1961

1961
The first episodes of Beauty & The Beast and Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol broadcast. Mark Christopher Wingett born in Melton Mowbray. Fiona Phillips born in Canterbury. The first episode of Journey Of A Lifetime broadcast on ATV London. Stewart Love's A Handful Of Crocodiles broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand. Jack Smith's A Film For Maria - starring Rebecca Crawford, Linda Beagley and Susan Beagley and Francis Searle's Freedom To Die - starring Paul Maxwell and Felicity Young - premiered.
Wynford Vaughan Thomas's The Mumbles Railway Reminiscences broadcast on Blue Peter. The first UK broadcast of The U2 Affair. Freddie Mills appeared on This Is Your Life. The Girl On The Boat - starring Norman Wisdom, Millicent Martin, Richard Briers, Philip Locke, Sheila Hancock and Bernard Cribbins - premiered. Victor Gollancz featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK broadcast of Two Boys On A Horse. Lance Comfort's The Breaking Point - starring Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham and Lisa Gastoni - premiered.
The Challenge To Sport broadcast in the Sportsview strand. Henry Kaplan's The Girl On The Boat - starring Norman Wisdom, Millicent Martin, Richard Briers, Philip Locke, Sheila Hancock and Bernard Cribbins - premiered.
David Turner's The Train Set - directed by Don Taylor - broadcast. Roy Ward Baker's adaptation of The Singer Not The Song - starring Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Mylène Demongeot - premiered. The first UK broadcast of The Flintstones on Associated-Rediffusion. The Packabeats' 'Gypsy Beat'/'Big Man' and The Jeff Rowena Group's 'Peanut Vendor'/'Bullfight' released.
Catamarans - narrated by David Lutyens - broadcast. The Shirelles' 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?'/'Boys' released.
The first episode of The Avengers - Hot Snow - broadcast on some ITV regions (it first appeared on ATV London on 18 March). Meanwhile, on BBC1 ... In the FA Cup Third Round, Southampton beat Ipswich Town seven-one (George O'Brien netting three), Leyton Orient won six-two at Gillingham, Newcastle United defeated Fulham five-nil (Duncan Neale scoring three) and Scunthorpe United beat Blackpool six-two (Joe Bronson and Barrie Thomas both hitting hat-tricks). The major surprises occurred at Goodison Park, where Sheffiled united beat Everton one=nil and Fourth Division Peterborough United defeating Portsmouth two-one at Fratton Park. The Beatles played The Aintree Institute for the first time.
Venus Brown broadcast in The Sunday-Night Play strand. Max Varnel's A Taste Of Monery - starring Jean Cadell, Dick Emery and Pete Murray - premiered. The first episode of Journey Of A Lifetime broadcast on ATV London.
Kenneth Horne featured on Desert Island Discs. Aston Villa and Preston North End both enjoyed four-nil FA Cup replay victories (against Bristol Rovers and at Accrington Stanley respectively).
The Sundowners and The Singer Not The Song featured on Picture Parade. Max Varnel's A Question of Suspense - starring Peter Reynolds, Noelle Middleton, Yvonne Buckingham and Norman Rodway and Jerome Epstein's Follow That Man - starring Sydney Chaplin, Dawn Addams and Elspeth March - premiered.
A report on British Ski Week featured on Sportsview. Sidney J Furie's Doctor Blood's Coffin - starring Kieron Moore, Hazel Court and Ian Hunter - premiered. Wolves and West Ham United both lost FA Cup replays to Second Division opposition (Huddersfield Town and Stoke City respectively).
Denis Constanduros's The Afterthought broadcast. Simon Russell Beale born in Penang, Malaya.
Nina & Frederik broadcast. British Shipbuilding In 1961 broadcast in the News Extra strand. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'/'I Gotta Know', Gene Vincent's 'Jezebel'/'Maybe', Neil Sedaka's 'Calendar Girl'/'The Same Old Fool', Petula Clark's 'Sailor'/'My Heart (Amor)', The Piltdown Men's 'Piltdown Rides Again'/'Bubbles In The Tar', Bobby Vee's 'Rubber Ball'/'Everyday' and The Crickets' 'Don't Cha Know?'/'Peggy Sue Got Married' released.
Andrew Rosenthal's A Sense Of Guilt broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Godfrey Grayson's So Evil, So Young - starring Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock, Jocelyn Britton and Bernice Swanson - premiered. Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The Viscounts and Don Lang & The Frantic Five featured on Saturday Club. In the First Division, Arsenal beat Manchester city five-four. Sheffield united remained top of the Second Division with a four-one victory over Norwich City. Peter Burridge scored four in Millwall's five-one defeat of Chester in the Fourth Division.
The Elstree Story 1927-1961 and the first episode of Shaun Sutton's Paradise Walk broadcast. John Hopkins' A Woman Comes Home broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
The first episode of Life In A Physical World broadcast. The Beverley Sisters featured on Desert Island Discs. First Division leaders Tottenham hotspur lost for only the second time all season, two-nil at Manchester United in front of sixty five thousand. Mark Pearson and Nobby Stiles were on target for The Red Devils. Bill Asprey scored three in Stoke City's five-three defeat of Charlton Athletic in the Second Division.
The first episodes of Signpost and An Enemy Of The People broadcast. President Dwight Eisenhower gave his Farewell Address to the Nation. In it, he noted: 'A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognise the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.' The first episode of The Blackness broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Burnley beat SV Hamburg three-one in the European Cup Quarter-Final first leg.
Cliff Richard was the guest on Crackerjack. Eric Ashby and William Morris's The Unknown Forest and Marjorie Deans's translation of Margaret broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Tribute To A Patriot - narrated by James Stewart. Things That Go Bump In The Night, with its eerie BBC Radiophonic Workshop score, broadcast as part of The Home Service's The World Of Sound strand. The Raindrops' ' Will You Love Me Tomorrow?'/'Raindrops' and Hughie Green's 'The Puppet Song'/'The Valley Of Peppermint Springs' released.
The New President broadcast, presenting the highlights of President Kennedy's inauguration. The Beatles played at Lathom Hall in Seaforth. This is one of three possible dates at the venue during this period (the others being 28 and 30 January) which climaxed with Stuart Sutcliffe - recently returned from Hamburg - being attacked by local ruffians inside the venue. Pete Best and John Lennon (who broke a finger during the ensuing tussle) managed to fight off the thugs. It has been widely claimed that Sutcliffe's head injury subsequently led to the brain aneurysm which killed him in April 1962 although this had been disputed by friends who noted that he was already suffering from severe headaches for some time period to this incident. In the First Division, Spurs got back to winnings ways with a four-two victory over Arsenal in front of the lagrest home gate of the season, sixty five thousand two hundred and fifty one. The maintained a ten point lead over Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat Everton four-one. Sheffield Wednesday won six-one at Fulham whilst Manchester United were on the end of a six-nil hiding at Leicester City. Manchester City and Newcastle united drew three-all at Maine Road. In all, fifty one goals were scored in eleven top flight games. San Lawrie scored three in Charlton Athletic's six-two thumping of Swansea Town in the Second Division. Sheffield United won again, four-one against Stoke City whilst Sunderland beat Portsmouth four-one. Tranmere were the big winners in the third Division, thrashing Halifax Town six-two. York City's Peter Wragg scored four in their five-one victory at Crewe Alexandra in the Fourth Division.
The English Bible: King Alfred & The Anglo-Saxons broadcast in the Sunday Special strand. John Elliot's Off-Centre broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Frank Marshall's Feet Of Clay premiered.
Cuba: Anti-Castro Rebels broadcast in the Panorama strand. Ted Williams featured on Desert Island Discs. Francis Searle's Ticket To Paradise - starring Emrys Jones, Patricia Dainton and Vanda Hudson - premiered.
David Goddard's The Silent Highwayman broadcast. Brian Desmond Hurst's His & Hers - starring Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nicole Maurey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver Reed and Francesca Annis - premiered. Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski born in West Berlin.
The first episode of The Textile Industry broadcast with the Science & Life strand. The first episode of Jango - A Little Of What She Fancied - broadcast on Associatd-Rediffusion. The Beatles played Hambleton Hall in Huyton for the first time, supported by Derry & The Seniors and Faron & The Tempest Tornadoes.
Scenes from Robert Bolt's The Tiger & The Horse and Robert Barr's Epidemic broadcast. Guy Green's The Mark - starring Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman and Rod Steiger - premiered. Sean Anthony Blowers born in Middlesbrough.
The first episode of The House Under The Water broadcast. Gillian Lesley Gilbert born in Whalley Range, Manchester.
Jan de Hartog's The Four Poster broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. FA Cup Fourth Round highlights included Spurs' five-one victory over Crewe Alexandra and Brighton & Hove Albion's three-all draw with Burnley. At Kenilworth Road, Denis Law scored all of a Manchester City's goals as they were leading Luton sic-two when the game had to be abandoed after sixty nine minutes due to a waterlogged pitch. In the First Division, Wolves defeated West Bromwich Albion four-two. Brian Clough scored a hat-trick in Middlesbrough's three-nil victory at Portsmouth in the Second Division. Michael Holoway born in Dagenham. The first episode of Gerry Anderson's Supercar broadcast on ATV London.
NJ Crisp's A Kind Of Strength broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The first episode of The Mask of The Clown broadcast on ATV London. The first UK broadcast of Bonanza
The first UK broadcast of Perry Mason. Storms In The Sun broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. John le Carré's first novel, Call For The Dead - which introduced the character of George Smiley - first published. The Dance Of Death broadcast in The Home Service's World Theatre strand.
Meet The Marines broadcast. The first UK broadcast of NBC's Sit-In. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath appeared on The Home Service's Two Of A Kind. Jimmy Walsh and Ken Leek both scored twice in Leicester City's five-one victory over Bristol City in an FA Cup replay.
John Huston's The Misfits - starring Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and, in his final film, Clark Gable - premiered. In the FA Cup Fourth Round, Newcastle United beat Stockport Couty four-nil (Charlie Woods scoring twice), Sheffield Wednesday defeated Manchester United seven-two at Old Trafford (Keith Ellis netting a hat-trick) and Luton Town beat Manchester City three-one. Meanine, despite scoring seven goals across the two games Denis Law still ended up on the losing side. Aston Villa knocked out the previous round's giankillers Peterborough United two-one. The first episode of Survival broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Jack Gerson's Three Ring Circus broadcast. Peter Duffell's The Silent Weapon - starring Geoffrey Keen, Stanley Morgan, John Woodvine and Denise Coffey - premiered.
Elsa The Lioness - narrated by David Attenborough - broadcast. Leni Riefenstahl: A Film Profile broadcast. The Shadows' 'FBI'/'Midnight', The Everly Brothers' 'Walk Right Back'/'Ebony Eyes', Benny Hill's 'Pepys' Diary'/'Gather In The Mushrooms', The Miracles' 'Shop Around'/'Who's Lovin You?' and Adam Faith's 'Who Am I?'/'This Is It' released. The final live episode of Coronation Street broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion (and other ITV regions). All further episodes would be prerecorded until the next live transmission on 8 December 2000.
The TV debut of Judy Geeson in an episode of Dixon Of Dock Green. In the First Division Sheffield Wednesday defeated Preston North End five-one, Spurs lost for the second time in three games, three-two at home to Leicester City. Newcastle and Arsenal drew three-all and Cardiff City and Manchester City also shared six goals at Ninian Park. In the Fourth Division, promotion-chasing Peterborough United won six-nil at Stockport County. Trelawny Of The Wells broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre.
David Turner's The Final Result broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Peter Duffell's Partners In Crime - starring Bernard Lee and Moira Redmond - premiered.
The subject of a live editions of This is Your Life was to be Danny Blanchflower but, famously, he took to his heals and ran when approached by Eamonn Andrews. A standby program about Doctor Robert Fawcus was broadcast instead. Mary Ure featured on Desert Island Discs. Pat Jackson's Seven Keys - starring Alan Dobie and Jeannie Carson and Phillip Leacock's Hand In Hand premiered. Gerry vHitchens scored three as Aston Villa beat Plymouth Argyle five-three in a Football League Cup Fourth Round second replay.
Harley Granville-Barker's translation of Doctor Knock broadcast. The Beatles played Merseyside Civil Service Club, Liverpool for the first time. Their fee was five smackers.
An interview with the Swiss theologian Emil Brunner featured in the Viewpoint strand. The BBC announced it was dropping The Home Service's Children's Hour on the grounds that television has 'diminished its audience.'
Bern Spicer's The Brink and the first episode of Gallery broadcast. The Beatles' played their first show under that name at The Cavern Club. This was George Harrison's first time on the Cavern stage, as it was for Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. Harrison arrived in jeans, which were banned from the club, but he managed to convince the bouncer, Paddy Delaney, that he was one of the performers. The Beatles swiftly became a regular fixture at The Cavern, attracting a loyal audience until their final appearance in August 1963. Ralph Thomas's No Love For Johnnie - starring Peter Finch - premiered. Analysing Eve broadcast on The Home Service.
Millicent Martin featured on Make Mine Music. Robert S Baker and Monty Berman's The Hellfire Club - starring Keith Michell and Adrienne Corri - premiered. The Everly Brothers' 'Walk Right Back'/'Ebony Eyes', The Allisons' 'Are You Sure?'/'There's One Thing More', Johnny Preston's 'Leave My Kitten Alone'/'Do What You Diud' and Helen Shapiro's 'Don't Treat Me Like A Child'/'When I'm With You' released.
The first episode of Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years - The Gathering Storm - broadcast. Alistair Bell's adaptation of The House With The Green Shutters broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. In the First Division, Sheffield Wednesday won four-three at Burnley, Leicester City defeated Newcastle United five-three, West Ham United beat Everton four-nil and Spurs beat Aston Villa two-one at Villa Park to maintain their eight point lead at the top of the table. Over fifty three thousand, the largest Second Division gate of the season, were at Roker Park to watch Sunderland beat Middlesbrough two-nil. In the fourth Division, Peterborough United were amongst the goals again, banging in seven against Exeter City (Terry Bly scoring three). Table-toppers Crystal Palace defeated Rochdale four-one. Auguste broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Beatles played Liverpool's Cassanova Club for the first time.
Donald Wilson's The Intervener broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Kingsley Amis discussed Science Fiction on Monitor. Venera 1 was launched. The Soviet probe flew past Venus on 19 May, however radio contact was lost before the flyby, resulting in it returning no data. Not a sausage. Bugger all.
The first episode of Danger Is My Business broadcast. The Lanchester Tradition broadcast on The Home Service.
Darcy Conyers' The Night We Got The Bird - starring Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Ronald Shiner and Liz Fraser - premiered. Third Division promotion-chasers Bury thrashed Torquay United six-nil (Bill Calder hiting three).
Signals Through Space broadcast in the Science & Life strand. Total Eclipse broadcast. Muriel Spark's 'elemental drama' The Danger Zone broadcast on The Third Programme. In the Football League Cup Fifth Round, Third Division Shrewsbury Town beat Everton two-one at Gay Meadow with two goals from Peter Dolby.
Stuart Douglass's Girl On A Roof - featuring The John Barry Seven - broadcast. Leslie Norman's The Long & The Short & The Tall - starring Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser - premiered. The first episode of Cliff! broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion. The Allisons' 'Are You Sure?'/'There's One Thing More' and Jean-Claude Pascal's 'Nous Les Amoureux'/'Les Oubliettes' released.
Fred Zinnemann: A Film Profile broadcast. Peter Duffell's The Grand Junction Case - starring Russell Napier, Wilfrid Brambell, Christine Lander and Diane Lambert - premiered. Gerry Dorsey's 'Big Wheel'/'The Sentimental Joker' released.
