - narrated by Bob Hope. Danny Blanchflower appeared on Desert Island Discs. Judith Rachel Holt born in Farnworth.
Alan Hancock's King's Hill Modern broadcast. The Face Of The Unknown - presented by Donald Holms - broadcast. Captain Joe Kittinger made a high-altitude parachute jump from one hundred and two thousand eight hundred feet from the Excelsior III balloon over New Mexico. Towing a small drogue parachute for initial stabilisation, he fell for four minutes and thirty six seconds, reaching a maximum speed of six hundred and fourteen miles per hour before opening his parachute at eighteen thousand feet. Kittinger set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest-duration drogue-fall (four minutes) and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. The record for the highest ascent was broken in 1961 by Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather. Kittinger's records for highest parachute jump and fastest velocity stood for fifty two years, until they were broken in 2012 by Felix Baumgartner. Ricky Valance's 'Tell Laura I Love Her'/'Once Upon A Time' released.
David Coleman's The Olympic Games - Who Can Win For Britain? featured in the Sportsview strand. (As it turned out, Don Thompson, Anita Lonsbrough and ... that was about it.) No Visible Means of Support: The Story of the Hovercraft broadcast. The Beatles, (including new drummer, Pete Best), performed their first date at the Indra Club in Hamburg. And, they did rock the fekkin' shack.
Colin Morris's Chasing The Dragon broadcast.
The first episode of The Small House At Allington broadcast. J Lee Thompson's Werhner Von Braun biopic I Aim At The Starts (But, Sometimes I Miss & Hit London) - starring Curt Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom and Gia Scala - premiered.
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo broadcast. The First Division season started with wins for champions Burnley (three-two over Arsenal), Wolves (four-two against West Ham United), Blackburn Rovers (three-one at Manchester United, Derek Dougan scoring three), Newcastle United (three-two at Preston North End, Len White netting as hat-trick) and promoted Aston Villa (three-two against Chelsea). Derby County were the big winners in the Second Division, beating Brighton & Hove Albion four-one. Perfomrance of the day came in the Fourth Division, with Crystal Palace thrashing Accrington Stanley nine-two. Johnny Byrne scored four, Alan Woan three and Ron Heckman two. Peterborough United's Football League debut was a resounding three-nil win against Wrexham at London Road. Dennis Emery, Peter McNamee and Tery Bly, newly signed from Norwich, scored for The Posh. In the Third Division match between Swindon Town and Halifax Town (a one-all draw), Swindon gave a debut to seveteen year old left-back John Trollope. He would go on to play eight hundred and eighty nine times for The Robins in a career that lasted until 1980. This remains the record for the most appearances by any player for a single club in the Football League. In the process Trollope also broke Maurice Owen's appearance record for the club, established in 1963. John Masefield's Reynard The Fox featured in The Third Programme's Narrative Poetry strand.
The Liberators broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand.
Gerald Durrell's Zoo Packet Or A Load of Monkeys broadcast. J Maclaren-Ross's The Key Man broadcast on The Home Service. The first performance of the satirical revue Beyond The Fringe - featuring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller - in Edinburgh. Terry Dyson scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur won three-one at Blackpool to become the early pace-setters in the First Division.
Scenes from John Chapman's The Brides Of March broadcast. The fifth test at The Oval was drawn. Geoff Puller and Colin Cowdrey both scored centuries and shared an opening wicket partnership of two hundred and ninety in England's second innings. England won the series three-nil.
Spike Milligan featured on Laugh Line. Chopi Music & Zulu Dancing broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. In the First Division, Blackburn Rovers beat Nottingham Forest four-one, Everton defeated Manchester United four-nil (Bobby Collins and Mickey Lill both scoring twice) and Newcastle United thrashed Fulham seven-two (Duncan Neale, Bobby Gilfillan and Liam Tuohy each scored two, Len White added the seventh). Geoffrey Topping's The Pepys Library broadcast on The Home Service. The first episode of The Man From Interpol - A Nest of Vipers - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Opening Ceremony of the Rome Olympics broadcast. The first episode of Call For Action broadcast. Roy Boulting's A French Mistress - starring Agnès Laurent - premiered. Wrexham's three-one victory over Exeter City in the Fourth Division saw the league debut of eighteen year old Wyn Davies, the first of seven hundred and eleven appearances for Wrexham, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Manchester City, Manchester United, Blackpool, Crystal Palace, Stockport County, Crewe Alexandra and Wales in a career that lasted until 1979.
Ken Russell's A House In Bayswater and Earthquake Country broadcast. John Kruse's October Moth - starring Lana Morris and Lee Patterson and Cyril Frankel's Scheidungsgrund: Liebe - starring OW Fischer, Dany Robin, Violetta Ferrari and Alice Treff - premiered. John Leyton's 'Tell Laura I Love Her'/'Goodbye To Teenage Love' released. The Shop At Sly Corner broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Johnny Angel, The Geoff Taylor Quintet and The Temperance Seven featured on Saturday Club. Anita Lonsbrough won the Olympic two hundred metres breaststroke gold. Danish road cyclist Knud Jensen collapsed during the one hundred kilometre team race through heat stroke and, later, died in the hospital. It was the second time an athlete had died in competition at an Olympics, after Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lázaro in 1912. In the First Division, Blackpool defeated Aston Villa five-three. Spurs maintained their one hundred per cent start to the season with a four-one win at Blackburn Rovers. Jimmy Greaves scored a hat-trick in Chelsea's three-all draw with Wolves. Fulham won four-two at West Bromwich Albion. Adrian Thorne hit four in Brighton & Hove Albion's six-one defeat of Bristol Rovers in the Second Division. Sheffield uNited were the early tabloe-toppers followed by Southampton who, after losing their opening game, thrashed Liverpool four-one mid-week and then Portsmouth five-one in the South Coast derby. In the Fourth Division, Hartlepools United thumped Darlington five-one.
Iain MacCormick's The Small Victory broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand.
Great Britain's Olympic football team drew two-two with Italy thanks to a seventy fifth minute equaliser from Tooting & Mitcham United 's Paddy Hasty. Last season's Fourth Division champions Walsall were enjoying life in the third tier, winning three of their first four games (and drawing the other), the latest a two-one victury at Southend United.
Willis Hall's Annual Outing broadcast. Ernest Morris's Transatlantic - starring June Thorburn, Robert Ayres and Pete Murray - premiered. Alf Ramsey's Ipswich Town joined Rotherham United at the top of the Second Division, Ray Crawford's two goals giving them victory over Scunthorpe United. Ciff Holton and Freddie Bunce both hit hat-tricks in Watford's six-one defeat of Brentford in the Third Division.
