1969

1969
The first episode of Quiz Bingo - presented by filthy kiddle-fiddling albino scum Jimmy Savile - broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Pal Joey. Andre DeToth's Play Dirty - starring Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport and Nigel Green - premiered. Newcastle United lost their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round first leg against Real Zaragoza three-two. Pop Robson and Wyn Davies scored for the Magpies. The first episode of A Television History Of The Life & Times Of Lord Mountbatten broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Holiday 69 broadcast. Inside Every Fat Man broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Beatles began a fortnight of rehearsals for a proposed return to the concert stage at Twickenham Film Studios, the process being filmed. The subsequent squabbling with occasional musical interludes would eventually result in the film, LP and court case Let It Be. The Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchased the UK's best-selling - if, least liked - scummish Sunday tabloid the News of the World.
The Gun appeared on Crackerjack. Which, presumably, put the shits right up Michal Aspel and Peter Glaze. Around The World Of Mike Todd broadcast. The Girls Who Put Up Your Tyre Pressure broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Cream's 'White Room'/'Those Were The Days', Opal Butterfly's 'Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand'/'My Gration Or?', Cyril Davies' 'Country Line Special'/'Sweet Mary', Eric Burdon & The Animals' 'Ring Of Fire'/'I'm An Animal', Toby Twirl's 'Movin' In'/'Utopia Daydream', Eddie Floyd's 'Bring It On Home To Me'/'Sweet Things You Do', Caravan's 'Place Of My Own'/'Ride', Velvett Fogg's 'Telstar '69'/'Owed To The Dip', Wilson Pickett's 'Hey Jude'/'Night Owl', Young-Holt Unlimited's 'Soulful Strut'/'Country Slicker Joe', Drumbago & Dynamites's 'Dulcemania'/Clancy Eccles' 'Chinaman', Five Stairsteps & Cubie's 'Stay Close To Me'/'I Made A Mistake', Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon's 'You'/'You Blew Your Cool And Lost Your Fool' and Fairport Convention's What We Did On Our Holidays released.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience played an impromptu tribute for the recently disbanded Cream - 'Sunshine For Your Love' - on an episode of Happening For Lulu. Much to the chagrin of the show's producer. I Love This Dirty Town broadcast on BBC2. The Move performed 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow', 'Beautiful Daughter', 'Christian Life', 'Flowers In The Rain', 'Last Thing On My Mind', 'Wild Tiger Woman', 'Goin' Back', 'Fire Brigade', 'Something' and 'Blackberry Way' on Colour Me Pop. Love Sculpture featured on Saturday Club. The Room by Shirley Jenkins broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Highlights of the FA Cup Third Round included the surprise of Fulham's four-one victory at Sunderland. Fellow Second Division strugglers Aston Villa also knocked out First Division opposition, albeit, Queens Park Rangers (defeated two-one) didn't look like being a First Division side for much longer. Also, Preston North End's three-nil defeat of Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United trhashing Reading four-nil, Manchestr United's three-one win at Exter City and Mansfield Town deating Sheffield United two-one. The last remaining non-league side, Kettering Town drew one-all with Bristol Rovers. Rochdale hammered Grimsby Town six-one in the Fourth Division. Leaders Aldershot defeated Newport County four-nil. The Journey To The Unknown Sarett Rudley's adaptation of Miss Belle broadcast on LWT.
Tony Palmer's Omnibus film of Cream's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall - introduced by John Peel - and the first episode of Ken Dodd & The Diddymen broadcast. Music, Music, Music broadcast on BBC2. The Derry Riots left over one hundred people injured. The Soviet Union launched Venera 5 to Venus. In May, the craft entered the Venusian atmosphere, sending back data until the atmospheric pressure and intense heat caused its failure eighteen kilometres above the surface. Juniors Eyes and Caravan featured in Top Gear.
Charlotte and Denis Plimmer's Where Have They Gone, All The Little Children? broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. United Effort broadcast in the Adventure Weekly strand. Hannah Gordon read Gunnel Linde's A Pony In The Luggage on Jackanory. Heather Harper featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Mister Digby, Darling and the World In Action episode The Making Of A Prime Minister broadcast on Thames. They also began their new Monday night film strand, The X Film with s showing of The Criminal. Up to 1968, ITV had only shown a handful of horror and/or SF movies. Then Leslie Halliwell, ITV's film-buyer, made a deal with Universal Pictures for a package of twenty, mostly, horror movies made or owned by the studio - thirteen Universal's from Dracula (1931) to House Of Dracula (1945) plus seven Hammer movies ranging from The Brides Of Dracula (1960) to The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964). The cost to ITV was a remarkably cheap sixty thousand knicker for a license period of seven years, to May 1976. With this deal, horror movies became a regular feature on ITV on a region-by-region basis over the course of the following two years. Hammer's The Man Who Could Cheat Death was shown in The X Film strand a week later. Granada and Border followed in September of the same year with a season, Famous Monsters, whilst in the same month Anglia TV started The Horror Film strand. in January 1970, Tyne-Tees unveiled Monster Movies. Grampian, Westward and Channel TV followed Anglia's branding with The Horror Film. Various other generic titles were used from The Late Movie (ATV) to Movie Macabre (Ulster) and Scottish TV's Don't Watch Alone. In July 1971, LWT went with Nightmare for their first Friday night slot starting with Dracula (1931). HTV in Wales appears to have been the only ITV company not to run a horror film season.
The first episode of the documentary series The Persuaders broadcast. Immortality Inc broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. The vulgar and ostentatious display of privilege and bling seen in the Europa episode The Titled & The Unentitled caused viewer G Harrison of Esher to blow his shit and pen a sharply-worded whinge of complaint, 'I, Me, Mine'. The trial began in the case of Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert Kennedy. J Lee Thompson's Before Winter Comes premiered. The first episode of Junior Showtime broadcast on Thames.
The Fabulous Frump broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. JB Priestley's Linda At Pulteney's broadcast in BBC2's A Touch of Venus strand. Two FBI agents, Anthony Palmisano and Edwin Woodriffe, were shot and killed in an apartment building in Washington DC while trying to apprehend Billie Austin Bryant, who had robbed a bank in nearby Oxon Hill. Bryant was caught later the same day. Woodriffe was the first African-American FBI agent to die in the line of duty. The killing of he and Palmisano marked only the second occasion that two FBI men were killed together; the first had been in November 1934, when Ed Hollis and Samuel Cowley were shot by Baby Face Nelson. Kettering Town lost two-one at home to Bristol Rovers in an FA Cup Third Rounds replay. Sheffiled Wednesday won three-one at Leeds United and Charlton Athletic defeated Crystal Palace two-nil. The Avengers episode The Rotters and the Callan episode Red Knight, White Knight broadcast on Thames.
BBC2's The Gilstone Treasure broadcast. Patagonia '68 broadcast. The Condon Committee, chaired by University of Colorado physicist Edward Condon, released its report Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects and concluded that 'nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past twenty one years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.' The Condon Report, commissioned by the US Air Force at the cost of five hundred and twenty thousand dollars recommended that the Air Force close its Project Blue Book investigation of UFO reports.
The Secretary Bird broadcast in the Theatre Date strand. Cleo Laine At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. Sly & The Family Stone's 'Everyday People'/'Sing A Simple Song', Neil MacArthur's 'She's Not There'/'World Of Glass', John Barry's 'The Lion In Winter (Parts 1 & 2)', Gentle Influence's 'Never Trust In Tomorrow'/'Easy To Know', Ashton, Gardner & Dyke's 'Maiden Voyage'/'See The Sun In My Eyes', The Isley Brothers' 'I Guess I'll Always Love You'/'It's Out Of The Question', Heavy Jelly's 'I Keep Singing That Same Old Song'/'Blue', The Beatstalkers' 'Little Boy'/'When I'm Five', Jeff Kane's 'Pretty Young Lady'/'On My Darkest Day', Nirvana's 'Wings Of Love'/'Requiem To John Coltrane', Tinkerbell's Fairydust's 'Sheila's Back In Town'/'Follow Me Follow', Clancy Eccles' 'Sweet Africa'/'Let Us Be Lovers', Sam & Dave's 'Soul Sister, Brown Sugar'/'Come On In', Gary Walker & The Rain's 'Come In You'll Get Pneumonia'/'Francis' and Sam Gopal's Escalator released. After seven days of misery at Twickenham, an extremely cheesed-off George Harrison walked out of The Beatles rehearsals after arguments with both Paul McCartney and John Lennon. And, an incident involving Yoko Ono and a chocolate digestive. Allegedly. Norman Cohen's adaptation of Till Death Us Do Part premiered. The first episodes of Department S - Six Days - and The Fossett Saga broadcast of LWT.
So Evil My Love shown in The Saturday Thriller strand. Sons & Lovers appeared on BBC2's Colour Me Pop. Carved For The Gods broadcast in the Chronicle strand. I Will Show You Fear In A Handful Of Dust broacast in the Release strand. The Casual featured on Saturday Club. Leeds United returned to the top of the First Division with a two-one victory over Manchester United. Manchester City thumped Chelsea four-one, Everton won three-one at Sunderland and Arsenal defeated Sheffield Wednesday two-nil. Derby had a two-nil victory over Bury in the Second Division. Barry Endean scored three in Watford's five-nil win at Gillingham in the Third Division. Fourth Division leaders Aldershot lost two-one at home to Brentford. York City had a forur-nil victory at Halifax Town, Chesterfield won three-one at Darlington and Newport County beat Peterborough United four-two. Sweden became the first Western nation to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the Communist Republic of North Vietnam. Alun Owen's Park People broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT. The first episodes of The Corbett Follies and The Saturday Crowd broadcast.
Mary Queen Of Scots broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first UK broadcast of H Andrew Williams Kaleidoscope Company broadcast. The Nice, The Strawbs and Yes featured on Top Gear. The American Football League champions New York Jets, led by brash quarterback Joe Namath, upset the National Football League champions Baltimore Colts, sixteen-seven to win Super Bowl III in Miami. The first episodes of The Complete & Utter History Of Britain and This Is ... Tom Jones broadcast on LWT. Norman Cohen's The London Nobody Knows premiered.
The first episode of Fifteen Plus: The Reluctant Pupils broadcast. Absolute Aggers & Totters broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut LP and The Beatles' Yellow Submarine soundtrack LP released. Hindle Wakes broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Ipswich Town appointed Bobby Robson as their new manager, caretaker Cyril Lea who had taken over the job after Bill McGarry's departure in November. Robson would remain at Portman Road for the next thirteen years. The World In Action episode Next Year In Peking broadcast.
The first episode of Scobie In September broadcast. Liar! broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Sir Matt Busby announced that he would retire as manager of Manchester United at the end of the season and hand over duties to first team trainer Wilf McGuinness. The Soviet Union launched Soyuz 4, with cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov from the Baikonur Space Centre. For the first time since the Soviet space programme had started, film of a rocket launch was shown on television on the same day. American spy Morton Sobell was released from federal prison after serving seventeen years of a thirty-year sentence for conspiracy to sell atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Bruce Reynolds, the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery, was sentenced to a twenty five stretch in The Slammer by a court in Aylesbury.
Fay Weldon's Smoke Screen broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of BBC2's New Clothes That Count broadcast. England drew one-all with Romania at Wembley in a friendly international. Jack Charlton scored for the hosts whilst Arsenal's John Radford made his England debut. Hibernian were knocked out of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on away-goals, despite beating SV Hamburg two-one at Easter Road. By contrast, Newcastle United beat Real Zaragoza two-one (Tommy Gibb and Pop Ronsob scoring) at a packed St James' Park and qualified for the Quarter-Finals on the away-goals rule. Glasgow Rangers won the first leg of their Third Round tie, two-nil against DWS Amsterdam in Holland. The Avengers episode Invasion Of The Earthmen, the Callan episode The Most Promising Girl Of Her Year and the first episode of the Freewheelers serial The Secret Base broadcast on Thames.

The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Czech student Jan Palach, attempted suicide in Prague's Wenceslas Square by setting fire to himself as protest against his country's occupation by the Soviet Union. He died of his injuries three days later. Amen Corner's '(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice'/'Hey Hey Girl' and 1984's 'This Little Boy'/'Rosalyn' released.
Harmony Grass appeared on Crackerjack. The first episode of The Visual Scene broadcast on BBC2. For the first time, two astronauts returned to Earth in a different craft to the one they had departed in. Alexei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov, sent up on Soyuz 5, landed safely (along with Vladimir Shatalov) in Soyuz 4 with which Soyuz 5 had earlier, successfully docked. Elton John's 'Lady Samantha'/'All Across The Havens', Grand Union's 'Slowly But Surely'/'She Said, She Said', The Loot's 'Try To Keep It A Secret'/'Radio City', Rhinoceros's 'Apricot Brandy'/'You're My Girl (I Don't Want To Discuss It)', The Orange Machine's 'You Can All Join In'/'Doctor Crippen's Waiting Room', Scrugg's 'Will The Real Geraldine Please Stand Up And Be Counted'/'Only George', Freedom's 'Kandy Kay'/'Escape While You Can', Thelma Jones' 'The House That Jack Built'/'Give It To Me Straight', Aretha Franklin's 'Don't Let Me Lose This Dream'/'The House That Jack Built', Bobby Goldsboro's 'Love Arrestor'/'Dissatisfied Man', The Troggs' 'Evil Woman'/'Sweet Madeleine', Long John Baldry's 'It's Too Late Now'/'The Long And Lonely Night', Val Bennett's 'Baby Baby'/'Barbara', Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost's 'Stormy'/'Twenty Four Hours Of Loneliness', Tyrannosaurus Rex's 'Pewter Suitor'/'War Lord Of The Royal Crocodiles', Unit Four Plus Two's '3.30'/'I Will', Van Der Graaf Generator's 'People You Were Going To'/'Firebrand', The Fifth Dimension's 'California Soul'/'It'll Never Be The Same Again' and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera's 'Volcano'/'A Quick B' released. The Department S episode The Trojan Tanker and the first episode of The Inside Man broadcast on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of Blueprint For Murder. Claude Chabrol and Stephane Auden were interviewed and clips from Les Biches broadcast on BBC2's Release. The five hundred and thirty seventh and final episode of Saturday Club broadcast featuring Carl Wayne, The Tremeloes, Kenny Ball's Jazzmen, Billy Fury & The Storm, The Kinks, Marty Wilde & The Weather, Amen Corner and Marmalade. Pete Best won a defamation lawsuit against The Beatles over comments made about him in a 1965 interview in Playboy. He had originally sought eighteen million dollar but was awarded considerably less. Jack Couffer's adaptation of Ring Of Bright Water - starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and Peter Jeffrey - premiered. Highlights of the First Division programme included Liverpool's two-one win at Chelsea, Manchester United beating Sunderland four-one (Denis Law scoring three) and Newcastle United's two-one defeat of Arsenal. Port Vale thrashed Newport County five=nil in the Fourth Division whilst Grimsby Town won five-two at York City. Colin Welland's Bangelstein's Boys broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Don Taylor's The Woman From The Shadow broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Man Who Was Given A Gasworks broadcast on BBC2. Manfred Mann, Pink Floyd, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum and The Liverpool Scene featured on Top Gear.
Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the thirty seventh - and, arguably, worst ... until 2016 - president of the United States. These Men Are Dangerous: Mussolini broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Brian Purcell and Roy Evans, two Hereford United players, were killed in a car crash on their way to an FA Cup tie at Nuneaton Borough. An antitrust lawsuit by the US Department of Justice was filed against IBM, charging the company with monopolising the digital computer industry, programming hindering competitors and limiting the development of the computer programming by its policy of selling its hardware, software and technical support as an inseparable package. The World In Action episode All Change In Newry broadcast.
Suicide Of A Nation broadcast. The Last Lonely Man broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. A partial nuclear meltdown at the Lucens in Switzerland occurred after the reactor core suffered a loss-of-coolant accident. The cavern in which the reactor was housed sustained massive radioactive contamination but the surrounding area was not irradiated. Jury selection began in New Orleans on the opening day of the first and only trial of a person accused of conspiracy in the assassination of John Kennedy, as District Attorney Jim Garrison went forward with proceedings that followed the indictment of retired New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw.
Hugo Charteris's Doctor Atkinson's Daughter broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. BBC2's Parsons In The Plague broadcast. The United States launched Orbiting Solar Observatory Five to study solar flares. Rangers completed a comfortable aggregate victory over DWS Amsterdam in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning the second leg two-one at Ibrox. The Callan episode You're Under Starter's Orders broadcast on Thames.
The Windsor Box broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. Jacob Bronowski's Leonardo Da Vinci broadcast on BBC2. Mosquito Squadron - starring David McCallum, Suzanne Neve and Charles Gray, Ralph Thomas's Some Girls Do - starring Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi and Beba Lončar and Ed Forsyth's The Ramrodder premiered.
