1966

1966
The first episodes of The Spies broadcast. The first episode of Rugby Special and East Of Howerd broadcast on BBC2. Hedgehoers Anonymous, Barry St John, The Merseybeats and Rick & Sandy featured on Saturday Club. The Heyday In The Blood broadcast in The Light Programme's Afternoon Theatre strand. What Makes A Commentator? broadcast in Network Three's Sports Parade. In the First Division, Aston Villa beat Newcastle United four-two, West Bromwich Albion won five-one at Sunderland, Leeds United defeated Sheffield Wednesday three-nil and Nottingham Forest won by the same score at West Ham United. In the top-of-the-table clash, Liverpool defeated Manchester United two-one in front of fifty three thousand at Anfield. The largest attendance of the Second Division season saw the top-two meet at Maine Road, Manchester City defeating Huddersfield Town two-nil. Fellow promotrion-chasers Coventry City, Southampton and Wolverhampton Wanderers all won, five-one over Preston North End, by the same score versus Bolton Wanderers and two-one against Leyton Orient respectively. In the Third Division, Queens Park Rangers thrashed York City seven-two. Tranmere defeated Hartlepools United six-one in the Fourth Division. The first episode of Edward Lockspeiser's Wagner & The Synthesis Of The Arts. David Eady's Operation Third Form - starring Sydney Bromley, Derren Nesbitt, George Roderick, John Moulder-Brown and Roberta Tovey - premiered.

Doctor Knock broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The first UK TV showing of On The Waterfront. John Mills's Sky West & Crooked - starring Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie and Laurence Naismith - premiered.
The first episode of Camberwick Green broadcast. The Flip Side - starring Bob Monkhouse - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of BBC2's A Woman's Guide broadcast. Noel Harrison's 'A Young Girl Of Sixteen'/'Tomorrow Is My Turn', John Lee's Groundhogs' 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'/'Over You Baby', Jason's Generation's 'It's Up To You'/'Insurance Co's Are Very Unfair', Linda Flavell's 'And The Trouble With Me Is You'/'Over & Over', The Renegades' 'Cadillac'/'Every Minute Of The Day', John Lee's Groundhogs' 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'/'Over You Baby', The Wailers' 'Rude Boy'/Rolando Al & The Soul Brothers' 'Ringo's Theme', The Gaylads' 'Lady With The Red Dress On'/'Dinner For Two', Jimmy Smith's 'Theme From The Munsters', 'Theme From Bewitched'/'The Creeper', John Dankworth Orchestra's 'Sands Of The Kalahari'/'Night Thoughts' and Len Barry's 'Like A Baby'/'Happiness (Is A Girl Like You)' released.
Ned Sherrin's Take A Sapphire broadcast. The Art Game broadcast on BBC2. More than four thousand people attended a memorial service at Westminster Abbey for the late Richard Dimbleby. The second Ashes test at Melbourne ended in a high-scoring draw. England's first innings of five hundred and fifty eight - their highest total in Australia since 1929 - including centuries for Colin Cowdrey and John Edrich. For Australia, Peter Burge and Doug Walters also hit hundreds.
The first episodes of Softly Softly and A Whole Scene Going broadcast - the latter featuring a spectacular performance by The Who and the TV debut of Caroline Munro. Clive Exton's The Bone Yard originally scheduled for broadcast in September 1964 but postponed due to alleged similarities to a real-life case of police corruption - was finally shown in The Wednesday Play strand. Lucy Fleming, Leslie Hutch Hutchinson, Hermione Gingold and Dudley Moore were the guests on Call My Bluff. John Ford's final feature film, Seven Women premiered. England drew one-all with Poland in a friendly international at Goodison Park. Bobby Moore scored his first international goal whilst Burnley's Gordon Harris made his England debut. The first episodes of Reporting 66 - presented by Reginald Bosanquet - and The Liars broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of The Liars broadcast on Rediffusion. Paul Martin's Graf Bobby, Der Schrecken Des Wilden Westens - starring Peter Alexander, Olga Schoberová and Gunther Philipp and Miklós Jancsó's Szegénylegények - starring János Görbe and Zoltán Latinovits - premiered.
The first episode of This Man Craig broadcast on BBC2. Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich ppeared on Crackerjack. Cilla Black's 'Love's Just A Broken Heart'/'Yesterday', Shirley Bassey's 'The Liquidator'/'Sunshine', Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Jenny Take A Ride!'/'Baby Jane (Mo-Mo Jane)', Swinging Blue Jeans' 'Don't Make Me Over'/'What Can I Do Today?', Joe Loss & His Orchestra's 'Thunderbirds'/'The Avengers', Rolf Harris's 'Big Dog'/'Jake The Peg', The Mood Mosaic's 'A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass'/'Bond Street PM', The Knickerbockers' 'Lies'/'The Coming Generation', Roy Head & The Traits' 'Apple Of My Eye'/'I Pass The Day', The Size Seven Group's 'In Time'/'Walking Proud', Mike Sheridan's Lot's 'Don't Turn Your Back On Me, Babe'/'Stop, Look, Listen', The Impressions' 'You've Been Cheatin'/'Just One Kiss From You', The Majority's 'We Kiss In A Shadow'/'Ring The Bells', St Louis Union's 'Girl'/'Respect', David & Jonathan's 'Michelle'/'How Bitter The Taste Of Love', Junior Parker's 'These Kind Of Blues (Pars 1 & 2)', Fontella Bass' 'Recovery'/'Leave It In The Hands Of Love', James Galt's 'With My Baby'/'A Most Unusual Feeling', Bobby Freeman's 'The Duck'/'Cross My Heart', Christine Quaite's 'Long After Tonight Is All Over'/'I'm Hoping', Friday Browne's 'Getting Nowhere'/'And (To Me He Meant Everything)' and Barbara McNair's 'You're Gonna Love My Baby'/'The Touch Of Time' released. An ABC in Sound broadcast on Network Three. The First Dead Sea Scroll? broadcast on The Home Service.
The television débuts of Ben Kinglsey and Robert Powell in the BBC2 drama-documentary The Staffordshire Rebels. Catherine Boyle, Paul Jones, Pete Murray and Dee Dee Warwick appeared on Juke Box Jury. Frank Sinatrawas the focus of The Light Programme's Saturday Star. A State Of Negotiation broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Plain Sailing broadcast in Network Three's Sports Parade strand. Ron Yeats scored the winner as Liverpool won one-nil at Arsenal to stay top of the First Division. Stoke City beat Blackpool four-one. Leeds united won two-one at West Bromwich Albion. Newcastle united beat West Ham United by the same score. Alan Gilliver scored twice as Huddersfield Town remained top of the Second Division with a two-nil defeat of Southampton. There was a major surprise in the Fourth Division as promotion-chasing Torquay United got a four-nil hiding at home to Darlington (Bobby Cummings scoring three). Wrexham thumped Barnsley six-three with both Keith Webber and Sammy McMillan both netting three. John O'Rourke also hit three in Luton Town's five-two victory over Chester.
Ken Russell's Don't Shoot The Composer broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. Focus broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The Light Programme's Movie-Go-Round included excerpts from Hammer's Dracula, Prince Of Darkness - starring Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Andrew Keir - which premiered in a double bill with The Plague Of The Zombies - starring André Morell and Diane Clare.
The Hot Seat: The Football Manager broadcast. The Enchanted Night broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand.
The first episode of The Idiot broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of All My Sons broadcast. England won the third Ashes test at Sydney by an innings and ninety three runs. Bob Barber top-scored with one hundred and eighty five, John Edrich also hit a hundred and Geoff Boycott eighty four. Fred Titmus and David Allen picked up four wickets each as Australia collapsed in the second innings.
Peter Luke's A Man On Her Back broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. All Quiet On The Western Front shown in BBC2's The Vintage Years Of Hollywood strand. Lee Frost's Mondo Freudo - starring Judy Adler, Carol Baughman and Terry Bryan - premiered. Bobby Murdoch scored twice and Tommy Gemmell added a third as Glasgow Celtic defeated Dynamo Kiev three-nil in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Quarter Final. A draw in Tblisi a fortnight later saw Celtic book a place in the Semi-Final and, eventually, a meeting with Liverpol.
Under A Bright Heaven broadcast. Alfredo Giannetti's Giorno Per Giorno, Disperatamente shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Moons Of Jupiter broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Handle With Care broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Stevie Wonder's 'Uptight (Everything's Alright)'/'Purple Rain Drops', Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'/'The City Never Sleeps At Night', The Sounds Of Les & Barry's 'Looie Girl'/'She Who Needs Me', Booker T & The MG's 'Be My Lady'/'Red Beans & Rice', Paul & Barry Ryan's 'Have Pity On The Boy'/'There You Go', The Nashville Teens' 'The Hard Way'/'Upside Down', Cyril Stapleton's 'The Theme From The Power Game'/'Lil', The Truth's 'Girl'/'Jailer Bring Me Water', The Profile's 'Got To Find A Way'/'Don't Say Goodbye', Tony Rivers & The Castaways' 'Nowhere Man'/'Girl From New York City', Little Richard's 'I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me (Parts 1 & 2)', Mark Leeman Five's 'Forbidden Fruit'/'Going To Bluesville', The Escorts' 'Let It Be Me'/'Mad Mad World', Bobby Goldsboro's 'Broomstick Cowboy'/'Ain't Got Time For Happy', Chris Farlowe's 'Think'/'Don't Just Look At Me' and David Bowie & The Lower Third's 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'/'And I Say To Myself' released.
The first episode of The Man In The Mirror broadcast on BBC2. Ted Ray was the guest on The Black & White Minstrel Show. Stanley Goulder's Naked Evil starring Basil Dignam, Anthony Ainley, Suzanne Neve and Olaf Pooley - premiered. The Cricket On The Hearth broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. First Division highlights included Aston Villa's three-nil defeat of Nottingham Forest. Roger Morgan scored three in Queens Park Rangers six-two thumping of Swansea Town in the Third Division. Hull City defeated Workington six-nil.
The first episode of Vincent Tilsley's adaptation of David Copperfield - with Ian McKellen in the title role and Colin Jeavons as Uriah Heep - broadcast. The Troubled Mind broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Bob Dylan's 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?'/'Highway Sixty One Revisited' released.
The first episode of The Tich & Quackers Show broadcast. Hattie Jacques read Mary Poppins Comes Back on Jackanory. PJ Hammond's Four-Way Incident broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Truman Captoe's true-crime novel In Cold Blood published.
Jim & The Night broadcast in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. Gordon Of Khartoum broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first episode of The Master broadcast on Rediffusion.
The Kinks appeared on A Whole Scene Going. Brian Finch's Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. A quorum of the Indian Congress Party met to select a new leader after the recent death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, emerged victorious. Val Guest's Where The Spies Are - starring David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier and Cyril Cusack - premiered.
The first episode of The Universal Force broadcast. Joseph Losey's The Dividing Line shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Daniel Mann's Judith - starring Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins - premiered.
Fontella Bass and Pinkerton's Assorted Colours appeared on Crackerjack. Val Guest's Where The Spies Are - starring David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier and Cyril Cusack - premiered. The Downliners Sect's 'All Night Worker'/'He Was A Square', The Zombies' 'Remember You'/'Just Out Of Reach', The Vipps' 'Wintertime'/'Anyone', Keith Powell & Billie Davis's 'When You Move, You Lose'/'Tastes Sour Don't It?', The Ugly's 'A Good Idea'/'The Quiet Explosion', Migil Five's 'Pencil & Paper'/'Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)', The Gaylords' 'He's A Good Face, But He's Down & Out'/'You Know It Too', Sam & Dave's 'You Don't Know Like I Know'/'Blame Me Don't Blame My Heart', Lulu's 'Call Me'/'After You', The Packers' 'Hole In The Wall'/'Go Ahead On' and Episode Six's 'Put Yourself In My Place'/'That's All I Want' released.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore appeared on the Juke Box Jury panel along with Bryan Forbes and Nanette Newman as the second series of Not Only ... But Also started on BBC2. The Making Of An American Officer broadcasst. Fontella Bass, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, Paul & Barry Ryan, Billie Davis, Keith Powell, The Checkmates, The Just Five and The Les Reed Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. The Green Isle Of The Great Deep broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The FA Cup Third Round saw the end of Folkstone's run, beaten five-one at home to Crewe Alexandra. Corby Town also lost heavily, six-nil at Plymouth (Mick Bickle netting three) as did Altringham, five-nil at Wolves. But Bedford Town's cup adventure continued, as they beat Hereford Town two-one (Peter Hall scored twice). Holders Liverpool were knocked out by Chelsea who won two-one at Anfield. Leeds United beat Bury six-nil (Peter Lorimer scoring three). Everton defeated Sunderland three-nil, First Division Stoke City lost at home to Walsall, Newcastle won three-one at Chester City, Manchester United won five-two at Derby County and Arsenal lost three-nil at Blackburn Rovers.
The first episode of The Wesker Trilogy broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The first UK TV showing of The Millionairess.
John Finch's Brothers broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Thirteen men were rescued from the disabled British tanker Chelwood Beacon about fifteen miles South of Manhattan where the tanker had run aground during a snowstorm.
The first UK showing of Manuela. Show Of The Week: Joyce Grenfell broadcast on BBC2. Ken Dodd talked about his life and work to Philip Radcliffe in The Home Service's It Takes All Sorts. In the FA Cup Third Round, Andy Lochhead scored five in Burnley's seven-nil defeat of Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. Fourth Division Southport won three-two at Ipswich Town.
Philip Purser's adaptation of Calf Love broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. Song Of The Islands shown in BBC2's The Vintage Years Of Hollywood strand. Third Division Grimsby Town won three-one at Portsmouth in an FA Cup replay.
Nancy Wilson broadcast. Leon Morin, Priest shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
James Stewart was interviewed on Film Preview. Bobby Darin, Vic Damone and Henry Mancini appeared on The Andy Williams Show. Speed At Any Price broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Small Faces' 'Sha-La-La-La-Lee'/'Grow Your Own', The Lancastrians' 'The World Keeps Going Round'/'Not The Same Anymore', The Ian Campbell Folk Group's 'Guantanamera'/'Mary Anne', The Eyes' 'The Immediate Pleasure'/'My Degeneration', Jackie Trent's 'You Baby'/'Send Her Away', Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto's 'Do I Make Myself Clear?'/'Somewhere Down The Line', The Riot Squad's 'Cry, Cry, Cry'/'How It Is Done?', Bob Kuban & The In-Men's 'The Cheater'/'Try Me Baby', Benny Hill's 'My Garden Of Love'/'The Andalucian Gypsies', Ian Whitcomb's 'Good Hard Rock'/'High Blood Pressure', The Poets' 'Baby Don't You Do It'/'I'll Come Home' and The Marvelettes' 'Don't Mess With Bill'/'Anything You Wanna Do' released. The Spencer Davis Group appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Tranmere Rovers returned to the top of the FOurth Division with a five-two defeat of Halifax Town.
Treasure Hunt shown in BBC2's British Cinema strand. The Action Man figure was launched. Matt Monro, Dusty Sprngfield and The Fortunes featured on Saturday Club. Allan Prior's The Joy Ride broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night theatre strand. Liverpool remained top of the First Division after a one-nil victory over Leicester City. Newcastle United eased relegation worries winning two-one at Nottingham Forest. Both Spurs and West Ham enjoyed four-nil victories (over Blackburn Rovers and West Bromwich Albion respectively). Mike Summerbee scored twice in Manchester City's three-one win over Middlesbrough in the Second Division. The day's highest aggregate scored came at The Goldstone Ground where Brighton & Hove Albion beat Mansfield Town six-four (Brian Tawse scored twice for the hosts). The first episode of Mystery & Imagination - The Lost Stradivarius - broadcast on ATV London.
The Case Of Robert Schumann broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. Arnold Wesker's Roots broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Elvis Presley was profiled by Dick Richards on The Light Programme's Movie-Go-Round.
Alan Gosling's Janni ... Oh, Janni broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft-landing on the Moon - or any planetary body - and to transmit photographic data back to Earth. The first episode of The Rat Catchers - Ticket To Madrid - broadcast on Rediffusion. The Animals' In The Beginning There Was Early Animals EP ('I Just Wanna Make Love To You', 'Boom Boom'/'Big Boss Man', 'Pretty Thing' released.
Australia levelled the Ashes series winning the fourth test at Adelaide by an innings and nine runs. Bobby Simpson - having missed the last two tests with chickenpox - returned with two hundred and twenty five in Australia's innings of five hundred and sixteen. Jeff Jones took six for one hundred and eighteen. Ken Barrington was the top-scorer in England's second innings with one hundred and two. Travellers' Tales: A Bird In The Hand broadcast. Show Of The Week: Norman Vaughan broadcast on BBC2. Francis Searle's Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down - starring Barbara Mullen - premiered.
Silent Song broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Tony Coe Quintet featured in BBC2's Jazz 625 strand. Zero Gold, Zero Girl! broadcast in The Home Service's Midday Story strand. Manchester United beat Benfica three-two in the first leg of their European Cup Quarter-Final, Bill Foulkes scoring a late winner. Leeds United and Valencia drew one-all in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round. West Ham United reached the Final of the Football League Cup, winning five-one at Cardiff City in the second leg of their Semi-Final (Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters both scoring twice).
The first UK broadcast of The Princess With The Golden Star in the Tales From Europe strand. Poetry-On-Tyne broadcast in BBC2's New Release, filmed at the Morden Tower in Newcastle's City Wall, the centre of a young and flourishing movement which sprung up around Basil Bunting, poet-friend and contemporary of Ezra Pound.
Rod Steiger talked about working with Humphrey Bogart on Film Preview. Without Fear Or Favour broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Miracles' 'Going To A Go-Go'/'Choosey Beggar', Craig's 'A Little Bit Of Soap'/'Ready Steady Let's Go', The Mark Four's 'Work All Day (Sleep All Night)'/'Going Down Fast', The Boston Crabs' 'You Didn't Have To Be So Nice'/'Gin House', Adrienne Poster's 'Something Beautiful'/'So Glad You're Mine', The Rockin' Ramrods' 'Don't Fool With Fu Manchu'/'Tears Melt The Stones', The Trekkas' 'Please Go'/'I Put A Spell On You', The Wheels' 'Bad Little Woman'/'Road Block', Otis Rush's 'Homework'/'I Have To Laugh', The Tribe's 'The Gamma Goochie'/'I'm Leaving', The Mike Vickers Orchestra's 'Eleventy One'/'The Inkling', The Mama's & The Papa's 'California Dreamin'/'Somebody Groovy', The Shevells' 'Come On Home'/'I Gotta Travel All Over', Billy Stewart's 'Because I Love You'/'Mountain Of Love', Mary Wells' 'Dear Lover'/'Can't You See (You're Losing Me)', Shirley J Scott's 'Goose Pimples'/'Lonely Girl', Lou Christie's 'Lightnin' Strikes'/'Cryin' In The Streets', Tammy St John's 'Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me)'/'Stay Together Young Lovers' and A Band Of Angels' 'Invitation'/'Cheat & Lie' released.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Massacre broadcast. Alan Freeman, Hayley Mills, Marianne Faithfull and Jimmy Greaves appeared on Juk Box Jury strand. Storm Over The Nile shown in BBC2's British Cinema strand. Crispian St Peters, The Chris Barber Band, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Paddy, Klaus & Gibson, Tammy St John, The Puppets, Tony Rich and The Ladybirds featured on Saturday Club. Anita Harris appeared on The Home Service's Thank Goodness It's Saturday. There were big First Division wins for Liverpool (four-one at Blackburn), Leeds (five-nil against West Ham) and Manchester United (six-two over Northampton Town, Bobby Charlton netting three). Alan Suddick scored twice as Newcastle United beat Sheffield Wednesday two-nil. West Bromwich Albion defeated Nottingham Forest five-three. Norman Dean hit three and Martin Chivers two in Southampton's five-two win at Portsmouth in the Second Division. Les Massie scored three as Huddersfield Town won three-one at Middlesbrough.
The first UK TV showing of Operation Amsterdam. Arnold Wesker's I'm Talking About Jerusalem broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Frederic Goode's Death Is A Woman - starring Trisha Noble, Mark Burns and Wanda Ventham - premiered.
Stewart Love's The Sugar Cubes broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre broadcast. Panorama On Cancer broadcast.
BBC2's Intimations featured Malcolm Muggeridge interviewing John le Carre during which the pair whinged about how rotten they thought James Bond was. In The Magic Roundabout, 'Dougal gives Florence a surprise.' One hopes she enjoyed it. Frederic Goode's Death Is A Woman - starring Mark Burns, Shaun Curry, William Dexter, Wanda Ventham and Trisha Noble - premiered.

Richard Harris's Who's A Good Boy Then? I Am brodcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Kenneth Horne, Beryl Reid, Joyce Grenfell and Bernard Braden featured in Call MyBluff. A nuclear reactor opened at Dounreay in Scotland. Milan defeated Chelsea two-one at the San Siro in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round.
Mario Monicelli's I Soliti Ignoti shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky were sentenced to five and seven years in the Gulag, respectively, for 'anti-Soviet'doings. Rogelio A González's La Valentina - starring María Félix and Eulalio González - premiered.
Zodiac: Aquarius broadcast. The Barwell Meteorite broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Animals' 'Inside - Looking Out'/'Outcast', The Supremes' 'My World Is Empty Without You'/'Everything Is Good About You', The Byrds' 'Set You Free This Time'/'It Won't Be Wrong', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Hold Tight!'/'You Know What I Want', Bluesology's 'Mister Frantic'/'Everyday (I Have The Blues)', Long John Baldry's 'Unseen Hands'/'Turn On Your Lovelight', Graham Gouldman's 'Stop! Stop! Stop! (Or Honey I'll Be Gone)'/'Better To Have Loved & Lost', Peter & Gordon's 'Woman'/'Wrong From The Start', The Cryin' Shames' 'Please Stay'/'What's News Pussycat?', Paddy, Klaus & Gibson's 'No Good Without You Baby'/'Rejected', The Action's 'I'll Keep Holding On'/'Hey Sah-Lo-Ney', The Troggs' 'Lost Girl'/'The Yella In Me', Cyril Stapleton's 'The Spies Theme'/'March Of The Diddy People', Sharon Tandy's 'Love Makes The World Go Round'/'By My Side', Gary Walker's 'You Don't Love Me'/'Get It Right', Unit Four Plus Two's 'Baby Never Say Goodbye'/'Rainy Day', Jan & Dean's 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)'/'A Beginning From An End', James Brown & The Famous Flames' 'I Got You (I Feel Good)'/'I Can't Help It (I Just Do-Do-Do)', Matt Monro's 'Born Free'/'Other People', Little Jerry Williams' 'Baby You're My Everything'/'Just What Do You Plan To Do About It?', Adam, Mike & Tim's 'Flowers On The Wall'/'Give That Girl A Break', Shirley Ellis' 'Ever See A Diver Kiss His Wife While The Bubbles Bounce About Above The Water?'/'Stardust', Deon Jackson's 'Love Makes The World Go Round'/'You Said You Loved Me', Doris Troy's 'I'll Do Anything (He Wants Me To Do)'/'But I Love Him', Jimmy James & The Vagabonds' 'I Feel Alright'/'I Wanna Be Your Everything' and The Beach Boys' 'Barbara Ann'/'Girl, Don't Tell Him' released.
Dionne Warwick was the guest on BBC2's Not Only ... But Also. England and Ireland drew six-all in the Five Nations Championship at Twickenham. Division Three table-toppers Hull City beat top-flight Nottingham Forest at Boothferry Park in the FA Cup Fourth Round. Everton won three-nil at Southern League Bedford Town, Bobby Tambling scored the winner as Chelsea beat Leeds United one-nil, Spurs defeated Burnley four-three with Alan Gilzean scoring three for the home side and Willie Irvine also hitting a hat-trick for the visitors. John Byrom netted three for Blackburn Rovers in the three-three draw at West Ham. Second Division Wolves beat Sheffield United three-nil. In the First Division, Roger Hunt scored three as Liverpool thrashed Sunderland four=nil whilst John Ritchie hit four in Stoke City's six-two hammering of relgation-haunted Northampton Town. Bobby Ham scored four in Bradford Park Avenue's six-one dfeat of Newport County in the Fourth Division. The Rolling Stones' 'Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown'/'As Tears Go By' released. An adaptation of Through The Looking-Glass & What Alice Found There broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Kiss On A Green Grass Pillow broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Holst broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. The first episode of Victor Pemberton's SF drama The Slide - with Maurice Denham and Roger Delgado - broadcast on The Light Programme.
Adam Faith appeared on The Tich & Quackers Show. Case Suspended broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Max Pécas's Espions à L'Affût - starring Jean Vinci, Jean Claudio, Claudine Coster and Anna Gaël - premiered.
The first episode of A Farewell To Arms broadcast. Where Angels Fear To Tread broacast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Walker Brothers' 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore'/'After The Lights Go Out' released. Rotherham united took Manchester United to extra-time in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay at Millmoor before John Connelly scored a late winner.
John Hopkins's A Game, Like, Only A Game broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The twentieth and last nuclear explosion in Algeria was conducted in the desert in a test by France, near the village of In Eker. In the final test at Melbourne, despite England's impressive first innings of four hundred and eighty five for nine declared, Bob Cowper's triple century meant that Australia drew the game and the series and retained the Ashes. In the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round, Leeds United progressed to the Quarter-Finals with a one-nil win in Valencia thanks to a Mike O'Grady goal. Peter Osgood and George Graham scored as Chelsea beat AC Milan two-one in front of a crowd of almost sixty thousand at Stamford Bridge. The tie ended three-all on aggregate meaning a replay was required. Andy McEvoy vscored three as Blackburn Rovers defeated West Ham united in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay. Struggling Aldershot beat promotion-chasing Torquay United three-two in the fourth Division.
Four Women In A Man's World broadcast. Alan Plater's first stage-play, A Smashing Day, was profiled in BBC2's New Release.