Caribbean Expedition broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Clue Of The Twisted Candle - the first of the long-running series of b-movies The Edgar Wallace Mysteries - starring Bernard Lee, David Knight and Francis De Wolff and Stuart Burge's There Was A Crooked Man - starring Norman Wisdom - premiered. Bobby Smith scored three as Spurs remained top of the First Division with a three-one win over Blackpool. Wolves beat Bolton by the same score. Manchester United thrashed Everton four-nil. Fulham defeated Newcastle four-three in a thriller at Craven Cottage. Newly promoted Norwich City led the Second Division with a one-nil victory at Chalrton Athletic. They were level on points with the other promoted side, Southamtpon, who won their third game in a row, one-nil at Liverpool. Crystal Palace in the Fourth Division were the only side in England besides Tottenham with a one hundred per cent record after four games, thanks to a one-nil win at Darlington.
West Germany's Armin Hary won the one hundred metres gold at the Rome Olympics. Great Britain's football team defeated Formosa three-two but were unable to progress to the Quarter Finals after losing their opening game to Brazil. Gerald Thomas' Watch Your Stern - starring Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips and Kenneth Connor - premiered.
New Zeland's Peter Snell won Olympic eight hundred metre gold. Shortly afterwards, his countryman Murray Halberg took gold in the five thousand metres. Brian Fahey & His Orchestra's 'At The Sign Of The Swingin' Cymbals'/'The Clanger', The Viscounts' 'Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum'/'Shortnin' Bread', The John Barry Seven Plus Four's 'Walk Don't Run'/'I'm Movin' On', Chick's 'Early In The Morning'/'Cool Water', Carol Jones's 'The Boy With The Eyes Of Blue'/'I Gave Him Back His Ring', Billy Fury's 'Wondrous Place'/'Alright, Goodbye' and Tommy Steele's 'Happy-Go-Lucky Blues'/'(The Girl With The) Long Black Hair' released.
The Dickie Valentine Show broadcast. In the First Division, Spurs won for the fifth time, defeating Manchester United four-one with two goals each from Bobby Smith and Les Allen. Bolton Wanderers beat Chelsea by the same score. Newcastle won two-nil at Nottingham Forest with a goal on his debut for Jimmy Gibson. West Bromwich Albion were still without a point, losing two-one at Preston North End. Port Vale beat Chesterfield seven-one in the Third Division.
Philip Mackie's Death Of A Guest broadcast in the Summer Theatre strand. Real Madrid beat Peñarol on Uruguay five-one in the Intercontinental Cup. Ronald Neame's Tunes Of Glory - starring Alec Guinness and John Mills - premiered.
A young - and very pretty - Cassius Clay beat Poland's Zbigniew Pietrzykowski to win the Olympic Light Heavyweight Boxing gold medal. Paul Beard featured on Desert Island Discs. John Moxey's The City Of The Dead - starring Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevenson, Betta St John, Patricia Jessel and Valentine Dyall - premiered. West Brom won at the sixth attempted in the First Division, thrashed Newcastle six-nil (Alec Jackson scoring three).
John Wyndham was interviewed on Tonight. Louis MacNiece's Another Part Of The Sea broadcast. Australia's Herb Elliott produced one of the outstanding performances at the Olympics in the fifteen hundred metres, winning gold in a world record time. Wolf Rilla's Piccadilly Third Stop - starring Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani, John Crawford, Mai Zetterling, William Hartnell, Dennis Price, Ann Lynn, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Clement Freud and Judy Huxtable - premiered.
Don Thompson won Britain's second gold at the Rome Olympics in the fifty kilometre walk. Christopher Francis Villiers born in London.
Great Britain's Olympic four by one hundred metres relay team (Peter Radford, David Jones, David Segal and Nick Whitehead) won a bronze behind the United German team and the Soviet Union. The first episode of Alan Freeman Introduces Twelve O'Clock Spin broadcast on The Light Programme. George Cukor's Let's Make Love - starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand - and John Paddy Carstairs' Sands Of The Desert - starring Charlie Drake - premiered. Spurs won again, two-one at Bolton Wanderers. Jimmy Greaves scored three as Chelsea thrashed Blackburn Rovers five-two. Southampton made it sixteen goals in four home games in the Second Division, beating Derby County five-one at The Dell. Crystal Palace lost for the first time, two-nil, to fellow Fourth Division pace-setters Peterborough United.
Who's Moody? broadcast. BF Skinner's What Makes Us Human? broadcast. Adam Faith's 'How About That!'/'With Open Arms', Sam Cooke's 'Chain Gang'/'I Fall In Love Every Day' and The Everly Brothers' 'Lucille'/'So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)' released.
Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila became the first black African to win an Olympic gold in the Marathon. Michael Holliday, Al Saxon, The Zodiacs, Chris Wayne & The Echoes and The Bert Weedon Quartet featured on Saturday Club. The first episodes of Police Surgeon, Candid Camera and Meet Foo Foo and the first UK broadcasts of Seventy Seven Sunset Strip and Whiplash on ATV London. ITV broadcast the first live Football League match to be shown on TV and the last for twenty three years, Bolton Wanderers one-nil win at Blackpool. The largest crowd of the season (fifty nine thousand eight hundred and sixty eight) were at Highbury to see Spurs beat Arsenal three-two in the North London derby. A late Johnny Giles equaliser gave Manchester United a draw at home to Leicester City and kept The Red Devils off the bottom of the table. In the Second Divisioon, Southampton, goal-machines at home, continued to struggle away from the South Coast, being thumped five-nil at Middlesbrough. Colin Andrew Firth born in Grayshott, Hampshire.
West Indian Writers - with George Lamming and Edgar Mittelholzer - broadcast in the Monitor strand. The first episodes of Danger Man - View From The Villa - Our House and Pathfinders In Space broadcast on ATV London. Big Brain Man broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand.
The Revealing Eye broadcast. In Search of The Essex Witches broadcast on The Home Service. Felicity Jane Montagu born in Leeds. In the Fourth Division, there were hat-tricks for Accrington Stanley's Geroge Hudson (in the three-nil defeat of Gillingham), Milwall's Peter Burridge (as they beat Barrow by the same score) and Peterborough's Terry Bly (in a four-one victory over Crystal Palace). Workington won five=three at Oldham Athletic.
Giles Cooper's Without The Grail broadcast.
Falstaff At Glyndebourne broadcast. Roger Corman's The Little Shop Of Horrors premiered.