Mel Stuart's Sophia broadcast. The Scaffold At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. La Ragazza Con la Valigia shown in the World Cinema strand. The Doors' 'Touch Me'/'Wild Child', Dean Martin's 'Gentle On My Mind'/'That Old Time Feelin', Hickory's 'Green Light'/'The Key', White Trash's 'Road To Nowhere'/'Illusions', Man's 'Sudden Life''Love', Crackers' 'Honey Do'/'It Happens All The Time', Jeannie C Riley's 'The Girl Most Likely'/'My Scrapbook', Jon Isherwood's 'Old Time Movies'/'Apple Pie', Man's 'Sudden Life'/'Love', Roy Lee Johnson & His Band's 'So Anna Just Love Me'/'Boogaloo Number Three', Sue Nicholls' 'All The Way To Heaven'/'I'll Be Waiting For You', Roy Lee Johnson's 'So Anna Just Love Me'/'Boogaloo Number Three', Graham Bonney's 'Fly Me High Lorelei'/'Get Ready', Timi Yuro's 'As Long As There Is You'/'It'll Never Be Over For Me', Gene Latter's 'Sign On The Dotted Line'/'I Love You', Branko Miler's 'Candy'/'Today Is Better Than Yesterday', Samurai's 'Good Morning Starshine'/'Temple Of Gold', Friday Brown's 'Stand By Your Man'/'I Want To Rain' and Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations' 'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me'/'A Place In The Sun' released. Violent protests by students about the installation of steel security gates, closed the London School of Economics, which did not reopen for three weeks. The launch of the Ford Capri, a four-seater sporting coupe designed to compete with the likes of the MG B. Mick Jones scored the winner as Leeds United closed the gap at the top of the First Division to a point with a one-nil victory at relegation-haunted Queens Park Rangers. Swindon Town won five-three at Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division. The Department S episode A Cellar Full Of Silence broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Possessed broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Seeds Of Death broadcast. Poor weather decimated the Fourth Round of the FA Cup with only one of the scheduled three televised games - Liverpool's two-one victory over Burnley - appearing on Match Of The Day. In the matches which did take place, Malcolm Darling hit three in Blackburn Rovers' four=nil defeat of Portsmouth, Newcastle and Manchester City drew nil-nil in front of almost fifty eight thousand at St James' Park, Stewart Scullion scored for Watford who almost pulled of a huge shock, leading for much for the game at Old Trafford before Denis Law scored an equaliser. Dave Watson scored twice in Roterham United's four-one defeat of Stockport County in the Third Division. John Frankenheimer's The Extraordinary Seaman - starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Mickey Rooney- premiered. Bert Jansch featured on Radio 1's Country Meets Folk. Be Reasonable! broadcast on Radio 4. Yasuzô Masumura's Môjû The Blind Beast - starring Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori and Noriko Sengoku - premiered. John Cairney's My Bonnie Jean broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The first episode of The Jimmy Logan Show broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Star Choice featured Gerald Harper introducing a repeat of Adam Adamant Lives! Elvis Presley entered American Studios in Memphis to record 'Long Black Limousine', beginning the recording of what would become his landmark comeback LPs From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions yielded the popular singles 'Suspicious Minds', 'In the Ghetto' and 'Kentucky Rain'.
Jean Benedetti's These Men Are Dangerous: Hitler broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Sky At Night featured a detailed look at the chances of a 1969 Moon landing in The Moon - A New Era. Reverend Ian Paisley was jailed for three months for illegal assembly. Fourteen men were executed in Iraq accused of spying for Israel. Eleven of the men were hanged at Liberation Square in Baghdad, the other three men in Basra. The World In Action episode A New Scool Of Thought broadcast.
The first UK TV showing of What A Carve Up. Beach Head broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Second Division Birmingham City knocked First Division Sheffield Wednesday out of the FA Cup, winning a Fourth round replay two-one (Malcolm Beard scorign the winner). Terry Conroy hit two in Stoke City's three-nil win at Halifax Town. Everton thrashed Wolverhampton Wanderers four-nil in the First Division. Middlesbrough defeated Sheffield United three-one in the Second Division. Swindon Town moved into the Third Division promotion places with a five-one victory over Oldham Athletic.
Peter Terson's The Apprentices broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Hive broadcast in BBC2's A Touch Of Venus strand. Aston Villa knocked Southampton out of the FA Cup with a two-one win at Villa Park. Manchester City defeated Newcastle two-nil (over sixty thousand watching at Maine Road). Chelsea's fixture with Preston North End at Stamford Bridge was abandoned after seventy minutes due to thick fog with Chelsea leading two-nil. Spurs inflicted yet another defeat on Queens Park Rangers in the First Division, winning three-two. In Peterborough United's one-all draw with Darlington in the Fourth Division, Tommy Robson scored for the home side and Lance Robson for the visitors. The Callan episode The Little Bits & Pieces Of Love broadcast on Thames.
Alan Plater's Terry broadcast in the Scene strand. Padre Pio and Mahatma Gandhi broadcast on BBC2. The Beatles gave their final public performance, 'the rooftop concert.' Lasting forty two minutes before The Fuzz arrived and told them to turn it down, the impromptu concert on top of the five-story building at Saville Row was filmed for the Let It Be movie.
With Love, Sophia and Billy Preston At The Talk Of The Town broadcast. An Evening With: Lord Evans Of Hungershall & Sir Mortimer Wheeler broadcast. Meher Baba, the Indian spiritual guru died aged seventy four. The Locomotive's 'Mister Armageddan'/'There's Got To Be A Way', The Californians' 'Mandy'/'The Cooks Of Cake & Kindness', Mixture's 'Sad Old Song'/'Never Trust In Tomorrow', The Locomotive's 'Mister Armageddan'/'There's Got To Be A Way', Joe E Young & The Toniks' 'Good Day Sunshine'/'Lifetime Of Lovin', The Status Quo's 'Make Me Stay A Bit Longer'/'Auntie Nellie', Wild Silk's '(Vision In A) Plaster Sky'/'Toymaker', The Wedgwoods' 'Cloudy'/'Cold Winds & Icy Rain', Bobby Bennett's 'Music Mother Made'/'You're Ready Now', Three Dog Night's 'Nobody'/'It's For You' and John Fitch & Associates' 'Romantic Attitude'/'Stoned Out Of It' released. The Department S episode The Pied Piper Of Hambledown broadcast on LWT. Jacques Deray's La Piscine - starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin - premiered.
The Fifth Dimension and The Kinks appeared on BBC2's Once More With Felix and Chickn Shack on Colour Me Pop. At Apple's headquarters, a meeting was held in which Allen Klein - newly installed as business manager of John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - outlined his assessment of The Beatles' finances. Also present was John Eastman, soon to be Paul McCartney's father-in-law, who advised The Beatles to buy Brian Epstein's former company NEMS for one million quid. President Nixon instructed his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to secretly pursue a plan of action to establish dialogue between the United States and the People's Republic of China beginning with meetings between diplomats in Poland. Future Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, then Kissinger's deputy, wrote later that Kissinger pursued the mission, which was described as merely creating 'an impression of activity,' despite Kissinger's comment that Nixon 'just ordered me to make this flight of fancy come true.' The first episode of Deux Enquetes Du Commissaire Maigret broadcast on Radio 4. Shagbut, Minikin & Flemish Clacket broadcast on Radio 3. Chelsea's five-nil defeat at Southampton in the Firsat Division saw the debut of sixteen year old Alan Hudson, the first of four hundred and fifty nine games for The Blues, Stoke City, Arsenal and England in a career that lasted until 1985. Liverpool remained top, Roger Hunt scoring in a one-nil victory over Sheffield Wednesday but Leeds United stayed within a point, Billy Bremner hitting two in their three-nil win against Coventry City. Arthur Horsfield scored within two minutes of his debut for Newcastle United, at Manchester City. However, the game was abandoned after forty minutes due to a blizzard. John Tudor scored three in Sheffield United's five-nil thumping of Bury in the Second Division. Millwall beat Huddersfield Town five-one and Hull City walloped Charlton Athletic five-two. Derby County remained top, two-nil victors over Cardiff City. Bradford City won five-one at Grimsby Town in the Fourth Division. The Journey To The Unknown episode Poor Butterfly (by William Abney) and Alun Owen's MacNeil broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of No Need For God broadcast. From Today Painting Is Dead broadcast in the Omnibus strand. You're Human Like The Rest Of Them broadcast on BBC2. Love Sculpture featured on Top Gear.
These Men Are Dangerous: Stalin broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. At the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was elected as the new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, replacing Yahya Hammuda. As the hijacking to Cuba of American passenger jets continued, an Eastern Air Lines flight was diverted to Havana along with its eighty seven passengers, including Allen Funt and a crew from the popular TV show, Candid Camera. Because of Funt's reputation, many of the passengers thought at first that the hijacking was part of a stunt. In FA Cup Fourth round replays, Manchester United won two-nil at Watford and Chelsea defeated Preston North End two-one. The World In Action episode The Death Of A Student focused on the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
Donald Bull's Something In The Cellar broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Winter In Moscow broadcast. Leeds united completed a comfortable vcictory over Hannover 96 in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round, winning the second leg two-one in the Niedersachsenstadion.
The first UK broadcast of Marine Boy. The Fool In Love broadcast on BBC2. Cream's Goodbye released. Michael Christopher Sheen born in Newport. The Callan episode Let's Kill Everyone broadcast on Thames.
Jacob Bronowski's William Blake broadcast on BBC2. Being Happy, That's What Counts broadcast in the Scene strand.
Cathy McGowan was the guest presenter on Junior Points Of View. This Man McLaren broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'/'Need Somebody', The MC5's Kick Out The Jams, Procul Harem's Shine On Blighty, Cilla Black's 'Surround Yourself With Sorrow'/'London Bridge', The Executives' 'To Kingdom Come'/'I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real)', The Impressions' 'Can't Satisfy'/'You've Been Cheatin', The Illusive Dream's 'The Electric Garden'/'Back Again', Rainbows' 'Rainbows'/'Nobody But You', Young Blood's 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill'/'I Will', Simon Dupree & The Big Sound's 'Broken Hearted Pirates'/'She Gave Me The Sun', Tommy McCook & The Supersonics' 'Breaking Up'/'Party Time', The Misunderstood's 'Children Of The Sun'/'I Unseen', Cherry Smash's 'Fade Away Maureen'/'Green Plant', Tommy Körberg's 'Dear Mister Jones'/'Bird You Must Fly', Zen's 'Hair'/'Aquarius', Love Affair's 'One Road'/'Let Me Know', Clodagh Rodgers' 'Come Back & Shake Me'/'I Am A Fantasy', Ayshea's 'Another Night'/'Taking The Sun From My Eyes', Bedrocks' 'The Lovedene Girls'/'I've Got A Date - La La', The Gods' 'Hey Bulldog'/'Real Love Guaranteed' and The Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace Of Sin released. The highest gust of wind in British history took place at Kirkwall, at the Orkney Isles, with a wind measured at one hundred and thirty six miles per hour. Tottenham Hotspur signed Roger Morgan from Queens Park rangers for one hundred and ten thousand quid. The Department S episode One Of Our Aircraft Is Empty broadcast on LWT.
The Allende meteorite exploded as it entered the atmosphere over the village of Pueblito de Allende in Mexico's Chihuahua state. The Realms Of Gold broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. FA Cup Fifth Round matches were scheduled for this day however, for the first time in history, the entire round was postoned due to heavy snow across England. Most rearranged games took place by the following Wednesday, but the final match - Leicester City versus Liverpool - was not played until 1 March and even then required a replay. A handful of Football league games survived the weather, though Second Division strugglers Oxford United must have wished theirs hadn't, losing five-nil at Cardiff City. And it went out on Match Of The Day as well. Watford thrashed Rotherham United in the Third Division. Yesterday & Tomorrow broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Alun Owen's Cornelius - starring Michael Caine - broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Maigret At Bay broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Rare Ones broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Deep Purple, Van Der Graaf Genrator and Black Cat Bones featured on Top Gear. The first episode of This Is Tom Jones broadcast on London Weekend.
The first episode of Where Was Spring? - featuring Eleanor Bron, John Fortune and The Kinks - broadcast on BBC2. Made In Britain: Dracula & Frankenstein Make Money For Britain broadcast, 'on location with the celluloid spine-chillers who won the coveted Queen's Award to Industry.' A Press Of Suspects broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The World In Action episode Like Other Men looked at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
Our Own Correspondent broadcast. An adaptation of John Wyndham's Random Quest broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. The FA Cup Fifth Round finally got under way, Manchester United drawing two-two at Birmingham City.
Michael Frayn's Birthday broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. City Boss broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Chelsea defeated Stoke City three-two in the FA Cup. Everton beat Bristol Rovers one-nil, Spurs had a three-two victory over Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion won one-nil against Arsenal. Leeds UNited went to the top of the First Division with a two-nil defeat of Ipswich Town. John Toshack scored the winner as Cardiff City went second in the Second Division, beating Blackpool one-nil. The Callan episode Heir Apparent broadcast on Thames.
Stake Money broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. 'Sensational action from the Duke Kahanamoku Surf Classic at Sunset Beach, Hawaii' featured on Sportsnight With Coleman. Peter Wood's In Search Of Gregory - starring Julie Christie, Michael Sarrazin, John Hurt and Adolfo Celi - premiered. The Beach Boys' 'I Can Hear Music'/'All I Want To Do' released.
They Don't Grow On Trees broadcast in the Theatre Date strand. Jack Jones At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. Edward Lucie-Smith's Cubism broadcast on Radio 4. The Bee Gees' 'First Of May'/'Lamplight', Dee Dee Sharp's 'What Kind Of Lady?'/'You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Gone)', Disciple's 'Cherie Alamayonaika'/'Caucasoid Junkie', The Actress' 'It's What You Give'/'Good Job With Prospects', The Montanas' 'Roundabout'/'Mystery', Amazing Friendly Apple's 'Water Woman'/'Magician', Lee Perry's 'Uncle Desmond'/'Bronco', Aphrodite's Child's 'End Of The World'/'You Always Stand In My Way', The Exception's 'Jack Rabbit'/'Keep The Motor Running', The Moving Finger's 'Higher & Higher'/'Shake & Finger Pop', Uniques' 'Ah-Yuh'/'Just A Mirage', David Garrick's 'Maypole Mews'/'Like To Get To Know You Better', Just Plain Smith's 'February's Child'/'Don't Open Your Mind', Hapshash & The Coloured Coat's 'Colinda''The Wall', Alan David's 'Oh What A Naughty Man!'/'I've Got To Know', The Ugly's 'I See The Light'/'Mary Cilento', Disciple's 'Cherie Alamayonaika'/'Caucasoid Junkie', Tina Charles' 'Nothing In The World'/'Millions Of Hearts (With A Single Prayer)' and Fleur De Lys's 'Liar'/'One Girl City' released. The Department S episode The Man In The Elegant Room broadcast on LWT.
Roy Castle and Jon Pertwee appeared as guests on The Rolf Harris Show. The Incredible String Vest featured on Once More With Felix. Only Fair To Warn You broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Only six games were played in the First Division due to continued bad weather. Leeds United increased the gap at the top, beating Chelsea one-nil whilst second placed Liverpool lost two-nil at home to Nottingham Forest (Barry Lyons scoring twice). Norman Corner scored three in Bradford City's three-one win at Newport County in the Fourth Division. The Journey To The Unknown episode The Beckoning Fair One (by William Woods and John Gould) and Alun Owen's Emlyn broadcast on LWT.
Living With One's Fears broadcast. Forest & Firebird broadcast in The World About Us strand.
The first episode of Thicker Than Water broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Little Kozue & Her Hands on BBC2. Aquanaut Berry Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III off San Clemente Island, California. The World In Action episode Living In The Red.
Robert Muller's adaptation of The Naked Sun broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand, directed by Rudolph Cartier and featuring music by Delia Derbyshire. The first episode of Keith Dewhurst's Why Danny Misses School broadcast. Lulu married Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees at St James Church, Gerrards Cross. Swindon Town topped the Third Division following a one-nil victory over Tranmere Rovers. The first episode of Two In Clover broadcast on Thames.
Jim Allen and Ken Loach's The Big Flame broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Blank Pages broadcast in BBC2's A Touch Of Venus strand. Glasgow Celtic drew nil-nil with AC Milan in the San Siro in the European Cup Quarter-Final. West Bromwich Albion crashed out of the Cup Winners Cup, beaten by a Pat Gardner goal at home by Dunfermline Athletic. The Callan episode Land Of Light & Peace broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Happy Age broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. First Confession broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Bongo Les & Herman's 'Doctor Who (parts 1 & 2)' released.
The Status Quo featured on Crackerjack. An Evening With Sir Michael Redgrave broadcast on BBC2. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' 'Baby, Baby Don't Cry'/'Your Mother's Only Daughter', Dave Kubinec's 'Schopi'/'The Lady Loves', The Chi-Lites' 'Pretty Girl'/'Love Bandit', Tony Joe White's 'Polk Salad Annie'/'Aspen Colorado', Shirley & The Shirelles' 'Look What You've Done To My Heart'/'A Most Unusual Boy', Silver Stars' 'Old Man Say'/'Promises' and Deep Purple's 'Emmaretta'/'Wring That Neck' released. The Department S episode Handicap Dead broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Philpott Files broadcast on BBC2. The Best Of Morecambe & Wise broadcast. Elvis Presley's 'If I Can Dream'/'Memories' released. The Lady Of The Camellias broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Only three First Division matches survived the harshwintr weather. The day's highlight was Chelsea's five-on victory over Sunderland (Bobby Tambling scoring four). Ten years after he was regularly banging in the goals for Manchester United, Alex Dawson neted four in Brighton & Hove Albion's five-two victory at Hartlepool in the Third Division. Both of the top two, Swindon and Watford, won (one-nil against Rotherham United and two-one over Mansfield Town). Brentford defeated Grimsby Town four-two in the Fourth Division. Michael Craig's Tiger Trap In The Street broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The first episode of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation broadcast on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of Viva Zapata! In the aftermath of the new Communist offensive against South Viet'nam, President Nixon decided to expand the war into Cambodia. Nixon was en route to Brussels on Air Force One when, as Henry Kissinger would later recount, 'he suddenly ordered the bombing of the Cambodian sanctuaries' of the Viet Cong guerrillas, 'without consulting relevant officials' and 'in the absence of a detailed plan for dealing with the consequences.' The Moody Blues, Spooky Tooth, The Liverpool Scene and Yes featured on Top Gear.
Another Part Of The Island broadcast. How Much Can You See? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. NASA's Mariner Six probe was launched from Cape Kennedy to begin a journey to Mars. Firing mortars from Jordan, Al-Fatah guerrillas aimed artillery shells at the country residence of Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol at Degania Alef near the Sea of Galilee. In acknowledging the attack, the Israeli government noted that Eshkol had been in Jerusalem 'for more than three weeks.' The first of a three test series between Pakistan and England at Lahore ended in a draw. For England Colin Cowdrey scored a century in the first innings and Keith Fletcher eighty three in the second. Asif Iqbal and Majid Khan were Pakistan's top-scorers. Bob Cottam took six wickets on his test debut. Ronald Neame's adaptation of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - starring Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson and Celia Johnson - premiered. Manchester City won four-one at Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup. Denis Law scored thre as Manchester United pummelled Birmingham City six-two in a Fifth Round replay. The World In Action episode A War On Ice broadcast.