Our Man Flint and Thunderball profiled in Film Preview. Made In Japan broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Hollies' 'I Can't Let Go'/'Running Through The Night', The Herd's 'So Much In Love'/'This Boy's Always Been True', Tom Jones's 'Stop Breaking My Heart'/'Never Give Away Love', Martha & The Vandellas' 'My Baby Loves Me'/'Never Leave Your Baby's Side', The Tony Jackson Group's 'You're My Number One'/'Let Me Know', The Franco-London Orchestra's 'Theme From Robinson Crusoe'/'Adrift', The Graham Bond Organisation's 'St James Infirmary'/'Soul Tango', Junior Walker & The All Stars' 'Cleo's Mood'/'Baby You Know You Ain't Right', Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'/'The Boy Next Door', Dickie Rock's 'Come Back To Stay'/'Can't Make Up My Mind', Kenneth McKellar's 'A Man Without Love'/'As Long As The Sun Shines', Slim Harpo's 'Baby Scratch My Back'/'I'm Gonna Miss You (Like The Devil)', The Cryin' Shames' 'Please Stay'/'What's New Pussycat?', The Loving Kind's 'Accidental Love'/'Nothing Can Change This Love', Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'/'The Boy Next Door', Kiki Dee's 'Why Don't I Run Away From You?'/'Small Town', The Frugal Sound's 'Norwegian Wood'/'Cruel To Be Kind', The Johnny Keating Orchestra's 'This Bird Has Flown (Norwegian Wood)'/'Imprevu', Antoinette's 'Why Don't I Run Away From You?'/'There's No One In The Whole Wide World', The John Dankworth Orchestra's 'Return From The Ashes'/'Piano Theme', Lorraine Silver's 'The Happy Faces'/'When The Light Starts Shining Thru' His Eyes', Little Richard's 'Without Love'/'Dance What You Wanna', Mike Felix's 'You Belong To Me'/'Booga Dee', Graham Bonney's 'Super Girl'/'Hill Of Lovin', Tony Rivers & The Castaways' 'Girl Don't Tell Me'/'The Girl From Salt Lake City', Bluesology's 'Mister Frantic'/'Everyday (I Have The Blues)' and The Supremes' 'I Hear A Symphony'/'Who Could Ever Doubt My Love?' released. Tranmere Rovers returned to the top of the Fourth Division with a three-one victory over Crewe Alexandra (Barry Dyson scoring two). The Avengers episode A Touch Of Brimstone broadcast on Rediffusion.
Dusty Springfield was the guest on BBC2's Not only ... But Also. The naval minister, Christopher Mayhew, resigned over the decision to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme. Len Barry featured on Saturday Club. The Captain's Daughter broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Thieving Magpie broadcast on Network Three. Neil Christian's 'That's Nice'/'She's Got The Action' released. In the First Division, eighteen year old Terry Hibbitt made a goalscoring debut with his first touch of the ball after coming on as a substitute for Paul Madeley in Leeds United's four-nil victory at Nottingham Forest. It was the first of four hundred and twenty five appearances, for Leeds, Newcastle United and Birmingham City, in a career that lasted until 1981. Elsewherte, Liverpool thrashed Blackpool four-one, West Ham United defeated Sheffield united four-nil and Cliff Jones scored three in Tottenham Hotspur's four-three defeat of Fulham. Manchester City remained top of the Second Division, Johnny Crossan scoring a late winner against fellow promotion-chasers Coventry City. Bristol Rovers beat Mansfield Town six-nil in the Third Division. Robin Stubbs scored a hat-trick in Torquay United's four-nil defeat of Rochdale in the fourth Division. Wrexham beat Doncaster rovers four-three.
The first episode of Man Discovers His Past broadcast. Arthur C Clarke: The Future Is Already With Us broadcast in BBC2's People To Watch strand. The Gideon's Way episode The Thin Red Line broadcast on ATV London.
Music From Merseyside broadcast in the Music On Two strand. Third Division Shrewsbury Town defeated Second Division Carlisle United four-three in an FA Cup Fourth Round second replay.
The first episode of Gerald Durrell's Catch Me A Colobus broadcast. Show Of The Week: The Sound Of Shirley Bassey broadcast on BBC2. The Sirens broadcast on Network Three. Chelsea beat Sunderland three-two in the First Division. The first episode of Object Z Returns broadcast on Rediffusion.
Why Aren't You Famous? broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Trevor Philpott's Not In Our Class Dear broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. England beat West Germany one-nil in a friendly international at Wembley with a Nobby Stiles goal. Blackburn Rovers' Keith Newton and West Ham United's Geoff Hurst made their international debut. For the Germans, England fans got their first sight of twenty year old Franz Beckenbauer and twenty one year old Günter Netzer. The vistors claimed an equaliser when substitute Alfred Heiß turned in a cross from Sigi Held, but the referee disallowed it after consulting with the linesman. Oh, the subsequent irony. Promotion-chasing Hull City won three-nil at Gillingham in the third Division. The first episode of Einstein, The Man & His Achievement broadcast on Network Three. Part-Song by Kenneth Ross broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of The Secret Of The Grey Gull broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. Buster Keaton Rides Again broadcast on BBC2. Bennet Evan Miller born in London.
Interviews with Deborah Kerr, David Niven and director J Lee Thompson on the set of The Eye Of The Devil were broacast in Film Preview. The Kinks' 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion'/'Sittin' On My Sofa', The Elgins' 'Put Yourself In My Place'/'Darling Baby', The Tribe's 'The Gamma Goochie'/'I'm Leaving', The Habits' 'Elbow Baby/'Need You', Johnny Pearson & His Orchestra's 'The Rat Catchers'/'Weavers Green', New Faces' 'Like A Man'/'Shake Up The Party (Myra)', The Three Good Reasons's 'Nowhere Man'/'Wire Wheels', The Settlers' 'Nowhere Man'/'Call Again', The Yardbirds' 'Shapes Of Things'/'You're A Better Man Than I', Noel Harrison's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'/'Much As I Love You', Michèle Torr's 'Only Tears Are Left For Me (Ce Soir Je T'Attendais)'/'I Love That Man (J'ai Brule Ta Lettre)', The League Of Gentlemen's 'How Can You Tell?'/'How Do They Know?', The Tribe's 'Dancing To The Beat Of My Heart'/'Woofin', The Answers' 'Just A Fear'/'You've Gotta Believe Me', Darrow Fletcher's 'The Pain Gets A Little Deeper'/'My Judgement Day', Steve Darbishire's 'I Do Know'/'Don't Put The Phone Down', Darrow Fletcher's 'The Pain Gets A Little Deeper'/'My Judgement Day' and Charlie Drake's 'Don't Trim My Wick'/'Birds' released. Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds appeared on the one hundredth episode of The Joe Loss Pop Show.
Bertram Mills Circus broadcast. The first episode of A Game Of Murder broadcast in BBC2's Francis Durbridge Presents ... strand. Billy Fury, Lulu and Peter & Gordon featured in Saturday Club. A Sound & Sober Lifebroadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. With several First Division matches postponed due to severe weather, Manchester United's four-two victory over Burnley (David Herd scoring three) and Newcastle united's three-one win against Stoke City were the day's highlights. On Match Of The Day, bottom side Fulham surprisingly defeated table-toppers Liverpool thanks to two Steve Earle goals. Alan A'Court scored three as Fourth Division leaders Tranmere Rovers won four-two at Bradford City. Fay Ripley born in Wimbledon.
John Boorman's The Quarry broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. A Man LIke That broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The first UK broadcast of Jaimie. The Gideon's Way episode Boy With Gun broadcast on ATV London.
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band made their TV debut on Blue Peter performing 'Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?' Vickery Turner's Keep On Running broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Harold Wilson called a General Erection to be held on 31 March. US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See were killed in an aircraft accident in St Louis, Missouri. Peter Bullock hit three in Colchester United's six-three victory over Bradford Park Avenue in the Fourth Division.
The first UK broadcast of The Beatles At Shea Stadium. If you had knickers, prepare to wet them. BBC2's Show Of The Week: The Dickie Henderson Show broadcast. Chancellor Jim Callaghan announced the decimalisation of the pound which would come into effect in February 1971. The first test between New Zealand and England at Christchurch was drawn. After Mike Smith's sporting declaration set the Kiwi's one hundred and ninety six to win, Ken Higgs and Peter Parfitt reduced the home side to thirty two for eight before Vic Pollard and Vic Cunis batted out the remaining overs. Liverpool drew nil-nil with Honved in the first leg of the European Cup Quarter-Final. The first episode of To Reduce & To Locate broadcast on Network Three. Peter Saunders' Bindle (One Of Them Days) - starring Alfie Bass, Johnny Wade, Carmel McSharry and Janina Faye - premiered.
Hugh Whitemore's Macready's Gala broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Modern Jazz Quartet's adaptation of Porgy & Bess broadcast in BBC2's Jazz 625 strand. Gerald Thomas's Don't Lose Your Head - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin and Peter Butterworth - premiered. Chelsea's marathon Third Round Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie with AC Milan finally came to an end with Ron Harris calling correctly in a coin-toss. The replay had ended one-all after extra-time (Barry Bridges scoring for the visitors, Giuliano Fortunato equalising in the last minute of normal time). In the same competition, Leeds United began their Quarter-Final tie with Újpest Dosza with a four-one victory at Elland Road (Terry Cooper, Willie Bell, Jim Storrie and Billy Bremner scoring). In the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Quarter-Final, West Ham United beat FC Magdeburg one-nil with Johnny Byrne on-target.
Don Haworth's Casino Society broadcast. Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Mother Joan Of The Angels shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
In an interview with Maureen Cleeve published in the Evening Standard, John Lennon commented: 'We're more popular than Jesus now.' The comment passed virtually unnoticed in Britain but, when the interview was reprinted in a magazine in the US some months later, some people with an agenda got all stroppy and discombobulated about it. The Beatles Yesterday EP, The Quiet Five's 'Homeward Bound'/'Ain't It Funny What Some Lovin' Can Do?', Anita Harris's 'Something Must Be Done'/'Funny Kind Of Feeling', The Beatstalkers' 'Left Right Left'/'You'd Better Get A Better Hold On', Joey & The Continentals' 'Rudy Vadoo'/'She Rides With Me', The Clockwork Oranges' 'Ready, Steady'/'After Tonight', The Wailers' 'Love & Affection'/'Teenager In Love', Thane Russal & Three's 'Security'/'Your Love Is Burning Me', The Sons Of Fred's 'Baby What Do You Want Me To Do?'/'You Told Me', The Golliwogs' 'Brown-Eyed Girl'/'You Better Be Careful', Jenny Wren's 'Chasing My Dream All Over Town'/'The Thought Of You', Ramsey Lewis Trio's 'A Hard Day's Night'/'Tout A Doubt', Arthur Lyman's 'Lemon Tree'/'The (Jungle) Cat', Anita Harris' 'Something Must Be Done'/'Funny Kind Of Feeling', Simon Raven's 'I Wonder If She Remembers Me'/'Sea Of Love', The Anteeeks' 'I Don't Want You'/'Ball & Chain', Sam & Bill's '(In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon'/'Treat Me Right', Ramsey Lewis Trio's 'A Hard Day's Night'/'Tout A Doubt', Verdelle Smith's 'In My Room (El Amor)'/'Like A Man' and Donovan's Volume One EP ('Sunny Goodge Street', 'O Deed I Do'/'Jersey Thursday', 'Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)' released. Ralph Thomas's Doctor In Clover - starring Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims and Arthur Haynes - premiered.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Ark broadcast. Eric Burdon featured on Juke Box Jury. The Eurovision Song Contest, held in Luxembourg, was won by Austria's Udo Jürgens with 'Merci, Chérie. Britain's entry, Kenneth McKeller's 'A Man Without Love', came a very disappointing ninth. It's Not Part Of Their Seamanlike Duties To Dance broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The Who's 'Substitute' released on Robert Stigwood's new Reaction label. Due to threatened legal action over the b-side, 'Circles (Instant Party)' by their former producer, Shel Talmy, the record was almost instantly deleted and released again, ten days later, with a new instrumental flip, 'Waltz For A Pig' credited to The Who Orchestra (it was actually performed by The Graham Bond Organisation). The FA Cup Fifth Round's highlights included Manchester United's four-two win at Wolverhampton and Sheffield Wednesday's two-one victory in a tense local derby against Huddersfield Town. Preston North End knocked-out Spurs with a two-one win at Deepdale. Hull City reached the Quarter-Final following a two-nil defeat of Fourth Division Southport (Chris Chilton scoring twice). In the First Division, fifty two thousand were at St James Park where Newcastle United won the Tyne-Wear derby two-nil with two Alan Suddick goals. West Ham United beat Aston Villa four-two. Northampton Town climbed out of the relegation zone with a two-one defeat of Leeds United. Peterborough United won five-two at Exeter City in the Third Division. Robin Stubbs and Tommy Spratt were on-target as Torquay United won two-nil at Wrexham in the Fourth Division. Chester went top o0f the table following a two-one win at Bradford Park Avenue (Elfred Morris scoring twice).
Rachmaninov broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. Julie Felix appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person. Alan Roger Davies born in Loughton. Don Sharp's Rasputin The Mad Monk - starring Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley and John Gilling's The Reptile - starring Jacqueline Pearce and Noel Willman - premiered. The Gideon's Way episode A Perfect Crime broadcast on ATV London.
Panorama On Incomes broadcast. Janet Fisher's Not For Just An Hour broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Despite the band having recently left the label, Brunswick released The Who's 'A Legal Matter'/'Instant Party'. Oh, the irony.
The first episodes of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and Six Sides Of A Square broadcast on BBC2. Liverpool beat Honvéd FC in the European Cup Winners Cup Quarter Final, second leg, Chris Lawler and Ian St John scoring the goals that took The Reds into the Semi-Finals. The second New Zealand/England test at Dunedin ended in a - rather dull - draw.

Manchester United thrashed Benfica five-one in The Stadium Of Light in the Quarter-Finals of the European Cup. George Best - who scored twice and was dubbed 'El Beatle' by the Portuguese press - was, famously, pictured wearing a sombrero as he arrived back at Manchester Airport the next morning. Leeds United progressed to the Semi-Final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a one-all draw in Budapest against Újpest Dosza. Neil Young scored as Manchester City won at First Division Leicester City in an FA Cup Fifth Round replay whilst Blackburn Rovers beat Norwich City three-two. The first leg of the Football League Cup Final took place, West Ham United beating West Bromwich Albion two-one at Upton Park. John Byrne and Bobby Moore socred for the hosts, Jeff Astle replying for the visitors. Hull City's unbeaten run in the Third Division extended to seven games, Dave Wagstaff netting in a one-nil victory over Gillingham. Dave Berry, Peter & Gordon, The Dave Clark Five and fourteen-year-old artist Lalla Ward appeared on A Whole Scene Going on which Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers introduced scenes from Born Free. James Hanley's A Walk In The Sea broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Diana Rigg featured on BBC2's Call My Bluff. Mad Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell (an associate of rival gangsters The Richardsons) very dead at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, a crime for which he would be convicted in 1969. Alison Doody born in Dublin.
The first episode of The Frost Report broadcast, featuring the pairing of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett as a double act and the UK TV debut of the American humorist Tom Lehrer. Michelangelo Antonioni's La Signora Senza Cameilie shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery featured on Film Preview. Man On The Moon? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Chi-Chi, the London Zoo's giant panda, was flown to Russia for 'a union' with An-An of the Moscow Zoo. Val Doonican's 'The Elusive Butterfly'/'That's How Much I Love You', Janie Jones's 'Gunning For You'/'Go, Go Away From Me', The Chelsea Lads' 'English Tea'/'Hump A Dink', The Peter B's 'If You Wanna Be Happy'/'Jodrell Blues', Marvin Gaye's 'One More Heartache'/'When I Had Your Love', Tages' 'So Many Girls'/'I'm Mad', Rey Anton & The Pro Form's 'Don't You Worry Boy'/'Hold It Babe', Googie René Combo's 'Smokey Joe's La La'/'Needing You', Raphael's 'Yo Soy Aquel'/'Es Verdad', Udo Jürgens' 'Merci Cherie'/'Das Ist Nicht Gut Fur Mich', Irma Thomas' 'Take A Look'/'What Are You Trying To Do?', The Royalettes' 'You Bring Me Down'/'Only When You're Lonely', The Olympics' 'We Go Together'/'Secret Agents', Truly Smith's 'Love Is Me Love Is You'/'My Smile Is Just A Frown Turned Upside Down', Bobby Goldsboro's 'It's Too Late'/'I'm Goin' Home', The Creatures' 'Turn Out The Light'/'It Must Be Love' and The Roulettes' 'The Tracks Of My Tears'/'Jackpot' released.
Noel Coward On Acting broadcast on BBC2. Bert Kaempfert, Patsy Ann Noble, Brian Matthew and Wendy Varnals appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Spencer Davis Group featured on Saturday Club. Marius Goring Treads Resolution & Independence & Ode broadcast on Network Three. Having been hopeless most of the season, Fulham enjoyed their second successive victory in the First Division, winning five-two at Aston Villa and lifting themselves off the bottom of the table (they were repalced by Blackburn Rovers who lost four-one at West Ham United). The day's largest attendance was at Stamford Bridge where Chelsea beat Manchester united two-nil. Northampton Town and Nottingham Forest shared six goals ta The County Ground (Joe Baker and Ian Storey-Moore on-target for the visitors). Jack Charlton scored twice in Leeds United's three-two defeat of Leicester City. The day's highest scoring game came in the Third Division, Scunthorpe United and promotion-chasing Millwall sharing eight goals at The Old Showground.
The Queen & Jackson broadcast on BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Clash By Night show in the Film Matinee strand.
Derrick Sherwin's 'Twas On A Sunday broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Thora Hird read from The Adventures Of Paddington by Michael Bond on Jackanory. James Hill's Born Free - starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers - premiered at the Royal Film Performance. Barry Hutchinson, Ray Yoeman, Bobby Cummings and Alan Sproates scored in Darlington's four-one win against Bradford Park Aven ue in the Fourth Division.
Rudolph Cartier and Reed de Rouen's Lee Oswald - Assassin broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Show Of The Week: Presenting Woody Herman & His Orchestra broadcast on BBC2. England's New Zealand tour ended with a third drawn test at Auckland. Barry Sinclair scored a century for the home side. Bobby Tambling scored twice as Chelsea drew two-two at TSV 1860 München in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. The first episode of Mrs Thursday - A Ride In A Rolls-Royce - broadcast on Rediffusion.
Boy In The Smoke broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Gemini 8, piloted by Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott, launched. The mission conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit with an unmanned Agena target vehicle, but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a US spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and required an immediate abort of the mission. West Ham United reached the Semi-Final of the European Cup Winners Cup, drawing one-all with FC Magdeburg in the second leg of their Quarter-Final with John Sissons cancelling out Joachim Walter's earlier strike. Brian Greenahlgh scored a hat-trick in Preston North End's three-one victory at Bolton Wanderers in the Second Division. Wyn Davies scored fdor the hosts.
Hot To Handle broadcast. If You're Irish broadcast on BBC2.
Michael Caine was interviewed on the set of Alfie on Film Preview broadcast. Riding With The Red Tops broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Spencer Davis Group's 'Somebody Help Me'/'Stevie's Blues', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Blue Turns To Grey'/'Somebody Loses', The Fleur De Lys's 'Circles'/'So, Come On', Leapy Lee's 'King Of The Whole Wide World'/'Shake Hands', The Four Tops' 'Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)'/'Just As Long As You Need Me', Alan Price Set's 'I Put A Spell On You'/'Iechyd-Da', Robert Henry's 'Walk Away Like A Winner'/'That's All I Want', The Outsiders' 'Time Won't Let Me'/'Was It Really Real?', Shangri-Las' 'Long Live Our Love'/'Sophisticated Boom Boom', Judy Collins' 'I'll Keep It With Mine'/'Thirsty Boots', Sharpees' 'Tired Of Being Lonely'/'Just To Please You', Mark Loyd's 'When Evening Falls'/'When I'm Gonna Find Her' and Kim Weston's 'Helpless'/'A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)' released. Ian Butler scored the winner as Hull City went three points clear at the top of the Third Division with a one-nil victory at Reading. In the Fourth Division, Crewe Alexandra thrashed Lincoln City seven-nil (Graham Matthews netting three).
The first episode of Mild & Bitter broadcast on BBC2. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass appeared on The Black & White Minstrel Show. The Small Faces, The Who and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featured on Saturday Club. The Spencer Davis Group's 'Somebody Help Me' released. The largest Football League attendance of the season - sixty two thousand three hundred and thirty seven- were at Goodison Park where the Merseyside derby ended in a rather tame goalless draw. First Division highlights included Manchester united beating Arsenal two-one (featured on Match Of The Day), Leeds United winning three-two at Blackburn Rovers, Fulham's third successive win (three-nil against Sunderland), Nottingham Forest's four-three defeat of Stoke City and a remarkable five-all draw between Tottenham Hostpur and Aston Villa (for whom Tony Hateley scored four). Manchester City's two-one victory at Derby County in the Second Division saw the club debut of Colin Bell, recently signed from Bury, the first of four hundred and ninety eight games for The Citizens in a career that lasted until 1979. A top-of-the-table clash in the Fourth Division saw Reg Stratton score twice as in-form Colchester United defeated Tranmere Rovers two-one.
A Month In The Country broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625. The theft of football's World Cup Trophy took place whilst it was on display at an exhibition in the Central Hall, Westminster. Seven days later, Pickles the dog found the stolen trophy wrapped in newspaper in a South London garden and became a national hero.
Living In The Present: The New Media broadcast. Berlioz's The Childhood Of Christ broadcast in the Music On Two strand.
The first UK TV showing of Miss Sadie Thompson. Libel & Slander broadcast in BBC2's Law & Life strand. Samantha Jane Robson born in Wandsworth.
Barlowe Of The Car Park broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. BBC2's The Cool Of The Evening featured David Snell. West Bromwich Albion's four-one win over West Ham United at The Hawthrons in the second leg of the Football League Cup Final gave The Baggies a five-three aggregate win. Tony Brown, Clive Clark, John Kaye and Graham Williams scored for the hosts, Martin Peters replying for the visitors. Beverly Hills born in Frimley.
The Frost Report: On Sin broadcast. The first Uk broadcast of Leonardo Bonzi's The Lost Continent on BBC2. Lewis Gilbert's Alfie - starring Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron and Shelley Winters - premiered. Cliff Owen's That Riviera Touch - starring Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise and Suzanne Lloyd - premiered.
Roy Orbison and The Spencer Davis Group appeared on Crackerjack. Fractures & Fatigue broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Isley Brothers' 'This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)'/'There's No Love Left', Brenda Holloway's 'Together 'Til The End Of Time'/'Sad Song', Joe Loss & His Orchestra's 'The World Cup March'/'Auld Lang Syne (March)', Otis Redding's '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'/'Any Ole Way', Simon & Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound', Roy Harper's Take Me In To Your Eyes'/'Pretty Baby', The Overlanders' 'My Life'/'Girl From Indiana', She Trinity's 'He Fought The Law'/'The Union Station Blues', The Measles' 'Kicks'/'No Baby At All', Cilla Black's 'Alfie'/'Night Time Is Here', Shirley Bassey's 'Don't Take The Lovers From The World'/'Take Away', Gene Latter's 'Just A Minute Or Two'/'Dream Lover', David Essex's 'This Little Girl Of Mine'/'Broken Hearted', Zoot Money's Big Roll Band's 'Let's Run For Cover'/'Self-Discipline', The Mad Lads' 'I Want Someone'/'Nothing Can Break Through', Patsy Ann Noble's 'He Who Rides A Tiger'/'City Of Night', Eddie Holman's 'This Can't Be True'/'A Free Country', Joe Tex's 'The Love You Save'/'If Sugar Was As Sweet As You', Norma Tanega's 'Walkin' My Cat Named Dog'/'I'm The Sky' and Dusty Springfield's 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me'/'Every Ounce Of Strength' released. Herman's Hermits appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Ronald Neame's A Man Could Get Killed - starring James Garner, Melina Mercouri and Sandra Dee and Annalise Reenberg's Dyden Går Amok - starring John Hahn-Petersen, Birgitte Federspiel and Axel Strøbye - premiered. Herbie Williams scored four as Swansea Town beat York City seven-two in the Third Division.
Fifty-to-one shot Anglo, ridden by Tim Norman, won The Grand National. Norman had been injured in a car crash two days earlier. Pat McCarron on Freddie finished second for the second year running. Oxford won The Boat Race. Ray Davies appeared on Juke Box Jury. Mild & Bitter broadcast on BBC2 - sStarring Peter Jones and June Whitfield. Cilla Black, Crispian St Peters and Billy Joe Royal featured on Saturday Club. Cathedral - Ten Minutes broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The FA Cup Sixth Round included three draws (Preston North End and Manchester United, Manchester City versus Everton and Chelsea and Hull City). David Ford scored twice as Sheffield Wednesday won two-one at Blackburn Rovers. In the First Division, leaders Liverpool won three-nil at Aston Villa. Second placed Burnley thrashed Nottingham Forest four-one (Willie Irvine scoring three). Pop Robson netted twice as Newcastle enjoyed a three-one victory at Arsenal. Fulham's winning streak extended to four games with a three-one victory at West Ham United. They remained in the relegation zone, however. In the Third Division, Peterborough United won seven-one at Mansfield Town (Tommy Watson socring three) and Queens Park Rangers thumped Millwall six-one (Rodney Marsh, recently signed from Fulham, scored two).
The 1966 Vegetable Season broadcast in Gardening Club. The Severed Hand broadcast in the Horizon strand. The first episode of The Passionate Years - based on incidents in the lives of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats - broadcast on The Home Service.
Wish You Were There broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Le Prince Et Le Mendiant on Music On Two. Clancy Sigal and Vickery Turner's Magnolia Summer broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Alan Ball scored the winner as Blackpool beat Leeds united one-nil in the First Division.
Chelsea advanced to the Semi-Finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a one-nil victory over TSV 1860 München (Peter Osgood netting the winner). Everton and Manchester City drew for a second time in the FA Cup Quarter-Final - like the first game, over sixty thousand attended. Saul Below and Kingsley Amis were interviewed on BBC2's New Release.
Neome Lethbridge's The Portsmouth Defence broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. World Professional Tennis Championship: The Draw & Preview broacast on BBC2. The Officer's Wife by Jon Rollason and Keith Williams broadcast in The Light Programme's Midweek Theatre strand. Ida Lupino's The Trouble With Angels - starring Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Camilla Sparv, Mary Wickes and June Harding - premiered. Manchester United beat Preston North End three-opne in an FA Cup replay (Denis Law scored twice). In the First Division, Sheffield Wednesday thrashed Stoke City four-one.
The 1966 General Erection. Labour won, big-style. Frankie & Johnny - starring Elvis Presley premiered. Chelsea won three-one at Hull City in an FA Cup Quarter-Final replay. Bobby Tambling scored twice.
Erection Survey broadcast. I'm Only In It For The Money broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Temptations' 'Get Ready'/'Fading Away', David Bowie's 'Do Anything You Say'/Good Morning Girl', Frankie & Johnny's '(I'm) Never Gonna Leave You'/'I'll Hold You', The Buzz's 'You're Holding Me Down'/'I've Gotta Buzz', The Merseys' 'Sorrow'/'Some Other Day', The Master Singers' 'The Highway Code'/'Rumbletum Song', The Art Woods' Jazz In Jeans EP ('These Boots Are Made For Walking', 'A Taste Of Honey'/'Our Man Flint', 'Routine'), The Sorrows' 'Let The Live Live'/'Don't Sing No Sad Songs For Me', Morecambe & Wise's 'Now That You're Here'/'That Riviera Touch', Manfred Mann's Machines EP ('Machines', 'She Needs Company'/'Tennessee Waltz', 'When Will I Be Loved?'), Pinkerton's Assorted Colours' 'Don't Stop Loving Me Baby'/'Will Ya?', The Lovin' Spoonful's 'Daydream'/'Night Owl Blues', The Buzz's 'You're Holding Me Down'/'I've Gotta Buzz', Jimmy Wilson's 'See That Girl'/'Dime A Dance', Mel Torme's '(You Got) The Power Of Love'/'Dominique's Discotheque', Nita Rossi's 'Here I Go Again'/'Something To Give', Wayne Fontana's 'Come On Home'/'My Eyes Break Out In Tears', Stevie Kimble's 'Some Things Take A Little Time'/'All The Time In The World' and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 'My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies'/'I'm Gonna Bring A Watermelon To My Gal Tonight' released. Tranmere Rovers, for so long the Fourth Division's table-toppers, lost their third game in a row, two-one at home to Bradford Park Avenue, with Kevin Hector scoring the winner. Ready, Steady, Allez! broadcast on Rediffusion from Paris, featuring performances by The Yardbirds and The Who.
