1967

1967
The first UK TV showing of Bell, Book & Candle. Robert Muller's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Prophet broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand, including Delia Derbyshire's memorable 'Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO' music. Julie Andrews was interviwed on The Light Programme's Movie-Go-Round. Time Remembered Liocadia broadcast in The Home Service's The Sunday Play strand. The Ballad Of The Outer Dark broadcast on Network Three.
The first episode of Giles Copper's three-part adaptation of Sword Of Honour broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The first episodes of NF Simpson's Four Tall Tinkles and The Movies broadcast, the latter featuring Richard Lester. The Art Fairbank Trio with Sharon Tandy featured on The Light Programme's Roundabout. John and Lem Amero's Lusting Hours - starring Roberta Findlay and Jean Reynolds - premiered. The first episode of Turn Out The Lights broadcast on Rediffusion. Ruth Katrin Gemmell born in Bristol.
The first episode of Trumpton broadcast. Dick Greogry's We Got Problems broadcast on BBC2. The Vatican condemned clergy who used 'modern beat music' during services. The first episode of My Music broadcast on The Home Service.
The first UK broadcast of the World War II drama The Rat Patrol. Contemporary press reports suggested that many British, Australian and New Zealand viewers took offence at the large number of American characters on the show which resulted in the series being pulled from the BBC schedules after six episodes. Joan Henry's Person To Person broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Roald Dahl's Taste broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Donald Campbell, attempting to become the first man to break the three hundred miles per hour barrier on water, died when his Bluebird turbo-jet crashed on Coniston Water. The 'one-armed bandit murder' of Angus Sibbet occurred in South Hetton, County Durham. The following trial resulted in life sentences for Dennis Stafford and Michael Luvaglio. Aspects of the case subsequently provided inspiration for the movie Get Carter.
The first episode of Nixon At Nine-Five broadcast. Something Special Featuring Johnny Mathis broadcast on BBC2. The Doors debut LP, Tuesday's Children's 'A Strange Light From The East'/'That'll Be The Day' and The Cedars' 'For Your Information'/'Hide If You Want To Hide' released. Charlie Chaplin's A Countess From Hong Kong - starring Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando - premiered. The first episode of Reporting 67 broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of Where The Power Lies broadcast. Bernstein In Rehearsal broadcast in BBC2's Workshop strand. The Four Tops' 'Standing In The Shadows Of Love'/'Since You've Been Gone', Howard Tate's 'Look At Granny Run Run'/'Half A Man', The Bunch's 'You Never Came Home'/'We're Not What We Appear To Be', Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's 'Sugar Town'/'Summer Wine', The Knickerbockers' 'Can You Help Me?'/'Please Don't Love Him', Bobby Bennett's 'Just Say Goodbye'/'She Believes In Me', Sue & Sunny's 'You Can't Bypass Love'/'I Like Your Style', The Puppets' 'Theme From Funeral In Berlin'/'Manhattan Safari', Homer Banks' 'Sixty Minutes Of Your Love'/'Do You Know What?', The Riot Squad's 'Gotta Be A First Time'/'Bitter Sweet Love', The Pyramid's 'Summer Of Last Year'/'Summer Evening', Franck Pourcel & His Orchestra's 'Is Paris Burning?'/'This Is My Song', Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra's 'This Is My Song'/'A Countess From Hong Kong', One In A Million's 'Use Your Imagination'/'Hold On', Ways & Means' 'Sea Of Faces'/'Make The Radio A Little Louder', The Royal Guardsmen's 'Snoopy Versus The Red Baron'/'I Needed You' and The Game's 'The Addicted Man'/'Help Me Mummy's Gone' released. The Alan Price Set appeared on The Light Programme's The Joe Loss Pop Show. The first episodes of Mister Aitch and Uncle Charles broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of The Forsyte Saga broadcast on BBC2. The second series of Adam Adamant Lives! began with the episode Black Echo. The Giant Planet broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, Cat Stevens, The Alan Bown Set, The Bystanders and The Alan Twe Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. The Sleeping Prince broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The highlight of the FA Cup Second Round was Southrn League Nuneaton Borough's two-nil victory over Swansea Tpwn. Northern League Bishop Auckland shared a goalless drew with Halifax Town. Brighton & Hove Albion won five-nil at Bath City, Watford had a four-two victory at Isthmian League Enfield and Oldham Athletic thrashed Midland League Grantham four-nil. Shrewsbury Town walloped Wrexham five-one (George Broadman netting three). This was the last time that the Second Round would be scheduled for January, rather than the typical December. Peter Thompson sacored twice as Liverpool went to the top of the First Division beating West Ham United two-nil (captured on Match Of The Day). Nottingham Forest won two-one at West Bromwich Albion. Chelsea defeated Southampton four-one. Mark Jones born in Swindon.
The first episodes of Understanding Music and The New Electronics broadcast. Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. A Change Of Spots broadcast.
The first episode of Look & Read broadcast. George Melly read The Tales Of Beatrix Potter on Jackanory. John Ford was profiled in BBC2's The Movies strand.
The first episode of In Your Place broadcast. Desmond Morris's Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Swindon Town defeated Southern League Ashford Town five-nil in a rearranged FA Cup Second Round tie. In a replay, Halifax thumped Bishop Auckland seven-nil.
The second episode of Masterworks Bach broadcast. One viewer, Mister JP McCartney of St John's Wood, heard Dave Mason playing the piccolo trumpet on The Brandenburg Concerto and, having had his shit blown, hatched an idea for the solo in song he'd recently written. The first episode of Mind & Motive broadcast on BBC2. A Ron Fogg equaliser gave Bedford Town a replay with Oxford United in the FA Cup.
The Road To Canterbury broadcast. Something Special Featuring Shani Wallis broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of The Whitehall Worrier broadcast. Music From The North East - featuring Owen Brannigan and the Northern Symphonia - broadcast live from Newcastle City Hall on BBC2. The Rolling Stones' 'Let's Spend The Night Together'/'Ruby Tuesday', Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston's 'It Takes Too'/'It's Got To Be A Miracle (This Thing Called Love)', The Patron Of The Arts' 'Eleanor Rigby'/'The True Patron Of The Arts', Murray Head With The Blue Monks' 'Someday Soon'/'You Bore Me', Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness'/'Sick Y'All', The Tremeloes' 'Here Comes My Baby'/'Gentleman Of Pleasure', Madeline Bell's 'One Step At A Time'/'You Won't See Me', Loot's 'Baby Come Closer'/'Baby', The Chiffons' 'My Boyfriend's Back'/'I Got Plenty O' Nuttin', The Koobas' 'Sally'/'Champagne & Caviar', The Manchester Mob's 'Bony Maronie At The Hop'/'Afro-Asian', Keith's '98.6'/'The Teeny Bopper Song', The Anglians' 'A Friend Of Mine'/'Daytime Lover', The Moody Blues' 'Life's Not Life'/'He Can Win', The Manchester Mob's 'Bony Maronie At The Hop'/'Afro-Asian', John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' 'Sitting In The Rain'/'Out Of Reach', Ace Cannon's 'Wonderland By Night'/'As Time Goes By', Charlie Rich's 'Love Is After Me'/'Pass On By', The Casinos' 'Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye'/'I Still Love You', Two Of Clubs' 'Walk Tall'/'So Blue Is Fall' and The Bystanders' '98.6'/'Stubborn Kind Of Fellow' released. The first episode of The Avengers made in colour, From Venus With L♥ve, broadcast on Rediffusion. Albeit, in monochrome.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Underwater Meance broadcast. The Italian Private Eyes broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The first UK TV showing of On The Waterfront in the Midnight Movie strand. Organised by counterculture publisher Allen Cohen and artist Michael Bowen, The Human Be-In took place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, with twenty thousand lice-ridden long-haired hippy drop-outs on drugs gathering in the Haight-Ashbury district to see performances by The Grateful Dead (so, tht was six hours of their life they'd never get back), poet Allen Ginsberg, comedian Dick Gregory, activist Jerry Rubin and psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary, who urged the audience to 'turn on, tune in and drop out.' Widespread media coverage of the event introduced the American public to the hippie movement. Emily Margaret Watson born in Islington. Saskia Wickham born in London. Newcastle United climbed off the foot of the First Division with a two-nil victory at Burnley (Albert Bennett and Pop Robson scoring). They moved above Blackpool who lost, three-two, at Aston Villa. Everton beat Sheffield United four-one and Ian Storey-Moore hit the winner as Nottingham Forest defeated Leeds United one-nil. Southampton and Leicester City shared eight goals at The Dell (Ron Davies hitting three for the hosts). The largest attendance of the season, sixty three thousand two hundred and ninety five, were at Old Trafford where leaders Manchester United beat Spurs one-nil. Millions more watched the highlights on Match Of The Day. Coventry City remained top of the Second Division, Mel Machin and Ronnie Farmer scoring in a two-one victory over Norwich City. Derby County thrashed hapless Northamtpon Town four-three. Jack Howarth scored three in Aldershot's five-nil defeat of Newport County in the Fourth Division.
Lot 249, the first episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle broadcast on BBC2. The United Kingdom entered the first round of negotiations for entry into the EEC in Rome.
Caroline Benn read Charlotte's Web on Jackanory. The Horace Silver Quintet featured on BBC2's Jazz Goes To College. At Saint Bartholomew's Hospital in London, gynaecologist Gordon Bourne led a team of surgeons in London in performing the first foetal exchange transfusion on a human being. Farm worker Fred Burggy discovered human remains in two suitcases left behind a hedge in a field near the village of Tattingstone in Suffolk. Post-mortem tests showed that the victim had been sexually assaulted and strangled before his body was dismembered. Unable to determine the identity of the victim, police took the unusual step of releasing a photograph of the victim's head to the media. He was identified when Bernard Oliver's family in Muswell Hill contacted the police after seeing the photograph. The murder was never solved. Bedford town reached the Third Round of the FA Cup for the third time in four years, beating Oxford United one-nil at The Eyrie with a goal from Dave Sturrock. In a second replay, playted at St James' Park, Middlesbrough defeated York City four-one.
Rodney Marsh, Roger Morgan, Les Allen and Mark Lazarus scored as Third Division Queens Park Rangers beat Second Division Birmingham City four-one in the first leg of the League Cup Semi-Final at St Andrews. Sons Of Cain broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Michael Ayrton's A Silence Filled With Greek broadcast on Network Three.
The Order broadcast in The Largest Theatre In The World strand. Tim Aspinall's The Suede Jacket broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, was extremely sentenced to life for the murder of thirteen women. Jeremy Thorpe became leader of the Liberal Party. Sergio Leone's A Fistful Of Dollars premiered in the US. In the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round first legs, Burnley defeated Napoli three-nil and Leeds United drew one-all with Valencia. Jeff Astle hit a hat-trick as West Bromwich Albion thrashed West Ham United four-nil in the first leg of their League Cup Semi-Final. In the First Division, Mike Stringfellow and Graham Cross were on-target as Leciester City beat Liverpol two-one.
The first UK broadcast of Maximka in the Tales From Europe strand. Archigram broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand.
Paul Jones and Cat Stevens appeared on Crackerjack. The Family Way and Murderer's Row featured on Film Preview. Does France Play Fair? broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Rolling Stones' Between The Buttons, The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)'/'Luvin', Chris Clark's 'Love's Gone Bad'/'Put Yourself In My Place', The Fingers' 'All Kinds Of People'/'Circus With A Female Clown', Oscar's 'Over The Wall We Go'/'Every Day Of My Life', The Spencer Davis Group's 'I'm A Man'/'I Can't Get Enough Of It', Wimple Winch's 'Rumble On Mersey Square South'/'Typical British Workmanship', 'Atmosphere', Bunny Shivel's 'You'll Never Find A Love Like Mine'/'The Slide', Blossom Dearie's 'Sweet Georgie Fame'/'One Note Samba', The Bob Crewe Generation's 'Music To Watch Girls By'/'Girls On The Rocks', Peaches & Herb's 'Let's Fall In Love'/'We're In This Thing Together', Tommy G & The Charms' 'I Know What I Want'/'I Want You So Bad', The Searchers' 'Popcorn, Double Feature'/'Lovers', Jimmy McGriff's 'See See Rider'/'Hallelujah', Tim Buckley's 'Aren't You The Girl?'/'Strange Street Affair Under Blue' and The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)'/'Luvin' released. Stefan Uher's Panna Zázračnica - starring Jolanta Umecka, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Otakar Janda and Marián Polonský - premiered. Stockport County increased their lead at the top of the Fourth Division to seven points with a one-nil victory over Luton Town.
BBC2 Acting In The Sixties featured an interview with Vanessa Redgrave and excerpts from her stage performance in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie from Wyndham's Theatre. The first episode of The Rolf Harris Show broadcast. The Who and Paul Jones featured on Saturday Club. The first episode of The Light Programme's Where It's At - presented by Chris Denning - broadcast. The Scars Of Freedom by Arthur Swinson broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre. The First Division's Manchester derby ended on a one-all draw. West Ham uNited's three-nil victory over Sheffield Wednesday was the featured game on Match Of The Day. The first UK broacast of The Invaders on ATV London.
The first UK TV showings of Reach For The Sky and Marco Ferreri's El Cochecito in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The Croxley Master broadcast.
Christopher Whelen's opera Some Place Of Darkness broadcast on BBC2. Milton Keynes was formally designated as one of the 'new towns' to be created under the 1965 revision to the New Towns Act.
The Bishop Rides Again broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Low-Temperature Living broadcast in BBC2's Life strand.
Tom Clarke's Everybody's Rich Except Us broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Vote, Vote, Vote - For Me broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand (originally scheduled for 14 December 1966).
The Age Of Kennedybroadcast. Oldenberg broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Sidney Lumet's The Deadly Affair - starring James Mason - premiered.
The Night Of The Generals and The Deadly Affair featured on Film Preview. Desert Island Plunder broadcast in BBC2's Late Night Line-Up strand. Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a rehearsal test for Apollo 1 at Cape Canaveral. Inez & Charlie Foxx's 'Tightrope'/'My Special Prayer', Mike Stevens & The Shevelles' 'Cathy's Clown'/'Go-Go Train', Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's 'The LS Bumble Bee'/'The Bee Side', The Brass Wynds' 'Music To Watch Girls By'/'Sugar's Sweet', Liz Christian's 'Suddenly You Find Love'/'Make It Work Out', John Cameron's 'You Owe Me'/'Walk Small', Steve Darbishire's 'Holiday In Waikiki'/'Just A Little Lovin' Changes Things', Chris Farlowe's 'My Way Of Giving'/'You're So Good For Me', Bobby McClure's 'Peak Of Love'/'You Got Me Baby', The Mama's & The Papa's 'Words Of Love'/'I Can't Wait', Aaron Neville's 'Tell It Like It Is'/'Why Worry', Lou Rawls' 'You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches'/'A Woman Who's A Woman', The Remo Four's 'Live Like A Lady'/'Sing Hallelujah', Petula Clark's 'This Is My Song'/'The Show Is Over', Dean Parrish's 'Skate (Parts 1 & 2)', Inez & Charlie Foxx's 'Tightrope'/'My Special Prayer' and The Attack's 'Try It'/'We Don't Know' released. The UK, Soviet Union, and USA signed The Outer Space Treaty. The Avengers episode Escape In Time broadcast on Rediffusion.
BBC2's Up The Theatre broadcast. Highlights of the FA Cup Third Round included Carlisle United's two-one victory at Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United's four-three win at Coventry City (Wyn Davies netting three), Sheffield Wednesday beating Queens Park Rangers three-nil (John Ritchie getting three), Manchester United beating Stoke City at Old Trafford (featured on Match Of The Day), Sunderland's five-two win over Brentford and Peterborough United's six-two defeat of Bedford United (Tommy Watson scoring three). The other surviving Southern League side, Nunearton Borough drew one-all with Rotherham United. Geoff Hurst hit a hat-trick in West Ham United's three-three draw with Swindon Town (Don Rogers scoring twice for The Robins). Fourth Division Barrow drew two-two with Southampton. Birmingham City knocked-out First Division strugglers Blackpool, two-one. Berwick Rangers beat Glasgow Rangers one-nil in the Scottish Cup at Shielfield Park. Sammy Reid scored the winner whilst Berwick's hero was goalkeeper and player-manager Jock Wallace. John Mayall's Blues Breakers appeared on Saturday Club. Yours For A Song broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Tom Wright's There Was A Man broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Mark Lane's Rush To Judgment in BBC2's The Death Of Kennedy evening. The Night Of The Generals - starring Peter O'Toole, Donald Pleasence, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Plummer and Joanna Pettet - premiered.
The first episode of Before The Fringe broadcast on BBC2. The final section of the North Cornwall Railway, between Bodmin and Wadebridge, was closed as a result of the Beeching cuts.
The first episode of All Gas & Gaiters broadcast. When Is A Body Dead? broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Les Chappell netted a late winner as Rotherham United ended Nuneaton Borough's FA Cup run in a Third Round replay. Willie Penman, Don Rogers and Ken Skeen scored from Swindon Town in a three-one victory over West Ham United. Alex Young scored twice as Everton won the all First Division clash Burnley two-one.
Jim Allen's The Lump broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Jack Trevor Story's Later A Man Was Questioned broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow released. The Pink Floyd signed their first contract with EMI. Bologna thrashed West Bromwich Albion three-nil in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round tie in Italy.
Who Are The Vandals? broadcast. Rough Passage: A life Of Malcolm Lowry broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand.
Stay Alive In The Snow broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. ITV broadcast the episode of The Frost Programme in which David Frost confronted the insurance fraudster Emil Savundra and wiped the floor with him, generally regarded as the first example of 'trial by television' in the UK. Observing Earth Satellites broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. At his North London studio, record producer Joe Meek murdered his landlady, Violet Shenton and then committed suicide by shooting himself. The Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)'/'Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It?', John's Children's 'Just What You Want - Just What You'll Get'/'But She's Mine', Whistling Jack Smith's 'I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman'/'The British Grin & Bear', The Twilights' 'What's Wrong With The Way I Live'/'It's Dark', PP Arnold's 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright'/'Life Is But Nothing', The Sopwith Camel's 'Hello Hello'/'Treadin', Jimmy Ruffin's 'I've Passed This Way Before'/'Tomorrow's Tears', Episode Six's 'Love-Hate-Revenge'/'Baby, Baby, Baby', Vince Hill's 'Edelweiss'/'A Woman Needs Love', The Knack's '(The Man From The) Marriage Guidance & Advice Bureau'/'Dolly Catcher Man', The Ivy League's 'Four & Twenty Hours'/'Arrivederci Baby', The Powerpack's 'I'll Be Anything For You'/'Lost Summer', The Lords' 'Don't Mince Matter'/'No One Knows', Major Lance's 'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Ole Shoes)'/'You'll Want Me Back' and Donovan's 'Mellow Yellow'/'Preachin Love' released. Quite rightly.
The first episode of Girl In A Black Bikini broadcast on BBC2. NASA launched the unmanned Lunar Orbiter 3 probe. Donovan, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Del Shannon, The Move and The John Cameron Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. Mandragora broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the Rugby Union county championship Semi-Finals, Durham beat Leciestershite six-three at Hartlepool whilst Cornwall and Surrey drew six-all at Redruth. Southampton thumped West Ham United six-two in the First Division with Ron Davies and Terry Paine both scoring twice. Fulham beat Newcastle United five-one (Allan Clarke neting three) and league leaders Liverpool drew two=all at Sunderland. In the Second Division Wolves defeated Bolton Wanderers five-two. Ian Towers sacored four in Oldham Athletic's four-nil victory over Colchester United in the Thirtd Division. James Mitchell's play A Magnum For Schneider broadcast in the Armchair Theatre strand on ATV London starring Edward Woodward as MI5 assassin David Callan.
The National Theatre Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing broadcast. The Chemistry Of Love broadcast in BBC2's Sir Arthur Coyle Doyle strand. Jo Grimond, was interviewed by Kenneth Harris on A New View Of Politics.
Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees flew to London on a promotional visit. On his first evening in England, Dolenz saw an episode of Till Death Us Do Part (A Wapping Mythology) and used Alf Garnett's catchphrase 'Randy Scouse Git' for the title of The Monkees' next single not realising that it contained a (mildly) offensive word. It was subsequently changed to 'Alternate Title'. The lyrics also featured references to a party Dolenzattended at Paul McCartney's gaff in St John's Wood, the following evening. Rodney Bewes read Alfred Bestall's Rupert & The Robbers' Cave on Jackanory. The Byrds' Younger Than Yesterday and Mister Dynamite's 'Sh' mon (Parts 1 & 2)' released. Muhammad Ali chinned Ernie Terrell in a bruising fifteen round heavyweight championship bout in Houston. Angered by Terrell's pre-fight refusal to use his chosen name - referring to him, instead, as Cassius Clay - Ali spent much of the fight taunting his, thoroughly outclassed, opponent demanding to know 'what's my name?'
Queens Park Rangers reached their first ever cup final, beating Birmingham City three-one in the second leg of the League Cup Semi-Finals (Rodney Marsh netted two). Bone Breakers & Bleeding Hearts broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Racist, repatriationist party the National Front was founded by AK Chesterton from a merger of the British National Party, the League of Empire Loyalists and various other sick scum goosestepping bad'uns. Arthur Hiller's Tobruk premiered.
Tom Stoppard's Teeth broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Andrew Davies's Who's Going To Take Me On? broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. Dundee United lost three-nil in Turin against Juventus in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round first leg. Meanwhile both Burnley and Leeds United reached the Quarter-Finals, the former sharing a goalless draw at Napoli and the latter winning two-nil in Valencia (Johnny Giles and Peter Lormier scoring). West Bromwich Albion clinched their place in the Football League Cup Final, drawing the second leg of their Semi-Final two-two with West Ham United.
Indian Eyes On The Future broadcast. A Fortune On Your Back broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand. Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown - starring Michael Caine and Jane Fonda - and Joseph Losey's adaptation of Accident - starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker and Jacqueline Sassard - premiered. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's Loos Of England EP ('Loos Of England', 'Over & Over Again'/'Nose For Trouble', 'All I Want To Do'), The Chasers' 'The Ways Of A Man'/'Summergirl' and Love's 'She Comes In Colours'/'Orange Skies' released.
The Tremeloes featured on Crackerjack. Stanley Unwin wasa guest of BBC2's Call My Bluff. The Hollies' 'On A Carousel'/'All The World Is Love', Tom Jones' 'Detroit City'/'If I Had You', The Smoke's 'My Friend Jack'/'We Can Take It', Shirley Bassey's 'The Impossible Dream (The Quest)'/'Do I Look Like A Fool?', The Spectres' '(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet'/'I Want It', Roger Denison's 'This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day'/'She Wanders Through My Mind', The Extreem's 'On The Beach'/'Don't You Ignore Me', The Time Box's 'I'll Always Love You'/'Save Your Love', The Love Affair's 'She Smiled Sweetly'/'Satisfaction Guaranteed', Little Billy Dean's 'That's Always Like You'/'Tic Toc', The Troggs' 'Give It To Me'/'You're Lying', Hamilton & The Movement's 'I'm Not The Marrying Kind'/'My Love Belongs To You', Wynder K Frog's 'Green Door'/'Dancing Frog', Spyder Turner's 'Stand By Me'/'You're Good Enough For Me', Jimmy Cliff's 'Give & Take'/'Aim & Ambition', Jerry Butler's 'I Dig You Baby'/'Some Kind Of Magic', The Soul City's 'Everybody Dance Now'/'Who Knows?', Mister Dynamite's 'Sh' mon (Parts 1 & 2)', André Brasseur & His Multi-Sound Organ's 'Holiday'/'The Kid', Roger Denison's 'This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day'/'She Wanders Through My Mind' and The Marvelettes' 'The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game'/'I Think I Can Change You' released.
Sandie Shaw first performed 'Puppet On A String' on The Rolf Harris Show which was the chosen vehicle for A Song For Europe. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Moonbase broadcast. The Finds Of The Year broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Millwall's two-nil defeat at Birmingham City in the Second Division saw the debut of Barry Kitchener, the first of five hundred and ninety six games for The Lions in a career that lasted until 1982. In the process he broke Harry Cripps's appearance record for the club, established in 1974. Oldham Athletic's two-one defeat at Bristol Rovers in the Third Division saw the debut of Les Chapman, the first of seven hundred and forty seven games, for Oldham, Huddersfield Town, Stockport County, Bradford City, Rochdale and Preston North End, in a career that lasted until 1987. In the First Division, Leeds United's three-nil defeat of Stoke City featured on Match Of The Day. Spurs beat Fulham four-two, Johnny Fantham scored three in Sheffield Wednesday's four-one victory over Southampton, Everton won three-nil at Newcastle and Liverpool remained top of the table, a point ahead of Manchester united after both enjoyed one-nil wins (against Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest respectively). The top two in the Fourth Division met with Southport defeating Stockport County four-nil (Jim Fryatt and Alan Spence both netting twice). The first episode of Who Is Sylvia? broadcast on ATV London.
Thefirst UK TV showing of Pete Kelly's Blues. Sergei Eisenstein was profiled by BBC2's Late Night Line-Up. The Drug Squad, in collusion with some sleazy louse of no importance from the Scum of the World, raided Keith Richards' gaff, Redlands and busted Keef and Mick Jagger for possession - having, allegedly, waited until George and Patti Harrison left the gaff because they didn't wish to involve the - MBE-awarded - Beatles in all this druggy malarkey. Within hours, stories concerning Marianne Faithful, a fur rug and a Mars Bar were doing the rounds. Ralph Thomas's Deadlier Than The Male - starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer - premiered.
Hattie Jacques read Mary Poppins Opens The Door on Jackanory. Harold Pinter's A Night Out broadcast as part of BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Protests outside the Soviet Embassy in Beijing ended after nineteen days. The first episode of Mister Rose - The Bright Bomber - broadcast on Rediffusion.
How Best To Make A Scientist broadcast in the Horizon strand. The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union reached an agreement in Moscow, with the USSR dropping its claims for British-held assets of the former Baltic Republics (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) in return for half-a-million knicker worth of British manufactured goods. The UK would continue its policy of non-recognition of the Baltic annexation. The first episode of Doctor Anne Ross's The Celts broadcast on Network Three.
Simon Gray's Death Of A Teddy Bear broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Anthony Bloomfield's Turn Off! If You Know The Ending broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Bona Law episode of Round The Horne broadcast on The Light Programme. 'We've got a criminal practice that takes up most of our time.' 'Yes, but apart from that ...' Terence Fisher's Frankenstein Created Woman - starring Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg and Thorley Walters - premiered. The first episode of At Last The 1948 Show broadcast on Rediffusion.
LSD: The Spring Glove Experiment broadcast. The Film Of The Book broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand.
Michel Croucher's The Day The Circus Left Town broadcast. The BBC Goes East broadcast in BBC2's Music International strand. Joseph Strick's adaptation of Ulysses - starring Barbara Jefford and Milo O'Shea - and Montgomery Tully's The Terrornauts - starring Simon Oates, Zena Marshall, Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes - premiered. The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever'/'Penny Lane', The Poets' 'Wooden Spoon'/'In Your Tower', The Game's 'It's Shocking What They Call Me'/'Help Me Mummy's Gone', Lowell Fulsom's 'Tramp'/'Pico', The Action's 'Never Ever'/'Twentyfourth Hour', Gene Pitney's '(In The) Cold Light Of Day'/'Flower Girl', The Byrds' 'So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star'/'Everybody's Been Burned', Carol Freeman's 'The Rolling Sea'/'Leaving You Now', The Fifth Dimension's 'Go Where You Wanna Go'/'Too Poor To Die', Emma Rede's 'Just Like A Man'/'I Gotta Be With You', The Seekers' 'Georgy Girl'/'The Last Thing On My Mind', Val Doonican's 'Memories Are Made Of This'/'I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago', Lesley Dawson's 'Run For Shelter'/'I'll Climb On A Rainbow', The Young Idea's 'Peculiar Situation'/'Just Look At The Rain', The Fascinations' 'Girls Are Out To Get You'/'You'll Be Sorry' and The Soft Machine's 'Love Makes Sweet Music'/'Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' released. The Avengers episode The Winged Avenger broadcast on Rediffusion.