The Little Black Bag broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Coventry City's five-nil victory over Queens Park Rangers in the First Division saw the league debut of Graham Paddon, the first of five hundred and thirty one games - for Coventry, Norwich City, West Ham United and Millwall - in a career that lasted until 1985. Mel Machin, Ernie Hunt and Neil Martin scored whilst Dave Celements hit two. Leeds increased their lead at the top of the table to four points with a two-nil vicotry at Nottingham Forest. Doncaster Rovers replaced Aldershot at the top of the Fourth Division after thrashing them seven-nil.
The Serpent In Putney broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Stars & Stripes Down At The Bull broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. George Best hit two and Willie Morgan added a third as Mancheser United defeated Rapid Vienna three-nil in the first leg of the European Cup Quarter-Final. Mansfield Town produced the shock of the FA Cup Fidfth Round, beating West Ham United three-nil (Ray Keeley, Nick Sharkey and Dudley Roberts scoring the goals that did for the Hamsters). Barry Lloyd scored twice as Fulham enjoyed their first win in eleven games in the Second Division, beating Preston North End two-one. The Callan episode Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged broadcast on Thames.
The Boat To Addis Ababa broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Science Fair 69: The Final Contest broadcast.
The first episode of Charge! - starring Robert Morley - broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Jean Renoir's Toni in BBC2's The French Cinema strand. The first episode of On The Buses broadcast on LWT. The Hollies' 'Sorry Suzanne'/'Not That Way At All', The Gun's 'Drives You Mad'/'Rupert's Travels', Episode Six's 'Mozart Versus The Rest'/'Jak D'Or', Marbles' 'The Walls Fell Down'/'Love You', The Equals' 'Michael & The Slipper Tree'/'Honey Gum', Tony Blackburn With The Majority's 'It's Only Love'/'Janie', Jason Crest's 'Waterloo Road'/'Education', Wallace Collection's 'Daydream'/'Baby I Don't Mind', Little Milton's 'Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World)'/'I Can't Quit You Baby', The Tony Hendrik's 'The Grooviest Girl In The World'/'Majestic World' and Anthony Booth's 'Till Death Us Do Part'/'September Days' released. Reading beat Stockport County four-two in the Third Division.
In the FA Cup Sixth Round there were victories for Manchester City (one-nil over Spurs), Everton (Joe royle scoring in a one-nil win at Manchester United) and West Bromwich Albion (two-one at Chelsea thanks to al ate jeff Aslte winner). Several times postponed, the final Fifth Round tie, between Liverpool and Leicester finally got under way. And, forgetably, ended in a goalless draw. In the First Division, Leeds united won three-two against Southampton, John Radford scored three as Arsenal cruised to a five-nil victory at Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland beat Stoke City four-one (Colin Suggest, Calvin Palmer, Dennis Tueart and Malcolm Moore scoring) and Burnley beat Nottingham Forest three-one. Brostil City thrashed Poor Bloody Fulham six-nil in the Second Division. Derby County remained top following a four-two victory over Blackburn Rovers. Crystal Palace beat Cardiff City three-one. Swindon Town extended their unbeaten run in the Third Division to eleven matches with a one-nil defeat of Northampton Town. Watford also won, one-nil, against Bristol Rovers. Darlington gave Workingto a six-two walloping in the Fourth Division. Thomas Becket broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Ten Years After featured on Colour Me Pop. The Doors, performed a controversial gig before twelve thousand punters at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami. Three days later, a Miami court issued warrants for Jim Morrison's arrest on a felony charge of various naughty acts related to him, allegedly, getting his knob out and waving it around in an untoward manner. Clay Shaw, the only person ever indicted for conspiracy in the assassination of John Kennedy, was acquitted by a jury in New Orleans. Peter Perry Jnr's The Secret Sex Lives Of Romeo & Juliet - starring Harvey Shain, William Rotsler, Dee Lockwood and Wendell Swink - premiered. Roger Smith's An Hour Of Love broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand.
Relatively Speaking broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Concorde made its first test flight from Toulouse. Ten Years After, Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog, Terry Reid and Jon Hiseman's Colosseum featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode Black Out broadcast on LWT.
Apollo 9 - piloted by Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott and Rusty Schweickart - launched. How They Dug The Victoria Line broadcast on BBC2. Sirhan Sirhan took the witness stand at his trial for the murder of Bobby Kennedy. Questioned by his attorney Grant Cooper, Sirhan said he recognised incriminating handwriting as his own, but denied that he remembered anything about the actual shooting. The second test at Dacca was drawn. Basil D'Oliveira scored an undefeated century. Jesús Franco's Justine & Juliet - starring Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm and Rosemary Dexter - premiered. An Andy Lochhead goal gave Leicester City victory at Liverpool as the Fifth round of the FA Cup was finally completed. The World In Action episode Home For A Revolution broadcast.

Matters Of Life & Death broadcast in Tuesday's Documentary strand. Brian Hayles's 1 + 1 = 1.5 broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were sentenced to life in The Slammer for the murders of Jack The Hat and George Cornell. The Eggy's 'You're Still Mine'/'Hookey' released. Coventry City beat Sunderland three-one in the First Division. Len Badger and Alan Woodward were on-target as Sheffield United came from behind to share a two=two draw with Birmingham City in the Second Division. Oldham Athletic thrashed Stockport County five-two in the Third Division (Keith Bebbington scoring twice). Barnsley defeated Bristol Rovers four-two.
Nigel Kneale's Bam! Pow! Zapp! broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Football Manager broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The Byrds' Doctor Byrds & Mister Hyde released. South Viet'nam's Prime Minister, Tran Van Huong, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as he was being driven to his home in Saigon. Huong's car was attacked by four members of a Viet Cong murder squad, all of whom were wearing stolen uniforms of the ARVN Rangers. The Callan episode Death Of A Friend broadcast on Thames. Larry Crane's All Women Are Bad - starring Peter Bradford and Liz Byan - premiered. Manchester United shared a goalless drew the second leg of their European Cup Quarter-Final at Rapid Vienna and comfortably reached the Semi-Finals. Újpest Dosza defeated Leeds United at Elland Road in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. In the Second Division, leaders Derby County lost one-nil at home to fellow promotion-chasers Crystal Palace (Bobby Woodruff scoring). Third Division table-toppers, Swindon Town, also lost, two-nil at Gillingham. Aldershot beat Port Vale three-nil in the Fourth Division.
The Homeless Bishop broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. A Hot Day broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Colin Milburn - having just arrived in the country as injury cover - scored one hundred and thirty nine for England in the third test against Pakistan at Karachi. Tom Graveney also hit a century. The 'Moon Suit', to be worn by Apollo mission astronauts was successfully tested in the vacuum of space for the first time. Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart donned the pressurised garment and performed a thirty seven minute spacewalk, proving the suit was effective for astronauts to wear for an extended period.
The Foundations and Don Partridge featured on Crackerjack. The first UK TV showing of Goha in BBC2's The French Cinema strand. The Who's 'Pinball Wizard'/'Dogs Part Two', Katch 22's 'Out Of My Life'/'Baby Love', Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Circle Is Small'/'Does Your Mother Know?', The Versatiles' 'Spread Your Bed'/'Worries A Yard', The Velvet Underground, The Purge's 'The Mayor Of Simpleton Hall'/'The Knave', East Of Eden's 'Northern Hemisphere'/'Communion', Jacky's 'Love Is Now'/'Never Will I Be', Pesky Gee!'s 'Where Is My Mind?'/'A Place Of Heartbreak', The Nashville Teens' 'The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian'/'Looking For You', World Of Oz's 'Willows' Harp'/'Like A Tear', Muriel Day's 'The Wages Of Love'/'Thinking Of You', Lulu's 'Boom Bang-A-Bang'/'March!', William Bell & Judy Clay's 'My Baby Specializes'/'Left Over Love', Muriel Day's 'The Wages Of Love'/'Thinking Of You', Clarence Carter's 'Snatching It Back'/'Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)', The Packers' 'Hole In The Wall'/'Go Head On', The Maskman & The Agents' 'One Eye Open'/'Yaw'll' and The Small Faces' 'Afterglow (Of Your Love)'/'Wham Bam Thank You Man' released.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Space Pirates broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Imperial Palace broadcast. The Karachi test was abandoned on the third day due to student riots. Alan Knott was left stranded four runs short of what would have been his first test century. The season's big FA Cup giant-killers, Third Division Mansfield Town who had already accounted for Sheffield United and West Ham, saw their run come to an end in a Sixth round replay, Rodney Fern scoring the winner in a one-nil victory for Leicester City at Field Mill. Leeds United remained at the top of the First Division with a five-one win at Stoke City (Billy Bremner and Mike O'Grady both netting two). Chelsea won three-nil at West Bromwich Albion (John Boyle, Peter Houseman and Ian Hutchinson hitting thed target). Mike Summerbee scored the winner in the Manchester derby watched by sixty three thousand at Old Trafford. Derek Dougan's quality strike saw Wolves win one-nil at relegation-haunted Queens Park Rangers. Derby County's three-two win at Blackpool featured on Match of The Day. Northampton Town defeated Reading four=two in the Third Division. Aldershot thumped Swansea Town five-two in the Fourth Division. The Centurion broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Julia Jones's The Piano Tuner broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of The Apartment. Berlioz: A Singular Obsession broadcast in BBC2's Workshop strand. The Shaggs - sisters Helen, Betty and Dot Wiggin of Fremont, New Hampshire - made a studio recording of what would become the cult classic, Philosophy Of The World. Top Gear featured Love Sculpture ('Farendale', 'Great Balls Of Fire', 'Evening', 'The Inner Light'), The Idle Race, Taste and The Glass Menagerie. CS Lewis's After Ten Years broadcast on Radio 3. The Department S episode The Double Death Of Charlie Crippin broadcast on LWT.
Cage Me A Leacock broadcast on BBC2. Alan Rudkin lost the World Bantamweight Championship fight to Lionel Rose in Melbourne on a split decision. In Memphis, James Earl Ray pleaded extremely guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King in April 1968. The jury recommended a ninety nine-year jail sentence. Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, was published. Basil Dearden's The Assassination Bureau - starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savales and Curd Jürgens and Richard Attenborough's adaptation of Oh! What A Lovely War premiered. Chris Topping and Ted MacDougall scored in York City's two-one victory over Workington in the Fourth Division. The World In Action episode Where People Don't Matter focused on the fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption was preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
Christopher Ralling's documentary The Thin Red Line broadcast. The Fosters broadcast in BBC2's Out Of Th Unknown strand. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, the science fiction writer known for The Day Of The Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, Random Quest and The Kraken Wakes died aged sixty five. Dick Clement's Otley - starring Tom Courtenay and Romy Schneider - and Gerry Levy's The Body Stealers (aka Thin Air) - starring George Sanders, Patrick Allen, Maurice Evans, Lorna Wilde, Hilary Dwyer, Sally Faulkner and Alan Cuthbertson - premiered.
The first episode of University Forum and Farewell The Seekers broadcast. Th State Of Education broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone register office in London. Later the same day, George Harrison and his wife, Patti, were arrested in a raid on their home at Esher, on charges of possession of marijuana. The arresting officer was, of course, serial planter Nobby Pilcher. England beat France five-nil in a friendly international at Wembley. Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick including two penalties, Mick O'Grady netted on his first international appearance in six years and Francis Lee was also on-target. Leeds United's Terry Cooper made his England debut. Pierino Prati scored the winner as AC Milan knocked Glasgow Celtic out of the European Cup Quarter-Finals at Parkhead with a one-nil victory. In a virtual blizzard at St James' Park, Newcastle United thrashed Vittoria Setubal five-one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final first leg. Many of the Portuguese side had, reportedly, never even seen snow let alone try to play a game of football in it. Over fifty seven thousand braved the elements and celerated The Magpies victory. Relegation-strugglers Leicester City grabbed a vital two-nil win bottom club Queens Park Rangers. Andy Lochhead scored both goals. Charro! - starring Elvis Presley - premiered. The Callan episode Jack-On-Top broadcast on Thames.
Henry Cooper retained the European heavyweight boxing title knocking out Italy's Piero Tomasoni in five rounds. Roses, Roses All The Way broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Death On The Marshes broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Flying Burrito Brothers made their only UK TV appearance on the opening episode of How Late It Is. Australia's Own Car? broadcast in BBC2's Whelbase strand. The Monkees' 'Tear Drop City'/'A Man Without A Dream', Stevie Wonder's 'I Don't Know Why I Love You'/'My Cherie Amour', Kenny Everett's 'Nice Time'/'And Now For A Little Train Number', Simon Dee's 'Julie'/'Whatever Happened To Us?', Clancy Eccles' 'Constantinople'/'Deacon Sun', Tommy Roe's 'Dizzy'/'The You I Need', The Hep Stars' 'Let It Be Me'/'Groovy Summertime', Kaleidoscope's 'Do It Again For Jeffrey'/'Poem', Sadie's Expression's 'Deep In My Heart'/'My Way Of Living', Jorge's 'Everybody Wants To Be Loved'/'Tic Tac Toe', Sixty Seven Park Lane's 'I'm So Happy Just To Be With You'/'I Got Love', Timebox's 'Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye'/'Poor Little Heartbreaker', Alan Hawkshaw's 'Puppet On A String'/'Everybody Knows', Barry Mason's 'I'm In Love With You, Pom Pom'/'Mister DJ Play Me A Sad Song', King Brothers' 'Me On The Subject Of (Gina)'/'That's The Way It Goes', Tangerine Peel's 'Never Say Never Again'/'A Thousand Miles Away', Norman Johnson & The Showmen's 'You're Everything'/'Our Love Will Grow', Antoine's 'The Football Match'/'Where Did Everyone Go To?', Orchestra Conducted By Francis Lai's 'Hannibal Brooks March'/'Hannibal Brooks Theme', Val Doonican's 'Ring Of Bright Water'/'New Dreams For Old', Swinging Soul Machine's 'Spooky's Day Off'/'Nobody Wants You' and Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments' 'The Week Looked Good On Paper'/'Morning Call' released. West Ham United thrashed Coventry City five-two in the First Division.
The Dad's Army episode The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Walker broadcast. Caravan made their TV debut on BBC2's Colour Me Pop. One Pair Of Eyes: Return To The River Kwai broadcast. The Kray Twins were found not guilty of the 1966 murder of Frankie 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell. James Earl Ray recanted the confession he previous made in court in Memphis when jailed for shooting Martin Luther King. Third Division Swindon beat Arsenal in the League Cup Final at Wembley with two extra-time goals by Don Rogers. In the First Division, Queens Park Rangers lost their seventh consecutive match, three-one at Manchester City. Chelsea defeated Manchester United three-two on Match Of The Day. Liverpool won two-nil at Sunderland. Carlisle stuffed relegation-chasing Middlesbrough three-nil in the Second Division. Notts County hammered Bradford Park Avenue five-nil in the Fourth Division (Barry Butlin and Richie Barker both scoring twice). Two David Duckham tries helped England to win the Calcutta Cup in a nineteen-three victory over Scotland at Twiceknham. Britain's third successful heart transplant was carried out at Guy's Hospital. Simon Gray's Pig In A Poke broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Andre Previn's American Music & All That Jazz broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Fit-Ups Or Positively The Last Performance broadcast on BBC2. Radio 1's Top Gear featured sessions by Fleetwood Mac, Moby Grape and The Edgar Broughton Band ('Evil', 'For What You Are About To Receive', 'Love In The Rain', 'Why Can't Somebody Love Me?', 'Crying'). Coretta King, the widow of Doctor Martin Luther King talked to Paul Johnson, editor of The New Statesman on Radio 4's Subject For Sunday. The Department S episode The Treasure Of The Costa Del Sol broadcast on LWT.
John Nash - A Painter In The Country broadcast on BBC2. China: Mao's Second Revolution broadcast. Golda Meir became the first female Prime Minister of Israel. Eight volunteer lifeboat rescuers for Longhope in the Orkney Islands were killed while responding to a distress call during a Force Nine gale. Chester won five-two at Newport County in the Fourth Division (Garry Talbot scored three). The World In Action episode A Case To Answer broadcast.
Clive Exton's adaptation of Target Generation broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Hugh Burnett's The Killing Game broadcast. Exeter City defeated Wrexham five-three in the Fourth Division (Ray Smith hit three for the visitors).
The Beat Of The Brass broadcast. Another Way Of Life broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Struggling Manchester United beat even-more struggling Queens Park Rangers eight-one at Old Trafford. Willie Morgan scored three and George Best two. Alex Ferguson, Andy Penman, Örjan Persson and Colin Stein scored as Glasgow Rangers thrashed Athletic Bilbao four-one in the first lef of their European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. However, Leeds United were knocked out of the competition by Újpest Dosza who won two--nil in Budapest. Afterwards, Don Review described the Hungarians as 'the best club side in Europe.' Crystal Palace moved into the Second Division promotion places with a four-two victory over Millwall. Birmingham City's three-one defeat of Preston North End saw the debut (and two goals) for Bob Latchford, the first of six hundred and thirty two games, for Birmingham, Everton, Swansea City, NAC Breda, Coventry City, Lincoln City, Newport County and England, in a career that lasted until 1986. Luton Town defeated Bristol Rovers three-nil in the Third Division. Peterborough United won four-one at Aldershot in the Fourth Division. The brief - forty days - existence of the Republic of Anguilla came to an end as a force of paratroopers, marines and Scotland Yard detectives landed on the Caribbean island. Ronald Webster, who had declared himself President when the island issued its declaration of independence, appeared at the British command headquarters and arranged for a meeting the next morning. Diplomat Anthony Lee was then installed as the resident British Commissioner. The three hundred and eighty five metre tall Emley Moor television mast in West Yorkshire collapsed because of icing. The Chicago Seven were indicted by a grand jury on the charge of causing the Riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Callan episode Once A Big Man, Always A Big Man broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The World Of Stuart Little broadcast in the Tales From Overseas strand. The first episode of The Victims broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Metal detection devices were first used in American airports, the day after the Federal Aviation Administration demonstrated the device for news reporters.