The first appearance of The Celestial Toymaker in the Doctor Who episode The Celestial Toyroom. Now What's Left To Dream About? broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. Saturday Club visits Leicester broadcast. England beat Scotland four-three in the Home International Championship at Hampden Park. Roger Hunt scored twice whilst Geoff Hurst netted his first international goal. Bobby Charlton was also on-target. Jimmy Johnstone also scored twice for the hosts with Denis Law adding a third. Johnstone's Glasgow Celtic teammate Tommy Gemmell made his international debut. Johnny Haynes scored twice as Fulham made it five First Division wins in a row, defeating West Bromwich Albion two-one. Fellow strugglers Northampton Town also won, at Aston Villa by the same score. Nottingham Forest enjoyed a three-two victory at Tottenham Hotspur. Scunthorpe United's one-all draw with Swansea Town in the Third Division saw the league debut of seventeen year old Ray Clemence - the first of eleven hundred and eighteen first class matches for in a career, with Scunthore, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and England, which lasted until 1988.
The first UK broadcast of Green Acres. The first episode of BBC2's The Dreaming Eye broadcast. The Twelfth Hour broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand.
Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale's A Girl's Best Friend broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of Preacher & Poetbroadcast. Karel Reisz's adaptation of Morgan! - A Suitable Case For Treatment - starring David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw and Arthur Mullard and Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder's The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - starring Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, Terry Scott and Carole Ann Ford - premiered. Aberdeen's five-three victory over Greenock Morton in the Scottish First Division saw the club debut of Jimmy Smith, the first of two hundred and thirty six games, for Aberdeen, Newcastle United, Glasgow Celtic and Scotland, in a career that lasted until 1976 and was, tragically, cut short by injury. The Art Woods' Jazz In Jeans EP ('These Boots Are Made For Walking', 'A Taste Of Honey'/'Our Man Flint', 'Routine') and Herman's Hermits' A Must To Avoid EP ('A Must To Avoid', 'I'm Henery The Eighth I Am'/'Just A Little Bit Better', 'Walkin' With My Angel') released.
The first episode of The Money Programme broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of India! My India broadcast. Lothar Emmerich scored twice as Borussia Dortmund won two-one at West Ham United in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final. Martin Peters netted for the hosts. Fred Pickering and Derek Temple scored as Everton beat Manchester City in the FA Cup at the third attempt at Molineux.
The first episode of Al Read Says What A Life! broadcast. Hoverlloyd inaugurated the first Cross-Channel hovercraft service, from Ramsgate to Calais. Willie Stevenson scored the winner as Liverpool beat Sheffield Wednesday one-nil to go nine points clear at the top of the First Division.
The first UK broadcast of Crook's Island in the Tales From Europe strand. The Frost Report: On Class broadcast. Including that sequence. The first UK TV showing of Georges Franju's Judex in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Little Latin Lupe Lu'/'I Hope', Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's 'Isn't She A Sweetie?'/'Bo Dudley', Beryl Marsden's 'What's She Got (That I Ain't Got)'/'Let's Go Somewhere', The Voice's 'The Train To Disaster'/'The Truth', The Knickerbockers' 'One Track Mind'/'I Must Be Doing Something Right', Petula Clark's 'A Sign Of The Times'/'Time For Love', Steve Aldo's 'Everybody Has To Cry'/'You're Absolutely Right', The Epics' 'Just How Wrong You Can Be?'/'Blue Turns To Grey', The American Poets' 'She Blew A Good Thing'/'Out To Lunch', Marilyn Powell's 'Showdown'/'Came The Day', The Fadin' Colours' '(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet'/'Billy Christian' and The Wimple Winch's 'What's Been Done?'/'I Really Love You' released. The first episode of Weavers Green broadcast on Rediffusion. Mario Monicelli's L'Armata Brancaleone - starring Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volonté, Maria Grazia Buccella and Barbara Steele - premiered.
Peter Ebert's adaptation of La Traviata broadcast. The Seven Last Words Of Jesus On The Cross broadcast on BBC2. Bob Dylan's 'One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)'/'Queen Jane Approximately', Billie Davis's 'Heart & Soul'/'Don't Take All Night' and The Alan Bown Set's 'Baby Don't Push Me'/'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' released. In the First Division, Fulham's unbeaten run came to an end, losing three-one at home to Leeds United (Bobby Robson scoring for the hosts, Billy Bremner, Albert Johanneson and Jim Storrie netting for the visiotrs). West Ham United won four-one at Tottenham Hotspur. Second Division highlights included Charlton Athletic's five-two victory over Preston North End and Ipswich Town's four-one win at Leyton Orient. Eddie Firmani hit three for Southend United in their five-two defeat of Gillingham in the Third Division. Kevin Hector also netted a hat-trick in Bradford Park Avenue's four-two victory at Chester in the Fourth Division. The league's bottom side, Lincoln City, beat Southport four-nil (Joe Bonson scoring three).
The first episode of BBC2's archive show Plunder broadcast. The Great Metropolis broadcast. Sandie Shaw, Dave Clark, Katy Boyle and Stubby Kaye appeared on Juke Box Jury. Roy Orbison, David & Jonathan, The Alan Price Set, The Londonairs, Perpetual Langley, The Untamed, The Ladybirds, The Ted Taylor Five and Barry Booth & His Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. Appointment With Venus broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. First Division highlights included Chelsea's six-two win against West Ham United (Bobby Tambling and George Graham each scoring twice), Newcastle United's two-one win against relegation-haunted Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City's two-one victory at Manchester United (Mike Stringfellow neting twice). Leaders Liverpool shared a tame goalless draw at Northampton. The captain of Norwich City, Barry Butler, was killed when his car collided with a bus hours after his team's goalless draw with Huddersfield Town in the Second Division. Birmingham City and Derby County shared ten goals in a remarkable match at St Andrew's (Alan Durban scoring three for the visitors). In the Third Division, promotion-chasing Hull City won four-two at Brentford (Ken Wagstaff hitting four). Harry Middleton also netted four in Walsall's six-one victory over Gillingham.
The SOS Records Show broadcast featuring an all-star concert from the Empire Pool Wembley in aid of The Spastic Society. The first episode of Take A Pair Of Private Eyes broadcast on BBC2.
Dennis Potter's Emergency-Ward Nine broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Brian Rix Presents: To Dorothy, A Son broadcast. West Bromwich Albion and Arsenal shared eight goals in the First Division. Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the table to seven points following a two-all draw at Sunderland (Chris Lawler netting twice). Southampton's two-two draw with Bristol City in the Second Division saw the league debut of Mick Channon, the first of seven hundred and eighteen games, for The Saints, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Bristol Rovers, Norwich City, Portsmouth and England, in a career that lasted until 1986. Bolton Wanderers thrashed Middlesbrough six-nil. Huddersfield Town returned to the top of the league with a two-nil victory over Portsmouth. Game of the day came in the Third Division, Swansea Town beat Readinf five-four. Darlington moved into the Fourth Division promotion places with a three-two defeat of Doncaster rovers. The Marquess of Bath and Jimmy Chipperfield opened Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire. Vera Plívová-Simková's Káťa A Krokodýl - starring Ywetta Hollauerová, Ondrej Jandera, Minka Malá and Antonín Nedvídek - premiered.
Make Me An Offer broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Stars In Their Courses broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Show Of The Week: Marlene Dietrich Sings broadcast on BBC2. Hapless Blackburn Rovers lost again in the First Division, two-nil at Leicester City, leaving them nine points adrift. To add to their woes, both of their main relegation rivals, Fulham and Northampton Town, enjoyed one-nil wins (at Leeds United and at home to Stoke City respectively). Manchester City lost two-one at Bury in the Second Division, allowing both Wolves (two-nil winners over Birmingham City) and Coventry City (who beat Derby County three-two) to close the gap. In the Dourth Division, Doncaster rovers defeated Darlington six-three (Trevor Ogden scoring three) and Aldershot won four-three at Halifax Town.
The Big Man Coughed & Died broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Daniel and Anna Massey appeared on BBC2's Call My Bluff. Peter Watkins' The War Game premiered in selected cinemas. Time magazine's cover story was London: The Swinging City, the first use of the phrase to describe the groovy goings-on in the more fashionable parts of England's capital. Manchester United lost the first leg of their European Cup Semi-Final two-nil at Partizan Belgrade. West Ham united were knocked out of the Cup Winners Cup, defeated three-one in their Semi-Final second leg at Borussia Dortmund.
The Frost Report: On The News braodcast. Dali In New York broadcast in the New Release strand. The first episode of The Home Service's adaptation of King Solomon's Mines broadcast in the Story Time strand. Seventy six thousand were at Parkhead where Glasgow Cletic beat Liverpool one-nil in the first leg of their Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final, Bobby Lennox scoring the winner.
Time Switch, a television ballet written by Gerry Jones and Norman Morrice, broadcast in the Zodiac strand. Under Night Streets broadcast on BBC2. The Rolling Stones' Aftermath, The Beach Boys' 'Sloop John B'/'You're So Good To Me', Paul Dean's 'She Can Build A Mountain'/'A Day Gone By', Miki Dallon's 'Cheat & Lie'/'I'm Gonna Find A Cave', The Koobas' 'You'd Better Make Up Your Mind'/'A Place I Know', The Wailers' 'And I Love Her'/'Do It Right', Roland Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra's 'Rinky Dink (So Good)'/Scratch & The Dynamites' 'Decon Johnson', The Wailers' 'Put It On'/'Love Won't Be Mine', The Knack's 'Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?'/'Red Hearts', Rod Stewart's 'Shake'/'I Just Got Some', Jimmy Smith's 'Got My Mojo Working (Parts 1 & 2)', The Riot Squad's 'I Take It That We're Through'/'Working Man', Dave Walton's 'Love Ain't What It Used To Be'/'Tell Me A Lie', Dee Dee Warwick's 'Lover's Chant'/'Worth Every Tear I Cry' and Manfred Mann's 'Pretty Flamingo'/'You're Standing By'/'£SD' released.
The first UK broadcasts of Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music and, on BBC2, America The Beautiful. The Overlanders, The Hollies, Wayne Fontana, Herbie's People, Antoinette Frankie & Johnny featured on Saturday Club. Liverpool sealed the First Division title with a two-nil win over Stoke City. Elsewhere, Fulham beat Sheffield Wednesday four-two, Nottingham Forest won thre-nil at Blackpool, Leeds United defeated Everton four-one, Newcastle United won two-one at Leicester City, Sheffield United beat Manchester united three-one and Blackburn Rovers were relegated, fifteen points from safety, following a one-nil home defeat to West Bromwich Albion. Manchester City moved closer to promotion from the Second Division with a four-one victory over Bolton Wanderers whilst Huddersfield town were losing by the same score at Derby County. Coventry City beat Birmingham City four-three, Bury thrashed Preston North End five-nil and Rotherham United and Portsmouth shared six goals at Millmoor. Swindon Town won five-one at Mansfield Town in the Third Division whilst Scunthorpe beat Workington four-one (Barry Thomas netting three) and Peterborough United thumped Bristol Rovers five-two. Darlington defeated Chesterfield four-one in the Fourth Division (Barry Hutchinson neting three).
The first episode of The Making Of America broadcast. The Abominable Showman broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. The first episode of The Baron - Diplomatic Immunity - broadcast on ATV London.
Chan Canatsa and the first episode of Fannie Craddock's Adventurous Cooking broadcast. A Letter From The Country broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Fulham suffered a four-nil thrashing at home to Leciester City in the First Division, Derek Dougan and Jackie Sinclair both scoring twice. Leyton Orient's three-two home defeat to Middlesbrough meant The O's were relegated from the Second Division. The first episode of Kenneth Clark's Three Faces Of France broadcast on Rediffusion.
Liverpool beat Glasgow Celtic in the Semi-Final of the European Cup Winners Cup, Tommy Smith and Geoff Strong scoring in a two-nil victory at Anfield. An all-English final of the competition was avoided after West Ham previously lost their Semi-Final to Borussia Dortmund, five-two on aggregate. Huddersfield Town moved back to the top of the Second Division with a four-nil victory at Bury. The first UK broadcast of American Landmark: Lexington-Concord on BBC2. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley went on trial at Chester Crown Court, charged with three of the Moors Murders. The Troggs' 'Wild Thing'/'From Home' released.
The Snow Ball broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of The Third World broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand.
The Frost Report: On Education broadcast. The Cranes Are Flying shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Manchester United exited the European Cup at the Semi-Final stage on aggregate despite winning one-nil against Partizan Belgrade at Old Trafford thanks to a Nobby Stiles goal. Leeds United lost one-nil to Real Zaragoza in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final. Chris Chilton scored three as Third Division leaders Hull City thrashed Exeter City six-one.
Choice: On Weddings, presented by Derek Hart, broadcast. From Dagenham To The Desert broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Bill Oddie's 'I Can't Get Through'/'Because She Is My Love', Cyril Stapleton's 'Softly In My Dreams'/'March Of The Tijuana', The Merseys' 'Sorrow'/'Some Other Day', The Masked Phantom's 'These Clogs Are Made For Waltzing'/'Fried Scampi', The Pretty Things's 'Come See Me'/'£sd', Edwin Starr's 'Stop Her On Sight (SOS)'/'I Have Faith In You', Dave Anthony's Moods' 'New Directions'/'Give It A Chance', Ted Astley's 'The Baron'/'Drop Head', St Louis Union's 'Behind The Door'/'English Tea', Tony Middleton's 'Don't Ever Leave Me'/'To The Ends Of The Earth', Kim Davis' 'Don't Take Your Love Away'/'Feelin' Blue', The Writ's 'Did You Ever Have To Make up Your mInd?'/'Solid Golden Teardrops' and Gullivers People's 'Splendor In The Grass'/'Took This Land' released. West Bromwich Albion hammered Leicester City five-one in the First Division.
The Long Cocktail Party broadcast. Luchino Visconti's Senso shown on BBC2. Walk Into The Parlour: The Spiders Of Britain broadcast. In the FA Cup Semi-Finals, Colin Harvey scored the winner as Everton beat Manchester United at Burnden Park. Sheffield Wednesday beat Chelsea two-nil at Villa Park with former Chelsea player Jim McCalliog scoring the dramatic decider with the last kick of the game. In the first Division, Steve Earle hit a hat-trick as Fulham moved out of the relegation zone following a four-two victory at Northampton Town. Already relegated Blackburn Rovers won three-nil at Nottingham Forest. Five of the day's nine matches in the Second Division ended in draws, including games involving all of the top four sides (Huddersfield, Manchester City, Coventy and Southampton). Dusty Springfield, Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Peter Lee Stirling, Don Charles, The Gibsons, The St Louis Union and The Echoes featured on Saturday Club. England's Darting broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first episode of Insurrection broadcast on BBC2. Hugh Whitemore's Final Demand broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Man Of Three Worlds broadcast.
Simon Gray's The Caramel Crisis broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of Looking At Australia broadcast. Philip Savile's adaptation of Stop The World - I Want To Get Off! starring Tony Tanner and Millicent Martin - premiered.
A Cheery Soul broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. A seventeen-year old American girl snuck aboard the British submarine HMS Walrus while it was docked at Baltimore. The runaway was discovered when the sub was four hours out to sea, saying that she had wanted to go to England. The Walrus returned her to the United States. Network Three's Religion In Society: Two Contemporary Cults focused on Scientology and The Aetherius Society and their - not in the slightest bit Mental - belief that Jesus is from Venus. Arnold Miller's Secrets Of A Windmill Girl - starring Pauline Collins, April Wilding, Renée Houston, Derek Bond, Harry Fowler, Martin Jarvis and Peter Gordeno - premiered. Jack Charlton's second-half header gave Leeds United a two-one victory in the second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final with Real Zaragoza taking the tie to a third game. Chelsea lost the first leg of thier own Semi-Final two-nil in Barcelona.
Siberia: The Great Experiment broadcast. Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Lee Frost's Love Is A Four Letter Word - starring Harvey Shain, Dianne Michaels, Fuji Aoi and Gina Barrone - premiered.
The total number of US troops in South Viet'nam reached one-quarter of a million. Roy Orbison appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. The Byrds' 'Eight Miles High'/'Why?', Stevie Wonder's 'Nothing's Too Good For My Baby'/'With A Child's Heart', The Image's 'I Can't Stop Myself'/'Let's Make The Scene', Bo Street Runners' 'Drive My Car'/'So Very Woman', The Artwoods' 'I Take What I Want'/'I'm Looking For A Saxophonist Doubling French Horn Wearing Size Thirty Seven Boots', The Gibsons' 'Come Summertime'/'A Summer Affair', Episode Six's 'I Hear Trumpets Blow'/'True Love Is Funny (That Way)', The meddyEVILS' 'It's All For You'/'Ma's Place', The Cyrkle's 'Red Rubber Ball'/'How Can I Leave Her?', Adam, Mike & Tim's 'A Most Peculiar Man'/'Wedding Day', The Truth's 'I Go To Sleep'/'Baby You've Got It', Tiffany With The Thoughts' 'Find Out What's Happening'/'Baby Don't Look Down', John MacLeod's First XI's 'Don't Shoot The Ref'/'Tomato Crisps', Angela & The Fans' 'Love Ya Illya'/'I Know You', Victor Silvester & His Orchestra's 'The World Cup Waltz (While We're Dancing)'/'The World Cup Cha-Cha (Saludos Amigos!)', Tony Jackson's 'Never Leave Your Baby's Side'/'I'm The One She Really Thinks A Lot Of', Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band's 'Water'/'Understanding' and David Frost's 'Deck Of Cards'/'Zookeeper' released. John Llewelyn Moxey's Circus of Fear - starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee and Suzy Kendall - premiered.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters broadcast. The first episodes of The Troubleshooters - Is That Tiger, Man? - and The Norman Vaughan Show broadcast. The first episode of Lord Raingo broadcast on BBC2. Regular hovercraft services began across the English Channel. The Byrds' 'Eight Miles High'/'Why?' released. Blackpool all but confirmed Northampton's relgation from the First Division with a three-nil win at Bloomfield Road. Town were level on points with nottingham Forest who had two games to play and a superior goal-average. Two goals from Roger Hunt gave Liverpool a two-one win over Chelsea and clinched their seventh Football League title. Manchester City went back to the top of the Second Division with a three-one vicotry over Birmingham City. Hull City all but clinched promotion from the Third Division following a four-one defeat of Brentford and Millwall's one-nil win against Swansea Town meant they were also poised for Second Division football. Bobby Cummings scored as Darlington went top of the fourth Division, beating Luton Town one-nil. Torquay United won two-nil at Colchester United in a clash between promotion rivals.
The 1966 NME Poll Winners Concert at the Empire Pool Wembley featured The Spencer Davis Group, The Fortunes, Herman's Hermits, Roy Orbison, The Overlanders, The Alan Price Set, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The Rolling Stones, The Seekers, The Small Faces, Sounds Incorporated, Dusty Springfield, Crispian St Peters, The Walker Brothers, The Who, The Yardbirds, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and, making their final scheduled live appearance in Britain, The Beatles. The compères were Pete Murray and dirty old rotter Jimmy Savile. Jean-Luc Godard was interviewed by Richard Roud about Alphaville in Meeting Point. David Turner's Semi-Detatched broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
Tom Clarke's Don't Go Down The Bingo Mother, Father's Coming To Tea broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Renfrew Airport, Glasgow's domestic air terminal, ceased operations; the last flight to depart flew the short distance to the new facility, Abbotsinch Airport.
Scottish inventor James Goodfellow obtained a patent for an automated teller machine using a plastic card and PIN. Canvas: The Martyrdom Of St Matthew By Caravaggio broadcast on BBC2. In the Second Division, Cardiff City beat relegation-threatened Middlesbrough five-three despite Dickie Rooks scoring a hat-trick for the visitors. Birmingham City defeated Ipswich Town four-one.
The Connoisseur broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. England beat Yugoslavia two-nil in a friendly international at Wembley with goals from Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Charlton. Martin Peters of West Ham United made his international debut. Due to Gordon Banks's absence on England duty, Leicester City's three-nil victory over Everton in the First Division saw the league debut of sixteen year old Peter Shilton, the first of a record thirteen hundred and ninety first class matches for in a career, with Leicester, Stoke City, Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Plymouth Argyle, Bolton Wanderers, Leyton Orient and England, that lasted until 1997. West Bromwih Albion and Manchester United drew three-all. Manchester City's three-year exile from the top flight concluded with promotion as Second Division champions following a one-nil victory at Rotherham United, key signing Colin Bell netting the winner. Bolton Wanderers beat Carlisle United four-nil.
Borussia Dortumnd beat Liverpool two-one in the Final of the European Cup Winners Cup at Hampden Park, Reinhard Libuda scoring the winner in extra-time. Leeds United won three-nil at Arsenal in the First Division, one of their goals coming from Jimmy Greenhoff returning after a lengthy lay-off following a car crash. Orson Welles's The Trial shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were jailed for life for The Moors Murders. Stevie Wonder's Uptight released. Joseph Losey's adaptation of Modesty Blaise - starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews and Clive Revill and Don Sharp's Our Man In Marrakesh - starring Tony Randall - premiered.
Solar Eclipse broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Unsafe At Any Speed? broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Small Faces' 'Hey Girl'/'Almost Grown', The John Bull Breed's 'Can't Chance A Breakup'/'I'm A Man', Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Woman (Numbers Twelve & Thirty Five)'/'Pledging My Time', The Scaffold's 'Two Day's Monday'/'Three Blind Jellyfish', Philip Goodhand-Tait & The Stormsville Shakers' 'I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt On You'/'It's A Lie', Julie Driscoll's 'I Didn't Want To Have To Do It'/'Don't Do It No More', Lord Sutch's 'The Cheat'/'Black & Hairy', Wayne Gibson's 'Under My Thumb'/'It Always Happens (Icey)', Nancy Wilson's 'Power Of Love'/'Rain Sometimes', Chicago Line's 'Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop'/'Jump Back', Gary Walker's 'Twinkie-Lee'/'She Makes Me Feel Better', Sheila White's 'Bleep-Bleep'/'Where The Action Is', Ramsey Lewis Trio's 'Hi-Heel Sneakers (Parts 1 & 2)', Jan Panter's 'Scratch My Back'/'Put Yourself In My Place', The Mama's & The Papa's 'Monday Monday'/'Got A Feelin', Françoise Hardy's 'This Little Heart'/'The Rose', Billy Preston's 'Billy's Bag'/'Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin', Mike Vickers & His Orchestra's 'Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment'/'Gorilla Of My Dreams', Johnny Nash's 'One More Time'/'Tryin' To Find Her', John Dankworth & His Orchestra's 'Modesty Blaise Theme'/'The Frost Report', Brenda Lee's 'Too Little Time'/'Time & Time Again', The Prophets's 'I Can't Make It'/'My Kind Of Girl', Kiki Dee's Kiki In Clover EP ('Doctor In Clover', 'Take A Look At Me'/'I Dig You Baby', 'With A Kiss'), Ramsey Lewis Trio's 'Hi Heel Sneakers (Parts 1 & 2)', Valerie Mitchell's 'You Can Go'/'The Windmill Girls', James Carr's 'You've Got My Mind Messed Up'/'That's What I Want To Know', Jan Panter's 'Scratch My Back'/'Put Yourself In My Place' and Junior Walker & The All Stars' 'Roadrunner'/'Shoot Your Shot' released. Hull City secured promotion from the Third Division with a two-one victory at Bristol Rovers. In the Fourth Division, Tranmere Rovers won five-three at Rochdale.
The first episode of Quick, Before They Catch Us - Power of Three, Part One - broadcast. Spike Milligan appeared on Juke Box Jury. The first episode of Three Rousing Tinkles broadcast on BBC2. First Division highlights included Manchester united's four-one victory at Blackburn Rovers and nottingham Forest's one-nil victory over SDheffield Wednesday which meant Northampton Town's first (and to date, only) season among the elite ended in relegation. Ipswich Town's five-two victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Second Division saw the league debut of seventeen year old Mick Mills, the first of seven hundred and thirty seven games for The Tractor Boys before leaving the club in 1982. In the process he broke Tommy Parker's appearance record for the club, established in 1957. Mills' career total was nine hundred and fifty three games, for Ipswich, Southampton, Stoke City and England, until retiring in 1987. Preston North End thrashed Cardiff City nine-nil with Ernie Hannigan and Brian Godfrey both neting three. Coventry City ended their season with a fine two-nil victory at Huddersfield Town. The Terriers had led the division for much of the season but an awful run of only one point from their final three games saw them slip to fifth and miss out on promotion. Millwall joined Hull City in promotion from the Third Division following a four-one win at Walsall whilst York City were relegated without playing, the results of others going against them. The Settlers, Vince Hill, The Transatlantics and Brian Fahey & His Orchestra featured in The Light Programme's Saturday Swings. A House In The Square broadcast in The Home Service's Saturdya-Night Theatre strand.
Patrick Garland's profile of Henry Williamson The Survivor broadcast. Man In Space broacast in the Horizon strand. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's It Happened Here - starring Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison and Reginald Marsh - premiered.
Peter Lewis's The House Mouse broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Jean Anderson read Mary Norton's Bed-Knob & Broomstick on Jackanory. Manchester United thrashed Aston Villa six-one in the First Division. The first episode of Seven Deadly Sins - My Friend Corby - broadcast on Rediffusion.
Behind The Bamboo Curtain broadcast in the Look strand. The Dabbler broadcast in BBC2's Inside Ireland's strand. The Rolling Stones' 'Paint It Black'/'Long Long While' and David Garrick's 'Lady Jane'/'Let's Go Somewhere' released. The first episode of The Romans broadcast on Network Three.
Real Madrid won the European Cup for a sixth time, beating Partizan Belgrade at the Heysal Stadium in Brussels. Chelsea produced a magnificent performance to beat Barcelona two-nil in the second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final to level the tie on aggregate and take it to a third game. Meanwhile, a replay in the other Semi-Final saw Real Zaragoza humble Leeds United at Elland Road, hitting three goals in the first twelve minutes and, eventually, winning three-one. Tony Coleman scored the winner as Doncaster Rovers went top of the Fourth Division with a one-nil win at Crewe. Scotland lost three-nil to The Netherlands in a friendly international at Hampden Park. Willy van der Kuijlen scored twice for the Dutch. Hibernian duo Pat Stanton and Jimmy Scott, Dundee's Andy Penman and Aberden's David Smith made their international debuts. Hugh Leonard's The Retreat broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Small Faces' eponymous debut LP released.