Into Thin Air broadcast. Montgomery Tully's The Man Who Was Nobody - starring Hazel Court, John Crawford, Lisa Daniely, Paul Eddington, Kevin Stoney and Jack Watson - premiered. Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet both scored twice as Manchester United hammered West Ham United six-one. Tottenham hotspur made it eight wins in eight with a three-one victory over Bolton Wanderers. Newcastle united beat bottom-placed West Bromiwhc Albion three-two.
The first episode of Michael Bentine's It's A Square World and Sugar Beat broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Nine Times Out Of Ten'/'Thinking Of Our Love', Buster Brown's 'Fannie Mae'/'Lost In A Dream' and Lyn Cornell's 'Never On Sunday'/'Swain Kelly' released.
Sports Special featured Fulham's three-two First Divison victory over Chelsea. Elswhere, Arsenal defeated Newcastle United five-nil (David Herd hitting three) and Manchester City beat Cardiff City four-two. Bobby Smith scored twice as Spurs won for the ninth time in a row, two-one at Leicester City. Everton won four-three at Bolton. George O'Brien scored four in Southampton's four-two win over Brighton & Hove Albion in the Second Division. Ipswich Town remained top of the table after a one-all draw at Rotherham United. Leeds United and Middlesbrough shared eight goals at Elland Road. Third Division leaders Grimsby Town won five-two against Bristol City. In the Fourth Division, table-toppers Northampton Town beat Gillingham three-one. Nan Winton and Tony Bilbow introduced the final episode of In Town Tonight. Jane Annabelle Apsion born in Hammersmith.
The first episode of Sheep's Clothing and Ronald Adam's An English Summer broadcast.

The first episode of Donald Wilson's No Wreath For The General broadcast. BBC Schools programmes started using the son-familiar Pie Chart ident. Michaela & Armand Denis featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of The Haunted House featuring the TV debut of Ian Cullen, broadcast.
Animated Man broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. Geoff Vowden scored three in nottingham Forest's four-two victory against Fulham in the First Division. Barry Thomas hit two for Scunthorpe United in their three-one win at Middlesbrough in the Second Division.
The first episode of Meet The Champ broadcast. Delbert Mann's The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs premiered.
The one hundredth episode of Blue Peter and the first episode of Mystery & Magic broadcast. The first episode of Bootsie & Snudge In Civvy Life broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Frankie Howerd's Ladies & Gentle-Men broadcast. Fify goals were scored in eleven matches in the First Division. Tottenham Hotspur made it ten wins out of ten as they beat Aston Villa six-two. Ronnine Allen scored three as West Bromwich Albion defeated Manchester City six-three. Ted Farmer scored twice on his debut for Wolves as they won thre-one at Manchester United. Jimmy Greavesc and Charlie Livesey were among the goals as Chelsea had a four-one victory at Blackpool and Everton defeated West Ham United by the same score. Sheffield United remained top of the Second Division, winning four-one at Luton Town. In-form Plymouth enjoyed a five-one victory at Huddersfield Town. Terry Bly hit another hat-trick as Peterborough United won four-three at Exeter City in the Fourth Division. There were also hat-tricks for York City's Colin Addison (in a four-nil defeat of Workington) and Accrington Stanley's George Hudson (as they thrashed Oldham Athletic five-one).
John Whiting's A Walk In The Desert broadcast. Ken Russell's Shelagh Delaney's Salford broadcast in the Monitor strand. Alun Owen's Lena, O My Lena broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand on ATV London.
The first John Kennedy/Richard Nixon TV debate was broadcast in the US (the debate was shown in the UK the following day). Lionel Bart featured on Desert island Discs. The inaugural Football League Cup began. Five teams did not compete (Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers). In the opening First Round games, Bristol Rovers beat First Division Fulham two-one whilst West Ham United knocked out Charlton Athletic, three-one. In the Fourth Division, Peterborough United beat Doncaster Rovers six-two. Stockport County went to the top of the table with a one-nil victory over Wrexham.
Eugene O'Neill: Three Plays Of The Sea broadcast. Moonscape broadcast in The Sky At Night strand.
The first UK broadcast of Back-Breaking Leaf. Miguel M Delgado's Los Pistolocos premiered.
GW Stonier's Robert Tavener, Deceased broadcast. Stanley Donen's Surprise Package - starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor and Noël Coward - premiered.
The first episode of Barnaby Rudge broadcast.
The first episode of Bonehead broadcast. Jules Dassin's Never On Sunday and Maclean Rogers' Not A Hope In Hell - starring Richard Murdoch, Sandra Dorne, Jon Pertwee and Claude Hulbert - premiered. In the First Division, Burnley defeated Fulham five-nil (Jimmy Robson scoring three). Newcastle United beat Cardiff City by the same score (George Luke and Len White each netting two). Chelsea and Everton drew three-all and, of course, Tottenham won again, four-nil at Wolverhampton. Sheffield Wednesday also remained unbeaten, three points behind Spurs, winning two-one at Nottingham Forest. Forty seven goals were scored in the Second Divsion. Johnny Summers hit five in Charlton Athletic's seven-four victory over Portsmouth. Ray Crawford scored theee in Ipswich Town's five-two win at Leeds United, Southampton beat Scunthorpe United four-two and Bristol Rovers defeated Swansea Town by the same score. There were also plenty of goals in the Third Division, Bury winning seven-one at Tranmere Rovers and Swindon Town thrashing Port Vale six-nil. Peterborough United, the league's top scorers, went top of the fourth Division after a four-all draw at Gillingham (in which Billy Hails scored four) making it thirty seven goals in thirteen games.
Leopold Louth's The Unplayed Part broadcast. Fridolin Von Senger Und Etterlin featured on Face To Face. Val Guest's The Full Treatment - starring Claude Dauphin and Diane Cilento - premiered.
The first episode of Whistle Stop! - with McDonald Hobley - broadcast. Diane Cilento appeared on Desert Island Discs. Midlesbrough's four-three defeat at home to Cardiff City in the Leaue Cup First Round saw the club debut of Gordon Jones - the first of five hundred and twenty seven games for The Boro in a career that lasted until 1972. In the process he became the player with the second most apearances for the club, behind Tim Williamson's record, established in 1923. In the Third Division, Southend United thumped Watford six-one (Bud Houghton scoring a hat-trick) and Queens Park Rangers defeated Reading five-two. Fourth Division leaders Stockport County beat Crystal Palace five-two. Rochdale's Frank Lord scored three in their four-nil victory over Hartlepools United.