A film clip of Led Zeppelin performing 'Communication Breakdown' on Swedish television was shown on How Late It Is, the band's first UK TV appearance. Yonely At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. David Ruffin's 'My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)'/'I've Got To Find Myself A Brand New Baby', Richie Havens' 'Oxford Town'/'My Own Way', Frank Sinatra's 'My Way'/'Blue Lace', 1984's 'I've Got To Have Your Love'/'Here We Are', Fortes Mentum's 'Gotta Go'/'Marrakesh', The Bluejeans' 'Hey Mrs Housewife'/'Sandfly', Information's 'Orphan'/'Oh Strange Man', Johnny Nash's 'Cupid'/'People In Love', Vanilla Fudge's 'Shotgun'/'Good Good Lovin', Stewart A Brown's 'I Can't Go On Living Without You'/'Don't Call Me', Jean Stanback's 'I Still Love You'/'If I Ever Needed Love', Chris Jackson's 'I'll Never Forget You'/'Forever I'll Stay With You', ZZ Hill's 'Make Me Yours'/'What Am I Living For?', Judy Collins' 'Someday Soon'/'My Father' and The Funky Bottom Congregation's 'Hara-Krishna'/'Things About Yourself' released. Ipswich Town won three-one at West Ham United in the First Division. Birmingham City's three-one victory over Presenton north End included two goals for eighteen year old Bob Latchford. Stockport County defeated Third Division leaders Watford four-two.
Tommy Booth's eighty seventh minute winner saw Manchester City beat Everton in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park. In the First Division, Stoke City beat Wolverhampton Wanderers four-one whilst Coventry City defeated Burnley by the same score. The Tyne-Wear derby at St James' Park ended honours even in a one-all draw. Queens Park Rangers enjoyed their twenty fifth defeat of the season, one-nil at home to Arsenal. John Hickton scored four in Middlesbrough's five-three win over Hull City in the Second Division whilst Sheffield United thrashed Bolton Wanderers five-two. Derby County went four points clear at the top, Kevin Hector scoring twice in a two-nil victory at Oxford United. Having been the country's in-form side for much of the season, Swindon Town had suddenly hit a bad-patch in the Third Division, losing their third successive game, two-one at Plymouth Argyle. John Renbourne and Danny Thompson and The John Cameron Quartet were guests on BBC2's Once More With Felix. Gerry Levy's The Body Stealers - starring George Sanders, Maurice Evans and Patrick Allen - and Menahem Golan's What's Good For The Goose - starring Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson, Terence Alexander and David Lodge - premiered. The Burden broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Hugo Charteris's Machine broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Don Taylor's A Couple Of Brians broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first episode of BBC2's Roar Of The Crowd broadcast. Charles Manson made an unexpected visit to 10050 Cielo Drive, the California home rented by film director Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate. Manson was searching for a previous resident, the record producer Terry Melcher, from whom he had tried to obtain a recording contract. On 8 August, not knowing Melcher's new location but having learned that the house at Benedict Canyon was occupied by 'celebrities', Manson directed a group of his followers to murder everyone in the gaff. Top Gear featured the first BBC session by Led Zeppelin ('Communication Breakdown', 'You Shook Me', 'I Can't Quit You Baby'). The Department S episode Who Plays The Dummy? broadcast on LWT.
The first episodes of Spike Milligan's Q5 and Yesterday's Witness broadcast on BBC2. In The Sky At Night, Patrick Moore looked at Jupiter, The Giant Planet. Tottenham Hotspur's one-nil defeat at Arsenal in the First Division featured the debut of John Pratt, the first of four hundred and fifteen games for Spurs in a career that lasted until 1980. The World In Action episode The Man Left Behind broadcast.
2001: An Earth Prophecy broadcast in the Towards Tomorrow strand. The Yellow Pill broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar ('near Spain'). The couple then proceeded to their honeymoon in Amsterdam where they performed their 'Bed-In For Peace' malarkey. Birmingham City hammered Bolton Wanderers five-nil in the Second Division. Bristol Rovers mullered Mansfield Town in the Third Division where Swindon Town got back to winning ways, Peter Noble scoring twice in a two-nil win over Barnsley. Wales drew a friendly international with West Germany one-all in Frankfurt. The visitors were leading for most of the game through a Barrie Jones goal, but Gerd Müller equalised with the last kick of the game. Cardiff City team-mates Steve Derrett and John Toshack made their Wales debuts.
Woman Fashion Awards 1969broadcast. The Squatters broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Frustrated by many rejections from publishers, John Kennedy Toole killed himself at the age of thirty one without knowing that his novel A Confederacy Of Dunces would be published posthumously, become a bestseller and win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Jack Smight's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man - starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom - premiered. Newcastle United lost three-one at Vittoria Stubal in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie but reached the Semi-Final thanks to their impressive win in the home leg. Third Division promotion-chasers Luton Town thumped Barrow five-one. The Callan episode The Running Dog broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Each Day That Comes. Frontier broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Michael Powell's Age Of Consent - starring James Mason, Jack MacGowran and Helen Mirren - premiered.
Charlie Chaplin: The Vintage Comedies broadcast. Frankie Vaughan At The Talk Of The Town broadcast. Edwin Starr's 'Way Over There'/'If My Heart Could Tell The Story', Nicky James's 'Time'/'A Little Bit Of Paper', Eire Apparent's 'Rock 'N' Roll Band'/'Yes, I Need Someone', The Explosive's 'Cities Make The Country Colder'/'Step Out Of Line', Richard Kent Style's 'A Little Bit O' Soul'/'Don't Tell Lies', Now's 'Marcia'/'The Hands On My Clock Stand Still', Kate's 'Shout It'/'Sweet Little Thing', The Flower Pot Men's 'In A Moment Of Madness'/'Young Birds Fly', Ace Kefford Stand's 'For Your Love'/'Gravy Booby Jamm', Frida Boccara's 'Through The Eyes Of A Child (Un Jour, Un Enfant)'/'So Fair (Belle Du Luxembourg)', Phillis Dylon's 'Love Is All I Had'/'Boys & Girls Reggae', Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson's 'Soulshake'/'We Were Made For Each Other', The Sand Pebbles' 'Love Power'/'Because Of Love', Richard Ace's 'Hang 'Em High'/Black & George's 'Candy Lady', Cajun Hart's 'Got To Find A Way'/'Lover's Prayer' and Mary Hopkin's 'Goodbye'/'Sparrow' released. Franz Josef Gottlieb's Klassenkeile - starring Uschi Glas - premiered.
Held in Spain and with a stage-set partly designed by Salvador Dali, there was utter chaos at The Eurovision Song Contest where, uniquely, there was a four-way tie. The entries for Spain, France, The Netherlands and Britain (Lulu's cheerfully awful 'Boom Bang-A-Bang') were declared the joint winners. In fact, everyone as a winner ... except for Norway's Kirsti Sparboe whom came last with her song 'Oj, Oj, Oj, Så Glad Jeg Skal Bli' which got but une pointe (award by neighbours Sweden who, presumably, felt sorry for them). Austria refused to participate in protest at Generallisimo Franco's sick fascist regime. Jonathan Miller's The Zoo In Winter broadcast on BBC2. Alan Clarke's eighty sixth minute winner enabled Leicester City to beat West Bromwich Albion in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Hillsborough. Queens Park Rangers lost two-one at home to Liverpool and were relegated from the First Division, having won just three of their thirty eight matches and having been, frankly, a sodding disgrace. One silver lining was the debut, as a half-time substitur, of Gerry Francis, the first of five hundred and sixty six games, for Rangers, Crystal Palace, Coventry City, Exeter City, Cardiff City, Swandsea City, Portsmouth, Bristols Rovers and England, in a career that lasted until 1987. Manchester City beat Stoke three-one, Newcastle United defeated Coventry City two-nil and Chelsea won two-one at Everton. Derby County remained top of the Second Division following a one-nil victory at Aston Villa. Blackpool thumped Bolton Wanderers four-one whilst Portsmouth defeated Charlton Athletic by the same score. Barry Endean for Watford scored the winner as the Third Division's top two met at Swindon in front of twenty nine thousand, the largest attendance of the season for the third tier. Twelve-year-old Highland Wedding, running in his third Grand National, was the winner by twelve lengths at Aintree. He was ridden by Eddie Harty Snr, for trainer Toby Balding. The favourite, Red Alligator, fell at the nineteenth fence. The Bee Gees' Odessa, The Kinks' 'Plastic Man'/'King Kong' and Quicksilver Messenger Services' Happy Trails released. Ronald Ridenhour alerted US military and government officials to the My Lai Massacre which had occurred a year earlier in South Viet'nam. Ridenhour, who had recently completed his tour of duty as a helicopter gunner confirmed stories from some of the soldiers who had been witnesses, writing a four-page letter to thirty members of Congress, to President Nixon and Secretary of Defence Melvin Laird and General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One of the recipients, Arizona Congressman Morris Udall circulated the letter to members of the House Armed Services Committee. General Wheeler forwarded his copy to Army Chief of Staff William C Westmoreland and an investigation was began. Tony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe & Find True Happiness? premiered.
Let My People Go broadcast. Peter Coe's Lock Up Your Daughters - starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns, Jim Dale and Ian Bannen - premiered. Family, Spooky Tooth, Bakerloo and Principal Edward' Magic Theatre featureed on Radio 1's Top Gear. The Department S episode The Man Who Got A New Face broadcast on LWT.
The first UK broadcast of The Flashing Blade. George Pearson: Pioneer Film Maker broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Dusty In Memphis released. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five was published. The World In Action episode The Six Day War - Day Six Six Six broadcast.
David Climie's memorably weird Get Off My Cloud broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. The documentary Where Do We Go From Here? broadcast. The Raleigh Chopper bike was launched. The Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1 'Jump Jet' fighter entered service with the RAF. Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity premiered, almost bankrupting Universal Pictures in the process. James Clavell's Where's Jack? - starring Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele, Alan Badel, Dudnley Foster, Fiona Lewis and Sue Lloyd - premiered. Despite having reached the FA Cup Final, Leicester City lost one-nil at Coventry City to leave them deep in trouble in the First Division relegation fight, albeit with games in hand.
Roy Minton's Sling Your Hook broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Jim O'Connolly's Croos & Coronets - starring Telly Savalas, Warren Oates, Edith Evans, Cesar Romero and Harry H Corbett - premiered. Glasgow Rangers lost two-nil against Athletic Bilbao but still reached the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Finals on aggregate. In the First Division, George Best scored twice as Manchester United beat West Bromwich Albion two-one. Newcastle United won one-nil at Tottenham Hotspur. Derby County went six points clear at the top of the Second Division, Frank Wignall scoring the winner in a one-nil victory at relegation-certainties Fulham. The Callan episode The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw broadcast on Thames. The Roberto Mann Orchestra And Chorus' 'Theme From The Film Baby Love (Guai Guai)'/'Serenade To Summertime' released.
Don Shaw's Progressive Blues broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Village Matadors broadcast in the Tales From Europe strand. Fleetwood Mac's 'Man Of The World'/'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite', Jan Panter's 'Si Si Senor'/'Stella In Lights', Fifth Dimension's 'Medley: Aquarius-Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)'/'Don'tcha Hear Me Callin' To Ya?', Anita Harris' 'Loving You'/'Ferdinand & His One Man Band', Three Dog Night's 'Try A Little Tenderness'/'Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad' and Ken Roland's 'Out Of My Mind'/'Fly My Kite' released. Goodbye, Columbus - starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw and Michael Winner's Hannibal Brooks - starring Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard - premiered. The first episode of John Browne's Body broadcast on Thames.
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound appeared on The Basil Brush Show. The Bastard King broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Fanny Cradock: Colourful Cookery broadcast. Cream's 'Badge'/'What A Bringdown', The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Crosstown Traffic'/'Gipsy Eyes', Blossom Toes' 'Peace Loving Man'/'Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head', Chords Five's 'Some People'/'Battersea Fair', Marty Dolan's 'Bernadette Devlin (The Girl From Tyrone)'/'We're On Our Way To Victory' and The Isley Brothers' 'Behind A Painted Smile'/'One Too Many Heartaches' released. Doctor Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart, in an operation at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. The recipient was forty seven-year old Haskell Karp of Skokie, Illinois, whose diseased heart was replaced by the Liotta TAH plastic and fabric mechanical pump, developed by Doctor Domingo Liotta. Sixty-five hours after the implantation of the mechanical heart, Karp received a donor heart from a forty-year-old woman whose body had been flown in from Lawrence, Massachusetts. However, Karp survived only thirty two hours after the new heart was transplanted, before he succumbed to pneumonia; another artificial heart implant would not take place until 1981. Jim Morrison appeared with his attorney before the Los Angeles office of the FBI to answer federal charges of 'interstate flight to avoid prosecution' in relation to his alleged getting his dong out and fiddling with it in Miami. The Doors' 1969 concert dates had already been extremely cancelled and the group was blacklisted by the Concert Hall Managers' Association.
The first episodes of The Way We Live Now and Bird's Eye View broadcast on BBC2. Cambridge won The Boat Race. Oxford came second. Leeds United remained top of the First Division with a one-nil victory over Manchester City. Doug Collins scored twice in Burnley's three-two win at Chelsea. Manchester United defeated Nottingham Forest three-one and Southampton beat hapless, hopeless Queens Park Rangers three-two. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor's Derby County secured promotion to the top flight with a five-one thrashing of Bolton Wanderers. Crystal Palace were nicely placed to join them, moving into second place in the Second Division with a three-one victory over Portsmouth. In the Third Division, leaders Watford thumped Crewe Alexandra four-nil. Tranmere Rovers hammered Oldham Athletic six-two (Ken Beamish netting three). In the Fourth Division, Don Masson scored twice in Notts County's five-nil win against Wrexham. Lincoln City defeated Workington four-one (Rod Fletcher scoring a hat-trick) and Peterborough United won three-two at Chester (Tommy Robson, John Wile and Peter Price on-target for The Posh. A sniper killed two people at random and wounded fifteen more on a section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Donald Lambright (the son of the comedian Stepin Fetchit) also killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. The Late Christopher Bean broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Simon Gray's The Dirt On Lucy Lane broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The Eight Days Of Easter and BBC2's Living With Icons broadcast. The first episode of the Round Th Horne sequel Stop Messing About! broadcast on Radio 2. British polar explorer Wally Herbert became the first man to - undisputedly - walk to the North Pole. Top Gear featured sessions by Fairport Convention ('Cajun Woman', 'Percy's Song', 'Si Tu Dois Partir Va T'En', 'Autopsy'), Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog, Black Cat Bones and Mandrake Paddle Steamer. The Department S episode Les Fleurs Du Mal broadcast on LWT.
Stratford Johns presented Disney Time. Sinai, Mountain Of God broadcast on BBC2. The United States Supreme Court ruled in Stanley versus Georgia that the possession of obscene material was protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Writing for the majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall commented that 'A state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.' Or, indeed, whether he had the right to wank himself sore before, during or after the fact. In the First Division, Arsenal defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers three-one, Southampton thumped Burnley five-one (Bobby Stokes netting twice) and West Bromwich Albion beat Tottenham Hotspur four-three (Jeff Astle and Jimmy Greaves scoring twice for the hosts and the visitors respectively). Hull City's four-nil thrashing of Fulham confirmed The Cottagers relegation from the Second Division, their second successive demotion. Tranmere Rovers' impressive late-season form in the Third Division ciontinued, winning five=two at Torquay United.
The Trail Blazers broadcast. Les Etoiles De Midi shown in BBC2's Around The World strand. Pete Walker's School For Sex - starring Derek Aylward, Rose Alba, Hugh Latimer, Nosher Powell and Françoise Pascal - premiered. Swindon Town moved a step closer to promotion from the Third Division with a three-nil victory over Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. Shrewsbury Town lifted themselves off the bottom of the table with a four-three win at Northampton Town. Fourth Division leaders Doncaster Rovers thrashed Brentford five-nil. Darlington beat Swansea Town three-nil. The first episode of Judge Dee - Traitors In High Places - broadcast on Thames.
A Child & A Half broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. What's It All About? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. This blogger attended his first ever association football match, Newcastle United beating Sheffield Wednesday three-two in the First Division in front of a twenty five thousand crowd at St James' Park. The goals came from Benny Arentoft, Keith Dyson and Arthur Horsfield. The game proved to be Geoff Allen's last before being forced into retirement through injury. At the other St James' Park, Exeter City thrashed York City five-nil in the Fourth Division. Dunfermline Athletic drew the first leg of their European Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final against Slovan Bratislava one-all at East End Park. Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and Kaleidoscope's Faintly Blowing released. Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton won the right to wear their turbans whilst on duty. Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party - starring Robert De Niro and Jennifer Salt - premiered. The Callan episode Nice People Die At Home broadcast on Thames. Barnaby Kay born in London.
Barry Bermange's Invasion broadcast inf BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of At Times Like This broadcast. Christopher Morahan's All Neat In Black Stockings - starring Susan George, Victor Henry and Jack Shepherd - premiered.
Family and Dudly Moore appeared on How Late It Is. Therese Desqueyroux shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Beatles' 'Get Back'/'Don't Let Me Down', Leviathan's 'Remember The Times'/'Second Production' and 'The War Machine'/'Time', Glass Menagerie's 'Have You Forgotten Who You Are?'/'Do You Ever Think?', Herman's Hermits' 'My Sentimental Friend'/'My Lady', The Fruit Machine's 'I'm Alone Today'/'Sunshine Of Your Love', The Flying Machine's 'Smile A Little Smile For Me'/'Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long', Salomé's 'Vivo Cantando'/'Amigos Amigos', Alfred Ralston's 'Oh! What A Lovely War'/'I'll Make A Man Of You', Kevin 'King' Lear's 'The Snake'/'The Man In The Funnies', Mike Quinn & The Breadcrumbs' 'Toothbrush Nell'/'Fairy Cakes (For Tea)', Orlando's 'Am I The Same Guy (Soulful Strutt)'/'Poor Little Me', The Checkmates Limited's 'Love Is All I Have To Give'/'Never Should Have Lied', Erma Franklin's 'Gotta Find Me A Lover (Twenty Four Hours A Day)'/'Change My Thoughts From You' and Spike Milligan's 'The Q5 Piano Tune'/'Ning Nang Nong' released. The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award was shared for the first time: Manchester City's Tony Book and Dave Mackay of Derby County were the joint-winners. The first episodes of Hark At Barker - Meet Lord Rustless - and Big Breadwinner Hog - A Promising, If Impulsive Pupil - broadcast on LWT. The first UK broadcast of Julia.