Harry H Corbett talked to Clive Goodwin on BBC2's Acting In The Sixties. The atomic physicist Robert Oppenheimer died from throat cancer. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison announced at a press conference that he believed that the assassination of John F Kennedy had been a conspiracy and that his office had been working on the seeking an indictment over 'the possible role of some individuals in New Orleans.' Sonny & Cher, The Troggs, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (making their BBC radio debut), Spencer's Washboard Kings and The Johnny Arthey Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. Sunderland beat Peterborough United seven-one in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup (Neil Martin hit three whilst John O'Hare, Jimmy Baxter and Bobby Kerr were also on the scoresheet). Leeds United defeated West Bromwich Albion five-nil (with two goals apiece from Rod Belfitt and Peter Lorimer). In the surprise of the round Norwich City beat Manchester United two-one at Old Trafford (Gordon Bolland scoring the winner). Second Division Bristol City knocked-out Southampton and Swindon Town's cup-run continued, defeating Bury two-one. Coventry City remained top of the Second Division, Bobby Gould hitting two in a two-one victory at Charlton Athletic.
The first UK TV showing on Eistenstein's Ivan The Terrible on BBC2's World Cinema strand. The American space probe Lunar Orbiter 3 sent back the first detailed pictures of the far side of the Moon, not visible from the Earth. Richard Thorpe's The Scorpio Letters - starring Alex Cord, Shirley Eaton and Laurence Naismith - premiered. Koroshi, the first of two colour episodes of Danger Man broadcast on ATV London.
Harold Pinter's The Basement broadcast as part of BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Kurt Donald Cobain born in Aberdeen, Washington.
The Lagest Animal Ever broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Neil Oliver born in Renfrewshire. The Time Box's 'Soul Sauce'/'I Wish I Could Jerk Like My Uncle Cyril' released. Jimmy Husband scored twice in Everton's three-one victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay.
Peter Coke's An Absolute Treasure broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Sonia Orwell's adaptation of Days In The Trees broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Four Tops' 'Bernadette' released. Peter Brook's adaptation of The Persecution & Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum Of Charenton Under The Direction Of The Marquis De Sade - starring Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson and Freddie Jones - premiered. Arsenla, Chelsea and Manchester City reached the Fifth round of the FA Cup with comfortable home victories against Bolton Wanderers (three-nil, John Radford scoring a hat-trick), Brighton & Hove Albion (four-nil) and Cardiff City (three-one) respectively.
So You Think You Need The Doctor? broadcast. Something Special: Dionne Warwick broadcast on BBC2 from Blenheim Palace (by permission of The Duke of Marlborough). The Singing Postman's 'Mind How You Go'/'Daddy's Trombone' released.
The first episode of The World Of Wodehouse: Blandings Castle broadcast. Kenneth Williams and Joe Orton were among the guests of BBC2's Call My Bluff. Cat Stevens and The Tremeloes appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Alan Price Set's 'Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear'/'Tickle Me', The Bee Gees' 'Spicks & Specks'/'I Am The World', Don Craine's New Downliners Sect's 'I Can't Get Away From You'/'Roses', The Turtles' 'Happy Together'/'We'll Meet Again', The Supremes' 'Love Is Here & Now You're Gone'/'There's No Stopping Us Now', Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Sock It To Me - Baby!'/'I Never Had It Better', Sharon Tandy's 'Toe-Hold'/'I Can't Get Over It', The Frame's 'Doctor, Doctor'/'I Can't Go On', Henry Tudor's 'How Many Times'/'Another Name For Nowhere', The Nocturnes' 'I Do, I Do'/'Wish You Would Show Me Your Mind', Keith Shields' 'Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)'/'Deep Inside Your Mind', The Eyes Of Blue's 'Supermarket Full Of Cans'/'Don't Ask Me To Mend Your Broken Heart', The Secrets' 'Infatuation'/'She's Dangerous', Hamlet's 'She Won't See The Light'/'Go Play In Your Own Yard', Bill McGuffie's 'Fugue For Thought'/'Fair's Fair', King George's 'Drive On James'/'I'm Gonna Be Somebody, Someday', Don Craine's New Downliners Sect's 'I Can't Get Away From You'/'Roses', The Singing Postman's 'Mind How You Go'/'Daddy's Trombone', David Garrick's 'I've Found A Love'/'(You Can't Hide) A Broken Heart', The Majority's 'I Hear A Rhapsody'/'Wait By The Fire', Donald Height's 'Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days'/'I'm Willing To Wait', The Darwin's Theory's 'Daytime'/'Hosanna', The Nerve's 'Number Ten Downing Street'/'George's March', Wilson Pickett's 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love'/'Nothing You Can Do' and Simon Dupree & The Big Sound's 'Reservations'/'You Need A Man' released. The first episode of My Man Joe broadcast on Rediffusion.
Virginia Wetherell and Penny Valentine appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Antique Game broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The Alan Price Set, Freddie & The Dreamers, Sany Posey, Paul & Barry Ryan, Kenny Lynch, The Robb Storme Group, The Gnomes Of Zurich and The Peter Smith Group featured in Saturday Club. Stan Barstow's The Pity Of It All broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre. Newcastle United's form improved with a two-one win against Arsenal (Dave Hilley scoring a late winner). Manchester United went top of the First Division, hammering relegation-threatened Blackpool four-nil whilst Liverpool were drawing two-two at Fulham. Everton thrashed West Ham United four-nil. The top game in the Second Division, Wolverhampton Wanderers three-two win at Portsmouth, featured on Match Of The Day. Francis Lee scored a hat-trick for Bolton Wanderers in their three-one victory at Preston North End. Mark Lazarus hit three in Queens Park Rangers' three-one win at Swansea town in the Third Division whilst fellow promotion-chasers Bristol Rovers thumped Doncaster Rovers four-two. Jimmy Mulvaney hit three for Hartlepools United, who beat York City four=two in the Fourth Division. HMS Renown, Britain's second Polaris submarine was launched.
Fulton Mackay's The Great Kopalski in the Sunday Afternoon Theatre strand. The Willow House School: A Mysterious Tale broadcast in BBC2's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle strand. Robert Fuest's Just Like A Woman - starring Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews and Clive Dunn - premiered. The final episode of Danger Man - Shinda Shima - broadcast on ATV London.
Roman Polanski was profiled on BBC2's The Movies. The Netherlands government gave its support to the United Kingdom's efforts to become a member of the European Economic Community. Liverpool paid a club record sixty five thousand pounds to buy Blackpool's Elmyn Hughes.
Dynamo: The Life Of Michael Faraday - starring Ian Richardson - broadcast in the Horizon strand. At Stechford in Birmingham, a Manchester-Coventry four-carriage electric train collided with a diesel locomotive killing the driver and eight passengers and injuring another sixteen people. Peter Watkins's Privilidge - starring Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London and Jeremy Child - premiered.
David Mercer's In Two Minds broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Evan Jones's Go Tell It On Table Mountain broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Bernard Borderie's Sept Hommes Et Une Garce - starring Jean Marais - premiered. In the first leg of the Quarter-Finals of the European Cup, Glasgow Celtic lost one-nil at Vojvodina. Northern Irish champions Linfield, having their best-ever run in the competition drew two-two with CSKA Red Flag (Bryan Hamilton scoring Linfield's opener). Glasgow Rangers beat Real Zaragoza two-nil in the first leg of their Cup Winners Cup Quarter-Final at Ibrox (Dave Smith and Alex Willoughby scoring). Bill Punton scored twice as Sheffield uNited defeated Fulham three-one in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay.
Fanny Craddock's Problem Cooking broadcast. A Working Poet broadcast in BBC2's New Release strand. Gerald Thomas's Don't Lose Your Head - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Peter Butterworth and Patrick Allen - premiered.
John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix featured in Film Preview strand. Gas-Clouds In Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Her Majesty the Queen opened the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and attended the Inaugural Concert by the English Chamber Orchestra, broadcast on BBC2. The Doors' 'Break On Through (To The Other Side)'/'End Of The Night', Shirley Bassey's 'If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)'/'Give Him Your Love', The Attack's 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining'/'Any More Than I Do', The Mirage's 'Hold On'/'Can You Hear Me?', The Drag Set's 'Day & Night'/'Get Out Of My Way', McKinley Soul Mitchell's 'The Town I Live In'/'No Love Like Your Love', The Sea-Ders' 'Thanks A Lot'/'Undecidedly', Dead Sea Fruit's 'Kensington High Street'/'Put Another Record On', Larry Williams & Johnny Watson's 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy'/'A Quitter Never Wins' and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Touch Me, Touch Me'/'Marina', The Impressions' 'You Always Hurt Me'/'Little Girl' and the first four records on the UK Stax label, Eddie Floyd's 'Raise Your Hand'/'I've Just Been Feeling Bad', Carla Thomas's 'Something Good (Is Going To Happen To You)'/'It's Starting To Grow', The Symbols' 'You'd Better Get Used To Missing Her'/'Hideaway' and Sam & Dave's 'Soothe Me'/'Sweet Pains' released. Franco Giraldi's Seven Donne Per I MacGregor - starring David Bailey, Hugo Blanco, Alberto Dell'Acqua and Ana María Noé - premiered. A crowd of sixty three thousand were at Highbury where First Division leaders Manchester United drew one-all with Arsenal. The Avengers episode The Hidden Tiger broadcast of Rediffusion.
Queens Park Rangers became the first Third Division side to win the Football League Cup, beating West Bromwich Albion three-two at Wembley. Despite being two-nil down at half-time to a pair of goals from Clive Clark, Rangers scored three in the second-half, including a winner, by Mark Lazarus, nine minutes from time. The World Of Charles Aznavour broadcast on BBC2. Liverpool's two-one victory over Stoke City saw the club debut of Emlyn Hughes, the first of six hundred and sixty five games for The Reds in a career that lasted until 1979. Aston Villa and Spurs drew three-three, Liverpool beat Stoke City two-one and Sunderland won the Wear-Tyne three-nil derby at Roker Park. Don Rogers scored three in Swindon Town's four-one hammering of Middlesbrough in the Third Division. Torquay United defeated Workington five-one. With Stockport County having lost on Friday at home to Brentford, following promotion-chasers Tranmere, Southend united and Southport all took the opportunity to close the gap (with wins at Crewe Alexandra, at Port Vale and at home to Barnsley respectively). The Golliwogs' 'Fragile Child'/'Fight Fire' released. Timothy Mark Vine born in Cheam.

George Gershwin: The Legend & The Man broadcast. Five passengers were killed and eighteen injured in the derailment of an express train near Conington, Huntingdonshire, on British Rail's East Coast Main Line, after a signalman intentionally flipped a switch to activate a mechanical lock on the tracks. AJ Frost, who had been discharged from the Royal Marines two years earlier for 'hysteria and immature personality,' was subsequently tried for manslaughter and endangerment.
Z Cars was relaunched as a twice-a-week format with the episode I Don't Want Evidence. Franco Zeffirelli, Richard Burton and Kenneth Tynan talked to Peter Kennerley about The Taming Of The Shrew and the problems of translating Shakespeare to the screen in BBC2's The Movies. The UK's first natural gas from the undersea drilling operations in the North Sea gas reservoirs was pumped ashore from the West Sole operation seventy miles off Easington.
The Dubliners' 'Seven Drunken Nights'/'Paddy On The Railway', Sandie Shaw's 'Puppet On A String'/'Tell The Boys' and Small Faces' 'I Can't Make It'/'Just Passing' released. Fresh from winning the League Cup, Queens Park Rangers stretched their lead at the top of the Third Division to five points with a four-nil victory over Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.
Alun Richards' Taffy Came To My House broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Michael Standing's Another Day, Another Dollar broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Dundee United defeated Juventus one-nil in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round but were knocked-out on aggregate. Also exiting the competition were West Bromwich Albion whose bad week gotr worse with a three-one defeat at home to Bologna. A last minute goal by Billy McNeill gave Glasgow Celtic a two-nil victory over Vojvodina in front of almost seventy thousand at Parkhead and took The Bhoys into the European Cup Semi-Final.
The Four Tops appeared on BBC2's Something Special. The first UK broadcast of The City Of Craftsmen broadcast in the Tales of Europe strand.
Looking Back: An Unredeemed Intellectual broadcast. Workshop: Allegro Vivace broadcast on BBC2. The Pink Floyd's debut single 'Arnold Layne'/'Candy & A Currant Bun', The Chants' 'Ain't Nobody Home'/'For You', The Dakotas' 'I'm 'N 'Ardworkin' Barrow Boy'/'Seven Pounds Of Potatoes', Mick & Malcolm's 'Big Black Smoke'/'Two Or Three Minutes Of My Time', The Nashville Teens' 'I'm Coming Home'/'Searching', Jeff Beck's 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'/'Beck's Bolero', The Mustang's 'Why?'/'Here, There & Everywhere', The Truth's 'Walk Away Renee'/'Fly Away Bird', The Mood Mosaic Featuring The Ladybirds' 'Chinese Chequers'/'The Real Mister Smith', The Vontastics' 'Lady Love'/'When My Baby Comes Back Home', The Applejacks' 'You've Been Cheatin'/'That's How It's Gonna Stay', Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 'It's All Over'/'Why Wasn't I Born Rich?', Françoise Hardy's 'Si C'est Ca'/'Je Serai La Pour Toi', Shirley Ellis' 'Soul Time'/'Waitin', Ike & Tina Turner's 'I'm Hooked'/'Dust My Broom', Helen Shapiro's 'Make Me Belong To You'/'The Way Of The World', Arthur Conley's 'Sweet Soul Music'/'Let's Go Steady Again', Group B's 'I Know Your Name Girl'/'I Never Really Knew', The Worrying Kynde's 'Call Out My Name'/'Got The Blame', John Dankworth & His Orchestra's '(Ain't That) Just Like A Woman'/'Accident', The Chances-R's 'Talking Out The Back Of My Head'/'I Aimed Too High' and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' 'The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage'/'Swept For You Baby' released. Josef Pinkava's Kočky Neberem premiered. The Avengers episode The Correct Way To Kill broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Macra Terror broadcast. The Other Conquest broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. The Velvet Underground & Nico released. Lester Powell's Isn't That The Stones Over There broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the FA Cup Fifth Round both Nottingham Forest and Swindon Town and Sunderland and Leeds United would eventually need three games before the ties were settled. Elsewhere, Everton beat Liverpool at Goodison Park attended by almost sixty five thousand withg a further forty thousand watching at Anfield on closed-ciruit TV. Chelsea defeated Sheffield United two-nil and Sheffield Wednesday won three-one at Norwich City (featured on Match Of The Day). First Division leaders Manchester united shared a goalless draw at Newcastle. Shrewsbury Town thrashed Leyton Orient six-one in the third Division (John Manning neting three). John Scot Barrowman born in Galsgow.
The first UK TV showings of The League Of Gentlemen and Ingmar Bergman's Sawdust & Tinsel in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet appeared on BBC2's Jazz Goes To College. Robert Parrish's The Bobo - starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi and Adolfo Celi - premiered.
The Cabinet Papers broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Thefirst episode of Room At The Bottom broadcast. Migraine broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Mike Summerbee scored twice as Manchester City won three-nil at Ipswich Town in an FA Cup Fifth Round replay.
Public Inquiry broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Who Were You With Last Night? broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. John Gilling's The Mummy's Shroud - starring André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Maggie Kimberly and Elizabeth Sellars and Stuart Burge's adaptation of The Mikado starring Valerie Masterson and John Reed - premiered. Linfield's run in the European Cup came to and end at the Quarter-Final, losing one-nil in Bulgaria against CSKA Red Flag.
Cranko's Castle broadcast. Bertrand Russell appeared on BBC2's New Release.
Looking Back: Remembering Virginia broadcast. Who's Beating The Beetle? broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Purple Haze'/'Fifty First Anniversary', Otis Redding's 'Shake'/'Day Tripper', Arthur Conley's 'Sweet Soul Music'/'Let's Go Steady Again', The Easybeats' 'Who'll Be The One?'/'Saturday Night', Daddy Lindberg's 'Shirl'/'Wade In The Shade', Simon & Garfunkel's 'The Fifty Ninth Street Bridge Song'/'At The Zoo', The Nite People's 'Try To Find Another Man'/'Stay As Sweet As You Are', The Four Seasons' 'Beggin'/'Dody', The Montanas' 'Ciao Baby'/'Anyone There?', The Mama's & The Papa's 'Dedicated To The One I Love'/'Free Advice', The Mindbenders' 'We'll Talk About It Tomorrow'/'Far Across Town', King Size Taylor's 'Thinkin'/'Let Me Love You', Shorty Long's 'Chantilly Lace'/'Your Love Is Amazing', The Legends' 'Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day'/'Nobody Laughs Anymore', Alvin Cash's 'Doin' The Ali Shuffle'/'Feel So Good', The Human Instinct's 'The Rich Man'/'Illusions', Danny White's 'Keep My Woman Home'/'I Am Dedicating My Life', The Spinners' 'Theme From Funeral In Berlin'/'Diamonds & Pearls', The Zombies' 'Goin' Out Of My Head'/'She Does Everything For Me', Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra's 'Somethin' Stupid'/'Call Me', Trini Lopez's 'Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now'/'Love Letters' and Martha & The Vandellas' 'Jimmy Mack'/'Third Finger, Left Hand' released. Barrow leapt into the fourth Division promotion frame following a two-one victory at Ranmere Rovers.
Julia Foster and Maggie Clews appeared on Juke Box Jury. Maggie Smith talked to Kenneth Williams about the playing of comedy in BBC2's Acting In The Sixties. The first episode of The Paradise Makers broadcast. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jeff Beck, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound and Barbara Ruskin featured on Saturday Club. The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked in storms off the Cornish coast between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, leading to the worst environmental disaster in Britain to date. Ten days later the RAF were forced to bomb the fuck out of the stricken vessel and sink it. In the First Division, Manchester United thrashed Leicester City five-two. Sheffield United and Aston Villa drew three-all, Stoke City beat Sunderland three-nil and, in a relegation four-pointer at St James' Park, Pop Robson scored twice as Newcastle United beat Blackpool two-one. Second Division leaders Coventry City's one-all draw against Bolton Wanderers was the featured game on Match Of The Day. Derek Kevan scored the winner as Stockport County got back to winning ways, one-nil, at Halifax Town in the Fourth Division. The Gideon's Way episode The Reluctant Witness broadcast on ATV London. Miki Eleonora Berenyi born in Chelsea.
A Nun's Tale broadcast in the Sunday Afternoon Theatre strand. The first UK TV showing of Jacques Demy's Lola in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
British Rail reopened the remaining section of line on the Isle of Wight from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, after electrification to the Southern Region standard. Michelangelo Antonioni was profiled on BBC2's The Movies. Leeds United overcame Sunderland in a notoriously ill-tempered FA Cup Fifth Round second replay at Hull's Boothferry Park. A late Johnny Giles penalty won the game whilst The Mackems lost their shit completely, had George Hurd and George Mulhall sent-off and the game ended with pitch invasion and a mass brawl in the centre circle. Ah, them were the days. Nottingham Forest overcame Swindon Town, also at the third attempt, three-nil at Villa Park. Marc Warren born in Northampton.
Making A Song & Dance Of It broadcast. Not So Much A Species ... More A Way Of Life broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Thirty two year old career criminal Charles Manson was paroled from the Terminal Island prison in California after being incarcerated since 1960 for transporting women across state lines for the purpose of prostitution and forging checks. He had already spent most of his life in government custody. Telling authorities that 'prison had become his home' and that he did not believe he could adjust to the world outside, Manson begged to stay put. But, they kicked him out anyway. Twice divorced, father of two abandoned sons, a student of Scientology, a pimp, a car thief and an amateur guitarist, he relocated to San Francisco, settled in Haight-Ashbury and spent 1967's Summer of Love taking lots of mind-altering substances and forming the group of mostly female followers known as The Family. Thoroughly Modern Millie premiered.
Thomas Murphy's A Crucial Week In The Life Of A Grocer's Assistant broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. Two & Two Are Twenty-Two broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Easy Come, Easy Go - starring Elvis Presley - and Gerry O'Hara's Maroc Seven - starring Gene Barry and Elsa Martinelli and Elliot Silverstein's The Happening - starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker Jr, Martha Hyer and Faye Dunaway - premiered. Glasgow Rangers progressed into the Semi-Final of the Cup Winners Cup in the most narrow way possible. They lost two-nil to Real Zaragoza in the Quarter-Final second leg with Dave Smith missing a penalty for The Gers. With the tie still deadlocked after extra-time, John Greig called correctly and Rangers went through on the toss of a coin. A mere two days after their gruelling FA Cup replay with Sunderland, Leeds United travelled to Italy and lost one-nil in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fair Cup Quarter-Final. Jimmy Greaves scored as Tottenham Hotspur won one-nil at Everton in the First Division.
Seven Weeks Of A Summer Season and The World His Challengebroadcast. The New Sound - 'an enquiry into the current poetry-reading boom in England' - featuring contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Spike Milligan, Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten - broadcast on Network Three. The Four Tops' 'Bernadette'/'I Got A Feeling', Dana Gillespie's 'Pay You Back With Interest'/'Adam Can You Beat That?', The Inspirations' 'Touch Me, Hold Me, Kiss Me'/'What Am I Gonna Do With You?' and The Barron Knights' 'Lazy Fat People'/'In The Night' released.
Travellers' Tales: Mexican Easter broadcast. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were profiled in BBC2's Painting In England strand. The Exceptions' 'The Eagle Flies On Friday'/'Girl Trouble', Rodger Collins's 'She's Looking Good'/'I'm Serving Time' and The Gibsons' 'The Magic Book'/'You Know I Need Your Loving' released. Jackie Sinclair scored twice in Leicester City's three-one win at Manchester City in the First Division. Peter Noble scored two and John McNamee added a third in Necwastle United's defeat of Stoke City by the same score. Bottom side Blackpool won for the first time in several weeks, two-nil at Chelsea but remained six points adrift of safety.
Jayne Mansfield and Lulu appeared on Juke Box Jury. Though, sadly, one of them had to sit next to Jimmy Savile. The World Of James Bond broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The Who and The Cream made their first US concert appearance as part of Murray The K's package show Music In The Fifth Dimension in New York. Don Chaffey's The Viking Queen - starring Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Niall MacGinnis and Adrienne Corri - premiered. Oxford, including Dan Topolski in their crew, won The Boat Race. Bobby Gould scored the winner as Coventry City remained top of the Second Division, winning one-nil at Blackburn Rovers. Wolves' four-nil victory over Hull City (including a Derek Dougan hat-trick) featured on Match Of The Day. Ipswich Town beat Portsmouth four-two with teenager Colin Viljoen scoring three. Frank Large netted twice as Northampton Town won two-nil at Huddersfield Town. Fellow strugglers Cardiff City also had a confidence-boosting win, four-one against Plymouth Argyle. Arthur Horsfield hit three in Middlesbrough's four-nil victory at Doncaster Rovers in the Third Division. Stockport County's Bert Lister and Chesterfield's Ivan Hollett also neted three in wins against Southend united and Wrexham.
Britain's Montreux entry, Frost Over Britain broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Roberto Rossellini's The Adventures of St Francis on BBC2's World Cinema strand. Peter Graham Scott's Mister Ten Per Cent - starring Charlie Drake, Derek Nimmo, Wanda Ventham, John Le Mesurier, John Laurie, Colin Douglas, Annette Andre, Justine Lord, George Baker and Una Stubbs - premiered. Cats - featuring Fenella Fielding and Robert Stephens - broadcast on Network Three.
Till Closing Time Do Us Part broadcast. Rosalind Knight read E Nesbit's The Phoenix & The Carpet on Jackanory. Jean Renoir profiled in BBC2's The Movies strand. How To Get Rid Of Your Husband broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Leeds United won four-one at Sheffield united in the First Division whilst Nottingham Forest defeated Burnley by the same score. At the bottom, West Bromwich Albion gained an important three-two win over Southampton whilst Newcastle's recently improved form continued with a one-nil victory at Stoke City. Alan Mullery and Alan Gilzean scored in Tottrenham Hotspur's two-nil defeat of Everton.
The first episode of BBC2's The Revenue Men broadcast. Looking After Lulu broadcast in the Brian Rix Presents strand. Sheffield Wednesday thrashed Sunderland five-nil in the First Division. Manchester United rmeained top following a two-one victory over Fulham (Nobby Stiles scoring the winner). Nottingham Forest were two points be8ing after their won two-nil at Burnley (Joe Baker hitting both goals). Liverpool lsot ground on the top two, drawing one-all at Arsenal. Peter Knowles scored the winner as Wolverhampton Wanderers went top of the Second Division, beating Huddersfield Town one-nil. Notts County's three-nil victory over Chester in the Fourth Division included the debut of Dave Watson, the first of eight hundred and forty five games, for County, Rotherham United, Sunderland, Manchester City, Werder Berman, Southampton, Stoke City, Derby County and England, in a career that lasted until 1985.
John Finch's Wanted broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. A Breach In The Wall broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand.
They've Stolen The Sea broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. And So They Left The Land broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand.
The Craters On The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Safari 67 broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. At the London Astoria, Jimi Hendrix set fire to his Stratocaster on stage for the first time during a performance of 'Wild Thing'. He was taken to hospital after the show suffering burns to his hands. The Monkees' 'A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You'/'The Girl I Knew Somewhere', The Move's 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow'/'Wave The Flag & Stop The Train', Roger Bloom's Hammer's 'Out Of The Blue'/'Life's A Gamble', The Alan Bown Set's 'Gonna Fix You Good (Every Time You're Bad)'/'I Really Really Care', The Flies' 'House Of Love'/'It Had To Be You', Sam & Dave's 'You Don't Know Like I Know'/'Blame Me Don't Blame My Heart', Stevie Wonder's 'Travlin' Man'/'Hey Love', The Executives' 'Sensations'/'Smokey Atmosphere', Blossom Dearie's 'Moonlight Saving Time'/'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever', Red Squares' 'Mountains High'/'Pity Me', Brian Auger's 'Tiger'/'Oh Baby, Won't You Come Back Home To Croydon, Where Everybody Beadle's And Bo's', Jacques Dutronc's 'Les Cactus'/'L'espace D'une Fille', Sean Dunphy's 'If I Could Choose'/'Yellow Bandana', Doctor West's Medicine Show & Junk Band's 'Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys & Bums'/'Daddy I Know', Earl Harrison's 'Humphrey Stomp'/'Can You Forgive Me?', Scott Henderson's 'Saturday Night People'/'Butchie's Tune', Mary Love's 'Lay This Burden Down'/'Think It Over Baby', Bobby Goldsboro's 'Too Many People'/'Goodbye To All You Women' and Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody To Love'/'She Has Funny Cars' released. Milan Vosmik's Martin A červené Sklíčko - starring Jaroslav Vízner - premiered. The first episode of The Golden Age broadcast on Rediffusion.
Acting In The Sixties featured Kenneth Tynan interviewing Richard Burton. Radio Zurich played an April Fool's Day joke on its listeners, frequently interrupting regular programming with bulletins about an American landing on the Moon. Telephone lines were jammed, hundreds of people travelled out to the countryside to watch for the re-entry of the mission and even the American consulate in Zurich called the UPI news bureau in an attempt to confirm the story. Manfred Mann, The Jimi Hendrix Exerience, Vince Hill, Helen Shapiro, The Easybeats and The Montanas featured on Saturday Club. Ordeal At High Water broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. On Network Three's Sports Parade in the first of a series of programmes looking at the prospects for the coming cricket season, John Arlott talked to the captains of Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Glamorgan. In the First Division, Manchester United beat West Ham united three-nil, Nottingham Forest remained right on their tail, beating Southampton three-one and Spurs defeated Liverpool two-one (on Mat Of The Day). At the other end of the table, Blackpool lost again, three-one at West Bromwich Albion and Newcastle united had their fourth win in five game, beating Leicester City one-nil. Stoke City and Arsenal drew two-two (George Graham neting twice for The Gunners). In the Third Division, Swansea Town thrashed Doncaster Rovers six-nil. Delroy Wilson's 'Riding For A Fall'/'Got To Change Your Ways' released.
The Black Doctor broadcast in BBC2's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle strand. A United Nations delegation arrived in Aden as it approached independence. They would leave five days later, after accusing British authorities of a lack of cooperation. Helen Marie Chamberlain born in Street, Somerset.
Fred Zimmerman was profiled on BBC2's The Movies. Barry Bermange's adaptation of As A Man Grows Older broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Andrew John Parsons born in Weymouth. Rolf Harris featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Market On Honey Lane broadcast on Rediffusion. Orson Welles appeared on The Levin Interview. Paul Jones' Songs From The Film Privilege EP ('Privilege', 'Free Me'/'(My Poor Heart Is Surely) Breaking', 'I've Been A Bad, Bad Boy') and Curtis Lee & The KCP's 'Get In My Bag'/'Everybody's Going Wild' released.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed 'Purple Haze' on Dee Time. Burnley drew one-all with Eintract Frankfurt in the first leg of their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. Mick Jones and Dave Munks scored as Sheffiled United won two-nil at West Ham United in the First Division.