The Frost Report: On Law broadcast. The Dead Days broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand. Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle - starring Jeanne Moreau and Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's It Happened Here - starring Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison and Reginald Marsh - premiered.
Vanessa Redgrave interview on Film Preview. The Supremes' 'Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart'/'He's All I Got', Keith Relf's 'Mister Zero'/'Knowing', The Favourite Sons' 'That Driving Beat'/'Walkin' Walkin' Walkin', Mrs Miller's 'Downtown'/'A Lover's Concerto', Bruno's 'Wander Boy'/'Window In My Room', Them's 'Richard Cory'/'Don't You Know', Unit Four Plus Two's 'For A Moment'/'Fables', Gene Latter's 'Mother's Little Helper'/'Please Come Back To Me Again', The Ways & Means' 'Little Deuce Coupe'/'The Little Old Lady From Pasadena', Don Shinn & The Soul Agents' 'A-Minor Explosion'/'Pits Of Darkness', The Chasers' 'Inspiration'/'She's Gone Away', Paddy, Klaus & Gibson's 'Teresa'/'Quick Before They Catch Us', Barry Benson's 'Stay A Little While'/'That's For Sure', The Moonlighters' 'We'll See It Through'/'Too Late To Come Home' and Sam & Dave's 'Hold On! I'm Comin'/'I Got Everything You Need' released. The Who made their second appearance on The Joe Loss Pop Show.
Everton came from two goals down to beat Sheffield Wednesday three-two in the FA Cup Final. Mike Trebilcock's equaliser was followed by Everton fan Eddie Cavanagh invading the playing area in celebration and being pursued across half-the-length of the pitch, Keystone Kops-style, by a several plod. One of whom, eventually, rugby-tackled Eddie to the ground. Sometime Evertonian Paul McCartney attended the game with his friend Ivan Vaughan and, presumably, clebrated Derek Temple's late winner. Men Against The Eiger broadcast in Network Three's Sports Parade strand. The first UK broadcast of As Long As We Live on BBC2. The Searchers, The Merseys, Unit Four Plus Two, The Art Woods and Jimmy James & The Vagabonds featured on Saturday Club. Luck Of The Draw by Philip Levene broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first episode of John Betjemen's Footprints broadcast on BBC2. Travellers' Tales: Periscope Into The Past broadcast. Rod Stewarts 'Shake'/'I Just Got Some' released. Alan Bridges' Invasion - starring Edward Judd, Yoko Tani, Valerie Gearon and Lyndon Brook - premiered.
Jim Allen's The Hard Word - directed by Ridley Scott - broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Panorama: On Mental Illness broadcast. A strike was called by the National Union of Seamen which lasted for two months. The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds released. Alan Suddick and Pop Robson scored as Newcastle beat Leeds united two-nil in the First Division. Aston Villa won two-nil at Chelsea. Doncaster Rovers enjoyed some long-overdue success by clinching the Fourth Division title following a one-all draw at Bradford City.

Bob Dylan & The Band dropped an atomic bomb on Manchester's Free Trade Hall and some tone-deaf bell-end in the crowd shouted 'Judas!' Maybe he would have preferred to be at home instead watching the first episode of All Gas & Gaiters (broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand). Show Of The Week: Roy Hudd broadcast on BBC2. The Roman Army & The Frontiers Of Empire by Professor Eric Birley broadcast in Network Three's The Romans strand.
Ape & Essence broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Giro d'Italia race began in Monte Carlo. It won on 8 June by Gianni Motta. Southampton's goalless draw at Manchester City confirmed both sides were promoted from the Second Division. The Saints Martin Chivers finished the season as the division's top goalscorers, with thirty. Coventry City missed out on promotion by a single point, while Bristol City came three points short of reclaiming a place in the top flight for the first time since 1911. Leyton Orient and Middlesbrough were relegated to the Third Division to be replaced by Hull City and Millwall. Queens Park Rangers (for whom Les Allen scored thirty goals) finished third.
Jet Propelled broadcast. Their Everyday Life shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Freddie Francis's The Deadly Bees - starring Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman and Frank Finlay - premiered. Polly Alexandra Walker born in Warrington. The final game of the First Division season was a one-all draw between Manchester United and Leeds United. Liverpool had a six-point gap over Leeds, who finished level on points with Burnley. Manchester United's defence of the league title ended with a fourth-place finish. Chelsea were fifth and West Bromwich Albion sixth. Roger Hunt and Burnley's Willie Irvine finished as joint top goalscroers with twenty nine.
Sandie Shaw featured on Hey Presto - It's Rolf! Richard Attenborough was interviewed on Film Preview. Freddie Francis's The Psychopath - starring Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston and John Standing and Sergio Sollima's Agente 3S3, Massacro Al Sole - starring George Ardisson, Frank Wolff, Evi Marandi and Luz Márquez - premiered. Tammi Terrell's 'Come On & See Me'/'Baby Don't Cha Worry', The Voids' 'Come On Out'/'I'm In A Fix', Vashti's 'Train Song'/'Love Song', The Eyes' 'Man With Money'/'You're Too Much', John Andrews' 'A Rose Growing In The Ruins'/'It's Just Love', Barry Mason's 'Misty Morning Eyes'/'Take Your Time', The Wailers' 'Lonesome Track'/'Zimmerman', Linda Kaye's 'I Can't Stop Thinking About You'/'When We Meet Again', The John Schroeder Orchestra's 'On The Ball (Theme For The World Cup)'/'The Britannia March', Terry Nelson's 'World Cup Tramp'/'Good Night Fans' and Barry Fantoni's 'Little Man In A Little Box'/'Fat Man' released.
The Bulls! The Bulls! broadcast. Derrick Knight's Travelling For A Living broadcast on BBC2. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic's five-nil defeat at Queens Park Rangers in the Third Division saw the league debut of Roger Jones, the first of six hundred and ninety three games - for Bournemouth, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United, Stoke City, Derby County, Birmingham City and York City - in a career that lasted until 1984. Brentford, who lost three-nil at Peterborough United, were relegated. Hartleppols United's one-all draw with Bradford City in the Fourth Division, included the debut of sixteen year old apprentice John McGovern, the first of six hundred and seventy four games, for Hartlepools, Derby County, Leeds uNited, Nottingham Forest and Bolton Wanderers, in a career that lasted until 1984. Darlington were promoted for only the second time in their history following a goalless draw with Torquay United who also ended the season in a promotion spot but had to wait for later results before that was confirmed. Saturday Club Visits Southampton broadcast. What Every Woman Knows broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday Night Theatre strand.
Don Taylor's Shaw & Women broadcast. The first episode of Death Is A Good Living broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Songs For The Timesbroadcast. Caroline Benn read EB White's Charlotte's Web on Jackanory. BBC2's co-production of Susanna's Secret broadcast. Mansfield Town's one-nil defeat of Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division meant that both Exeter City and Southend United were relegated to the fourth tier.
The first episode of Beggar My Neighbour broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Show Of The Week: 'Ere's Olloway broadcast on BBC2. Bradford Park Avenue beat Stockport County in their final game in the Fourth Division. Although he didn't find the net, Avenue's Kevin Hector finished the season as the division's leading scorer with forty four goals.
Toddler On The Run broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Norman Jewison's The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming premiered. Chelsea were given a five-nil hammering by Barcelona in their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final replay in The Nou Camp. Josep Maria Fusté, Pedro Zaballa and Joaquim Rifé were on-target for the Catalans who went on to beat Real Zaragoza over two legs inthe Final held over until September.
Peter Scott's To The South Pole broadcast. Peter Terson was profiled on BBC2's New Release.
Roman Polanski's Cul-De-Sac featured on Film Preview. No Minis In Manhattan? broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Animals' 'Don't Bring Me Down'/'Cheating', The Yardbirds' 'Over Under Sideways Down'/'Jeff's Boogie', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Hideaway'/Here's A Heart', Bob Kuban & The In-Men's 'The Teaser'/'All I Want', Tony Hazzard's 'You'll Never Put Shackles On Me'/'Calling You Home', The Marvelettes' 'You're The One'/'Paper Boy', The Gass's 'The New Breed'/'In The City', Linda Kendrick's 'It's The Little Things'/'When Your Love Is Warm', The Carrolls' 'Surrender Your Love'/'The Folk I Love', Shirley Bassey's 'Don't Take The Lovers From The World'/'Take Away' and Ray Pollard's 'It's A Sad Thing'/'All The Things You Are' released. Bryan Forbes's The Wrong Box - starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hacock and Peter Sellers - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Love Me Tender. Thefirst episode of the Doctor Who serial The Savages broadcast. A Question Of Loyalty broadcast on BBC2. Lord Sutch & The Savages, The Truth, Barry Mason, Twice As Much and Gary Benson featured on Saturday Club. Giles Cooper's adaptation of Brass Farthing broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Jasper Ridley's Sir Thomas More broadcast on Network Three. The final promotion issues of the Footnall league season were decided as Luton Town's one-all draw at Chester in the Fourth Division meant Colchester United and Torquay United joined Darlington and Doncaster Rovers in promotion to the third tier. Luton missed out on goal-average, as did Tranmere Rovers who had led the division for much of the season; despite winning their last four games, a poor spell through much of April saw them finish in fifth place.
The first episode of Mexico, Mexico broadcast. Jonathan Stedall's A Don In Wonderland broadcast in BBC2's Footprints strand.
Crime & The Law broadcast in the European Journal strand. The Window broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Beatles' 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' released.
A Little Learning broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Shannon Stopover broadcast in BBC2's Inside Ireland strand.
Robert Muller's The Executioner broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Nyree Dawn Porter, Max Adrian and John Betjeman featured on BBC2's Call My Bluff. Ellis Kadison's The Cat - starring Roger Perry, Peggy Ann Garner, Barry Coe, Dwayne Redlin, Ted Derby and Shug Fisher and Jack Hill, Pat Jackson's The Stable Door - starring Harry Locke, Harry Fowler, Jack MacGowran, Maurice Taylor, Vincent Harding and Dandy Nichols and John Lamb's Mondo Keyhole - starring Nick Moriarty, Adele Rein and Carol Baughman - premiered.
The Pity Of It All broadcast. The Prisoner shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Royal Observators broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Acropolis '66 broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan piloted Gemini 9 into space. The Kinks' 'Sunny Afternoon'/'I'm Not Like Everybody Else', Cilla Black's 'Don't Answer Me'/'The Right One Is Left', The Luvvers' 'The House On The Hill'/'Most Unlovely', The Jeeps' 'He Saw Eesaw'/'The Music Goes Round', Bean & Loopy's Lot's 'Haywire'/'A Stitch In Time', Jimmy Winston & His Reflections' 'Sorry She's Mine'/'It's Not What You Do (But The Way That You Do It)', The Barron Knights' 'Doing What She's Not Supposed To Do'/'Every Night', Oscar's 'Club Of Lights'/'Waking Up', The Attraction's 'Stupid Girl'/'Please Tell Me', Jan & Dean's 'Batman'/'Bucket T', Neal Hefti's 'Batman Theme'/'Batman Chase', Nelson Riddle's 'Batman Theme'/'Nelson's Riddler', Jamo Thomas & His Party Brothers Orchestra's 'I Spy (For The FBI)'/'Snake Hip Mama', The Marketts' 'Batman Theme'/'Richie's Theme', The Cymbaline's 'Top Girl'/'Can You Hear Me?', Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'Hold On I'm A Comin'/'Eyes For You', The Standells' 'Dirty Water'/'Rari', The Loving Kind's 'I Love The Things You Do'/'Treat Me Nice', Manfred Mann's Instrumental Asylum EP ('Still I'm Sad', 'My Generation'/'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', 'I Got You Babe'), The Attraction's 'Stupid Girl'/'Please Tell Me', Keith Powell & Billie Davis's 'You Don't Know Like I Know'/'Two Little People', Thor's Hammer's 'A Memory'/'Once', Jack Hammer's 'Thanks'/'Love Ladder', Vala Reegan & The Valarons's 'Fireman'/'Living In The Past', Long John Baldry's 'The Drifter'/'Only A Fool Breaks His Own Heart', The Three Caps' 'Cool Jerk'/'Hello Stranger', Rufus Lumley's 'I'm Standing'/'Let's Hide Away (Me & You)', Steve Darbishire's 'Yum Yum'/'Kiss Away' and Marc Bolan's 'The Third Degree'/'San Francisco Poet' released. The Troggs appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Terence Fisher's Island Of Terror - starring Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray and Eddie Byrne, Ian Curteis' The Projected Man - starring Bryant Haliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Tracey Crisp and Derek Farr and Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle - starring Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner and Umberto Orsini - premiered. Georgia Slowe born in London.
The first episode of The Sports Scene broadcast on BBC2. Eric Burdon appeared on Juke Box Jury. Despite a battling ninety four on debut by Colin Milburn, England lost the first test against the West Indies at Old Trafford inside three days by an innings and forty runs. Windies skipper Gary Sobers scored one hundred and sixty one and Lance Gibbs took ten wickets in the match. The four hundredth eisode of Saturday Club broadcast, inclidng an interview with The Beatles. A Break For Mister Barnacle broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Julia Jones's Up & Down broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Gene Cernan made the second American spacewalk.
Friday Night's The Best Night broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The first series of Till Death Us Do Part began.
Marty Fedman's Judgment Day For Elijah Jones - starring Clive Dunn and Bernard Cribbins - broadcast in the Comedy Playhousestrand. The Artist In His Studio By Vermeer featured in BBC2's Canvas strand.
Ravi Shankar appeared on A Whole Scene Going along with The Kinks, The Yardbirds and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. David Turner's Way Of Beat broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Arsenic & Old Lace shown in BBC2's The Vintage Years Of Hollywood strand. The Man Who Collected Sounds broadcast on Network Three.
Too Near The Sun broadcast. Mersey poet Adrian Henri profiled on BBC2's New Release. Britain In Search Of A Continent broadcast. Basil Dearden's Khartoum - starring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness - and Paradise, Hawaiian Style - starring Elvis Presley and Suzanna Leigh - premiered.
The Wrong Box and Khartoum featured on Film Preview. David Gladwell's 28b Camden Street broadcast on BBC2. Henry Hathaway's Nevada Smith - starring Steve McQueen and Saul Resnick's The Girls On F Street - starring Toni Lee Oliver - premiered. Marvin Gaye's 'Take This Heart Of Mine'/'I Need Your Lovin' (Want You Back)', The Kytes' 'Blessed'/'Call Me Darling', The Knack's 'Stop! (Before You Get Me Going)'/'Younger Girl', Lindsay Muir's Untamed's 'Daddy Long Legs'/'Trust Yourself A Little Bit', This 'N' That's 'Get Down With It-I Can't Get No Satisfaction'/'I Care About You', Jimmy Powell & The Dimensions' 'I Can Go Down'/'Love Me Right', She Trinity's 'Have I Sinned?'/'Wild Flower', The Fingers' 'I Go To Sleep'/'Oh!', Band Of The Irish Guards' 'World Cup'/'Michelle', Heinz's 'Movin' In'/'I'm Not A Bad Guy', The Leaves' 'Hey Joe'/'Funny Little World', The Falling Leaves' 'Beggars Parade'/'Tomorrow Night', Downliners Sect's 'Glendora'/'I'll Find Out', Joe Tex's 'SYSLJFM (The Letter Song)'/'I'm A Man', Deon Jackson's 'Love Takes A Long Time Growing'/'Hush Little Baby', Guy Darrell's 'I've Been Hurt'/'Blessed', The Kytes' 'Blessed'/'Call Me Darling' and The Contours' 'Determination'/'Just A Little Misunderstsanding' released.
Michelangelo, The Divine broadcast on BBC2. Janis Joplin made her debut with Big Brother & The Holding Company at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Pinkerton's Assorted Colours and The Sinners featured on The Light Programme's Saturday Swings. Inherit The Earth broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. They Bowled Bradman broadcast in Network Three's Sports Parade.
The first UK TV showing of The Lost Weekend. Marianne broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
A Good Reason For Getting Married - starring Roy Castle and Nerys Hughes - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Viet'nam: Journey Of A War broadcast in the Panorama strand. Arsenal sacked manaker Billy Wright after four years in charge.
The first episode of Room At The Bottom broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Show Of The Week Presenting: The Bernard Show broadcast on BBC2.
Mick Jagger appeared on A Whole Scene Going. Simon Raven's A Soiree At Bossom's Hotel broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Robert Morley's Call My Bluff featured his son, Sheridan and Margaret Morley (no relation). Frank Muir's guest were Angela Douglas and Clement Freud. Hunt The Man Down broadcast in The Light Programme's Midweek Theatre strand.
The Beatles performed 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain' on Top Of The Pops introduced by a hyperventilating Pete Murray. Jerzy Hoffman's Gangsters & Philanthropists shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Choice: Holiday Camps broadcast. Twenty-Four Hours At Le Mans broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Temptations' 'Ain't Too Proud To Beg'/'You'll Lose A Precious Love', Dusty Springfield's 'Goin' Back', The Troggs' 'With A Girl Like You'/'I Want You', The Chants' 'Come Back & Get This Loving Baby'/'Love Light', The Wimple Winch's 'Save My Soul'/'Everybody's Worried 'Bout Tomorrow, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Break Out'/'I Need Help', Simon & Garfunkel's 'I Am A Rock'/'A Most Peculiar Man', The Creation's 'Making Time'/'Try & Stop Me', Love's 'My Little Red Book/'Hey Joe', Françoise Hardy's 'La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi'/'Je Ne Suis La Pour Personne', The Cryin' Shames' 'Nobody Waved Goodbye'/'You', Los Bravos' 'Black Is Black'/'I Want A Name', The Association's 'Along Comes Mary'/'Your Own Love', The Magic Lanterns' 'Excuse Me Baby'/'Greedy Girl', Ko Ko Taylor's 'Wang Dang Doodle'/'Blues Heaven', The Zombies' 'Indication'/'How We Were Before', Gary Lewis & The Playboys' 'Green Grass'/'I Can Read Between The Lines', Robie Porter's 'Either Way I Lose'/'Let It Be Me', The Jaybirds' 'Somebody Help Me'/'The Right Kind', Norma Tanega's 'A Street That Rhymes At Six AM'/'Treat Me Right', Little Anthony & The Imperials' 'Better Use Your Head'/'The Wonder Of It All' and The Hollies' 'Bus Stop'/'Don't Run & Hide' released. Roman Polanski's Cul-De-Sac - starring Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran - premiered.
The first episode of Chronicle - Vikings In North America narrated by Magnus Magnusson - broadcast on BBC2. Annie Nightingale featured on Juke Box Jury. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, The Downliners Sect and Los Bravos appeared on Saturday Club. Marriage Settlement broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Le Mans twenty four hour race saw the first overall win for the Ford GT40 Shelby (driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon) as well as the first win for an American constructor. It was also the Le Mans debut for Henri Pescarolo, who went on to set the record for the most starts in the event and Jacky Ickx, whose record of six victories stood until beaten by Tom Kristensen in 2005. The race became the basis for the 2019 movie Ford Versus Ferrari. Scotland lost a friendly international to Portugal one-nil at Hampden Park, José Torres scoring the winner. Willie Bell of Leeds United and Licester City's Jackie Sinclair made their Scotland debuts.
The first episodes of Thirteen Against Fate and BBC2's Watch The Birdiesbroadcast. The Melody Suit broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Fiona Gillies born in London.
The first episode of AP Herbert's "Misleading Cases" broadcast. Clive Barker's The Queen Street Girls broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The Animals' Animalisms released. Terence Fisher's Island Of Terror - starring Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray and Eddie Byrne and Lindsay Shonteff's Run With The Wind - starring Francesca Annis and Sean Caffrey - premiered. Arsenal replaced the recently departed Billy Wright as manager with the club's physiotherapist, Bertie Mee. Whose first action, allegedly, was to say to Bill Shankley 'have you heard of The North Bank, Highbury?'
The first UK TV showing of Brief Encounter. England drew the second test against the West Indies at Lord's with Colin Milburn scoring one hundred and twenty six. Other highlights included another Gary Sobers century, eight wickets in the match for Ken Higgs, Tom Graveney scoring ninety six and Basil D'Oliveira, making his international debut, being unluckily run out when a shot from Jim Parks deflected onto the stumps at the bowler's end and Wes Hall pulled a stump out. Mike Nichols's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor - and John Guillermin's The Blue Max - starring George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress - premiered.
David Halliwell's Cock, Hen & Courting Pit broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The final collection of James Bond short stories authored by the late Ian Fleming, was published as Octopussy & The Living Daylights.
The first episode of Adam Adamant Lives! broadcast. Marcel Duchamp was featured on BBC2's New Release. Flight attendants Lisa Wick and Lonnie Ree Trumbull were bludgeoned with a piece of lumber as they slept in their basement apartment in Seattle's Queen Anne Hill district near a Safeway store where Ted Bundy worked at the time. Trumbull died. Wick, who suffered permanent memory loss as a result of the attack, later contacted Ann Rule, author of the Bundy biography The Stranger Beside Me: 'I know that it was Ted Bundy who did that to us,' she wrote, 'but I can't tell you how I know.' In the absence of any incriminating evidence, Bundy's involvement remained speculative, although detective Roert Keppel noted many similarities to the murder's committed by Bundy in Florida in 1978. Red Hawkes' 'Friday Night'/'Lonely Boy', Walter Jackson's 'It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom/'Tear For Tear', Chris Curtis's 'Aggravation'/'Have I Done Something Wrong?', The Wailers' 'Good Good Rudie'/The City Slickers' 'Oceans Eleven', Martha & The Vandellas' 'What Am I Going To Do Without Your Love?'/'Go Ahead And Laugh', Jackie De Shannon's 'Come & Get Me'/'Splendour In The Grass', The Four Tops' 'Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever'/'I Like Everything About You', Spider's 'The Comedown Song'/'Blow Ya Mind', Jason Eddy & The Centremen's 'Singing The Blues'/'True To You', Craig's 'I Must Be Mad'/'Suspense', Red Hawkes' 'Friday Night/'Lonely Boy', Blossom Dearie's 'I'm Hip'/'Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue', Candy Choir's 'Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying)'/'Silence Is Golden', Force Five's 'Don't Know Which Way To Turn'/'Baby Let Your Hair Down', Marva Josie's 'Crazy Stockings'/'I'll Get By', Ray Charles' 'Let's Go Get Stoned'/'The Train', Tony Christie & The Trackers' 'Life's Too Good To Waste'/'Just The Two Of Us', Mark Leeman Five's 'Follow Me'/'Gather Up The Pieces', Marshall Scott Et Cetera's 'Same Old Feeling'/'How It Ought To Be' and The Isley Brothers' 'Take Some Time Out For Love'/'Who Could Ever Doubt My Love' released.
The recently opened Post Office Tower - and a crazed-computer housed within it - was the central location for the Doctor Who serial The War Machines. The Congo - Victim Of Independence broadcast on BBC2. Herman's Hermits and The Fortunes featured on Saturday Club. The Cure For Love by Walter Greenwood broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. A tribute to Constant Lambert broadcast on Network Three. Scotland drew one-all with Brazil in a friendly international at Hampden Park. Steve Chalmers netted for the hosts for whom Chalmers' Glasgow Celtic team-mate John Clark and Hibernian's Peter Cormack made their international debuts. The first episode of Cooperama broadcast on ATV London.
Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd and Sandie Shaw featured on Billy Cotton's Music-Hall. Life: Florida, USA broadcast on BBC2. England beat Finland three-nil in a friendly international in Helsinki. Martin Peters, Roger Hunt and Jackie Charlton scored whilst Liverpool's Ian Callaghan made his international debut. Alan Ball also missed a penalty. John Mortimer's What Shall We Tell Caroline? broacast on Network Three.
Harry H Corbett read Pegasus The Winged Horse on Jackanory. Liverpool's Ian St John and Willie Stevenson appeared on the Till Death Us Do Part episode Intolerence. Sheila MacLeod and Paul Jones's They Put You Where You Are broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The - probable - release date of Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde. (16 May is often given as the 'official' release date but that is highly unlikely for a variety of reasons.) The Mothers Of Invention's debut, Freak Out! released. Joe Orton's The Erpingham Camp broadcast in Rediffusion's Seven Deadly Sins strand.
Seven Year Hitch broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of Women, Women, Women broadcast on BBC2. Sara Scott Griffith born in Edinburgh.
The first UK broadcast of The Storm. The Mercy Killers broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Barclaycard became the first credit card introduced in the UK. Walk Don't Run - starring Cary Grant and Samantha Egger - premiered. England beat Norway six-one in a friendly international in Oslo. Jimmy Greaves scored four with further goals from John Connelly and Bobby Moore after Harald Sunde had put Norway ahead.
The first episode of This Is Petula Clark broadcast. The Last Day Of Summer shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The first UK broadcast of The Trials Of O'Brien - starring Peter Falk. The Yardbirds appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Dusty Springfield's 'Goin' Back'/'I'm Going To Leave You', The Majority's 'Simplified'/'One Third', Loose Ends' 'Send The People Away (People Gotta Go)'/'I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore', Barry McGuire & The Mama's & The Papa's 'Cloudy Summer Afternoon'/'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away', Shawn Phillips's 'Summer Came'/'Storm', Paul's Troubles' 'You'll Find Out'/'You've Got Something', The Answers' 'That's What You're Doing To Me'/'Got A Letter From My Baby', Poor Souls' 'Love Me'/'Please Don't Change Your Mind', The Mockingbirds' 'One By One'/'Lovingly Yours', The Blue Aces' 'That's All Right'/'Talk About My Baby', Wishful Thinking's 'Turning Round'/'VIP', Billy Joe Royal's 'Heart's Desire'/'Everybody's Gotta Cry', Bobby Bland's 'Good Time Charlie'/'Good Time Charlie (Working His Groove Bag)', JJ Jackson's 'Do The Boogaloo'/'But It's Alright', Wynder K Frog's 'Turn On Your Lovelight'/'Zooming', Robert Parker's 'Barefootin'/'Let's Go Baby (Where The Action Is)' and The Action's 'Baby You've Got It'/'Since I Lost My Baby' released. The actress and pop-art painter Pauline Boty died from cancer, aged twenty eight. Kôji Wakamatsu's Taiji Ga Mitsuryô Suru Toki premiered.
Ramrod shown in The Western strand. How Do You Spend Six Hundred Thousand Pounds A Day? broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore appeared on Late Night Line-Up. The Hollies featured on Saturday Club strand. I Am Lucy Wragby broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. J Lee Thompson's Eye Of The Devil - starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings and Sharon Tate - premiered.