Wales won the Five Nations Championship, beating England thirty-nine at Cardiff Arms Parks. Free made their TV debut on BBC2's Colour Me Pop. Gavin Millar's profile of Muriel Spark - filmed in Rome on the set of The Public Image - broadcast as part of BBC2's Release strand. North Shields of The Northern League won the FA Amateur Cup, beating the Isthmian League's Sutton Untied two-one at Wembley. Richie Hall and Brian Joicey scored for Shields. Wolverhampton Wanderers one-nil defeat against West Bromwich Albion saw the club debut of Kenny Hibbett, the first of five hundred and seventy four games for Wolves in a career that lasted until 1984. On Match Of The Day, Newcastle United defeated Manchester united two-nil with Pop Robson scoring his twenty sixth goal of the season in all competitions (Alan Foggan added a second). Elsewhere in the First Division, Everton beat Coventry City three-nil, Liverpool won two-one at Leicester City who were now in desperate relegation trouble, Spurs enjoyed a two-nil victory at Nottingham Forest and Queens Park Rangers recorded only their fourth win of the season, two-one against Stoke City. Admittedly, it was about six month too late to make any difference. Middlesbrough's three-two defeat at home to Bury effectively meant that Crystal Palace (who drew at Preston) were promoted from the Second Division and Derby County were confirmed as champions. Ray Hiron socred four in Portsmouth's five-two defeat of Norwich City. Rocco's Bandwagon by Kenneth Bird broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Dennis Potter's Moonlight On The Highway broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The first UK broadcast of The Shari Lewis Show. Julius Caesar broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Anatomy Lesson broadcast on BBC2. The Bonzo Dog Band were in session on Radio 1's Top Gear ('Look At Me I'm Wonderful', 'Mister Apollo', 'Quiet Talks & Summer Walks', 'Excerpt From Brain Opera Part Three'). Blodwyn Pig and Terry Reid also appeared. The Department S episode The Shift That Never Was broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Liver Birds broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of Germany 1870-1970 broadcast on BBC2. Hetty King featured on Desert Island Discs. The World In Action episode The Owners & The Owned investigated slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
The first episode of Peter Sarstedt broadcast on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of Postman's Knock. Bury's two-one defeat at home to Bristol City meant they were relegated from the Second Division. They would be replaced by Watford whose promotion was confirmed with a one-nil victory over Plymouth Argyle. Willie Penman hit a late winner for Swindon Town, how defeated Crewe Alexcandra one-nil.
Dennis Potter's Son Of Man broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play strand to the incandescent fury of righteous Godbotherers everywhere. Who, seemingly, forgot all about Matthew 7:1. The first episode of BBC2's Good Sailing broadcast. Scotland drew one-all with West Germany in a World Cup Qualifier at Hampden Park. Bobby Murdoch equalised Gerd Müller opener five minutes from time. Wales lost two-one to Wast Germany in Dresden. John Toshack had equalised a Wolfram Löwe strike only for Peter Rock of Carl Zeiss Jena to score the winner in the final minute. Willie Carlin scored twice as already-promoted Derby County enjoyed a four-one victory at Norwich City in the Second Division. The Callan episode Death Of A Hunter broadcast on Thames.
BBC2's The Violent Universe broadcast. Viewpoint: Before The Deluge broadcast. Sirhan Sirhan was very convicted of the murder of Robert Kennedy. Bernadette Devlin won the Mid Ulster by-erection and became the youngest ever female MP at the age of twenty one. The Representation Of The People Act lowered the voting age in the UK from twenty one to eighteen. The experimental Martin Marietta X-24 was given its first unpowered re-entry and landing test by the United States Air Force and NASA to perfect technology which would eventually be used by the Space Shuttle.
The Carl-Alan Awards and the first episode of BBC2's New Heavens, New Earths broadcast. Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'I'm Livin' In Shame'/'I'm So Glad I Got Somebody (Like You Around)', The Brotherhood's 'Paper Man'/'Give It To Me Now', The Earth's 'Everybody Sing The Song'/'Stranger Of Fortune', The Chants' 'I Get The Sweetest Feeling'/'Candy', White Rabbit's 'Ain't That Something'/'I'll Do The Rest', Jeannie C Riley's 'There Never Was A Time'/'Back To School', Junior's Eyes' 'Circus Days'/'Woman Love', Jean-Jacques' 'Maman'/'Les Beaux Dimanches', Chicken Shack's 'I'd Rather Go Blind'/'Night Life', Paola's 'Bonjour Bonjour'/'Valse D'amour', The Harry South Stereo Brass' 'Scarborough Fair'/'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me', Paul Jones's 'It's Getting Better'/'Not Before Time', Jon Mark's 'All Neat In Black Stockings'/'Run To Me', The Toyshop's 'Say Goodbye To Yesterday'/'Send My Love To Lucy', Ramsey Lewis' 'Cry Baby Cry'/'Wade In The Water', Sue Lynne's 'You'/'Don't Pity Me', The Crowns' 'Call Me'/'Since You've Been Gone', The Mohawks' 'Ride Your Pony'/'Western Promise', Jimmy Thomas' 'The Beautiful Night'/'Above A Whisper' and Tony & Tandy With The Fleur-De-Lys's 'Two Can Make It Together'/'The Bitter & The Sweet' released.
Petula Clark's Portrait Of Petula broadcast. The first episode of Patrick Troughton's final - ten-part - Doctor Who serial, The War Games, broadcast. Blood-Axe's Revenge broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Chicken Shack's 'I'd Rather Go Blind' released. Leeds United were on the brink of the First Division title after a two-nil victory over Leicester City (which featured on Match Of The Day). Liverpool remained in second place with a four-nil win against Ipswich Town. Derby climaxed their outstanding Second Division season with a five-nil defeat of Bristol City (Alan Durban scoring three). Crystal Palace's three-two win against Fulham meant they reached the First Division for the first time in their history. Sixpence For A Self-Made Man broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Bill Macilwraith's Hazel & Her New Gas Cooker broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT. The first episode of The Galton & Simpson Comedy Hour broadcast.
The first episode of The Elusive Pimpernel broadcast. The Siegfried Idyll broadcast on BBC2. British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Alastair Reid's Baby Love - starring Ann Lynn, Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Diana Dors and Dick Emery - premiered. The Nice, Taste, Led Zeppelin and Eire Apparent featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode Dead Men Die Twice broadcast on LWT.
The Valley Express broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Birth Control In The Twenties broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Albinos In Black broadcast on Radio 4. The Mothers Of Invention's Uncle Meat released. Toby Stephens born in London. Newcastle United thumped Wolverhampton Wanderers four-one in the First Division. The World In Action episode Inside Out broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Shazzan! Within weeks, a new Topping family cat arrived and got lumbered with the name Kaboobie - after the 'magical flying camel' in the cartoon. 'With hilarious consequences' as they used to say in TV Times. The first episode of The Prior Commitment broadcast. Frederic Rossif's The Animals shown in BBC2's Around The World strand. Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person to make a solo non-stop global circumnavigation under sail.
Errol John's The Exiles broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of The Mind Of Mister JG Reeder - The Treasure Hunt - broadcast on Thames. Dunfermline Athletic fell agonising short in their efforts to reach the Cup Winners Cup Winners, losing one-nil against Slovan Bratislava to a Ján Čapkovič goal. Manchester United lost the first leg of their European Cup Semi-Final, two-nil to AC Milan in the San Siro.
A Nice Cool Pad In The Sky broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The recently formed British Leyland launched its first new model, the Austin Maxi, designed to compete with family saloons like the Ford Cortina and following a new European design concept started in 1965 by French carmaker Renault's R16 range. The final episode of the long-running Radio 2 drama Mrs Dale's Diary broadcast.
Hines, Hines & Dad broadcast. Booker T & The MG's 'Time Is Tight'/'Hang 'Em High', Marsha Hunt's 'Walk On Gilded Splinters'/'Hot Rod Poppa', Cats Eyes' 'Where Is She Now?'/'Tom Drum', Ipsissimus' 'Hold On'/'Lazy Woman', Colonel Crint & The Regimental Band Of The Foot & Mouth Deserters' 'Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major'/'Moreton Bay', Kippington Lodge's 'In My Life'/'I Can See Her Face', Lace's 'I'm A Gambler'/'Go Away', Louis Neefs' 'Jennifer Jennings'/'I Love You', Cardboard Orchestra's 'Zebedy Zak'/'Mary Tell Me Why', Simon & Garfunkel's 'The Boxer'/'Baby Driver', Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin's 'Little Green Apples'/'Will I Find Love' and The Moody Blues' On The Threshold Of A Dream released. Renée Kathleen Zellweger born in Katy, Texas.
The first episode of The Dave Allen Show broadcast. Manchester City beat Leicester City in the FA Cup Final. Neil Young scored the game's only goal. Crosby, Still and Nash did not feature. Parallels In Middle Eastern & Indian Music broadcast on Radio 3. The Razor's Edge broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Hugh Forbes's Steve broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT. The Humblebums' 'Saturday Roundabout Sunday'/'Bed Of Mossy Green' released.

BBC2 began weekly coverage of The John Play League with a match between Middlesex and Yorkshire at Lord's. Fred Burnley's Raymond Chandler profile, Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Department S episode A Ticket To Nowhere broadcast on LWT.
Marty Feldman and Barry Took's Tooth & Claw broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Breaking Tthe Silence broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Leeds United drew with second-placed Liverpool at Anfield to clinch the First Division title for the first time. Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.
BBC2's Duke Ellington tribute Love You Madly broadcast. Jim Douglas Henry's interview with Saul Bellow broadcast.
David Rudkin's Blodwen, Home From Rachel's Marriage broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Newcastle united thrashed Stoke City five-nil in the First Division (Jimmy Scott scored twice). Luton Town won their final Third Division game of the season, two-one, against already-promoted Watford. The result meant that, barring a mathematical miracle in their final two games, Swindon Town would be promoted. The first episode of Sez Les broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Chief Executive broadcast. Anything You Say broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The British Film Industry broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand. Joni Mitchell's Clouds released.
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden appeared on How Late It Is. The first UK TV showing of Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach in BBC2's The French Cinema strand. Cunard's the QE2 left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. Brian Charles Lara born in Santa Cruz, Trinidad & Tobago. Jethro Tull's 'Living In The Past'/'Driving Song', Jackie Lomax's 'New Day'/'Fall Inside Your Eyes', The Herd's 'The Game'/'Beauty Queen', Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild'/'Everybody's Next One', The Parking Lot's 'World Spinning Sadly'/'Carpet Man', Honeybus's 'She Sold Blackpool Rock'/'Would You Believe?', The Velvet Opera's 'Anna Dance Square'/'Don't You Realize?', Reg Presley's 'Lucinda Lee'/'Wichita Lineman', The Gods' 'Maria'/'Long Time, Sad Time, Bad Time', Noel Harrison's 'Love Minus Zero - No Limit'/'I Just Can't Wait', Jackie Wilson's '(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher'/'Whispers (Gettin' Louder)', James Carr's 'Freedom Train'/'That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me', Marc Brierley's 'Stay A Little Longer Merry Ann'/'Flaxen Hair' and Ambrose Slade's 'Genesis'/'Roach Daddy' released. Swindon's one-all draw at Rotherham United meant they were promoted from the Third Division. It was a memorable season for The Robins, who won not only promotion but also the Football League Cup. Don Rogers was the Third Division's leading scorer with thirty goals (Peter Noble also contributed twenty). A variety of results for other sides (notably Colchester United's two-nil defeat at Notts County) saw Doncaster Rovers promoted from the Fourth Division without playing.
The Hollies In Concert broadcast on BBC2. England beat Northern Ireland three-one in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Martin Peters, Francis Lee and Geoff Hurst scored. Scotland defeated Wales five-three at Wrexham. Billy McNeiil, Colin Stein, Alan Gilzean, Billy Bremner and Tommy McLean were on-target for the Scots, Ron Davies hit two and John Toshack the third for the hosts. In the First Division, Ipswich Town beat relegation-threatened Leicester City two-one. Patriotism & Resistance In Vichy France broadcast on Radio 3. Home Brew broadcast on Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Sly & The Family Stone's Stand! released. The Journey To The Unknown episode The Madison Equation (by Michael J Bird) and John Whitewood's Toys broadcast on LWT.
What's Happened To Camelot? broadcast. Pictures At An Exhibition broadcast in BBC2's Workshop strand. Vera Caslavska: The Search for Perfection broadcast. Juniors Eyes and Keef Hartley featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode Last Train To Redbridge broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of As Good Cooks Go broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first UK broadcast of Lancer on BBC2. Alvar Lidell appeared on Desert Island Discs. The World In Action episode A Modest Proposal broadcast. Leicester City kept their First Division survival hopes alive with a two-one victory over Sunderland. Hartlepools goalless draw with Crewe Alexandra saw them relegated from the third Division after just one season in the third tier. Also relegated were Northampron Town. The Cobblers had started the decade in the Fourth Division and would end it there having been promoted and relegated three times in-betwen and having spent one season in the top flight.
The Billy Cotton tribute Old Bill broadcast. No Room For Wild Animals broadcast in BBC2's Around The World strand. Thirty-four servicemen were killed and thirty five others injured, in the most deadly helicopter crash of the Viet'nam War when the CH-47 Chinook experienced mechanical failure while flying near Khe Sanh. The United States Navy announced that it would not seek a court-martial against any of the crew of the USS Pueblo, whose crew had been held captive in North Korea for eleven months after the ship's seizure in 1968 and then were questioned in eighty days of testimony taken by the Naval Court of Inquiry in Coronado, California. Secretary of the Navy John Chafee disclosed that the court of inquiry had recommended a court-martial against the Pueblo skipper, Commander Lloyd Bucher and the officer in charge of the ship's intelligence section, Lieutenant Stephen Harris, for allowing the ship, equipment and codebooks to fall in the hands of the enemy. Chafee said that he had overruled the recommendation because the crew of the Pueblo had 'suffered long enough.' Scotland and Northern Ireland drew one-all in the Home International championship at hampden Park. Eric McMordie opened the scoring for the visitors with Colin Stein equalising.
England beat Wales two-one at Wembley in the Home International championship at Wembley. Bobby Charlton and Francis Lee scored for the hosts, Ron Davies for Wales. West Bromwich Albion's Jeff Astle made his England debut. The QE2 arrived in New York at the end of her maiden voyage. John Huston's Sinful Davey - starring John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston - premiered. Sheffield Wednesday signed seventeen year old Tommy Craig from Aberdeen for one hundred thousand quid. Frankie Howerd At The Poco A Poco and The Mind of Mister JG Reeder episode The Green Mamba broadcast on Thames.
Conversations At Night broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. My Room broadcast in the Look Out strand. Don Siegel's Death Of A Gunfighter - starring Richard Widmark - premiered. Workington Town's three-two victory over Newport County in the Fourth Division saw the league debut of fifteen year old goalkeeper John Burridge, the first of seven hundred and sixty eight leagues games - for Workington, Blackpool, Aston Villa, Southend United, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby County, Sheffield United, Southampton, Newcastle United, Hibernian, Scarborough, Lincoln City, Aberdeen, Dumbarton, Falkirk, Manchester City, Darlington and Queen of the South - in a career that lasted until 1996.Halifax Town's one-nil defeat of Rochdale saw them promoted to the Third Division.
George Harrison's Electronic Sounds, The Misunderstood Featuring Glenn Fernando Campbell's 'You're Tuff Enough'/'Little Red Rooster', The Idle Race's 'Days Of The Broken Arrows'/'Warm Red Carpet', Perfect People's 'House In The Country'/'Polyanna', Shirley Bassey's 'Doesn't Anybody Miss Me?'/'Now You Want To Be Loved (Des Rondes Dans L'eau)', Suzan Short's 'The Puppy Song'/'Tout Le Monde', Shy Limbs' 'Reputation'/'Love', The Mooche's 'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass'/'Seen Through A Light', MC5's 'Kick Out The Jams'/'Motor City Is Burning', World Of Oz's 'The Hum Gum Tree'/'Beside The Fire', Betty Everett's 'I Can't Say No To You'/'Better Tomorrow Than Today', The Ad Libs' 'Giving Up'/'Appreciation', Oedipus Complex's 'Up Down Round & Round'/'Empty Highway' and The Mandrake Paddle Steamer's 'Strange Walking Man'/'Steam' released. 'Avant garde a clue!' An Evening With Alan Bennett broadcast on BBC2. Can You Speak Venusian? broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. In which Patrick Moore interviewed a bloke - who was, clearly, not A Mental; oh no, very hot water - who claimed he could. Fleetwood Mac featured on How Late It Is. Saint Christopher, formerly venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of travellers, was dropped from the Church's liturgical calendar along with more than forty other names of people who had been designated as saints following research which concluded that the persons had never, actually, existed. Bradford City's three-one victory at Darlington meant The Bantams were promoted from the Fourth Division and Darlington - who endured a dreadful run of five games without a win during the run-in to the end of the season - missed out by two points.
The first episode of Sinister Street broadcast on BBC2. Two goals each from Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst gave England a four-one victory over Scotland at Wembley to clinch the Home International championship. Colin Stein replied for the visitors. Gordon Banks won his fiftieth international cap. Leeds United's Eddie Gray made his Scotland debut. Northern Ireland and Wales drew nil=nil at Windsor Park. Rochdale beat Southend United three-nil to clinch the fourth and final promotion spot from the Fourth Division, completing a clean sweep for Northern teams. Gary Talbot of Chester was the division's top scorer with twenty two goals. The Trial Of Thomas Becket broadcast on Radio 3. The Battle of Hamburger Hill, which would prove to be the most costly US offensive of the Viet'nam War began as an air strike during Operation Apache Snow. Major General Melvin Zais ordered a jet and helicopter assault against North Vietnamese artillery on Hill 937 of the South Vietnamese mountain range of Dong Ap Bia and paratroopers from the One Hundred & First Airborne Division were sent in the next day. The invasion of the three hundred and thirty nine-resident town of Zap, North Dakota, by more than two thousand college students and young revellers, was brought to a quick - and rather painful - end by the National Guard and local law enforcement. Overnight, the uninvited visitors 'transformed the main street of this tiny village into a shambles.' The heaviest damage was to Zap's two taverns, Lucky's Bar and Paul's Bar. The Journey To The Unknown episode The New People (by Oscar Millard and John Gould) and the first episode of Rogues' Gallery - Peter Wildeblood's The Bright-Eyed Bodysnatcher - broadcast on LWT. The latter had debutted on Granada the previous year.