Leon Griffths' The Voices In The Park broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Swindon Town won four-three at Grimsby in the Third Division.
The Witch-Doctor broadcast. The first episode of Hold Down A Chord broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. The first episode of Seven Deadly Virtues - Joe Orton's The Good & Faithful Servant - broadcast on Rediffusion. Charles Manson met Mary Brunner, a librarian at Berkeley, the first of his Family recruits. The following month he picked up eighteen-year-old Lynette Fromme on Venice Beach and brought her to Mary Brunner's home. He also met Ruth Anne Moorhouse when her father picked Manson up hitch-hiking and invited him to dinner.
The first episode of Joe Brown's Joe & Co broadcast. Everybody Loves A Winner broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase. Lulu's 'The Boat That I Row'/'Dreary Days & Nights', Rolf Harris's 'Fijian Girl'/'You Got What It Takes', Terry Reid With Peter Jay's Jaywalkers' 'The Hand Don't Fit The Glove'/'This Time', The Apostolic Intervention's '(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?'/'Madame Garcia', Wishful Thinking's 'Count To Ten'/'Hang Around Girl', Jay & The Americans' 'You Ain't As Hip As All That Baby'/'Nature Boy', Dee Dee Warwick's 'When Love Slips Away'/'House Of Gold', The Renegades' 'Take A Message'/'Second Thoughts', Lucas & The Mike Cotton Sound's 'Step Out Of Line'/'Ain't Love Good, Ain't Love Proud', The Californians' 'Golden Apples'/'Little Ship With A Red Sail', Joe Tex's 'Show Me'/'A Woman Sees A Hard Time (When Her Man Is Gone)', Warm Sounds' 'Birds & Bees'/'Doo Dah', The Creatures' 'Looking At Tomorrow'/'Someone Needs You', Judy Collins' 'Hard Lovin' Loser'/'In My Life', The Buckinghams' 'Don't You Care?'/'Why Don't You Love Me?', Judy Collins' 'Hard Lovin' Loser'/'In My Life', Billy J Kramer's 'Town Of Tuxley Toy Maker Part One'/'Chinese Girl' and The Quik's 'Love Is A Beautiful Thing'/'Bert's Apple Crumble' released. Vernon Sewell's Some May Live - starring Joseph Cotton, Martha Hyer and Peter Cushing - premiered. Liverpool kept their First Division title challenge just about on-track with a three-one victory over Newcastle at Anfield, Roger Hunt scoring twice. Stockport County remained four points clear at the top of the Fourth Division, following a one-nil win over Bradford City. The Avengers episode The Superlative Seven broadcast on Rediffusion.
One-hundred-to-one outsider Foinavon won The Grand National. 'Puppet On A String' performed by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) won The Eurovision Song Contest. Luxembourg's entry, Vicky Leandros's 'L'Amour Est Bleu' (arguably, a much better song) came fourth. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones broadcast. Marcel Marceau appeared in BBC2's Show Of The Week. More people would probably have watched but he never said anything. Ian Storey-Moore scored a hat-trick as Nottingham Forest beat Everton three-two in the FA Cup Sixth Round (featured on Match Of The Day). Jackie Charlton hit the winner as Leeds United beat Manchester City one-nil. Chelsea defeated Sheffield Wednesday by the same score thanks to Toimmy Baldwin's goal. The game between Birmingham City and Spurs ended in a goalless draw. Ron Davies scored three as Southampton thrashed Burnley four-nil in the First Division whilst hapless Blackpool lost again, one-nil at home to Sheffiled United. Huddersfield Town's four-two victory against Bury in the Second Division saw the league debut of Trevor Cherry, the first of six hundred and eighty games, for Huddersfield, Leeds United, Bradford City and England, in a career that lasted until 1985. Peter Jay's Jaywalkers With Terry Reid, The Alan Bown Set and The Alan Tew Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. A Time To Speak by Noel Robinson broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first episode of Grief & Glory broadcast. The first UK TV showing of I Soliti Ignoti in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Fifty people were arrested in Brussels after demonstrations in which rotten eggs were thrown at the motorcade of US Vice-President Herbert Humphreys, NASA's report into the Apollo 1 disaster highlighted 'many deficiencies.' The Last Exit To Brooklyn obscenity trial began.
Stand By Your Bedouin! broadcast. Orson Welles featured on BBC2's The Movies. The Melody Suit broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. West Bromwich Albion won two=nil at Chelsea in the First Division. Darlington thrashed Peterborough United five-nil in the Third Division (Joe Jacques scoring two). The first UK broadcast of Tarzan on Rediffusion.
Paul Jones, Lulu and Manfred Mann featured on Dee Time. Sleep & Dreams broadcast in the Horizon strand.
Dismissal Leading To Lustfulness broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Gun broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Willie Wallace scored twice and Jimmy Johnstone added a third as Glasgow Celtic defeated Dukla Prague three-one in the first leg of their European Cup Semi-Final. Jimmy Greaves and Terry Venables both scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur gave Birmingham City a right good walloping, six-nil, in their FA Cup Sixth Round replay. Colin Bell hit a hat-trick as Manchester City defeated Stoke City three-one in the First Division. Torquay United moved into the Third Division promotion places with a one-nil victory at Brighton & Hove Albion. Watford hadn't given up their promotion hopes either, winning two-nil at Grimsby Town. Crewe Alexandra's third win in succession, three-two against Barrow, took them into the Fourth Division's top four. Wales and Nothern Ireland drew nil-nil in the Home International championship. David Craig of Newcastle, Airdrieonians Roddy McKenzie, Glentoran's Arthur Stewart and Danny Trainor of Crusaders made their international debuts for the Irish. Swindon Town's Rod Thomas played for Walses for the first time.
The first episode of As I Remember ... broadcast. Sid Millward and Wally Stewart with The Nitwits appeared on BBC2's Something Special. The Green Table broadcast. Casino Royale - starring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Barbara Bouchet, David Niven, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr and Orson Welles - premiered.
A Matter Of Conviction broadcast. The and Pebbles and Hombre featured on Film Preview. Evolution Or Revolution broadcast in BBC2's Music International. David Bowie's 'The Laughing Gnome'/'The Gospel According To Tony Day', Jimmy Ruffin's 'Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got'/'World So Wide, Nowhere To Hide (From Your Heart)', The Herd's 'I Can Fly'/'Diary Of A Narcissist', Denny Laine's 'Say You Don't Mind'/'Ask The People', The Artwoods' 'What Shall I Do?'/'In The Deep End', Studio Six's 'Bless My Soul (I've Been And Gone And Done It)'/'People Say', Vicky (Leandros)'s 'Colours Of Love (Love Is Blue)'/'Who Can Tell?', Raphael's 'Please Speak To Me Of Love'/'While I Live', West Point Supernatural's 'Time Will Tell'/'Night Train', The Kelly Brothers' 'Falling In Love Again'/'Crying Days Are Over', Tommy James & The Shondells' 'I Think We're Alone Now'/'Gone Gone Gone', Janie Jones's 'Tickle Me Tootsie Wootsies'/'High & Dry', Pandamonium's 'No Presents For Me'/'The Sun Shines From His Eyes', Studio Six's 'Bless My Soul (I've Been & Gone & Done It)'/'People Say', Zoot Money's Big Roll Band's 'Nick Knack'/'I Really Learnt How To Cry', Sir Sidney Saitheswaite & The Garbage Collectors' 'I Like Knees'/'Tea Lovely Tea' and The Bee Gees' 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'/'I Can't See Nobody' released.
Ray Davies appeared on Juke Box Jury. Home Of The Brave shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Scotland - with Sunderland's Jimmy Baxter in particularly outstanding form - became the first team to beat England since they won the World Cup the previous year in the three-two victory at Wembley to win the Home Intermational championship. And, the Scots have never shut up about it ever since. Jackie Charlton and Geoff Hurst scored for the hosts with Denis Law, Bobby Lennox and debutant Jim McCalliog replying for the vistors. Glasgow Celtic's thirty six year old goalkepper Ronnie Simpson made his international debut more than a decade after he was winning two FA Cups with Newcastle. In the First Division, Nottingham Forest's fine season continued with a thre-nil defeat of relegation-threatened Aston Villa. Frank Saul scored twice as Spurs beat Sheffield Wednesday two-one. And Blackpool's thoroughly miserable season ended in relegation to the Second Division, losing two-nil at Stoke City (John Mahoney and Harry Burrows scoring). Wolves and Coventry City all-but clinched promotion from the second teir, with wins at Preston North End and at home to Huddersfield Town respectively, though Ipswich Town (who won two-nil at Rotherham with two JImmy Hagan goals) retained an outside chance. Queens Park Rangers' brilliant season continued, confirmed as champions of the Third Division with six games to go folowing a one-nil win at Oldham Athletic. Rodney Marsh top-scored for Rangers with thirty goals. The Yardbirds, Peter & Gordon, The Move, The Barron Knights, Nola Yorke and The Gass featured on Saturday Club. The Distaff Side with Dame Sybil Thorndike - broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The first UK TV showings of The Man Who Wouldn't Talk and A Soldier's Father in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The first eisode of Melodies For You broadcast. Kainbroadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed 'Manic Depression' and 'Purple Haze' on Late Night Line Up. The first episode of The Xylophone broadcast on Network Three. The Purple Gang's 'Granny Takes A Trip'/'Bootleg Whisky', The Wailers' 'Bend Down Low'/'Freedom Time', Peter Touch's 'I Am The Toughest'/Marcia Griffiths' 'No Faith' and Bert Jansch's 'Life Depends On Love'/'A Little Sweet Sunshine' released. Henry Ian Cusick born in Trujillo, Peru.
Dick Gregory, Nina Simone, David & Jonathan, Julie Felix, Engelbert Humperdinck and The King Brothers were the guests on Dee Time. The Magic Horn broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Burnley lost two-one at home to Eintract Frankfurst and exited the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at the Quarter-Final stage. Manchester United beat Southampton three-nil in the First Division (Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and David Sadler scoring). Ipswich town's Second Division promotion hopes came crashing down around them like so much wet cardboard as they lost two-nil at home to local rivals Norwich City.
Tom Clarke's A Brilliant Future Behind Him broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. Failpass broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor. During her run, race manager Jock Semple repeatedly assaulted Switzer trying to grab her bib number and stop her from competing. After knocking down Switzer's trainer and fellow runner Arnie Briggs when Briggs tried to protect her, Semple was shoved to the ground by Switzer's boyfriend, Thomas Miller, who was running with her and she completed the race. Her finishing time of approximately four hours and twenty minutes was nearly an hour behind the first female finisher, Roberta Gibb, who had been refused a race registration but had run anyway and was not attacked during the race. Boston Athletic Association director Will Cloney, whose rejection of Gibb's entry into the 1966 race claimed that women were 'physiologically incapable' of running twenty six miles. Asked his opinion of Switzer competing in the race, Cloney said: 'We have no space in the Marathon for any unauthorised person, even a man. If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her.' Later in life, Semple reversed his position on women competing in the marathon. According to Marja Bakker (a later organiser of the race), 'Once the rule was adjusted and women were allowed in the race, Jock was one of their staunchest supporters.' Semple later publicly reconciled with Switzer. NASA's Surveyor 3 probe landed on The Moon. After bouncing three times during the landing on the Oceanus Procellarum, the probe became was the first to analyse the chemical composition of the lunar surface. Freddie Francis's The Deadly Bees - starring Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman and Frank Finlay - premiered. Kilmarnock lost one-nil at Lokomotive Leipzig in the first leg of their Eureopean Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. Glasgow Rangers won their Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final first leg one-nil in Bulgaria against Slavia Sofia, Davie Wilson neting the winner. A Johnny Giles penalty took Leeds United's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final with Bologna to extra-time. With the scores still level, the match was decided on the toss of a coin, Billy Bremner calling correctly as Leeds progressed to the Semi-Finals.
The Musical Powder Box broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. Michael Dean introduced Late Night Line-Up telling viewers that the programme was being broadcast entirely in colour (some colour sequences had been shown previously). This was BBC2's third birthday and David Attenborough had announced the channel's colour plans earlier in the day.
The first episode Crossword On Two broadcast. The Spy With A Cold Nose and The Jokers featured in Film Preview. The Yardbirds' 'Little Games'/'Puzzles', The Marketts' 'Tarzan (Tarzan's March)'/'Stirrin' Up Some Soul', The Searchers' 'Western Union'/'I'll Cry Tomorrow', Jason James's' Miss Pilkington's Maid'/'Count Me Out', The Cymbaline's 'Peanuts & Chewy Macs'/'Found My Girl', The Rokes' 'Let's Live For Today'/'Ride On', Living Daylights' 'Let's Live For Today'/'I'm Real', Hat & Tie's 'Bread To Spend'/'Finding It Rough', Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede's 'Let The Birds Sing'/'Something For Nothing', The Artistics' 'Girl I Need You'/'I'm Glad I Met You', The Tremeloes' 'Silence Is Golden'/'Let Your Hair Hang Down', The Time Box's 'Soul Sauce'/'I Wish I Could Jerk Like My Uncle Cyril', Tony Kingston's 'Mama Come On Home'/'Agony & Ecstasy', Lou Rawls' 'Dead End Street'/'Yes It Hurts - Doesn't It?', The Roulettes' 'Rhyme Boy, Rhyme'/'Airport People', Ian Whitcomb's 'Lucky Jim (How I Envy Him)'/'I've Been Ill', The Derek Scott Orchestra's 'Honey Lane'/'Song Without Words', Andy Williams' 'Music To Watch Girls By'/'The Face I Love', The Electric Prunes' 'Get Me To The World On Time'/'Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)?' and PP Arnold's 'The First Cut Is The Deepest'/'Speak To Me' released. The Avengers episode Something Nasty In The Nursery broadcast.
Petula Clark At The Talk Of The Town broadcast. The Stresses Of Divorce broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. The Who's 'Pictures Of Lily'/'Doctor, Doctor' and The Electric Prunes' 'Get Me To The World On Time'/'Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)?' released. The Hasty Heart broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Jasper Ridley's Thomas Cromwell broacast on Network Three. The highlight of the First Division fixtures was Manchester City's three-nil victory over Fulham. Derek Dougan scored twice as Wolverhampton Wanderers' promotion from the Second Division was confirmed with a four-one defeat of relegation-haunted Bury. Coventry, who drew at another struggling side, Cardiff City needed one more point to join Wolves in the top flight. In the Third Division, Swindon Town won their sixth game in a row, two-one against Scunthorpe United. Bristol Rovers moved back into the top two with a three-nil win at Darlington.
An Hour With Joan Sutherland broadcast. Playing With Fire broadcast in BBC2's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle strand.
Marian Diamond read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe on Jackanory. Luchino Visconti's production of Verdi's La Traviata broadcast on BBC2. Vladimr Komarov became the first cosmonaut to be killed during a mission when Soyuz 1 crashed during re-entry.
Glasgow Celtic became the first British football club to reach with European Cup final with a three-one aggregate victory over Dukla in the Semi-Final following a goalless draw in Prague. The Shape Of War To Come broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Franklin J Schaffner's The Double Man - starring Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill and Anton Diffring - premiered. Blackburn Rovers' goalless draw with Bolton Wanderers in the Second Division meant that Coventry City, under the progressive management of Jimmy Hill, were promoted to the top flight for the first time in their history. Bobby gould was the division's top scorer with twenty four goals.
The Record Star Show broadcast. Robert Muller's The Executioner broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Marian Diamond read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe on Jackanory. William Bast's Boa Constrictor broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Eric Murray and Jimmy McIlroy scored as Kilmarnock reached with Semi-Finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a two-nil victory over Lokomotive Leipzig. An own-goal by West Ham's Jack Burkett gave Newcastle United a vital two points in the First Division as The Magpies moved two points clear of the drop zone. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic's one-nil win over Swansea Town meant that both Doncaster Rovers and Workington were relegated from the Third Division. Doncaster had started the season reasonably well but the tragic death of their centre-half and captain, John Nicholson, in September badly affected the club and they ultimately conceded a massive one hundred and seventeen goals. Stockport County's point in a two-all draw at Notts County was enough to clinched their promotion from the Fourth Division.
The first episode of Dispute broadcast.
The tenth anniversary episode of The Sky At Night broadcast. Lotus Land broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Huddersfield Town's one-nil victory at Birmingham City in the Second Division saw the debut of Frank Worthington, the first of seven hundred and fifty seven games, for Huddersfield, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Leeds United, Sunderland, Southampton, Brighton & Hove Albion, Tranmere Rovers, Preston North End, Stockport County and England, in a career that lasted until 1988. West Bromwich Albion defeated West Ham United three-one in the First Division. Southport won a promotion-battle two-one at Tranmere Rovers in front of ther highest attendance of the season in the Fourth Division, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty five at Prenton Park. Eric Redrobe scored the winner. The Beach Boys' 'Then I Kissed Her'/'Mountain Of Love', The Outer Limits' 'Just One More Chance'/'Help Me Please', The Pretty Things' 'Children'/'My Time', Anita Harris' 'Just Loving You'/'Butterfly With Coloured Wings', David Garrick's 'A Certain Misunderstanding'/'I'm Looking Straight At You', The Pudding's 'The Magic Bus'/'It's Too Late', The Shotgun Express's 'Funny 'Cos Neither Could I'/'Indian Thing', The Spectrum's 'Samantha's Mine'/'Saturday's Child', James & Bobby Purify's 'Shake A Tail Feather'/'Goodness Gracious', Kim Weston's 'I Got What You Need'/'Someone Like You' and Gladys Knight & The Pips' 'Take Me In Your Arms & Love Me'/'Do You Love Me Just A Little, Honey' released.
The first episode of Witch Hunt broadcast on BBC2. Hank Marvin, Vikki Carr, Bruce Welch and Anneke Wills appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Alexandra Palace hosted the Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream, a benefit party for the underground International Times newspaper, described as 'the first tribal gathering of the British beautiful people.' When they could all have been at in their gaffs watching episode four of The Faceless Ones and having a much better time, frankly. Extracts of the event were broadcast on 17 May in the Man Alive documentary What Is A Happening? Newcastle United's three-one win against Southampton was enough to keep The Magpies in the First Division. Pop Robson, Wyn Davies and Peter Noble scored. Manchester United closed in on the title with a three-one victory over Aston Villa. Arsenal won four-one at Burnley. In the FA Cup Semi-Finals, Spurs beat Nottingham Forest two-one at Hillsborough whilst, at Villa Park, Tony Hateley scored the winner from Charlie Cooke's cross as Chelsea defeated Leeds United in highly controversial circumstances. Referee Ken Burns disallowed two late Leeds goals (from Terry Cooper and Peter Lormier) and needed a police escort to get him out of the ground without getting his head kicked-in. Fifty one thousand, the highest crowd of the Second Division season, were at Highfield Road where already promoted Coventry City beat already promoted Wolverahmpton Wanderers three-one. John Hickton scored three in Middlesbrough's four-nil thumping of Torquay United in the Third Division. Brian Gibbs also hit three as Gillingham defeated Mansfield Town five-two. Lulu, The Tremeloes, The Rockin' Berries, The Gibsons and Marmalade featured on Saturday Club. Operation North Sea broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre.
The first episodes of Contours Of Genius and BBC2'sTwo Steps In The Dark broadcast. Steven Mackintosh born in Cambridge.
The first of Alun Owen's The Loser trilogy broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Jon Pertwee read Little Grey Rabbit on Jackanory. Freddie Francis's They Came From Beyond Space - starring Robert Hutton and Jennifer Jayne - premiered.
The first episode of The Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim broadcast. Quantity Or Quality broadcast in BBC2's Life strand.
Dennis Potter's Message For Posterity broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale's The Isle Is Full Of Noises broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The Cedars' 'I Like The Way'/'I Don't Know Why' released. Glasgow Rangers reached the Final of the European Cup Winners Cup, defeating Slavia Sofia one-nil at Ibrox with a Willie Henderson goal.
The Frost Report won The Golden Rose of Montreux award. Kathryn Mary Draper Garraway born in Abingdon.
The Big Sell Or An Elephant Of Prunes broadcast. The British-designed satellite Ariel 3, the first to be developed outside either the Soviet Union or United States, was launched. Lou Campa's Cool It Baby - starring Beverly Baum, Joseph Marzano and Christine Cybelle - premiered. The Supremes' 'The Happening'/'All I Know About You', The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset'/'Act Nice & Gentle', The Troggs' 'Night Of The Long Grass'/'Girl In Black', The Doors' 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)'/'Take It As It Comes', The Beatstalkers' 'My One Chance To Make It'/'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Ole Shoes)', The Richard Kent Style's 'Marching Off To War'/'I'm Out', The Mirage's 'The Wedding Of Ramona Blair'/'Lazy Man', The Lomax Alliance'S 'Try As You May'/'See The People', Vince Hill's 'Mickey Dunne'/'Roses Of Picardy', The Raelets' 'One Hurt Deserves Another'/'One Room Paradise', VIP's 'Straight Down To The Bottom'/'In A Dream', Val Doonican's 'Two Streets'/'It Must Be You', Big Maybelle's 'Turn The World Around The Other Way'/'I Can't Wait Any Longer', The Act's 'Cobbled Streets'/'One Heart', Bob Dylan's 'Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat'/'Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine', The Moody Blues' 'Fly Me High'/'Really Haven't Got The Time', The Tribe's 'Love Is A Beautiful Thing'/'A Steel Guitar & A Glass Of Wine' and The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'The Wind Cries Mary'/'Highway Child' released. The Avengers episode Who's Who? broadcast on Rediffusion.

The first episode of One Pair Of Eyes broadcast on BBC2. In a game marred by fan violence with kids getting punched and all sorts, Manchester United clinched the First Division title with a six-one win over West Ham United at Upton Park. Manchester United's fans were rapidly gaining notoriety for their crass violent exploits and over twenty people were hospitalised with injuries during and after the match. United - for whom Denis Law ended the season with twenty five goals - finished four points ahead of Nottingham Forest (who lost two-one at Southampton featured on Match Of The Day). Forty seven goals were scored in the First Division. David Ford scored three in Sheffields Wednesday's seven-nil thrashing of Burnley, Leicester City beat Newcastle United four-two, Everton won at Aston Villa by the same score (meaning Villa were relegated) and Arsenal defeated Stoke City three-one. Barrow and Southport joined Stockport County in promotion from the Fourth Division following one-nil wins over Brentford and Southend United respectively. The four hundred and fiftieth eisode of Saturday Club featured Cliff Richard, Georgie Fame, The Troggs, The Searchers, The Harry South Big Band and The Mike Leander Orchestra. Andrew Davies' Getting The Smell Of It broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Monaco Grand Prix was won by Brabham driver Denny Hulme. Graham Hill finished second for Lotus and Ferrari driver Chris Amon came in third. The race was overshadowed by the fatal accident suffered by Ferrari's Lorenzo Bandini in the late stages of the race. The 1967 NME Poll Winners Concert held at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Compèred by rotten rotter Jimmy Savile and Simon Dee it featured The Beach Boys, The Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, Cat Stevens, Cliff Richard (who apparently 'got things going'), The Troggs, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The Move, Paul Jones and Cream. The first UK TV showing of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Holst's The Perfect Fool broadcast on Network Three.
The first episode of Mickey Dunne broadcast. Alun Owen's The Winner broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
Val Doonican, Anita Harris, Adge Cutler and the Wurzels, Dick Francis, Mike Newman and The Searchers featured on Dee Time. The first episode of India broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. Peter Nichols' play A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg premièred at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow starring Ray Brooks and Caroline Mortimer. Nick Sharkey scored twice in Leicester City's three-two victory over Chelsea in the First Division. Spurs defeated West Ham United two-nil.
The House of Commons approved the government's decision to apply for membership in the European Economic Community. Later in the year, as he had in 1963, France's President Charles de Gaulle vetoed the application without so much as a 'pah, Eengleesh pig-dogs. Go away or I shall taunt you some more.' Simon Gray's A Way With The Ladies broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Silver Wedding broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Top Class People broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Scotland lost tow=-nil to the Soviet Union in a friendly international at Hampden Park with Lev Yashin in outstanding form for the visitors.
The first UK broadcast of The Golden Goose in the Tales From Europe strand. Buddy Greco, Frankie Avalon and Susan Barrett featured on BBC2's Something Special.
The New Vaudeville Band and The Warm Sounds appeared on Joe & Co. The Story Of Steller's Albatross broadcast in the Look strand. Opera In Scotland broadcast in BBC2's Music International strand. Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'/'Lime Street Blues', The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut LP Are You Experienced?, The Wards Of Court's 'All Night Girl'/'How Could You Say One Thing?', Tomorrow's 'My White Bicylce'/'Claramount Lake', Roy Hudd's 'Ocarina Serenade'/'The Thing', Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody To Love'/'She Has Funny Cars', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Okay!'/'He's A Raver', The Dave Clark Five's 'Tabatha Twitchit'/'Man In A Pin-Striped Suit', Chords Five's 'I Am Only Dreaming'/'Universal Vagrant', The Koobas' 'Gypsy Fred'/'City Girl', Ken Boothe's 'Feel Good'/'Mustang Sally', Julie London's 'Girl Talk'/'Mickey Mouse March', The Gaylads' 'Tears From My Eyes'/'Never Let Your Country Down', The Brain's 'Kick The Donkey'/'Nightmares In Red', The Bunch's 'Don't Come Back To Me'/'You Can't Do This', Them's 'The Story Of Them (Parts 1 & 2)', Buddy Rich's 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)'/'Monitor Theme', Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'Use Me'/'I'll Be There', The Dalys' 'A Fistful Of Dollars'/'The Man With No Name', The Bob Crewe Generation's 'Miniskirts In Moscow Or ...'/'Theme For A Lazy Girl', Caroline Munro's 'Tar & Cement (Il Ragazzo Della Via Gluck)'/'The Sporting Life', Unit Four Plus Two's 'Too Fast, Too Slow'/'Booby Trap' and The Isley Brothers' 'Got To Have You Back'/'Just Ain't Enough Love' released. As was Mae West's 'Twist & Shout'/'Day Tripper'. No, really.
Georgia's Back broadcast in BBC2's Show of The Week strand. Cliff Richard and Anita Harris were among the panellists on Juke Box Jury. The Moody Blues featured on Saturday Club. The Bunyip broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of Network Three's An Art of Pictures broadcast. Southampton beat Aston Villa six-two in the First Division. Ron Davies scored four and Martin Chivers two. Davies ended the season as the leagues top scorer with thirty seven goals. Sammy Champan scored twice as Nottingham Forest finished their best ever season with a three-two win at Fulham, finishing runners-up. Tony Brown netted three as West Bromwich Albion thumped Newcastle United six-one. Already relegated Blackpool ended an awful year with a three-one victory at Liverpol. In the Second Division, Carlisle United missed out on First Division football by six points - which would have given them a third promotion in four seasons. Howwever, they ended the season on a high, thrashing Bolton Wanderers six-one. Crystal Palace defeated Wolves four-one. Northampton lost one-nil at Norwich City and became the first team to be relegated in successive seasons from the top tier to the third since Bradford Park Avenue in 1921 and 1922. Darlington and Swansea Town were relegated to the Fourth Division. Tranmere clinched the fourth promotion slot to the third tier when Crewe Alexandra lost two-one at Newport County.
The Pink Floyd performed 'Astronomy Domine' on The Look Of The Week after which Syd Barrett and Roger Waters got a right earful from Professor Hans Keller for being 'too loud'. Liverpool's Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral Of Christ The King was consecrated. Hartlepools uNited manager Brian Clough and his assistant, Peyter Taylor, joined Second Division Derby County succeeding Tim Ward. Derby had been rooted in the Second Division for a decade before Clough's arrival. In his first season, the club would finish a place lower than in the previous season, but he started to lay the foundations for his future success by signing several key players, among them Roy McFarland, John O'Hare, John McGovern, Alan Hinton and Les Green.