The first episode of The Flying Years broadcast. Henry Cass's The Hand - starring Derek Bond, Reed De Rouen and Bryan Coleman and Sidney Hayers' The Malpas Mysteries - starring Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson and Geoffrey Keen - premiered. Having played forty eight consecutive nights, The Beatles' residency at the Indra Club in Hamburg ended. They left due to police pressure caused by a stream of complaints about the noise. Owner Bruno Koschmider decided to turn the Indra back into a strip club and moved The Beatles the following night to the larger Kaiserkeller, situated at Thrity Six Große Freiheit. There, they alternated sets with another Liverpool group, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, featuring Ringo Starr on drums.
The first episode of Parade - introduced by Alan Melville and featuring Beryl Reid, Jacqueline Delman, Joyce Blair, Lionel Blair, Anna Quayle and Bernard Cribbins - and We Live By The River broadcast.
The Home-Maker broadcast. Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus - starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and Tony Curtis - premiered.
Deep River Time broadcast. Christopher Holme's adaptation of Muriel Spark's The Ballad Of Peckham Rye broadcast on The Third Programme. The Drifters' 'Save The Last Dance For Me'/'Nobody But Me', Johnny Scott's 'Hi-Flutin' Boogie'/'Peace Pipe' and Mister Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band's 'Buona Sera'/'Corrine Corrina' released.
England beat Northern Ireland five-two in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Jimmy Greaves scored twice with further goals from Bryan Doglas, Bobby Charlton and debutant Bobby Smith of Tottenham Hotspur. Middlesbrough's Mick McNeil also made his first international appearance. In the First Division, Fulham won five-two at Blackpool, West Ham United beat Birmingham City four-three and Burnley won four-one at Blackburn Rovers.
Alun Owen's The Ruffians broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
Make-Up Of The Stars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Alec Bedser featured on Desert Island Discs. The Football League Cup First Round continued with Chelsea thrashing Millwall seven-one, Blackburn Rovers winning three-one at York City and Third Division Colchester United hammering Newcastle United four-one. First Division leaders Tottenham Hotspur finally dropped a point, after eleven successive wins, drawing one-all at home to Manchester City.
The first episode of Harry Worth's Here's Harry broadcast. Robert S Baker and Monty Berman's The Siege Of Sidney Street - starring Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore and Peter Wyngarde - premiered. Nicola Jane Bryant born in Guildford.
Sir Fitzroy Maclean shared his recollections in conversation with Esmond Wright on As I See It. John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven- starring Eli Wallach, Brad Dexter and ... the other six - premiered. Wolverhampton Wanderers lost the first leg of their European Cup Winners Cup Quarter Final two-nil to Fußballklub Austria Wien.
The first episodes of Peridot Flight, Girl In Calico and John Elliot's Who Pays The Piper? broadcast. Chubby Chcker's 'The Hucklebuck'/'Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On' released.
The first episode of Robert Reid's Enquiry broadcast. Ted Hughes's The Rain Horse and David Sylvester's The Literature Of Cricket broadcast on The Third Programme. John Leyton's 'The Girl On The Floor Above'/'Terry Brown's In Love With Mary Dee' and The Fendermen's 'Don't You Just Know It?'/'Beach Party' released.
The Sacha Distel Show broadcast from Monte Carlo. The day's First Division hihglights included Burnley's five-three victory over Manchester United (Dennis Viollet scoring three for the visitors), Newcastle and Wolves' four-all draw and Spurs' getting back to winning ways with a four-nil victory at Nottingham Forest. Second-placed Sheffield Wednesday thumped Blackpool four-nil. Stuart Leary scored three in Charlton Athletic's five-three win at Brighton & Hove Albion in the Second Division. The top two met at Portman Road, Sheffield United defeating Ipswich Town one-nil. Michael Anderson's All The Fine Young Cannibals - starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood - premiered.
The first episode of Paul Of Tarsus - starring Patrick Troughton - broadcast. Henry Cass' Man Who Couldn't Walk - starring Eric Pohlmann, Peter Reynolds and Pat Clavin - premiered.
Stephen King-Hall broadcast. In which Stephen 'looks at what goes on in the world around us.' Nice work if you can get it. Sidney Torch featured on Desert Island Discs. Guy Henry born in London.
Joseph L Mankiewicz: A Film Profile broadcast. Anthony Asquith's The Millionairess - starring Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond and Vittorio De Sica - premiered.
The first episode of Down In The Valley broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. England beat Luxembourg nine-nil at Lëtzebuerg in a World Cup Qualifier. Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Greaves both scored hat-tricks and Bobby Smith two, with the other goal coming from Johnny Haynes. Birmingham City defeated Újpesti Dózsa three-two in the first leg of their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round. In the Football League Cup Exeter City gained a battling one-all draw with Manchester United. The first episode of England's Harrowing broadcast on The Third Programme. The first episodes of The Odd Man and A To Zoo - presented by Desmond Morris - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Mod Bods featured on Make Way For Music. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'It's Now Or Never (O Sole Mio)'/'Make Me Know It', Roy Orbison's 'Blue Angel'/ 'Today's Teardrops', Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren's 'Goodness Gracious Me!'/'Grandpa's Grave' and Pinky & Perky's 'Eeny Meeny Miney Mo'/'The Ugly Duckling' released.
The Bachelor Brothers broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. The Japanese Revue broadcast. In a Second Division match at The Valley, Charlton Athltic and Middlesbrough drew six-all (Dennis Edwards and Brian Clough scoring three for the respective sides). Bill Curry scored three for Derby County who won four-three at Lincoln City. Sheffield united went four points clear at the top of the division with a two-one win over Brighton & Hove Albion. Fifty goals were scored in nine First Division games. Highlights included six-two victories for Burnley at Chelsea (Jimmy Robson scoring three) and Aston Villa against Birmingham City (Gerry Hitchens also neting a hat-trick). West Ham United beat Preston North End five-two (Malcolm Musgrove hitting three), Wolves beat Sheffield Wednesday four-one and Arsenal won four-two at Blacxburn Rovers. Promotion-chasing Grimsby Town thumped Halifax Town six-one in the Third Division. The first episode of The Strange World Of Gurney Slade - starring Anthony Newley - broadcast on ATV London.
The Chopping Block broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
Charles Coward appeared on This Is Your Life. Ernest Lough featured on Desert Island Discs. John Wayne's The Alamo and Terence Fisher's The Two Faces Of Doctor Jekyll - starring Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff and Francis de Wolff - premiered. In another major surprise - and, another example that many First and Second Division clubs weren't taking the new competition entirely seriously - Darlington beat West Ham united three-two in the Football League Cup.