Rudolph Cartier's adaptation of An Ideal Husband broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Don't Stop The Carnival broadcast on BBC2. Tyrannosaurus Rex and King Crimson featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode The Ghost Of Mary Burnham broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Gnomes Of Dulwich broadcast on BBC2. The Loves Of Larch Hill broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the wife of jailed anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and the most prominent woman associated with the African National Congress, was arrested by South African police and imprisoned in Pretoria. She would be held in solitary confinement for nine months without charge before being indicted for violating the Suppression of Communism Act. The World In Action episode Two Men In Two Tin Huts concerned gang violence of Glasgow's Easterhouse estate.
The first UK TV broadcast of Green Grow The Rushes. The Sky Above, The Mud Below broadcast in BBC2's Around The World strand. More than two hundred people were killed as fighting broke out in Kuala Lumpur between members of Malaysia's citizens of Chinese ancestry and the Malays who made up a majority of the population. A US F-101 Voodoo jet fighter narrowly missed crashing into a school at the village of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire. Major Robert Fipes, who was killed in the accident, was credited by the press with steering the plane away from the school rather than ejecting after he encountered engine failure shortly after taking off from RAF Upper Heyford.
Cause For Concern: The Family That Would Not Break Up broadcast. Health In Black Hands broadcast on BBC2's Man Alive strand. Tyrannosaurus Rex's Unicorn, Brian Auger & The Trinity's 'What You Gonna Do?'/'Bumpin' On Sunset' and Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere released. Gordon Hessler's The Last Shot You Hear - starring Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines and William Dysart - premiered. Newcastle United shared a goalless draw with Glasgow Rangers at Ibrox in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fair Cup Semi-Final. Willie McFaul saved a penalty from Andy Penman late in the game.
Manchester United's defence of the European Cup ended when they are knocked out by AC Milan in the semi-finals. They won the second leg at Old Trafford with a goal by Bobby Charlton, but lost two-one on aggregate. Milan's goalkeeper Fabio Cudicini was injured by an object thrown from the crowd. Roly Poly broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Mintue Theatre strand. Robert Rayford, a sixteen-year old American teenager died at the Washington University medical centre in St Louis, of complications from a baffling medical condition which caused lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma. In 1986, Robert's tissue samples were examined and found to have had the antibodies to HIV and the P-24 antigen, making Robert the earliest confirmed case of AIDS in America.
The NATO Naval Review broadcast. Louis Malle's Le Feu Follet shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. Venera Five, the Soviet Union space probe, landed on Venus but ceased transmitting data back to Earth after forty three minutes of its descent through the Venusian atmosphere. The Doors' 'Wishful Sinful'/'Who Scared You?', Goldie & The Gingerbreads' 'Can't You Hear My Heartbeat?'/'That's Why I Love You', Fresh Air's 'Running Wild'/'Stop Look Listen', Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary'/'I Put A Spell On You', Black Velvet's 'African Velvet'/'Whatcha' Gonna Do 'Bout It?', Max Romeo & The Hippy Boys's 'Sweet Chariot'/'Far, Far Away', Strawberry Alarm Clock's 'Good Morning Starshine'/'Me & The Township', Gloria Lynne's 'Problem Child'/'I've Got To Be Someone', Serendipity's 'If I Could'/'Castles', The Pentangle's 'Once I Had A Sweetheart'/'I Saw An Angel', Betty Harris' 'Ride Your Pony'/'Trouble With My Love', The Lions Of Judah's 'Our Love's A Growin' Thing'/'Katja', Elton John's 'It's Me That You Need'/'Just Like Strange Rain', Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon's 'Let's Hang On'/'I Ain't Lyin', Nirvana's 'Oh! What A Performance'/'Darling Darlane', The Open Mind's 'Horses & Chariots'/'Before My Time', Max Romeo & The Hippy Boys' 'Sweet Chariot'/'Far, Far Away', The Edwin Hawkins Singers' 'Oh Happy Day'/'Jesus, Lover Of My Soul', Billy Butler's 'The Right Track'/'The Boston Monkey' and Brute Force's 'King Of Fuh'/'Nobody Knows' released.
The first episode of Whatever Next? broadcast. The Bee Gees At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. Scotland thrashed Cyprus eight-nil in a World Cup Qualifier at Hampden Park. Colin Stein scored four with further goals from Eddie Gray, Billy McNeill, Willie Henderson and a Tommy Gemmell penalty. Three weeks after their FA Cup final defeat, Leicester City were relegated from the First Division. Needing to beat Manchester United to overtake Coventry City, they lost three-two in Sir Matt Busby's last match as United's manager. It was particularly bad news for Allan Clarke who, for the second season running, spent a year as the top scorer (twelve) for team that ended up relegated. Fortunately, his next move to Leeds United, turned out somewhat more successful for all concerned. Liverpool's one-all draw with Newcastle United left them in runners-up, six points behind Leeds, who finished the season with just two defeats and unbeaten in their last twenty eight games since October. For the sixth (and final) time Jimmy Greaves of Spurs finished as the league's top scorer with twenty seven goals. Due to the one-city-one-club rule, Liverpool were joined in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by fourth-placed Arsenal, seventh-placed Southampton and ninth-placed Newcastle. Manchester United's final season under the management of Busby before his retirement ended in an eleventh-place finish, their worst in seven years. Their cross-city rivals finished thirteenth a year after being champions, but had an FA Cup triumph as compensation. Derby County were impressive runaway winners of the Second Division and were joined in promotion by Crystal Palace for the first time (as recently as 1961 they had been a Fourth Division side). Despite still boasting the talents of player-manager Johnny Haynes and World Cup winner George Cohen, Fulham finished rock bottom and were relegated. John Toshack of Cardiff City was the division's leading scorer, with twenty two. Watford won the Third Division title on goal average from Swindon Town. At the bottom, Northampton Town, Hartlepool, Crewe Alexandra and Oldham Athletic were all relegated. Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary'/'Born On The Bayou' released. Peter Wildeblood's Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Graham Hill won the Monaco Grand Prix. St Kilda The Lonely Island broadcast on BBC2. Apollo 10 - piloted by Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young - launched. Stafford and Cernan orbited the Moon in the Lunar Module four days later. Imogen Holly Aird born in Aldershot. The Department S episopde The Man From X broadcast on LWT.
The Making Of Peregrine broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Mars Target Two broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Prisoners Of Conscience: No To The Army broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Virginia Wade featured on Desert Island Discs. David's 'Light Of Your Mind'/'Please Mister Policeman' released. The World In Action episode The Leftovers broadcast.
Peter Batty's Battle For Cassino broadcast. The Stiffkey Scandal Of 1932 broadcast on BBC2. A force of eighteen hundred US and South Vietnamese troops captured Hamburger Hill on their twelfth attempt. With more than fifty Americans killed and four hundred and ten wounded in a fight for a hill which Major General Zais acknowledged 'has no tactical significance",' the White House soon came under heavy criticism from Congress. However Lieutenant Colonel Weldon Honeycutt, commander of the battalion explained that the hill 'needed to be taken' as it 'overlooks a good deal of the A Shau Valley, which was a major supply and staging area for the North Vietnamese.' National Guard helicopters sprayed 'skin-stinging powder' on anti-war protesters in California. The majority of whom, being lice-ridden hippies, probably didn't even notice. The first episode of Fraud Squad - Turbot On Ice - broadcast on Thames. The Kult's 'No Home Today'/'Mister Number One' released.
Jimmy Scott and Jackie Sinclair scored as Newcastle United beat Glasgow Rangers in the Semi-Final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup amid a full-scale riot at St James' Park with kids getting fisted and all sorts. The final Avengers episode - Bizarre - and the first episode of The Tingaree Affair broadcast on Thames.
Charlotte and Denis Plimmer's ... And Was Invited To Form A Government broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Sportsnight With Coleman: The Final Of The Football Commentators' Competition broadcast. Terence Fisher's Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - starring Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward and Veronica Carlson - premiered.
The first episode of The Very Merry Widow & How broadcast. Jean Renoir's Elena Et Les Hommes shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. England cricketer Colin Milburn was involved in a car crash which resulted in him losing the sight in one eye and effectively ending his career. The Who's Tommy, Tommy McCook's 'The Saint'/Soul Ofrous' 'Ease Me Up Officer', John Cameron Quartet's 'Troublemaker'/'Off Centre', Hopscotch's 'Long Black Veil'/'Easy To Find', Heavy Jelly's 'Time Out (The Long Wait)'/'Chewn In', Bobby Bennett's 'Big New York'/'Baby, Try Me', Johnny Nash's '(I'm So) Glad You're My Baby'/'Stormy', Bob & Earl's 'Dancin' Everywhere'/'Baby It's Over', The Anglos' 'Incense'/'You're Fooling Me', The Flamingos' 'The Boogaloo Party'/'The Nearness Of You' and Thunderclap Newman's 'Something In The Air'/'Wilhelmina' released. A US Air Force mechanic stole a C-130 Hercules from the RAF Mildenhall and flew the cargo plane past the Isle of Wight in an apparent attempt to return to the United States. Sergeant Paul Meyer, a decorated Viet'nam veteran, requested that the Air Force set up a telephone link to his wife in Virginia. After a two-hour flight, Meyer told his wife that he was having trouble with the automatic pilot and the aircraft was, thereafter, presumed lost at sea. The wreckage would be discovered days later in the English Channel and in June, investigators advanced the theory than Meyer's aberrant behaviour may have been the result of a chemical interaction between antidepressant drugs which had been prescribed, in combination with whiskey and amines within cheddar cheese, which he had been seen to consume at a party a few hours before stealing the plane.
The first UK broadcast of Thirty Three & A Third Revolutions Per Monkee on BBC2. The Norwegian stuntman Johann Tharaldsen was killed in the filming of the West German action movie Cardillac while standing in for the actor Gunter Sachs in a skiing scene. Letter To An Unknown Friend broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Peter Wildeblood's Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Historical reconstructionist Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of six departed on the papyrus reed Ra I from Safi in Morocco in an attempt to prove his theory that the Pharaoh's navy had the skill to sail to Mexico and introduce their culture to the natives. Man On The Move broadcast in BBC2's Bird's Eye View strand. John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy - starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman and with an award-winning John Barry score - premiered. The Department S episode Death On Reflection broadcats on LWT.
Apollo 10 returned to Earth, after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing. The Mothers Of Invention performed 'King Kong' on BBC2's Late Night Line-Up. The first episode of Myself A Mandarin broadcast on Radio 4. AC Mila won the European Cup, defeating Ajax Amstersam four-one in the Final in Madrid. Pierino Prati scored three for the Italians.
Melvin Bragg's interviw with The Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, broadcast. The Lost Continent broadcast on BBC2's Around The World strand.
AC Milan beat Ajax Amsterdam four-one in the European Cup final in Madrid, Pierino Prati scoring a hat-trick. Hogg's Honour broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. On Radio 1's Night Ride, John Peel admitted that he had once suffered from VD in the course of an interview with Tony Van Den Bergh of Radio 4, who was due to present a programme aimed at reducing the stigma associated with the subject. Peel's account of the behaviour of visitors to the VD clinic that he attended was both wry and amusing, but it led to calls for his sacking from some voices - with a sick agenda smeared all over their disgusting faces - in the popular press. Calls which were, thankfully, ignored by the BBC. Nevertheless, when John appeared as a defence witness during the Oz obscenity trial in 1971, this broadcast was used by the prosecution to attack his 'morals.' Richard C Sarafian's Run Wild, Run Free - starring John Mills and Mark Lester - and Sidney Hayers' The Southern Star - starring George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry and Johnny Sekka - premiered.
Bob Moncur scored twice as Newcastle United beat Ujpest Dózsa three-nil at St James' Park in the first leg of the Inter Cities Fairs Cup Final. Jimmy Scott scored the third. A Borderline Case broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The eponymous debut LP by Crosby, Still & Nash released. Carry On Camping - starring Sid James, Kennethn Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Terry Scott, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Dilys Lane, Betty Marsden and Valerie Leon - premiered, subsequently becoming the year's most popular film at the UK box office.
Presenting ... Frank Gorshin broadcast. Roar Of The Crowd: 'Enery, OBE broadcast on BBC2. The Beatles 'The Ballad Of John & Yoko'/'Old Brown Shoe', The Bee Gees' 'Tomorrow, Tomorrow'/'Sun In My Morning', Procol Harum's 'A Salty Dog'/'Long Gone Geek', Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions' The Young Mod's Forgotten Story, Together's 'Memories Of Melinda'/'Good Morning World', Blinkers' 'Original Sin'/'Dreams Secondhand', Gordon Lightfoot's 'Bitter Green'/'May I?', Clancy Eccles' 'Fattie Fattie'/Silver Stars' 'Last Call', The Soul Sisters' 'Wreck A Buddy'/'Push It In', Peter Sarstedt's 'Frozen Orange Juice'/'Aretusa Loser', Peter Nero's 'Soulful Strut'/'For Once In My Life', Three Dog Night's 'One'/'Chest Fever' and Sly & The Family Stone's 'I Want To Take You Higher'/'Stand!' released. Riots in Curaçao marked the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island in the Netherlands Antilles. About five thousand oil refinery workers went on strike and then began setting fires and looting stores in Willemstad. Vacationing friends Susan Margarite Davis and Elizabeth Perry, both aged nineteen, were stabbed to death and their car was found abandoned beside the Garden State Parkway outside Somers Point, New Jersey. Their corpses - one nude, one fully clothed - were discovered in nearby woods three days later. The serial killer Ted Bundy attended Temple University from January to May 1969 and, according to witnesses, did not move West until after the Memorial Day weekend. While Bundy's accounts of his earliest crimes varied considerably between interviews, he later told the forensic psychologist Art Norman that his first murder victims were 'two women in the Philadelphia area.' Biographer Richard Larsen believed that Bundy committed the murders using his subsequently infamous feigned-injury ruse, based on an investigator's interview with Bundy's aunt, Julia. Bundy, she claimed, was wearing a leg cast due to an automobile accident on the weekend of the double homicides and therefore could not have travelled from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore; there is, however, no official record of any such accident having taken place.
The first episode of Show Of The North broadcast. Fellini's Satyricon was profiled on BBC2's Release. An Arm For England broadcast on Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Poetry Marathon broadcast on Radio 3. Peter Wildeblood's Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image broarcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
The Conquest Of Everest broadcast in BBC2's Around The World strand. Carve Her Nam With Pride shown in The Great Stars strand. Sam Wanamaker's The File Of The Golden Goose - starring Yul Brynner, Charles Gray and Edward Woodward - premiered. England played a goalless draw with Mexico in a friendly international in Mexico City. Larry Poons was interviewed on Radio 3's Ten American Artists.
The first episode of BBC2's Gone Tomorrowbroadcast. The first episode of The Story Of King Arthur broadcast. Lady Antonia Fraser featured on Desert Island Discs.
The Revolution Will Not Now Take Place broadcast. The first episode of W Somerset Maugham broadcast on BBC2.
Th MCC's game against the touring West Indies at Lord's ended in a low-scoring (and, not particularly interesting) draw. Assignment Vietnam broadcast on BBC2. Johnny Cash At San Quentin released. The seventy ninth and last original episode of Star Trek, Turnabout Intruder, was broadcast on NBC, ironically just a few wkees before the series UK debut. The episode had originally been scheduled for 28 March but was postponed due to news coverage of the death of former President Eisenhower. Never particularly a ratings hit during its three years on NBC, Star Trek would, nevertheless, attain far greater popularity in syndication and via overseas sales. The Empty Sleeve broadcast in Radio 4's Story Time strand.
Blakeney won The Derby at Epsom. An Everyday Story Of Country Folk broadcst in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Julie Ann Gardner born in Neath.
Song For Wales broadcast. Anthony Wedgwood Benn's Machines & People broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. In the first authenticated case of falling space debris causing damage on Earth, the Japanese freighter ship Dai Chi Chinei was heavily damaged by wreckage from a Soviet spacecraft which had re-entered Earth's atmosphere while the freighter was traversing the Strait of Tartary between the island of Sakhalin and mainland Siberia. Peter Collinson's classic The Italian Job - starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley and Maggie Blye - premiered. Not a particularly big box-office hit at the time, it's reputation has grown spectacularly over subsequent decades.
The Web and The Clementis featured on The Basil Brush Show. Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Monkees' 'Someday Man'/'Listen To The Band', The Edgar Broughton Band's 'Evil'/'Death Of An Electric Citizen', Just Plain Smith's 'February's Child'/'Don't Open Your Mind', The Alan Bown!'s 'Still As Stone'/'Wrong Idea',The Bliss' 'Castles On Castile'/'Lifetime', Scott Walker's 'Lights Of Cincinnati'/'Two Weeks Since You've Gone', Brainbox's 'Down Man'/'Woman's Gone', Storm's 'Let's Go Dancing'/'Ain't Too Proud To Beg', Gentle Influence's 'Always Be A Part Of My Living'/'Captain Reale', JJ Jackson's 'But It's Alright'/'Ain't Too Proud To Beg', Bob & Earl's 'Everybody Jerk'/'He's A Playbrother', Elvis Presley's 'In The Ghetto'/'Any Day Now', Mark Wirtz's 'My Daddie Is A Baddie'/'I Love You Because', David Essex's 'That Takes Me Back'/'Lost Without Linda', The Shepperton Flames' 'Take Me For What I Am'/'Goodbye', Tina Charles' 'In The Middle Of The Day'/'Rich Girl', The Gladiators' 'Waiting On The Shores Of Nowhere'/'I'll Always Love You', The Parliaments' '(I Wanna) Testify'/'I Can Feel The Ice Melting' and The Jeff Beck Group's Beck-Ola released. The United States Court of Appeals voided the so-called 'Hershey Directive' which had been sent to American draft boards by General Lewis Hershey, the director of the Selective Service System. In a letter, sent on 24 October 1967, Hershey had suggested that local draft boards reclassify the status of any 'anti-government protesters' who had a deferment, with an upgrade to 1-A permitting immediate induction into the selective service. The court wrote that the Hershey letter was 'a declaration of war against anti-war protesters' which had 'no basis in the law' but that was made 'full-grown from the head of General Hershey without benefit of reference of any provision of the draft law.' The first episode of The Gold Robbers - The Great Bullion Robbery - broadcast on LWT.