The first episode of The Reluctant Romeo broadcast. The Computer Revolution bradcast on BBC2 in the Computers For Management strand. Michael Winner's The Jokers - starring Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford - premiered. Leeds United beat Sheffield Wednesday one-nil with a goal by Terry Hibbert to finished fourth in the First Division, behind Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur. Liverpool completed the top five. The first episode of The Fellows (Late Of Room 17) broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of Making Home Movies broadcast. The Flying Mammals broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Johnny Morrissey scored a hat-trick as Everton beat Sunderland in the final First Division match of the season. Stan Anderson's Middlesbrough clinched a dramatic promotion from the Third Division, capping a brilliant late-season run with a four-one victory over Oxford United (John O'Rourke neting three). Watford missed out on promotion by a single point.
Frank Norman's The Sufferings Of Peter Obnizov broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Hunter Davies's The Playground broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand.
The Kinks appeared on Dee Time. Who Is Spending Your Pension Money Now? broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand.
Hughie broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Majesty In Mantua broadcast in BBC2's Workshop Presting strand. Dusty Springfield's 'The Look Of Love'/'Give Me Time', Procul Harum's 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' , The Troggs' 'Night Of The Long Grass', The Byrds' 'My Back Pages'/'Renaissance Fair', Brenda Holloway's 'Just Look What You've Done'/'Starting The Hurt All Over Again', The Marvelettes' 'When You're Young & In Love'/'The Day You Take One (You Have To Take The Other)', Traffic's 'Paper Sun'/'Giving To You', Petula Clark's 'Don't Sleep In The Subway', Chapter Five's 'One In A Million'/'Hey Hey', Spanky & Our Gang's 'Sunday Will Never Be The Same'/'Distance', Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'Too Many Fish In The Sea-Three Little Fishes'/'One Grain Of Sand', The Troggs' 'My Lady'/'Girl In Black', Keith Shields' 'The Wonder Of You'/'Run, Run, Run', The Guess Who's 'This Time Long Ago'/'There's No Getting Away From You', Ennio Morricone & His Orchestra & Chorus' 'A Fistful Of Dollars'/'The Man With No Name' and Eric Burdon & The Animals' 'When I Was Young'/'A Girl Called Sandoz' released. Adge Cutler & The Wurzels appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Freddie Francis's The Deadly Bees - starring Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman and Frank Finlay - premiered. Leeds United defeated Kilmarnock four-two in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final (Rod Belfitt scoring three). The first episode of Half Hour Story - Alun Owen's Shelter - broadcast on Rediffusion.
Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelsea two-one in the first all-London FA Cup Final - Jimmy Robertson and Frank Saul scoring for Spurs, Bobby Tambling netting for The Blues. The first episode of the seven-part Doctor Whoserial The Evil Of The Daleks broadcast. Bobby Darin featured on BBC2's Show Of The Week. Chris Denning and Kenny Everett interviewed John Lennon and Paul McCartney on The Light Programme's Where It's At and previewed their forthcoming LP, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The majority of the LP was played - except for 'A Day In The Life' which the BBC had already decided to ban because it was 'about drugs and shit.' (Mad Kenny also appeared on Juke Box Jury). The Battle Before Alamein broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first episode of Alexander Baron's adaptation of Further Adventures Of The Musketeers - starring Joss Ackland, Brian Blessed and John Woodvine - broadcast. Larry Adler played his kind of jazz with The Lennie Felix Trio on BBC2's The Cool Of The Evening. Mel Ferrar was guest of the week on The Light Programme's Movie-Go-Round.
Top Of The Form: Transworld Edition broadcast. The Lion Of Judah broadcast in BBC2's East Of Rome strand. The Monkees' Headquarters released.
The first UK TV broadcast of Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel shown in The Love Affair strand. Masters of The Desert broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Stranger In The House - starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin and Bobby Darin and Arne Thomas Olsen's Skilsmissefeber - starring Arne Aas and Inger Marie Andersen - premiered.
Charles Wood's Drum Along The Avon broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Tom Clarke's Haven't You People Got Homes? broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre. John's Children's 'Desdemona'/'Remember Thomas À Becket' (featuring Marc Bolan) released. Double Trouble - starring Elvis Presley and Elvis Presley - premiered. England beat Spain two-nil in a friendly international at Wembley with goals from Jimmy Greaves and Roger Hunt. Chelsea's John Hollins made his England debut. Leeds uNited reached the Final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, sharing a goalless draw with Kilmarnock at Rugby Park and winning the Semi-Final four-two on aggregate.
Jopck Stein's 'The Lions of Lisbon', Glasgow Celtic beat Internazionale in the European Cup Final in Lisbon. Tommy Gemmell equalised Sandro Mazzola's first-half penalrty and Steve Chalmers scored the winner five minutes from full-time. Celtic's attacking style play against Inter's catenaccio was heralded as a win for football. All of Celtic's players were born within a thirty-mile radius of Glasgow. Russia: Beneath The Sputniks broadcast. Enoch Powell described Britain as 'the sick man of Europe' in his latest attack on the government. John Lennon's psychedelic-painted Rolls Royce was photographed in London by most of the papers. Because, they didn't have any real news to report, obviously. Barefoot In The Park and The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu - starring Christopher Lee and Douglas Wilmer - premiered.
The first episode of Not In Front Of The Children broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. A New look At Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. An Evening With The Menuhins broadcast on BBC2. The Hollies' 'Carrie Anne'/'Signs That Will Never Change', Murray Head's 'She Was Perfection'/'Secondhand Monday', Sweet Feeling's 'All So Long Ago'/'Charles Brown', Jacques Dutronc's 'J'aime Les Filles (Si Vous Êtes Comme Ça Telephonez-Moi)'/'L'idole (Je N'en Peux Plus)', The Migil Five's 'Together'/'Superstition', The New Formula's 'Do It Again A Little Bit Slower'/'I'm On The Outside Looking In', The Fifth Dimension's 'Another Day, Another Heartache'/'Rosecrans Boulevard', Ellie Greenwich's 'I Want You To Be My Baby'/'Goodnight, Goodnight', Every Mother's Son's 'Come & Take A Ride In My Boat'/'I Believe In You', The Temptations' 'All I Need'/'Sorry Is A Sorry Word', Small Faces' 'Patterns'/'E Too D' and The Mothers Of Invention's Absolutely Free released. Terence Fisher's Night Of The Big Heat - starring Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Sarah Lawson, Jane Merrow and Kenneth Cope - premiered. The final Fourth Division match of the season saw already promoted Stockport County lose five-four at home to bottom side Lincoln City. Ernie Phythian of Hartlepools uNited ended the season as the division's top scorer with twenty three goals.
Martin Burney, a newspaper and souvenir seller, spent the weekend guarding a few yards of pavement outside the Post Office Tower after having been told by officials that he was being evicted to make way for some potted shrubs - when he could have been at home watching The Evil Of The Daleks episode two. Soldiers Of The Widow broadcast on BBC2. PP Arnold and The Nice featured on Saturday Club. American scientists at the University of Arizona stated that, after careful consideration, they had determined the planet Venus to be 'hot, dry and dead'. No shit? A state of emergency was declared in Nigeria after Biafran separatists under Colonel Ojukwu spoke in favour of regional independence. The Duke of Edinburgh was injured after falling heavily during a game of polo at Windsor. England beat Austria one-nil in Vienna in a friendly international. Alan Ball scored whilst Jimmy Greaves won his fifty seventh - and final - cap. The first episode of Trapped broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Champion House broadcast. Jean Renoir's La Regle Du Jeu shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Francis Chichester completed his solo circumnavigation of the world in Gypsy Moth.

The Six Are Ten broadcast. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Noel Thomas David Gallagher born in Manchester. Barbeque 67, a music festival, at The Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, featured The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Cream, The Pink Floyd and Zoot Money's Big Roll Band.
Feathered Fury broadcast in BBC2's Life strand.
Bayern Munich beat Glasgow Rangers in the European Cup Winners Cup final in Nuremberg, Franz Roth scoring the winner deep into extra-time. James Hanley's That Woman broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of Katya & The Crocodile in the Tales From Europe strand. The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released (some sources have subsequently claimed the release date was 26 May). As was the eponymous debut LP of David Bowie. One sold considerably more than the other. Václav Hudecek's Konec Léta - starring Blanka Bohdanová, Rudolf Jelínek, Karel Pavlík and Jaroslava Tvrzníková - premiered.
Vince Powell and Harry Driver's Spanner In The Works - starring Jimmy Jewel and Norman Rossington - broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Vienna Festival 1967 broadcast on BBC2. The Small Faces' 'Here Comes The Nice'/'Talk To You', Cilla Black's 'What Good Am I?'/'Over My Head', The Human Instinct's'Go-Go'/'I Can't Live Without You', The Picadilly Line's 'At The Third Stroke'/'How Could You Say You're Leaving Me', Mike Stuart Span's 'Dear'/'Invitation', John's Children's 'Midsummer Night's Scene'/'Sara Crazy Child', The Bystanders' 'Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day'/'Make Up Your Mind (Mejor)', Normie Rowe's 'But I Know'/'Sunshine Secret', The Loot's 'I've Just Gotta Love You'/'You Need Somebody To Love You' Chris & Maxine's 'Thousand Times A Day'/'I've Made Up My Mind', Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'/'Give A Little Love', Jimmy Holiday & Clydie King's 'Ready, Willing & Able'/'We Got A Good Thing Goin', Billie Davis's 'Wasn't It You?'/'Until It's Time For You To Go', Paul Revere & The Raiders' 'Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be?'/'Legend Of Paul Revere', The Turtles' 'She'd Rather Be With Me'/'The Walking Song', John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' 'Double Trouble'/'It Hurts Me Too', Bernard Cribbins 'When I'm Sixty-Four'/'Oh My Word', Joe Brown's 'With A Little Help From My Friends'/'Show Me Around', The Young Idea's 'With A Little Help From My Friends'/'Colours Of Darkness', John Scott Orchestra & Chorus' 'Stranger In The House'/'Discotheque', Jimmy Cliff's 'I Got A Feeling (And I Can't Stop)'/'Hard Road To Travel', Vernon Garrett's 'Shine It On'/'Things Are Lookin' Better' and David & Jonathan's 'She's Leaving Home'/'One Born Every Minute' released.
The first episode of The Way For Murder broadcast on BBC2. Bernard Cribbins, Amanda Barrie, Vince Hill and Annie Nightingale appeared on Juke Box Jury. Cream and The Herd featured on Saturday Club. All eighty three passengers and five crew on-board Air Ferry Limited Flight G-APYK, carrying British vacationers to a Mediterranean holiday, were killed when the plane crashed into the side of the Canigou mountain peak in the Pyrenees. The Shaws Of Synge Street broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Belonging, a portrait by three artists of East London, broadcast. Susumu Hani's She & He shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Benjamin Britten's Curlew River broadcast on BBC2. The Six Day War between Israeli and Arab forces kicked-off, big-style.
The Turtles made their first UK TV appearance on Dee Time. Cancer: The Search For The Virus broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Simon & Garfunkel's Feelin' Groovy EP ('The Fifty Ninth Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)', 'Homeward Bound'/'The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine', 'A Hazy Shade Of Winter') released.
John Mortimer's translation of A Flea In Her Ear - starring Anthony Hopkins and Edward Hardwicke - broadcast at exactly the same time that Mortimer's The Other Side was broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
Michael Gill's acclaimed documentary Three Swings On A Pendulum broadcast. Geoff Boycott took the best part of two days scoring two hundred and forty six for England in the first test against India at Headingley. Basil D'Oliveira scored his first test century and Ray Illingworth took seven wickets in the match. Despite Tiger Pataudi's thrilling hundred in the second Indian innings, England won by six wickets on the final afternoon. Robin Hobbs made his test debut. Inexplicably, the selectors chose to drop Boycott for the next test, reportedly for scoring his runs 'too slowly.' As if that was unusual for Boycott.
Panda! broadcast in the Look strand. Heirs On A Shoestring broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Hugh Burnett's documetnary about schizophrenia, Escape From Sanity broadcast. Twenty Four Hours At Le Mans broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Four Tops' 'Seven Rooms Of Gloom'/'I'll Turn To Stone', Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen's 'When I'm Sixty-Four'/'Goodnight Irene', The Music Explosion's 'Little Bit O' Soul'/'I See The Light', George Bean's 'The Candy Shop Is Closed'/'Smile From Sequin', Episode Six's 'Morning Dew'/'Sunshine Girl', The Fresh Windows' 'Summer Sun Shines'/'Fashion Conscious', The Heptones' 'A Change Is Going To Come'/'Nobody Knows', Tim Tam & The Turn-Ons's 'Wait A Minute'/'Opelia', Baldwin's 'The Land At Rainbow's End'/'Beautiful Butterfly', Jon's 'So Much For Mary'/'Polly Sunday', Harpers Bizarre's 'Come To The Sunshine'/'The Debutante's Ball', The Equals' 'Hold Me Closer'/'Baby, Come Back', The Sorrows' 'Pink Purple Yellow & Red'/'My Gal', Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band's 'She Shot A Hole In My Soul'/'I've Been Hurt By Love', The Gods' 'Come On Down To My Boat Baby'/'Garage Man', The Association's 'Windy'/'Sometime', Shawn Phillips's 'Stargazer'/'Woman Mind', Matt McGinn's 'The Boys From Lisbon'/'I'm Looking For A Job', Joyce Bond's 'Do The Teasy'/'Sugar' and Cream's 'Strange Brew'/'Tales Of Brave Ulysses' released. Michael Reeves's The Sorcerers - starring Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy and Susan George and Gerry O'Hara's Amsterdam Affair - starring Wolfgang Kieling, William Marlowe, Catherine Schell and Pamela Ann Davy - premiered.
Bruce Parsons' documentary Arthur: The Peerless King broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Murray Walker reported on the opening stages of this year's Grand Prix of endurance, Le Mans. The race was eventually won by the American team of Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt driving for Ford. The Six Day War ended. The actor Spencer Tracy died shortly after completing work on his final movie, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 featured in BBC2's The Danny Kaye Show.
The first episode of Three Of A Kind - featuring Mike Yarwood, Lulu and Ray Fell - broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of A World Of Weather broadcast. The Hollies' Evolution released. The première of Lewis Gilbert's You Only Live Twice.
The Small Faces appeared on Dee Time. A Twentieth-Century Man broadcast in BBC2's Life.
The first episode of Jeux Sans Frontieres broadcast. Alun Owen's The Wake broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Two days after the Soviet launch of Venera Four, the United States launched Mariner Five to the same destination, Venus. James Clavell's To Sir, With Love - starring Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and Lulu - premiered.
Richard Cawston's documentary about Billy Graham, I'm Going To Ask You To Get Up Out Of Your Seat broadcast. The first episode of Mad Dogs & Englishmen broacast in BBC2's Outlook strand. Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen premiered.
The first episode of Miss Goodall & The Wild Chimpanzees broadcast in the Look strand. Michael Mills' adaptation of PG Wodehouse's Uncle Fred Flits By broacast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Waterline: Gunboats For Sale broadcast on BBC2. The opening day of the Monterey Pop Festival in California. It would be remembered for the first major American appearances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Eric Burdon & The New Animals and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Big Brother & The Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) and the introduction of Otis Redding to a predominantly white audience. Other acts included Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds (with guest Hugh Masekela), Simon & Garfunkel, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T & The MG's, The Grateful Dead and The Mamas & The Papas. The Kinks were invited but could not get visas because of a long-standing dispute with the American Federation of Musicians. The Beach Boys were forced to pull out due to Carl Wilson's forthcoming court case over his refusal to be drafted. Electronic music pioneers Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause set up a booth at Monterey to demonstrate the synthesizer developed by Robert Moog, gaining the interest of The Byrds, Brian Jones, Paul McCartney, Mickey Dolenz and Paul Simon. PJ Proby's 'You Can't Come Home Again (If You Leave Me Now)'/'Work With Me Annie', Hoagy Lands' 'The Next In Line'/'Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone', The Pink Floyd's 'See Emily Play'/'Scarecrow', The Young Folk's 'Joey'/'Lonely Girl', Caleb's 'Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad'/'A Woman Of Distinction', Jackie & Millie's 'In A Dream'/'Ooh, Ooh', Ramsey Lewis' 'Function At The Junction'/'Hey, Mrs Jones', Giant Sunflower's 'February Sunshine'/'Big Apple', The Johnny Mann Singers' 'Up-Up & Away'/'Joey Is The Name', Keith's 'Daylight Saving Time'/'Happy Walking Around', The Nocturnes' 'Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)'/'Save The Last Dance For Me', Jimmy Castor's 'Magic Saxophone'/'Just You Girl', Australian Playboys' 'Black Sheep RIP'/'Sad', The Shirelles' 'Too Much Of A Good Thing'/'Bright Shiny Colors', Minouche Barelli's 'Boum Badaboum'/'Let Me Take You', The Summer Set's 'Overnight Changes'/'It's A Dream', The Traffic Jam's 'Almost But Not Quite There'/'Wait Just A Minute', Donnie Elbert's 'Get Ready'/'Along Came Pride' and John Barry's 'You Only Live Twice'/'The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair' released. Philip Larkin completed work on one of his most famous pieces, Annus Mirabilis, published later in the year in the collection High Window. The first episode of Hancock's broadcast on Rediffusion.
Procol Harum appeared on Billy Cotton's Music-Hall. A Dubious Fraternity broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a top secret study titled History of US Decision Making Process On Vietnam Policy, which in 1971 was leaked to the New York Times and published as The Pentagon Papers. The Turtles, Neil Diamond, Billy Fury & The Plainsmen, The Karlins and John's Children featured on Saturday Club. The first episode of Peter Orr's The Reading Of Poetry: Sound & Sense - including the recorded voices of Cyril Cusack, Allen Ginsberg, John Heath-Stubbs, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sylvia Plath and WB Yeats - broadcast on Network Three. The Monkees' 'Alternate Title'/'Forget That Girl', The Traffic Jam's 'Almost But Not Quite There'/'Wait Just A Minute' and Frankie & The Classicals' 'I Only Have Eyes For You'/'What Shall I Do?' released.
Berlioz Te Deum broadcast as part of the opening celebrations of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Jean Renoir's Le Caporal Epingle shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Joan Carlyle, Sergio Franchi, Semprini, Maryon Lane, Christopher Gable, Marisa Robles and The Bel-Canto Singers featured on Melodies For You. Robert Vas interviewed Miklos Jancso one of Hungary's leading film-makers on BBC2's The Movies. Raymond Huntley appeared on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of AP Herbert's 'Misleading Cases' broadcast. Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble broadcast in the Horizon strand. Muhammad Ali fought the law. The law - temporarily - won.
Out Of The West broadcast. Child Marlene broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Seventeen British troops died in Aden during an Arab army mutiny. Convicted Great Train Robber Gordon Goody sued the Sunday People over allegations made in an article in 1964. Paul McCartney (MBE) was criticised by odious Godbotherer Billy Graham following Macca's recent admission that he had taken LSD. The company owning a helicopter used in an episode of The Saint were fined over a stunt which contravened Board of Trade flying regulations. The 'mini-car murder' trial of Raymond Cook, Eric Jones and Kim Newell took place at Oxford Assizes. UN Secretary General U Thant bitterly criticised remarks made by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Racial violence broke out in Atlanta following a speech by black activist Stokely Carmichael. The West German government reached agreement with Brazilian authorities over the extradition of alleged war criminal Franz Stangl. NBC broadcast a documentary highly critical of New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's ongoing criminal investigations into the assassination of President Kennedy.
Sitting Target broadcast. Rolf Harris introduced the flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata and members of his family on BBC2's Something Special.
Loitering With Intent broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Vega broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Presenting Peter Nero broadcast. The Vanishing Coast and Bath Festival 67 (featuring a performance by Jacqueline Du Pre broadcast on BBC2. The Small Faces' (There Are But Four) Small Faces, The Bee Gees' 'To Love Somebody'/'Close Anoter Door', Lulu's 'Let's Pretend'/'To Sir With Love', The Easybeats' 'Heaven & Hell'/'Pretty Girl', The Montanas' 'Take My Hand'/'Top Hat', Chris Farlowe's 'Moanin'/'What Have I Been Doing?', Nicki Hopkins & The Whistling Piano's 'Mister Pleasant'/'Nothing As Yet', Caleb's 'Baby, Your Phrasing Is Bad'/'A Woman Of Distinction', Linda Lewis' 'You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet'/'Do You Believe In Love?', Chris & Maxine's 'Thousand Times A Day'/'I've Made Up My Mind', Frankie & The Classicals' 'I Only Have Eyes For You'/'What Shall I Do?', The Secrets' 'I Intend To Please'/'I Think I Need The Cash', Barry White's 'All In The Run Of A Day'/'Don't Take Your Love From Me', She Trinity's 'Across The Street'/'Over And Over Again', The Attack's 'Created By Clive'/'Colours Of My Mind', The Grumbleweeds' 'Mama'/'Hear My Song, Violetta', Soul Brothers Six's 'Some Kind Of Wonderful'/'I'll Be Loving You', The Syn's 'Created By Clive'/'Grounded', Wynder K Frog's 'I'm A Man'/'Shook, Shimmy And Shake', The Merseys' 'The Cat'/'Change Of Heart', Gordie Lightfoot's 'Adios Adios'/'Is My Baby Blue Tonight?', Hughie Gallagher's 'Big Jock Manager Of Celtic'/'God Save Ireland', Whistling Jack Smith's 'Hey There Little Miss Mary'/'I Was Bizet's Carman', The National-Ells' 'Dance Dance'/'Mister Moon', Unit Four Plus Two's 'Butterfly'/'A Place To Go' and The Action's 'Shadows & Reflections'/'Something Has Hit Me' released.

Your Witness: Censorship broadcast. Show Of The Week: Eartha Kitt, Jungle Of Cats and Never A Backward Step broadcast on BBC2. Chris Farlowe, David & Joathan, The Easybeats, Dianne Ferraz & The Ferriswheel and The Traffic Jam featured on Saturday Club. President Johnson and Soviet Premier Kosygin met in New Jersey. Comments made by Manny Shinwell MP during a Commons debate provoked an angry response from Colonel Lohan, secretary of the D-Notice committee concerning his alleged relationship with Chapman Pincher the defence correspondent for the Daily Scum Express. Mary Whitehouse wrote to the Prime Minister requesting that the new BBC Chairman of Governors should have a salaried position 'significantly in excess' of the Director General (her bête noire, Hugh Greene) 'to leave no doubt who holds the senior position.' It was announced that the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain's office over the content of theatre productions was to be abolished the following year.
Our World, the first live, intercontinental, satellite television production was broadcast featuring The Beatles premièring 'All You Need Is Love'. The Round Up shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Robert Muller's adaptation of Pirandello's Henry IV broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The Climate Of The Westerlies broadcast in A World Of Weather strand. England beat India by an innings and one hundred and twenty four runs in the second test at Lord's. Tom Graveney scored one hundred and fifty one in England's innings whilst Bhagwat Chandrasekhar took five wickets. Ray Illingworth's six for twenty nine spun England to victory with a day to spare. Final Approach broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Jeremy Brooks's Death Happens To Other People broadcast on BBC2. The first automatic cash machine was installed in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield. David Greene's The Shuttered Room - starring Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed and Flora Robson - premiered. The first episode of Sam & Janet broadcast on Rediffusion. Pinkerton's Colours' 'Mum & Dad'/'On A Street Car' released.
Tom Stoppard's Another Moon Called Earth broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The Wigmore Ensemble appeared on Masterworks performing Mozart Wind Serenade in E♭ Major (K 375). The first episode of Sanctuary broadcast on Rediffusion.
Johnny Speight's To Lucifer: A Son - starring Jimmy Tarbuck - broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards got handed some significant Richard III for drugs (subsequently overturned on appeal). Jayne Mansfield was killed in a car crash.
The first episode of Michael Pertwee's The Old Campaigner broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Stevie Wonder's 'I Was Made To Love Her'/'Hold Me', Matt Monro's 'What To Do?'/'These Years', The Exception's 'Gaberdine Saturday Night Street Walker'/'Sunday Night At The Prince Rupert', The Wailers's 'Nice Time'/'Hypocrite', The Honeybus's 'Delighted To See You'/'The Breaking Up Scene', Jon Gunn's 'I Just Made Up My Mind'/'Now It's My Turn', Howard Tate's 'Baby, I Love You'/'How Blue Can You Get?', Samantha Jones' 'Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine'/'How Do You Say Goodbye?' and Bernard Sharpe's 'The Other Side Of The Sky'/'Where Do We Go?' released. The Who's gesture of solidarity with the jailed Stones, 'The Last Time'/'Under My Thumb' released.
Colour transmissions began on BBC2 with coverage of Wimbledon. The first episode of Great Moments In Sport broadcast. Lulu, Jose Feliciano, The Bee Gees, The Montanas, The George Bean Group, The Attack and The Johnny Hawksworth Orchestra featured on Saturday Club. Paul McCartney was interviewed by Kenny Everett about 'All You Needc Is Love' on Where It's At. The first episode of The Home Service's The Time Of My Life broadcast. The People's Republic of China announced the ousting of President Liu Shaoqi, in an article in the Communist Party journal Red Flag. Liu, who had believed at one time to be the eventual successor of Mao Zedong, had not been seen in public since 1966. Canada celebrated its first one hundred years of Confederation. Cm Pennington-Richards' A Challenge For Robin Hood - starring Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe and John Arnatt.
Donovan Meets Logue broadcast. Firebrand broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
The first episode of Mysterious Star broadcast in The Adventures Of Tin Tin strand. Gerry Jones's Give The Clown His Supper - starring Brenda Bruce and Patrick Troughton - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Rodd Hudd featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of News At Ten - presented by Alastair Burnet - and the World In Action episode A Girl Called Sjaron broadcast on Rediffusion.
Douglas Botting's The Italia Tragedy broadcast. The first episode of The Fabric Of The Atom broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. Parliament decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales with the Sexual Offences Act.
The first episode of Rainbow City broadcast. John Cleese and Jose Feliciano were guests on BBC2's Show of The Week: Paul Jones. Cliff Owen's The Magnificent Two - starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise - premiered. Liverpool signed centre forward Tony Hateley from Chelsea vfor ninety six thousand knicker.
The Empire Of The Dollar broadcast. The first episodes of Danger Island - Oh-Oh Chongo! - and Send Foster broadcast on Rediffusion.
He Who Dares: A Hero's Return - with Sir Francis Chichester - and He Who Dares: The Old Man & The Climbers broadcast. Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee and Frank Gorshin appeared on BBC2's The Andy Williams Show. The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love'/'Baby, You're A Rich Man', The Mama's & The Papa's 'Creeque Alley'/'No Salt On Her Tail', The Incredible String Band's Five Thousand Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion, The Doors' 'Light My Fire'/'The Crystal Ship', Roger Bloom's Hammer's 'Polly Pan'/'Fifteen Temperature Rise', Jeff Beck's 'Tallyman'/'Rock My Plimsoul', Art's 'What's That Sound (For What It's Worth)'/'Rome Take Away Three', Rupert's People's 'Reflections Of Charles Brown'/'Hold On', The Human Beans' 'Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk)'/'It's A Wonder', Sandie Shaw's 'Tonight In Tokyo'/'You've Been Seeing Her Again', Simon's 'I Like The Way'/'Little Tin Soldier', The Bar-Kays' 'Soul Finger'/'Knucklehead', The Creation's 'If I Stay Too Long'/'Nightmares', PP Arnold's 'The Time Has Come'/'If You See What I Mean', Brian Fahey & His Orchestra's 'The Plank'/'Stay On The Island', Ronnie Hilton's 'If I Were A Rich Man'/'The Laughing Gnome', Wheels Of Time's '1984'/'So Long', The Greenbeats 'Pretty Woman'/'The Thing', The Carpetbaggers' 'The Flea Teacher'/'On Sunday', The Symbols' 'Bye Bye Baby'/'The Things You Do To Me', Sam & Bill's 'I Feel Like Cryin'/'I'll Try', Lou Rawls' 'Show Business'/'When Love Goes Wrong' and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' 'More Love'/'Come Spy With Me' released. Michael Carreras's Slave Girls - starring Martine Beswick, Michael Latimer, Carol White and Steven Berkoff - premiered.
The beginning of two days of live coverage of Chris Bonington's teams - ultimately successful - climb of The Old Man Of Hoy. The first episode of BBC2's The Secret Agent broadcast. The Jeff Beck Group featured on Saturday Club. The first episode of A Horseman Riding By broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Life & Death Of Doctor John Donne broadcast on Network Three. The first episodes of The Golden Shot and Callan - The Good Ones Are All Dead - broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Pinky & Perky's Island broadcast. CM Pennington-Richards's A Challenge For Robin Hood - starring Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe and John Arnatt - premiered. The first episodes of Tonight With Dave Allen, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - What Lucy Found In The Wardrobe and the Gideon's Way episode How To Retire Without Really Working broadcast on ATV London.