Peter Sellers appeared on The Wakey Wakey Tavern. Gene Vincent featured on Saturday Club. In the FA Cup Fifth Round, Burnley defeated Swansea Town four-nil, Newcastle beat Stoke City three-one and Spurs won two-nil at Aston Villa. Barnsley were the last third Division side still in the competition, beating Luton Town one-nil. Sheffield United defeated top tier Blackburn Rovers two-one. Whilst The Blades were busy in the Cup, Ipswich Town took the opportunity to close within a point at the top of the Second Division with a four-nil victory over Leeds United.
The first episode of The Treasure Seekers broadcast. The Clue Of The New Pin - starring Paul Daneman, Bernard Archard and James Villiers - premiered.
Jimmy Edwards featured on Desert Island Discs. Imogen Stubbs born in Rothbury. Lance Comfort's The Breaking Point - starring Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham and Lisa Gastoni - premiered.
The first episode of The Fifth Form At St Dominick's - featuring the TV debut of James Beck - broadcast.
Second Division leaders Sheffield United won five-nil at Lincoln City (Derek Pace and Keith Kettleborough both scoring twice). In the Football League Cup Fifth Round, Aston Villa beat Wrexham three-nil.
In one of the great days in the club's history, Hibernian defeated Barcelona three-one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final second leg thanks to Bobby Kinloch's eighty fifth minute penalty. Mike Tracey scored four in Luton Town's four-one defeat of Stoke City in the Second Division.
Parents Training As Teachers broadcast in the Family Affairs strand.
Sport On The Spot: Judo - introduced by David Coleman - broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Theme For A Dream'/'Mumblin' Mosie', The John Barry Seven's 'The Magnificent Seven'/'Skid Row', Johnny Lonesome's 'Marie, Marie'/'Doctor Heartache' and The Scorpions' '(Ghost) Riders In The Sky'/'Torquay' released.
A Perfect Stranger broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Craig Douglas, Lyn Cornell, Johnny Gentle and The Shane Fenton Group featured on Saturday Club. The latter had recorded a demo tape and sent it to BBC. Sadly, between the time of recording and their audition being passed, singer Shane Fenton (Johnny Theakston) died from rheumatic fever. The band opted to continue with their roadie, Bernard Jewry, taking over as singer. The group, soon renamed Shane Fenton & The Fentones, would become regulars on the BBC and sign to EMI. In the First Division, Spurs now lead the table by nine points, following a one-nil victory at Manchester City. Sheffield Wednesday, who beat Cheslea by the same score, were second. Bottom club Blackpool lost four-three at Fulham. Johnny Goodchild scored three in Sunderland's four-two victory at Leeds United in the Second Division. The Years Between broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday Matinee strand.
John Prebble The Mather Story broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The Devils Of Loudun broadcast in the Monitor strand.
Coal & Steel In North-East England broadcast in the Looking At Britain strand. Design For A Scientific Age: Radio Astronomy broadcast. The Antigone Of Sophocles translated by CA Trypanis with Joan Plowright broadcast in The Home Service's World Cinema strand. The first episode of First World War - presented by AJP Taylor - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of Living In The Middle Ages broadcast. Roy Ward Baker was interviewed by Keith Fordyce in Profile.
Once There Was A Time broadcast. Leeds United sacked their manager, Jack Taylor and replaced him with the club's captain, former England international Don Revie.
Radio At Work broadcast in the Science & Life strand. Robert Day's The Rebel - starring Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie and Margit Saad - premiered.
Fay and Michael Kanin's adaptation of Roshomon broadcast. Billy Fury's 'Don't Worry'/'Talkin' In My Sleep', Matt Monro's 'My Kind Of Girl'/'This Time', Nadia Gray's 'I Like Money'/'The Topaze Theme (The Hurdy Gurdy Song)', Richard Maltby & His Orchestra's 'The Rat Race'/'Walkie Talkie', Reg Owen & His Orchestra's 'Payroll'/'Swing-A-Ling-Ling', Eddie Ellis' 'Honey I Gotta Have You'/'It Happens Every Day', Sidney James With Liz Frazer's 'Double Bunk'/'The 'ooter Song' and Brian Faye & His Orchestra's 'Short Back & Sides'/'Dusky Slant-Eyed Maiden' released.
Frankie Howerd appeared on Juke Box Jury. The FA Cup Sixth Round saw Billy Russell score a hat-trick as Sheffield Unied win three-one at Newcastle. The other games all ended in drawns with Leicester City overcoming Barnsley, Burnley beating Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham Hotspur putting five past Sunderland in the subsequent replays. Blackpool climbed off the bottom of the First Division with a five-two victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester United bbeat neighbours City three-one at Maine Road. The Fourth Division's top scorers, Peterborough United, were at it again, thrashing Aldershot seven-one (Ray Smith scoring four and Dennis Emery three). Division leaders Crystal Palace had a two-nil victory over Gillingham two-nil. On The Other Hand broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Leo Lehman's A Reason For Staying broadcast in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. Lance Comfort's Rag Doll - starring Jess Conrad, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith and Christina Gregg and Francis Searle's Freedom To Die - starring Paul Maxwell, Felicity Young and Bruce Seton - premiered. The first episode of Pathfinders To Venus broadcast on ATV London.
Jacques Gillies's You Can't Escape broadcast. James Mason featured on Desert Island Discs.
Donald Holms interviewed Charlton Heston on Picture Parade strand. Vernon Sewell's The Wind Of Change - starring Donald Pleasence, Johnny Briggs, Ann Lynn, David Hemmings and Angela Douglas - premiered. Ray Crawford scored twice as Ipswich Town replaced Sheffield United at the top of the Second Division following a three-one win at Bramall Lane.
The first UK broadcast of Klondike. Edwin Bush was arrested in London for the stabbing of Elsie May Batten in Charring Cross Road. He was the first British criminal identified by the 'Identikit' facial composite system. He would later be hanged for his crime.
HA Wood's Line Of Enquiry broadcast.
Antarctic Adventure broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Billy Fury's 'Don't Worry'/'Talkin' In My Sleep', Ruth Brown's 'Sure 'Nuff'/'Here He Comes' and Elvis Presley's 'Wooden Heart'/'Tonight Is So Right For Love' released. Mario Zampi's Five Golden Hours - starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders - premiered.
Eric Sykes, Katy Boyle and Jimmy Young appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Dallas Boys, Ricky Valance, Mike Shaun, Janice Peters, Ricky Barron, Cooper & James and Tommy Sanderson & The Sandmen featured on Saturday Club. John Gilling's Fury At Smugglers Bay - starring Peter Cushing and Bernard Lee - premiered. The first episode of The Arthur Askey Show broadcast on ATV London.
James Forsyth's Old Mick Mack broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
Leonard Webb's Cheerio Lou broadcast. A Home from Home broadcast on The Home Service. The five members of the Portland Spy Ring went on trial at the Old Bailey accused of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Black and white five pound notes ceased to be legal tender. Terry Bly scored four in Peterborough United's six-nil victory over Chester in the Fourth Division.
The first episode of A Play In The Making - introduced by Tony Garnett - broadcast. The first episode of A Brother For Joe broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
In the European Cup Quarter Final second leg, Uwe Seeler scored twice as Hamburger SV defeated Burnley four-one and won the tie five-four on aggregate. Anthony Bushell's The Terror Of The Tongs - starring Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Toone, Yvonne Monlaur, Marne Maitland, Brian Worth, Ewen Solon and Roger Delgado and Basil Dearden's The Secret Partner - starring Stewart Granger - premiered.
Adam Faith featured on Crackerjack. Barry Thomas's Around The Corner broadcast.
In Search Of Stanley broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Brian Fahey & His Orchestra's 'Short Back & Sides'/'Dusky Slant-Eyed Maiden', The Temperance Seven's 'You're Driving Me Crazy'/'Charley My Boy' and Bobby Vee's 'More Than I Can Say'/'Stayin' In' released.
The Absent-Minded Professor premiered.
Britain finished second in The Eurovision Song Contest for the third years running. The Allisons' 'Are You Sure?' was beaten by Luxembourg's 'Nous Les Amoureux' by Jean-Claude Pascal. In the FA Cup Semi-Finals, Tottenham beat Burnley three-nil at Villa Park whilst Leicester City drew with Sheffield United at Elland Road. Ted Farmer scored four as Wolves thrashed Birmingham City five-one in the First Division. In a Fourth Division promotion battle, Crystal Palace lost three-two at home to Northampton Town. Bobby Rydell, The Four Kestrels, Joyce Shock and The Red Price Combo featured on Saturday Club.
Bookstand: Alone Across The Atlantic - presented by Dick Taverne and Francis Chichester with Dennis Potter was script editor - broadcast. John Mortimer's The Wrong Side Of The Park broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The first episode of Drama '61 - The Cruel Day broadcast on ATV London.
Life On Mars? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Michael Wilding featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK broadcast of Ed Murrow's Harvest Of Shame. The Beatles performed an evening set at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the first time, supporting The Blue Genes. Rotherham United beat Shrewsbury Town three-two in the first leg of the Football League Cup Semi=Final.
Ley Kenyon's Sixteen Hundred Years Under The Sea broadcast. Ernest Morris's Strip Tease Murder - starring John Hewer and Ann Lynn - premiered. The Marcels' 'Blue Moon'/'Goodbye To Love' released. Newcastle United won two-one at First Division leaders Tottenham Hotspur with goals from Ivor Allchurch and Albert Scanlon. However, an knee injury to top scorer Len White in a challenge with Dave Mackay put the striker out for the rest of the season, something that would have dire consequences for The Magpies.
The first UK broadcast of Ted Post's Yacht On The High Sea. Gerald Thomas's Carry On Regardless - starring Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, Bill Owen, Esma Cannon, Freddie Mills, Fenella Fielding Hattie Jacques and Terence Longdon - premiered.
Vincent Tilsley's Cottage For Sale broadcast. Carla Thomas' 'Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)'/'For You' and LaVern Baker & Jimmy Ricks' 'You're The Boss'/'I'll Never Be Free' released. Gottfriend Reinhardt's Town Without Pity - starring Kirk Douglas - premiered.
The Grand National was won by twenty eight-to-one shot Nicolaus Silver. First Division highlights included Chelsea's six-one victory at Newcastle (Jimmy Greaves scored four) and Sheffield Wednesday's five-one victory over Manchester United (Gerry Young netting a hat-trick). Spurs maintained a three point lead at the top of the table wieth a goalless draw at Fulham. Bury defeated Queens Park Rangers in a battle of the top two in the Third Division. Gillingham's three-nil defeat against Wrexham in the Fourth Division took place at Stonebridge Road, Northfleet, the Football League having closed The Priestfield Stadium because of crowd disturbances at a match in January. Everyone Thought It Was Me broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday Matinee strand.
Elaine Morgan's Fury In Petticoats broadcast as part of The Sunday Night Play strand. John Lemont's Konga - starring Michael Gough and Jess Conrad - premiered. An episode of ATV London's Sunday evening religious programme The Sunday Break featured a performance of the Passion Play A Man Dies, depicting Christ dressed in a pair of jeans.
James L Dow's No Thoroughfare broadcast. Kenneth McKellar featured on Desert Island Discs. Ian Fleming's Thunderball published. Jimmy Walsh and Ken Leek scored as Leicester City beat Sheffield United two=nil at the third attempt to reach the FA Cup Final in a second replay at Birmingham.
The first episode of They Met In A City broadcast.
The Paper Farm broadcast. Eugène Lourié's Gorgo - starring Bill Travers, William Sylvester and Vincent Winter - premiered. Glasgow Rangers beat Wolverhampton Wanderers two-nil at Ibrox in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final. Alex Scott and Ralph Brand scored the goals. Rotherham United reached the final of the Football League Cup after a one-all draw at Shrewsbury in the second leg of their Semi-Final. Due to the rather haphazard staging of the tournament, however, they would not know their opponents for some time as the other Semi-Final (between Aston Villa and Burnley) hadn't even played their first leg yet. The first episode of Tales Of Mystery - The Terror of The Twins, based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood and introduced by John Laurie - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Lonnie Donegan featured on Crackerjack. Allan Prior's Town Vet broadcast. CM Pennington-Richards' Double Bunk - starring Ian Carmichael, Sid James, Janette Scott, Liz Fraser and Dennis Price - premiered. Del Shannon's 'Runaway'/'Jody' and Floyd Cramer's 'On The Rebound'/'Mood Indigo' released.
Stanley Williamson's Pastures In High Places, They Made History: Ronald Ross and Maurice Chevalier's Paris broadcast.
Eric Sykes and Brian Matthew appeared on Juke Box Jury. Seagulls Over Sorrento broadcast in the Saturday Playhouse strand. Chelsea won six-one for the second week running, against Cardiff City in the First Division. Spurs beat Preston North End five-nil (Cliff jones scoring a hat-trick) to increase their lead at the top of the league to four points. Popular Merseyside beat-combo The Beatles began their second residency in Hamburg at The Top Ten Club, playing a mind-blowing ninety two consecutive nights. They eventually left Germany following their final show at the club on 1 July, having performed on-stage for over five hundred hours during their stay. The first episode of ABC's Thank Your Lucky Stars broadcast in some ITV region (it didn't appear on ATV London until 9 September).
Christopher Bond's A Fair Cop broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Auguste Bournonville's The Sylphide broadcast. Michael Forlong's The Green Helmet - starring Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Sid James, Nancy Walters, Ursula Jeans and Jack Brabham - premiered.
Anthony Coburn's adaptation of The Watching Cat and Stephen Peet's The Unforgotten broadcast. The Jaguar E-Type, a - properly fantastic - sports car capable of one hundred and fifty miles per hour, was launched as a two-seater roadster or a coupé. Soon, all of the groovy people were driving one. Anthony Asquith's Two Living, One Dead - starring Patrick McGoohan, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers - premiered. Billy Fury's 'Halfway To Paradise'/'Cross My Heart', Paul Revere & The Raiders' 'Like Long Hair'/'Sharon', Ernie K-Doe's 'Mother-In-Law'/'Wanted Ten Thousand Dollars Reward', The Ravens Rock Group's 'The Ghoul Friend'/'Career Girl', Geoff Love & His Orchestra's 'Coronation Street'/'Sophia' and Clarence Frogman Henry's 'But I Do'/'Just My Baby & Me' released. In the First Division, Albert Cheeseborough scored three in Leciester city's five-one defeat of West Ham United. Billy McAdams also hit three in Bolton Wanderers three-nil victory over Aston Villa.
The Greatest Show On Earth and The Magnificent Seven featured on Picture Parade. Mister Topaze - the only film directed by Peter Sellers and Lewis Gilbert's The Greengage Summer - starring Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Jane Asher and Susannah York - premiered. Bury went seven points clear at the top of the Third Division following a two-nil victory over Grimsby Town. Laurie Brown scored three as Northampton Town kept their promotion hopes in the Fourth Division alive, beating Exeter City three-one.
Viewpoint: God & Chance broadcast.
Marian Heman's The Little Key and Mediterranean Highway: Malta - narrated by Wynford Vaughan Thomas - broadcast.
Judgment & The Unconscious broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Dean Sterling & The Teen-Beats' 'Send Me A Girl'/'Lost Love' released.
Cliff Richard featured on Juke Box Jury. Counsel For The Defence broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The First Division highlights includes Spurs three-two victory at Birmingham City which gave them a six point cushion at the top of the table. Leyton Orient became the first side relegated from the Second Division following their one-nil loss at Brighton & Hove Albion. Peterborough United's one-nil victory at York City meant The Posh were promoted from the fourth Division less than twelve months after they had gained admittance into the league.