Robert Rietty's translation of The Poet broadcast.
The Enormous Whale broadcast in the Look strand. England beat Spain four-two in a friendly international at Wembley. Bobby Smith scored twice with Jimmy Greaves and Bryan Douglas also on target. Birmingham City completed an aggragate win over Újpesti Dózsa in Budapest thanks to late goals from Bill Rudd and Dennis Singer. Manchester United completed a routine four-one win over Exeter City in a Football League Cup replay. Second Division Rotherham United knocked out Leicester City two-one at Filbert Street, Keith Kettleborough scoring the winner.
Eugene O'Neill's A Moon For The Misbegotten broadcast. Karel Reisz's Saturday Night & Sunday Morning - the first British social-realist film starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field and Rachel Roberts - premiered.
Air & Breathing broadcast in the Discovering Science. Joseph Losey's The Criminal - starring Stanley Baker and Sam Wanamaker, John Llewellyn Moxey's Foxhole In Cairo and Edmond T Gréville's Beat Girl - starring Gillian Hills, David Farrar, Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Fields and Oliver Reed premiered. John Barry's Beat Girl soundtrack LP, Ron Grainer & His Music's 'The Maigret Theme'/'Along The Boulevards' and Bobby Darin's 'Somebody To Love'/'I'll Be There' released.
The Rikki Fulton Show broadcast. Tottenham Hotspur remained top of the First Division following a four-three victory at Newcastle United with thirteen wins and a draw from fourteen games. Sheffield Wednesday - who beat Bolton Wanderers two-nil - were second. Grimsby Town won six-three at Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division (Clarrie Williams netting four). Anastasia broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Finola Hughes born in London.
Elaine Morgan's Looking For Garrow broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
The first episode of Maigret - Murder In Montmartre starring Rupert Davies - broadcast. Val Guest's The Full Treatment - starring Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis and Françoise Rosay and Basil Dearden's Man In The Moon - starring Kenneth More and Shirley Anne Field - premiered.
Lookout: The Tolls Of The Roads broadcast. Scenes from Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's Billy Lair - starring Albert Finney - broadcast from the Cambridge Theatre. The first episode of Doctor Jacob Bronowski's Insight broadcast. Jack Lee's Circle Of Deception - starring Bradford Dillman, Suzy Parker, Harry Andrews and Robert Stephens - premiered. The first episode of The Old Pull 'n Push broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Cirque Napoleon Raney's Circus From France broadcast. Penguin Books was found extremely not guilty of obscenity and general naughtiness in the case of The Crown versus DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. The book sold two hundred thousand copies on its first day of publication following the trial after being banned since 1928 as everybody rushed out to find out what all the fuss was about. Butterfield Eight - starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey - premiered. Bradford City beat Manchester united two-one in the Second Round of the Football League Cup.
China & The World broadcast. Clive Donner's Marriage Of Convenience - starring John Cairney, Harry H Corbett, John Van Eyssen - premiered.
The Candidates: Richard M Nixon & John F Kennedy broadcast. Norman Taurog's GI Blues - starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse and Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory - starring Alec Guinness and John Mills - premiered. The Shadows' 'Man Of Mystery'/'The Stranger', Gary US Bonds 'New Orleans'/'Please Forgive Me', Azie Mortimer's 'Lips'/'Wrapped Up In A Dream', Bernard Cribbins' 'Folk Song'/'My Kind Of Someone' and Matt Monro's 'Portrait Of My Love'/'You're The Top Of My Hit Parade' released. The first episode of Somerset Maugham Hour - The Four Dutchman - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Katy Boyle, Frank Muir and Denis Norden appeared on Juke Box Jury. In the First Division, West Ham United beat Arsenal six-nil (Dave Dunmore scored three), Blackpool hammered Cardiff City six-one, Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Nottingham Forest five-three and Tottenham thrashed Fulham five-one. Bolton Wanderers three=one defeat of Manchester City in the Second Division, saw the debut (and a goal whilst playing up-front alongside Nat Lforthouse) firsixteen year old Francis Lee, the first of six hundred and seventeen games, for Bolton, Manchester City, derby County and England, in a career that lasted until 1976. He also scored over two hundred and fifty goals. Most of then penalties! The First Round of the FA Cup produced the usual quota of giant-killing feats; Bangor City beat Wrexham one-nil and Southern League Yeovil Town won one-nil at Walsall. Gateshead, now playing in the Northern Counties League, had a goalless draw with Barnsley at Redheugh Park and Bath City earned a two-two draw at Swindon Town. Northern League Bishop Auckland defeated Yorkshire League Bridlington Town three-two, Western League Brigwater Town beat Hereford United three-nil, Kettering Town won two-one at Isthmian League Wycombe Wanderers whilst several other minor league sides earned replays. Elsewhere, Gilligham defeated Ashford Yown two-one, Bristol City thrashed Sussex League Chichester City eleven-nil (Johnny Atyeo scoring five), Queens Park Rangers beat Walthamstow Avenue thre-two, Port Vale won three-two at Chelmsford City, Southend United had a three-one victory at Clacton Town, Mansfield Town beat Blyth Spartans three-one, Colchester United defeated Maindenhead five-nil, Crystal Palace won six-two against Hitchin Town, Peterborough United had a four-one victory at Dover, Hull City beat Sutton Town three-nil, Coventry City defeated Worcester City four-one and Southport thumped Macclesfield Town seven-two. Philip Levene's The Violent Road broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
John Osborne's A Subject Of Scandal & Concern - featuring Richard Burton - broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Montgomery Tully's The House In Marsh Road - starring Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton and Sandra Dorne - premiered.
Astronomy In Russia broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Frederick Grisewood featured on Desert Island Discs.
Miss World 1960 broadcast. Don Sharp's Linda - starring Carol White and Alan Rothwell - premiered.
The Mute Swan broadcast in the Look strand. Godfrey Grayson's The Spider's Web - starring Glynis Johns, John Justin, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert and David Nixon - premiered. Three further Southern League sides reached the Second Round of the FA Cup following replays. King's Lynn defeated Central Alliance League Loughborough Town three-nil at The Walks, Oxford United in their first season after changing their name from Headington United) beat Athenian League Hendon three-two (Johnny Love scored a late winner) and Romford thrashed Sutton United (also of the Athenian League) five-nil. However, there was no such luck for two Northern Counties League sides, Gateshead and Scarborough who lost to Barnsley and Bradford City respectively.