The Death Of Socrates broadcast in the Sunday Night strand. Solly Zuckerman's Scientists & War broadcast in the Horizon strand. Desmond Davis's I Was Happy Here - starring Sarah Miles, Cyril Cusack and Julian Glover - premiered. England beat Denmark two-nil in a friendly international in Copenhagen. Jackie Charlton and George Eastham scored whilst Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti made his England debut.
Samuel Beckett's Eh, Joe? - starring Jack MacGowram and Sian Phillips - broadcast on BBC2. Panorama: Year 2000 broadcast. Jack Smight's Kaleidoscope - starring Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter and George Sewell - premiered.
The first episode of The Painter & His World broadcast. The West Indies won the third test at Trent Bridge by one hundred and thirty nine runs. Despite England having a first innings lead of one hundred (Tom Graveney scoring a century), Basil Butcher's two hundred and nine not out set up the tourist's victory with Charlie Griffiths taking four wickets on the final afternoon. Geoff Boycott scored a stubborn seventy one in a losing cause. Derek Underwood made his test debut. England beat Poland one-nil in Chorzow in their final pre-World Cup friendly international. Roger Hunt was on target for the visitors. The first UK broadcast of Batman on Rediffusion (and most other ITV regions). Susannah Doyle born in Kingston-On-Thames.
The first episode of King Of The River broadcast. Stars For Sale broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand.
The first episode of Science Fair '66 - subsequently The Young Scientist Of The Year - broadcast. All-African Art broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand. The first episode of You Can't Win broadcast on Rediffusion.
Activity On The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Beatles Nowhere Man EP ('Nowhere Man', 'Drive My Car'/'Michelle', 'You Won't See Me'), The Troggs' 'With A Girl Like You'/'I Want You', The Miracles' 'Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)'/'Oh Be My Love', She Trinity's 'The Man Who Took The Valise Off The Floor Of Grand Central Station At Noon'/'Wild Flower', The Washington DC's 'Thirty Second Floor'/'A Whole Lot More', The Mickey Finn's 'I Do Love You'/'If I Had You Baby', Viv Prince's 'Light Of The Charge Brigade'/'Minuet For Ringo', Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers' 'Number One In Your Heart'/'Cruisin', The Circles' 'Take Your Time'/'Don't You Love Me No More', The Rattles' 'Say All Right'/'Love Of My Life', Natasha Pyne's 'It's All In Your Head'/'I'm A Dreamer', Dilys Watling's 'Paper Heart'/'You Go Your Way', Junior Parker's 'Goodbye Little Girl'/'Walking The Floor Over You', Jimmy Hughes' 'Neighbor Neighbor'/'It's A Good Thing', The Spidells' 'Find Out What's Happening'/'That Makes My Heart Break', Alan Price Set's 'Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo'/'Take Me Home', The Thunderbirds' 'Your Ma Said You Cried (In Your Sleep Last Night)'/'Before It's Too Late', The Lovin' Spoonful's 'Summer In The City'/'Bald Headed Lena', Jimmy Beaumont's 'You Got Too Much Going For You'/'I Never Loved Her Anyway', Joan Regan's 'Don't Talk To Me About Love'/'I'm No Toy', The Orlons' 'Spinnin' Top'/'Anyone Who Had A Heart', Kenny Bernard's 'Nothing Can Change This Love'/'What Love Brings', Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers' 'Number One In Your Heart'/'Cruisin' and The Pretty Things' 'A House In The Country'/'Me Needing You' released.
The first episode of The Heart Of Midlothian broadcast on BBC2. Jack Nicklaus won his first Open Championship at Muirfield, one stroke ahead of runners-up Doug Sanders and Dave Thomas. The Troggs, Chris Farlowe and The Action featured on Saturday Club. The Day In Darkness by Arthur Swinson broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. World Cup Music broadcast on Network Three.
World Cup Grandstand broadcast. The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Centre broadcast on BBC2's Life strand.
The 1966 World Cup began with an Opening Ceremony followed by possibly the worst game in the history of the tournament - England's turgid goalless draw with Uruguay (setting an unwanted precedent for the opening games of many subsequent finals tournaments, certainly the next two). Fortunately, it did get better. John McGrath and Christopher Williams's Shotgun broadcast in BBC2's Five More strand. Wind Versus Polygamy broadcast on The Home Service.
The first episode of International Cabaret hosted by Kenneth Williams broadcast on BBC2. Chris Farlowe's 'Out Of Time' released. Radley Metzger's The Alley Cats - starring Anne Arthur, Karen Field, Sabrina Koch, Charlie Hickman and Uta Levka - premiered. Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig born in Maidstone. An Experimental Model Of Vietnam broadcast on Network Three. West Germany thrashed Switzerland five-nil at Hillsborough in a World Cup group-game. Franz Beckenbauer and Helmut Haller both scored twice. Pelé and Garrincha both scored spectacular stirkes as Brazil opened their defence of the title with a two=nil victory over Bulgaria at Goodison Park.
Asking For Trouble ...? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Portugal beat Hungary three-one in a World Cup thiller at Old Trafford.
Lyndon Johnson's Texas broadcast. Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain - starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews - released.
Hungary, with Florian Albert in mesmerising form, beat the holders Brazil three-one in a pulsating World Cup group-game at a packed Goodison Park. A ban on black workers at Euston railway station was legally overturned. The Yardbirds' Roger The Engineer, Donald Height's 'Talk Of The Grapevine'/'There'll Be No Tomorrow', The Easybeats' 'Come & See Her'/'Make You Feel Alright (Women)', Clefs Of Lavender Hill's 'Stop! - Get A Ticket'/'First Tell Me Why', The Mickey Finn's 'I Do Love You'/'If I Had You Baby', The Richard Kent Style's 'No Matter What You Do'/'Go, Go Children', The Hep Stars' 'Sunny Girl'/'No Response', Tony Blackburn's 'Green Light'/'Winter Is Through', Peter Mallan's 'The Slippy Stone'/'Ae Fond Kiss', The Drifters' 'Up In The Streets Of Harlem'/'You Can't Love Them All', Major Lance's 'Investigate'/'Little Young Lover', The Buena Vistas' 'Hot Shot'/'TNT' and Bob Dylan's 'I Want You'/'Just Like Tom Thumb Blues' released. Robert Hartford-Davies's The Sandwich Man - starring Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Bernard Cribbins and Harry H Corbett - premiered. The first UK broadcast of The Jetsons on Rediffusion.
England beat Mexico two-nil in their second World Cup match. Bobby Charlton scored with a memorable twenty-five yard screamer and Roger Hunt added a second. Jack Brabham won The British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. Simon & Garfunkel, The Alan Price Set, Peter & Goron, Dave Berry & The Cruisers, The Pirates and The Mike Cotton Sound featured on Saturday Club. Tono-Bungay broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Marius Goring's reading of Shelley's Epipsychidion broadcast on Network Three. Prime Minister Harold Wilson flew to Moscow to attempt to start peace talks over the Viet'Nam War. The Soviet government rejected his ideas.
Gore Vidal's On The March To The Sea broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Kenneth McKellar and Dusty Springfield appeared in Billy Cotton's Music-Hall.
Shadow In The Clouds broadcast. Ronald Eyre's Are You There? broadcast in BBC2's Five More strand. The Byrds' Fifth Dimension released. John Young and Michael Collins piloted Gemini 10 into space. Desmond Davis's The Uncle - starring Rupert Davies, Brenda Bruce, Robert Duncan, Ann Lynn, Christopher Ariss and Maurice Denham - premiered.
In one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history, North Korea - whom the locals took to their hearts - beat Italy at Ayresome Park, dumping the Azzurri out of the competition. Pak Doo-Ik scored the decisive goal. Holders Brazil were also eliminated, beaten three-one by Portugal whose defenders handed out some particularly rough treatment to Pelé. Venus, Mars & Cupid By Piero Di Cosimo featured in BBC2's Canvas strand. A profile of Ian Fleming broadcast on The Home Service. Ian Curties's The Projected Man - starring Bryant Haliday and Mary Peach - premiered. Samuel Alexander Joseph West born in Hammersmith.
Roger Hunt scored twice as England beat France two-nil in the World Cup. The game, however, was more remembered for a spectacularly nasty foul committed by Nobby Stiles on Jacques Simon. West Germany knocked-out Spain with a two-one win at Villa Park, Uwe Seeler scoring a late winner. Hungary thrashed Bulgaria three-one at Old Trafford. The start of a six-month wage and price freeze was announced. Roger Corman's The Wild Angels - starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Bruce Dern - premiered.
The GPO Personality Girl Of 1966 broadcast. Jennie Lee, Britain's Minister For The Arts interviewed in BBC2's New Release strand.
Sam Cree's Second Honeymoon broadcast. Berlioz: Requiem broadcast on BBC2. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton, The Five AM Event's 'Hungry'/'I Wash My Hands In Muddy Water', Slim Harpo's 'Shake Your Hips'/'Midnight Blues', The Walker Brothers' '(Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me'/'My Love Is Growing', The Bystanders' '(You're Gonna) Hurt Yourself'/'Have I Offended The Girl?', The Mama's & The Papa's 'I Saw Her Again'/'Even If I Could', Terry Nelson's 'Cricket Excitement'/'Run-Run Baby (I Want To Be Your Man)', The Young Idea's 'The World's Been Good To Me Tonight'/'It Can't Be', Slim Harpo's 'Shake Your Hips'/'Midnight Blues', Edwin Starr's 'Headline News'/'Harlem', The Three Good Reasons' 'The Moment Of Truth'/'A Funny Kind Of Loving', Bobby Sheen's 'Doctor Love'/'Sweet Sweet Love', Jimmy Stevens' 'I Love You'/'Wharf 130', Tony Rivers & The Castaways' 'God Only Knows'/'Charade' and The Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows'/'Wouldn't It Be Nice?' released.
Argentine captain Antonio Rattin was sent off during an ill-tempered World Cup Quarter Final against England at Wembley. The home side went through thanks to Geoff Hurst's header. Alf Ramsey ran onto the pitch at the final whistle to stop George Cohen swapping shirts with one of the Argentine players. He would later, in a press conference, describe the South Americans as 'animals' which caused a minor diplomatic incident. At Goodison Park, Portugal, inspired by Eusebio who scored four, came from three-nil down to beat the North Koreans five-three. West Germany thrashed Uruguay four=nil at Hillsborough whilst, to the disappointment of milloions, the Soviet Union defeated Hungary two-one at Roker Park. The first episode of Mister John Jorrocks broadcast on BBC2. Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band appeared on Saturday Club. The Heat Of The Moment broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Samantha-Jane Beckinsale born in Nottingham.
The debate on the latest episode of Burning Issue involved Sex & Violence In Art. Robert Gould's How To Get Rid Of Your Husband broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
John McGrath's Mo broadcast on BBC2. West Germany beat the Soviet Union two-one in the first World Cup Semi Final at Goodison Park.
The first episode of The Art Game broadcast on BBC2. Bobby Charlton scored twice as England beat Portugal at Wembley to reach the World Cup Final for the first - and, so far, only - time. The first episode of The Dark Rising broadcast on, ironically, The Light Programme.
Stress broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass broadcast.
The first episode of Thirty Years After broadcast. Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and The Yardbirds appeared on Hey Presto - It's Rolf! A cabinet reshuffle was expected after George Brown's increasingly erratic behaviour culminated in him 'forgetting' to appear for a live television debate on the government's economic freeze. The Merseys' 'So Sad About Us'/'Love Will Continue', Lee Dorsey's 'Working In The Coal Mine'/'Mexico', The Beatstalkers' 'A Love Like Yours'/'Base Line', Little Richard's 'Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail)'/'Well', The Alan Bown Set's 'Headline News'/'Mister Pleasure', The Clayton Squares' 'There She Is'/'Imagination', The Symbols' 'See You In September'/To Make You Smile Again', Adrienne Posta's 'They Long To Be Close To You'/'How Can I Hurt You?', Rey Anton & The Pro Form's 'Things Get Better'/'Newsboy', Nancy Sinatra's 'Friday's Child'/'Hutchinson Jail', The Seeds Featuring Sky Saxon's 'Pushin' Too Hard'/'Try To Understand', Zoot Money's Big Roll Band's 'Big Time Operator'/'Zoot's Sermon', Billy Preston's 'In The Midnight Hour'/'Advice' and Greg Hunter's 'Five O'Clock World'/'Away From Happiness' released.
'Some people are on the pitch, They think it's all over!' England won the World Cup, beating West Germany four-two at Wembley. And yes, the third goal was over the line. Ask Tofiq Bahramov. Thirty two million punters watched the BBC and ITV coverage (mostly, the former). Which does, rather, make one wonder what the other twenty two million of the population were doing at the time. Contemplating the inherently ludicrous nature of existence, possibly. Or watching The Great Dan Patch on BBC2. Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick whilst his West Ham United teammate Martin Peters was also on target. You knew that, right? Bobby Charlton in tears, Nobby Stiles dancing, Jimmy greaves with a face like a smacked arse because he missed the final through injury, Bobby Moore on his team-mates shoulders holding aloft the Jules Rimet Trohpy. Indelible image, isn't it, hmmm? The Troggs, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, The Sands Of Time and The Bystanders featured on Saturday Club. Reunion In Vienna broadcast on The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Kerry Lauren Fox born in Welington.

Hugh Whitemore's Girl Of My Dreams broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The Making Of A Mystery broadcast.
The first episode of The Lifesavers broadcast. John Irvin's Strangers broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Informer broadcast on Rediffusion.
The Reluctant Romeo - starring Leslie Crowther - broadcast in the Comedy Playhousestrand. Juliette Greco featured on BBC2's International Cabaret.
Viewpoint: Bare Ruin'd Choirs broadcast. Mafia brodcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand.
Julian Pettifer's Viet'Nam documentary War Without End broadcast. It Began In Brighton broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand.
The Creation made their TV debut on Hey Presto - It's Rolf! Sun Time broadcast in The Sky At night strand. The Grand Prix Circus broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Beatles' Revolver and 'Eleanor Rigby'/'Yellow Submarine', Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'Got To Get You Into My Life'/'Baby Each Day', Brian Withers' 'For No One'/'Here There & Everywhere', The Fourmost's 'Here, There & Everywhere'/'You've Changed', Jimmy James & The Vagabonds' 'This Heart Of Mine'/'I Don't Wanna Cry', Glen Dale's 'Good Day Sunshine'/'Make Me Belong To You', Loose Ends' 'Tax Man'/'That's It', Jan & Dean's 'Popsicle'/'The Joker Is Wild', Cyril Stapleton's 'Jack Knife'/'Slippery Sam', Tuesday's Children's 'When You Walk In The Sand'/'High & Drifting', The Artwoods' 'I Feel Good'/'Molly Anderson's Cookery Book', Ike & Tina Turner's 'Anything You Wasn't Born With'/'Beauty Is Just Skin Deep', The Small Faces' 'All Or Nothing'/'Understanding', The Nashville Teens' 'Forbidden Fruit'/'Revived Forty Five Time', The Byrds' 'Fifth Dimension'/'Captain Soul', Stevie Wonder's 'Blowin' In The Wind'/'Ain't That Asking For Trouble?', The Mike Cotton Sound's 'Harlem Shuffle'/'Like That', The J&B's 'There She Goes'/'Wow! Wow! Wow!', Ross McManus & The Joe Loss Blue Beats' 'Stop Your Playing Around'/'Girlie Girlie', Billy Stewart's 'Summertime'/'To Love To Love' and Ruben Wright's 'Hey Girl'/'I'm Walking Out On You' released. Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD - starring Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Jill Curzon, Roberta Tovey and Andrew Keir - premiered.
The Golden Isthmus broadcast on BBC2. Bernard Cribbins and Rosemary Squires appeared on Juke Box Jury. Saturday Club Visits Blackpool and David Frost At The Phonograph broadcast on The Light Programme. Taj Mahal By Candlelight broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Three Medieval Music Dramas broadcast on Network Three. Rafael Romero Marchent's Dos Pistolas Gemelas - starring Pilar Bayona, Aurora Emilia Bayona and Sean Flynn and Juan Xiol's Río Maldito (aka Seven Pistols For A Gringo - Gérard Landry - premiered.
The first episode of It's A KnockOut! broadcast. Judy Collins appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person.
Philip Savile's Exit Nineteen broadcast on BBC2. West Indies won the fourth test at Headingley by an innings and fifty five runs with Gary Sobers (one hundred and seventy four and five for forty one) in outstanding, all-round form. One of the few highlights for England was a fine eighty eight from Basil D'Oliveira. Lance Gibbs took six for thirty nine on the final afternoon.
Contact With A Hostile Tribe broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand.
The first UK TV showing of Of Mice & Men on BBC2. Warwickshire beat Somerset by five wickets at Edgbaston in the Gilette Cup Semi Final. Daniel Petrie's The Idol - starring Michael Parks and Jennifer Jones - premiered.
River Of Diamonds and the maddest of all Adam Adamant Lives! episodes, To Set A Deadly Fashion broadcast. Federico Fellini's Cabiria shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Twenty-Four Hours: Direct From Tunis broadcast. It's Quicker By Rail? broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Harry Roberts shot and murdered three policemen in Shepherd's Bush. Scottish Conservative Party delegates at their conference in Perth supported a proposal calling for the re-introduction of the birch to end Glasgow's 'reign of terror.' Tom Galbraith MP, spoke of 'frightened people in Glasgow,' who were 'demanding' corporal punishment. Because, normally, you have to pay good money for that sort of thing. The Who's 'The Kids Are Alright'/'The Ox', The Southern Sound's 'Just The Same As You'/'I Don't Wanna Go', Al Stewart's 'The Elf'/'Turn Into Earth', The Southern Sound's 'Just The Same As You'/'I Don't Wanna Go', Otis Redding's 'I Can't Turn You Loose'/'Just One More Day', The J&B's 'There She Goes'/'Wow! Wow! Wow!', Friday Brown's 'Thirty Second Love Affair'/'Born A Woman', The Game's 'Gonna Get Me Someone'/'Gotta Wait', She Trinity's 'Yellow Submarine'/'Promise Me You'll Cry', Alexander Patton's 'A Li'l Lovin' Sometimes'/'No More Dreams', The Tremeloes' 'Good Day Sunshine'/'What A State I'm In', The Wheels' 'Kicks'/'Call My Name', Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers' 'Sock It To 'Em JB (Parts 1 & 2)', Alexander Patton's 'Li'l Lovin' Sometimes'/'No More Dreams', Friday Brown's 'Thirty Second Love Affair'/'Born A Woman' and Junior Walker & The All Stars' 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)'/'Nothing But Soul' released.
The first UK broadcast of The Wrestlers. Stonehenge - Prehistoric Computer? broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution began in China. A mere fourteen days after he'd played in the World Cup Final, Roger Hunt's goal gave Liverpool victory over Everton in an all-Merseyside FA Charity Shield. Before the game, Hunt, Ray Wilson and The Toffees' new signing Alan Ball paraded the Jules Rimet Trophy, the FA Cup and the Football League Trophy around Goodison Park.
The Canadian Hell Drivers broadcast in the Where The Action Is strand. The first UK broadcast of Twenty Three Skidoo on BBC2.
The first episode of BBC2's Double Image broadcast. Everton signed World Cup winner Alan Ball from Blackpool for one hundred and twelve thousand quid.
The War Against Crime: Do We Need A National Police Force? broadcast. Gerald Thomas's Carry On Screaming - starring Harry H Corbett, Kenneth Williams ('Frying Tonight!'), Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sim, Angela Douglas, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth and Jon Pertwee - premiered. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's They're A Weird Mob - starring Chips Rafferty and Walter Chiari and Richard Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage - starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence and Arthur O'Connell - premiered. Jefferson Airplane's Takes Off and The Pussyfoot's 'Freeloader'/'Things That Still Remind Me' released.
The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet featured on BBC2's Jazz 625.
The first episode of Dusty broadcast. Les Sorcieres De Salem shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The Tay Road Bridge opened.
Twenty-Four Hours: Direct From Hungary broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's The Extravagant Story Of The Motor Car broadcast. David Bowie's 'I Dig Everything'/'I'm Not Losing Sleep', The Koobas' 'Sweet Music'/'Face', The Overlanders' 'Go Where You Wanna Go'/'Don't Let It Happen Again', The Mindbenders' 'Ashes To Ashes'/'You Don't Know About Love', David Essex's 'Thigh High'/'De Boom Lay Boom', Episode Six's 'Here, There And Everywhere'/'Mighty Morris Ten', The Eyes' 'Good Day Sunshine'/'Please Don't Cry', Darrell Banks' 'Open The Door To Your Heart'/'Our Love', Jimmy Smith's 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Parts 1 & 2)', The Magnificent Men's 'Peace Of Mind'/'All Your Lovin's Gone To My Head', The Mike Cotton Sound's 'Harlem Shuffle'/'Like That' and The Isley Brothers' 'I Guess I'll Always Love You'/'I Hear A Symphony' released.
Following the success of the World Cup, Match Of The Day switched from BBC2 to BBC1. The opening match was Chelsea's two-one win at a West Ham United side containing Moore, Hurst and Peters (John Hollins and Charlie Cooke were on-target for The Blues). Elsewhere in the First Division, Manchester United beat West Bromwich Albion five-three (Nobby Stiles getting on the scoresheet), Arsenal won three-one at Sunderland and newly-promoted duo Southampton and Manchester City drew one-all at The Dell. Spurs beat Leeds United three-one (a fit-again Jimmy Greaves amongst the scorers) in a match best remembered for an iconic photograph taken by Daily Mirror photographer Monte Fresco of an enraged Dave Mackay grabbing Billy Bremner by the scruff of his neck and, seemingly, about to kick his ginger-heed right in. Gordon Harris hit three in Burnley's four-nil victory over Sheffield United. Champions Liverpool also got off to a winning start, beating Leicester City three-two (Roger Hunt putting one of the goals past England colleague Gordon Banks). Alan Ball scored on his Everton debut, a one-nil win at Fulham. Having endured the worst season in their history to date, relegated Blakburn Rovers got off to a good start to their life in the Second Division, winning three-two at Derby County. Kevin Hector started the Fourth Division season as he finished the last, scoring, in Bradford Park Avenue's four-one defeat of Notts County. The first UK broadcast of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium on BBC2. Manfred Mann, Twice As Much, The Fourmost, The Lorne Gibson Trio and Friday Brown featured on Saturday Club. The White Falcon broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Focus broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Fly The Helicopter broadcast.
Tom Stoppard's A Separate Peace broadcast in BBC2's Double Image strand. European Journal: Health broadcast. The Supremes A' Go-Go released. Under a new captain, Brian Close, England beat the West Indies in the fifth test at The Oval by an innings and thirty four runs thanks to impressive lower order batting from John Murray, John Snow and Ken Higgs and another hundred from Tom Graveney. Nevertheless, the tourists - for whom Rohan Kanhai also scored a century - won the series three-one. Dennis Amiss made his test debut. The first episode of The Informer broadcast on Rediffusion.
Ralph Izzard's Snake Boats & Cats broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Rodney Marsh scored four in Queens Park Rangers' five-nil demolition of Colchester United in the First Round of the League Cup. In the First Division, Burnley beat Fulham three-nil, Denis Law scored twicve as Manchester united won two-one at Everton and a Ron McGarry penalty secured the points of Newcastle United at Sheffiled United.
A Rich Man's Bird broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was first staged, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Soviet Union launched the Luna 11 space probe, preparing to send its own photographs of the Moon taken from lunar orbit. After the probe arrived, however, unidentified debris lodged in one of its attitude control engines and the camera could not be aimed at the lunar surface. Shrewsbury Town defeated Wrexham six-one in the Football League Cup First Round. Tranmere Rovers won five-two at Chester. Birmingham City enjoyed a five-four victory at Portsmouth in the Second Division.
Slaughter At Speed broadcast. The first episode of The Corridor People broadcast on Rediffusion.
How To Steal A Million, The Russians Are Coming and Nevada Smith featured on Film Preview. The Who's 'I'm A Boy'/'In The City', Shorty Long's 'Function At The Junction'/'Call On Me', Eddie Cave & The Fyx's 'It's Almost Good'/'Fresh Out Of Tears', Justin Hayward's 'I Can't Face The World Without You'/'I'll Be Here Tomorrow', The Jeeps' 'Ain't It A Great Big Laugh'/'I Put On My Shoes', The Spencer Davis Group's 'When I Come Home'/'Trampoline', The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's 'Alley Oop'/'Button Up Your Overcoat', The Track's 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love?'/'Cry To Me', Ramsey Lewis's 'Wade In The Water'/'Ain't That Peculiar', The Sorrows' 'Let Me In'/'How Love Used To Be', Wayne Gibson's 'For No One'/'He's Got The Whole World In His Hands', The Go Lucky Four's 'World Cup Alfie'/'Great Train Robbery', Evie Sands' 'Picture Me Gone'/'It Makes Me Laugh', Wilson Pickett's 'Land Of A Thousand Dances'/'You're So Fine', Danny Monday's 'Baby, Without You'/'Good Taste Of Love' and The Walker Brothers' Portrait released. Richard Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage and Václav Vorlícek's Who Wants To Kill Jessie? - starring Dana Medřická, Jiří Sovák and Olga Schoberová - premiered. The first episode of The Corridor People broadcast on Rediffusion.
This is Joan Baez broadcast. Juliet Harmer and Engelbert Humperdinck appeared on Juke Box Jury. An Evening With Rolf Harris and Xa! Xa! broadcast on BBC2. Val Doonican, The Mindbenders, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers and The Overlanders featured on Saturday Club. The first episode of Victorian Lady Travellers broadcast on The Home Service. Seeds Of Strife broadcast on Network Three. Jackie Sinclair scored a hat-trick in Leicester City's five-four defeat of West Ham United in the First Division. Leeds United's three-pne victory over Manchester United featured on Match Of The Day. Sixty four thousand were at Goddison where Everton won the Merseyside derby three-one (Alan Ball scoring twice). Burnley (two-one winners at West Bromwich Albion) and Arsenal (who beat Aston Villa one-nil) held the division's only one hundred per cent record after three games. Ipswich town were the Second Division's early pace-setters with a three-one victory over Wolves.
Mozart From Salzburg broadcast on BBC2. Susan Hampshire introduced Disney Time.
The Abbey Grange broadcast in the Sherlock Holmes strand. The Vanishing Coast broadcast on BBC2.The Lennon & McCartney Songbook broadcast on The Light Programme. Meanwhile, The Beatles played their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise featured on The Home Service's Desert Island Discs. The first episode of The Irish Dream broadcast on Network Three.
Joe Brown At Clapham broadcast. The mid-air collision of an LAPD police helicopter and a radio station's traffic reporting helicopter, over Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, killed the five people on both aircraft. Barrow went top of the Fourth Division with a three-two victory at Barnsley (Jimmy Mulholland scoring twice).
Lynn Davies won gold in the long jump at the European Athletics Championship in Budapest. Why Aren't You Famous? broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Losers broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand.