The first episode of Rob Roy broadcast.
James Brabazon's People Of Nowhere broadcast. Barbara Jefford featured on Desert Island Discs. John Paddy Carstairs's A Weekend With Lulu - starring Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks, Shirley Eaton, Irene Handl, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Sydney Tafler - premiered. Nicholas Lackey born in Edinburgh. Burnley and Aston Villa drew one-all in the first leg of the Football League Cup Semi-Final.
Scenes from Maurice Valoney's adaptation of Ondine - directed by Peter Hall - broadcast. John Elliot's Ladies From A Spa broadcast in the They Met In A City strand.
Norman Swallow's The Musicmakers broadcast. Major Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space onboard Vostok 1. The flight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at ninety nautical miles. The flight took one hundred and eight minutes from launch to landing. FAI rules in 1961 required that a pilot needed to land with the spacecraft for it to be considered a spaceflight. Although some contemporary Soviet media sources stated that Gagarin had parachuted separately to the ground, the Soviet Union insisted that he had landed with the Vostok; the government forced the cosmonaut to lie in press conferences and the FAI subsequently certified the flight. The Soviet Union did not admit until 1971 that Gagarin had ejected and landed separately from the descent module. Albert Quixall and Dennis Viollet both scored hat-tricks as Manchester United thumped Burnley six-nil in the First Division.
Wilfred Greatorex's After The Crash broadcast.
The first episode of Amelia broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Group's 'Have A Drink On Me'/'Seven Daffodils' and Etta James's 'At Last'/'I Just Want To Make Love To You' released. Robert Carlyle born in Glasgow.
Alma Cogan, The Temperance Seven and Andy Stewart appeared on The Billy Cotton Band Show. Laurence Dobie and Robert Sloman's The Tinker broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. England thrashed Scotland nine-three in the Home International championship at Wembley. Jimmy Greaves scored a hat-trick and Bobby Smith and Johnny Haynes added two each with further goals from Bobby Robson and Bryan Douglas. Glasgow Celtic's Frank Haffey, in goal for the Scots, took much of the shame and ignominy for the hammering and never played for the national side again. Dave Mackay, debutant Pat Quinn of Motherwell and Davie Wilson scored for the visitors. Glasgow Celtic's Billy McNeill was one of three players besides Quinn making their debut for Scotland (Bobby Shearer for Rangers and Motherwell's Johnny MacLeod were the others). In the week leading up to the match, Greaves was signed by AC Milan, but because of the embargo on foreign players in the Italian League, Milan could only sign him Chelsea as an 'option to buy', of which they paid ten thousand pounds. It allowed Greaves to remain a Chelsea player until the end of the season. Blackpool's two-one victory over Newcastle plunged The Magpies deep into First Division relegation trouble. Ipswich Town (four-one winners at already-relegated Lincoln City) and Sheffield United (who beat Southampton two-one) moved to within a point of promotion from the Second Division, aided by Liverpool's two-one defeat at Norwich City. Brian Bedford scored four in Third Division promotion-chasers Queens Park Rangers five-one victory over Halifax Town. Colin Taylor hit a hat-trick in Walsall's three-nil win at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. Bobby Folland scored five in Hartlepools United's five-one defeat of Oldham Athletic, though Pools remained stuck at the foot of the Fourth Division. Leaders Peterborough United won three-nil against Accrington Stanley. The TV debut of Muriel Spark in a drama-documentary on Emily Brönte as part of the Bookstand strand. Charley's Aunt broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Vernon Sewell's House Of Mystery - starring Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley and Nanette Newman - premiered.
Sigvard Berggren's Simba, My Lion and Troy Kennedy-Martin's adaptation of Element Of Doubt broadcast. Tottenham Hotspur sealed the First Division title with a two-one win over second placed Sheffield Wednesday. Bobby Smith and Les Allen scored for Spurs. Bury were promoted from the Third Division without playing, thanks to Queens Park Rangers one-all draw at Halifax Town.
Great Captains: The Duke Of Wellington broadcast. The Guns O Navarone featured on Picture Parade. The Soviet spy George Blake was arrested in London. Jane Elizabeth Leeves born in Ilford.
Brian Johnston's Meet the Tourists broadcast in the Sportsview strand. The Sacred Mushroom broadcast in the Eye On Research strand. The Bay Of Pigs fiasco took place in Cuba. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Glasgow Rangers drew one-all in the second leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final, Rangers progressing to the final on aggregate. Birmingham City won two-one in the San Siro against Internazionale in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final. Sheffield United were promotoed from the Second Division following a two-one defeat of Derby County. York City's two-nil loss at Accrington Stanley meant that Northampton Town and Crystal Palace were both promoted from the Fourth Division.
J MacReady's Big Time broadcast. Sidney Hayers's Payroll - Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith and Tom Bell and Ken Annakin's Very Important Person - starring James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips and Eric Sykes - premiered. Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst born in Emsworth. Paul Usher born in Liverpool.
The Best Of Walter Higham broadcast in the Look strand.
Betty Hutton At The Pigalle broadcast. Cat & Mouse broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Having already won the First Division title, Spurs lost four-two at Burnley. There were also big wins for Wolves (five-one at Arsenal), Newcastle (four-one against Bolton Wanderers), Manchester City (four-one over Aston Villa) and Manchester United (four-two at Preston North End). Forty four goals were scored in eleven First Division games. In the immediate aftermatch of Everton's two-one victory at Sheffield Wednesday, manager Johnny Carey, despite having led the side to fifth place, their highest post-war position, was sacked in the back of a taxi by director John Moores. It is oftenc claimed that, as a result of this, the comment, 'Taxi for ...' has become a staple insult offered to any manager facing the threat of the sack. He was replaced by former Everton favourite and current Wednesday boss Harry Catterick. Ipswich Town joined Sheffield United in promotion from the Second Division with a four-nil victory over Sunderland. Leeds United thrashed Lincoln City seven-nil. Chesterfield and Colchester United were both relegated from the Third Division. Queens Park Rangers won six-one at Torquay United. Theodore Zichy's Night Without Pity - starring Sarah Lawson, Neil McCallum, Alan Edwards, Dorinda Stevens, Patrick Newell and John Moulder-Brown - premiered.
The Hollow Crown broadcast in the Monitor strand.
Henry Livings's The Arson Squad broadcast. Life On The Moon? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Adam Faith featured on Desert Island Discs. Bradford City were relegated from the Third Divsion despite a four-two victory at already relegated Colchester. They would bew replaced by neighbours Bradford Park Avenue, who clinched promotion from the Fourth Division with a two-one defeat of Millwall.
The first episodes of Man & Nature, Your World and Laying The Table broadcast. Bryan Forbes appeared on Film & Film Makers. Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo premiered in Tokyo.
Eye On Research: The Indoor Ocean broadcast. Dunfermline Athleticbeat Glasgow Celtic two-nil in the Scottish Cup Final replay at Hampden Park. Sidney J Furie's The Snake Woman - starring Susan Travers - premiered. Aston Villa and Burnley drew two-two in the second leg of their League Cup Semi-Final. Walsall's two-one vicotry at Shrewsbury Town coupled with Queens Park Rangers three-one defeat at Reading meant The Saddlers - and top goal scorers Tony Richards - joined Bury in promtoion from the Third Division. Terry Matthews scored four in Aldershit's six-one thrashing of York City in the Fourth Division. Hibernian drew three-all at Roma in the second leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final, with Joe Baker scoring twice. A play-off was required, on 27 May, which Roma convincingly won six-nil. (Pedro Manfredini netting four).
The Shadows appeared on Crackerjack. Alan Melville's Dear Charles broadcast. J Lee Thompson's The Guns Of Navarone - starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker and Anthony Quayle - premiered.
The Dudley Moore Trio's 'Strictly For The Birds'/'Duddly Dell' and Jess Conrad's 'This Pullover'/'Why Am I Living' released.
The Australian cricket team's Ashes tour began with a match against Worcestershire. Aston Villa's four-one victory over Sheffield Wednesday saw the league debut of eighteen year old Charlie Aitken - the first of six hundred and fifty seven games for The Villains in a career that lasted until 1976. In the process he broke Billy Walker's appearance record, established in 1934. Leicester City's three-nil victory over Birmingham City saw the league debut of seventeen year old Graham Cross - the first of six hundred games for The Foxes in a career that lasted until 1976. In the process he broke Adam Black's appearance record for the club, established in 1935. Jimmy Greaves scored four on his final appearance for Chelsea, a four-three victory over Nottingham Forest, ending the season as the division's top scorer with forty one goals. Wolves (who lost four-two at home to Fulham), Everton (who beat Arsenal four-one) and defending champions Burnley (two-one winners at West Ham United) completed the top five, while Leicester City enjoyed a strong sixth-place finish and Manchester United (who drew three-all with Cardiff City) were seventh. Preston North End, who had been the first team to achieve the League and FA Cup double, were relegated along with Newcastle United (despite the latter winning four-two at Blackburn Rovers). The Magpies scored eighty six goals but conceded a staggering one hundred and nine. Fifty four goals were scored on the final day of the season in the First Division. Alf Ramsey's Ipswich Town side reached the top flight for the first time, winning the Second Division title - an impressive showing for a club who had been in non-league football twenty five years earlier. Ray Crawford was their top scorer with thirty nine goals. They were joined in promotion by Sheffield United. Liverpool missed out on First Division football yet again, while Norwich City were fourth. Portsmouth became the first former English League champions to be relegated to the Third Division, just ten years after winning their second title. Tranmere Rovers were relegated from the Fourth Division after their four-one defeat at Notts County. Peterborough United - who beat Barrow six-two in their final game of the season - enjoyed a blistering debut in the Football League, finding the net one hundred and thirty four times in forty six games (with fifty two goals coming from Terry Bly) and clinching the Fourth Division title. They were joined in promotion by Crystal Palace, Northampton Town and Bradford Park Avenue. The first episode of If The Crown Fits broadcast on ATV London. Westward Television, the first ITV franchise for the South West, began broadcast.
Michael Gilbert's Scene Of The Accident broadcast in The Sunday Play strand. The first episode of Anne Shelton's Ask Anne broadcast. Frederic Raphael's The Executioners broadcast in ATV London's Drama '61 strand. The first episodes of The Dora Bryan Show (Happily Ever After) and The Secret Of The Nubian Tomb broadcast.
Hills Beyond The Smoke broadcast. Finlay Currie featured on Desert Island Discs. Terence Fisher's The Curse Of The Werewolf - starring Oliver Reed, John Gilling's The Shadow Of The Cat - starring Andre Morell and Barbara Shelley and Derek Williams's Hunted In Holland premiered.
The first episode of Night Call broadcast. The Misfits and The Guns of Navarone featured on Picture Parade. Ernest Morris' Highway To Battle - starring Gerard Heinz, Margaret Tyzack, Ferdy Mayne and Vincent Ball - premiered. Aston Villa beat Burnley two-one in a League Cup Semi-Final replay, Gerry Hitchens scoring the winner. However, such was the utter clart of the way the competition had been organised that there was, simply, no time during the current season for Villa's two-legged final against Rotherham United to be scheduled and so it had to be held over until the early weeks of the following season. Liverpool paid a club record thirty seven thousand five hundred quid to buy Ian St John from Motherwell.
State Visit To Italy broadcast. Alfred Shaughnessy's The Impersonator - starring John Crawford, Jane Griffiths and Patricia Burke - premiered. Carter, Lewis & The Southerners' 'Back On The Scene'/'So Much In Love', Frank Ifield's 'Life's A Holiday'/'Tobacco Road' and The Springfields' 'Dear John'/'I Done What They Told Me To' released. Birmingham City defeated Internazionale two-one in the second leg of their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final, Jimmy Harris scoring both goals, to reach the final for the second competition running. Scotland beat The Republic Of Ireland four-one in a World Cup Qualifier at Hampden Park. Ralph Brand and David Herd both scored twice for the Scots, Joe Haverty replying for the visiotrs. Glasgow Celtic's Paddy Crerand made his Scotland debut.
Walter Gore's Street Games and Eynon Evans's Jubilee Concert broadcast. Roberto Rodríguez's Tres Balas Perdidas - starring Rosita Quintana, María Victoria and Evangelina Elizondo - premiered.
The Significance Of The Unconscious broadcast in the Lifeline strand. Alan Shepard became the second man in space on-board Mercury 3. The Shadows' 'Frightened City'/'Back Home', The Vigilantes' 'Eclipse'/'Man In Space' and Roy Orbison's 'Runnin' Scared'/''Love Hurts' released.
Tottenham Hotspur became the first team in the Twentieth Century to complete the Football League and FA Cup double, beating Leicester City two-nil at Wembley with goals from Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson. Leicester's caused was hampered by an unfortunate injury to full-back Len Chalmers. Kenny Ball's Jazzmen, Dave Sampson, Bill Forbes, Barbara Kay, The Krew Kats, The Karl Denver Trio and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers featured on Saturday Club. Philippa Haywood born in Hatfield. Alberto Cavalcanti's The Monster Of Highgate Ponds - starring Rachel Clay, Michael Wade, Terry Raven, Ronald Howard and Michael Balfour and Terence Young's Black Tights - starring Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer, Zizi Jeanmaire, Roland Petit and Maurice Chevalier - premiered.
Extracts from a controversial production of Halmet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre broadcast in the Monitor strand. Scotland defeated The Republic of Ireland three-nil in Dublin in a Woprld Cup Qualifier. Alex Young of Hearts scored twice and Ralph Brand netted the third.
New Landmarks: Work & Transport In North-West Australia broadcast. Ralph Reader featured on Desert Island Discs. George Blake was sentenced to forty two years in The Slammer for spying.
The first UK broadcast of The Real West - narrated by Gary Cooper.
England beat Mexico eight-nil in a friendly international at Wembley. Bobby Charlton scored a hat-trick with further goals from Bobby Robson, Bryan Douglas, a Ron Flowers penalty and a debut strike for Aston Villa's Gerry Hitchens. Jimmy Greaves missed the game as he had been suspended by Chelsea for refusing to go on a club tour to Israel on the eve of his move to AC Milan.
Roll On The Boat broadcast.
Cats - Cool & Sultry broadcast in the Look strand. Anthony Quayle: A Film Profile broadcast. Eden Kane's 'Well I Ask You'/'Before I Lose My Mind' released.
Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Bernard Bresslaw, The Temperance Seven and Matt Monro featured on The Wakey Wakey Tavern. Michael Anderson's The Naked Edge - starring Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr - premiered. The Allisons, Johnny Gentle, The Viscounts and The Teenbeats featured on Saturday Club.
Clemence Dane's Marriage Lines broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The first episode of Ask Anne - starring Anne Shelton - broadcast. Timothy Simon Roth born in Dulwich. Scotland were thrashed four-nil by Czechoslovakia in a World Cup Qualifier in Bratislava. Paddy Crerand and Andrej Kvasnak were sent off during the first-half for fighting.
Venus broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Pietro Annigoni featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Three Live Wires broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Pete & Will In Malta broadcast.
The Consecration Of Guildford Cathedral broadcast.
The first episode of John Wiles's Court Of Mystery and Leslie Collins's The Bun House Wedding broadcast. Cyril Frankel's Don't Bother To Knock - starring Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer, June Thorburn, Rik Battaglia and Judith Anderson - premiered.
A Woodwasp & Its Insect Enemies broadcast in the Look strand. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Surrender (Torna A Surriento)'/'Lonely Man' and Maximilian's 'The Snake'/'The Wanderer' released.