Spike Milligan appeared on Whatever Next? Marty Feldman's No, But Seriously ... broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. The much-anticipated debut of Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood's 'supergroup' Blind Faith took place in front of one hundred thousand stoned, lice-ridden hippies in London's Hyde Park. Christ, it was horrible! Dutch amateur Fedor Den Hertog won the Tour of Britain Milk Race taking the final stage in Blackpool. Peter Wildeblood's Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full Of Miracles broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on LWT.
Saint Joan broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. John Ormond's A Bronze Mask broadcast on BBC2. England beat Uruguay two-one in a friendly international in Montevideo. Francis Lee and Geoff Hurst were on-target for the visitors. Richie Havens, The Nice and Roy Harper featured on Top Gear. Nigel Rees raised the problem of censorship with John Trevelyan, Derek Hill and Graham Harris on Radio 2's Movie-Go-Round. The Department S episode The Perfect Operation broadcast on LWT.
Michael Aspel interviewed Rita Tushingham on The Movies. The World Of Val Doonican released. Spain closed its border with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The Freewheelers episode Rammed! broadcast on Thames.
The Northern Lights broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's The Miracle Of Bali broadcast. Work on the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the US Air Force's planned military space station, was halted as part of a massive cut of the defence budget. Ever since the first announcement of the planned MOL in 1963 (which would have featured two USAF astronauts working for thirty days at a time 'to inspect and, if necessary, destroy hostile satellites'), over one billion dollars had been spent on the project and another one-and-a-half billion was projected until completion in 1974, which was already two years behind schedule and fifty per cent more expensive than originally projected.
Having been described by their chairman, Bill Westwood, as 'daft enough to win it' when they qualified for the competition effectively through the back-door, Newcastle United only went and did win the Inter Cities Fairs Cup against crack Hungarian side Újpest Dózsa six-two on aggregate. Bob Moncur, Benny Arentoft and Alan Foggan scored second-half goals after Újpest had been two up at half-time. The first episode of Wink To Me Only broadcast. James Gilbert and Jimmy Grafton's adaptation of Pickwick - starring Harry Secombe - broadcast on BBC2. The release of unexpected record export figures meant a slash in the trade gap, welcome news for the government particularly as Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle were locked in talks with TUC General Secretary Vic Feather over clauses in the Industrial Relations Bill. Gordon Hessler's The Oblong Box - starring Vincent Price - premiered. Two West Bromwich women, Florence Bright and Gladys Pinnock, started work as labourers on a section of the M6. Kidderminster magistrates sent a sixteen year old girl - who was reportedly 'infatuated' with an older man - to an approved school after she refused to stop seeing him. Student Roger Darvey was awarded a three thousand knicker grant for a three year philosophy degree concerned 'the growth of football into an industry.' Anthony Crossland, the Social Services Minister announced a top increase of seven shillings and seven pence in National Insurance Contributions to 'protect the low paid.' A heated parliamentary debate saw Smethwick MP Andrew Faulds challenge Enoch Powell to make his immigration speech, which Faulds considered 'unchristian' and 'racialist', in the Commons where it could be debated. The Bishop of Stepney, Trevor Huddlestone, went further calling Powell's latest speech 'evil.' Peter Hayden Dinklage born in New Jersey.
The BBC used Booker T & The MG's 'Soul Limbo' as the theme music for their test cricket coverage of the first time to coincide with the beginning of the three test series against the West Indies. For the first time in history, part of Niagara Falls was 'turned off', as a cofferdam was put in place behind the American Falls portion of the waterfall. Horseshoe Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls continued to flow without interruption, but the American Falls were allowed to run dry. For the next five months, repairs were made to prevent erosion of the riverbed and tourists were allowed to walk across part of the area where the river had run its course. The dam would be removed on 25 November and all three portions of Niagara Falls have flowed continuously since. Henry Hathaway's True Grit - starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper - premiered. Brazil beat England two-one in a friendly international in the Maracanã. Colin Bell scored for the visitors whilst Tostão and Jairzinho were on-target for the hosts. Gordon Banks saved a Carlos Alberto penalty.
Don Haworth's Death Today broadcast. Claude Autant-Lara's Le Joueur shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Pink Floyd's More, Fred Trueman's 'Red Is Red'/'A Million Times A Day', The Moon Boys' 'Appolo 11'/'Love Love Everyday', Blood, Sweat & Tears's 'Spinning Wheel'/'More & More', Horace Faith's 'Spinning Wheel'/'Like I Used To Do', Gladston Adams' 'Dollars & Cents'/Tommy McCook's 'Pop Corn Reggae', Melodians' 'Everybody Bawlin'/Tommy McCook's 'Kilowatt', Hookfoot's 'The Way Of The Musician'/'Hookfoot', Pioneers' 'Who The Cap Fits'/'I'm Moving On', Pasha's 'Somebody Shot The Lollypop Man'/'Pussy Willow Dragon', Noel Harrison's 'Sparrow'/'California Weekend', John Sands' 'Kilimanjaro'/'Lil Oh Me', Johnnie Taylor's 'Testify (I Wonna)'/'I Had A Fight With Love' and Amen Corner's 'Hello Susie'/'Evil Man's Gonna Win' released. The 'Amen break', a six-second drum solo which would subsequently become 'the most sampled musical segment of all time,' was recorded. Drummer GC Coleman of The Winstons performed the four-bar beat eighty six seconds into the song 'Amen, Brother', which then became the B-side of The Winstons' single 'Colour Him Father'. For fifteen years, 'Amen, Brother' would be almost forgotten until the mid-1980s, when sampling came into use when DJs in hip-hop clubs used Coleman's six-second 'snare-and-cymbal sequence' to make the transition between one song and the next.
The Strawbs appeared on BBC2's Colour Me Pop. The black horse Burmese, ridden by the Queen, made her first appearance at Trooping The Colour; she would continue in this role until 1986. Doctor Joseph Weber, a physicist at the University of Maryland, announced the first detection and measurement proving the existence of gravitational waves, confirming a theory which had been postulated by Albert Einstein in 1916 as part of his General Theory of Relativity. Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued broadcast in LWT's Saturday Night Theatre strand.
The First Across and BBC2's The Fragile Universe broadcast. Tony Bennett and The Count Basie Orchestra featured in Show Of The Week. The Department S episode The Duplicated Man broadcast on LWT.
Michael Aspel profiled Alfred Hitchcock on The Movies. When Venus Crosses The Sun broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Ask Any Old Soldier broadcast in BBC2's Gone Tomorrow strand. Captain Beefhart's Trout Mask Replica released.
England beat The West Indies by ten wickets in the first test at Old Trafford. Geoff Boycott scored a century in England's first innings of four hundred and thirteen. Tom Graveney scored seventy five in what proved to be his final test innings. In reply, the tourists were dismissed for one hundred and forty seven and asked to follow-on. David Brown's seven wickets in the match left England needing only twelve runs for victory. For the tourists, Maurice Foster, John Shepherd and Vanburn Holder made their test debuts. Simon Raven's adaptation of The Creative Impulse broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand.
Jazz Jubilee broadcast. Joe South was the guest on Bobbie Gentry. Sam Pekinpah's The Wild Bunch premiered. It's Never Too Late broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of The Main Chance - What About Justice? - broadcast on Thames.
Chief Executive: Lord Stokes Of Leyland broadcast. Make Me An Offer shown in BBC2's British Films Of The Fifties strand. Philip Saville's The Best House In London - starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell and John Bird – premiered. The first UK TV showing of Incident At Mightnight in Thames' Tales Of Edgar Wallace strand. Subsequently most of the forty seven films in the series would be broadcast under a variety of different strand titles including Edgar Wallace Presents and The Mysteries of Edgar Wallace.
The first episode of High Jinks - featuring Ray Alan, Tich and Quackers - broadcast. Game, Set & Cash broadcast in BBC2's Roar Of The Crowd strand. The Kinks' 'Drivin'/'Mindless Child Of Mothehood', Neil MacArthur's 'Don't Try To Explain'/'Without Her', Tin Tin's 'Only Ladies Play Croquet'/'He Wants To Be A Star', Spooky Tooth's 'Son Of Your Father'/'I've Got Enough Heartache', The Onyx's 'Tamaris Khan'/'So Sad Inside', Alan Price's 'The Trimdon Grange Explosion'/'Falling In Love Again', Cecil McCartney's 'Orange & Green'/'Cloudy', Vanity Fare's 'Early In The Morning'/'You Made Me Love You', The Running Jumping Standing Still Band's 'Aye-o'/'Why Be Blue?', The Casuals' 'Sunflower Eyes'/'Never My Love', The Laurels' 'Making It Groovy'/'Rainmaker', The Rainbow People's 'Living In A Dream World'/'Happy To See You Again' and The Beach Boys' 'Break Away'/'Celebrate The News' released. Queens Park Rangers signed Terry Venables from Tottenham Hotspur for seventy thousand quid.
Richard Cawston's documentary Royal Family broadcast; it was watched by an estimated audience of thirty million viewers. The final episode of The War Games, Patrick Troughton's last Doctor Who serial and the last episode of the popular long-running family SF drama to be made in black and white was broadcast. The Gilstone Treasure broadcast on BBC2. Ronnie Scott & His Band featured on Radio 1's Jazz Club. Nice. Les Dawson appeared on Radio 2's At The Straw Hat. A Shilling For Candles broadcast on Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Jackie Stewart won the Dutch Grand Prix at the Zandvoort Circuit. David Ambrose's The Innocent Ceremony broadcast in LWT's Satureday Night Theatre strand.
John Lloyd's A Green & Pleasant Land broadcast in BBC2's Bird's Eye View strand. Judy Garland was found dead from a drug overdose in her London home on Cadogan Lane, three days after she had returned from New York with her fifth husband, Mickey Deans. Jethro Tull, Chicken Shack and John Fahey featured on Top Gear. Maud & After broadcast on Radio 3. The Department S episode The Mysterious Man In The Flying Machine broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of BBC2's World In Ferment broadcast. Warren E Burger was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the United States. Ugo Betti's Crime On Goat Island broadcast on Radio 4. Ken Annakin's Monte Carlo Or Bust - starring Tony Curtis, Susan Hampshire and Terry-Thomas - premiered. Champions Leeds United signed Allan Clarke from Leicester City for one hundred and sixty five thousand quid. In doing so, he became the first player to be involved in three trasnfers over the hundred grand mark.
BBC2's The Savage Heart broadcast. Hypnosis & Mind broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Leeds United broke the British transfer record, signing Allan Clarke from Leicester City for one hundred and sixty five thousand pounds. After a referendum in Rhodesia voted in favour of becoming a Republic, the Governor of Southern Rhodesia Sir Humphrey Gibbs left Government House, severing the last diplomatic relationship with the UK. A state of emergency was declared in the Netherlands and in three of West Germany's states for all communities fronting a two hundred miles stretch of the Rhine River. The declaration came after the discovery that millions of fish in the Rhine had been killed by an unidentified poison. The emergency was lifted three days later after water samples showed that the river's toxicity had reached 'acceptable levels.' The German government announced that the poisoning had been traced to the dumping of insecticide from an industrial barge as it passed the village of Geisenheim. Leeds United broke the British tranfer record, signing Allan Clarke from recently-relgated Leicester City for one hundred and sixty five thousand quid.
The Ancient Kingdoms broadcast. Billy Preston appeared on BBC2's Bobbie Gentry performing his single 'That's The Way God Planned It'/'What About You?' J Lee Thompson's The Chairman - starring Gregory Peck and Anne Heywood - premiered. Consortium's 'Beggar Man'/'Cynthia Serenity' and Tyrannosaurus Rex's 'King Of The Rumbling Spires'/'Do You Remember?' released. West Bromwich Albion signed Colin Suggett from Sunderland for one hundred trhousand knicker.
Investiture Of HRH The Prince Of Wales: The Interview broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Wojeck. Forty one-year-old Pancho Gonzalez beat Charlie Pasarell in a first-round men's singles match at Wimbeldon by a score of twenty two–twenty four, one-six, sixteen-fourteen, six-three, eleven-nine. At one hundred and twelve games and five hours twenty minutes it was, by far, the longest tennis match to date (it would be forty one years before the record was broken). The match led to the introduction of the tie-break in open competitions.
Le Caporal Epingle shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's memorably naughty 'Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus'/'Jane B', The Originals' 'Green Grow The Lilacs'/'You're The One', The Scaffold's 'Charity Bubbles'/'Goose', Andromeda's 'Go Your Way'/'Keep Out 'Cos I'm Dying', Andwellas Dream's 'Sunday'/'Midday Sun', Aphrodite's Child's 'I Want To Live'/'Magic Mirror', Quincy Jones's 'Theme From Mackenna's Gold (Ole Turkey Buzzard)'/'Soul Full Of Gold', Anthony Newley's 'I'm All I Need'/'When You Gotta Go', Robin Gibb's 'Saved By The Bell'/'Mother & Jack', Village's 'Man In The Moon'/'Long Time Coming', John Holt's 'Alibaba'/'I'm Your Man', The Royals' 'Pick Out Me Eye'/'Think You Too Bad', Ethiopians' 'Woman Capture Man'/'One', Genesis's 'Where The Sour Turns To Sweet'/'In Hiding', Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group's 'Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)'/'Bed With Me', Jimmy McGriff's 'The Worm'/'What's That?', The Sweet Inspirations' 'Sweets For My Sweet'/'Get A Little Order', Major Lance's 'Follow The Leader'/'Since You've Been Gone', The Fantastic's 'Face To Face With Heartache'/'This Must Be My Rainy Day', The Emotions' 'So I Can Love You'/'Got To Be The Man' and Cilla Black's 'Conversations'/'Liverpool Lullaby' released. Debutant Jack Hampshire scored one hundred and seven and shared century partnerships with Alan Knott and Ray Illingworth as England recovered from sixty one for five to score over three hundred in the second test against The West Indies at Lord's. In one of the most contentious qualifying matches in football history, El Salvador defeated Honduras, three-two in extra-time, at a neutral site in Mexico City. The win advanced El Salvador to the four team semi-final round to determine the CONCACAF representative in the 1970 World Cup. Violence in El Salvador and Honduras against each other's citizens had escalated after earlier games between the nations. The armies of both nations mobilised along the border that they shared in Central America. On 14 July, tensions would escalate into what would later be known as 'The Soccer War' in America (and, 'The Football War' everywhere else) with the Salvadoran Air Force bombing Honduran targets. Convicted murderer Winnie Ruth Judd, known as 'The Tiger Woman' for the gruesome 1931 killing of two friends, was arrested after almost seven years as a fugitive. Judd, now sixty four years old, had been working as a housekeeper under the alias Marion Lane. Originally sentenced to hang, Judd was determined after her conviction to be insane and was transferred to the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix. Judd escaped several times, the last instance being in October 1962. She would be released two years later.
The first UK TV showing of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Clough Williams-Ellis's Portmeirion broadcast in BBC2's Bird's Eye View strand. The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York when an angry crowd of bystanders began throwing bottles and rocks at NYPD patrolmen who were carrying out a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village. The Queen & The Welshman by Rosemary Anne Sisson broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Gertrude Stein's Gertrude Stein broadcast on Radio 3. Ian Curteis' The Haunting broadcast in LWT's Saturday Night Theatre strand.
David Lytton's The Princes Of Wales documentary profile broadcast. The Kinks and The Fifth Dimension featured on BBC2's Once More With Felix. Led Zeppelin's first Radio 1 session ('What Is & What Should Never Be', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Travelling Riverside Blues' and 'Communication Breakdown') broadcast on Top Gear. Andwellas Dream's 'Sunday'/'Midday Sun' released.
Riding Out The Stormbroadcast in BBC2's Gone Tomorrow strand. Kennth Moore appeared on Desert Island Discs. Two members of the Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (the Movement for the Defence of Wales) were killed whilst placing a bomb outside government offices in Abergele.
The Investiture of the Prince Of Wales broadcast from Caernarvon Castle. The second test between England and The West Indies ended in a draw. Set three hundred and twenty two to win in five hours, England made too slow a start, so that when Phil Sharpe (eighty six) and Geoff Boycott (one hundred and six) accelerated with a partnership of one hundred and twenty six in ninety minutes, they had too little time to complete the task, ending on two hundred and ninety five for seven. John Lennon, Yoko Ono and their children were hospitalised at Golspie in Scotland following a car accident whilst on holiday. Richard Lester's adaptation of The Bed Sitting Room - starring Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Marty Feldman, Arthur Lowe, Michael Hordern, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Roy Kinnear - premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Charles Manson shot and injured drug dealer Bernard Crowe in Los Angeles following an abortive drug deal. Believing that Crowe was a member of the Black Panthers, Manson arranges for protection for himself and The Family at Spahn Ranch from the Straight Satans motorcycle gang.
The Ireland cricket team scored a huge upset against the touring West Indies side, dismissing them for twenty five in a one day match at Sion Mills. Alec O'Riorden and Doug Goodwin took nine wickets between them. Alan Price was the guest on Bobbie Gentry. Peter Hall's Three Into Two Won't Go - starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson - premiered.
Lulu the elephant 'ran amok', trod on John Noakes' foot, shat all over the studio floor and, generally, caused chaos on Blue Peter. It was quite a sight. Two weeks after the announcement that he had left The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones was found dead in his swimming pool at Cotchford Farm in Sussex. Fairport Convention's Unhalfbricking and Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left released. Swansea was granted city status. The Soviet Union's race to land a man on the Moon, already far behind the Apollo programme, ended with the explosion after launch of its N1 rocket. Although the N1 was capable of carrying the mass of a large payload (a Zond orbiting vehicle, a lunar lander and at least one cosmonauts) out of Earth orbit, the Soviets had yet to accomplish what the US had done with Apollo 8, putting men into orbit around the Moon. Although US intelligence officials suspected that the launch had been a failure after noting that a mission had not taken place as expected, the extent of the failure would not be clear until six weeks later, when an analyst with the National Photographic Interpretation Centre saw the damage from the explosion on film from an American spy satellite. A press release from the University of California, announced the existence of what would eventually become the Internet. The first episode of Join Jim Dale broadcast on Thames.