Arthur Swinson's The Road To Carey Street broadcast. Robert Quine's The World Of Suzie Wong - starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan - premiered. Bronco Layne smashed four in Swindon Town's six-four win at Bath City in an FA Cup replay.
The Cinema Today: War - introduced by Derek Prouse - broadcast. Anthony Newley's 'Strawberry Fair'/'A Boy Without A Girl' and Danny Rivers' Can't You Hear My Heart?'/'I'm Waiting For Tomorrow' released. Charles Saunders' The Gentle Trap - starring Spencer Teakle, Felicity Young, Martin Benson, Dorinda Stevens and Dawn Brooks - premiered.
Nina & Frederik, Jill Ireland and David McCallum appeared on Juke Box Jury. In the First Division, Chelsea had a four-one victory at Arsenal, Burnley defeated Wolves five-three, Newcastle beat Blackpool four-three and Fulham won four-two against Leicester City. Sheffield Wednesday closed the gap on Tottenham at the top of the table with a two-one victory at Hillsborough, Spurs first defeat of the season after a sixteen game unbeaten run. Grham Leggat scored three in Fulham's four-two defeat of Leciester City. Sheffield United increased their Second Division lead to six points with a one-nil win at Southampton. Third Division table-toppers Bury thrashed Notts County seven-nil (John Hubbard scoring three, Bill Calder and Don Watson two each). Oldham Athletic beat Crystal Palace four-three in the Fourth Divison with Bert Lister hitting three. York City thumped Exeter City six-one. Stuart Burge's There Was A Crooked Man - starring Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith and Susannah York - premiered.
Colin Morris's The Wind & The Sun broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Simone Signoret featured on Face To Face.
The Lord Mayor's Banquet broadcast. Ursula Bloom featured on Desert Island Discs. The Facts Of Life - starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball - premiered. The first episodes of Desmond Morris's The Animal Story and The Dickie Henderson Show broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.

The first episode of The World Of Tim Frazer broadcast in the Francis Durbridge Presents strand.
John and Roy Boulting's Suspect - starring Tony Brittan, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen abd Peter Cushing - premiered. Gilbert Harding died, aged fifty three, from an asthma atack, collapsing outside Broadcasting House as he was about to climb into a taxi. Burnley began their European Cup campaign in the First Round with a two-nil victory over French champions Stade de Reims. In the Third Round of the Football League Cup Chelsea won seven-nil at Doncaster Rovers (Bobby Tambling, Peter Brabrook and Frank Blunstone all scoring two). Fourth Division Wrexham won two-nil at Second Division Brighton & Hove Albion.
The first episode of The Vintage Years broadcast.
Paris Music Box broadcast. The John Barry Seven's 'Black Stockings'/'Get Lost Jack Frost', Shirley Bassey's 'The Birth Of The Blues'/'Careless Love Blues' and Johnny Tillotson's 'Poetry In Motion'/'Princess, Princess' released. Frank Marshall's Feet Of Clay - starring Vincent Ball and Wendy Williams - premiered.
Diana Morgan's Your Obedient Servant broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Spurs got back to winning ways, defeating Birmingham City six-nil, Chelsea beat Manchester City six-three (Jimmy Greaves scoring three) and Burnley won five-three at Fulham. Bobby CFollins hit a hat-trick in Everton's five-nil victory ovewr Newcastle United. In all, fifty two goals were scored in eleven matches. Luton Town thrashed Midldesbrough six-one and Plymouth Argyle beat Derby County four-two in the Second Division. Gerry Anderson's Crossroads To Crime - starring Anthony Oliver, Ferdy Mayne and Miriam Karlin - premiered.
Harry Green's The Squeeze broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The BBC radio debut of Sylvia Plath reading 'Leaving Early' and 'Candles' on The Third Programme's New Poetry. The Home Service's Frankly Speaking featured Cliff Richard being interviewed by the curious pairing of Steve Race and Royston Ellis.
The first episode of Michael Humphries's Six By Four broadcast on Blue Peter.
Soaring In Sailplanes and the first episode of Replacements For Life broadcast. David Eady's Faces In The Dark - starring John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, John Ireland and Michael Denison - premiered.
England beat Wales five-one in the Home International championship at Wembley. Jimmy Greaves scored twice with further goals from Bobby Charlton, Bobby Smith and Johnny Haynes. Birmingham City drew four-all at Kjøbenhavns Boldklub in the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final first leg (Johnny Gordon and Dennis Singer both scoring twice). Leeds United won four-nil at Chesterfield in the Football League Cup Third Round. In the European Cup, five-time winners Real Madrid were sensationally knocked out in the Second Round by fierce rivals Barcelona four-three on aggregate. The first episode of The Citadel broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of Citizen James broadcast.
The first episode of Richard Waring's sitcom The Charlie Drake Show broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'I Love You'/'D In Love' released.
The first UK TV showing of Dry Rot in The Saturday Film strand. Mister Handy Man, Jimmy Jones, Danny Williams, Stevie Marsh, Roy Young, The Trebletones and The Flee-Kekkers featured on Saturday Club. Jeffrey Segal's The Medallion broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. There were no real surprises in the FA Cup Second Round, with only Oxford united of the minor league sides progressing with a two-one vicotry over fellow minnows Bridgwater Town, though Bangor City and King's Lynn both gained rpelays (against Southport and Bristol City respectively) but both lost. Elsewhere, Romford were thrashed five-one by Northampton Town (Derek Leck scoring three) and Kettering lost four-two at Reading (Bill Lacey netting a hat-trick). In the First Division, Spurs won again, three-one at West Bromwich Albion and were now nine points clear at the tope with second-placed Sheffield Wednesday losing two-one at home to Aston Villa. Jimmy Harrower scored three as promotion chasing Liverpool beat league leaders Sheffield United four-two in the Second Division. Southampton thumped Swansea Town four-nil and Ipswich Town beat Huddersfield town four-two.
Beverley Cross's The Nightwalkers broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Tigers I Have Met broadcast on The Home Service.
Robert Coulter's Coleraine broadcast. Frank Muir and Denis Norden featured on Desert Island Discs.
Scenes from Ronald Millar's The Bride Comes Back broadcast. Brendan Behan talked to Eamonn Andrews on Meet The Quare Fella. Curt Jurgens was interviewed on Picture Parade. Paul McCartney and Pete Best were arrested in Hamburg for, alleged, arson. At the time The Beatles were staying in the Bambi-Filmkunsttheater cinema. John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe had already moved out and George Harrison had been deported from Germany for being underage. Paul and Pete were deported on the following day and told they should 'go home and light your English cinemas.'