Wedding Fever broadcast. Howard Hawks' profiled in BBC2's The Movies. Henry Longhurst featured on Desert Island Discs. The World In Action episode Some Grains Of Truth investigating how some drugs were smuggled into Britain broadcast.
Red Army Spectacular broadcast. Like The Candyman's Trumpet broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Ask The Family broadcast. To the delight of Home Counties chartered accountants and their really ugly children everywhere. Kathy Kirby introduced BBC2's Something Special featuring Betty Smith's Barnstormers, The She-Trinity, The Four Jays and Peter Gordeno's Daughters of Terpsichore. My Parents Don't Understand Me broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Joe Marzano's Venus In Furs - starring Barbara Ellen, Shep Wild and Yolanda Signorelli - premiered.

Robbing The Poor To Help The Richbroadcast. Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Tom Stoppard's Albert's Bridge - starring John Hurt - broadcast on Network Three. British cycling champion Tommy Simpson died from heat exhaustion brought on, partially, by amphetamine use during the Tour De France on the ascent to the summit of Mont Ventoux. The Postmaster General, Ted Short, announced that pirate radio stations would be banned. The rebellion of French and Belgian mercenaries in the Eastern Congo appeared to have collapsed. President Johnson announced one hundred thousand more US troops were being sent to Vietnam. Eight British soldiers were injured by a hand grenade attack in Aden. Keith Richards, on bail awaiting his appeal against a year's prison sentence was given permission to travel on holiday to Morocco with Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg. A woman whose husband insisted on having a python in their bed was granted a divorced in Stuttgart. 'I was used to living with a devil, but a snake was too much,' she said. Don Sharp's Jules Verne's Rocket To The Moon - starring Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Hermione Gingold - premiered.
A Spoonful of Sugar broadcast. Martin Jarvis read Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden on Jackanory. The first UK broadcast of Giuseppina on BBC2. David Bowie's 'Love You Till Tuesday'/'Did You Ever Have A Dream?', John's Children's 'Come And Play With Me In The Garden'/'Sara Crazy Child', James Carr's 'Let It Happen'/'A Losing Game', The Majority's 'Running Away With My Baby'/'Let The Joybells Ring', Sharon Tandy's 'Stay With Me'/'Hold On', Nirvana's 'Tiny Goddess'/'I Believe In Magic', Gene Latter's 'A Little Piece Of Leather'/'Funny Face Girl', Rufus Thomas's 'Greasy Spoon'/'Sophisticated Sissy', Otis Redding & Carla Thomas's 'Tramp'/'Ooh Carla, Ooh Otis', Lonnie Mack's 'Save Your Money'/'Snow On The Mountain', Winston's Fumbs' 'Real Crazy Apartment'/'Snow White', Lynne Randell's 'Ciao Baby'/'Stranger In My Arms', Debrah Aire's 'This Land Of Mine (Theme From Exodus)'/'What The World Needs Now Is Love', Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra's 'The Magnificent Two'/'The Venus Waltz', The Eye-Full Tower's 'Carol Cartoon'/'How About Me?', Studio Six's 'Times Were When'/'I Can't Sleep', Jason Deane's 'Down In The Street'/'Ain't Got No Love' and The Bee Gees' First released. The Cream appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show.
How They Filmed Grand Prix broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World strand. England won the third test against India at Edgbaston by one hundred and thirty two runs, completing a three-nil series win. Brian Close finished the match with a spell of four wickets for sixty eight. India's ninety two in their first innings was their lowest total in a test in fifteen years. Brighton Breezy broadcast on The Light Programme. Beware A Dark Stranger broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Callan episode Goodbye, Nobby Clarke broadcast on ATV London.
The Plough & The Stars broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Duncan Wood's The Cuckoo Patrol - starring Freddie Garrity, Victor Maddern, John Le Mesurier and Kenneth Connor - premiered.
Hugh Leonard's The Late Arrival Of The Incoming Aircraft broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Power Of The Witchdoctor broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish became the first to observe a pulsar. Jazz musician John Coltrane died from cancer. The World In Action episode A Duel In The Sun broadcast.
Dickie - a profile of 'Ireland's number one pop singer, Dickie Rock' - broadcast. Hypnosis broadcast in the Horizon strand. Paul Douglas Cornell born in Chippenham.
Man Alive investigated 'the problem of bastardry.' Somerset beat Lancashire by one hundred runs at Old Trafford in the Semi-Final of the Gillette Cup. Sidney J Furie's The Naked Runner - starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt and Edward Fox - premiered. The first UK broadcast of Mission: Impossible on Rediffusion.
David Howarth's documentary The Hunt For Robin Hood broadcast on BBC2. Khrushchev In Exile broadcast.
Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking broadcast. Lord Rosse's Great Telescope broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. No Cure, No Pay broadcast in BBC2's Waterline strand. Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe, The Bee Gees' 'To Love Somebody'/Close Another Door', Amen Corner's 'Gin House'/'I Know', The Quik's 'King Of The World'/'My Girl', Garnet Mimms' 'As Long As I Have You'/'Yesterday', Jason Deane's 'Down In The Street'/'Ain't Got No Love', Alex Harvey's 'The Sunday Song'/'Horizons', Little Richard's 'A Little Bit Of Something (Beats A Whole Lot Of Nothing)'/'Money', Darrell Banks' 'Angel Baby (Don't You Leave Me)'/'Look Into The Eyes Of A Fool', The Universals' 'I Can't Find You'/'Hey You', Steve Tracey's 'Now I Know'/'Who Am I?' and Ron Grainer's 'All The King's Men'/'The Girls That Boys Dream About' released. The Easybeats appeared on The Joe Loss Pop Show. Tony Richardson's The Sailor From Gibraltar - starring Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Bannen and Orson Welles - premiered.
The first episode of Kenilworth broadcast on BBC2. The Shadows and Tom Jones featured on Saturday Club. The Prisoner by Francis King broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Atlantis - Fact Or Fiction broadcast on Network Three. The Callan episode The Death Of Robert E Lee broadcast on ATV London. Rhys Owain Evans born in Haverfordwest.
The TV debut of Paul Freeman in an episode of Champion House.
Suddenly, It's Tommy Trinder broadcast on BBC2. Storm broadcast in the A World Of Weather strand. Tom Courtenay featured on Desert Island Discs. The World In Action episode Defender Of The Faith broadcast.
The first episode of Fact, Not Fiction broadcast. Private Lives broadcast in BBC2's Life strand.
Tonight In Person: Nana Mouskouri broadcast on BBC2.
The first episodes of Get It - Got It - Good - presented by Kenny Lynch, Christopher Wray, Jo Kendall and Nicky Henson - and BBC2's The Glory That Remains broadcast. Jason Statham born in Shirebrook.
Edwick Rumbold's 'Shades Of Grey'/'Boggle Woggle', Keith West & The Mark Wirtz Orchestra's 'Excerpt From A Teenage Opera'/'Theme From A Teenage Opera', The Tremeloes' 'Even The Bad Times Are Good'/'Jenny's Alright', The Spencer Davis Group's 'Time Seller'/'Don't Want You No More', The Peanut Butter Conspiracy's 'It's A Happening Thing'/'Twice Is Life', Maynell Wilson's 'Motown Feeling'/'Mean Ole World', Duke Reid's 'Judge Sympathy'/Roland Alphonso's 'Never To Be Mine', Warm Sounds' 'Sticks & Stones'/'Angeline', West Coast Consortium's 'Some Other Someday'/'Looking Back', Tony & Dennis' 'Fook Sang'/Tommy McCook's 'Starry Night', Alan Price Set's 'The House That Jack Built'/'Who Cares?', The Vanilla Fudge's 'You Keep Me Hanging On'/'Take Me For A Little While' and Albert King's 'Born Under A Bad Sign'/'Personal Manager', released. Ken Annakin's The Long Duel - starring Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Charlotte Rampling and Harry Andrews - premiered.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake near Caracas killed two hundred and forty Venezuelans. Bright Lights Of Bournemouth broadcast on The Light Programme. Six & Four Make Sunday broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Pinning Down The Pagan Celts broadcast on Network Three. The Callan episode Goodness Burns Too Bright broadcast on ATV London.
Football's Finest Hour broadcast. Julia Jones's Tickle Times broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
Suddenly, It's Arthur Askey broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of John Anderson's An Adventure In Time featured in the Jackanory strand. Mick Jagger gave a press conference after his conditional discharge for drug use in an episode of World In Action. He then joined a discussion with several eminent people - including the Reverend Thomas Corbishley and William Rees-Mogg - on what is expected of famous people by society and how much of this is their responsibility.
The first episode of Sorry, I'm Single broadcast. The first episode of Six Sides Of A Square broadcast on BBC2. The first test between England and Pakistan at Lord's was drawn. Ken Barrington and Hanif Mohammed both scored centuries. Robert Amram's The Mini-Affair - starring Georgie Fame, Rosemary Nicols, John Clive, Bernard Archard, Madeline Smith and Lucille Soong - premiered.
The first episode of The Life Sentence broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night premiered.
How Israel Won The War broadcast. The first episode of Face The Music broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Boy Meets Girl broadcast. The Small Faces' 'Itchycoo Park'/'I'm Only Dreaming', The Flower Pot Men's 'Let's Go To San Francisco (Parts 1 & 2)', Bill Kenwright & The Runaways' 'I Want To Go Back There Again'/'A Walk Through Dreams', The Electric Prunes' 'The Great Banana Hoax'/'Wind-Up Toys', The Gibsons' 'Night & Day'/'City Life', The Spectrum's 'Portobello Road'/'Comes The Dawn', Sons & Lovers' 'Matters'/'Peaceful Is The River', The New Formula's 'I Want To Go Back There Again'/'Can't You See That She Loves Me?', Sandra Bryant's 'Girl With Money'/'Golden Hours', The Red Squares' 'True Love Story'/'Lollipop', The Treetops' 'It's Raining'/'The Sound Of Music', Hubert Pattison's 'My Home's In My Pocket'/'Saturday Morning Bride', Dave Justin's 'For Brandy'/'What You Going To Do?', The Uglys' 'And The Squire Blew His Horn'/'Real Good Girl' and The Fairytale's 'Guess I Was Dreaming'/'Run & Hide' released. Arthur Penn's Bonnie & Clyde - starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and Jeremy Summers' Five Golden Dragons premiered.
Judith Durham and Barbara Windsor appeared on Juke Box Jury. BBC2's Show Of The Week: Matt Monro Meets Nelson Riddle broadcast. The Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn released. The Man In The Looking Glass broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Brian Moore, Brian James and ro Greenwood discussed the fothcoming football season on Network Three's Sports Service. The Callan episode But, He's A Lord Mister Callan broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of the radio adaptation of The Likely Lads broadcast on The Light Programme. Does The Bible Speak To Us Today? broadcast in the Meeting Point strand. Fifty Five Columns broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. The Home Secretary ordered the closing of Court Lees Approved School, near Godstone in Surrey, after a report found that boys there were caned 'with excessive severity' on a regular basis.
Racing Rebel broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Suddenly It's Clarkie broadcast on BBC2. Miriam Karlin featured on Desert Island Discs. Catherine McKevitt Murphy born on Essex. The World In Action episode The Third World featured a profile of Stokely Carmichael during his recent visit to Great Britain.
The Bee Gees appeared on Dee Time. Samuel Beckett's Beginning To End - starring Jack MacGowran - broadcast in BBC2's Italia '66 strand.

Tonight In Person: Shirley Abicair broadcast on BBC2. Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who subsequently took his own life.
So You Think You Can Manage Your Money broadcast. The first UK TV showing on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal on BBC2's World Cinema.
The Beach Boys appeared on BBC2's The Andy Williams Show. Belshazzar's Feast broadcast. The Monkees' 'Pleasant Valley Sunday'/'Words', The Herd's 'From The Underworld'/'Sweet William', Robert Knight's 'Everlasting Love'/'Somebody's Baby', Our Plastic Dream's 'A Little Bit Of Shangrila'/'Encapsulated Marigold', Skip Bifferty's 'On Love'/'Cover Girl', Joyce's Angels' 'Flowers For My Friends'/'Rodney Reginald Smithfield Harvey Jones', Willie Amos Hunt's 'Would You Believe?'/'My Baby Wants To Dance', Willie Amos Hunt's 'Would You Believe?'/'My Baby Wants To Dance', Ethiopians' 'Train To Skaville'/'You Are The Girl', Alton Ellis & The Flames' 'Ain't That Loving You'/'Comet Rock Steady', Oliver St Patrick & The Diamonds' 'I Want To Be Loved By You'/'Tulips', Friday Brown's 'Ask Any Woman'/'The Outdoor Seminar', John Scott & His Orchestra's 'When The World Is Ready (Theme From The Film The Long Duel)'/'Theme From Rocket To The Moon' and The Chocolate Watch Band's 'The Sound Of The Summer'/'The Only One In Sight' released.
The football season opened with champions Manchester United and cup winners Tottenham Hotspur drawing three-all in the FA Charity Shield at Old Trafford. Match Of The Day cameras witnessed the unusual occurrence on a goalkeeper - Spurs's Pat Jennings - scoring a goal via a wind-assisted clearance which bounced over the head of Alex Stepney and into the United goal. America's Jim Ryun won The Emsley Carr Mile at White City, beating Kipchoge Keino. Hey Riddle Diddle broadcast in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. The Manuscript Collector - starring Spike Milligan - broadcast in The Home Service's Travellers' Tales. The Callan episode You Should've Got Here Sooner broadcast on ATV London.
Rhys Adrian's Stan's Day Out broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625strand. The Foxes Have Holes broadcast in the Meeting Point strand. The first episode of On Site broadcast on The Home Service.
Martin Jarvis read Phillipa Pierce's Tom's Midnight Garden in Jackanory. Suddenly It's Richard Hearne broadcast. Jeremy Thorpe MP featured on Desert Island Discs. The Marine & Broadcasting (Offences) Act declared participation in offshore pirate radio in the United Kingdom both naughty and extremely illegal. The World In Action episode Scientology For Sale broadcast.
The first episode of The Adventures Of Little Joe broadcast. England beat Pakistan by ten wickets in the second test at Trent Bridge. Geoff Arnold and Alan Knott made their test debuts whilst Derek Underwood took five for fifty two in Pakistan's second innings.
The Five-Nineteen broadcast in the Late Night Theatre strand. Pete Seeger appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person.
Jill Craigie's Keep Your Hair On! broadcast. Jimmy Hill, of Coventry City who had been just promoted to the First Division, announced that he was leaving football management to concentrate on a career in television.
The first episode of Whistle Stop - presented by Roger Whittaker - broadcast. Exploding Stars broadcast in the Sky At Night strand. Eighteen Hours A Day broadcast in BBC2's Waterline strand. Eric Burdon & The Animals' 'Good Times'/'Ain't That So', Jon's 'Is It Love'/'Sing Out', The Orange Bicycle's 'Hyacinth Threads'/'Amy Peate', The Bystanders' 'Pattern People'/'Green Grass', The Loot's 'Whenever You're Ready'/'I Got What You Want', The Smoke's 'If The Weather's Sunny'/'I Would If I Could But I Can't', The Jamaicans' 'Dedicated To You'/'Things I Said To You', Johnnie Young's 'Craise Finton Kirk'/'I Am The World', Vicky's 'Sunshine Boy'/'Tell Me', The Fifth Dimension's 'Up-Up & Away'/'The Pattern People' and The Rolling Stones' 'We Love You'/'Dandelion' (featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney on backing voclas) released. The first episode of Escape broadcast on Rediffusion.
The champions Manchester United opened the First Division season on Match Of The Day with a three-one defeat at Everton (Alan Ball scoring twice). Nottingham Forest started the new season much as they finished the previous one, winning three-one at Sheffield United. Liverpool and Manchester City shared a goalless draw, Newcastle United beat Southampton three-nil (recent signing from Hibernian Jim Scott scoring on his debut) and Coventry City's first match in the top flight ended in defeat at Burnley. Fellow promoted side Wolves won two-one at Fulham (Derek Dogan netting the winner). Tottenham Hotspur won three-two at Leicester City with goals from Roy Kinnear, Mike England and Frank Saul. West Ham United's three-two defeat at home to Sheffield Wednesday saw the club debut of Billy Bonds - the first of seven hundred and ninety nine games for The Hamsters in a career that lasted until 1988. In the process he broke Bobby Moore's appearance record for the club, established in 1974. Birmingham City kicked-off the Second Division season with a four-nil victory over Bolton Wanderers. The two relegated sides enjoyed mixed fortunes, Blackpool winning two=nil at Preston North End but Aston Villa losing one-nil at Norwich City. Middlesbrough lost two-nil at home to Ipswich Town. Art In Peril broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of David Turner's adaptation of JB Priestley'sAngel Pavement broadcast. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Burning The Midnight Lamp'/'The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice', TheBeach Boys' 'Heroes & Villains'/'You're Welcome' and Traffic's 'Hole In My Shoe'/'Smiling Phases' released. Lucy Jane Briers born in Hammersmith.
The Cupboard broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Michael Parkinson was one of four journalists involved in the discussion The World I Want in the Meeting Point strand. I Am Nothing If Not Human broadcast on The Home Service.
The first episode of Let's Away broadcast. Suddenly It's Alfred Marks broadcast on BBC2. Richard Briers featured on Desert Island Discs. Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe/'Mississippi Delta' released. In which she managed not to tell us why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. West Ham United beat Burnloey four-two in the First Division. Geoff Hurst scored twice with further goals from Martin Peters and Harry Redknapp. The World In Action episode Colonels' Democracy broadcast.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on Dee Time. The first UK broadcast of Madison Avenue in BBC2's Italia '66 strand. John Hickton scored three as Middlesbrough beat Barnsley four-one in the First Round of the Football League Cup. Mick Cullerton also netted three in Port Vale's three-nil defeat of Chester. Nottingham Forest and Coventry City drew three-all in the First Division. Mick Leach scored twice in Queens Park Rangers' two-nil victory at Bristol City in the Second Division.
Why Pick On Us? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Keith Moon's twenty first birthday party at a Hotel Inn in Flint, Michigan got 'a bit out of hand' and a Lincoln Continental ended up in the swimming pool. Allegedly. Halifax Town thrashed Bradford Park Avenue five-nil in the League Cup. Hartlepols United beat Bradford City two-nil and Northampton Town won three-two at Peterborough United (Northampton had been drawn at home but the venues were switched because Northampton County Cricket Club were playing on The County Ground that day). The one major surprise was Fourth Division Lincoln City's three-two win at Third Division Mansfield Town. Sheffield Wednesday were the First Division's early pace-setters, John Ritchie scoring twice in a two-one defeat of Leicester City. Ron Davies netted two in Southampton's three-two win over Manchester City. Wolves and West Bromwicvh Albion drew three-three. Bolton Wanderers thrashed Hull City six-one in the Second Division.
A Hard Bed To Lie On broadcast. Nobody Waved Goodbye shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The first episode of Sexton Blake - starring William Franklyn - broadcast on The Home Service. Bryan Forbes's The Whisperers - starring Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman and Harry Baird - premiered.
The Alan Price Set featured on Whistle Stop. Look Out, There's A Liner Behind You! broadcast in BBC2's Waterline strand. Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'Reflections'/'Going Down For The Third Time', Traffic's 'Hole In My Shoe'/'Smiling Phases', The Chants' 'A Lover's Story'/'Wearing A Smile', Bill Fay's 'Some Good Advice'/'Screams In The Ears', Svensk's 'Dream Magazine'/'Getting Old', Marvin Gaye's 'Your Unchanging Love'/'I'll Take Care Of You', The Move's 'Flowers In The Rain'/'(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree', The Foundations' 'Baby, Now That I've Found You'/'Come On Back To Me', The Swinging Blue Jeans' 'Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Gonna Melt)'/'One Woman Man', David Garrick's 'Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Gonna Melt, Sugar)'/'Theme For A Wishing Heart', State Of Micky & Tommy's 'With Love From One To Five'/'I Know What I Would Do', Manfred Mann's 'So Long, Dad'/'Funniest Gig', The Lovin's 'Keep On Believing'/'I'm In Command', Steve Flynn's 'Mister Rainbow'/'Let's Live For Tomorrow', Helen Shapiro's 'She Needs Company'/'Stop & You Will Become Aware', Bettye Swann's 'Make Me Yours'/'I Will Not Cry', John Bryant's 'A Million Miles Away'/'It's Dark' and Mike Proctor's 'Mister Commuter'/'Sunday, Sunday, Sunday' released. Samuel Gallu's The Man Outside - starring Van Heflin, Heidelinde Weis, Pinkas Braun and Charles Gray - premiered.
Campbell Of Kilmhor broadcast in the Out of Town Theatre strand. Scott Walker appeared on Billy Cotton's Music-Hall. Cat Stevens and Tony Blackburn appeared on Juke Box Jury. The Empty Quarter broadcast on BBC2. The Quiet Evening broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand. Alan Pryce-Jones's August In New York broadcast on Network Three. Tony Hateley scored three in Liverpool's six-nil hammering of Newcastle United in the First Division. Alan Hinton hit two in Nottingham Forest's two-nil defeat of Arsenal, Ron Davies scored twice again as Southampton's impressive early season form continues, beating West Bromwich Albion four-nil and Tottenham thrashed West Ham United five-one. The Second Division's top two, Birmingham City and Ipswich Town both enjoyed wins (three-two at Huddersfield Town and five-nil against Bristol City with Frank Brogan scoring three). Oxford United beat Bury five-four in the Third Division. Hartlepools United topped the Fourth Division following a one-nil win at Bradford Park Avenue.
An Open-Air Songs Of Praise broadcast from the Isle Of Arran. Balanchine & Stravinsky broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of The Queen's Traitor broadcast. England beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the third test at The Oval and won the series two-nil. Ken Barrington scored his third century in successive matches whilst, for the visitors, Asif Iqbal hit a memorable century and Mushtaq Mohammed scored sixty six and took four wickets. The World In Action episode The Professional Dreamers broadcast.
The first episode of The Big M broadcast on BBC2. Eric Burdon & The Animals, Keith West and PP Arnold appeared on Dee Time. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' Make It Happen released. West Ham United's three-three draw at Burnley in the First Division saw the debut of Trevor Brooking - the first of six hundred and forty three games for The Hamsters in a career that lasted until 1984. Ian and Roger Morgan both scored in Queens Park Rangers three-one victory over Bristol City in the Second Division.
The first episode of The Supersonic Adventure broadcast. The New Dilemma broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. John Boorman's Point Blank - starring Lee Marvin - premiered. Dinamo Zagreb beat Leeds United two-nil in the first leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, held over from the end of the previous season. Fourth Division Luton Town won two-one at Second Division Charlton Athletic in a Football League Cup First round replay (Bruce Rioch scoring twice for The Hatters). Colin Bell and Neil Young both scored twice as Manchester City defeated Southampton four-two in the First Division. Newcastle United thrashed Chelsea five-one (Wyn Davies scoring twice with further goals from Albert Bennett, Dave Elliott and Tommy Robson). West Bromiwhc Albion defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers four-one.
China Diary broadcast. Robert Bresson's Pickpocket shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Paddlers and Your Witness: That Marijuana Should Now Be Legalised For Adults broadcast. I the latter, arguing for and against ere two future Tory cabinet ministers, Jonathan Aitken and Leon Brittan. Canvas: The Laundresses By Degas broadcast on BBC2. The Syn's 'Fourteen Hour Technicolour Dream'/'Flowerman', The Treetops' 'Don't Worry Baby'/'I Remember', Barbara Windsor's 'Don't Dig Twiggy'/'Swinging London', The Peep Show's 'Your Servant Stephen'/'Mazy', The Byrds' 'Lady Friend'/'Don't Make Waves', Otis Clay's 'That's How It Is'/'Show Place', The Nashville Teens' 'The Biggest Night Of Her Life'/'Last Minute', Françoise Hardy's 'Voila'/'Qui Peut Dire?', The Marmalade's 'I See The Rain'/'Laughing Man', The Virgin Sleep's 'Love'/'Halliford House', Kenny Lynch's 'Movin' Away'/'Could I Count On You', Anthony & The Imperials' 'My Love Is A Rainbow'/'You Only Live Twice', Life 'N' Soul's 'Ode To Billy Joe'/'Peacefully Asleep', The Mindbenders' 'The Letter'/'My New Day And Age', The Guess Who's 'Miss Felicity Grey'/'Flying On The Ground Is Wrong', Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's 'Night & Day'/'Cinnamon & Clove' and Dantalians' Chariot's 'The Madman Running Through The Fields'/'Sun Came Bursting Through My Cloud' released. The first episode of The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl translated by FH Lyon and abridged by Nan MacDonald broadcast in The Home Service's Story Time strand. Steven James Pemberton born in Blackburn.
Kent beat Somerset by thirty two runs in the final of The Gillette Cup at Lord's. Brian Luckhurst top-scored for Kent with fifty four whilst Derek Underwood took three for forty one. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Tomb Of The Cybermen broadcast. The first UK TV showing of So Long At The Fair. John Read's The Deadly Art broadcast. Southampton thrashed Chelsea six-two at Stamford Bridge. Burnley beat Tottenham Hotspur five-one (Frank Casper, Andy Lochhead and Ralph Coates all on-target) and Sheffield Wednesday won the Steel City derby with a John Ritchie goal to top the First Division table. Ron Davies scored four and Martin Chivers two as Southampton won six-two at Chelsea (Peter Osgood netting two for The Blues). Leeds United beat Fulham two-nil and Manchester United won three-one at West Ham United (with goals from Brian Kidd, John Ryan and David Sadler). Queens Park Rangers remained top of the Second Division following a three-one win at Rotherham united. Alan Durban hit two in Derby County's defeat of Aston Villa by the same score. Third Division leaders Reading beat Orient four-two. Jim O'Connolly's Berserk! - starring Joan Crawford, Diana Dors, Michael Gough and Judy Geeson - premiered.
The first episode of BBC2's The Stanley Baxter Show broadcast.
The first episode of Discovery & Design broadcast. Suddenly It's Donald Peers broadcast on BBC2. Birmingham City thumped Hull City six-two in the Second Division. Peterborough United defeated Watford five-one in the Third Division. The World In Action episode Hell No! We Won't Go broadcast.
The Small Faces appeared on Dee Time and Tom Jones featured on Dusty. Escape Into Space? broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Howard Kendall and Alex Young scored in Everton's two-nil victory over struggling West Ham United in the First Division. Emlyn Hughes hit the winner as Liverpool won at Nottingham Forest by a single goal. In the Second Division, Queens Park Rangers won again, three-nil against Aston Villa. Carlisle United thumepd Rotherham United four-one. Walsall gave Orient a righht good five-nil twatting in the Third Division.
Dynamo Zagreb beat Leeds United two-nil on aggregate in the final of the Inter-City Fairs Cup following a goalless draw at Elland Road. Sheffield Wednesday returned to the top of the First Division with a four-two victory over Fulham. Chelsea beat Sheffield United by the same score whilst Arsenal won three-one at West Bromwich Albion. Fifty one thousand were at Roker Park where Colin Suggett scored a late equaliser for Sunderland against Manchester United to cancel out Brian Kidd's earlier strike. Crystal Palace thrashed Plymouth Argyle five-nil in the Second Division. Darlington won two-one at Lincoln City in the Fourth Division with Les O'Neill scoring both goals. Aldershot hammered Workington five-nil. Aberdeen enjoyed an outstanding start to their European Cup Winners Cup campaign, annihilating Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur ten-nil at Pittodrie (Frank Munro scoring three). Brandenburg won the first final of Jeux Sans Frontieres to be broadcast in the UK. Britain's representatives, Chippenham, came third. Don't Ask Me - I Didn't Know Him broadcast in The Light Programme's Midweek Theatre strand. Yield Of Bees broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of Rumpelstiltskin in the Tales From Europe strand. Rene Clair's La Beaute Du Diable broadcast in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Albie Sachs's Behind Open Curtains broadcast on The Home Service.