Woody Allen was the guest comedian on Dusty. Andrzej Munk's Men Of The Blue Cross shown on BBC2's World Cinema strand. Peter Duffell's Company Of Fools - starring Barrie Ingham, Jacqueline Jones, Maurice Kaufmann and Garfield Morgan - premiered.
The Kirov Ballet's production of Aida from the rena at Verona broadcast. Los Bravos' 'I Don't Care'/'Don't Be Left Out In The Cold', Finders Keepers' 'Light'/'Come On Now', The Supremes' 'You Can't Hurry Love'/'Put Yourself In My Place', Marvin Gaye's 'Little Darling (I Need You)'/'Hey Diddle Diddle', Chubby Checker's 'Hey You! Little Boo-ga-loo'/'Pussy Cat', Manchester's Playboys' 'I Feel So Good'/'I Close My Eyes', The High & The Mighty's 'Tryin' To Stop Cryin'/'Escape From Cuba', Paul & Ritchie & The Crying Shames' 'September In The Rain'/'Come On Back', The Tony Jackson Group's 'Follow Me'/'Walk, Walk, Walk', Tommy Vance's 'You Must Be The One'/'Why Treat Me This Way?', Lou Rawls' 'Love Is A Hurtin' Thing'/'Memory Lane', Nancy Wilson's 'You've Got Your Troubles'/'Uptight (Everything's Alright)', Loretta Williams' 'Baby Cakes'/'I'm Missing You', James Brown & The Famous Flames' 'Money Won't Change You (Parts 1 & 2)', Shades Of Blue's 'Oh! How Happy'/'Little Orphan Boy' and Love's 'Seven & Seven Is'/'Number Fourteen' released. Don Sharp's The Brides Of Fu Manchu - starring Christopher Lee and Douglas Wilmer - premiered.
The first episode of the Quick Before They Catch Us serial The Weasel Goes Pop broadcast. Tristan Da Cunha: A Step Out Of Time broadcast on BBC2. The Alan Price Set, The Spencer Davis Group and The Small Faces featured on Saturday Club. Barely five months after the death of Norwich's Barry Butler, a second current Football League player died in a car crash; John Nicholson, Doncaster Rovers's centre-half and captain who had previously played for Port Vale and Liverpool. On 1 September, returning from a visit to Stoke-on-Trent with his team-mate Alick Jeffrey, John's car was in collision with a lorry near Warmsworth. Both men were badly injured, but although Alick recovered to play again, John died after failing to regain consciousness (whilst his tea-mates were playing a goalless draw at Brighton & Hove Albion in the Third Division). Neil Martin hit a hat-trick in Sunderland's four-nil defeat of Blackpool in the First Division. Spurs beat Arsenal three-one in front of fifty six thousand at White Hart Lane. Warwickshire beat Worcester by five wickets in the final of The Gillette Cup at Lord's, Bob Barber scoring a match-winning sixty six. The Sweet Voice Of Summer by Sheila Hodgson broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Jim Hogan won gold in the Marathon at the European Athletics Championship in Budapest, Great Britain's second goal of the event. Trinidad broadcast in BBC2's Life strand.
The first episode of Jennings broadcast. A Type Of Concern broadcast in BBC2's Double Image strand. John Gilling's Where The Bullets Fly - starring Tom Adams, Dawn Addams and Michael Ripper and Stanley Willis's The Haunted Man - starring Keith Barron, James Ellis, Alexandra Bastedo, Isobel Black and Tenniel Evans - premiered.

Take Another Note broadcast. Peter Collinson's controversial documentary The Girls Up West about 'London's sleazy side' broadcast in BBC2's Women, Women, Women strand. Author Audrey Erskine Lindop appeared on Woman Hour discussing her latest novel, the classic thriller I Start Counting. Peter & Gordon's Lady Godiva'/'Morning's Calling' and David Garrick's 'Dear Mrs Applebee'/'You're What I'm Living For' released.
Share A Pigeon Pie broadcast in the Look strand.
The first episode of Hans Hass's Man broadcast. Jack Smight's Kaleidoscope- starring Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill and Eric Porter - premiered. In the First Division, West Ham united won four-one at Manchester City.
Highlights of The Beaulieu World Folk Festival broadcast on BBC2. The Chase, Kaleidoscope and Assault On A Queen featured on Film Preview. The Outer Galaxies broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Jacques Dutronc's 'Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi'/'Mini-Mini-Mini', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Bend It!'/'She's So Good', Hat & Tie's 'Chance For Romance'/'California Jazz Club', The Spectres' 'I (Who Have Nothing)'/'Neighbour, Neighbour', John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers' 'Parchman Farm'/'Key To Love', Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra's 'The Trap'/'Operation Crossbow', Joe Tex's 'You Better Believe It Baby'/'I Believe I'm Gonna Make It', The Outsiders' 'Respectable'/'Lost In My World', Chuck Jackson's 'Chains Of Love'/'I Keep Forgettin', Little Anthony & The Imperials's 'Gonna Fix You Good (Every Time You're Bad)'/'You Better Take It Easy Baby', The Mad Lads' 'Sugar Sugar'/'Get Out Of My Life Woman', Fingers Lee & The Upperhand's 'Bossy Boss'/'Don't Run Away' and Birds Birds' 'Say Those Magic Words'/'Daddy Daddy' released. Bobby Cummings scored a hat-trick in Darlington's four-nil win at Doncaster Rovers in the third Division.
The first episode of Ransom For A Pretty Girl broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Smugglers broadcast. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, The Fortunes, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, Glen Dale, The Spectres and The Reg Guest Syndicate featured on Saturday Club. Muhammad Ali beat Karl Mildenberger in Frankfirst to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. Seventeen year old Colin Todd made his debut for Sunderland against Chelsea in the First Division, the first of six hundred and sixty one games, for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United, Luton Town and England, in a career that lasted until 1984. Seven of the day's eleven First Division games ended in one-all draws. West Bromwich Albion bucked the trend, hammering Fulham five-one at The Hawthorns. On Match Of The Day Spurs beat Manchester United two-one, lan Gilzean scoring a late winner. Francis Lee's goal gave Bolton Wanderers a one-nil win over Huddersfield Town as they topped the Second Division, ahead of Ipswich Town (who drew at Bristol City) and Blackburn Rovers (four-one victors over Cardiff City).
Dusty Springfield appeared on The Ken Dodd Show. The Dolphins That Joined the Navy broadcast in the Horizon strand.
The Man With The Twisted Lip broadcast in the Sherlock Holmes strand. Impossible Odds broadcast in BBC2's Double Image strand. Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon piloted Gemini 11 into orbit.
Travellers' Tales: Blind Man's Road, Eric Davidson's documentary about The Appian Way, broadcast. In the Football League Cup Second Round, Third Division Walsall knocked-out top flight Stroke City two-one, whilst Swindon Town thumped Portsmouth four-one and Ispwich Town won four-two at Brentford.
Viewpoint: Rapture & Rebellion broadcast. The West German Navy submarine U-Hai, launched in 1957 as the first German sub since the end of World War II, foundered and sank during exercises in the North Sea, killing twenty of the twenty one-member crew. The British trawler St Martin rescued the lone survivor about two hundred miles East of Tynemouth. Further League Cup Second Round ties took place; Blackpool thrashed Manchester United five-one (Ray Charnley netting three), Chelsea beat Charlton Athletic five-two, Leicester City demolished Reading five-nil, Ron Davies, recently signed from Norwich, hit three for Southampton in their four-three defeat of PLymouth Argyle and Bobby Hope also scored a hat-trick as West Bromwich Albion thrashed Aston Villa six-one. Manchester City beat Bolton Wanderers three-one. Francis Lee hit Bolton's goal. Within three months, City bosses Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison would pay sixty thousand smackers for him as a key piece of the potentially championship-winning squad they were assembling at Maine Road. Northern Irish champions Linfield thrashed FC Aris Bonnevoie of Luxembourg six-one at Windsor Park in the European Cup First Round completing a nine-four aggregate victory (Arthur Thomas hit three).
Peter Cook featured on Dusty. Christopher Burstall's HG Wells profile, Whoosh broadcast. Thefirst episode of BBC2's Conversations With Glenn Gould brodcast. Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, was launched from Barrow-in-Furness. Sidney Hayers' The Trap - starring Rita Tushingham and Oliver Reed - premiered.
The first episode of Foreign Affairs broadcast. Tom Paxton, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Jack Elliott and The Dubliners featured on the Beaulieu World Folk Festival. The one hundredth episode of BBC2's Wheelbasebroadcast. Peter & Gordon and The Mindbenders appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Francois Truffaut's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner and Cyril Cusack - premiered. Peter Sellers & The Hollies' 'After The Fox'/'The Fox-Trot', Wee Willie Harris's 'Someone's In The Kitchen With Diana'/'Walk With Peter & Paul', The David Lindup Orchestra's 'Survival'/'New Forest', The Singing Postman's 'Roundabout'/'The Ladies Darts Team', The Nite People's 'Sweet Tasting Wine'/'Nobody But You', The Marmalade's 'It's All Leading Up To Saturday Night'/'Wait A Minute, Baby', The Renegades' 'Thirteen Women'/'Walking Down The Street', The Loving Kind's 'Ain't That Peculiar'/'With Rhyme & Reason', Gladys Knight & The Pips' 'Just Walk In My Shoes'/'Stepping Closer To Your Heart', The Hi-Fi's 'It's Gonna Be Morning'/'I Wanna Hear You Say Yeah', Karol Keyes' 'One In A Million'/'Don't Jump', The Royalettes' 'It's A Big Mistake'/' I Want To Meet Him', The Thrills' 'No One'/'What Can Go Wrong?', Len Barry's 'I Struck It Rich'/'Love Is', Suzi Jane Hokom's 'Need All The Help I Can Get'/'Home (I'm Home)', Little Mac & The Boss Sounds' 'In The Midnight Hour'/'You Can't Love Me', The Holidays' 'I'll Love You Forever'/'Makin' Up Time', Rosco Robinson's 'That's Enough'/'One More Time', Georgie Fame's 'Sunny'/'Don't Make Promises' and The Walker Brothers' 'Another Tear Falls'/'Saddest Night In The World' released. Workington thrashed Swansea Town six-three in the Third Division.
Fanny Craddock appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Angry Voices Of Watts broadcast on BBC2. The Who appeared on Saturday Club performing 'Disguises', 'I'm A Boy', 'Heat Wave', 'So Sad About Us' and a cover of The Lovin' Spoonful's 'On The Road Again'. The programme also saw Pete Townshend interviewed by Brian Matthew. Other guests included The Searchers and and The Cryin' Shames. Fanny's First Playbroadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Derby County's two-one defeat at Crystal Palace in the Second Division saw the debut of Kevin Hector, recently signed from Bradford Park Avenue, the first of five hundred and eighty one games for The Rams in a career that lasted (in two spells) until 1982. In the process Hector broke Ron Webster's appearance record for the club, established in 1977 and Steve Bloomer's record of four hundred and seventy four League appearances which had stood since 1913. Chelsea's six-two victory at Aston Villa in the First Division, including five goals from Bobby Tambling, featured on Match Of The Day. Other highlights included Everton's five-four defeat of West Bromwich Albion, Nottingham Forest's three-nil hammering of Newcastle United and Stoke City beating Sheffield United by the same score. Bolton Wanderers won five-two at Cardiff City in the Second Division, with Wyn Davies scoring two whilst watched by scouts from half-a-dozen top flight clubs. Huddersfield Town thrashed Charlton Athletic four-one (Colin Dobson and Tony Leighton each score two) and Wolverhampton Wanderers thumped Blackburn Rovers four-nil. In the Third Division Doncaster Rovers' defensive frailties following a tragic death of John Nicholson were, again, cruelly exposed, losing six-nil at Queens Park Rangers. Robin Stubbs netted four in Torquay United's five-two victory over Walsall. Stockport County remained top of the Fourth Division following a three-nil win at Luton Town.
Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait broadcast. Tom Paxton appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person.
The Price Of Time broadcast in BBC2's Double Image strand. Alfred Hitchcock discussed the technique of creating suspense with Philip Jenkinson in A Film Profile. Scotland Yard detectives arrested Ronald Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery. His story would be - somewhat too sympathetically - dramatised in the rubbish 1988 movie Buster. Tragically, odious kickable slapheed Phil Collins was never arrested for his crimes against acting.
David Wheeler's documentary Suez The Nine Day War broadcast. The first episode of North & South broadcast on BBC2. Burnley opened their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup campaign with a one-all draw at VfB Stuttgart (Willie Irvine scoring the equaliser). Birmingham City knocked First Division Nottingham Forest out of the League Cup with a two-one victory. Alan Woodward scored as Sheffield United defeated Sundeerland one-nil.
Floyd Patterson chinned Henry Cooper in four rounds at the Empire Pool, Wembley. It was Henry's first fight since Muhammad Ali spanked him for a second time at Highbury in May. How I Love My Freedom broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Swansea City drew one-all with Slavia Sofia in the first leg of the Cup Winners Cup First Round. Keith Tood scored for the Welsh Cup holders. Gillignham's League Cup Second Round replay with Arsenal ended one-all after extra time. Terry Wharton scored three as Wolves thumped Cardiff City seven-one in the Second Division.
Ken Russell's Isadora: The Biggest Dancer In The World broadcast. Andrzej Munk's Bad Luck broadcast in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Rolling Stones' 'Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?'/'Who's Driving Your Plane?', The Troggs' 'I Can't Control Myself'/'Gonna Make You', The Zombies' 'Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself'/'The Way I Feel Inside', The Thoughts' 'All Night Stand'/'Memory Of Your Love', The Kytes' 'Frosted Panes'/'I'll Give You Better Love', Pinkerton's Colours' 'Magic Rocking Horse'/'It Ain't Right', Françoise Hardy's 'Autumn Rendezvous'/'It's My Heart', Lou Lawton's 'Doing The Philly Dog'/'I Am Searching (For My Baby)', The Downliners Sect's 'The Cost Of Living'/'Everything I've Got To Give' and The Kirkbys' 'It's A Crime'/'I've Never Been So Much In Love' released. The cargo airline ACE Freighters ceased operations and was placed in liquidation after having run up large debts for fuel. Hull City annihilated Northampton Town six-one in the Second Division. The first episode of Conflict - The Lady's Not For Burning - broadcast on Rediffusion.
Alma Cogan was scheduled to appear on Juke Box Jury but was unable to due to illness. A Walk In The Sun shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Jimi Hendrix arrived in the UK having been spotted by former Animals bassist Chas Chandler playing in a New York club. Let Me See Your Face broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Coventry City's three-nil victory over Bury in the Second Division saw the club debut of John Tudor, the first of four hundred and eight games - for Coventry, Sheffield United, Newcastle United and Stoke City - in a career that lasted until 1979. Manchester United's four-one defeat of Burnley featured on Match Of The Day. Other First Division highlights included Derek Dougan scoring three in Leicester City's five-nil humbling of Aston Villa, Chelsea's three-one victory over Arsenal and Liverpool's two-two draw with Sunderland. Alan Durban netted a hat-trick in Derby County's four-three defeat of Huddersfield Town in the Second Division. Charlton Athletic thrashed Cardiff City five-nil. In the Third Division Queens Park Rangers won seven-one at Mansfield Town (Rodney Marsh scoring three). Middlesbrough defeated Workington three-two (Arthur Horsfield netting two). Shrewsbury Town beat Scunthorpe United four-three.
The National Youth Theatre's production of Troilus & Cressida broadcast, directed by Bernard Hepton and featuring the TV débuts of Timothy Dalton and Kenneth Cranham. The Disturbed Child broadcast in the Horizon strand. The first colour episode of The Saint - Queen's Ransom - broadcast on ATV London.
Enid Lormier read The Cat That Walked by Himself on Jackanory. Hugh Gladwish's The Gost Goes Gear - starring The Spenser Davis Group, Sheila White and Nicholas Parsons - premiered. In the Fourth Division, Ray Smith and Dai Jones scored hat-tricks (in Southend United's five-one humbling of Chester and Newport County's four-one defeat of Chesterfield, respectively).
Defection!: The Case Of Colonel Petrov broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Johnny Mathis appeared on BBC2's International Cabaret. Ralph Coates and Andy Lochhead were on-target as Burnley beat VfB Stuttgart two-nil to progress to the Second Round of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
A Hero Of Our Time broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Major & The Minor shown in BBC2's The Vintage Years of Hollywood strand. Ian St John and Ian Callaghan scored in Liverpool's two=nil defeat of Romanian champions Petrolul Ploiesti in the first leg of the European Cup First Round. Everton opened their Cup Winners Cup campaign with a goalless draw in Denmark against AaB Aalborg. Dunfermaline completed a comfortable aggregate win of SK Frigg of Norway in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round, winning their second leg three-one at East End Park (Pat Delaney and Tommy Callaghan scoring). Arsenal thrashed Gillingham five-nil in a League Cup Second Round second replay (Tommy Baldwin and Frank McLintock scoring twice each). The first episode of The Frost Programme broadcast on Rediffusion.
The Greatest Gamble broadcast. Vittorio De Sica's After The Fox - starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland and Victor Mature - premiered. Burnley beat Shrewsbury Town five-one in the League Cup Second Round. The first episode of The New Forest Rustlers broadcast on Rediffusion.
The Troggs' 'I Can't Control Myself'/'Gonna Make You', Jimmy Ruffin's 'What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?'/'Baby I've Got It', The Temptations' 'Beauty Is Only Skin Deep'/'You're Not An Ordinary Girl', Cat Stevens' 'I Love My Dog'/'Portobello Road', Rolf Harris's 'Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?'/'Animals Pop Party', Question Mark & The Mysterians' 'Ninety Six Tears'/'Midnight Hour', Oscar's 'Join My Gang'/'Day Gone By', Mo & Steve's 'Oh What A Day It's Going To Be'/'Reach Out For Your Lovin' Touch', The VIP's 'I Wanna Be Free'/'Don't Let It Go', The Vikings' 'Bad News Feeling'/'What Can I Do?', The Ugly's 'End Of The Season'/'Can't Recall Her Name', The Roaring Sixties' 'We Love The Pirates'/'I'm Leaving Town', The Ugly's 'End Of The Season'/'Can't Recall Her Name', Bruno's 'The English Girl'/'The Driver', George Martin & His Orchestra's 'By George! It's The David Frost Theme'/'(Serenade To) A Double Scotch', Bobby Darin's 'If I Were A Carpenter'/'Rainin', Keith Powell & Billie Davis's 'Swingin' Tight'/'That's Really Some Good', Billy Preston's 'Sunny'/'Let The Music Play', Brian Poole's 'Everything I Touch Turns To Tears'/'I Need Her Tonight' and Bruno's 'The English Girl'/'The Driver' released. Stockport County remained top of the Fourth Division, Frank Lord's goal givign them a one=nil victory over Southport. The first episode of Intrigue - Scratch the Surface & What Do You Find? - broadcast on Rediffusion.
Una Stubbs, Lena Martell, Kenneth Horne and Jimmy Young appeared on Juke Box Jury. How They Filmed Grand Prix brodcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The Spinners featured on Tonight In Person. Former Nazi leaders Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released from Spandau Prison at midnight after twenty years of incarceration. Jimi Hendrix made his first public appearance in Britain, jamming with The Cream at a gig at Regent Street's London Polytechnic on Howlin' Wolf's 'Killing Floor'. Afterwards Eric Clapton reportedly told Chas Chandler 'when you said he was good, I didn't think you mean't that good!' It was a high-scoring day in the First Division, with Leicester City winning four-two at Arsenal; there were also victories by the same score for West Ham United at Sunderland and Southampton against Sheffield Wednesday. Sheffield United beat West Bromwich Albion four-three and Tottenham Hotspur defeated Fulham by the same score. Nottingham Forest thrashed Manchester United four-one (Chris Crowe scoring three) and Chelsea won four-one at Manchester City (featured on Match of The Day). Liverpool won three-two at Aston Villa. Fifty goals were scored in eleven fixture though Stoke City and Leeds United let the side down, somewhat, with a goalless draw at the Victoria Ground. A clash between the Second Division's top two saw Ipswich Town and Bolton Wanderers shared four goals at Portman Road. Queens Park Rangers thrashed Grimsby Town five-one in the Third Division. Brighton & Hove Albion, after a horrible start to the season, hauleds themselves off the botom of the division with a five-two defeat of Peterborough United (Wally Gould and Kit Napier both scorign twice). Michael O'Herlihy's The Fighting Prince Of Donegal and Herbert Leder's The Frozen Dead - starring Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Kathleen Breck, Karel Stepanek, Basil Henson and Edward Fox - premiered. The first episode of All Square broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Talking To A Stranger broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2. The first episode of The Woman In White broadcast.
The first episode of Joe broadcast in the Watch With Mother strand. Dinsdale Landen read Philippa Pearce's Minnow On The Say in Jackanory. Alun Owen's The Other Fella broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Peter Duffell's Payment In Kind - starring Justine Lord, Maxine Audley, Brian Haines, Derrick Sherwin, Gwen Cherrell and Henry McGee - premiered.
The first episode of The Springs Of Learning broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Europa broadcast. Richard Martin's Infamous Conduct - starring Dermot Walsh, Bridget Armstrong, John Maxim and Richard Warner - premiered.
Rag-Bone broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Peter Osgood broke his leg playing for Chelsea at Blackpool in a Football League Cup tie. It kept him out of football for the rest of the season. Swansea Town exited the European Cup Winners Cup, losing the second leg of their tie with Slavia Sofia four-nil. Northern Ireland's Glentoran were beaten four-nil by Glasgow Rangers. Glasgow Celtic, meanwhile, wrapped up a five-nil aggregate win over FC Zürich in the European Cup, Tommy Gemmell and Stevie Chalmers on-target in a three-nil vcitory in Switzerland. West Ham United won three-one at Arsenal in the League Cup whilst Fulham and Leicester City enjoyed five-nil victories (against Wolves and Lincoln City respectively). West Bromwich Albion defeated Manchester City four-two. John Frankenheimer's Seconds - starring Rock Hudson - premiered.
The first episode of Top Of The Pops presented by Simon Dee broadcast. The Machine Stops broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand.
The first episode of Barry Cunliffe's Roman Britain broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. See You In Hell, Darling featured on Film Preview. The Four Tops' 'Reach Out I'll Be There'/'Until You Love Someone', Carla Thomas's 'B-A-B-Y'/'What Have You Got To Offer Me?', Cream's 'Wrapping Paper'/'Cat's Squirrel', The Hollies' 'Stop, Stop, Stop'/'It's You', The Creation's 'Painter Man'/'Biff Bang Pow!', The Moody Blues' 'Boulevard De La Madelaine'/'This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)', The Montanas' 'That's When Happiness Began'/'Goodbye Little Girl', Him & The Others' 'I Mean It'/'She's Got Eyes That Tell Lies', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'Time Drags By'/'La La La Song', Spike Milligan's 'Purple Aeroplane'/'Nothing At All', Laura Nyro's 'Wedding Bell Blues'/'Stoney End', Tuesday's Children's 'High On A Hill'/'Summer Leaves Me With A Sigh', Bobby Goldsboro's 'It Hurts Me'/'Pity The Fool', A Wild Uncertainty's 'A Man With Money'/'Broken Truth', The Tages' 'Crazy 'Bout My Baby'/'In My Dreams', The Knack's 'Save All My Love For Joey'/'Take Your Love', Jimmy Holiday's 'Baby I Love You'/'You Won't Get Away', Lowell Fulsom's 'Talking Woman'/'Blues Around Midnight', Wishful Thinking's 'Step By Step'/'Looking Around', Nancy Sinatra's 'In Our Time'/'Leave My Dog Alone', Homer Banks' 'A Lot Of Love'/'Fighting To Win', Alvin Cash & The Registers' 'The Philly Freeze'/'No Deposits, No Returns', Jackie Edwards' 'I Feel So Bad'/'I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Of', Frankie Valli's 'You're Ready Now'/'Cry For Me', Michael Aldred's 'Just Around The Corner'/'Don't Make Promises' and The Wolves' 'Lust For Life'/'My Baby Loves Them' released. Montgomery Tully's Who Killed The Cat? - starring Mary Merrall, Ellen Pollock, Amy Dalby, Mervyn Johns, Vanda Godsell and Natasha Pyne - premiered.
The Cybermen appeared on Doctor Who for the first time in the serial The Tenth Planet. Sir Brian Horrocks's The Invasion That Never Was... broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Tonight In Person: Esther & Abraham Ofarimbroadcast. The Troggs, Paul Jones and Georgie Fame With The Harry South Big Band featured on Saturday Club. The Iron Duchess broacast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Denis Law's two goals in Manchester United's two-one win at Blackpool saw them go to into the top five of the First Division, led by Spurs (two-one winners at Manchester City). Nottingham Forest lost three-nil at Leicester City whilst Stoke City enjoyed a three-one victory at Sheffield Wednesday. Arsenal defeated Newcastle united two-nil on Match Of The Day (Micky Boot opening the scoring and a Frank Clark own goal settling the game). Wyn Davies hit a hat-trick for Second Division leaders Bolton Wanderers who defeated Preston North End four-two. Barry Dyson also hit three in Crystal Palace's five-one victory over Northampton Town whilst Derby County beat Millwall by the same score. Ken Wagstaff scored four in Hull City's four-two win at Cardiff City. John Fairbrother netted three for Peterborough who beat Workington three-nil in the Third Division.
Cilla Black guest-starred on Billy Cotton's Music-Hall. Angela Douglas, Kenneth More, Fenella Fielding and Danny Blanchflower featured on Call My Bluff.

The first episode of Bridges For Pleasure - presented by Joan Bakewell - broadcast in the Merry-Go-Round strand. The Devil & All His Mischief broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Ten Years In The Antarcticbroadcast in the Horizon strand. The Monkees' debut LP and Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme released.
Jean Renoir was profiled on BBC2's New Release. Football In America broadcast on Sportsview. Everton reached the Second Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, defeating AaB Aalborg two-one.
Some Of My Best Friends Are White broadcast in the Man Alivestrand. Liverpool narrowly avoided being knocked out of the European Cup, losing the second leg of their First Round tie with Petrolul Ploiesti three-one in Romania but surviving to earn a replay. Chris Balderstone scored twice as Carlisle United knocked Southampton out of the Football League Cup in a replay at Brunton Park. Brighton & Hove Albion won three-one at Coventry City (Mick Coop making his debut for The Sky Blues).
Malcolm Muggeridge's A Socialist Childhood broadcast. Frankenstein Mark II broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Michael Mason's A Bayeux Tapestry broadcast on Network Three. The UK premiere of Michael Powell's They're A Weird Mob - starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Claire Dunne.