Federico Fellini was the feature of A Film Profile. Gary Winston Lineker born in Leicester. In the second legs of the European Cup Winners Cup Quarter-Final, Glasgow Rangers completed an eleven goal aggregate win against Borussia Mönchengladbach with an eight-nil victory at Ibrox. Ralph Brand scored a hat-trick whilst Jim Baxter, Jim Miller and Harry Davis were also on the scoresheet. Wolverhampton Wanderers also progressed to the Semi-Finals with relative ease, defeating Austria Wien five-nil at Molineux. Birmingham City progressed in the Fairs Cup, losing three-two at Stade de Reims but winning on aggregate.
Report From The Vatican and Molly Lefebure's A Lady With Friends broadcast. Anthony Mann's Cimarron - starring Glenn Ford - premiered.
Christopher Chataway's Challenge To Prosperity broadcast. Johnny Burnette's 'You're Sixteen'/'I Beg Your Pardon' released.
The Druid Circle broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Fifty three goals were scored in eleven First Division fixtures. Aston Villa beat Manchester City five-one whilst Blackburn Rovers defeated Fulham by the same score. Chelsea thrashed West Bromwich Albion seven-one (Jimmy Greaves scored five), Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley shared eight goals at White Hart Lane. Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Arsenal five-three (Ted Farmer hitting a hat-trick) and Everton won four-two against Sheffield Wednesday. There were also wins for Bolton Wanderers (two-one against Newcastle United), Birmingham City (two-one at Blackpool) and West Ham United (two-nil against Cardiff City). In the third Division, Queens Park Rangers defeated Tranmere Rovers nine-two (Brian Bedford, Clive Clark, Mark Lazarus and Bernie Evans all scoring two). The Moving Toyshop broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Lindsay Hardy's The Assassins broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Edmond T Gréville's The Hands Of Orlac - starring Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Lucile Saint-Simon, Christopher Lee, Felix Aylmer and Mireille Perrey - premiered.
Tektites broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Oda Slobodskaya featured on Desert Island Discs. Godfrey Grayson's Escort For Hire - starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden and Peter Butterworth - premiered. Derek Reeves scored five in Southampton's five-four defeat of Leeds United in the Football League Cup Fourth Round. Hull City and Darlington's FA Cyp Second Round second replay, held at Elland Road, was abandoed after ninety minutes with the score at one-all as the pitch was 'considered unplayable.'
Gordon Murray's The Magic Tree broadcast. Wolf Rilla's adaptation of John Wyndham's Village Of The Damned - starring George Sandersa and Barbara Shelley - premiered.
Larry Adler appeared on Parade. The Concert Artists' Association Annual Dinner broadcast. Gordon Hales's Evidence In Concrete - starring Russell Napier and Howard Pays - premiered. Birmingham City reached the Semi-Finals of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup thrashing Kjøbenhavns Boldklub five-nil at St Andrew's.
NJ Crisp's The Dark Man broadcast. Fred Zinnerman's The Sundowners - starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - premiered.
The first episode of Coronation Street broadcast on Granada, Associated-Rediffusion and several other ITV regions. This was the schedule opposite it. Ramsey Herrington's Compelled - starring Ronald Howard and Beth Rogan - premiered. Ray Peterson's 'Corrine Corrina'/Be My Girl' and Susan Grey's 'Let's Slip Away'/'The Thing About Love' released.
A remarkable sixty goals were scored in eleven First Divison matches. Highlights included Sheffield Wednesday's five-four victory over Blackburn Rovers, Everton winning four-two at Birmingham, Arsenal's five-one win over Bolton Wanderers (with George Eastham scoring twice on his debut following his recent, controversial, transfer from Newcastle) and two high-scoring draws, Fulham and Manchester United sharing eight goals and Newcastle United and West Ham United sharing ten in a game which ended five-all. Inevitably, Tottenham won again, one-nil at Preston north end. Second Division promotion-chasers Liverpool and Ipswich town enjoyed comfortable wins (four-nil against Swansea and three-one over Plymouth respectively) whilst league leaders Sheffield united were losing two-nil at Derby County. Third Division table-toppers Bury beat Newport County four-one. Kenneth Charles Branagh born in Belfast. Keith Jayne born in Carlisle.
Leo Lehman's The Song Of A March Hare broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The first episodes of Pathfinders To Mars broadcast on ATV London.
Clark Gable 1901-1960 broadcast. Olympica gold medallist Don Thompson featured on Desert Island Discs. Ernest Morris's adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart - starring Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri and Dermot Walsh - premiered. The first episode of All Our Yesterdays broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Tony Bilbow introduced Catherine Boyle, Robert Gladwell, Joan Heal, Barbara Miura and Brian Rix showing a collection of presents chosen for their friends and relations in Christmas Fair. Robert Asher's The Bulldog Breed - starring Norman Wisdom - premiered.
Sports Review Of 1960 broadcast; David Broome won the Sports Personality Of The Year award. Ken Russell's A House In Bayswater broadcast. The first test of Australia's series against the West Indies at Brisbane ended in test cricket's first tie. Gary Sobers scored one hundred and thirty two in West Indies first innings of four hundred and fifty three. Australia replied with five hundred and five - Norm O'Neill top-scoring with one hundred and eighty one, Wes Hall taking four for one hundred and forty. Frank Worrell scored sixty five in the West Indies' second innings of two hundred and eighty four. Alan Davidson took eleven wickets in the match. Requiring two hundred and thirty three to win, Australia were ninety two for six before a partnership between Davidson and Richie Benaud took the Ausies to verge of victory. However, three run-outs occurred in the final two overs. With one ball remaining and the scores levels, Joe Solomon's throw hit Ian Meckiff's stumps with the batsman short of his ground. Blackburn Rovers lost a Football League Cup Fourth Round replay three-one at Third Division Wrexham, with Mickey Metcalf scoring a hat-trick.
Billy Fury's 'A Thousand Stars'/'Push Push' released.
An edited recording of the marriage of King Baudouin of the Belgians to Dona Fabiola De Mora Y Aragon broadcast. Otto Preminger's Exodus - starring Paul Newman and Eve Marie Saint - and The Man Who Was Nobody - starring Hazel Court - premiered. After four previous draws, Hull City finally overcame Darlington thre-nil in an FA Cup fourth replay.
The Friday Show featured the last TV appearance of George Formby. Don Seigel's Flaming Star - starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden - premiered. The Olympics' 'I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate'/'Workin' Hard' and The Viscounts' 'Money Is The Root Of All Evil'/'One Armed Bandit' released.