Eric Burdon & The Animals performed 'Good Times' on Whistle Stop. Snow In September broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Bee Gees' 'Massachusetts (The Lights Went Out In)'/'Barker Of The UFO', Martha & The Vandellas' 'Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone'/'One Way Out', Alex Harvey's 'Maybe Some Day'/'Curtains For My Baby', Oscar's 'Holiday'/'Give Her All She Wants', Margie Hendrix's 'Restless'/'On The Right Track', The Ian Campbell Group's 'Private Harold Harris'/'Lover Let Me In', The Scots Of St James' 'Timothy'/'Eiderdown Clown', John Street - The Inmates Of Number Twelve's 'Keep A Little Love'/'My Kind Of Luck', Jackie Lee's 'Born To Lose'/'Saying Goodbye', Dead Sea Fruit's 'Love At The Hippiedrome'/'My Naughty Bluebell', The Act's 'Here Come Those Tears Again'/'Without You', Claudine Longet's 'Good Day Sunshine'/'The Look Of Love', Made In Sheffield's 'Amelia Jane'/'Right Satisfied' and The Box Tops' 'The Letter'/'Happy Times' released. Terence Young's Triple Cross - starring Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger and Yul Brynner - premiered. George Yardley scored four in Tranmere Rovers' four-one victory over Shrewsbury Town in the Third Division.
John Hale's The Picnic broadcast as part of the Out Of Town Theatre strand. Whicker's World: The Love Generation broadcast on BBC2. Geno Washington featured on Saturday Club. Brian Hayles's A Finger On Kelly broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. First Division highlights included Liverpool's three-one defeat of Chesela (featured on Match Of The Day), Manchester City's three-nil victory at Coventry City, Nottingham Forest's four-nil win against Newcastle, West Ham United's five-one victory at Sunderland (Bobby Moore netting at both ends) and Arsenal's four-two win at Sheffield United. Queens Park Rangers lost for the first time in the Second Division season, to a Kevin Hector penalty at home to Derby County. George Jones hit four in Bury's four-nil defeat of Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division.
The first episode of Nemone Lethbridge's adaptation of Pride & Prejudice broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Winter Love on BBC2. John Surtees, driving a Honda, won The Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
The first episode of Sailaway broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's The Impresarios broadcast. The World In Action episode The Militants broadcast, concerning the industrial action which was delaying development of London's Barbican Complex.
Footprints: The Navigator - Prince Henry Of Portugal broadcast on BBC2. Ray Crawford netted four in Ipswich Town's five-two defeat of Southampton in the Football League Cup Second Round.
The Colour War broadcast. The Man Alive film Six Of the Best broadcast on BBC2. David F Friedman's The Brick Dollhouse - starring Tina Vienna, Janice Kelly and Peggy Ann - premiered. Everton won five-nil at Bristol City in the League Cup. John O'Hare scored three in Derboy County's four-nil thumping of Hartlepools United. Peter Lorimer also netted three as Leeds United beat Luton Town three-one. Manchester City defeated Leicester City with two goals from teenage debutant Stan Bowles, the first of six hundred and twenty two games, for City, Bury, Crewe Alexandra, Carlisle United, Queens Park Rangers, Nottingham Forest, Orient, Brentford and England in a caeer that lasted until 1984. Lincoln City inflicted Newcastle United's seemingly annual defeat by a lower league side, two-one at Sincil Bank. Middlesbrough knocked-out Chelsea, two-one whilst West Bromiwhc Albion also lost to lower league opposition, three-one at Reading. Aston Villa's horrible start to the season continued with a three-one defeat at Third Division Northampton Town. Sheffield Wednesday won five-three at Stockport County and West Ham United five-one at Walsall. Aberdeen cruised into the Second Round of the Cup Winners Cup with a four-one victory in Iceland against Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur.
The Battle Of Britain Through French Eyes broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Young World broadcast. Our Mother's House - starring Dirk Bogarde, Pamela Franklin and Yootha Joyce - premiered.
Invisible Astronomy broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Twin Rotor From The Rhine broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Something Else By The Kinks, The Doors' 'People Are Strange'/'Unhappy Girl', The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's 'Devil's Grip'/'Give Him A Flower', Kaleidoscope's 'Flight From Ashiya'/'Holidaymaker', Jimmy Powell & The Dimensions' 'Unexpected Mirrors'/'Time Mends Broken Hearts', Fleur-De-Lys's 'I Can See A Light'/'Prodigal Son', The Fairytale's 'Lovely People'/'Listen To Mary Cry', Floribunda Rose's 'Linda Loves Linda'/'One Way Street', Clinton Ford's 'Dance With A Dolly (With A Hole In Her Stocking)'/'Streets Of Laredo', Jay & The Americans' '(We'll Meet In The) Yellow Forest'/'Got Hung Up Along The Way', The Slender Plenty's 'Silver Tree Top School For Boys'/'I've Lost A Friend And Found A Lover', The Cyrkle's 'Penny Arcade['/'The Words', The Tangerine Peel's 'Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You'/'Trapped', Cheryl Kennedy's 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'/'Cradle Song', James & Bobby Purify's 'Let Love Come Between Us'/'I Don't Want To Have To Wait' and Billy Fury's 'Suzanne In The Mirror'/'It Just Don't Matter Now' released. The first episode of Who? What? Where? When? - presented by Ken Sykora - broadcast on The Home Service.
The first episode of The White Rabbit broadcast on BBC2. Tony Jacklin hit the first televised hole-in-one in the Dunlop Masters tournament at Sandwich. Manchester City's fifth consecutive victory, five-two against Sheffield United (with Stan Bowles scoring twice on his league debut) saw them join Liverpool, Arsenal, Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham Hotspur at the top of the First Division. Arsenal won the North London derby four-nil, whilst Newcastle United defeated Coventry City three-two (Albert Bennett, Wyn Davies and Jim Iley scoring). Derek Dougan hit two as Wolves won tw-one at West Ham United. Queens Park Rangers remained top of hte Second Division, winning two-nil at Preston North End. Blackpool won four-two at Bristol City (featured on Match Of The Day), Ipswich Town enjoyed a four-one victory at Huddersfield Town and Portsmouth won three-one at Norwich City (Nicky Jennings netting three). Watford's four-nil victory over Bristol Rovers in the Third Division saw the league debut of - and two goals - Tony Currie, the first of five hundred and fifty eight games, for Watford, Sheffield United, Leeds United, Queens Park Rangers, Torquay United and England, in a career that lasted until 1984. Swindon Town defeated Northampton Town four-nil. Gerald Kelsey's Lady Holloway broadcast in The Home Service's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Blast Of War broadcast. The first episode of The World This Weekend broadcast on The Home Service.
Dead Peaks Of The Dolomites broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. Children Talking: The Way I Feel broadcast on BBC2. Anne Tara Cassandra Fitzgerald Callaby born in Cuckfield, Sussex. The World In Action episode Born Losers broadcast.
Scott Walker was the guest on Dusty. Operation Survival and The Silent Watcher broadcast on BBC2. The Bee Gees' 'Massachusettes'/'Barker Of The UFO' and Sam & Dave's 'Soul Man' released. Tony Hateley scored twice as Liverpol got their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup campaign off to a flying started with a two-nil victory at Malmö Fotbollförening.
The Queen launched the QEII at Southampton using the same pair of gold scissors than her mother and grandmother had used to launch the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary respectively. All On A Summer's Day broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Stanley Donen's Two For The Road - starring Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney and Eleanor Bron and Guy Green's Pretty Polly - starring Hayley Mills, Shashi Kapoor and Trevor Howard - premiered. Manchester United thumped Hibernians Paola of Malta four-nil in the first leg of their opening European Cup tie. David Sadler and Denis Law both scored twice. The holders, Glasgow Celtic, suffered a two-one defeat at home to Dynamo Kyiv. Northern Irish champions Glentoran led for most of their first leg game against Benfica through a John Colrain penalty, only for Eusabio to equalise five minutes from time. In the Cup Winners Cup, Spurs won two-nil away at Hajduk Split (Jimmy Robertson and Jimmy Greaves scoring). Welsh cup winners Cardiff City gained a one-all draw away at Shamrock Rovers. Joe Baker gave Nottingham Forest another great night as they won one-nil at Eintract Frankfurt in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Hibernian beat FC Porton three-nil (Peter Cromack hiting two). Leeds united defeated Burnley two-one in the First Division.
The first UK broadcast of The Golden Tent in the Tales From Europe strand. Milos Forman's Cerny Petr shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Peter Yates's Robbery - starring Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, William Marlowe, Clinton Greyn and George Sewell - premiered. Alex Ferguson scored a memorable equaliser as Glasgow Rangers drew their opening Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie with Dynamo Desden.
Watch It! broadcast. Penny-Farthing To Packaway broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Hollies' 'King Midas In Reverse'/'Everything Is Sunshine', Sir Sidney Saitheswaite & The Garbage Collectors' 'Our Mabel'/'Chase Me Round The Garden', The Moody Blues' 'Love & Beauty'/'Leave This Man Alone', Shirley Bassey's 'Big Spender'/Dangerous Game', Shyster's 'That's A Hoe Down'/'Tick Tock', Sir Sidney Saitheswaite & The Garbage Collectors' 'Our Mabel'/'Chase Me Round The Garden', Keith Shields' 'So Hard Living Without You'/'Baby Do You Love Me?', Neo Maya's 'I Won't Hurt You'/'UFO', Sands' 'Mrs Gillespie's Refrigerator'/'Listen To The Sky', Nirvana's 'Pentecost Hotel'/'Feelin' Shattered', Dusty Springfield's 'What's It Gonna Be?'/'Small Town Girl', The Shame's 'Don't Go Way Little Girl'/'Dreams Don't Bother Me', Tomorrow's 'Revolution'/'Three Jolly Little Dwarfs', The Esquires' 'Get On Up'/'Listen To Me', The Picadilly Line's 'Emily Small (The Huge World Thereof)'/'Gone, Gone, Gone', The Zombies' 'Friends Of Mine'/'Beechwood Park', Otis Redding & Carla Thomas's 'Knock On Wood'/'Let Me Be Good To You', The Mamas & Papas' 'Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)'/'Straight Shooter', Sounds Orchestral Featuring Johnny Pearson's 'Our Love Story'/'El Malaga' and Brenda Holloway's 'You've Made Me So Very Happy'/'I've Got To Find It' released. Leeds United paid Sheffield United one hundred thousand notes for centre forward Mick Jones. The first episode of Baker's Half-Dozen broadcast on Rediffusion.
International Six-Day Cycle Race broadcast. James Cameron's The Road To Kingdom Come broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Burnley's three-two defeat at Wolverhamton Wanderers saw the club debut of Martin Dobson, the first of six hundred and sixty one games, for Burnley, Everton, Bury and England, in a career that lasted until 1985. Coventry City beat West Bromwich Albion four-two, Leeds United defeated Leicester City three-two and George Best scored twice as Manchester United beat Spurs three-one. Roger Hunt hit the winner as Liverpool won the Merseyside derby one-nil. Kevin Hector netted a hat-trick as Derby County won five-one at Cardiff City in the Second Division. Wrexham walloped Hartlepools United six-nil and Workington thrashed Notts County five-one in the Fourth Division. Steve Race interviewed David Niven on The Light Programme's Be My Guest. Eden End by JB Priestley broadcast in The Home Service's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of Two Americans. A translation of Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.
Out Skerries Treasure broadcast in the Travellers' Tales strand. The first UK broadcast of Claudio Monteverdi on BBC2. The Doors' Strange Days released. The first episodes of Sexton Blake - The Lady Valentine and Playhouse - an adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and the World In Action episode The O'Rahilly File broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of Talkback - presented by David Coleman - broadcast. Pheasants To Formosabroadcast on BBC2. Luis Buñuel's Belle De Jour - starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel and Michel Piccoli - premiered. Birmingham City thrashed Middlesbrough six-one in the Second Division. Tony Currie hit a hat-trick in Watford's four-one victory over Peterborough united in the Third Division.
The National Youth Theatre's production of Peter Terson's Zigger, Zagger broadcast. Oi, Oi, Oi. The first episode of Philip Donnellan and Charles Parker's BD8 broadcast. Tonight In Person: Tom Paxton and To Change The Face Of Notting Hill? broacast on BBC2. Manchester United shared a goalless draw with Hibernians Paola, crusing into the Second round of the European Cup. Spurs also progressed to the next round in the Cup Winners Cup, defeating Hajduk Split four-three. Dundee lost the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round tie two-one at DWS Amsterdam. In a Football League Cup Second Round replay, Gordon TRaylor scored twice as Bolton Wanderers knocked-out Liverpool three-two at Burnden Park. The first episode of The Flowers Of Gloster broadcast on Rediffusion.
Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Robert Parrish's The Bobo - starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi and Adolfo Celi - premiered. The Avengers episode Return Of The Cybernauts, Exit - It's The Way-Out Show and the first episode of Mystery Hall broadcast on Rediffusion.
Mark Dignam, Philip Guard and Johnny Bryning made an unwitting appearance on a Beatles record - 'I Am The Walrus' - via a performance of King Lear on Network Three. The first episode of The Prisoner broadcast on some ITV regions. Or, you could have been watching Not In Front Of The Children on BBC1. Science In The Driver's Seat broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. Procol Harum's 'Homburg'/'Good Captain Clack', The Idle Race's 'Imposters Of Life's Magazine'/'Sitting In My Tree', Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit'/'Plastic Fantastic Lover', Every Mothers' Son's 'Put Your Mind At Ease'/'The Proper Four Leaf Clover', Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's 'Zabadak!'/'The Sun Goes Down', Amen Corner's 'The World Of Broken Hearts'/'Nema', Anita Harris's 'The Playground'/'B-A-D For Me', Chuck Wood's 'Seven Days Too Long'/'Soul Shing-A-Ling', Oscar's 'Holiday'/'Give Her All She Wants', Sam & Dave's 'Soul Man'/'May I Baby', Nilsson's 'You Can't Do That'/'Ten Little Indians', Roy Redmond's 'Good Day Sunshine'/'That Old Time Feeling', Spanky & Our Gang's 'Making Every Minute Count'/'If You Could Only Be Me', Rambling Syd Rumpo's 'The Ballad Of The Woggler's Moulie'/'Green Grow My Nadgers, Oh!', George Martin & His Orchestra's 'Theme One'/'Elephants & Castles', Nancy Sinatra's 'Lightning's Girl'/'Until It's Time For You To Go', Lou Rawls' 'Hard To Get Thing Called Love'/'(How Do You Say) I Don't Love You Anymore?', Maxine Brown's 'Since I Found You'/'Gotta Find A Way', Big Maybelle's 'Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)'/'Keep That Man', Felice Taylor's 'I Feel Love Comin' On'/'Comin' On Again', Vanilla Fudge's 'Illusions Of My Childhood - Eleanor Rigby Part I'/'Part II' and The Twenty Third Turnoff's 'Michaelangelo'/'Leave Me Here' released. Peter Collinson's The Penthouse - starring Suzy Kendall - premiered. The first episode of Inheritance broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first appearance of The Yeti in the Doctor Who serialThe Abpominable Snowmen. The first episode of Sammy Davis Jnr At The Talk Of The Town broadcast. Cast For Posterity broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Marshall McLuhan: A Plain Man's Guide broadcast in the Release strand. Radio 1 began transmission. Highlights included Tony Blackburn's first breakfast show (introduced by George Martin's 'Theme One', the first record played was The Move's 'Flowers In The Rain', the second The Bee Gees' 'Massachusetts'), Junior Choice with Leslie Crowther, Saturday Club with Keith Skues, Emperor Rosko's Midday Spin, Where It's At presented by Chris Denning and Kenny Everett, Scene & Heard featuring Miranda Ward's interview with George Harrison on the set of The Magical Mystery Tour and Pete Murray's Pete's People with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band in session. Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4 also began broadcasting, replacing The Light Programme, Network Three and The Home Service respectively. Roy Castle featured on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Bobby Charlton scored twice as Manchester United won the Mancester derby two-one at Maine Road. Sheffield Wednesday's two-two draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers featured on Match Of The Day. Newcastle United beat Arsenal two-one with a Pop Robson penalty. Alan Ball scored twice as Everton won two-nil at Leicester City. Jeff Aastle hit three in West Brom's four-one victory over struggling Sheffiled United. Thirty thousand were at Selhurst Park where Crystal Palace went to the top of the Second Division with a one-nil defeat of Queens Park Rangers. Blackpool were second, winning two-one at Bolton Wanderers (Tony Green netting the winner). Ron Wigg scored twice in Ipswich Town's three-one victory over Carlisle uNited. Fourth Division leaders Aldershot won five-two at Chester. Terry Melling scored three in Newport County's three-two defeat of Wrexham. The first episode of Man In A Suitcase - Brainwash - broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Unseen Forces broadcast in the Meeting Point strand. Who Runs Europe?: The Red City broadcast on BBC2. John Peel's BBC début, co-presenting the first episode of the revived Top Gear on Radio 1 with Pete Drummond. Music on the first show included sessions by The Pink Floyd ('The Gnome', 'Scarecrow', 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun', 'Matlida Mother', 'Reaction In G', 'Flaming'), The Move ('Cherry Blossom Clinic', 'Hey Grandma', 'Stephanie Knows Who', 'Flowers In The Rain', Do Ya Wanna Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star?', Kilroy Was Here'), Tomorrow ('Three Jolly Little Dwarfs', 'My White Bicycle', 'Revolution', 'Real Life Peanut Dream'), Traffic ('Smiling Phases', 'A House For Everyone', 'Hole In My Shoe', 'Coloured Rain', 'Paper Sun') and Tim Rose plus records by The Velvet Underground & Nico and Captain Beeheart & His Magic Band. The first disc played was Martha & The Vandellas' 'Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone'. Also on Radio 1, Ed Stewpot Stewart's Happening Sunday, Michael Aspel presenting Family Favourites, Pick Of The Pops with Alan Freeman and Mike Raven's R&B Show. Leslie H Martinson's Fathom - starring Raquel Welch, Anthony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser and Richard Briers - premiered. The first episodes of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons and Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner - Arrival - broadcast on ATV London.
The first broadcast of the English-dubbed version of Belle & Sebastian. Robert Gould's Leave Me Alone broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre. Michael Cacoyannis's The Day The Fish Came Out - starring Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely and Sam Wanamaker - premiered. Radio 1's first weekday schedule included Rolf Harris introducing Family Choice, The Jimmy Young Show, Simon Dee's Midday Spin, Monday Monday with Dave Cash and The David Symonds Show. The World In Action episode Smith's Back Door broadcast, looking at sanction-busting in Rhodesia.
The first episode of A Series Of Bird's broadcast. On Display broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. The first episodes of Radio 1's Pop Inn - presented by Keith Fordyke - and Late Night Extra - with Bob Holness - broadcast. Cliff Richard appeared on Radio 2's Be My Guest. Leeds United began their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup campaign with a nine-nil victory at Sporta Luxembourg. Peter Lorimer scored four and Jimmy Greenhoff two, with further goals from Billy Bremner, Paul Madeley and recent signing Mick Jones. Walsall thrashed Tranmere Rovers five-one in the third Division.
The first episode of The Nixon Line - featuring David Nixon and Basil Brush - broadcast. A Proper Little Mother To Them All broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The first episode of Radio 1's Parade Of The Pops broadcast. Late Night Extra featured Terry Wogan and The Sound Of Johnny Pearson. The Loyalty Test broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Goals from John Toshack and a Bobby Brown penalty gave Cardiff City a two-nil win over Shamrock Rovers in the Cup Winners Cup First Round second leg. Liverpool qualified for the Second Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a two-one defeat of Malmö Fotbollförening. Joining them were Scottish League trio Glasgow Rangers (two-one winners against Dynamo Dresden with goals from Andy Penman and John Greig), Dundee (Jim McLean scoring twice in a three-nil victory over DWS Amsterdam) and Hibernian (who lost three-one at FC Porto but went through on aggregate). Glasgow Celtic crashed out of the European Cup, only able to draw one-all at Dynamo Kiev. Glentoran gave Benfica the fright of their lives, sharing a goalless draw in The Stadium of Light, but being eliminated on the away-goals rule. The first episode of The Flower Of Gloster broadcast on Rediffusion.
Why Is Everybody? - narrated by Carl Sagan - broadcast. Merry-Go-Round shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Radio 1's Pop North included sessions by The Alan Price Set, Cat Stevens and Bernard Herrmann & The Northern Dance Orchestra. The Avengers episode Death's Door broadcast on Rediffusion. Jenna Russell born in London.
Procol Harum appeared on Crackerjack. The first episode of BBC2's Inside Australia. David McWilliams 'Days Of Pearly Spencer'/'Harlem Lady', Rupert's People's 'A Prologue To A Magic World'/'Dream On My Mind', Eddie Floyd's 'Never Get Enough Of Your Love'/'Bye Bye Baby', Sharon Tandy's 'Our Day Will Come'/'Look & Find', The Californians' 'Follow Me'/'What Love Can Do', The Peep Show's 'Your Servant, Stephen'/'Mazy', The Honeybus's '(Do I Figure) In Your Life'/'Throw My Love Away', John's Children's 'Go-Go Girl'/'Jagged Time Lapse', Episode Six's 'I Can See Through You/'When I Fall In Love', Brenton Wood's 'Gimme Little Sign'/'I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up', Mike Vickers' 'Captain Scarlet & The Mysterions'/'Kettles Of Fish', Danny Williams' 'Never My Love'/'Whose Little Girl Are You?', Ennio Morricone & His Orchestra's 'For A Few Dollars More'/'La Resa Dei Conti', Tony Kingston's 'Master Hand'/'Look Into My Eyes', Jason Knight's 'Our Love Is Getting Stronger'/'Standing In My Shoes', Peter & The Wolves' 'Little Girl Lost & Found'/'Is Me', The Tages' 'Treat Me Like A Lady'/'Wanting', Stu Brown & Bluesology's 'Since I Found You Baby'/'Just A Little Bit' and The Four Tops' 'You Keep Running Away'/'If You Don't Want My Love' released. The Bee Gees appeared on the first Radio 1 episode of The Joe Loss Show.
The first UK TV showing of The Innocents. Arthur Penn was interviewed and scenes from Bonnie & Clyde were shown on BBC2's Release. After scoring just ten goals in their first nine First Division matches, Leeds United mashed Chelsea up right good and proper, seven-nil at Elland Road. Everton beat Southampton four-two, bottom-to-the-table Leicester City beat Liverpool two-one (Mike Stringfellow scoring both), league leaders Sheffield Wednesday defeated Coventry City four-nil, Stoke City won four-three at West Ham United and Wolves and Newcastle shared an entertaining two-two draw at Molineux. John Aston's goal kept Manchester United in the top three, beating Arsenal one-nil (featured on Match Of The Day). Fifty thousand were at Villa Park where Birmingham City won four-two (no doubt, to a great wailing and kicking-of-teeth from Villa's notoriously fairweather support). Crystal Palace remained yop of the Second Division, beating Bristol City two-nil (with Steve Kember amongst the goals). Derby County and Milwall drew three-three. Walsall went to the top of the Third Division, Colin Taylor neting three in a five-two victory at Scunthorpe United. Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and Amen Corner featured on Radio 1's Keith Skues Show. Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy appeared on Radio 2's Wonderful Copenhagen. There Came A Young Soldier broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Andre Previn appeared in Desert Island Discs. The Man In A Suitcase episode The Sitting Pigeon broadcast on ATV London.
The first UK broadcast of A Man Called Ironside. The first episode of Grief & Glory broadcast. Bernard Kops's The Lost Years Of Brian Hooper broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee died. Pete Drummond and Mike Ahern introduced Radio 1's Top Gear with Lou Rawls, Maxine Brown, Procol Harum, Denny Laine & The Electric String Band, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The Idle Race, The Johnny Watson Concept and 'the coolest record sounds around.' The Prionser episode The Chimes Of Big Ben broadcast on ATV London.
Derrick Sherwin's The Time-Keepers broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of What Is Life? broadcast. Revolutionary spirit and left-wing icon for Middle-Class hippy Guardian readers everywhere Che Guevara was extremely killed in Bolivia by government forces. And, that was the end of his shit. The World In Action episode The Breathalyser broadcast.
John Betjeman's The Picture Theatre broadcast. Lords Of The Sea broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Erik Balling's Martha - starring Poul Reichhardt - premiered. Alan Wilks hit all five in holders Queens Park Rangers five-one defeat of Oxford United in the League Cup Third Round. Burnley beat Nottingham Forest three-nil.
Sleeping Dog broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of BBC2's Clothes That Count broadcast. Harold Wilson won a libel action against The Move after he was depicted naked in a cartoon in promotional material for their single 'Flowers in the Rain'. Montgomery Tully's Battle Beneath The Earth - starring Kerwin Mathews, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne and Al Mulock - premiered. Manchester City's one-all draw with Blackpool in the League Cup Third Round saw the club debut of Joe Corrigan - the first of six hundred and four games for The Citizens in a career that lasted until 1983. Elsewhere, Blackburn Rovers beat Middlesbrough three-two (Barrie Hole netting two), Darlington thrashed Portsmouth four-one, Lincoln City defeated Torquay United four-two and Geoff Hurst scored four in West Ham United's four-one win against Bolton Wanderers. The first episode of Historic European Organs broadcast on Radio 3. Radio 1's Jazz Club featured music from The Tubby Hayes Quartet. Nice!
The first UK broadcast of The Musical Powder Box in the Tales From Europe strand. What's Happened To Pity? broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Roland Verhavert' Farewells in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The first episode of Time & Place broadcast. Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape published. Peter Janes' 'Emperors & Armies'/'Go Home Ulla' released.
The first episode of Omnibus - Everybody's Expo - broadcast. Cameras Round The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first episode of BBC2's Plus ça Change ... broadcast. The Kinks' 'Autumn Almanac'/'Mister Pleasant', The Who's 'I Can See For Miles'/'Someone's Coming', Aretha Franklin's '(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman'/'Never Let Me Go', The Troggs' 'Love Is All Around'/'When Will The Rain Come?', Katch-22's 'Makin' My Mind Up'/'While We're Friends', Ice's 'Anniversary (Of Love)'/'So Many Times', The Barry Grey Orchestra's 'Captain Scarlet'/'The Mysterons Theme', The Kool's 'Look At Me, Look At Me'/'Room At The Top', The Incredibles' 'There's Nothing Else To Say'/'Heart & Soul', The Ron Grainer Orchestra's 'The Prisoner'/'Happening Sunday', Ron Grainer's 'A Man In A Suitcase'/'Andorra', The Family's 'Scene Through The Eye Of A Lens'/'Gysy Woman', The Montanas' 'You've Got To Be Loved'/'Difference Of Opinion', The Accent's 'Red Sky At Night'/'Wind Of Change', Eric Burdon & The Animals' 'San Franciscan Nights'/'Gratefully Dead', Long John Baldry's 'Let The Heartaches Begin'/'Annabella (Who Flies To Me When She's Lonely)', Mud's 'Flower Power'/'You're My Mother', Rolf Harris's 'I've Never Seen Anything Like It'/'Willy Willy', The Equals' 'Give Love A Try'/'Another Sad And Lonely Night', The Afex's 'She's Got The Time'/'I Never Knew Love Was Like This', Stevie Wonder's 'I'm Wondering'/'Every Time I See You I Go Wild', Musketeer Gripweed & The Third Troop's 'How I Won The War'/'Aftermath', The Young Idea's 'Mister Lovin' Luggage Man'/'Room With A View', The Incredibles' 'There's Nothing Else To Say'/'Heart & Soul' and Chris Clark's 'From Head To Toe'/'The Beginning Of The End' released. The Prisoner episode A, B & C broadcast on ATV London.
David Campton's Silence On The Battlefield broadcast in the Out Of Town Theatre strand. The first episode of Rex Tucker's adaptation of Aldous Huxley's After Many A Summer broadcast on BBC2. Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Mindbenders and The Rockin' Berries featured on Radio 1's Pete's People. Kenneth Wolstenholme appeared on Desert Island Discs. The First Division's highlight was Leicester City's five-one win at Southampton (which included a last minute goal from their goalkeeper, Peter Shilton, after his opposite number, Campbell Forsyth, misjudged Shilton's upfield punt). Manchester United won three-nil at Sheffield United, Liverpool beat West Ham United three-one and Newcastle United defeated Fulham two-one (Albert Bennett scoring both goals). Jimmy Greaves also scored twice as Spurs won three-two at Coventry City. Middlesbrough thrashed Plymouth Aregyle five-nil in the Second Division, whilst Ipswich Town beat Derby County four=nil and Carlisle United thumped Preston North End four-one. The Man In A Suitcase episode Day Of Execution broadcast on ATV London.