Freddie Mills and Michael Bentine featured on Juke Box Jury. Body Below broadcast in Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Craig Douglas, Johnny Wade, Janice Peters, Danny Davis, Julia Rolls and The Ronnie Keene Six featured on Saturday Club. Owen Teale born in Glamorgan.
Kenneth Horne's Wolf's Clothing broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. England drew one-all with Portugal in a World Cup Qualifier in Lisbon. Ron Flowers scored the vital equaliser nine minutes from time with a free-kick. The Portuguese side featured eight players from the exceptional Benfica team, including José Águas and Mário Coluna. The Totnamites' 'The Spurs Song'/'Danny Boy' released.
The Good Old Days featured an early TV appearance by Tyneside comedian Bobby Thompson. Kenneth Williams appeared on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of of Kenneth Clark's Landscapes In Art broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Allan Prior's The Travelling Smiths and The Cinema Today: Nothing Sacred broadcast. Charles Saunders' Dangerous Afternoon - starring Ruth Dunning, Nora Nicholson, Joanna Dunham and Howard Pays - premiered.
Eye On Research: Patterns Of Heredity broadcast. John Frankenheimer's The Young Savages - starring Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters and Telly Savales - premiered. England memorably beat Italy three-two in a friendly international in Rome. Gerry Htichens scored twice in a performance which persuaded Internazionale to, subsequently, purchase him. Jimmy Greaves, also about to ply his trade in Italy, scored the winner in the final minute. William Witney's Master Of The World - starring Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull and Mary Webster - premiered.
The Dobson Fund broadcast. Don Chaffey's Nearly A Nasty Accident - starring Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker and Jon Pertwee - premiered.
Darwin's Islands broadcast in the Look strand. The Hancock episode The Bedsitter broadcast. Freddy King's 'Hide Away'/'I Love The Woman' released.
Alan Freeman featured on Juke Box Jury. England lost three-one in a friendly international against Austria in Vienna. Jimmy Greaves scored for the visitors for whom the the Burnley duo of John Angus and Brian Miller name their first - and only - appearances. Fiorentina defeated Glasgow Rangers two-one in the European Cup Winners Cup Final in Florence to win the trophy, four-one on aggregate. Luigi Milan scored three goals for the Italians across both legs. The Devoted Companion broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday Matinee strand.
The first episode of the TV adaptation of Does The Team Think? broadcast. Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners was published in several international newspapers. This would later be recognised as the effective founding of the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
The Salmon Are Running broadcast. The Duke of Edinburgh talked to Richard Dimbleby about Commonwealth Technical Training Week on Panorama. Ben Jonson's The Alchemist broadcast. Kingsley Amis featured on Desert Island Discs. Cyril Frankel's Don't Bother To Knock - starring Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer and John Le Mesurier - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of P.O.W. Henry Richard Enfield born in Horsham.
For the first time in the six years since the competition began, the European Cup was won by someone other than Real Madrid, Benfica of Lisbon beating Barcelona three-two in the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne. Viewpoint: Teenage Morals broadcast.
Elsie Syme's Drop Dead broadcast. The Fourth Square - starring Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence and Miriam Karlin - premiered.
The first episode of Zoo Quest To Madagascar broadcast. The Hancock episode The Bowmans broadcast. The Everly Brothers' 'Temptation'/'Stick With Me Baby', Anthony Newley's 'Pop Goes The Weasel'/'Bee-Bom' and The Temperance Seven's 'Pasadena'/'Sugar' released.
Russ Conway appeared on Juke Box Jury. Vernon Sewell's The Man In The Back Seat - starring Derren Nesbitt and Carol White and Roger Corman's Creature From The Haunted Sea premiered. Gene Vincent, Julie Rayne, Don Fox, The Springfields, The Ted Taylor Four and Sounds Incorporated featured on Saturday Club.
The first episode of Triton broadcast. Lance Comfort's Touch of Death - starring William Lucas, David Sumner, Ray Barrett, Jan Waters and Roberta Tovey - premiered. The first episode of Suggestion Of Sabotage broadcast on ATV London.
Radio Astronomy & The Amateur broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Julian Bream appeared on Desert Island Discs. Seth Holt's Taste Of Fear - starring Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee and Lonard Sachs - premiered.
Man & Nature: The Northumbrian Coast broadcast in the Natural History strand.
Ron Moody's Moody In Storeland broadcast. Pauline Spender's Wednesday's Child broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers' 'Good Luck & Goodbye'/'I'm Henery The Eighth I Am' released.
CS Abraham's Five Bells For Logan broadcast. Philip Dunne's Wild In The Country - starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange and Tuesday Weld - premiered.
The Radio Ham episode of Hancock broadcast. The first episode of Frederick Grice's The Bonny Pit Laddie broadcast on The Home Service. The Shirelles' 'Mama Said'/'Blue Holiday', Jimmy Lloyd's 'Without The Sun'/'Yellow Bird', The Everly Brothers' 'Temptation'/'Stick With Me Baby' and The Miracles' 'Ain't It Baby'/'The Only One I Love' released.
Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill, driving for Ferrari, won Le Mans. Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Russ Sainty, Joan Small and The Karl Denver Trio featured on Saturday Club.
The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet: Extracts From Romeo & Juliet broadcast. The first episode of The Pursuers broadcast on ATV London.
Terrance Rattigan's Adventure Story - starring Sean Connery - broadcast. Richard Murdoch featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first Ashes test at Edgbaston ended in a draw. Having dismissed England for one hundred and ninety five on the first day (Ken Mackay taking four for fifty seven and Richie Benaud three for fifteen), a century from Neil Harvey and fifties by Norman O'Neill and Bobby Simpson put Australia in a strong position. But Ted Dexter (one hundred and eighty two) and Raman Subba Row helped England to a comfortable four hundred and one for four. John Murray made his test debut. Robert Robinson interviewed Karl Malden on Picture Parade.
Viewpoint: We The Violent broadcast. The government unveiled panda crossings with push button controls for pedestrians. The new crossings appeared on Britain's roads from April 1962. Michael Winner's Out of The Shadow - starring Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare and Dermot Walsh - premiered. Tommy Cooper's 'How Come There's No Dog Day?'/'Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad' released.
Simon Raven's The Move Up Country broadcast. Margaret Dale's adaptation of Sambo & The Snow Mountains broadcast.
The first episode of Allan Prior's dramatisation of Magnolia Street broadcast. The Hancock episode The Lift broadcast. Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'A Girl Like You'/'Now's The Time To Fall In Love', Bob Wallis & His Storyville Jazzmen's 'Three Live Wires'/'I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy' and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'You've Got What I Like'/'I'm In Love With You' released.
Alma Cogan, Nelson Riddle and Lonnie Donegan appeared on Juke Box Jury. Arnold Yarrow's Ripple In Texas broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Leslie Norman's Spare The Rod - starring Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Kean, Donald Pleasence and Richard O'Sullivan - premiered.
The first episode of A Call On Kuprin broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Ken Russell's profile of Prokofiev broadcast in the Monitor strand.
Lucienne Hill's adaptation of Solitaire broadcast.
The first episode of Walk A Crooked Mile broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Universe. Disney's The Parent Trap - starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Hayley Mils and Hayley Mills and Terry Bishop's The Unstoppable Man - starring Cameron Mitchell, Marius Goring, Harry H Corbett, Lois Maxwell and Kenneth Cope - premiered.
Meet Mister Holloway and Philip Grenville Mann's The Attorney-General broadcast. Roy Ward Baker's Flame In The Streets - starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron and Johnny Sekka and Robert S Baker and Monty Berman's The Treasure Of Monte Christo - starring Rory Calhoun, Patricia Bredin, John Gregson, Gianna Maria Canale, Sam Kydd and Francis Matthews - premiered.
'A pint? That's very nearly an armful!' The Blood Donor episode of Hancock broadcast. Helen Shapiro's 'You Don't Know'/'Marvellous Lie', Fats Domino's 'It Keeps Rainin'/'I Just Cry' and Bobby Darin's 'Nature Boy'/'Look For My True Love' released.
A Song For Saturday broadcast. Iain Alan Sutherland Glen born in Edinburgh.
The Springfields and Douglas Squires featured on Ask Anne. Alain Resnais's Last Year At Marienbad premiered. Harold Swanton's The Machine Calls It Murder broadcast in ATV London's Drama '61 strand.
Australia won the second Ashes test by five wickets. Having bowled England out cheaply on the opening day (Alan Davidson five for five for forty two), a Bill Lawry century gave Australia a one hundred and thirty five innings lead. England also struggled in the second innings (Ken Barrington top scoring with sixty six) and Graham McKenzie took five wickets on his debut as Australia were set just seventy one to win. Despite heroic bowling by Fred Trueman and Brian Statham, Peter Burge's unbeaten thirty seven saw Australia home with a day to spare. Ann Haydon appeared on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Harpers West One broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Enthronement Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury broadcast. Peter Duffell's The Never Never Murder - starring Russell Napier, Maurice Good, Desmond Callum-Jones and Fanny Carby - premiered. Feroza Syal born in Wolverhampton. The first episode of The Skewbald - Odd One Out - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first UK broadcast of Who Speaks For The Deep South? Joshua Logan's Fanny - starring Leslie Caron and Sidney J Furie's Three On A Spree - starring Jack Watling, Carole Lesley and John Slater - premiered. The first episode of Family Solicitor broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
David Turner's On The Boundary broadcast.
Lifeline: Schizophrenia In Children broadcast. The Hancock episode Succession: Son & Heir broadcast. Allan Davis's Wings Of Death - starring Harry H Corbett, Shelagh Fraser and Simon Lack - premiered.
The first episodes of Charlie Chester On Laughter Service and The Trad Fad & All That Jazz broadcast. Both Ends Meet broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Siddiqui 'Tiger' Pataudi - the son of the former England cricketer - a student at Balliol College was a passenger in a car which was involved in an accident in Hove. A shard of glass from the broken windscreen penetrated and permanently damaged his right eye. Doctor David St Clair Roberts was called to operate and was praised by Pataudi for saving one of his eyes. The damage caused Pataudi to see a doubled image and it was feared this would end his burgeoning cricketing career, but Pataudi was soon in the nets learning to play with his one good eye. Despite his injury less than six months later, he made his test debut playing for India against England in Delhi in December.
The first episode of Bunny Webber's Hurricane broadcast. Allan Davis's The Square Mile Murder - starring John Welsh, Stanley Morgan and Delphi Lawrence - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Overland Trail. John Hopkins' By Invitation Only broadcast. The Disagreeable Man broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK TV showing of Orson Welles's adaptation of Macbeth. John Read's The Miracle Of Youth broadcast.
Transatlantic Link broadcast. Man At The Carlton Towers - starring Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Allan Cuthbertson, Terence Alexander, Alfred Burke, Nigel Green and Nyree Dawn Porter - premiered.
The first episode of The Eggheads and Alex Atkinson's Design For Murder broadcast. The first issue of Mersey Beat magazine, edited by Bill Harry, published. The fortnightly magazine quickly became an essential read for fans of the emergent Liverpool music scene. The first issue included Being A Short Diversion On The Dubious Origins Of Beatles (Translated From The John Lennon).
Extracts from Dennis Spencer's What A Racket and A Film Profile: Jack Hawkins broadcast. Chubby Checker's 'Let's Twist Again'/'Everything's Gonna Be All Right', The Wayfarers' 'Whistle Down The Wind'/'Think Of A Stranger', Michael Redgrave & Juliet Mills' 'No My Darling Daughter'/'Blimp's Blues' and Sam Cooke's 'Cupid'/'Farewell My Darling' released. Aston Villa sold England centre forward Gerry Hitchens to Internationale of Milan for a record eighty five thousand smackers.
England won the third Ashes test by eight wickets at Headingley. Fred Trueman took five wickets as Australia were bowled out for two hundred and thirty seven. Colin Cowdrey scored ninety three and Geoff Puller fifty three as England gained first innings lead. Trueman then took six wickets as the Aussies were skittled out for one hundred and twenty with only Neil Harvey providing much opposition and England scored the sixty two needed for the loss of just two wickets. Sylvia Plath read a selection of her poetry on The Third Programme's The Living Poet. In an all-British women's final at Wimbledon, Angela Mortimer beat Christine Truman. John Leyton's 'Johnny, Remember Me' and Shirley Bassey's 'Reach For The Stars'/'Climb Ev'ry Mountain' released.
Kate O'Brien's That Lady broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Wolf Rilla's Watch It, Sailor! - starring Dennis Price, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Vera Day, Graham Stark and Frankie Howerd - premiered.
Cosmic Debris broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Anna Massey featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of Man In The Making broadcast.
Baden-Powell House broadcast. Mark Anthony McGann born in Liverpool.
Anthea Browne-Wilkinson's They Made History: Florence Nightingale broadcast.
A live interview with Major Yuri Gagarin by Richard Dimbleby, Tom Margerison and Yuri Fokin broadcast from the Russian Exhibition at Earls Court. Adam Faith's 'Don't You Know It?'/'My Last Wish' released.
The Temperance Seven appeared on The Trad Fad & All That Jazz. The Springfields, Ray Pilgrim, Peter Elliott, Eden Kane and Shane Fenton & The Fentones featured on Saturday Club.
Brasiliana and Mrs Pandit broadcast.
Esther broadcast. Joe Davis appeared on Desert Island Discs. Ákos Ráthonyi's The Devil's Daffodils - starring William Lucas, Penelope Horner, Ingrid van Bergen, Marius Goring, Christopher Lee and Colin Jeavons - premiered. Jeremy James Hardy born in Aldershot.
The Last Chance shown in the Late Night Film strand.
The Mort Sahl Show broadcast. John Sturges's By Love Possessed - starring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Junior and Jason Robards and Max Varnel's Murder In Eden - starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham - premiered. As a result of her prominent role in this movie (and, subsequently A Question Of Suspense later in the year), Yvonne Buckingham forfeited four thousand knicker which may have been paid from an insurance policy she took out in 1958 when she was aged twenty, against 'failure to become a movie star within five years.'
The first episode of How To Make It and EY Bannard's A Small Crisis broadcast. Bryan Forbes's Whistle Down The Wind - starring Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee and Alan Bates - premiered.
Meet Mister Moore - featuring The Dudley Moore Trio - broadcast. Gus Grissom piloted NASA's second manned space mission, Mercury 4. Leslie Bricusse and Tony Newley's musical Stop the World – I Want To Get Off opened its London run at The Queen's Theatre. Directed by Newley, it ran for four hundred and eighty five performances before transferring to Broadway. Newley also starred as Littlechap with Anna Quayle playing multiple roles. A 1966 movie adaptation, directed by Philip Saville, starred Tony Tanner and Millicent Martin. Bobby Parker's 'Watch Your Step'/'Steal Your Heart Away', Shirley Bassey's 'Reach For The Stars'/'Climb Ev'ry Mountain', Philip Upchurch Combo's 'You Can't Sit Down (Parts 1 & 2)' and Chris & The Students' 'Lass Of Richmond Hill'/'Ducks Away From My Fishin' released.
Morton Fraser & His Harmonica Gang featured on Charlie Chester On Laughter Service. The Nashville Five With Reg Guest appeared on The Light Programme's The Cool Spot. Victor Pemberton's The Gold Watch broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Weaver's Grave broadcast on The Third Programme.
Raymond Bowers' Listen James broadcast.
Nelson Riddle appeared on Desert Island Discs. Eastern Airlines Flight 202 was hijacked shortly after take-off from Miami, en route to Tampa. Wilfred Roman Oquendo, a Cuban-born American citizen, entered the cockpit and forced the pilot to fly to Cuba.