Leo Aylen's 1065 & All That broadcast. The Planet With The Rings broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. 1066 - The Truth broadcast in BBC2's Late Night Line-Up strand. Eric Burdon & The Animals' 'Help Me Girl'/'See See Rider', The Byrds' 'Mister Spaceman'/'What's Happening?!?!', The Cream's 'Wrapping Paper'/'Cat's Squirrel', John's Children's 'The Love I Thought I'd Found'/'Strange Affair', Cilla Black's 'Fool Am I'/'For No One', Chris Farlowe's 'Ride On Baby'/'Headlines', The Creation's 'Painter Man'/'Biff Bang Bow', The Monkees' 'Last Train To Clarksville'/'Take A Giant Step', Belfast Gipsies' 'Gloria's Dream'/'Secret Police', Herbal Mixture's 'A Love That's Died'/'Tailor Made', Eddie Floyd's 'Knock On Wood'/'Got To Make A Comeback', The Gibsons' 'Two Kinds Of Lovers'/'Hey Girl', Barry Mason's 'Over The Hills & Far Away'/'Collection Of Recollections', Mike Quinn's 'Someone's Slipping Into My Mind'/'I Know That You Know', Lance Percival's 'End Of The Season'/'Our Jim', Janis Ian's 'Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)'/'Letter To Jon', James Young's 'I Protest'/'I'm The Only Catholic (On The Linfield Team)', The Fingers' 'I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing'/'My Way Of Thinking', Fontella Bass' 'Safe & Sound'/'You'll Never Ever Know', The Ikettes' 'What'cha Gonna Do?'/'Down, Down', Jerry Jackson's 'It's Rough Out There'/'I'm Gonna Paint A Picture', Lucas' 'I Saw Pity In The Face Of A Friend'/'Dance Children Dance', Frankie & Johnny's 'Climb Every Mountain'/'I Wanna Make You Understand', Marvin Smith's 'Time Stopped'/'Have More Time', Johnny Wyatt's 'This Thing Called Love'/'To Whom It May Concern', Pat Hervey With The Tiaras & Art Snider's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Mind'/'Givin' In', The Creatures' 'String Along'/'The Night Is Warm' and The Easybeats' 'Friday On My Mind'/'Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It' released. Peter Glenville's Hotel Paradiso - starring Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida and Robert Morley - premiered. Southend United went top of the Fourth Division following a four-one victory over Port Vale.
Hancock At The Royal Festival Hall broadcast on BBC2. The Late Show - featuring John Bird, John Fortune, Eleanor Bron and, for probably the first time on British TV playing Dame Edna, Barry Humphries - broadcast. Cilla Black, Adam Faith, Chris Farlowe, Robert Parker, The Four Pennies, Wynder K Frog and The Imp-Acts featured on Saturday Club. Face Among The Shadows broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the First Division, Blackpool pickedup their first win of the season, three-one at table-toppers Tottenham Hotspur allowing Stoke City to leapfrog Spirs following a three-two victory over Soputhampton. Burnley thrashed Leicester City five-two, Fulham defeated West Ham United four-two, Leeds United beat Arsenal three-one and Newcastle United won two-nil against Manchester City. Hull City topped the Second Division after a three-one victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Plymouth Argyle thrashed Cardiff City seven-one (Mike Bickle netting four), and Portsmouth beat Ipswich Town four-two. Bristol Rovers and Mansfield Town shared eight goal in the Third Division, whilst Oldham Athletic thumped Walsall six-two. Roger Morgan and Rodney Marsh were on-target as Queens Park Rangers went top of the table with a three-one win at fellow promotion-chasers Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. In the Fourth Division Hartlepools united hammered Lincoln City five-nil, Wrexham thrashed Bradford Park Avenue six-nil and Bradford City defeated Barrow five-two.
The Georgian State Dance Company From The Royal Festival Hall, London broadcast. Canvas: The Woman Taken In Adultery by Giorgione broadcast on BBC2. Richard Lester's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Buster Keaton - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Daktari. Julia Jones's The Spoken Word broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Mark Gatiss born in Sedgefield. Georgy Girl - starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates and James Mason and Spinout - starring Elvis Presley - premiered. Blackpool won three-one at Chelsea in a League Cup Third Round replay. Middlesbrough beat Swansea Town four-one in the third Division. The Fourth Division's top two met at The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham beating Southend United two-nil (Arfon Griffiths and Tom McLaughlin scoring).
Europa: What Europe Says and More Than Meets The Eye broadcast on BBC2. The Ford Cortina MK2 was launched. Billy Bremner, Albert Johanneson and Jimmy Greenhoff were on-target as Leeds United won the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie three-one at DWS Amsterdam.Bristol Rovers topped the Third Division after a four-one victory over Gillingham. Stockport County returned to the top of the Fourth Division, winning one-nil at Bradford Park Avenue.
Terence Dudley's A Piece Of Resistance broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Jesus Wept & So Should All Sinners broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Return Of The Magnificent Seven premiered. Ian St John and Peter Thompson scored as Liverpol beat Petrolul Ploiesti at the Heysal Styadium in Brussels in a European Cup replay. Burnley won three-one at Lausanne-Sports in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round.
Revolution In Hungary broadcast. Lambda I broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand.
The first episode of Jane Burton's Camera In The Caribbean broadcast. Shadow Over The Show broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Aberfan Disaster: One hundred and forty four people (including one hundred and sixteen school children) were killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip. The Yardbirds' 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago'/'Psycho Daisies', The Velvelettes' 'These Things Will Keep Me Loving You'/'Since You've Been Loving Me', Ike & Tina Turner's 'Goodbye, So Long'/'Hurt Is All You Gave Me', St Louis Union's 'East Side Story'/'Think About Me', The Measles' 'Walkin' In'/'Looking For Love', The Majority's 'To Make Me A Man'/'Tears Won't Help', Oscar's 'Join My Gang'/'A Day Gone By', Val Doonican's 'What Would I Be?'/'Gentle Mary', Edwick Rumbold's 'Specially When'/'Come Back', The Alan Bown Set's 'Emergency 999'/'Settle Down', Brenda Lee's 'Coming On Strong'/'You Keep Coming Back To Me', John Barry's 'Vendetta'/'The Danny Scipio Theme', The Count Five's 'Psychotic Reaction'/'They're Gonna Get You', Kim Fowley's 'Lights'/'Something New & Different', The Shotgun Express's 'I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round'/'Curtains', John Barry's 'Vendetta'/'The Danny Scipio Theme', John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' 'Looking Back'/'So Many Roads', The Three Caps' 'I Got To Handle It'/'Zig-Zagging', Billie Davis's 'Just Walk In My Shoes'/'Ev'ry Day' and Manfred Mann's 'Semi-Detached Suburban Mister Jones'/'Morning After The Party' released.
The spy George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs - presumably, whilst most of the screws were watching episode three of The Tenth Planet. The first episode of Breaking Point broadcast on BBC2. England beat Northern Ireland two-nil in the Home International championship at Windsor Park in their first game as World Champions. Roger Hunt and Martin Peteres scored. Linfield winger Billy Ferguson was sent off late in the game after a nasty tackle on Alan Ball. Linfield's Willie McFaul made his international debut as a second-half substitute for the injured Pat Jennings. vWales and Scotland drew one-all at Ninian Park with Ron Davies opening the scoring for the home side and Denis Law equalising for the visitors. Glasgow Celtic's Joe McBride made his Scotland debut. In the First Division, Blackpool thrashed Newcastle United six-nil. Ray Crawford scored three in Ipswich Town's five-four defeat of Hull City as the Second Division's top two met at Portman Road. Queens Park Rangers topped the third Division, beating Leyton Orient four-one. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, The Ivy League, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, The Easybeats and The Montanas featured in Saturday Club. The Other Heartbroadcast in The Home Service's Saturay-Night Theatre strand.
The Walker Brothers' featured on Billy Cotton's Music-Hall. Marianne Faithfull, David Frost, Fanny Cradock and Daniel Massey appeared on Call My Bluff.
The Sounds Of War broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Panorama: Nasser's Egypt broadcast.
The first episode of BBC2's Broome Stages broadcast. Ken Taylor's adaptation of Days To Come broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Andy Lochhead scored three in Burnley's five-nil thumping of Lausanne-Sport in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Dundee United enjoyed one of the greatest nights in their history, winning two-one in Bracelona the first leg of their Secound Round tie. Kilmarnock also enjoyed a victory in the same competition, one-nil at home to Royal Antwerp (Jackie McInally scoring). Queens Park Rangers knocked First Division Leicester City out of the League Cup Fourth Round with a four-two victory.
The Little Hut broadcast. Man Alive: Living Like A Lord broadcast on BBC2. Christian-Jaque's Le Saint Prend L'Affût - starring Jean Marais, Jess Hahn, Jean Yanne, Danièle Evenou and - premiered. Dunfermline Athletic became the third Scottish side to win the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie, defeating Dinamo Zagreb at East End Park Alex Ferguson scoring twice in a four-two win. Leeds united progressed to the Third Round with a five-one thumping of DWS Amsterdam (Albert Johanssen netting three). Chelsea went top of the First Division with a three-nil defeat of Spurs (Tommy Baldwin scoring twice). Blackpool beat Fulham four-two in the League Cup Fourth Round. Dave Wilson scored three in Carlisle United's four-nil drubbing of Blackburn Rovers. Birmingham City won four-two at Grimsby Town. Chelsea signed Tony Hateley from Aston Villa for one hundred thousand quid.
The first UK broadcast of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. JB Priestley's dramatisation of Level Seven broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand.
The first episodes of Beyond The Freeze and Harry Worth broadcast. Bill Naughton's Seeing A Beauty Queen Home - starring John Thaw - broadcast in the Out Of Town Theatre strand. From Brisbane To Brands Hatch broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Kinks' Face To Face, Tom Jones' 'Green, Green Grass Of Home'/'Promise Her Anything', Lloyd Banks' 'We'll Meet Again'/'Look Out Girl', Gates Of Eden's 'Too Much On My Mind'/'I'm Warning You', The Spencer Davis Group's 'Gimme Some Loving'/'Blues In F', Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Devil With A Blue Dress On-Good Golly Miss Molly'/'I Had It Made', Gidian With Chris Lambe & The Universals' 'Feeling'/'Don't Be Sentimental', The Rockin' Vickers' 'Dandy'/'I Don't Need Your Kind', Unit Four Plus Two's 'I Was Only Playing Games'/'I've Seen The Light', Bernard Sharpe's 'Jorrocks'/'Lost In Space', Dean Parrish's 'Turn On Your Love Light'/'Determination', Chapter Five's 'Anything You Do Is Alright'/'You Can't Mean It', The Mockingbirds' 'How To Find A Lover'/'My Story', The Dynatones' 'The Fife Piper'/'And I Always Will', The Mama's & The Papa's 'Look Through My Window'/'Once Was A Time I Thought', The Summer Set's 'Farmer's Daughter'/'What Are You Gonna Do?', The Master Singers' 'Weather Forcast'/'Roadilore', Billy Stewart's 'Secret Love'/'Look Back & Smile', The Dynatones' 'The Fife Piper'/'And I Always Will', Nancy Ames' 'Cry Softly'/'I Don't Want To Talk About It', Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 'Mas Que Nada'/'The Joker', Bobby Hebb's 'A Satisfied Mind'/'Love Love Love', Viola Wills' 'Lost Without The Love Of My Guy'/'I Got Love' and The Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations'/'Wendy' released.
The first regeneration of The Doctor in Doctor Who occurred. Los Paraguayos featured on BBC2's Tonight In Person. Manfred Mann featured on Saturday Club. Between The Tides broadcast on The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Stalin's Russia Seen By Russians broadcast on Network Three. Despite the debut of new signing Wyn Davies, Newcastle United lost the Tyne-Wear derby three-nil in the First Division in front of fifty seven thousand at St James' Park. Chelsea stayed top of the the table, winning three-one at Fulham (Tony Hateley scoring twice). Ernie Hunt scored three in Wolverhampton Wanderers four-nil victory at struggling Northampton Town in the Second Division. Dennis Brown also hit four in Swindon Town's four-one win at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division. Oldham Athletic thrashed Torquay United five-nil and Swansea Town defeated Reading five-two.
The first UK TV showing of Terence Young's They Were Not Divided. Brian Rawlinson's The Leopard & The Dragon broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Cheri Jo Bates, aged eighteen, was stabbed to death at Riverside City College, California. Bates's possible connection to the Zodiac murders only appeared four years later when San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery received a tip-off regarding similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death.
The Excavation broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Jon Pertwee read The Green Witch on Jackanory. Ross Devenish and Abidin Dino's Goal! The World Cup - featuring Nigel Patrick's narration of Brian Glanville's script - premiered.
Lawrence Durrell's Midday Dialogue broadcast on BBC2. Northampton Town put their poor form in the Second Division behind them, thrashing Brighton & Hove Albion eight-nil in the Football League Cup Fourth Round (Don Martin netting four).
Dennis Potter's Where The Buffalo Roam broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. You Rang, Sir? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Richard Brooks's The Professionals - starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin - premiered. England drew nil-nil with Czechoslovakia in a deadly dull friendly international at Wembley. West Bromwich Albion drew one-all with DOS Utrecht in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie. Kilmarnock reached the Third Round, thrashing Royal Antwerp seven-ywo at Rugby Park (Jackie McInally and Tommy McLean both scoring twice for Killie). However, Dunfermline lost two-nil against Dinamo Zagreb and became one of the first sides to be eliminated on the away goals rule. Harry Jarman scored twice as Bristol Rovers won four-three at Shrewsbury Town in the Third Division.
John Lloyd's documentary The Discovery Of Television broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Jazz Goes To College broadcast. The test flight of OPS 0855 for the USAF Manned Orbital Laboratory project was launched on a Titan IIIC-9 from Cape Canaveral. The flight consisted of a Titan II propellant tank and the refurbished capsule from the Gemini 2 mission. The Singing Postman's First Delivery EP ('Come Along A Me', 'Moind Yer Hid Boy'/'Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?', 'A Miss From Diss') released.
The first episode of Vendetta broadcast. Fulton Mackay's The Great Kopalsi broadcast in the Out Of Town Theatre strand. What's In A Name broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Rolling Stones' Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass), Oliver Bone's 'Knock On Wood'/'Jugger Tea', The Motions' 'Every Step I Take'/'Stop Your Crying', Brenda Holloway's 'Hurt A Little Every Day'/'Where Were You', The Bystanders' 'My Love - Come Home'/'If You Walk Away', Katch-22's 'Major Catastrophe'/'Hold Me', Matt Monro's 'Wednesday's Child'/'When You Become A Man', Inez & Charlie Foxx's 'Come By Here'/'No Stranger To Love', Sheila Carter & Episode Six's 'I Will Warm Your Heart'/'Incense', Fleur-De-Lys's 'Mud In Your Eye'/'I've Been Trying', The Wailers' 'He Who Feels It Knows It'/'Sunday Morning', Roy Richards' 'South Viet Nam'/You Must Be Sorry', Alex Harvey's 'Work Song'/'I Can Do Without Your Love', Lorraine Ellison's 'Stay With Me'/'I've Got My Baby Back', Los Cincos's 'Most Exclusive Residence For Sale'/'It's All Over Now', Slim Harpo's 'I'm A King Bee'/'I Got Love If You Want It', The Symbols' 'Canadian Sunset'/'The Gentle Art Of Loving', We The People's 'He Doesn't Go About It Right'/'You Burn Me Up & Down', Steve Darbishire's 'Trains Trains'/'Alma Jones', Slim Harpo's 'I'm A King Bee'/'I Got Love If You Want It', Thane Russal's 'Drop Everything & Run'/'I Need You', The Impac's 'Too Far Out'/'Rat Tat Ta Tat', Dave Berry's 'Picture Me Gone'/'Ann', Johnny Sayles' 'Deep Down In My Heart'/'Anything For You', Jackie Wilson's 'Whispers'/'The Fairest Of Them All' and Dave Davani Four's 'One Track Mind'/'On The Cooler' released.
Patrick Troughton replaced William Hartnell as The Doctor in the first episode of The Power Of The Daleks. London's Burning broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. As I Came Through Sandgate broadcast. Cat Stevens and The Zombies featured on Saturday Club. The Captain's Lady broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Liverpool did Nottingham Forest's First Division title aspirations considerable damnage with a four-nil victory at Anfield. Chelsea remained top despite a three-one defeat at home to Manchester United. West Ham United beat Fulham six-one (Geoff Hurst scoring four, Martin Peters two). Leicester City thrashed Burnley five-one. A Pop Robson penalty gave Newcastle United a point at Manchester City. Ron Davies scored twice as Southampton beat title-challengers Stoke City three-two. Jackie Charlton netting the winner as Leeds United won one-nil at Arsenal. Ipswich Town enjoyed a six-one drubbing of Northampton Town to remain top of the Second Division (Frank Brogan scoring three). Middlesbrough won five-four at Mansfield Town in the Third Division, whilst Swindon Town thumped Leyton Orient five-one.
Hugh Whitemore's Amerika broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The first UK TV showing of Let's Make Love. Trees Die On Their Feet broadcast in The Home Service's The Sunday Play strand.
Dawn Pavitt and Terry's Wale's Play To Win broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. West Ham United beat a full-strength Leeds United seven-nil in the Fourth Round of the Football League Cup at Upton Park. John Sissons and Geoff Hurst both scored hat-tricks.
Sid Chaplin profiled in BBC2's New Release.
John Mortimer's The Head Waiter broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of Alan Bennett's On The Margin broadcast on BBC2. The Rootes Group launched the Hillman Hunter, a four-door family saloon to compete with the Austin 1800, Ford Cortina and Vauxhall Victor. Real Zaragoza beat Everton two-nil in the first leg of their Cup Winners Cup Second Round tie. West Bromwich Albion cruised into the Third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Tony Brown scoring three in a five-two victory over DOS Utrecht.
Gerald Durrell's A Bull Called Marius broadcast.Second Childhood broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Michael Anderson's The Quiller Memorandum - starring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and Senta Berger - premiered. The first episode of Southern TV's How - presented by Fred Dinenage, Bunty James, Jack Hargreaves and Jon Miller - broadcast on Rediffusion, several months after it had first appeared on some other ITV regions.
Brian Gear's A Pretty Row Of Pretty Ribbons - featuring Cherie Lunghi's TV début - broadcast in the Out Of Town Theatre strand. Fireworks From Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Bikes For The Boys broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin piloted Gemini 12 into orbit. The Nightriders's 'It's Only The Dog'/'Your Friend', The Small Faces' 'My Mind's Eye'/'I Can't Dance With You', The Who's Ready, Steady, WhoEP ('Disguises', 'Circles'/'Batman', 'Bucket T', 'Barbara Ann'), The Truth's 'Jingle Jangle'/'Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)', The Longboatmen's 'Take Her Any Time'/'Only In Her Home Town', John Barry & His Orchestra's 'Theme From The Quiller Memorandum Wednesday's Child'/'Sleep Well My Darling', The Attraction's 'Party Line'/'She's A Girl', John Barry & His Orchestra's 'Theme From The Quiller Memorandum Wednesday's Child)'/'Sleep Well My Darling', Jackie Lee's 'The Town I Live In'/'You Too (Can Have Heartaches)', The Longboatmen's 'Take Her Any Time'/'Only In Her Home Town', Samantha Juste's 'No One Needs My Love Today'/'If Trees Could Talk', The Eyes Of Blue's 'Up & Down'/'Heart Trouble', Martha & The Vandellas' 'I'm Ready For Love'/'He Doesn't Love Her Anymore', Ramsey Lewis's 'Up Tight (Everything's Alright)'/'Money In The Pocket', The Vontastics' 'Day Tripper'/'My Baby', Alan Price Set's 'Willow Weep For Me'/'Yours Until Tomorrow', Johnny Curtis' 'Our Love's Disintegrating'/'(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time', The Attraction's 'Party Line'/'She's A Girl', Richard Kent Style's 'You Can't Put Me Down'/'All Good Things', Ramsey Lewis' 'Up Tight (Everything's Alright)'/'Money In The Pocket', Little Hank's 'Mister Bang Bang Man'/'Don't You Know', Ronnie Milsap's 'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Ole Shoes)'/'Another Branch From The Old Tree', Wayne Fontana's 'Pamela, Pamela'/'Something Keeps Calling Me Back' and The Fourmost's 'Auntie Maggie's Remedy'/'Turn The Lights Down' released.
The first episodes of The Supervisors and BBC2's The Wise Forgeries broadcast. Paul Anka, The Spencer Davis Group, The New Vaudeville Band and The Cream featured on Saturday Club. Spring Comes Once broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre. The Naughty Young Gentleman broadcast on Network Three. Bobby Tambling scored the winner as Chelsea one-nil at West Bromwich Albion to remain top of the First Division. Fulham beat Aston Villa five-one, Burnley thumped Southampton four-one, Leeds United defeated Leicester City three-one, Nottingham Forest beat Sunderland by the same score and West Ham United won four-three at Tottenham Hotspur. Laurie Sheffield scored three in Norwich City's four-one victory over Derby County in the Second Division. Preston North End beat Cardiff City four-nil. Jan Darnley-Smith's Runaway Railway - starring John Moulder-Brown, Kevin Bennett, Roberta Tovey, Sydney Tafler, Ronnie Barker, Graham Stark and Jon Pertwee - premiered.
The first episode of Anthony Steven's adaptation of The Three Musketeers - starring Jeremy Brett and Brian Blessed - broadcast. Family Group By Rembrandt broadcast in BBC2's Canvas strand. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group's A Golden Age Of Donegan released. The first episode of ATV London's Secombe & Friends featured a one-off Goons reunion in The Whistling Spy Enigma (or, as Spike Milligan claimed, Mary Poppins Is A Junkie!)
Festival Of Magic 1966 broadcast. David Weir's Confession broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand.
The Stable Door broadcast. Gargantua broadcast on BBC2. After several weeks on the run, Harry Roberts was arrested near London and charged with the murder of three policemen in August. Mansfield Town won six-four at Doncaster Rovers in the Third Division (Trevor Ogden scored three in a losing cause for the home side). Swansea Town and Middlesbrough shared eight goals at The Vetch Field. Queens Park Rangers returned to the top with a two-one victory over Torquay United.
Jeremy Sandford's Cathy Come Home broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Viewed by approximately a quarter of the British population, it was considered as influential on public attitudes towards homelessness and the related social issues that it dealt with. Enland beat Wales five-one in the Home International championship at Wembley. Geoff Hurst scored twice with Bobby and Jackie Charlton both on-target. There was also a Terry Hennessey own-goal. Newcastle United's Wyn Davies replied for the Welsh. This was the last match in which England's World Cup winning eleven played together. Scotland beat Northern Ireland two-one at Hampden Park. Jimmy Nicholson scored for the visitors but Celtic duo Bobby Murdoch and debutant Bobby Lennon gave Scotland the win. Dundee United defeated Barcelona two-nil at Tannadice to progress to the Third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Ian Mitchell and Billy Hainey scoring). Reading beat Grimsby Town six-nil in the Third Division (George Harris netting three). The Hartlepools United chairman, Ernest Ord, who was known for playing mind-games with his club's managers, sacked assistant manager Peter Taylor, claiming that the club could not afford to pay him. Manager Brian Clough refused to acceptthis so Ord sacked him as well. However, there followed a boardroom coup where the other directors refusing to ratify the sackings and which, instead, saw Ord ousted and Clough and Taylor were reinstated. Otis Redding's 'Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)'/'Good To Me' released.
The first episode of The Illustrated Weekly Hudd broadcast. The World In Silence broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand.
Elaine Morgan's Why Me? broadcast in the Out Of Town Theatre strand (having originally been scheduled for 21 October). The first episode of The Unconquered Ocean broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. The Small Faces appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. The Kinks' 'Dead End Street'/'Big Black Smoke', The Elgins' 'Heaven Must Have Sent You'/'Stay In My Lonely Arms', Little Richard's 'I Need Love'/'The Commandments Of Love', High Society's 'People Passing By'/'Star Of Eastern Street', The Gnomes Of Zurich's 'Please Mister Sun'/'I'm Coming Down With The Blues', Long John Baldry's 'Cuckoo'/'Bring My Baby Back To Me', The Escorts' 'From Head To Toe'/'Night Time', The Spectres' 'Hurdy Gurdy Man'/'Laticia', Lee Grant & The Capitols' 'Breaking Point'/'Don't Cry Baby', The C-Jam Blues' 'Candy'/'Stay At Home Girl', The Seekers' 'Morningtown Ride'/'When The Stars Begin To Fall', The Twilights' 'Needle In A Haystack'/'I Don't Know Where The Wind Will Blow Me', Sounds Of Johnny Hawksworth's 'Goal'/'Themes From Film Goal - World Cup 1966', Jody Miller's 'If You Were A Carpenter'/'Let Me Walk With You', Roy Hudd's 'The Day We Won The Cup'/'Ramsey's Men', Liza Mennelli's 'Middle Of The Street'/'I Who Have Nothing', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' Thunderbirds Are Go EP ('Shooting Star', 'Lady Penelope'/'Thunderbirds Theme', 'Zero X Theme'), Tommy Vance's 'Off The Hook'/'Summertime', Verdelle Smith's 'I Don't Need Anything'/'If You Can't Say Anything Nice (Don't Say Nothin' At All)', The Spellbinders' 'Help Me (Get Myself Back Together Again)'/'Danny Boy' and The Miracles' '(Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need'/'Save Me' released. J Lee Thompson's Eye Of The Devil - starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Sharon Tate and David Hemmings and Jiří Menzel's Closely Observed Trains - starring Václav Neckář, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta and Jitka Bendová - premiered. Tommy Henderson's goal gave Stockport Count a one-nil vicotry over fellow promotion-chasers Tranmere Rovers at the top of the Fourth Division.
Women Of Japan broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. Pete Seeger appeared on Tonight In Person. The popular comedian Arthur Haynes died from a heart-attack, aged fifty two. Tom Jones, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Robb Storme Group and The Bystanders featured on Saturday Club. The Odd Ball broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The First Division highlight came at Anfield and Liverpool's five-nil victory over Leeds United. David Ford hit the winner in Sheffield Wednesday's one-nil defeat of Tottenham Hotspur (featured on Match Of The Day). Sunderland beat Burnley four-three. Bobby Charlton scored twice in Manchester United's two-one win at Southampton. Wolverhampton Wanderers remained at the top of the Second Division following a three-two defeat of Preston North End. Ipswich Town beat Rotherham United by the same score. Bottom side Cardiff City beat fellow strugglers Bury three-nil (John Toshack scoring twice). The first episode of George & The Dragon broadcast on ATV London.
An episode of Meeting Point about 'young people working in clubs in Soho' included interviews with Bert Jansch and Paul Simon. The Royal Variety Performance broadcast. Morecambe and Wise were interviewed on Late Night Line-Up. The Gideon's Way episode The Millionaire's Daughter broadcast on ATV London.
Fay Weldon's Wife In A Blonde Wig broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Going To Work: The Rag Trade broadcast. Cyril Frankel's The Witches - starring Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Bryan Marshall and Michele Dotrice - premiered. Thelma Houston's 'Baby Mine'/'The Woman Behind Her Man' released.
Corridors Of Power broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. David Mercer profiled in BBC2's New Release.