An adaptation of Girls In Uniform broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first episode of Ken Taylor's trilogy The Magicians broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Pete Drummond and Tommy Vance introduced Top Gear with The Jimi Hendrix Experience ('Little Miss Lover', 'Driving South', 'Burning The Midnight Lamp', 'Hound Dog', 'Experiencing The Blues'), The Bee Gees ('In My Own Time', 'I Close My Eyes', New York Mining Disaster 1941', Massachussettes', 'Mrs Gllespie's Refrigerator', 'To Love Somebody', 'Cumcumber Castle'), The Incredible String Vest and Skip Bifferty. The Constant Star broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
You Meet All Sorts broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Panorama talked to Conservative Party activists about their views on Edward Heath. He was then interviewed by a panel of journalists. John Schlesinger's adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd - starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates - premiered. Davina Lucy Pascale McCall born in Wimbledon. In the Football League Cup Third Round, Allan Clarke neted four in Fulham's six-two thrashing of Workington. Millwall defeated Northampton Town five-one. Ray Smith hit three for Wrexham in a four-one victory over Southend United in the Fourth Division. The World In Action episode Island Under Arms broadcast.
The first episode of Film Review The replacement for Film Preview) broadcast. Presented by Philip Jenkinson among the films featured were How I Won The War, The Penthouse and In The Heat Of The Night. War On Birds broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Leeds United and Nottingham Forest both cruised into the Second Round of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with comfortable second leg victories. Leeds thrashed Sporta Luxembourg saeven-nil (Albert Johannsen netting three and Jimmy Greenhoff two with further strikes from Terry Cooper and Peter Lorimer) whilst Forest thumped Eintract Frankfurt four=nil (Joe Baker scoring twice).
Wanted: Single Gentlemen broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Big Dig broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The Sounds Of Johnny Pearson featured on Radio 1's Late Night Extra, presented by Terry Wogan. Disney's The Jungle Book, Clambake - starring Elvis Presley and Bill Bixby and Dick Lester's How I Won The War - starring Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran and Michael Hordern - premiered. Glasgow Celtic beat Copa Libertadores champions Racing Club De Avellaneda one-nil in the Intercontential Cup first leg at Parkhead with a Billy McNeill header.
Monty Returns To El Alamein broadcast. The first UK TV showing of François Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Doctor Faustus - starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Marter - premiered. The Avengers episode Dead Man's Treasure broadcast.
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich and Paul and Barry Ryan featured on Crackerjack. Uncle Sam The Sales Man broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Donovan's 'There Is A Mountain'/'Sand & Foam', Soul Survivors' 'Expressway To Your Heart'/'Hey Gyp', Lee Dorsey's 'Go-Go Girl'/'I Can Hear You Callin', Tales Of Justine's 'Albert'/'Monday Morning', Barry Mason's 'Rowbottom Square'/'American Girl', Living Daylights' Baila Maria'/'Always With Him', Eric Burdon & The Animals' Winds Of Change, The Lovin's 'All You've Got'/'Do It Again', Brenda Lee's 'Where's The Melody?'/'Born To Be By Your Side', The Timebox's 'Don't Make Promises'/'Walking Through The Streets Of My Mind', The Dave Clark Five's 'Everybody Knows'/'Concentration Baby', Kim Weston's 'That's Groovy'/'Land Of Tomorrow', Crocheted Doughnut Ring's 'Two Little Ladies (Azalea & Rhododendron)'/'Nice', Finion's Combo's 'Working On A Brand New Heartache'/'You'd Better Be Good To Me', Tales Of Justine's 'Albert'/'Monday Morning', Roy Harper's 'Midspring Dithering'/'Zengem', The Ferris Wheel's 'I Can't Break The Habit'/'Number One Guy', John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' 'Suspicions (Parts 1 & 2)' and The Creation's 'Life Is Just Beginning'/'Through My Eyes' released. The Move appeared on The Joe Loss Show. Radio 4's Movietime focused on Bonnie & Clyde.
The Who performed 'I Can See For Miles' on the opening episode of Twice A Fortnight. The Kinks appeared on Dee Time. BBC2's The Home-Made Car broadcast. England beat Wales three-nil in the Home International championship at Ninian Park. Martin Peters, Bobby Charlton and Alan Ball scored. Stoke City's John Mahoney made his debut for Wales. Dave Clements of Coventry scored the winner as Northern Ireland beat Scotland one-nil at Windsor Park. Ronnie Simpson saved a sixty ninth minute penalty kick from Johnny Crossan. Burnley's Willie Morgan made his debut for Scotland. Manchester City won four-two at Fulham in the First Division. Hugh Curran scored three in Norwich City's four-two victory over Birmingham City in the Second Division whilst Hull City won five-two at Plymouth Argyle. Bury defeated Torquay United five-one in the Third Division. Watford thumped Stockport County five-nil. The Troggs fatured on Saturday Club. The Blossom Toes' 'What On Earth?'/'Mrs Murphy's Budgerigar', 'Look At Me I'm You' released. Roy Castle featured on Radio 2's Million Dollar Bill. Kenneth Bird's Child Missing broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Erik Balling's Martha premiered. The Man In A Suitcase episode Variation On A Million Bucks, Part 1 broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Giles Cooper and Harry Green's adaptation of Les Miserables broadcast. The Incantation Of Casanova broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Pete Drummond and Rick Dane introduced Radio 1's Top Gear with The Hollies ('Games We Play', 'Step Inside', 'King Midas In Reverse', 'Postcard', 'Charlie & Fred', 'Away Away Away'), Amen Corner ('Let The Good Times Roll', 'Beauty Is Skin Deep', 'In The Pocket', 'The World Of Broken Hearts', 'Open The Door To Your Heart', 'A Man's Temptation') and The Clockwork Oranges. The Living Corpse broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand. An adaptation of Crazy Crowd broadcast on Radio 3. The Prisoner episode Free For All broadcast on ATV London.
The Tape Recorder broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand, believed to be the first drama production on British TV made and shown in colour. Keith Barron read Nina Bawden's A Handful Of Thieves on Jackanory. José María Elorrieta's El Halcón De Castilla - starring Mari Luz Real and Germán Cobos - premiered. Bobby Cummings scored three in Darlington's six-trwo thrasing of Aldershot in the Fourth Division. The World In Action episode King Of Kings, profiling the Shah of Iran, broadcast.
The first episode of Cause For Concern broadcast. Will Art Last? broadcast in the Horizon strand.
Edward Boyd's A Black Candle For Mrs Gogarty broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. No Fixed Abode broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Joshua Logan's Camelot premiered. In the first Division, Manchester United beat Coventry City four-nil. Shrewsbury Town thrashed Torquay United five-nil in the Third Division. Luton Town defeated Doncaster Rovers five-three in the Fourth Division. Promotion-chasing Crewe Alexandra beat Notts County four-nil. The first episode of Sexton Blake broadcast on Rediffusion.
As I Remember... - featuring Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, in conversation with Kenneth Harris - broadcast. Hadrian's Walking Tour broadcast in BBC2's Time & Place strand. Abortion was legalised in England, Scotland and Wales. Terence Young's Wait Until Dark - starring Audrey Hepburn and Serge Bourguignon's À Coeur Joie - starring Brigitte Bardot, Laurent Terzieff, Jean Rochefort and James Robertson Justice - premiered.
In Memory of Sir Malcolm broadcast. One Shot One Kill broadcast in BBC2's Inside Australia strand. Simon Dupree & The Big Sound's 'Kites'/'Like The Sun Like The Fire', The Quik's 'I Can't Sleep'/'Soul Full Of Sorrow', Gene Pitney's 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart'/'Building Up My Dream World', The Creation's 'Life Is Just Beginning'/'Through My Eyes', Sasha Caro's'Grade Three Section Two'/'Little Maid's Song', The Alan Bown!'s 'Toyland'/'Technicolour Dream', Sounds Incorporated's 'How Do You Feel?'/'Dead As A Go-Go', Alan David's 'Completely Free'/'Flower Power', Kippington Lodge's 'Shy Boy'/'Lady On A Bicycle', Alan David's 'Completely Free'/'Flower Power', The Tremeloes' 'Be Mine (Mi Seguirai)'/'Suddenly Winter', Kip Anderson's 'You'll Lose A Good Thing'/'I'm Out Of Love', Al Stewart's 'Bedsitter Images'/'Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres', Johnnie Young's 'Every Christian'/'Epitaph To Mister Simon, Sir', Moses & Joshua Dillard's 'My Elusive Dreams'/'What's Better Than Love?', John E Paul's 'Prince Of Players'/'I Wanna Know', Madeline Bell's 'Picture Me Gone'/'Go Ahead On', Kevin 'King' Lear's 'Count Me Out'/'Pretty Woman', Brian Auger & The Trinity's 'Red Beans & Rice, Parts 1 & 2', Mary McCaslin & The Old Boys From Back Home's 'Rain'/'This All Happened Once Before' and The Detroit Spinners' 'For All We Know'/'I'll Always Love You' released.
The first UK TV showing of Fritz Lang's Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. The first episode of Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Wuthering Heightsbroadcast on BBC2. The Who featured on Saturday Club. Newcastle United defeated Everton one-nil in an ill-tempered First Division game at St James' Park. Jim Iley scoring the winner past stand-in goalkepper Sandy Brown after Gordon West had been sent off for swearing at the referee. Arsenal beat Fulham five-three (John Radford socring three), Manchester United lost three-one at Nottingham Forest and West Ham United won three-one at Chelsea. Bolton Wanderers defeated Derby County five-three in the Second Division. Queens Park Rangers returned to the top-of-the-table following a one-nil victory at fellow promotion-hopefuls Blackpool. Barry Bridges scored a hat-trick in Birmingham City's four-one defeat of Rotherham United. Bristol Rovers won five-four at Northampton Town in the Third Division Ray Mabbutt scoring three for the visitors, Frank Large also netting a hat-trick for the home side. Leaders Walsall won four-nil against Barrow. On The Other Hand broacast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Man In A Suitcase episode Variation On A Million Bucks, Part 2 broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of Contrasts broadcast. The Shape Of Darkness broadcast on BBC2. Pete Drummond and John Peel introduced Radio 1's Top Gear with The Cream ('Take It Back', 'Outside Woman Blues', 'Tales Of Brave Ulysses', 'Sunshine Of Your Love', 'Born Under A Bad Sign'), Sharon Tandy & The Fleur De Lys ('Go-Go Power', 'Crosscut Saw', 'There's Always Something There To Remind Me', 'Our Day Will Come', 'Hold On') and Blossom Toes. The Prisoner episode The Schizoid Man and the first episode of an adaptation of The Pilgrim's progress broadcast on ATV London.
Ted Smith's The Top Bunk broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The World In Action episode We Know What We Saw! broadcast, analysing several UFO sightings in America.
The first episode of Christopher Braysher's Matters Of Life & Death broadcast. The Naked Ape broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. Don Siegel's NBC TV film Stranger On The Run - starring Henry Fonda and Anne Baxter - premiered. Henry Newton and Ian Storey-Moore were on target as Nottingham Forest defeated FC Zürich two-one in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round. Fourth Division Darlington beat Second Division Millwall two-nil in the Fourth Round of the League Cup.
Pitchi Poi broadcast in The Largest Theatre In The World strand. Tonight In Person: Mike and Peggy Seeger broadcast on BBC2. Love's Forever Changes released. Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke - starring Paul Newman - and John Sturges's Hour Of The Gun - starring James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan - premiered. In the Intercontinental Cup second leg, Racing Club defeated Glasgow Celtic two-one in Buenos Aries. Dundee won their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round first leg tie against Royal Football Club Liégeois three-one. Steve Earle scored twice as Fulham knocked Manchester City out of the League Cup, winning three-two at Craven Cottage. Huddersfield Town defeated West Ham United two-nil (Frank Worthington scoring the opener). Fourth Division Lincoln City drew one-all at Second Division Derby County.
The World Turned Upside Down broadcast. Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Other Russias broadcast. You, Too, Can Have A Beautiful Body broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Elvis Presley's 'Big Boss Man'/'You Don't Know Me', Alan Price Set's 'Shame'/'Don't Do That Again', The Scaffold's'Thank U Very Much'/'Ide B The First', The Nice's 'The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack'/'Azrial (Angel Of Death)', Druid Chase's 'Take Me In Your Garden'/'I Wanna Get My Hands On You', The League's 'Nothing On'/'Hey Conductor', The Everly Brothers' 'Love Of The Common People'/'A Voice Within', Los Canarios' 'Get On Your Knees'/'Keep On The Right Side', Tim Buckley's 'Morning Glory'/'Knight-Errant', JerryO's 'Karate-Boo-Ga-Loo'/'The Pearl' and Barbara Randolph's 'I Got A Feeling'/'You Got Me Hurtin' All Over' released.
The one hundredth episode of Match Of The Day broadcast, featured highlights of Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool's one-all draw at White Hart Lane. Manchester United (one-nil winners over Stoke City) were just behind Liverpol at the top of the First Division ahead of local rivals Manchester City (who drew one-all at Everton) and Sheffield Wednesday (who beat Southampton two-nil). Portsmouth went top of the Second Division with a three-nil victory over Hull City. Torquay United won five-three at Colchester united in the Third Division. In a play-off for the Intercontinental Cup in Montevideo, Racing Club beat Glasgow Celtic one-nil in an astonishingly violent match which saw six players dismissed, four from Celtic (Bobby Lennox, Jimmy Johnstone, John Hughes and Bertie Auld). As the Racing Club players attempted to do a lap of honour, Uruguayan fans who had been supporting Celtic showered them with anything they could throw. Reuters described the match as 'a bar-room brawl with soccer skills abandoned for swinging fists, flying boots and blatant body checking.' L'Équipe added the match was a 'sad, lamentable spectacle.' They noted that 'the Argentinians started the hostilities' but pointed out that Celtic 'made use of every opportunity to return the blows.' The touring All Blacks beat England twenty three-eleven at Twickenham. Fritz Lang was interviewed on BBC2's Release which also featured Marcel Marceau talking about the art of the mime. Which seems like a contradiction in terms, frankly. The Hollies and The Alan Price Set appeared on Saturday Club. A Cargo Of Rice by Arthur Swinson broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Man In A Suitcase episode Man From The Dead broadcast on ATV London. Iberia Flight 062, a twin-engined Sud Aviation Caravelle operating a scheduled flight from Málaga to Heathrow crashed into the Southern slope of Blackdown Hill in West Sussex, killing all thirty seven on board, including the actress June Thorburn. Anna Elizabeth Botting born in Cranleigh.
Ronald Eyre's The Single Passion broadcast as part of BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Ravi Shankar, Alia Rakha and Kamala Chakravarti appeared on Contrasts: Music Of India. Pete Drummond and John Peel introduced Top Gear with The Jeff Beck Group ('Ain't Superstitious', 'Beck's Bolero', 'Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever', 'You'll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart', 'You Shook Me') and Tyrannosaurus Rex ('Scenscof', 'Child Star', 'Highways', 'Hot Rod Mama', 'Dwarvish Trumpet Blues'). Camelot and Robbery featured on Radio 2's Movie-Go-Round. The Prisoner episode The General broadcast on ATV London.
Paul Wheeler's Have It On The House broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Island In Danger broadcast in the Look strand. The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Limited released. The World In Action episode Wanted: Kind English Lady broadcast.
The memorial service for the late Earl Attlee broadcast. Saint-Saens: The Carnival Of The Animals broadcast on BBC2. Liverpool hammered TSV 1860 München eight-nil in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup Second Round. Roger Hunt and Ian Callaghan both socred twice.
Peter Luke's adaptation of The Devil A Monk Wou'd Be broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The first UK broadcast of Casey Jones. Jose Feliciano appeared on BBC2's Tonight In Person. Alex Ferguson scored twice as TGlasgow Rangers beat FC Köln three-nil in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie.
Don Haworth's documentary Police broadcast. NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4, the first flight of the Saturn V rocket. A performance of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd broadcast on BBC2. Roy Ward Baker's Quatermass & The Pit - starring Andrew Keir, James Donald, Julian Glover and Barbara Shelley - premiered.
Henry Livings' William Blake biopic Tyger Tyger broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Venus Observed broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Saturday Night & All Day Sunday broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Gladys Knight & The Pips' 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'/'It's Time To Go Now', Cream's Disraeli Gears, Strawberry Alarm Clock's 'Incense & Peppermints'/'The Birdman Of Alkatrash', The Hombres' 'Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)'/'Go, Girl, Go', Felius Andromeda's 'Meditations'/'Cheadle Heath Delusions', Helena Ferguson's 'Where Is The Party?'/'My Terms', The Pretty Things' 'Defecting Grey'/'Mister Evasion', The Smoke's 'It Could Be Wonderful'/'Have Some More Tea', The Flower Pot Men's 'A Walk In The Sky'/'Am I Losing You', Norman Percival & His Orchestra's 'The Theme From Billion Dollar Brain'/'Shades Of Green', The Spinners' 'Uncle Sigmund's Clockwork Storybook (Stop, Look, Listen)'/'Mechanical Blackbird', Blossom Toes' We Are Ever So Clean, Tuesday's Children's 'Baby's Gone'/'Guess I'm Losing You', The Bunch's 'Spare A Shilling'/'Looking Glass Alice', David Garrick's 'Ave Maria'/'Please Stay', Granny's Intentions' 'The Story Of David'/'Sandy's On The Phone Again', The Parliaments' '(I Wanna) Testify'/'I Can Feel The Ice Melting?', The Baltimore & Ohio Marching Band's 'Lapland'/'Condition Red', Big Brother & The Holding Company's 'Bye, Bye Baby'/'All Is Loneliness', The Candy Choir's 'Children & Flowers'/'Marianne', Norman Percival & His Orchestra's 'The Theme From Billion Dollar Brain'/'Shades Of Green', Kaleidoscope's Tangerine Dream, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger With The Trinity's 'Save Me (Parts 1 & 2)' and The Moody Blues' Days Of Future Passed and 'Knights In White Satin'/'Cities' released. Freddie Francis's Torture Garden - starring Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith and Peter Cushing - premiered.
The first episode of The Ice Warriors in Doctor Who. John Read's profile on Henry Moore broadcast on BBC2. Manchester United beat Liverpool two-one and replaced the Merseysiders at the top of the First Division (George Best scoring both). Manchester City were third after beating Leicester City six-nil (two goals each for Francis Lee and Neil Young). West Bromwich Albion thrashed Burnley eight-one. Dave Thomas made his league debut, the first of five hundred and thirty seven games, for Burnley, Queens Park Rangers, Everton, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and England, in a career that lasted until 1984. The bottom two faced each other at Highfield Road, Fulham beating Coventry City three-nil. Wyn Davies netted the winner as Newcastle United beat West Ham United one-nil. Blackpool returned to the top of the Second Division, defeating Cardiff City three-one. The Kinks featured on Saturday Club. Warren Mithcell appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Man In A Suitcase episode Sweet Sue broadcast on ATV London.
The Lions Of Longleat broadcast. The Burning Bush broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. John Peel and Tommy Vance introduced Top Gear with Keith West & Tomorrow, The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band ('The Equestrian Statue', 'The Craig Torso Show', 'Mickey's Son & Daughter', 'Death Cab For Cutie'), Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac ('Long Grey Mare', 'Baby Please Set A Date', 'Got To Move', 'I Believe My Time Ain't Long', 'Looking For Somebody') and The Gun. The Prisoner episode Many Happy Returns broadcast on ATV London.
Brian London beat American Zora Folley on points in an international heavyweight contest at Liverpool Stadium. Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers, Or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (aka: Dance of The Vampires) - starring Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass, Fiona Lewis and Ferdy Mayne - premiered. Barrow defeated Colchester United five-nil in the Third Division (David Storf scoring three). Chesterfield went top of the Fourth Divisiion following a three-nil victory over Port Vale. The World In Action episode You Can't Find Uncle Tom broadcast.
Matters Of Life & Death: Death Unto Himself Alone broadcast. Adam Faith and Lynda Baron appeared on BBC2's International Cabaret. Liverpool lost two-one at TSV 1860 München in the second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie, but went through on aggregate. Nottingham Forest also lost, one-nil, to FC Zürich in Switzerland and were eliminated on the away-goals rule. Walsall went three points clear at the top of the third Division with a two=nil victory over Grimsby town. The first episode of No - That's Me Over Here! - with Ronnie Corbett - broadcast on Rediffusion. Dundee progressed in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning four-one at Royal Football Club Liégeois with George McLean netting all four.

Fay Weldon's Fall Of The Goat broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. In Need Of Care & Protection broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Herbert Leder's It! - starring Roddy McDowell and Jill Haworth - premiered. Manchester United shared a goalless draw with FK Sarajevo in the European Cup Second Round first leg. Peter King scored a second-half equaliser as Cardiff City gained a one-all draw against NAC Breda in the Cup Winners Cup Second Round. Jimmy Greenhoff scored twice as Leeds uNited won two-nil at Sunderland in the Football League Cup Fourth Round. Derby County and Stoke City also progressed to the Quarter-Finals with replays wins over Lincoln City and Sheffield Wednesday respectively. Luton Town won their sixth successive game in the fourth Division, four-nil against Swansea Town.
The first episode of BBC2's A Hundred Years Of Humphrey Hastings broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Maximka in the Tales From Europe strand. Seth Holt's Danger Route - starring Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms and Gordon Jackson - premiered.
One-hit wonders The Flower Pot Men performed 'A Walk In The Sky' - their flop follow-up to 'Let's Go To San Francisco' - on Crackerjack. The Year Of The Saintsbroadcast in BBC2's Inside Australia strand. The Beach Boys' 'Wild Honey'/'Wind Chimes', The Bee Gees' 'World'/'Sir Geoffrey Saved The World', The Box Tops' 'Neon Rainbow'/'She Knows How', The Cymbaline's 'Matrimonial Fears'/'You Will Never Love Me', The Precisions' 'If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely)'/'You'll Soon Be Gone', Mood Of Hamilton's 'Why Can't There Be More Love?'/'King's Message', Gary Hamilton's 'Let The Music Play'/'Don't Ask', The Mindbenders' 'Schoolgirl'/'Coming Back', The Nite People's 'Summertime Blues'/'In The Springtime', Joe Tex's 'Skinny Legs & All'/'Watch The One (That Brings The Bad News)', The Gibsons' 'She's Not Like Any Girl'/'Lazy Summer Day', Lovelace Watkins' 'I Apologise Baby'/'You Can't Stop Love', The Violent Thimble's 'Gentle People (Parts 1 & 2)', The Searchers' 'Secondhand Dealer'/'Crazy Dreams', St Valentine's Day Massacre's 'Brother Can You Spare A Dime?'/'Al's Party', The Societie's 'Bird Has Flown'/'Breaking Down', The Gentle Power Of Song's 'Constant Penelope'/'A Court Garden Party, Circa 1580', Noel Harrison's 'Suzanne'/'Life Is A Dream', London Jazz Four's 'It Strikes A Chord'/'Song For Hilary', Steven Lancaster's 'San Francisco Street'/'Miguel Fernando Stan Sebastian Brown', The Platters' 'Sweet, Sweet Lovin'/'Sonata', The Universals' 'Green Veined Orchid'/'While The Cats Away', The Rokes' 'Hold My Hand'/'Regency Sue', Chris Farlowe's 'Handbags & Gladrags'/'Everyone Makes A Mistake', Margo & The Marvettes' 'When Love Slips Away'/'I'll Be Home', Billie Davis's 'Angel Of The Morning'/'Darling Be Home Soon' and Edwin Starr's 'I Want My Baby Back'/'Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love' released. The Avengers episode Mission ... Highly Improbable broadcast on Rediffusion.
The Moody Blues appeared on Twice A Fortnight. Luis Buñuel and Jean Renoir were profield on BBC2's Release. Movement of animals was banned in England and Wales due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The Pink Floyd's 'Apples & Oranges'/'Paint Box' and The Hollies' Butterfly released. West Ham United's three-two defeat by Manchester City saw the club debut of Old Frank Lampard - the first of six hundred and seventy games for The Hamsters in a career that lasted until 1985. Manchester United remained at the top of the First Division with a three-two win over Southampton. Stoke City won four-three at Wolverhampton Wanderers (Alan Bloor scoring a late winner) and Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion drew two-all. Fulham's two-nil defeat of Nottingham Forest featured on Match Of The Day. Blackburn Rovers defeated Preston North End five-three in the Second Division. Terry Garbett netted three in Watford's three-nil victory over Reading in the third Division. Luton Town made it seven wins in a row in the Fourth Division, enjoying a three-two win at Lincoln City. Bruce Bannister hit three in Bradford City's three-one defeat of Wrexham. Injury-hit Hartlepools United were forced to field one of their goalkeepers, Ken Simpkins, as an emergency striker in their Fourth Division game at Port Vale. Simpkins promptly scored the winning goal in a three-two victory. It was announced during the morning that Peterborough United, currently fourth in the Third Division in in with decent shout at a promotion campaign would, instead, be relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the season due to financial irregularities in contravention of the Football Association rules. The Posh had, reportedly, offered an illegal bonus of one hundred knicker per-player to beat Sunderland in an FA Cup tie in February (rules limited such bonuses to six pound per-man). It was something of a wasted effort anyway as Sunderland won the game seven-one. Illegal signing-on bonuses had also been made to players from funds made available by The Supporters' Club. A few hours later Peterborough - Goddamn pissed-off that their entire season had been rendered, effectively, pointless - took out their considerable irk on Grimsby Town (John Fairbrother scoring a hat-trick in a three-two victory). The Private World by Paul Ferris broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of Haunted - I like It Here and the Man In A Suitcase episode Essay In Evil broadcast on ATV London.
The pound was devalued. Harold Wilson defended this decision, assuring voters that this course of action would tackle the 'root cause' of the nation's current economic problems and, imortantly, that it would not affect 'the pound in your pocket.' But, it did. The First Freedom broadcast. Leviathan broadcast on BBC2. John Peel and Tommy Vance introduced Top Gear with The Who ('Pictures Of Lily', 'Our Love Was', 'I Can See For Miles', 'I Can't Reach You', 'A Quick One While He's Away', 'See My Way', 'Someone's Coming'), Lulu & The George Bean Group, Brian Auger, Juie Driscoll & The Trinity and The Honeybus.
Brian Phelan's Who Were You With Last Night? broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Night Birds Of Kammurijima broadcast in the Look strand. The World In Action episode East Of Aden broadcast.
Film Review included excerpts from outstanding films featured in the Cambridge Animation Festival. The Life & Death Of The Pine Processionary broadcast in the Horizon strand. Gerald Thomas's Carry On Doctor - starring Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, Anita Harris and Bernard Bresslaw and Hieronim Przybyl's Paryz - Warszawa Bez Wizy - starring Pola Raksa, Mieczyslaw Kalenik and Mieczyslaw Czechowicz - premiered.
The Profile Of A Gentleman broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. England beat Northern Ireland two-nil in the Home International championship at Wembley. Geoff Hurst and Bobby Charlton scored. Manchester United's David Sadler made his first England appearance and George Cohen his last. Scotland beat Wales three-tow at Hampden Park. Alan Gilzean scored twice and Bobby McKinnock got the winner for the hosts. Ron Davies and Alan Durban scored for Wales. Aberdeen's Bobby Clark and Glasgow Celtic's Jim Craig made their Scotland debuts. Hibernian lost their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round first leg tie with Napoli four-one in Naples. Benjamin Britten & His Festival broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Lord Reith Looks Back broadcast, in which the BBC's first Director General discussed his experiences at Passchendaele with Malcolm Muggeridge. 'The Roman Catholic Church has no place in the Twentieth Century' was the motion of a debate from the Oxford Union featuring The Reverend Ian Paisley. The first episode of The Gamblers broadcast on Rediffusion.