Y Royal Welsh broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of One Life. John Ford's Two Rode Together - starring James Stewart, Richard Widmark and Shirley Jones - premiered. They Walk In Circles - featuring Judi Dench - broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Douglas Rae's Out Of The Rain broadcast. The Beatles played St John's Hall in Tuebrook, supported by The Big Three (formerly Cass & The Cassanovas). The dance also included the headliners backing Cilla White on several numbers.
The first episode of Tory Kennedy Martin's anthology Storyboard and Meet Mister Moore broadcast. Anthony Newley's 'What Kind Of A Fool Am I?'/'Once In A Lifetime', John Leyton's 'Johnny Remember Me'/'There Must Be' and The Springfields' 'Breakaway'/'Good News' released.
Spike Milligan appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Sprinfields featured on The Light Programme's The Cool Spot. Maidens' Delight broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Independent Order Of Foresters and Aldous Huxley In Conversation With John Morgan broadcast.
Panorama Goes To Berlin and She Died Young broadcast. Yvonne Mitchell featured on Desert Island Discs.
Richie Benaud (six for seventy) bowled Australia to a fifty four run victory in the fourth Ashes test at Old Trafford. Having dismissed the Aussies for one hundred and ninety on the first day (Brian Statham five for fifty three), England secured a first innings lead of one hundred and seventy seven - Peter May scoring ninety five and Ken Barrington seventy eight. Bill Lawry (one hundred and two), Norman O'Neill and Alan Davidson (seventy seven in a last wicket stand of ninety eight with McKenzie) helped Australia to four hundred and thirty two in their second innings (David Allen taking four for fifty eight), setting England a target of two hundred and fifty six to win. Dexter, supported by Subba Row, scored seventy six in eighty four minutes and took England to one hundred and fifty for one going into the final day. But Benaud went round the wicket and aimed into Fred Trueman's footmarks, causing a collapse as England were dismissed for two hundred and one. Brian Close, unfairly, took much of the blame for England's defeat from the media, as he attempted to counter-attack Benuad, but was out for eight, sweeping. Jack Flavell made his test debut. The first episodes of Pit Your Wits and Our Mister Ambler broadcast.
Hot Ice & Cool Music broadcast. Gerald Glaister's Clue Of The Silver Key - starring Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook, Finlay Currie, Jennifer Daniel, Patrick Cargill, Derrick Sherwin and Sam Kydd - premiered.
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's Celebration and Kenneth Cavander's Warning Signal broadcast. Robert Lynn's Information Received - starring Sabine Sesselmann and William Sylvester - premiered.
The Magic Barrel broadcast in the Storyboard strand. A Film Profile Of Richard Todd broadcast. Lonnie Donegan & His Group's 'Michael, Row The Boat'/'Lumbered', Paul Raven's 'Walk On Boy'/'All Grown Up', Sounds Inc's 'Mogambo'/'Emily', The Viscounts' 'Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)'/'What Am I Saying?', Slim Harpo's 'Rainin' In My Heart'/'Don't Start Cryin' Now' and The Moontrekkers' 'Night Of The Vampire'/'Melodie D'Amore' released.
The final episode of Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years broadcast. Adam Faith, Helen Shapiro, Keith Kelly, George & Alan and The John Barry Seven featured on Saturday Club. Janet McTeer born in Wallsend.
The first UK broadcasts of Land Of The Long Day and America, Russia & The World. Leslie Sands' Basinful Of The Briny broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Montgomery Tully's Two Wives At One Wedding - starring Gordon Jackson, Christina Gregg and Lisa Daniely - premiered.
The first Uk broadcast of Le Grand Cirque De France. Gerald Durrell featured on Desert Island Discs. James Hill's The Kitchen - starring Carl Möhner, Mary Yeomans, Brian Phelan, Tom Bell, Eric Pohlmann and James Bolam - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Jacques Tourneur's Build My Gallows High in the Late Night Film strand.
Betty Box and Ralph Thomas were interviewed by Tony Bilbow in the Film Profile strand. The Frightened City - starring Herbert Lom, John Gregson and Sean Connery - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Denys Colomb De Daunant's Le Songe Des Chevaux Sauvages. Ralph Thomas's No, My Darling Daughter - starring Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey and Juliet Mills - premiered.
An excerpt from Fun & Fancy Free broadcast. The Middle Men broadcast in the Storyboard strand. The first episode of Top Secret broadcast on Associated-Redifussion. Rudolf Schündler's Immer Ärger Mit Dem Bett - starring Senta Berger, Günter Pfitzmann, Trude Herr, Rudolf Platte and Renate Ewert - premiered.
The Tonight quartet, Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Fyfe Robertson and Kenneth Allsop, were the panel on Juke Box Jury. Ronald Barnes's Sweet Sorrow broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Roger Corman's The Pit & The Pendulum - starring Vincent Price and Barbara Steele - premiered. League and Cup double winners Spurs beat an FA XI three-two in the Charity Shield at White Hart Lane.
The first episodes of The Rackerty Street Gang and Whicker Down Under broadcast. The border between East and West Berlin was closed and Soviet Bloc soldiers started to build the Berlin Wall. What began as barbed wire and light fencing built up over the years into a complex series of fortified fences, gun positions and watchtowers.
Henry Livings' Jack's Horrible Luck and the first episode of Africa Now broadcast. Jack Fingleton appeared on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK broadcast of City Under The Ice.
The Days Of Whisky Gap broadcast. Saskia Reeves born in Paddington.
Owen Holder's A Schoolboy's Hero broadcast. Ákos Ráthonyi's The Devil's Daffodil - William Lucas, Penelope Horner, Joachim Fuchsberger and Christopher Lee - premiered.
Troy Kennedy Martin's adaptation of John Wyndham's The Long Spoon broadcast in the Storyboard strand. Huw Edwards born in Bridgend.
Billy Fury & The Blue Flames featured on Saturday Club. The First Division season began with a two-one win for champions Spurs at Blackpool. Manchester City defeated Leicester City three-one. Terry Allcock of Norwich city and Wallsall's Tony Richards both began the seaosn with hat-tricks for their clubs in the Second Division (in a three-one win over Bury and a four-three vicotry over Sunderland respectively.
The Winslow Boy broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
The fiftieth episode of The Sky At Night broadcast. Diana Dors appeared on Desert Island Discs. Chris Palethorpe scored three and Jimmy Wheeler two in Reading's six-three victory at Queens Park Rangers in the Third Division.
The fifth and final Ashes test at The Oval ended in a draw and Australia retained the urn. England scored two hundred and fifty six in their first innings but Australia replied with four hundred and ninety four; Peter Burge and Norman O'Neill scored centuries and Brian Booth seventy one. England ensured a draw with three hundred and seventy for eight Raman Subba Row making his second century of the series. Alan Kirkman and Barry Webster scored as Rotherham United took a two-nil victory over Aston Villa in the first leg of the much-delayed Football League Cup Final.
The first episode of Johnny Morris's Go To Greece broadcast. An unidentified man abducted scientist Michael Gregsten and his mistress, Valerie Storie in Buckinghamshire. The man forced them to drive him around suburban North London in Gregstan's Morris Minor before having them stop at a lay-by on the A6 at Deadman's Hill, near the Bedfordshire village of Clophill, where he shot them both. Storie survived the attack but was left paralysed. A police investigation led to the arrest of car thief James Hanratty. Although later convicted of the murder and executed, Hanratty's guilt has since been widely disputed. Ranger 1 was launched. Its primary mission was to test the performance of those functions and parts necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and inter-planetary missions; a secondary objective was to study the nature of particles and fields in the space environment. Due to a launch vehicle malfunction, the spacecraft could reach only Low Earth orbit. After four days and one hundred and eleven orbits, Ranger 1 re-entered the atmosphere and burned up over the Gulf of Mexico. Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City were the early First Division pace-setters, winning four-two against Bolton Wanderers and four-three at Fulham respectively. In the Second Division, Roger Hunt scored twice as Liverpool beat Sunderland three-nil, Huddersfield Town thrashed Plymouth Argyle five-one and Liam Tuuhy scored the winner for Newcastle United against Walsall. Crewe Alexandra defeated Gillingham five-two in the fourth Division. The first episode of Echo Four-Two broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
I'll Be Waiting broadcast in the Storyboard strand. The first of four appearance by The Beatles on-board the MV Royal Iris, a River Mersey ferry commonly known as 'The Fish And Chip Boat.' This event, promoted by Ray McFall and dubbed The Riverboat Shuffle, they supported Mister Acker Bilk and his band. Joanne Whalley born in Salford. Ann-Margaret's 'I Just Don't Understand'/'I Don't Hurt Anymore' released.
Jane Asher made her debut as a panellist on Juke Box Jury. Fifty goals were scored in the First Division; highlights included Manchester United's six-one victory over Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham's four-three win against Arsenal (Terry Dyson scoring three). Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City remained the only teams with one hundred per cent records after three games, winning five-one against Birmingham City (Johnny Fantham neting three) and four-two at Ipswich Town respectively. Liverpool also made it three wins from three in the Second Division, Roger Hunt socring a hat-trick in a five-nil defeat of Leeds United. Reading and newly promoted pair Crystal Palace and Peterborough United led the Third Division (with wins at Brentford, against Swindon Town and Port Vale). Mike Commons scored four in Workington's five-one victory aganst Gillingham in the Fourth Division. Keith Burkinshaw scored the fifth. A Thing Of Dignity broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Singing Years: Music Of The Thirties broadcast.
Peter Nichols' The Big Boys broadcast. Edward Ward featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK broadcast of Shadow Creek: Down In The Valley. Ipswich Town got their first win in the First Division, six-two against Burnley. Arsenal and Leicester City drew four-four.
The first launch of a missile from an underground missile silo ended in failure. A Minuteman left the silo, at Cape Canaveral, then veered out of control and crashed back down into the launch area. School segregation in Atlanta ended after more than a century and without serious incident, as nine African-American students enrolled in four previously all-White schools under the supervision of city police. The UK premiere of Michael Anderson's The Naked Edge - starring Gary Cooper (in his final film role) and Deborah Kerr. Manchester City led the First Division with their fourth victory, two-one over Fulham. Alan Peacock scored four in Middlesbrough's five-one hammering of Rotherham United in the Second Division. Liverpool maintained their one hundred per cent start with a four-one win at Sunderland. Ian St John and Roger Hunt scoring two each whilst Brian Clough hit the home side's consolation goal. Alan Shackleton netted three in Oldham Athletic's five-one victory over Hartlepools United in the Fourth Division.
O Captain, My Captain broadcast. Basil Dearden's Victim - starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms and Dennis Price and notable as the first movie to use the word 'homosexual' - premiered. Ann Marie Burr, aged eight, vanished from her home in Tacoma, Washington. Suspicion subsequently fell on fourteen year old local Ted Bundy. A tennis shoe imprint was found by the overturned bench used to enter the house. Due to the small size of the shoe, police believed the perpetrator must be a youth. The Burr house was on Bundy's newspaper delivery route. The victim's father subsequently claimed he was 'certain' that he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby University of Puget Sound campus the morning his daughter disappeared. Other circumstantial evidence also implicated Bundy, but detectives familiar with the case have never agreed on the likelihood of his involvement. After his 1979 conviction for numerous murders, Bundy repeatedly denied culpability and wrote a letter of denial to the Burr family in 1986. Robert Keppel - who invesitgated Bundy's serial murders in Washington State in 1974 - observed that Burr fitted all three of Bundy's 'no discussion' categories of 'too close to home', 'too close to family' and 'very young.' Forensic testing of material evidence from the Burr crime scene in 2011 yielded insufficient intact DNA sequences for comparison with Bundy's.
Tickets To Trieste broadcast in the Storyboard strand. Hampshire won the cricket County Championship for the first time with a victory over Derbyshire at Bournemouth. The club were led by Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie - ten of their nineteen victories being attributable to bold declarations on the third (and last) day, in a summer where the opposing team could not be made to follow-on. Roy Marshall scored two thousand four hundred and fifty five first class runs, Derek Shackleton took one hundred and fifty three wickets and Butch White's tearaway speed was equally dangerous in a dry summer. The Shadows' 'Kon-Tiki'/'36-24-36', The John Barry Seven Plus Four's 'Starfire'/'A Matter Of Who', The Highwaymen's 'Michael'/'Santiano' and Roy Orbison's 'Cryin'/'Candy Man' released. Scunthorpe United thrashed Charlton Athletic six-one in the Second Division. Border Television, the ITV franchise for the English-Scottish Border and Isle of Man, began broadcasting.
The Tornados featured on Charlie Chester On Laughter Service. Charles Frend's Girl On Approval - starring Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell and Annette Whiteley - premiered. Billy Fury's 'Jealousy'/'Open Your Arms', Matt Monro's 'Gonna Build A Mountain'/'I'll Dream Of You' and Del Shannon's 'Hats Off To Larry'/'Don't Gild The Lily, Lily' released. Sheffield Wednesday went top of the First Divsiion with a four-nil victory at Everton whilst Manchester City were losing, three-one, at home to Burnley. Spurs beat Cardiff City three-two, Manchester united won at Blackpol by the same score and Leicester City defeated Birmingham City five-one at St Andrews'. In the Second Division Southampton and Leyton Orient both enjoyed five-one victories (against Swansea Town and at Walsall, respectively) whilst Huddersfield Town won four-three at Luton Town. Liverpool had the Football League's last remaining one hundred per cent record, winning two-one at Norwich City. Newport County beat Brentford six-one in the Third Division and Millwall thrashed Workington five-nil in the Fourth.
John Arden's Wet Fish broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Christopher Holme's adaptation of Muriel Spark's Momento Mori broadcast on The Third Programme. The first episodes of The Home Service's The Word and The Cruise Of The Willy Nilly broadcast. Edward Buzzell's Mary Had A Little ... - starring Agnes Laurent, Hazel Court and Jack Watling - premiered.
Penelope Mortimer's The Renegade broadcast. John Slater appeared on Desert Island Discs. Queens Park Rangers thumped Swindon Town six-one in the Third Division.
Spike Millgan's A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Current Market Value and Philip Donnellan's Men Of Corby broadcast. Held over from the previous season due to fixture congestion, the inaugural Football League Cup was won by Aston Villa who beat Rotherham United three-nil (three-two on aggregate) with Peter McParlane scoring the winner in extra time. The Football League announced that fixtures for the current season's competition - due to start on 11 September - would not be held in such an ad hoc scattergun fashion as the previous year. Colchester United went top of the Fourth Division with a four-one victory at Doncaster Rovers. Chuck Berry's 'I'm Taling About You'/'Little Star', Mike Berry With The Outlaws' 'Tribute To Buddy Holly'/'What's The Matter?', The Vibrations' 'The Watusi'/'Wallflower', Carol Deene's 'Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)'/'Don't Forget' and Howlin' Wolf's 'Little Baby'/'Down In The Bottom' released.
Glasgow Rangers defeated AS Monaco three-two in the First Round of the European Cup with two goals from Alex Scott and one from Jim Baxter. The Stereos' 'I Really Love You'/Please Come Back To Me' and Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra's 'Murder She Said (Theme From Film)'/'Double Scotch' released. Cardiff City beat Chelsea five-two in the First Division, Derby County thumped Swansea Town six-three in the Second and Northampton Town won four-one at Crystal Palace in the Third.
Philip Mackie's The Money broadcast. The Disgraceful Business At Mrs Goose's broadcast on The Home Service. Gerald Thomas's Raising The Wind - starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Kenneth Williams - premiered. Torquay United hammered Barnsley six-two in the Third Division.