The Private Tutor broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Fair Game broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Everton were knocked-out of the Cup Winners Cup at the Third round stage, beating Real Zaragoza one-nil at Goodison but losing two-one on aggregate. Glasgow Rangers defeated holders Borussia Dortmund two-one at Ibrox in the first leg of their tie.
Richard Cawston' Billy Graham documentary I'm Going To Ask You To Get Up Out Of Your Seat broadcast. The Eye broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand.
The first episode of The Hard Sell broadcast. The Champions broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase. The Supremes' 'You Keep Me Hanging On'/'Remove This Doubt', The Equals' 'I Won't Be There'/'Fire', The Human Instinct's 'Can't Stop Around'/'Want To Be Loved By You', Simon & Garfunkel's 'A Hazy Shade Of Winter'/'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her', Allen Pound's Get Rich's 'Searchin' In The Wilderness'/'Hey You', The Score's 'Please Please Me'/'Beg Me', Mike Stuart Span's 'Come On Over To Our Place'/'Still Nights', The Frame's 'She'/'My Feet Don't Fit In His Shoes', Peter & Gordon's 'Knight In Rusty Armour'/'The Flower Lady', Lee Tomlin's 'Sweet Sweet Lovin'/'Save Me', The Magic Lanterns' 'Knight In Rusty Armour'/'Simple Things', The Maze's 'Hello Stranger'/'Telephone', The Guru's 'Blue Snow Night'/'Come Girl', The Pandamonium's 'Season Of The Witch'/'Today I'm Happy', Keith Relf's 'Shapes In My Mind'/'Blue Sands', Listen's 'You'd Better Run'/'Everybody's Gonna Say', Ray Charles & His Orchestra's 'Please Say You're Fooling'/'I Don't Need No Doctor', Patrice Holloway's 'Love & Desire'/'Ecstasy', Hubert Pattison's 'Bare-Back Ride'/'The Baby One And Two Problem', Tony Jackson's 'Anything Else You Want?'/'Come On & Stop', The Young Idea's 'Gotta Get Out The Mess I'm In'/'The Games Men Play', Karen Small's 'To Get You Back Again'/'That's Why I Cry', The Northern Lights' 'Through Darkness Light'/'In Thoughts Of You', Mayf' Nutter's 'Head Shrinker'/'Don't Know What To Do', Allen Pound's Get Rich's 'Searchin' In The Wilderness'/'Hey You', Ray Charles & His Orchestra's 'Please Say You're Fooling'/'I Don't Need No Doctor', Valerie Masters' 'Don't Ever Go'/'Say Hello' and Marc Bolan's 'Hippy Gumbo'/'Misfit' released.
The first episode of Bat Out Of Hell broadcast in the Francis Durbridge Presents ... strand. Eric Burdon featured on Juke Box Jury. Dick Emery featured on The Light Programme's Forces Startime. Private Angelo broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Every Day In The Week - a symposium on the work of LS Lowry - broadcast on Network Three. In the FA Cup First Round no minor league club beat a Football League side, however Ashford Town thumped Cambridge City four-one, Bath City defeated Isthmian League Sutton United one-nil, Enfield thrashed Athenian League six-nil (John Connell scoring three), Midland League Grantham won two-one against Southern League Wimbldon and Nuneaton Borough had a two-nil victory at Wealdstone. In an all Northern League clash, Bishop Auckland and Blyth Spartans drew one-all, Folkstone drew two-two with Swansea Town, Isthmian League Oxford City drew with Bristol Rovers by the same score, Cheshire Counties League Wigan Athletic drew one-all at Tranmere Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers and Bedford Town also drew one-all and Lancashire Counties League Morecambe shared a goalless draw at York City. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic defeated Western League Welton Rovers three-nil, Bradford Park Avenue had a three-two victory over Cheshire Counties League Witton Albion, Brentford beat Chelmsford City one-nil, Colchester United won one-nil at Midland League Gainsborough Trinity, Gillingham thumped West Midland League Tamworth four-one (Brian Yeo hitting two), Reading won three-one at Hendon, Swindon Town enjoyed a three-nil victory at Athenian League Horsham, Leyton Orient defeated Eastern Counties League Lowerstoft Town three-one, Mansfield Town hammered Bangor City four-one, Rodney Marsh scored three in Queens Park Rangers three-two defeat of Poole Town, Peterborough United thrashed Hereford United four-one, Workington won four-one at North Counties League South Shields, St Neots Town of the United Counties League lost two-nil at Walsall and Oxford United won three-one at Yeovil Town. Middlesbrough won five-two at Chester and Shrewsbury Town defeated Hartlepols United by the same score. In the first Division Andy Lochhead scored four in Bunrley's four-two victory over Aston Villa. David Herd also netted four as Manchester United demolished Sunderland five-nil. Fulham beat Manchester City four-one, Spurs won five-three against Sounthampton, Newcastle United beat Sheffield Wednesday three-one (Albert Bennett, Wyn Davies and Pop Robson on-target) and Chelsea remained top following a onle-all draw as Stoke City (featured on Match Of The Day). In the Australian federal erection, widely viewed as a popular referendum on Australia's involvement in the Viet'nam War, Prime Minister Harold Holt's coalition of his Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party increased its majority.
The One Hundred Faces Of Johann Sebastian Bach broadcast. TS Eliot's The Family Reunion broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes moved from Boston to Las Vegas, where he leased the top two floors of the Desert Inn. Never venturing downstairs, Hughes would buy the hotel in 1967.
Jack Trevor Story's O-Goshi broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Rodney Bewes read The Barrow Lane Gang on Jackanory. Graham Williams scored as Tranmere Rovers won their FA Cup replay at Wigan Athletic.
Explorations: Theatre In The Making broadcast on BBC2. Alfie Biggs scored three as Bristol Rovers hammered Oxford City four-nil in an FA Cup replay. Jim McLaughlin netted three and Billy Humphries two as Swansea Town thashed Folkstone seven-two. The first proper giant-killing of the First Round occurred as Fourth Division Halifax Town won three-one at Third Division Doncaster Rovers.
Simon Raven's A Pyre For Private James broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Living With Death broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Barbados was granted independence from the United Kingdom. NASA released three high resolution photographs, taken by Lunar Explorer 2, that showed the depth of lunar craters. Another Fourth Division side, Crewe Alexandra knocked-out a team from a higher tier, Grimsby Town, with a one-nil vicotrey at Blindell Park (Peter Gowans netting the winner). Bedford Town and Wycombe Wanderers and Blyth Spartans and Bishop Auckland both drew for a second time. Glasgow Celtic enjoted a fine three-one victory at French champions Nantes in the first leg of their European Cup Third Round tie (Joe McBride, Bobby Lennox and Steve chalmers scoring). Dednis Law and George Best were on-target as Manchester United won two-one at Leicester City to go top of the First Division.
The first episode of Christmas Cooking With Franny Craddock broadcast. Z Cars & After broadcast in BBC2's Music International strand. Tunnel Under The World broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand.
Rita Hayworth was profiled in Film Preview. Italians & Their Cars broacast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. David Bowie's 'Rubber Band'/'The London Boys', Chim Kothari's 'Sitar 'n' Spice'/'Indian Bat', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'In The Country'/'Finders Keepers', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Save Me'/'Shame', Giles Strange's 'Watch The People Dance'/'You're Goin' Up To The Bottom', The N' Betweens' 'You Better Run'/'Evil Witch Man', The Washington DC's 'Seek & Find'/'I Love Gerald Chevin The Great', The Scots Of St James' 'Gypsy'/'Tic Toc', Herbal Mixture's 'Machines'/'Please Leave My Mind', Mick Softley With The Summer Suns' 'Am I The Red One?'/'That's Not My Kind Of Love', Ike & Tina Turner's 'Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You'/'(I'll Do Anything) Just To Be With You', Clyde McPhatter's 'A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues'/'I'm Not Going To Work Today', Booker T & The MG's 'Jingle Bells'/'Winter Wonderland', The Secrets' 'I Suppose'/'Such A Pity', Ella Fitzgerald's 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'/'Stardust', Simon Dupree & The Big Sound's 'I See The Light'/'It Is Finished', Spike Milligan's 'Tower Bridge'/'Silent Night', Kenny Bernard's 'Hey Woman/'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Ole Shoes)', Blues Magoos' '(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet'/'Gotta Get Away', The Mirage's 'Tomorrow Never Knows'/'You Can't Be Serious?', The Scaffold's 'Goodbat Nightman'/'A Long Strong Black Pudding', Junior Walker & The All Stars' 'Money (That's What I Want) Parts 1 & 2', Tim Hardin's 'Hang On To A Dream'/'Reason To Believe', Jeff Elroy & Boys Blue's 'Honey Machine'/'Three Women', The Merseys' 'Rhythm Of Love'/'Is It Love?', Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers' 'The Incredible Miss Brown'/'Coming Home To You', Los Bravos' 'Going Nowhere'/'Brand New Baby', Studio Six's 'When I See My Baby'/'Don't Tell Lies', Wilson Pickett's 'Mustang Sally'/'Three Time Loser', Alvin Cash & The Registers' 'Alvin's Boo-Ga-Loo'/'Let's Do Some Good Timing', Kenny Bernard's 'Hey Woman'/'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Ole Shoes)', Ian Whitcomb's 'Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?'/'Poor Little Bird', Ebony Keyes' 'Sitting In The Ring'/'If You Knew' and Donovan's 'Sunshine Superman'/'The Trip' released - the latter, six months after it appeared in America, its UK release having been held up by a contractual dispute.
Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray and hateful, sex-offending rotter Jimmy Savile were the panel on Juke Box Jury. The Treasure Of Priam broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Cream's 'I Feel Free'/'N.S.U', Wilson Pickett's 'Mustang Sally', The Who's 'Happy Jack'/'I've Been Away', Manfred Mann's Instrumental Assassination ('Sunny', 'Wild Thing'/'Get Away', 'With A Girl Like You') and The Guess Who?'s 'His Girl'/'It's My Pride' released. 'I saw ya!' In the First Division, Leicester City thrashed Stoke City four-two. Chelsea's one-all draw with Everton was on Match Of The Day. John Galley scored three in Rotherham United's three-two win at Carlisle United in the Second Division. Ipswich Town returned to the top of the table iwth a two-one defeat of Bury. Peterborough United and Swansea Town drew four-all in the Third Division whilst Don Rogers scored three in Swindon Town's six-three thumping of Oldham Athletic. Performance of the day came in the Fourth Division where bottom of the league Lincoln City walloped fellow strugglers Luton Town eight-one (Billy Cobb netting three and Joe Bonson and Roy Chapman two each).
The first UK TV showing of Carve Her Name With Pride. Bernrd Heton's adaptation of Anatol broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
First You Catch Your Hare broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Siberia - The Great Experiment broadcast. Hermione Jane Norris born in Paddington. The seemingly never-ending saga of the FA Cup First Round rolled on with Morecambe and York City drawing one-all at the second attempt and Wycombe Wanderers and Bedford Town (one-all, abandoed after ninety minutes due to fog) and Blyth Spartans and Bishop Auckland (three-all after extra time at Roker Park) drawing for a third time. Darlington overcame Fourth Division pace-setters Stockport County four-two at Elland Road.
New Release featured an interview with Julie Christie on the set of Fahrenheit 451. Something Money Can't Buy shown in The Love Affair strand. Glasgow Rangers earned a battling goalless draw in Dortmund to progress to the Quarter-Finals of the Cup Winners Cup.
With teenage sensation Johan Cruyff in dazzling form, Dutch champions Ajax spanked Liverpool right good and proper, five-one, in a European Cup Second Round first leg tie in Amsterdam. Glasgow Cletic completed a confortable aggregate victory over Nantes, winning three-one at Parkhead. In the Football League Cup Fifth Round, West Ham United won three-one at Blackpool, West Bromwich Albion has a victory at Northampton Town by the same score, Birmingham City won three-two at First Division Sheffield united and Rodney Marsh hit two as Queens Park Rangers beat Carlisle United two-one. A Tale of Two Wives broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Pride & The Shame broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Th Moon Or SouthEast Asiabroadcast in Network Three's America Since The Bomb: Korea To Viet'nam strand.
Hugh Burnett's The Pity Of It All broadcast. The Fastest Draw broadcast in BBC2's Out of The Unknown strand. Sidney Hayers' Finders Keepers - starring Cliff Richard, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett, Robert Morley and Peggy Mount and Gérard Oury's La Grande Vadrouille premiered. York City beat Morecambe one-nil at Maine Road in and FA Cup First Round second replay whilst Bedford Town defeated Wycombe Wanderers three-two and Bishop Auckland thumped Blyth Spartans four-one in a pair of thrid replays.
The Small Faces appeared on Crackerjack. Fahrenheit 451 and Is Paris Burning? featured on Film Preview. The End Of The World broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Smog Scare broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Pretty Things' 'Progress'/'Buzz The Jerk', The Who's A Quick One, Cream's Fresh Cream and 'I Feel Free'/'NSU', The Move's debut 'Night Of Fear'/'Disturbance', The Troggs' 'Anyway That You Want Me'/'66-5-4-3-2-1', The Temptations' '(I Know) I'm Losing You'/'Little Miss Sweetness', Stevie Wonder's 'A Place In The Sun'/'Sylvia', The Freaks Of Nature's 'People! Let's Freak Out'/'The Shadow Chasers', Mick Softley & The Summer Suns' 'Am I The Red One?', The Corduroys' 'Tick Tock'/'Too Much Of A Woman', Tom Glazer & The Schoolbus Singers' 'The Ballad Of Namu, The Killer Whale'/'The Froggie Song', Gene Latter's 'Something Inside Of Me Died'/'Don't Go', The Misunderstood's 'I Can Take You To The Sun'/'Who Do You Love?', The Tea Set's 'Join The Tea Set'/'Ready Steady Go!', Alma Cogan's 'Now That I've Found You'/'More', The Zoot Money Big Roll Band's 'The Star Of The Show (The La La Song)'/'The Mound Moves', The Association's 'Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies'/'Standing Still', Roger Denison's 'I'm On An Island'/'I'm Running Out Of Time', Glen Daly's 'Hail, Hail, Celtic'/'If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here', Wynder K Frog's 'Sunshine Superman'/'Blues For A Frog', Edwin Starr's 'It's My Turn Now'/'Girls Are Getting Prettier', Jimmy Robins' 'I Can't Please You'/'I Made It Over', Mike Patto's 'Can't Stop Talkin' About My Baby'/'Love' and Geno Washington & The Ram-Jam Band's Hand Clappin' Foot-Stompin' Funky-Butt ... Live! released. Francis Ford Coppola's You're A Big Boy Now and Terence Young's Triple Cross - starring Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger and Yul Brynner - premiered. Bobby Gould netted three in Coventry City's five-nil hammering of Ipswich Town in a battle of the Second Division's top two.
A cameraman for the Australian Broadcasting Company filmed his own fatal accident when the helicopter he was in went out of control and crashed through the roof of the Paul Building in Sydney. The Department of Civil Aviation reported that Frank Parnell, who was filming a documentary about the Sydney Opera House, 'kept his camera working as a wildly spinning helicopter carried him to his death.' Judy Collins appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person. Herman's Hermits, The Fortunes, The King Brothers, Wayne Fontana & The Opposition, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Cloda Rogers and The Johnny Arthey Band featured on Saturday Club. A Collection Of Beatles Oldies (But Goldies!) released. Home & Beauty broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Stoke City beat Aston Villa six-one in the First Division (Harry Burrows netting three). Burnley defeated West Ham United four-two. Manchester City won three-nil at West Bromwich Albion. The top two both drew two-all, Manchester United at home to Liverpool and Chelsea at Newcastle United. Hull City thumped Crystal Palace six-one in the Second Division which was led by Wolves who won two-one at Norwich City (Peter Knowles and David Wagstaffe scoring). Mansfield Town moved into the Third Division promotion places with a four-two victory at Workington (veteran Bill Curry and Stuart Brace both hitting two). The Blackmail episode Vacant Possession - broadcast on Rediffusion.
A Touch Of Don Juan broadcast. Billy Budd broadcast in BBC2's Opera 625 strand.
Henry Livings's Brainscrew broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Big Bad Mouse - featuring Eric Sykes and Jimmy Edwards - broadcast. Harry Roberts, John Whitney and John Duddy were sentenced to life for the murder of three West London policemen. Fred Zinnerman's A Man For All Seasons - starring Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York and John Hurt - and Thunderbirds Are Go - premiered.
A Meeting At Nimes broadcast on BBC2. Ernst Jandl's Laut Und Luise broacast on Network Three.
Little Master Minds broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Kilmarnock defeated Belgian side La Gantoise one-nil in the first leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a goal by Eric Murray. Liverpool were knocked-out of the European Cup, drawing two-two with Ajax Amsterdam at Anfield (Roger Hunt scored twice for the hosts, Johan Cryuff netting two for the vistory. Cardiff City defeated Northampton Town four-two in a battle of the Second Division's two basement sides.
Hugh Whitemore's Too Many Cooks broadcast in BBC2's Out Of the Unknown strand. Sports Review Of 1966 broadcast. Bobby Moore won the Sports Personality Of The Year award. Saturn's tenth moon, Janus, was identified by Audouin Dollfus. Vittorio De Sica's After The Fox - starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland - premiered.
One Million Years BC featured on Film Preview. Cars & Mrs Castle broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. The Walker Brothers' 'Deadlier Than The Male'/'Archangel', The Pretty Things' 'Progress'/'Buzz The Jerk', The Flies' '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone'/'Talk To Me', Jason Deane's 'Make Believe'/'Don't Ever Want To See You No More', The Freaks Of Nature's 'People! Let's Freak Out'/'The Shadow Chasers', Georgie Fame's 'Sitting In The Park'/'Many Happy Returns', Bats' 'Listen To My Heart'/'Stop, Don't Do It' and The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut 'Hey Joe'/'Stone Free' released. Cyril Frankel's The Trygon Factor - starring Stewart Granger and Susan Hampshire - premiered. Third Division leaders Stockport County beat Barrow two-one.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Highlanders - featuring the debut of Frazer Hines - broadcast. Paris Blues shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Georgie Fame With The Harry South Big Band, Paul Jones, Peter & Gordon, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, The Easybeats, Jackie Edwards With Wynder K Frog and Arthur Greenslade & The Gee Men featured on Saturday Club. Call Corporal Watson broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The World & Marshall McLuhan broadcast on Network Three. Two days after his death, the body of Walt Disney was cremated in Glendale, California. Later, an urban myth was started that Disney had his body cryogenically frozen until such times as he could be restored to life, with the earliest identified suggestion in print being in the French magazine Ici Paris in 1969. Chelsea and West Ham United shared ten goals in a remarkable game at Stamford Bridge in the First Division. Manchester United's four-three victory at West Bromwich Albion featured on Match Of The Day (David Herd scored three for the visitors, Jeff Astle two for the hosts). Everton beat Fluham three-two and Leeds united defeated Tottenham Hotspur by the same score. In the Second Division, Preston North End won five-one at relegation-haunted Northampton Town. Carlisle United climbed into the promotion zone with a three-nil victory over Crystal Palace. Ray Keeley scored three in Exeter City's four-one thumping of Wrexham in the Fourth Division. Howard Hawks's El Dorado - starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Call Northside 777. The New Inferno broadcast on BBC2. Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up - starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles - premiered. Roy Boulting's The Family Way - starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and John Mills and featuring music by Paul McCartney and George Martin - premiered.
Keith Dewhurst's The Towers Of Manhattan broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Susannah York read The Children Of Green Knowe on Jackanory. Daniel Petrie's The Spy With A Cold Nose - starring Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman, Denholm Elliott, Colin Blakely, June Whitfield and Pickles the dog - premiered.
Alun Owen's The Making Of Jericho broadcast in the Play Of the Month strand. Ravi Shanker appeared on BBC2's New Release. Robert Wise's The Sand Pebbles premiered.
The Mayfly & The Frog broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Suddenly, It's Sandy Powell broadcast on BBC2. Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland born in Paddington. John Frankenhiemer's Grand Prix - starring James Garner - and Ronald Neame's Gambit premiered. Kilmarnock pulled off a dramatic victory to reach the Quarter-Final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Extra-time goals by Jackie McInally and Tommy McLean gave Killie a two-one victory over La Gantoise in Gent.
The first episode of Quiz Ball broadcast on BBC1. William Trevor's Walk's End broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Guy Hamilton's Funeral In Berlin - starring Michael Caine and Guy Doleman - premiered.
Suzanne Gibbs' The Robin broadcast in the Look strand. Shall We Take The Car? broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. The UFO Club opened on London's Tottenham Court Road, featuring psychedelic bands The Pink Floyd and The Soft Machine and the films of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger. Geno Washington & The Ram-Jam Band and The Signing Postman appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. George Martin & His Orchestra's 'Love In The Open Air'/'Theme From The Family Way' and The Tudor Minstrels' 'Love In The Open Air'/'A Theme From The Family Way' released. Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo) - starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach - premiered in Rome. Lawrence Huntington's The Vulture - starring Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford and Diane Clare - premiered.

The Seekers - Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Bruce Woodley, Keith Potger - were the panel on Juke Box Jury. I Gotta Shoe Or Cindy-Ella by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin broadcast on BBC2. The armed robber Frankie 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell was extremely murdered twelve days after having been broken out of Dartmoor. The Kray twins, who had masterminded his escape, ordered his death after quickly becoming tired of their friend. Luna Thirteen, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon between craters Seleucus and Krafft in the region of Oceanus Procellarum. The Fabians & I broadcast on Network Three. Liverpool won two-one at Chelsea in the First Division (and featured on Match Of The Day). Wolverhampton Wanderers went back to the top of the Second Division, beating Derby County five-three (Bob Hatton and Terry Wharton both netting two for the home side, Alan Durban scoring twice for the visitors).
Horizon's Christmas special was Richard Wade's Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey. Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp broadcast. Tom Jones Sings broadcast on The Light Programme. Meet Me By Moonlight broadcast in The Home Service's The Sunday Play strand. The Hare by George Ewart Evans and David Thomson broadcast on Network Three.
John Lennon appeared in the Boxing Day episode of Not Only ... But Also playing the role of a nightclub doorman. Reportedly, when the sequence was filmed (on Sunday 27 November outside a public lavatory on Broadwick Street in Soho) a tramp approached Lennon and said 'I know you! Y've come down in the world since y'said y'were bigger than Jesus!' One For The Pot broadcast. Pop Around Christmas broadcast on The Light Programme. A Thai Christmas broadcast on The Home Service. League leaders Manchester United lost two-one at Sheffield United. Liverpool replaced them at the top following a two-one victory over third-placed Chelsea. Arsenal thrashed Southampton four-one (John Radford and George Armstrong each netting twice). West Ham United won at bottom side Blackpol by the same score. Tottenham Hotspur lost three-nil at West Bromwich Albion (Tony Brown scoring three). Leeds united hammered struggling Newcastle five-nil at Elland Road. Second Division pace-setters Wolverhampton Wanderers and Coventry City both won (three-nil at Derby County and four-two against Rotherham United respectively). Basement club Northampton Town got another hiding, three-nil at Birmingham City. Third Division leaders Queens Park Rangers beat Brighton & Hove Albion three-nil. Swansea Town won five-two against Shrewsbury Town. Swindon Town defeated Peterborough United four-one. Barrow won four-one at Halifax in the Fourth Division. The first UK TV showing of A Taste Of Honey on Rediffusion.
Babar The Little Elephant and BBC2's The Glory Of Sail broadcast. Manchester United increased their lead in the First Division, beating Sheffield United two-nil at Old Trafford. Stoke City beat Burnley four-three and Fulham defeated Leicester City four-two. West Ham United thumped relegation-favourites Blackpool four-nil. Twenty five thousand were at Ayresome Park to watch Middlesbrough beat Darlington four-nil in the Third Division.
Jonathan Miller's adaptation of Alice In Wonderland broadcast. The first episode of Professor Eric Laithwaite's The Engineer In Wonderland broadcast on BBC2. Where Charity Begins by Pam Tickell broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Satisfaction Guaranteed broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. The first UK broadcast of Two Boys & A Pigeon in the Tales From Europe strand. Scapa Flow broadcast. The Monkees' 'I'm A Believer'/'(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone' released.
1966 Panorama Of The Year broadcast. Two Views Of Rome and Ravi Shankar broadcast on BBC2. American and South Vietnamese troops crossed the border into the Svay Rieng Province of Cambodia in pursuit of a fleeing Viet Cong force. Don Chaffey's One Million Years BC - starring Raquel Welch - premiered. Cat Stevens' 'Matthew & Son'/'Granny', The Olympics' 'Baby, Do The Philly Dog'/'Western Movies', The Artistics' 'I'm Gonna Miss You'/'Hope We Have', Doctor West's Medicine Show & Junk Band's 'The Eggplant That Ate Chicago'/'You Can't Fight City Hall Blues', The Wailers' 'Let Him Go (Rude Boy Get Bail)'/'Sinner Man' and The Mindbenders' 'I Want Her, She Wants Me'/'The Morning After' released.
The first episode of The Dark Number and James Cameron's Man Alive film I Wish I Loved The Human Race broadcast on BBC2. The Roman Goose March broadcast in the Chronicle strand. The first UK broadcast of The Monkees. Thieves stole millions of pounds worth of paintings from Dulwich Art Gallery. Having sold crowd favourite Alan Suddick to Blackpool just before Christmas, Newcastle United's manager Joe Harvey used the sixty thousand quid transfer fee to bring in Chelsea's Tommy Robson, Sunderland's Dave Elliott and John McNamee from Hibernian. The trio would, ultimately, play a huge part in The Magpies successful climb away from the First Division relegation zone. But, they got off to an awful start making their debuts in a four-nil thumping at Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Jimmy Greaves scored twice with further strikes from Dave MacKay and Terry Venables. Suddick, meanhwile, scored on his Blackpool debut, a five-one win at Southamp[ton (Ray Charnley hit three). Burnley thrashed West Bromwich Albion five-one, Sheffield Wednesday gave Chelsea a New Year's Eve hangover with a six-one walloping and Fulham beat Stoke City four-one. The top two, Manchester United and Liverpool both took part in goalless draws (with Leeds United and Everton respectively) both in front of crowds of fifty three thousnad plus. In the Second Division, Coventry City thrashed Portsmouth five-one whilst Cardiff City defeated Bristol City by the same score. Queens Park Rangers stayed top of hte tHird Division with a four-one victory over Wattford. Middlesbrough centre-forward John O'Rourke was involved in a collision with Bristol Rovers goalkeeper Bernard Hall, which left Hall in a coma for sixteen days and, although he recovered, effectively ended his footballing career. The game ended in a two=two draw. Stockport County ended the year top of the Fourth Division, winning two-one at York City. The Mindbenders, Julie Rogers, Guy Darrell, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, O'Hara's Playboys, Alex Walsh & His Band and THE Des Champ Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. The first episode of Life With Cooper broadcast on ATV London.