East Of Bedlam broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first episode of Yugoslavia broadcast in BBC2's Outlook strand. The Beatles' 'Hello Goodbye'/'I Am The Walrus', Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'In And Out Of Love'/'I Guess I'll Always Love You', Roy Hudd's 'Artificial Jumping Spider Seller'/'Sir Rhubarb Tansy', Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' 'I Second That Emotion'/'You Must Be Love', Tony Christie's 'Turn Around'/'When Will I Ever Love Again', Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera's 'Flames'/'Salisbury Plain', The Orange Bicycle's 'Laura's Garden'/'Lavender Girl', Skip Bifferty's 'Happy Land'/'Reason To Live', The Marmalade's 'Man In A Shop'/'Cry (The Shoob Doroorie Song)', The Tickle's 'Subway (Smokey, Pokey World)', Traffic's 'Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush'/'Coloured Rain', Svensk's 'You'/'All I Have To Do Is Dream', The Tickle's 'Subway (Smokey Pokey World)'/'Good Evening', The Zombies' 'Care Of Cell Forty Four'/'Maybe After He's Gone' and Tintern Abbey's 'Beeside'/'Vacuum Cleaner' released. Sergio Bergonzelli's Una Colt In Pugno Al Diavolo - starring Bob Henry, George Wang, Marisa Solinas and Lucretia Love - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. Micky Man broadcast on BBC2. Chronicle featured an interview with Leslie Alcock on the archaeological excavations at South Cadbury. During an interview with Kenny Everett, Paul McCartney performed an impromptu rendition of 'All Together On The Wireless Machine' on Radio 1's Where It's At. In another high-scoring day in the First Division, Manchester City beat Burnley four-two, Newcastle United defeated Sheffield Wednesday four-nil and Southampton beat Sunderland three-two. Chelsea and Manchester United's one-all draw featured on Match Of The Day. Coventry City remained rooted to the bottom of the table, defeated two-nil at home to Everton (Jimmy Husband and Joe Royle scoring). Middlesbrough thrashed Preston North End in the Second Division. Summer's End broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width and the Man In A Suitcase episode The Girl Who Never Was broadcast on ATV London.
Giles Cooper's Kittens Are Brave broadcast in the Theatre 625 strand. Hugh and Margaret Williams's The Flip Side broadcast. John Peel and Tommy Vance introduced Top Gear with The Kinks ('David Watts', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Susannah's Still Alive', Autumn Almanac', 'Mister Pleasant', 'Harry Rag'), The Herd, The Family ('Piece Of Mind', 'Scene Through The Eyes Of A Lens', 'The Voyage', 'The Breeze', 'Winter') and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. The Prisoner episode Dance Of The Dead broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of The Very Merry Widow broadcast. PC Jersild's Notice! Meeting In Progress broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Charles de Gaulle vetoed British entry into the European Economic Community. Again. He really didn't like us very much, did he? Sparta, the first Australian space satellite was launched from Woomera using an American-built rocket.
The first episode At A Time Like This broadcast. The Roots Of Art broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. The first pulsar was observed by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish at Cambridge. Glasgow Rangers reached the Third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, despite losing three-one to FC Köln, Willie Henderson's goal in the Müngersdorfer Stadion proved decisive. Meanwhile, liverpool lost the first leg of their Third Round tie with Ferencváros in Budapest.
Ewart Alexander's Dial Rudolph Valentino One One broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Robert Graves' Poetic Unreason broadcast on BBC2.
Great Scot! broadcast on BBC2. Hibernian produced a magnificent performance defeating Napoli five-nil in the second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie. Peter Cormack, Pat Stanton and Colin Stein were amongst the scorers. Leeds United won the first leg of their tie with Partizan Belgrade, two-one. Manchester United beat Sarajevo two-one to progress into the European Cup Quarter-Final, George Best scoring the winner. Spurs lost the first leg of their Cup Winners Cup Second Round match with Olympique Lyon one-nil. Cardiff City thrashed NAC Breda four-one at Ninian Park to win five-two aggregate. In the League Cup Quarter-Final, Derby County beat Darlington five-four. Chelsea signed Alan Birchenall from Sheffield United for one hundred thousand quid.
Clothes For The Car broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Beethoven's Symphony Number Six in F (Pastoral) broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold As Love, The Mamas & The Papas' 'Glad To Be Unhappy'/'Hey Girl', The Monkees' 'Daydream Believer'/'Goin' Down', April Stevens' 'Falling In Love Again'/'Wanting You', Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt's 'Different Drum'/'I've Got To Know', Ray Charles's 'Yesterday'/'Never Had Enough Of Nothing Yet', Tim Andrews' 'Sad Simon Lives Again'/'You Won't Be Seeing Me Anymore', Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise's 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'/'Bingle Jells', John Drevar's Expression's 'The Closer She Gets'/'When I Come Home', The Beatstalkers' 'Silver Tree Top School For Boys'/'Sugar Chocolate Machine', The Spectrum's 'Headin' For A Heatwave'/'I Wanna Be With You', The Chocolate Watch Band's 'Requiem'/'What's It To You?', The Fifth Dimension's 'Paper Cup'/'Poor Side Of Town', Pete Terrace (King Of The Boogaloo)'s 'Shotgun Boo-Ga-Loo'/'I'm Gonna Make It', Plastic Penny's 'Everything I Am'/'No Pleasure Without Pain My Love', The Herd's 'Paradise Lost'/'Come On - Believe Me', The Sand Pebbles' 'Love Power'/'Because Of Love', Tinkerbell's Fairydust's 'Lazy Day'/'In My Magic Garden', The Easybeats' 'The Music Goes Round My Head'/'Come In You'll Get Pneumonia', Trisha Noble's 'Live For Life'/'The New Israeli Patchka', Françoise Hardy's 'On Se Quitte Toujours'/'Les Petits Garcons', Pete Terrace's 'Shotgun Boo-Ga-Loo'/'I'm Gonna Make It', The Mickey Finn's 'Garden Of My Mind'/'Time To Start Loving You' and The Temptations' '(Loneliness Made Me Realise) It's You That I Need'/'I Want A Love I Can See' released. Eric Sykes's comedy masterpiece The Plank - starring Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Edwards Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, John Junkin, Bill Oddie, Stratford Johns, Graham Stark, Jim Dale and Hattie Jacques - premiered.
The first episode of Rex Tucker's BBC2 adaptation of Vanity Fair broadcast. Petula Clark, Spike Milligan, Jackie Trent, Brook Benton, The Seekers and Paul Jones appeared on Dee Time. Cream were on Twice A Fortnight. Isle Of Astrologers broadcast in BBC2's Whicker's World. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were guests on Late Night Line-Up. The Small Faces' 'Tin Soldier'/'I Feel Much Better' and Studio Six's 'Strawberry Window'/'Falling Leaves' released. A Time For Everything by Pamela Gray broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Manchester United returned to the top of the First Division with a two-one win over West Bromwich Albion (George Best scoring twice). Charlie Cooke, Tommy Baldwin and Alan Birchenall (on debut) were on-target in Chelsea's three-two win at Sunderland. Leeds united beat Stoke City two-nil. The top two met in the Second Division, Portsmotuh beating Blackpool three-one. Norwich City hammered Millwall five-two. Tony Currie scored three in Watford's seven-one walloping of Grimsby Town. In a something of a show of solidarity from their supporters, Peterborough United had their largest attendance of the season - nine thousand, four hundred and seventy nine - at London Road as they beat table-toppers Walsall two-one. Chesterfield enjoyed their sixth successive victory in the Fourth Division, three-one against Hartlepools United. Lincoln City thrashed hapless and hopefless Bradford Park Avenue five-one. The Man In A Suitcase episode All That Glitters broadcast on ATV London.
Romeo & Juliet - starring Hwyel Bennett and Kika Markham - broadcast in Play Of The Month strand. The first episodes of The World About Us, Robert Erskine's And Another Thing ... and Color Me Barbra [sic] broadcast on BBC2. The Prisoner episode Checkmate broadcast on ATV London.
The Beauty & The Beast was read by Simon Ward on Jackanory. Lieutenant Tenant broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. A line-up which included The Jim Hendrix Experience, The Move, The Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, The Nice, The Outer Limits and Eire Apparent played two shows at Newcastle City Hall. Fifteen shillings for the best seats, eight and six for the cheapest. The World In Action episode Mothers In Action broadcast.
Robert Wise was interviewed on Film Review. Koestler On Creativity broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Beatles opened The Apple Shop on Baker Street. To the joy of shoplifters and hippies everywhere. And, particularly, shoplifting hippies. Murray Lerner's documentary Festival! and Ken Loach's Poor Cow - starring Terence Stamp, Carol White and John Bindon - premiered. Arsenal defeated Burnley two-one in the Football League Cup Fifth Round, Terry Neill scoring the winner.
The Private Life Of A Kingfisher, in BBC2's Look strand, became the first national history programmes to be broadcast in colour. Hugh Leonard's A Time Of Wolves & Tigers broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Pop Preachers broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Vickery Turner's Kippers & Curtains broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. England drew two-two with the USSR in a friendly international at Wembley. Alan Ball and Martin Peters scored for the hosts with two goals from Igor Chislenko for the visitors. Tottenham's Cyril Knowles made his international debut. Which was, of course, a nice one. England were without Jackie Carlton who was on club duty for Leeds United as their drew one-all with Partizan Belgrade and qualified for bthe Quarter-Finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
The first episode of Towards Tomorrow broadcast. The first UK broadcast of The High Chaparral on BBC2.
The Alan Price Set and Paul Jones appeared on Crackerjack. Jacqueline broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Lumps From Outer Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Pounds, Petrol & Pence broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Beatles' The Magical Mystery Tour EP ('Magical Mystery Tour', 'Your Mother Should Know'/'I Am The Walrus'/'The Fool On The Hill', 'Flying'/'Blue Jay Way'), The Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Four Tops' 'Walk Away Renee''Mame', The Human Instinct's 'A Day In My Mind's Mind'/'Death Of The Seaside', Spanky & Our Gang's 'Lazy Day'/'(It Ain't Necessarily) Byrd Avenue', The Locomotive's 'Broken Heart'/'Rudy - A Message To You', Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's 'Bedazzled'/'Love Me', The Sand Pebbles' 'Love Power'/'Because Of Love', The Byrds' 'Goin' Back'/'Change Is Now', Finders Keepers' 'Friday Kind Of Monday'/'On The Beach', Love Affair's 'An Everlasting Love'/'Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday', Scott Walker's 'Jackie'/'The Plague', Paper Blitz Tissue's 'Boy Meets Girl'/'Grey Man', Charles Stuart's 'Happy Tramp'/'Now & Then', Traffic's Mister Fantasy, Studio Six's 'Strawberry Window'/'Falling Leaves', The Symbols' '(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up'/'Again', The Love Affair's 'Everlasting Love'/'Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday' and Bobbie Gentry's 'Okolona River Bottom Band'/'Penduli Pendulum' released. The first episode of City 68 - The Shooting War - broadcast on Rediffusion.
The first episode of Once More With Felix broadcast on BBC2. Cilla Black was the guest on The Val Doonican Show. Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Secretary-General of the Romanian Communist Party, was elected as the President of Romania by unanimous vote of the nation's Grand National Assembly. The RMS Queen Mary arrived at Long Beach, California after a final voyage from Southampton. Jim Morrison was arrested on stage at a Doors gig in New Haven, Connecticut. Police charged Morrison with 'an indecent and immoral exhibition' following an angry speech that he gave to the crowd; Morrison claimed a policeman had fired pepper spray in the singer's eyes during an argument in the dressing room. Manchester City moved to within a point of the First Division leaders Manchester United beating Tottenham Hotspur four-one on a snow-covered pitch at Maine Road with goals from Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Tony Coleman and Neil Young. United drew two-two at Newcastle, one of only five top flight matches that survived the severe winter weather. Liverpool's two-nil victory over Leeds United included a notorious own-goal by Leeds keeper Gary Sparke who, in attempting to bowl the wet ball out to Terry Cooper, accidentally threw it into his own net. Contemporary press reports include the observation that the half-time music played at Anfield included not only The Scaffold's 'Thank U Very much' but, also, Des O'Connor's 'Careless Hands'. If the First Round of the FA Cup, Runcorn defeated Fourth Division Notts County one-nil, fellow Cheshire Counties League Altringham enjoyed a three-nil victory at Grantham, Isthmian League Walthamstow Avenue beat Kidderminster Harriers two-one and, in an all Southern League clash, Wimbldon beat Romford three-nil. West Midlands League Boston United won three-nil at Corby Town and Athenian League Dagenham beat Tonbridge one-nil. Chelmsford City drew three-all with Oxford United, Midland League Goole Town and Northern League Spennymoor United shared a goalless draw, as did Nuneaton Borough and Exeter City and Tow Law Town of the northern League and Mansfield Town (though the latter was abandoed at half-time in the midst of a blizzard). Midland League Arnold FC lost three-nil at home to Bristol Rovers, Walsall won one-nil at Leytonstone, Watford beat Lowerstoft Town by the same score, Bradford City thrashed Wrexham seven-one, Ryhope Colliery Welfare of the Wearside League lost one-nil at home to Workington, Scunthorpe United defeated Skelmersdale United of the Lancashire Combination two-nil and Orient won two-nil at Weymouth. Southern League Guildford City were leading two-one at Brentford went the game was abandoned after fifty three minutes due to snow. Luton Town refused to play under the floodlights at Oxford City ground. Oxford City proposed playing at Oxford United's ground on the following Thursday but, again, Luton got all stroppy and refused as the pitch would still be cut up from Oxford United's replay with Chelmsford the day previously. The tie was eventually switched to Kenilworth Road. The Man In A Suitcase episode Dead Man's Shoes broadcast on ATV London.
The first episode of The Charlie Drake Show broadcast on BBC2. Castle Combe Comes To Town broadcast. Otis Redding was killed along with four members of The Bar-Kays and a pilot when the plane they were on plunged into Lake Monona in Wisconsin. Tom Paxton's 'Jennifer's Rabbit'/'The Marvellous Toy', Gladys Knight & The Pips ('Take Me In Your Arms & Love Me', 'I Hear it Through The Grapevine', 'Just Walk In My Shoes', 'Everybody Needs Love'), Ten Years After ('Love Until I Die', 'Don't Want You Woman', 'Sometime I Feel Like Going Home', 'Loosin' The Dogs') and The Fairport Convention ('Let's Get Together', 'One Sure Thing', 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune', 'Chelsea Morning') featured in session on Top Gear. Stanley Donen's Bedazzled - starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron and Raquel Welch - premiered. The Prisoner episode Hammer Into Anvil broadcast on ATV London.
Geraldine McEwan read The Borrowers on Jackanory. The World Of One-Man Shows broadcast on BBC2. Concorde, the first supersonic airliner, made its first public appearance in Toulouse. Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? premiered in New York. Postponed from the previous Saturday, Peterborough United won their FA Cup First Round tie with South Western League Falmouth Town five-two (John Fairbrother netting a hat-trick). In the First Division, Dick Krzywicki, Jeff Astle and Bobby Hope were on-target as West Bromwich Albion won three-two at West Ham United. The World In Action episode The End Of The Revolution, about the death of Che Guevara and the trials of Regis Dubray, broadcast.
Anthony Newley featured on This is Petula Clark. Plastic Progress broadcast in BBC2's Life strand. The nine-month jail sentence for Brian Jones was set aside by order of the Lord Chief Justice following an appeal. Doctor Doolittle premiered. Pat Terry scored three in Swindon Town's four-nil defeat of Western League Salisbury Town in the FA Cup. Second Division Huddersfield Town beat First Division Fulham two-one in a League Cup Fifth Round replay. Nottingham Foirest paid Sunderland one hundred thousand knicker for their Scotland international Jimmy Baxter.
Robert Muller's Death Of A Private broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Keys On The Street broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Tottenham Hotspur crashed out of the Cup Winners Cup, winning the home leg of their Second Round tie with Olympique Lyon, but losing the tie on the away-goals rule. In the FA Cup, Southern League Hereford United and Margaet Town both reached the Second Round (defeating Barnet three-two and Yeovil Town three-one respectively). There were also wins, in replays, for Macclesfield Town (two-one against Stockport County), Spennymoor united (three-one over Goold Town and Tow Law Town who thrashed Mansfield Town five-one. Oxford United and Chelmsford Town drew three-all for a second time. Reading defeated Aldershot six-two. In the Football League Cup Quarter-Final, Leeds United beat Stoke City two-nil.
Sports Review Of 1967 broadcast. The Sports Personality Of The Year award was won by Henry Cooper. This History Of The Cinema broadcast on BBC2. Richard Brooks's adaptation of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe - premiered. Gerald Thomas's Follow That Camel - starring Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Angela Douglas, Peter Butterworth, Bernard Bresslaw, Julian Holloway and Anita Harris - premiered. Having whinged, repeatedly, about when and where their FA Cup tie with Xoford City would take place, Luton Town advanced to the Second Round with a two-one win that left them extremely happy and a sour taste in the mouth of just about everyone else in the world of football. Brentford and Guildford City drew two-all in their First Round replay.
The World Of Coppard broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Three Score & Ten broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Who Sell Out, Nirvana's The Story of Simon Simopath, Art's Supernatural Fairy Tales, The Doors' 'Love Me Two Times'/'Moonlight Drive', One In A Million's 'Fredereek Hernando'/'Double Sight', Al Kent's 'You've Got To Pay The Price'/'Where Do I Go From Here?', Particular People's 'Boys Cry'/'What's The Matter With Juliet?', Harry H Corbett's 'Flower Power Fred'/'(I'm) Saving All My Love', The Californians' 'Sunday Will Never Be The Same'/'Can't Get You Out Of My Mind', The Beatstalkers' 'Silver Tree Top School For Boys'/'Sugar Chocolate Machine', State Of Micky & Tommy's 'Frisco Bay'/'Nobody Knows Where You've Been', Five Towns' 'Advice'/'It Isn't What You've Got', Rex Harrison's 'Talk To The Animals'/'When I Look In Your Eyes', Alton Ellis & The Flames' 'Wise Birds Follow Spring'/Tommy McCook's 'Soul Rock', Every Mother's Son's 'Pony With The Golden Mane'/'Dolls In The Clock', The Unit's 'Loving Takes A Little Understanding'/'Would You Believe What I Say?', Pregnant Insomnia's 'Wallpaper'/'You Intrigue Me', Jackie Wilson's 'Since You Showed Me How To Be Happy'/'The Who Who Song', Dave Justin's 'Everybody's Gone Home'/'Lincoln Green' and Julian Covey & The Machine's 'A Little Bit Hurt'/'Sweet Bacon' released. Mark Robson's Valley Of The Dolls premiered. Torquay United went top of the Fourth Division, winning three-two at Tranmere Rovers.
Traffic and Scott Walker appeared on Dee Time. The Small Faces featured on Twice A Fortnight. Spike Milligan, Pedro Soler, Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick were guests on Once More With Felix. In One Pair Of Eyes: Stay Baby Stay, 'Norman Parkinson the distinguished fashion photographer focuses his expert eyes on Women,with Vanessa Redgrave, Twiggy, Raquel Welch, Marisa Mell, Celia Hammond and Kay Thompson.' The hadows appeared on Saturday Club. Dead Of Winter broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Coventry City eased their relegation worries with a five-one win over Burnley in the First Division (Bobby Gould scoring three). West Bromwich Albion won three-nil at Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday defeated West Ham United four-one. Wolves defeated Fulham three-two. In the Second Division, the top two met in a game featured on Match of The Day - Queens Park Rangers' having a two-nil victory over Portsmouth. John Galley ntted three in Bristol City's three-nil win at Huddersfield Town. Blackpool thumped Preston North End four-one with John Craven and tony Green both on the score-sheet. The Man In A Suitcase episode Find The Lady broadcast on ATV London.
The first UK TV showing of Val Guest's Expresso Bongo. The Golden Ring broadcast in BBC2's Workshop strand. John Peel and Tommy Vance introduced Top Gear with Cat Stevens ('I Love Them All', 'Kitty', 'Sun's In The Sky', 'I'm Gonna Be King', 'Blackness Of The Night'), Chris Clark & The Johnny Watson Concept ('Love's Gone Bad', 'From Head To Toe', 'Do Right Baby', 'I Want To Go Back There Again', 'Got To Get You Into My Life') and The Soft Machine ('Clarence In Wonderland', 'We Know What You Mean', 'A Certain Kind', 'Hope For Happiness', 'Strangest Scene'). The Prisoner episode It's Your Funeral broadcast on ATV London.
Doris Lessing's Play With A Tiger broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 strand. Year Of The Reindeer broadcast in the Look strand. Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname - starring Oliver Reed, Carol White and Orson Welles - premiered. After four postponements, Swansea Town finally played Isthmian League Enfield in the FA Cup, and won two-nil. Guildford United defeated Brentford two-one in a replay and Chelmsford City knocked-out Oxford United one-nil after two previous draws (Bill Cassidy netting the winner). In another second replay, Exeter City finally overcame Nuneaton Borough one=nil in a game played at Ashton Gate. The World In Action episode India On The Edge broadcast.
Bedazzled featured on Film Review along with an interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The World Of Ted Serios broadcast in the Horizon strand. Bernard Knowles's Hell Is Empty - starring Anthony Steel, Shirley Anne Field, James Robertson Justice and Jess Conrad - premiered. Andy Ellison's 'It's Been A Long Time'/'Arthur Green' released.
John Wiles's adaptation of Come Death broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre. An Officer Of The Court broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain - starring Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Ed Begley - premiered. Leeds United defeated Hibernian one-nil in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round first leg, Eddie Gray scoring the winning goal.
O Canada! broadcast. Shakespeare's England broadcast in BBC2's Time & Place strand. George Sindey's Half A Sixpence - starring Tommy Steele and Julia Foster - premiered. James Broom Lynne's Trilogy of plays, The Applicant, The Goldon Marathon and The High Place broadcast of Radio 3. Nicola Jane Cowper born in London.
The first episode of Just A Minute broadcast on Radio 4. Ken Russell's Dante's Inferno - starring Oliver Reed - broadcast in the Omnibus strand. What Are They Trying To Prove In West Berlin? broadcast in The Money Programme strand. Mike Nichols's The Graduate - starring Anne Bancorft, Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross - premiered.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Enemy Of The World broadcast. Match Of The Day made its first ever visit to St James' Park, covering Newcastle's one-all draw with Liverpool and extended their unbeaten run at home to seventeen matches. Manchester City returned to the top of the First Division with a four-two win over Stoke City (Franics Lee scoring twice). Manchester United drew two-all at Leicester city, Leeds United beat Wolves two-one, Arsenal thumped Nottingham Forest three-nil and Everton defeated Sunderland by the same score. The bottom two met at Brammall Lane, Sheffield United beating Coventry City two-nil with goals from Colin Addison and Alan Woodward. Birmingham City thrashed huddersfield Town six-one in the Second Division whilst Middlesbrough defeated Carlisle United four-nil. Archie Gemmell scored twice in Preston North End's four=one victory over Charlton Athletic. Walsall remained top of the third Division with a one-nil win at Gillingham. The highlight of the Fourth Divisioin's fixtures was Port Vale and Chester sharing eight goals at Vale Park. The Last Days Of Minos broadcast on BBC2. Linsday Anderson's The White Bus - starring Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe and Anthony Hopkins - premiered. Tom Jones & The Squires, Herman's Hermits and The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band featured on Saturday Club. Safari To Scotland broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK TV showing of The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness. Bird's-Eye View Of Great Britain broadcast on BBC2. Radio 1's Top Gear - presented by John Peel and Tommy Vance - featured sessions by The Jimi Hendrix Experience ('Day Tripper', 'Spanish Castle Magic', 'Radio One Jingle', 'Wait Until Tomorrow'), Traffic ('Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush', 'Heaven Is On Your Mind', 'No Face No Name No Number', 'Dealer', 'Hope I Never Find Me There'), David Bowie & The Art Greenslade Orchestra ('Love You Till Tuesday', 'When I Live My Dream', 'Little Bombadier', 'Silly Boy Blue', 'In The Heat Of The Morning'), plus 'the coolest sounds around on disc.' A performance of The Pirates Of Penzance broadcast of Radio 3.
The first UK TV showing of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Bach's Christmas Oratorio broadcast on BBC2. Radio 1's The DJ's Christmas Party broadcast. A Christmas edition of Round The Horne broadcast on Radio 2. A Town Like Alice broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Beatles' colour TV movie The Magical Mystery Tour broadcast (in black and white, rather pointlessly) on BBC1. It was subsequently repeated, in colour, on BBC2 on 5 January 1968. Spike Milligan's Sad/Happy Ending Story Of The Bald Twit Lion broadcast on BBC2. Sixty three thousand, the largest home gate of the season, were at Old Trafford where Manchester United returned to the top of the First Division with a four-nil spanking of Wolverhampton Wanderers (George Best, Bobby Charlton and Brian Kidd netting). Fifty nine thousand crammed into St James' Park where Albert Benntt and Wyn Davies scored as Newcastle beat Sunderland two-one. And, over fifty thousand attended Hillsbrough as Leeds United defeated Sheffield Wednesday one-nil with a johnny Giles penalty. Southampton and Sheffield United shared six goals at The Dell, Brian Dear scored three in West Ham United's four-two victory over Leicester City, West Bromwich Albion enjoyed a three-two victory over championship-chasing Manchester City and Nottingham Forest beat Stoke City three-nil. Birmingham City topped the Second Division following a four-one win against Bristol City. In the Fourth Division, promotion-chasing Bradford City hammered notts County five-one, whilst Terry Branston and Ray Whittaker scored as Luton Town maintained their one hundred per cent home record, winning an eleventh straight game at Kenilworth Road, two-nil against Bradford Park Avenue. Doncaster Rovers and Crewe Alexandra drew two-two with Alan Tarbuck scoring twice for the visitors. The first episode of Do Not Adjust Your Set and, following his move from the BBC, The Benny Hill Show broadcast on Rediffusion.
Derrick Sherwin's dramatisation of The Metal Martyr broadcast as part of the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of NBC's The World Of Stuart Little. Julie Andrews was interviewed on Film Review. Jack Russell's The Fat Of The Land broadcast in The Wednesday Play. Bob Dylan's John Welsey Harding released. Desmond Davis's Smashing Time - starring Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York and Anna Quayle - premiered. Maurice Levinson's Fatso broadcast on Radio 4.
Isaac Aismov's Robot broadcast in the Towards Tomorrow strand. The Royal Institute Christmas lecture, Professor Richard Gregory's The Intelligent Eye broadcast on BBC2. Two African Plays broadcast on Radio 3.
Nina Simone In Concert broadcast. The Day They Devalued The Pound broadcast in The Money Programme strand. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's 'If I Could Build My Whole World Around You'/'If This World Were Mine', The Spencer Davis Group's 'Mister Second Class'/'Sanity Inspector', The Peep Show's 'Esprit De Corps (Fifty Years Old)'/'Mind In A Mix Up', Andy Ellison's 'It's Been A Long Time'/'Arthur Green', The Crocheted Doughnut Ring's 'Havana Anna'/'Happy Castle' and The O'Jays' 'I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today)'/'I Dig Your Act' released. In a top-of-the-table clash in the Third Division at Edgeley Park, Stockport County and Walsall shared a goalless draw.
The first episode of At The Eleventh Hour broadcast.Singapore Nine-Nine-Nine broadcast in the Whicker's World strand. In a classic Wear-Tyne derby at Roker Park, a last-minute equaliser by John McNamee gave Newcastle United a three-all draw with the memorable images of Big John swinging on the crossbar at the Fulwell End (which, as has been widely reported, was always full). Earlier, Colin Suggest had scored twice for The Mackem Filth with Bruce Stuckey adding a third. Ollie Burton netted two penalities for The Magpies. Ian Porterfield made his debut for Sunderland. West Ham United beat Leicester City four-two at Filbert Street, Leeds United defeated Sheffield Wednesday three-two (Norman Hunter scoring the winer), Sheffield United thumped Southampton four-one, Burnley had a two-one victory against Everton and Manchester United remained at the top of the First Division with a three-two win at Wolves. Queens Park Rangers headed the Second Division, Rodney Marsh and Mike Keen both netting twice in their four-one victory over struggling Plymouth Argyle. Eddie Loydon hit four in Chester's six-nil hiding of Lincoln City in the Fourth Division. Hartlepools United defeated Darlington three-two at Feethams. League leaders Chesterfield lost three-one at Workington. Cat Stevens and The Spencer Davis Group featured on Saturday Club. Sheila Hancock was the guest of Radio 2's Million Dollar Bill. What's So Funny About Our Transport? Or It's Driving That's Driving Me Mad broadcast on Radio 4 featuring Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Miller. The Man In A Suitcase episode The Man Who Stood Still broadcast on ATV London.
The Julie Andrews Showbroadcast. The first UK TV showing of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on BBC2. The Pink Floyd's second Radio 1 session ('Vegetable Man', 'Scream Thy Last Scream', 'Jug Band Blues' and 'Pow R Toc H') broadcast on Top Gear introduced by John Peel and Tommy Vance. Other sessions included Eric Burdon & The Animals ('All Night Long', 'Monteray', 'Orange & Red Beans', 'Anything', 'Chim Chim Cheree') and The Moody Blues. The first episode of Radio 2's Brief Tales From The Bench broadcast. The Spinster Of South Street broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand. Who Shall Sing Best Thy Name broadcast on Radio 3. The Prisoner episode A Change Of Mind broadcast on ATV London.