Walter Winterbottom, the Manager of England's football team, discussed soccer skills and controls with Johnny Haynes on Junior Sportsview. Power & The TUC broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Cosh Boy. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' 'Wild In The Country'/'I Feel So Bad', Nancy Sinatra's 'Cuff Links & A Tie Clip'/'Not Just Your Friend', John Leyton's 'Wild Wind'/'You Took My Love For Granted', The Laurie Johnson Orchestra's 'Sucu Sucu'/'Echo Four-Two', Chris Kenner's 'I Like It Like That (Parts 1 & 2)' and Chuck Berry's 'I'm Talking About You'/'Little Star' released.
Juliet Mills and David Kossoff featured on Juke Box Jury And, so did Jimmy Savile. Casebooks & Coffee broadcast in the Afternoon Theatre strand. The First Division highlight was Chelsea's six-one victory over Sheffield United (Bobby Tambling scoring three). Burnley were top of the table, beating West Bromwich Albion three-one whilst Manchester City were second despite a three-nil defeat at Arsenal. West ham United won four-two at Aston Villa. Liverpool made it six-wins-from-six in the Second Division, with a two-one defeat of Scunthorpe United at Anfield. Bradford Park Avenune beat Peterborough united six-two in the Third Division (Tommy Spratt scoring two). The first episodes of Ghost Squad - Ticket For Blackmail, Winning Widows and Thank Your Lucky Stars broadcast on ATV London. Peter Sellars appeared on the opening episode of The Jo Stafford Show.
Living Cinema 1961 broadcast. Jay Lewis's Invasion Quartet - starring Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, Grégoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier, Thorley Walters, Maurice Denham and Millicent Martin - premiered.
David Turner's Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring broadcast. Coral Browne featured on Desert Island Discs. Highlight of the First Round of the Football League Cup was Ipswich Town's four-two victory over Manchester City. Mansfield Town beat Exeter City five-two. The first episode of Home Tonight broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The Day Of The Fighter broadcast. Bertrand Russell and Arnold Wesker were jailed for 'inciting a breach of the peace' following a CND protest in Trafalgar Square. Sheffield Wedesday had a rough European debut, losing four-two in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie at Olympique Lyon. Alan jackson scored a hat-trick in Bury's five-one defeat of Brighton & Hove Albion in the League Cup. The first episode of Tuesday Rendezvous broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Oliver Postgate, 'Sometime Professor of Political Embroidery at the University of Winkel-an-der-Weser', featured on Summerhouse. Tottenham Hotspur lost the first leg of their European Cup debut four-two in Poland against Górnik Zabrze. In the Cup Winners Cup, Leicester City defeated Northern Ireland's Glentoran four-one. Nottingham Forest suffered a two-nil defeat in their first European game, to Valencia in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Further League Cup First round ties were played, highlights including holders Aston Villa's four-three victory at Bradford City, John McCole scoring four in Leeds United's four-one defeat of Brentford, Newcaslte United beating Scunthorpe united two-nil and both Alan Peacock and Alan Arnell socring hat-tricks for their respective sides in Middlesbrough's six-three win at Tranmere Rovers.
Stewart Love's The Randy Dandy broadcast. Tony Richardson's adaptation of A Taste Of Honey - starring Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin - premiered.
Fasten Your Seatbelts! - 'a journey into entertainment' - broadcast, featuring Johnnie Ray. Pat Jackson's What A Carve Up! - starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Shirley Eaton - premiered. The Beatles' made their first performance at The Village Hall, Knotty Ash, booked by Mona Best. The first episode of Colonel Trumper's Prviate War broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion. Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane born in Upper Clapton.
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen were guests on The Trad Fad. Julia Rolls and Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos featured on Saturday Club. First Division leaders Burnley won six-two at Birmingham City (Ray Pointer netting three), Derek Temple also scored three as Everton beat Ipswich Town five-two and West Bromwich Albion thrashed Arsenal four-nil. Forty five goals were scored in eleven top flight games. Two Welshmen, Ken Leek and Ivor Allchurch, were on-target for Newcastle United in their two-two draw with Swansea Town in the Second Division. Liverpool remained top of the table after a goalless draw at Brighton & Hove Albion. Fourth Division leaders Colchester United enjoyed a six-one thrashing of Hartlepools United.
John Patrick's The Hasty Heart broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Montgomery Tully's The Third Alibi - starring Laurence Payne, Patricia Dainton, Jane Griffiths, Edward Underdown, John Arnatt, Humphrey Lestocq and an uncredited Dudley Moore - premiered.
Charles Wood's Traitor In A Steel Helmet broadcast. Astronomy In Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. John White featured on The Home Service 'in a programme of Negro folk songs.' Stoke City's one-nil victory over Brighton & Hove Albion in the Second Division saw the club debut of Alan Bloor - the first of four hundred and eighty two games for The Potters in a career that lasted until 1978.
The first UK broadcast of The Boys & The Bears. Sunderland Oak broadcast.
The first episode of A Century Of Change broadcast. George Montgomery's The Steel Claw premiered. Spurs thrashed Górnik Zabrze eight-one in the second leg of their European Cup tie (Cliff Jones scoring three). In the First Division, Burnley's lead at the top continued with a six-two victory at Leicester City. Alan Mullery scored twice in Fulham's three-two win at Bolton Wanderers and West Brom won two-one at bottom side Birmingham City. Liverpool took their lead at the top of the Second Division to four points with a two-one victory at Newcastle.
The Net broadcast.
George R Foa. 's translation of A Song Of Sixpence - starring William Russell - broadcast. Helen Shapiro's 'Walkin' Back To Happiness'/'Kiss 'N' Run', Nancy Sinatra's 'Cuff Links & A Tie Clip'/'Not Just Your Friend', The Outlaws' 'Valley Of The Sioux'/'Crazy Drums', The Temperance Seven's 'Chilli Bom Bom'/'Hard Hearted Hannah' and Charlie Drake's 'My Boomerang Won't Come Back'/'She's My Girl' released. The first episode of Frontier Drums broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The TV debut of Carol Cleveland in an episode of Dixon Of Dock Green. Helen Shapiro, The Brook Brothers, Peter Elliott and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers featured on Saturday Club. In the First Division, Manchester United beat Manchester City three-two, Peter McParland scored three in Aston Villa's five-nil defeat of Blackpool and Burnley beat Everton two-one. Joe Melia scored twice in Liverpool's five-nil victory over Bury in the Second Division. Reading went to the top of the Third Division following a four-two defeat of Notts County, a game which saw the debut of Jeff Astle, the first of four hundred and eighty one appearances for County, West bromwich Albion and England in a career that lasted until 1974.
The first episode of Stranger On The Shore broadcast. The first episodes of Sir Francis Drake - Johnny Factotum, Plateau Of Fear and Call Oxbridge 2000 broadcast on ATV London.
Man & The Vikings and Nightfall St Kriekville broadcast. Nelson Riddle Conducts broadcast on The Home Service. The Hustler - starring Paul Newman - premiered.
The first episode of Philoctetes broadcast. George Pollock's Murder, She Said - starring Margaret Rutherford - premiered. Scotland forced a play-off in their World Cup Qualifier, beating Czechoslovakia three-two at Hampden Park. Denis Law scored twice with Ian St John adding a third.
Debt To A Spy broadcast. Birmingham City drew the first leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final at St Andrews two-two with Associazione Sportiva Roma. Michael Hellawell and Bryan Orritt scored for The Blues, with Argentine international Pedro Manfredini hitting a brace for the visitors. Leicester City completed a comfortable aggregate victory over Glentoran in the Cup Winners Cup, winning three-one at Filbert Street. Scottish Cup winners Dunfermline Athletic completed aneight-one aggregate victory over Republic of Ireland's St Patrick's Athletic, with a four-nil victory in Dublin. George Peebles and Charlie Dickson both scored twice. Brian Clough hit three in Sunderland's three-nil defeat of Bury in the Second Division.
Afternoon In River Walk broadcast. England defeated Luxembourg four-one at Highbury in a World Cup Qualifier. Bobby Charlton scored twice with further goals from Dennis Viollet and debutant Ray Pointer of Burnley. Johnny Fantham of Sheffield Wednesday also made his first international appearance. The following month the same Luxembourg side caused one of the greatest of all upsets in the World Cup qualifying rounds when they beat Portugal four-two.
Raw Fish broadcast in the Japan strand. Where The Moon Came From broadcast on The Home Service. Shane Fenton & The Fentones' 'I'm A Moody Guy'/'Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue' released. Nicholas Briggs born in Lyndhurst.
Adam Faith appeared on The Billy Cotton Band Show. John Connelly scored a hat-trick as Burnley's five-three win at Fulham kept them at the top of the First Division, ahead of West Ham United, who beat Leicester four-one. Ipswich Town won at Sheffield Wednesday by the same scored whilst Everton also nejoyed a four-one victory, against Arsenal. Forty four goals were scored in the top flight. Liverpool just kept on winning, four-nil at Charlton Athletic in the Second Division. Newcastle united thrashed Luton Town four-one. There were also plenty of goals in the Third Division where Notts County hammered Newport County eight-one (Peter Bircumshaw scoring three) and Peterborough United spanked Brentford six-nil. George Norris also netted a hat-trick in Aldershot's six-one defeat of Darlington in the Fourth Division. Pick Of The Pops, broadcast as part of The Light Programme's Trad Tavern strand, was presented for the first time by Alan Freeman. Brian Poole & the Tremeloes featured on Saturday Club.
The first episode of Songs Of Praise broadcast. Michael Gilbert's A Clean Kill broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Nigel Patrick's Johnny Nobody - starring Yvonne Mitchell, William Bendix, Aldo Ray and Cyril Cusack and Lawrence Huntington's A Question Of Suspense - starring Peter Reynolds, Noelle Middleton and Yvonne Buckingham - premiered. The first episode of Tempo broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Points Of View and Alan Plater's The Referees broadcast. Tommy Reilly featured on Desert Island Discs. Darcy Conyers' Nothing Barred - starring Brian Rix - premiered. Bobby Hunt scored three as Fourth Division leaders Colchester United beat Chester five-two at Layer Road.
The first episode of A For Andromeda - The Message - and Bunny Webber's A Bouquet Of Juliet broadcast. Don Chaffey's A Matter Of WHO - starring Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Carol White, Geoffrey Keen and The John Barry Seven - premiered.
Denis Mitchell's Grass Roots and World Zoos: Moscow broadcast. Nottingham Forest were knocked out of the Inter City Fairs Cup in the First Round by Valencia, losing five-one at The City Ground to a Héctor Núñez hat-trick and two goals for Waldo. But, there was progress for Sheffield Wednesday (five-two winners over Olympique Lyonnais), Hibernian (who won six-four on aggregate against Belenenses of Portugal) and Heart Of Midlothian who defeated Union Saint-Gilloise of Belgium. Sunderland's six-two victory over Walsall in the League Cup Second Round which included a Brian Clough hat-trick saw the club debut of goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery - the first of six hundred and twenty seven games for The Mackem Filth in a career that lasted until 1977. In the process he broke Len Ashurst's appearance record for the club, established in 1970.
The first episode of You Can't Win broadcast. Breakfast At Tiffany's premiered.
The first episodes of The Rag Trade and Let's Imagine broadcast. Dinah Washington's 'September In The Rain'/'Wake The Town & Tell The People', Hayley Mills's 'Let's Get Together'/'Cobbler Cobbler', Spike Milligan's 'I'm Walking Out With A Mountain'/'The Sewers Of The Strand', The Dovells' 'Bristol Stomp'/'Out In The Cold Again', Dion's 'Runaround Sue'/'Runaway Girl', Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen's 'Midnight In Moscow'/'My Mother's Eyes' and Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart'/'Got A Funny Feeling' released.
The Sound Of Jim - 'A Cacophony in which Jimmy Edwards (Professor of Music) conducts An Enormous Orchestra' - and Los Paraguayos broadcast. Forty six goal were scored in just nine First Division fixtures. Wolves beat Birmingham City six-three at St Andrew's, Everton spanked Nottingham Forest six-nil, Sheffield Wednesday beat Chelsea five-three whilst Ipswich Town defeated West Ham United four-two and Leicester won four-one against Sheffield United. Liverpol lost for the first time in the Second Division, two-nil at Middlesbrough but still maintained a five point lead at the top over Southampton (who beat Brighton & Hove Albion six-one). Newcastle United defeated Charlton Athletic four-one whilst Walsall thrashed Rotherham United five-nil. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic went top of the Third Division after a two-one victory at Peterborough United. In the Fourth Division, Doncaster rovers thumped Tranmere Rovers six-one and Frank Lord scored four in Crewe Alexandra's five-onedefeat of Darlington. Scotland thrashed Northern Ireland six-one in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Alex Scott ascored three, Ralph Brand two and Davey Wilson the sixth. Jimmy McLaughlin netted for the hosts. Gyles Adams's After The Opera broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Simon McCoy born in Hammersmith.
Faraway Places broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Words On The Myth of Icarus broadcast in the Monitor strand.
Radio Waves From The Sun broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party broadcast in The Home Service's From The Fifties strand. 'Have boots, will travel' Ron McGarry scored a hat-trick as Fourth Division Workington defeated Third Division Barnsley in the Second round of the Football League Cup at Oakwell. George Darwin scored a hat-trick as Barrow led Gillingham seven-nil in the Fourth Division when the referee abandoned the game after seventy minutes due to bad light with Gillingham having arrived late due to transport difficulties. However, this game was to become the first in Football League history where the result was allowed to stand without a full ninety minutes being played.
Saint Patrick's Day Or The Scheming Lieutenant broadcast. The first UK broadcast of A Real Case Of Murder. Elia Kazan's Splendour In The Grass and Cyril Frankel's On The Fiddle - staring Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker and Stanley Holloway - premiered. Martin John Kemp born in Highbury.
The first episode of Flower Of Evil and Quicker Than The Eye broadcast. Roma won the previous season's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, beating Birmingham City two-nil in the second leg in the Stadio Olimpico. Bert Lister scored three and Jimmy Frizzell two in Oldham Athletic's five-nil thumped of Accrington Stanley in the Fourth Division.
Perspective on Twins, Triplets & Quads broadcast. Gregory Phillips, Michele Dotrice, and Christopher Trace talked with George Lowe about the ascent of Everest in 1953 in Signpost: Higher & Higher. Tony Hateley scored a hat-trick in Notts County's three-two defeat of Third Division leaders Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. June Toulmin's The Tunnel Of Samos broadcast in the Adventure strand. The first episode of Bernard Delfont Presents The Morecambe & Wise Show (subsequently Two of A Kind from June 1962) broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
Leslie Collins's The Jelly End Strike broadcast. Bobby Vee's 'Take Good Care Of My Baby'/'Bashful Bob', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' Dream EP, The Piccadilly Strings' 'Sir Francis Drake'/'Our House', Danny Williams' 'Moon River'/'A Weaver Of Dreams' and Anita Harris' 'I Haven't Got You'/'Mister One & Only' released.
The first episode of Operation Fantail broadcast. Muriel Spark's The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie first serialised in The New Yorker magazine. England and Wales drew one-all at Ninian Park in the Home International championship. Bryan Douglas scored for the visitors, Swansea's Graham Williams for the hosts. Frank McLintock scored twice in Leicester City's three-one victory at Chelsea in the First Division. Leaders Burnley lost two-one at second placed West Ham United whilst Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester City two-nil. In the Second Division, Newcastle United enjoyed a seven-two victory at Bury (Ken Leek and Ken Hale both scoring twice with further goals from John McGuigan, Duncan Neale and teenager Alan Suddick). Liverpool regained their seven point advantage at the summit with a six-one thrashing of Walsall (Roger Hunt scoring three). Bristol Rovers beat Plymouth Argyle four-three. The largest Third Division gate of the season, almost twenty nine thousand, watched Crystal Palace hammer Peterborough United five-two. Cliff Holton scored three in Northampton Town's seven-nil thumping of Grimsby Town. Brian Bedford hit four in Queens Park Rangers five-three victory over Southend United. Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Colin Day and Rose Brennan featured on Saturday Club.