Barbara Shelley featured on Juke Box Jury. The Colonel broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Terence Young's Too Hot To Handle (aka Plagirl After Dark) - starring Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm and Christopher Lee - premiered. The Beatles' first gig since returning from Hamburg was at Mona Best's Casbah Coffee Club, a venue they hadn't played since The Quarrymen days. Stuart Sutcliffe had remained in Hamburg with Astrid Kirchherr, so The Beatles recruited Chas Newby, the former rhythm guitarist with The Blackjacks, to play bass. First Division highlights included Ray Pointer scoring three in Burnley's five-two win at Arsenal, West Ham United thrashing Wolverhampton Wanderers five-nil, Blackpool beating Leciestwer City five-one and Tottenham's nineteenth win of the season, three-one at Everton. Ray Crawford scored three in Ispwich Town's six-two defeat of Leyton Orient in the Second Division. Johnny King also hit three as Stoke City annihilated Plymouth Argyle nine-nil. In the third Division Tony Richards netted four in Walsall's six-two victory over Port Vale. Crystal Palace went three points clear at the top of the Fourth Division with a three-two win at Accrington Stanley.
Kenneth Williams appeared on Showtime. Barry Thomas's A Time To Fight broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Ken Russell's The Light Fantastic broadcast in the Monitor strand. Gerald Thomas's No Kidding - starring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood and Joan Hickson - premiered.
John Mills appeared on This Is Your Life. Scamps In Paradise broadcast on The Home Service.
Animals Abroad In Holland broadcast in the News From The Zoos strand. Second Division Rotherham United won two-nil at Bolton Wanderers in the Football League Cup Fourth Round.
AR Rawlinson's adaptation of The Eye Of Allah broadcast. Frank Wignall hit a hat-trick in Everton's four=nil victory at Tranmere Rovers in the Football League Cup.
The first episode of Sir Brian Horrocks's Great Captains and Edith Evans: A Film Profile broadcast. Vittorio De Sira's La Ciociara - starring Sophia Loren and Eleonora Brown, Frank Lauder's The Pure Hell At St Trinian's - starring Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Eric Barker, Thorley Walters and Sid James, and Charles Crichton's The Boy Who Stole A Million premiered.
Charles Lefeaux's adaptation of The Adventures Of Alice broadcast. The Deaf Ear Of Witchcraft broadcast on The Home Service. Stanley Donen's The Grass Is Greener - starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons - premiered.
Peter Sellers appeared on Juke Box Jury. Adam Faith, Lorie Mann, The Brooks Brothers, The John Barry Seven and Arthur Greenslade & The Gee Men featured on Saturday Club. George Ross and Campbell Singer's Any Other Business broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Carol Jean Vorderman born in Bedford. Spurs stretched their lead at the top of the first Division to ten points after a two-nil defeat of West Ham United. Terry Bly scored four in Peterborough uNited's five-one Fourth Division victory against Darlington.
Tuppence In The Gods broadcast in The Sunday-Night Play strand. Family Of Stars broadcast on The Home Service. The Wiflred Pickles Christmas Show broadcast on The Light Programme.
The Charlie Drake Christmas Show and Brian Rix Presents: Boobs In The Wood broadcast. Dave King featured on Desert Island Discs. Michael Carreras's Passport To China - starring Richard Basehart, Athene Seyler and Lisa Gastoni - premiered. Alex Dawson hit three in Manchester United's six-nil win over Chelsea in the First Division. Spurs won three-nil at West Ham United. In the Second Division Charlton Athletic beat Plymouth Argyle six-four.
Lord Boothby Remembers and The Weird Wandering Sisters broadcast. The Beatles (with temporary bassist Chas Newby) appeared at the Litherland Town Hall. Billed as 'direct from Hamburg' several of the audience assumed they were German and congratulated them on their excellent English. The date is often given as the beginning of The Beatles' acquiring a dedicated following on Merseyside. Many of the audience were subsequently inspired to form their own groups. The booking was arranged by Bob Wooler, who had been introduced to The Beatles by their agent Allan Williams. Wooler later became the in-house DJ at The Cavern. Immediately after the show another promoter, Brian Kelly, booked the group for a series of future dances. Terence Fisher's Sword Of Sherwood Forest - starring Richard Greene, Sarah Branch, Nigel Green and Peter Cushing - premiered. Having beaten Plymouth six-four in the previous day's Second Division fixture, Charlton Athletic lost at HYome Park by the same score. Wilf Carter netted five for Argyle. Sheffield United, who had led the table virtually since the first day of the season, lost one-nil at home to Sunderland and saw Ipswich Town (four-one winners against Norwich City) overtake them. In the first leg of a European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final, Hibernian shared a four-all draw with holders Barcelona in the Nou Camp. Sándor Kocsis scored three for the hosts whilst Joe Baker netted twice vfor the visitors.
Swiss Family Robinson, Pure Hell At St Trinians, North To Alaska and The Alamo featured on Picture Parade.
Your Own Teeth Are Best broadcast in the Family Affairs strand. Elaine Morgan's The Soldier & The Woman broadcast. Jungle Street - starring David McCallum, Kenneth Cope and Jill Ireland - premiered.
The first episode of Persuasion broadcast. Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren's 'Bangers & Mash'/'Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo' released.
The last day on which the farthing, a coin first minted in England in the Thirteenth Century, was legal tender. The last men were called up for National Service, as conscription ended. Sports Special featured a goal-fest with coverage of Tottenham Hotspur's five-two victory over Blackburn Rovers at White Hart Lane and Burnely's five-three defeat of Newcastle United at Turf Moor. Fifty six goals were scored in the First Division; hat-tricks were scored by Wolverhampton Wanderers' Jimmy Murray (in a six-one defeat of Chelseaa), Arsenal's David Herd (The Gunners winning fivethree at Nottingham Forest) and Manchester united's Alex Dawson (in a five-one route of neighbours City). Spurs ended the year ten points clear at the top of the league, having won twenty two of their twenty five games (and drawn two) and scored eighty one goals in the process. Sheffield United returned to the top of the Second Division with a three-two win at Charlton Athletic. Sunderland thumped Luton Town seven-one whilst Middlesbrough enjoyed a four-three vicotry at Liverpool. Grimsby Town who beat Hull City in the Humberside derby, led the Third Division. Crystal Palace remained top of the fourth Division, following a five-one victory over Doncaster Rovers. High-scoring Peterborough United were close behind, beating Carlisle united five-nil with another hat-trick from Terry Bly.