What Every Woman Knows broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The Beatles made their only appearance at the Albany Cinema, Maghull. The event was a charity fundraiser for the local St John Ambulance Brigade. Ken Dodd topped the bill.
Iain MacCormick's The Hunted broadcast. Hattie Jacques featured on Desert Island Discs. Ingmar Bergman's Såsom I En Spegel (Through A Glass Darkly) premiered. Swansea Town, winners of the Welsh Cup, competed in Europe for the first time, drawing two-two with Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup First Round. However, the lost the second laeg - played just two days later in Germany - five-one. Eddie Thomas of Blackburn Rovers scored four in his side's four-nil defeat of Bristol Rovers in a League Cup second Round replay.
The first UK broadcast of Angola: Journey To A War. The Work of Graham Greene were discussed on Bookstand. Michael Powell's The Queen's Guards - starring Daniel and Raymond Massey and Robert Stephens and Gilbert Gunn's What A Whopper - starring Adam Faith, Sid James, Clive Dunn, Spike Milligan and Carole Lesley - premiered.
The European Social Charter was signed in Turin. Robert Wise's adaptation of West Side Story premiered. Adam Faith's 'The Time Has Come'/'A Help-Each-Other Romance' released.
The Land Of The Queen Of Sheba - 'a visit to the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia to see its thousand-year-old Christian churches, its pagan festivals and the court of the Emperor Haile Selassie' - broadcast in the Adventure strand. The Arab League took over protecting Kuwait as the last British troops left.
The first episode of The Dying Plains Of Africa and Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Doctor Kildare. The mail ship MV Stirling Castle departed South Africa for the UK with the Tristan da Cunha islanders on board. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'That's What I Said'/'When I Get Paid', Bobby Vee's 'Take Good Care Of My Baby'/'Bashful Bob', Sam Cooke's 'Feel It'/'It's All Right' and Spike Milligan's 'I'm Walking Out With A Mountain'/'The Sewers Of The Strand' released.
Adam Faith, Helen Shapiro and Alan Freeman appeared on Juke Box Jury whilst Alma Cogan, Tommy Cooper and John Leyton were guests on The Billy Cotton Band Show. Michael Brett's When Is A Door? broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. John Leyton, Lorie Mann, Johnny Gentle and The Quartette Italiano featured on Saturday Club. The highlight of the First Division was Arsenal's five-one thumping of Manchester United. Everybody had a good laugh at that. In the Second Division, Ken Leek scored a hat-trick in Newcastle United's five-nil defeat of Brighton & Hove Albion. The match of the day came in the Third Division where Peterborough United beat Lincoln City five-four.
The Big Noise broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Two months after construction of The Berlin Wall, E Allan Lightner, Deputy Chief of the US Mission in West Berlin and his wife, were stopped when he tried to drive his car across the border after refusing to produce identification to East German border guards while crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, to attend the opera in East Berlin. General Lucius Clay dispatched troops and tanks to the Checkpoint. The Lightners were escorted into East Berlin by US military police. Over the next three days, what started as a trivial incident escalated into a full-scale confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union.
James Mossman's Suez - Five Years After broadcast in the Panorama strand. Francis Chichester featured on Desert Island Discs. Francis Searle's Freedom To Die - starring Paul Maxwell, Felicity Young, TP McKenna and Bruce Seton - premiered.
Douglas Camfield's Adventure To Order broadcast.
Siddcup Art College student Keith Richards was waiting for a train at Dartford Station when he met Michael Jagger who was on his way to the London School of Economics. The two had been classmates at primary school but had not seen each other for some years. Richards noticed that Jagger had some rare imported rhythm and blues LPs. 'Cat's got Rockin' At The Hops by Chuck Berry and The Best Of Muddy Waters' recalled Richards. 'I was like "Hi, how y'been? ... And, where'd you get the records!"' The two immediately decided to form a rock and/or roll band (or, technically, join to Brian Jones's embryonic group The Rollin' Stones), remain together for over fifty years and grow old disgracefully. England beat Portugal two-nil at Wembley to qualify for the World Cup finals. Burnley duo John Connelly and Ray Pointer scored. Eusébio, the new star of Benfica, rattled the England woodwork twice in the closing stages. Dunfermaline Athletic thrashed Yougoslav side FK Vardar five-nil in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Second Round. Leciester City drew one-all with Atlético Madrid (Ken Keyworth scoring for The Foxes). A Week To Work Wonders broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre.
Perspective: It Runs In The Family broadcast. The first edition of Private Eye published. England won the first of a three test series against Pakistan at Lahore by five wickets. Ken Barrington scored a first innings century and Ted Dexter's undefeated sixty six guided England home. Alan Brown, Eric Russell and Butch White all made their test debuts. England then departed for India returning to Pakistan to complete the series in the New Year. The first episode of Shakespeare's Hamlet broadcast in Associated-Rediffusion's Dread Command strand.
Sir Laurence Olivier's production of Richard III shown in the Late Night Film strand. Elvis Presley's '(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame'/'Little Sister' and Frankie Vaughan's 'Tower Of Strength'/'Rachel' released. Joanna Scanlan born in West Kirby. Scuthorpe United beat Newcastle United three-two in the Second Division with two goals from Barrie Thomas. Within two months, The Magpies would pay The Iron a reported forty five thousand quid and John McGuigan to acquire Thomas's services (and his goals).
Zsa Zsa Gabor featured on Juke Box Jury. Just Gracie broadcast. A customer named Raymond Jones enquired about The Beatles' 'My Bonnie' single at Brian Epstein's NEMS department store in Liverpool. Despite the record only being released in Germany, Epstein promised to try and find it. Alistair Taylor (Epstein's assistant) later, erroneously, declared - in Philip Norman's risibly inaccurate and much-discredited Beatles 'biography', Shout - that he used Jones' name to order copies of the record himself. But, he didn't. In the First Division, the day's highlight was a thrilling four-all draw between Nottingham Forest and West Bromwich Albion. Second-placed Spurs beat table-toppers Burnley four-two at White Hart Lane. Brian Clough netted a hat-trick in Sunderland's five-nil thrashing of Plymouth Argyle in the Second Division. Liverpool drew three-all against Leyton Orient.
David Whitaker's Hullo Ragtime broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jnr was John Freeman's guest on Face To Face. Anthony Thorne's adaptation of So Long At The Fair broadcast in ATV London's Drama '61 strand.
Has The Earth Three Moons? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Genevieve Et Philippe Dans Le Metro broadcast on The Home Service.
Television & The World - 'a journey through five continents and an impression of the impact of television on peoples of different civilisations' - broadcast. Tony Soper's Plapp - narrated by Johnny Morris - broadcast. Lance Comfort's Pit Of Darkness - starring William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green, Bruce Beeby, Anthony Booth and Nanette Newman - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of The Khirgiz Statz Opera Company's Morning Star.Scrapbook For 1936 broadcast. Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros - starring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman and Lee Marvin - premiered. Tottenham Hotspur won three-one in Rotterdamn against Feyenoord in the first leg of their European Cup Second Round tie with Fran Saul scoring twice. Harry Middleton scored all of Portsmouth's goals in a four=two victory at Derby County in a Football League Cup replay.
Harry Secombe was the guest star on Crackerjack. Voodoo Island broadcast in the Adventure strand. The Brains Trust: Transatlantic Edition - featuring Henry Kissinger and Doctor Jacob Bronowski - broadcast. Ken Annakin's The Hellions - starring Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Marty Wilde, Lionel Jeffries, James Booth and Colin Blakely - premiered.
Rudolph Cartier's adaptation of Anna Karenina - with Claire Bloom and Sean Connery - broadcast. Michael Carreras's Savage Guns premiered. Hank Levine & Orchestra's 'Image (Parts 1 & 2)', Suzy Cope's 'Teenage Fool'/'Juvenile Delinquent' and Jack Warner With Tommy Reilly 'Dixon Of Dock Green (An Ordinary Copper)'/Gay Brill & His Music 'Coronation Street' released.
The first episode of Gamble For A Throne broadcast. Billy Fury & The Blue Flames, Valerie Masters, The Karl Denver Trio, The Allisons, Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos and Tommy Sanderson & The Sandmen featured on Saturday Club. The Palfrey Case broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Southern League Margate won three-nil at Third Division Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the First Round of the FA Cup. Other minor league sides to progress included Brierley Hill Alliance of the Birmingham League who defeated Grantham Town three-nil, King's Lynn who won the all Southern League clash at Chelmsford City two-one, Morecambe of the Lancashire Combination who beat Soiuth Shields by the same score, Northern Counties League Gateshead who won three-two at Fourth Division Tranmere Rovers and Romford who beat Isthmian League Walthamstow Avenue by the same score. Weymouth beat Athenian League vBarnet one-nil. Northern League West Auckland shared six goals with Barnsley and several other minor league clubsa forced replays with Thirtd and fourth Division opposition (Barry Town, Dartford, Kettering Town). Elsewhere, Aldershot beat Tunbridge Wells United three-one, Chester defeated Ashington four-one, Carlisle United had a four=nil victory at Darlington, Hartlepools united thumped Blyth Spartans five-one, Hull Coty beat Rhyl five-one, Notts County beat Yeovil Town four-two, Oldham Athletic defeated Shildon five-two, Shrewsbury Town thrashed Birmingham League Banbury Spencer sevenone and Eastern Coiunties League Harwich & Parkeston lost five-one at Torquay United. Peter Dobin g scored a hat-trick for Manchester City but still ended up on the losing side, West Ham UNited winning five-three at Maine Road in the First Division. Burnley remained top with a three-nil win over Aston Villa. Performance of the day came in the Second Division and Rotherham United's five-two victory at Plymouth Argyle. Gordon Milne, Ian Callaghan and Ian St John were on-target as leaders Liverpool won three-one at Preston North End.
The Test broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The first episode of The Pocket Lancer broadcast. Michael Forlong's Over The Odds - starring Frances Cuka, Marjorie Rhodes, Glenn Melvyn, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon and Leslie Crowther - premiered.
Elizabeth Twistington Higgins was nabbed by Eamonn Andrews and his Big Red Book on This Is Your Life. Wee Georgie Wood was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Though he didn't chose to take 'Hark, The Angels Come' was one of his eight records. Queens Park Rangers defeated Barry Town seven-nil in an FA Cup replay played at White City.
The first episode of Doctor Faustus broadcast. Yevgeni Karelov and Anatoli Markelov's Nakhalyonok - starring Vladimir Semyonov, Daniil Netrebin and Vera Burlakova - premiered.
The Cinema Today: People to Watch - Alain Resnais broadcast. The Shadows' 'The Savage'/'Peace Pipe' released. The first episode of The Home Service's adaptation of A Twig Is Bent broadcast. Three Southern League teams progressed to the Second Round of the FA Cup, winning replays, two against league sides (Dartford beat Exeter City two-one and Kettering Town defeated Swindon Town three-nil). Ashford Town also beat Wycombe Wanderers three-nil. But Hereford United lost five-two at home to Bristol City and Norther League West Auckland Town were defeated two=nil at Barnlsey. Ian St John scored twice as Scotland beat Wales two=nil in the Home International championships at Hampden Park. Dundee duo Ian Ure and Alex Hamilton made their Scotland debuts.
The Roman Soldier broadcast in the Signpost strand. Still attempting to locate this mysterious foreign 'My Bonnie' record for several of his customers Brian Epstein went to The Cavern Club to see The Beatles playing a lunchtime session. And, they did blow his socks off. Jill Wendy Dando born in Westom-Super-Mare. Bridgwater Town enjoyed a one-nil victory at fellow Western League side Weston-Super-Mare in an FA Cup replay.
L For Lion broadcast in the Look strand. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers' 'What A Crazy World We're Living In'/'Pop Corn', Johnny Burnette's 'God, Country & My Baby'/'Honestly I Do', The Shirelles' 'Big John'/'Twenty-One' and Paul Raven's 'Tower Of Strength'/'Livin' The Blues' released. The Sam Leach promotion Operation Big Beat occurred at The Tower Ballroom, New Brighton featuring Kingsize Taylor & The Dominoes, The Remo Four, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes and, topping the bill, The Beatles. Montgomery Tully's The Middle Course - starring Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely and Peter Illing - premiered.
The British Legion Festival Of Remembrance broadcast. Met In The Monkey House broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the First Division, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Fulham four-two. Leaders Burnley lost three-two at Nottingham Forest. Bottom club Chelsea enjoyed a morale-boosting one-nil victory over Bolton Wanderers. In the Second Division, Keith Haverhand scored three in Derby County's four-one win at Bristol Rovers. Barrie Thomas hit four as Scunthorpe United thrashed Plymlouth Argyle five-one. Ken Oliver also scored three for Barnsley in a seven-three defeat of Bristol City in the Third Division. Northampton Town beat Newpoert County five-nil. Hungarian John Haasz netted four in Workington's four-nil win at Accrington Stanley in the Fourth Division. Pace-setters Wrexham won two-one at Stockport County.
Anthony Newley's The Johnny Darling Show broadcast.
The Lord Mayor's Banquet broadcast. Rupert Davies appeared on Desert Island Discs.
Bill Duncalf's The Lemoine Affair broadcast.
A 'filmed impression of Hammersmith flyover in the making' and Eric Hutchings and Tom Driberg 'talking about Evangelism' featured on Wednesday Magazine. The first episode of Design For A Career - introduced by Toyn Hart - broadcast. The Work of Evelyn Waugh was discussed on Bookstand.Tottenham progressed into the next round of the European Cup, drawing one-all with Feyenoord but winning the tie on aggregate. However, Leciester City were knocked out of the Cup Winners Cup, losing two-nil in Madrid to Atletico. And, Birmingham cioty were also on the end of Spanish hammering, losing five-two as Espanol in the first leg of their Inte-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round (Antonio Camps scoring three). In the League Cup Third Round Bournemouth & Boscombe of Division Three knocked-out top flight Caridff City three-nil at Dean Court.
The first episodes of The Seven Faces Of Jim and Jacks & Knaves broadcast. The first of a five test series between India and England at Bombay ended in a high-scoring drawn. The match highlight was Ken Barrington's one hundred and fifty one. David Smith made his test debut.
Let's Imagine: Living In 1971 broadcast. The Crickets' 'I Fought The Law'/'A Sweet Love', The Highwaymen's 'The Gypsy Rover (The Whistling Gypsy)'/'Cotton Fields' and Buddy Holly's 'Look At Me'/'Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues' released.
The Ken Dodd Show broadcast from the Empire Theatre, Liverpool. Ipswich Town defeated Manchester United four-one in the First Division. Derek Kevan scored a hat-trick in Werst Bromwich Albion's three-one victory over Sheffield United. Burnley and Wolves drew three-all. In the Second Division, Len White hit three as Newcastle United beat Bristol Rovbers five-two. Walsall thumped Norwich City five-nil. Billy Bremner and Jackie Charlton were on-target for Leeds United in a three-one win at Middlesbrough. Steven William Moffat born in Paisley.
An adaptartion of Lukas Heller's Cross Of Iron broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. The first episodes of The Charlie Chester Music Hall and Whicker Down Under broadcast. Hawker-Siddeley publicly unveiled the P1127, the first Harrier Jet. Charles Saunders' Jungle Street - starring David McCallum, Kenneth Cope and Jill Ireland - premiered.
Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared off of the coast of New Guinea. His body was never found. The first episode of Richard The Lionheart - Long Live The King - broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion.
The first episode of The Escape Of RD7 and Charles Laughton's adaptation of Brecht's Galileo broadcast. Ipswich town won three-two at Aston Villa in the Football League Cup Third Round.
The first episode of A Chance Of Thunder broadcast. How Many Stars In The Pleiades? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Norman Taurog's Blue Hawaii - starring Elvis Presley Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury and Jenny Maxwell - premiered. England and Northern Ireland drew one-one at Wembley in the Home International championship. Bobby Charlton scored with Jimmy McIlroy replying for the visitors. Ipswich Town's Ray Crawford and Third Division Crystal Palace's Johnny Byrne both made their international debuts. Heart of Midlothian were knocked out of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, losing four-nil in Milan to Internazionale. Gerry Hitchens scored twice for the hosts.
Bill Geddes's Dyak broadcast in the Adventure strand. Val Guest's The Day The Earth Caught Fire - starring Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd and Bernard Braden - premiered. Thalidomide was withdrawn from sale in West Germany, five days after Doctor Widukind Lenz told a medical conference about the deformities that it caused. Glasgow Rangers reached the Quarter Final of the Euorpean Cup, completing a six-two aggregate win over ASK Vorwärts Berlin. The tie was scheduled to be played at Ibrox, but was moved to the Malmö Stadion, Sweden after the East German club were refused visas to enter the UK. The original match in Malmö was abandoned due to heavy fog with Rangers leading one-nil and the match was replayed the following morning.
The United Nations General Assembly approved Resoulution 1653, The Declaration On The Prohibition Of The Use Of Nuclear & Thermonuclear Weapons, by a two-thirds majority. Jack Clayton's The Innocents - starring Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens - premiered. The John Barry Seven's 'Watch Your Step'/'Twist It', The Temperance Seven's 'The Charleston'/'The Black Bottom', Mister Acker Bilk With The Leon Young String Chorale's 'Stranger On The Shore'/'Take My Lips (Meravigliose Labbra)', Billy Wright's 'Sing-Song Just For Kicks (Parts 1 & 2)' and Del Shannon's 'So Long Baby'/'hTe Answer To Everything' released. Leyton Orient went second in the Second Division with a two-nil victory at Scunthorpe United.
The first UK TV showing of Underwater in The Saturday Film strand. The Springfields featured on Saturday Club. The Essay Prize broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the FA Cup Second Round, Morecambe won one-nil at Chester, King's Lynn had a two-one victory at Coventry City and Weymouth defeated Newport County one-nil. Elsewhere, Queens Park Rangers won three-nil at Ashford Town whilst Crystal Palace won by the same score at Birdgwater Town. Bristol City thrashed Dartford eight-two, Workington won two-nil at Gateshead, Northamtpon Town defeated Kettering Town three-nil, Shrewsbury Town beat Brierley Hill Alliance by the same score and Watford won three-one at Romford. First Division leaders Burnley won four-one at Manchester United whilst Chelsea defeated West Bromwich Albion by the same score (Barry Bridges hit three). Ipswich Town enjoyed a three-nil victory at Cardiff City. Second Division table-toppers Liverpool thumped Swansea Town five-nil (Roger Hunt netting a hat-trick). Stanley Matthews scored his first goal since his return to Stoke City from Blackpool in a three-one defeat of Newcastle. Leeds United won four-one against Walsall.
Derek Jacobi's TV début in an adaptation of She Stoops To Conquer, in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Charles Friend's Girl On Approval - starring Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell, Annette Whiteley and Ellen McIntosh - premiered.
Joan Collins appeared on Desert Island Discs. Samantha Bond born in Kensignton.
The Wakefield Shepherds' Play and Derek Burrell-Davis's Alert broadcast. Alexander Martin Clunes born in Wimbledon.
Vanessa Redgrave was interviewed on Wednesday Magazine. Sheffield Wednesday thumped Roma four-nil in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round first leg at Hillsborough. Gerry Young scored three. Scotland lost their World Cup Qualifier play-off with Czechoslovakia four-two after extra time in Brussels. Ian St John scored both of Scotland's goals. Dunfermline Athletic's Eddie Connachan and Dundee's Hugh Robertson made their Scotland debuts. The Scots failure to reach the final stages of major international tournaments was to become something of a recurring theme over the following decade. The first UK broadcast of One Step Beyond on Associated-Rediffusion.
Unknown Mountains Of Nepal broadcast in the Adventure strand. David MacDonald's Petticoat Pirates - starring Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker and John Turner, George Harrison Marks' Naked As Nature Intended - starring Pamela Green, Ernest Morris's Tarnished Heroes - starring Dermot Walsh and Anton Rogers and Max Varnel's Murder In Eden - starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham, Norman Rodway and Angela Douglas - premiered.

Hugh Vaughan Williams's The Terrorists broadcast. Sidney J Furie's During One Night - starring Don Borisenko and Susan Hampshire - premiered. Billy Fury's 'I'd Never Find Another You'/'Sleepless Nights', The Laurie Johnson Orchestra's 'Doin' The Raccoon'/'Chaka', John Leyton's 'Son, This Is She'/'Six White Horses', Neil Sedaka's 'Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen'/'Don't Lead Me On', Morecambe & Wise's 'We're The Guys (Who Drive Your Baby Wild)'/'Me & My Shadow', Gene Pitney's 'Town Without Pity'/'Air Mail Special Delivery', The Impressions' 'Gypsy Woman'/'As Long As You Love Me' and The Marvelettes' 'Please Mister Postman'/'So Long Baby' released. Jim Jeffrey's Bungala Boys - starring Peter Couldwell, Alan Dearth, Terry Bentley and Julie Youatt - premiered.
Craig Douglas and Mrs Mills appeared on The Billy Cotton Band Show. The Little Dog Laughed broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Eden Kane, The Brook Brothers, The Avons, Jimmy Justice and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers featured on Saturday Club. Giannis Dalianidis's Katiforos - starring Zoi Laskari, Nikos Kourkoulos and Mirka Kalatzopoulou - premiered. Burnley remained top of the First Division following a four-two win over Sheffiled United with Ipswich Town three points behind after their five-two hammering of Chelsea 9Ray Crawford scored three). Manchester united lost heavily again, five-one at Everton and Spurs won four-two at West bromwich Albion. In the Second Division, the Tyne-Wear derby ended in a two-two draw with Brian Clough scoring twice for the visitors.
The first episode of Vice Versa - A Lesson To Fathers - broadcast. Ernest Morris's The Court Martial Of Major Keller - starring Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen, Ralph Michael and Richard Caldicot - premiered. Robert Sheckley's adaptation of Murder Club broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand and the first episode of Stryker Of Scotland Yard - The Case Of The Black Falcoln - broadcast on ATV London.
Peter Finch was the guest on This Is Your Life. Birth control pills became available on the National Health Service for the first time after their availability was backed by the Health Minister Enoch Powell. Max Varnel's Enter Inspector Duval - starring Anton Diffring, Diane Hart and Mark Singleton - premiered.
Roger Fulford's The Uncrowned King broadcast. Blue Hawaii, Petticoat Pirates and The Innocents featured on Picture Parade. Max Varnel's Part-Time Wife - starring Anton Rogers and Nyree Dawn Porter - premiered.
Wednesday Magazine, introduced by David Jacobs, included Joan Littlewood talking to Tom Driberg, John Betjeman and Royston Ellis ('a first meeting between poets of two generations') and Johnny Morris on a filmed visit to a brass band factory. El Cid - starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren - premiered. The second test at Kanpur ended in a draw. On a lifeless pitch in which only twenty three wickets fell in the entire match, Polly Umriger and Ken Barrington scored centuries for the hosts and the tourists respectively. Barry Knight made his test debut for England and Farokh Engineer for India. Tottenham broke the British transfer record, paying AC Milan nine nine thousand, nine hundred and ninty nine pounds for Jimmy Greaves (the unusual fee was intended to relieve Greaves of the pressure of being the first one hundred thousand pound player in British football).
International Icetime broadcast. Clive Donner's The Sinister Man - starring John Bentley, Patrick Allen, Wilfrid Brambell, Yvonne Buckingham, William Gaunt and Burt Kwouk and Max Varnel's Return Of A Stranger premiered. Birmingham City exited the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup despite a one-nil vicotry over Espanol at St Andrew's.
Jack Pulman's A Book With Chapters In It broadcast. Bobby Vee's 'Run To Him'/'Walkin' With My Angel' released.
Highlights of Floyd Patterson's retention of the World Heavyweight title against Tom McNeeley broadcast on Grandstand. John Leyton, Anita Harris and Carter-Lewis featured on Saturday Club. The Beatles played a disastrous gig on their first trip South, at Palais Ballroom in Aldershot. A lack of organisation and adequate advertising by promoter Sam Leach, resulted in a reported audience of just eighteen. Brighton & Hove Albion club secretary Denys Roberts collapsed & died at the end of their two-one home defeat to Derby County in the Second Division. Ambrose Fogarty and Brian Clough both hit hat-tricks in Sunderland's seven-two defeat of Swansea Town. Norwich City beat Middlesbrough five-four. Alan Peacock scored three for the visitors. Ian St John hit the winner for leaders Liverpool, who beat Plymouth two-one. Fourth Division table-toppers Wrexham won four-two at Colchester United. Crewe Alexandra defeated Tranmere Rovers six-one.
The first episode of Gilbert & Sullivan: The Immortal Jesters broadcast. The Stryker of The Yard episode The Case of The Two Brothers broadcast on ATV London.
Tanganyika Independent - a report from Dar-es-Salaam by Robin Day - broadcast on Panorama. Sir Michael Balcon featured on Desert Island Discs. Sidney J Furie's The Young Ones - starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray and The Shadows - premiered. And, they did the show right there. Robert Asher's On The Beat - starring Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley and David Lodge - premiered.
Faces Of Asia: Patterns Of Change broadcast. Sarah Sutton born in Basingstoke.
Sports Review Of 1961; Stirling Moss won the Sports Personality Of The Year award. William Marshall's The Phantom Planet - starring Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter and Francis X Bushman - premiered. Sheffield Wednesday lost one-nil at the Stadio Olimpico against Roma but still progressed to the next round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on aggregate.
Denis Constandurous's The Night Of The Match broadcast. Stanley Kramer's Judgment At Nuremberg premiered in Berlin. Disney's Babes In Toyland premiered.
The first episode of Comedy Playhouse - Galton & Simpson's Cliquot Et Fils - and David Mercer's Where The Difference Begins broadcast. Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three - starring James Cagney and Horst Buchholz - premiered. Bobby Darin's 'Multiplication'/'Iressistable You' released.
Matt Monro appeared on The Benny Hill Show. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers featured on Saturday Club. She Had So Many Children broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Judge & His Hangman broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand.
Charlie Drake appeared on This Is Your Life. Bob Hope was the guest on Desert Island Discs. The third India/England test at Dehli ended in another draw, with no play possible on the final two days. Motganhalli Jaismha, Vijay Manjrekar and Ken Barrington all scored centuries (the latter, his third in consecutive tests). Gerald Thomas's Noi Kidding - starring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood, Irene Handl, June Jago, Esma Cannon, Martin Stephens and Francesca Annis - premiered. Jimmy Greaves scored a hat-trick on his Tottenham debut, a five-two win over Blackpool in the First Division. John Atyeo scored four in Bristol City's six-nil win against Notts County in the Third Division where Crystal Palace thrashed Torquay United seven-two.
Neighbours Of China: The Race Against Time broadcast. William Wyler's The Children's Hour - starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and Veronica Cartwright and Frank Capra's Pocketful Of Miracles premiered. Matthew Waterhouse born in Hertford.
A Telescope For Christmas broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style - starring Marcello Mastroianni and Daniela Rocca, Quentin Lawrence's Cash On Demand - starring Peter Cushing and André Morell and Cy Endfield's Mysterious Island premiered.
David Turner's Choirboys Unite! broadcast. The first episode of Return & Answer - in which Edgar Lustgarten questions famous personalities of the past about their actions, motives and beliefs - broadcast.
Troy Kennedy Martin's The Interrogator broadcast. Galton & Simpson's Lunch In The Park - with Stanley Baxter - broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand.
The first UK TV showing of Hitchcock's Notorious. Arms & The Man broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. In the First Division, Manchester City beat Ipswich Town three-nil on as day when several games were postponed due to inclement weather. The biggest Football league gate of the season, sixty three thousand four hundred and forty, were at Highbury where Srsenal won the North London derby two-one.
The Barrets Of Wimpole Street broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. Carol Patricia Smillie born in Galsgow.
David Jacobs introduced the first episode of The World Of Walt Disney. Max Bygraves Invites You To Meet The Kids broadcast. The Boss Of Glenfinnan and The Bob Hope Christmas Show broadcast on The Light Programme. Gracie Fields featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first UK TV showing of I'll Be Seeing You. Peter Pan-Orama broadcast on The Home Service. Highlight of the Boxing Day First Division fixtures was Manchester United's six-three defeat of Nottingham Forest (Nobbu Lawton scored a hat-trick). The top three, Ipswich Town, Everton and Burnley, all won (against Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday respectively). John Byrom scored a hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers in their three-two win at West Ham United. Scunthorpe United won four-one at Leeds United in the Second Division (Barrie Thomas hiting four). Bill Harris netted three as Middlesbrough won the Tyne-Tees derby four-three at St James' Park. Portsmouth returned to the top of the Third Division with a four-one victory over Northampton Town. Fourth Division leaders Wrexham won five-one at Chesterfield.
The first TV appearance of The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Wednesday Magazine: Late Edition. The Beatles XMas Party took place at The Cavern. Due to illness, Pete Best was unable to play and so, for the first time, Ringo Starr of Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, sat in with John, Paul and George. The suport acts were Gerry & The Pacemakers and Kingsize Taylor & The Dominoes. The first episode of an adaptation of Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey broadcast on The Home Service.
The Good Old Days featured appearance by Mike & Bernie Winters, Dick Emery and Rosemary Squires. The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone - starring Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty - premiered.
The first episode of Heinz Sielmann's Discovery broadcast. A production of Bernard Shaw's Candida broadcast. CM Pennington-Richards' Dentist On The Job - starring Bob Monkhouse, Ronnie Stevens, Kenneth Connor and Shirley Eaton - premiered. Gabriel Fielding's The Place Of The Angel broadcast on The Home Service.
In A Pair Of Jacks, Jack Payne and Jack Jackson 'discussed various aspects of popular music' with contributions from Woolf Phillips & His Orchestra, Harry Rabinowitz and Billy Fury. The first UK TV showing of Powell and Pressburger's The Wild Heart. Alma Cogan, Josh Macrae, Russ Sainty, Michael Redway, The Rhet Stroller Group and The Del-Fi's featured on Saturday Club. In the only First Division game to survive the weather, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea five-two, Cliff Jones scoring three. Dave Dunmore also hit three in Leyton Orient's three-one win at Swansea Town in the Second Division. And, Dickie Dowsett netted three in the Third Division for Bounrmeouth who beat Watford four-one. Queens Park Rangers defeated Torquay United six-nil. In the Fourth Division, Bobby Hunt and Martyn King both scored four in Colcehster United's nine-one hammering of Bradford City.
Affairs Of State broadcast in the Sunday-Night Play strand. We Win The Pools broadcast on The Home Service. Danny Williams, Anita Harris and The Brook Brothers featured on The Light Programme's Easy Beat.