Alistair Cooke's Cinema broadcast. The first episode of Fanny Craddock's Giving A Dinner Party focused on 'Puff Pastry Canapes'. The Rolling Stones' 'Honky Tonk Women'/'You Can't Always Get What You Want', The Equals' 'Viva Bobby Joe'/'I Can't Let You Go', Arzachel's eponymous debut, Yes's 'Sweetness'/'Something's Coming', Spectrum's 'Free'/'The Tale Of Wally Toft', The Misunderstood Featuring Glenn Fernando Campbell's 'Never Had A Girl (Like You Before)'/'Golden Glass', Lou Reizner's 'On Days Like These'/'Get A Bloomin' Move On!', Mama Cass's 'It's Getting Better'/'Who's To Blame', Junior's Eyes' Battersea Power Station, Astronaut Alan & The Planets' 'Fickle Lizzie Anne'/'Cellophane Mary-Jane', The Love Affair's 'Bringing On Back The Good Times'/'Another Day', Tony King & The Hippy Boys' 'Proud Mary'/'My Devotion', The Hippy Boys' 'Love'/'The Whole Family Is Here', Darrell Banks's 'Just Because Your Love Is Gone'/'I'm The One Who Loves You', Vanilla Fudge's 'Some Velvet Morning'/'Thoughts', Bobby Patterson's 'TCB Or TYA'/'What A Wonderful Night For Love', The Virgil Brothers' 'Temptation 'Bout To Get Me'/'Look Away' and The Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace A Chance'/'Remember Love' released. Michael Mageau became the first person to survive a murder attempt by a man who would become known as The Zodiac Killer and the first to provide a description to the police. Mageau and Darlene Ferrin were shot while sitting in Ferrin's car parked at a municipal park in Vallejo, California. Ferrin died at the hospital. On 1 August, the Vallejo Times Herald and two San Francisco newspapers received letters from a man who claimed responsibility for Ferrin's murder and for the December 1968 murder of two high school students in Benicia, along with a cryptogram. Michael Armstrong's The Haunted House Of Horror - starring Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth and Dennis Price - premiered.
The first episode of BBC2's Great Zoos Of The World broadcast. Stephen Boyd: Portrait Of An International Star and the first episodes of Ned Sherrin's Quiz Of The Week and The Roy Castle Show broadcast. The Rolling Stones played a - really not very good - free concert in Hyde Park to half-a-million stoned hippies and lots of dead butterflies. It as their first live performance with Brian Jones's replacement, Mick Taylor. Mick Jagger prefaced The Stones' performance reading a quotation from Percy Bysse Shelley's poem Adonais, a elegy to another artist who had died young, John Keats, in memory of Jones. Robert's Wife broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Ann Jones became the first British Wimbledon champion since 1961, beating Billie Jean King in three sets. Rod Laver defeated fellow Australian John Newcombe in four sets in the men's singles final. A Measure Of Malice broadcast in LWT's Saturday Night Theatre strand.
Girls In Uniform broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Woodwind Masters and Marc Chagall broadcast on BBC2.
The Mini Years broadcast. The Gentle Drama broadcast in BBC2's Gone Tomorrow strand.
Roger Mills's In Case Of Fire and the first episode of BBC2's DH Lawrence Remembered broadcast. American nerve gas weapons were accidentally released from their containers by US Air Force members at the Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The mishap, which injured twenty three troops and a civilian, involved either VX or Sarin. Henry Kissinger would later blame the incident on an unidentified Air Force major 'whose aesthetic sense exceeded his judgment', who had ordered the troops 'to have the canisters painted white' and that some of the drums were punctured during the sandblasting which preceded the painting. Despite attempts by the military to keep the incident secret, the Wall Street Journal exposed the story. The first episode of On The Rocks and Robert Kee's Rebellion broadcast on Thames.
Noel Harrison appeared on Bobbie Gentry. The GPO Personality Girl Of 1969 broadcast.
The first episode of Girls Leaving School broadcast in the At A Time Like This strand. Donald Crowhurst's sailing trimaran Teignmouth Electron was found drifting and unoccupied in mid-Atlantic; it was presumed that Crowhurst had committed suicide (or fell overboard) at sea earlier in the month having falsified his progress in the solo Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Carlos Saura's La Madriguera - starring Geraldine Chaplin, Per Oscarsson, Teresa Del Río and Julia Peña - premiered. Aston Villa signed Luton Town's Bruce Rioach for one hundred grand (the largest fee paid for a player at a Third Division club at that time).
The first episode of Don't Ask Us - We're New Here broadcast. An Evening With Alistair Cooke broadcast on BBC2. David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'/'Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud', Darrell Mark's 'The Escalator'/'Sitting Around In The Noon-Day Sun', Fleetwood Mac's 'Need Your Love So Bad'/'No Place To Go', The Aerovons' 'The Train'/'A Song For Jane', Fairport Convention's 'Si Tu Dois Partir (If You've Gotta Go, Go Now)'/'Genesis Hall', Plastic Penny's 'She Does'/'Genevieve', Ralph McTell's 'Summer Come Along'/'Girl On A Bicycle', The Explosive's '(Who Planted Thorns In) Miss Alice's Garden'/'I Get My Kicks From Living', Kenny Rogers & The First Edition's 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town'/'Girl Get Ahold Of Yourself', The Hippy Boys' 'Michael Row The Boat Ashore'/'Who Is Coming To Dinner?', Owen Gray's 'Too Experienced'/'I Really Love You Baby', Glass Menagerie's 'Do My Thing Myself'/'Watching The World Pass By', Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'No Matter What Sign You Are'/'The Young Folks', Matt Monro's 'On Days Like These'/'On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)', Jackie Wilson's 'Since You Showed Me How To Be Happy'/'Chain Gang', Jasmin-T's 'Some Other Guy'/'Evening' and The Edgar Broughton Band's Wasa Wasa released.
The first UK broadcast of Star Trek in the Saturday tea-time Doctor Who slot. The series did not follow the US production order (although unlike on NBC, the Where No Man Has Gone Before pilot was the first episode to be shown) and the BBC edited the majority of episodes for violent content and/or timing reasons. The series was shown in four batches across the next four years - with three exceptions (see 2 December 1970) and was then repeated at regular intervals until the early 1990s when the BBC finally ordered a fresh set of prints from America and rebroadcast all seventy nine episodes, in order and unedited. Tony Jacklin - in his garish purple jumper - became the first Englishman to win the British Open in eighteen years. Nobody Ever Asks Why broadcast in BBC2's Cameron Country strand. The IPC, reportedly, would back a bid by Robert Maxwell to buy the Sun. Stone-throwing youths fought running battles with police on the streets of Londonderry. Don Haworht's A Time In Cloud Cuckoo Land broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of Doctor In The House and Nigel Balchin's Better Dead broadcast on LWT.
Peter Cushing presented Star Choice, the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes episode Shoscombe Old Place. Graham Greene: The Hunted Man broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Burning Fiery Furnace, Quest For Gandhi and Show Of The Week: The Young Generation Meet Esther Ofarim broadcast on BBC2. Blodwyn Pigg and Steamhammer featured on Top Gear. Marianne Faithful regained consciousness after her suicide attempt in Sydney where her fiancé, Mick Jagger, was filming Ned Kelly. The Soviet Union launched an unmanned moon probe, Luna 15, three days before NASA's forthcoming Apollo 11. One man was killed and two were described as 'gravely ill' after the annual 'running of the bulls' in Pamplona.
Alex Glasgow told the story of 'The Lampton Worm' on Jackanory. The Needles Of Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Winners broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand. Vincent Price featured on Desert Island Discs. Bombers, tanks and - heavily tooled up - troops from El Salvador staged a surprise attack on neighbouring Honduras as The Football War kicked-off, big-style. The Honduras government said that troops crossed into the Honduran border town of Amatillo in the South and El Poy in the West and that bombs had been dropped on the cities of Nueva Ocotepeque, Santa Rosa de Copán, Gracias and Choluteca. Before a ceasefire could be negotiated on 18 July, the war would leave four thousand dead. Clarence, the lion who had appeared in the popular television show Daktari died aged seven in Peoria, Illinois where he had been scheduled to appear at the Heart of Illinois Fair. Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider and Clive Donner's Alfred The Great - starring David Hemmings, Michael York, Colin Blakely, Ian McKellen, Peter Vaughan and Julian Glover - premiered. The first episode of World In Action - On Site and Justice Is A Woman broadcast in the Playhouse strand on Thames.
England won the third test against the West Indies at Headingley by thirty runs. James Burke's Apollo 11 - Target Moon broadcast.
Apollo 11 - piloted by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins - launched. James Taylor was the guest on BBC2's Bobbie Gentry.
The New York Times published one of the most famous retractions in history in an editorial titled A Correction. Noting that 'On 13 January 1920, "Topics of The Times" commented on the ideas of Robert H Goddard, the rocket pioneer,' when the Times said that 'Professor Goddard does not know of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react, he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.' Writing on the day after the launch of Apollo 11, the Times commented that 'it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.' Goddard had died in 1945. The first episode of The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm broadcast on Thames.
The pilot episode of The Liver Birds, first broadcast in April, was repeated as the opening of a four-part series. Edward Kennedy drove his car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick Island, killing campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne. The Doors' The Soft Parade, The Orange Bicycle's 'Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You'/'Last Cloud Home', Mighty Joe Young's 'Why Don't You Follow Me?'/'By My Side', Wallace Collection's 'Fly Me To The Earth'/'Love', Principal Edwards Magic Theatre's 'Ballad (Of The Big Girl Now & A Mere Boy)'/'Lament For The Earth', Bridget St John's 'To B Without A Hitch'/'Autumn Lullaby', Oliver's 'Good Morning Starshine'/'Can't You See?', Marvin Gaye's 'Too Busy Thinking About My Baby'/'Wherever I Lay My Hat', Windmill's 'Big Bertha'/'Hey, Drummer Man', Helen Shapiro's 'You've Guessed'/'Take Me For A While', The Button-Down Brass' 'On Days Like These'/'Marzipan', Jerry Butler's 'Moody Woman'/'Go Away - Find Yourself', Anita Kerr's 'On Days Like These'/'Happy Cat', The Move's 'Curly'/'This Time Tomorrow' and The Carrolls' 'We're In This Thing Together'/'We Know Better' released. El Salvador and Honduras agreed to a ceasefire to halt The Football War after one hundred hours of - really bloody - fighting. President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, submitted a memo to White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, titled 'In Event of Moon Disaster.' The memo outlined recommendations, including a draft of prepared remarks for the President to deliver to the nation, if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were unable to get the lunar module off the Moon. The existence of the memo, drafted at Haldeman's request on the advice of former astronaut Frank Borman, would not be revealed for nearly thirty years. The first episode of Jokers Wild broadcast on LWT.
Your Witness: That Going To The Moon & The Planets Is Not In Man's Best Interests broadcast, proposed by John Mortimer and opposed by Quentin Hogg. Twenty five years before Time Team, BBC2's Chronicle broadcast live archaeology from 'The Big Dig' at Silbury, presented by Magnus Magnusson. Lonely Beat broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Jackie Stewart won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, ahead of Jacky Icyx and Bruc McLaren. Arnold Hinchcliffe's Every Day Of The Life, Man broadcast on LWT's Saturday Night Theatre strand.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. On ITV, David Frost's Moon Party, mixed reportage with Sunday night variety show via 'special studio guests Englebert Humperdinck, Cliff Richard, Cilla Black and Lulu.' Michael Palin wrote 'the extraordinary thing about the evening was that, until 3:56 am ... we had seen no space pictures at all and yet ITV somehow contrived to fill ten hours with a programme devoted to the landing.' Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury reportedly found the whole thing 'frivolous' and walked out of the studio before he was interviewed. So What If It's Just Green Cheese? broadcast in the Omnibus strand, featuring contributons from Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Michael Hordern, Dudley Moore and The Pink Floyd (playing a new composition, 'Moonhead'). The BBC continued broadcasting overnight to provide coverage of Armstrong's first steps on the surface which took place at just before 4am GMT on the morning of 21 July. Television coverage to Europe was transmitted via Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall. BBC2's Show Of The Week featured Lulu live at Berns Restaurant in Stockholm (though, quite how she could be there and in LWT's studios on David Frost's Moon Party has never been properly explained. Though, conspiracy theories abound. Killing Floor and The Liverpool Scene featured on Top Gear. In Johannesburg claims that a fifty eight year old woman had given birth were revealed to be a hoax. Typists in the Department of Economic Affairs, the offices of which were suffering form infestation by mice, had pleaded with officials to 'bring back the cats'. Eddy Merckx won his first Tour De France in Paris. A survey among school children published in The Times revealed that television was more popular than 'courting.'
Having planted a flag, took some soil samples, had a brief chat with the President and strolled about for a couple of hours, Neil and Buzz got back into the lunar lander and left 'Tranquillity Base'. They said they'd had a nice time. Peter Pears appeared on Desert Island Discs.
The Flight Deck Storybroadcast. In Search Of The British Gentleman broadcast in BBC2's Through Other Eyes strand.
The first episode of Pot Black broadcast on BBC2. Eric Ashby's At Home With The Foxes broadcast in the Look strand. The seventh and last of the Co-ed Murders took place. All the victims were young female students in South Michigan. In August a student, John Norman Collins, was charged with Karen Sue Beineman's murder. Sydney Pollock's Castle Keep - starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Dern and Peter Falk abd Disney's Guns In The Heather - starring Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Barr and Kevin Stoney - premiered.
Max Marquis's Barrister-At-Law broadast. Apollo 11 splashed down in the South Pacific near Johnston Atoll. British lecturer Gerald Brooke was freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for the spies Morris and Lona Cohen.
Saboteur shown in The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock strand. Adieu Philippine shown in BB2's French Cinema strand. A mid-air collision of two commerical aircraft was narrowly averted close to Prestwick Airport. What would become known as The Nixon Doctrine was outlined for the first time in an informal press conference with reporters who had accompanied the US president to Guam during his Asian tour. In remarks later published, but given at the time 'for attribution but not direct quotation,' Nixon said: 'I believe that the time has come when the United States, in our relations with all of our Asian friends, be quite emphatic on two points: One, that we will keep our treaty commitments ... but, two, that as far as the problems of internal security are concerned, as far as the problems of military defence that the United States is going to encourage and has a right to expect that the responsibility for it taken by, the Asian nations themselves.' One week after causing a fatal accident at Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Teddy Kennedy went on television to ask his Massachusetts constituents to give him 'your advice and opinion' about whether he should resign his office. The three American television networks interrupted their regular programming to broadcast the twelve-minute address. Earlier in the day, Kennedy had pleaded very guilty in the Dukes County, Massachusetts court to 'leaving the scene of an accident' and was given a suspended sentence. Most Massachusetts residents sending letters and telegrams responded that Kennedy should continue in office, which he did until his death in 2009. Bobby Beausoleil, a member of Charles Manson's Family cult, was involved in a drug deal gone bad involving Gary Hinman. Burned for a thousand dollars, Beausoleil went to Hinman's home with a handgun, a knife and accomplices Susan Atkins, Mary Brunner, Bruce Davis and Manson himself, who cut off Hinman's ear with a sword. After Beausoleil shot Hinman dead, Atkins wrote 'Political Piggy' on the wall in Hinman's blood. Tyrannosaurus Rex's 'King Of The Rumbling Spires'/'Do You Remember?', Harmonisers & Winston Sinclair's 'Mother Hen'/'Chastise Them', William E Kimber's 'Black Sheep Boy'/'And The Sun Began To Shine', The Idle Race's 'Come With Me'/'Reminds Me Of You', The Searchers' 'Kinky Kathy Abernathy'/'Suzanna', Nite People's 'Love, Love, Love, Love, Love'/'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass', Tempus Fugit's 'Come Alive'/'Emphasis On Love', Lyons & Malone's 'Doctor Gentle'/'She's Alright', Kaleidoscope's 'Balloon'/'If You So Wish', Muriel Day's 'Optimistic Fool'/'Nine Times Out Of Ten' and The Cape Kennedy Construction Company's 'The First Step On The Moon'/'Armageddon' released.
The first UK broadcast of one of the finest Star Trek episodes, Harlan Ellison's The City On The Edge Of Forever. Orange Bicycle appeared on BBC2's Colour Me Pop. The Long Fight broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. The Queerness Of Quasars broadast on Radio 3.
The first episode of Time For A Song broadcast. The first episode of The Morecambe & Wise Show featuring Eric and Ernie's new scriptwriter, Eddie Braben, broadcast. Among the guests was Peter Cushing who, in one of the best running gags a TV show has ever done, over a decade later was still trying get claim his five pound appearance fee for this episode! The Third Ear Band appeared on Top Gear.
England beat New Zealand in the first test at Lord's by two hundred and thirty runs. Derek Underwood took seven for thirty two in New Zealand's second innings. Alan Ward made his test debut whilst Glenn Turner became the first New Zealand batsman to carry his bat through a completed innings. Wales lost a friendly international against a Rest Of The UK side one-nil at Ninian Park. Francis Lee scored for the Rest side selected by Alf Ramsey. The game was part of the cleebrations surrounding the inevstiture of The Prince Of Wales. Newcastle united equalled the club's trasnfer record, signing Scottish international midfielders Jim Smith from Aberdeen for one hundred thousand pounds. Rachael Heyhoe appeared on Desert Island Discs. Life In Parched Lands broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand.
A Bit Of An Experience broadcast. The Haunted House broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Josef Blösche, the Nazi war criminal, was executed by firing squad at a prison in Leipzig, East Germany, after being identified as the SS officer who led the round-up of Jewish civilians after the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Blösche's image had been seen in an iconic photograph now called 'A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw', arresting women and children at gunpoint.
Derbyshire and Yorkshire reached the final of the Gillette Cup, beating Sussex and Nottinghamshire in their respective semi-finals. Donovan was the guest on BBC2's Bobbie Gentry. A Tale Of Three Tykes broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. It's All Shakeaspre's Fault broadcast.
The first episodes of Going, Gone, Gone and BBC2's North From Lion City - featuring Johnny Morris - broadcast. Mariner Six made its closest approach to Mars, coming within three thousand miles of the red planet and transmitting higher definition images than had ever been seen by astronomers.
Lord Soper's Cinema broadcast. The Gary Sobers profile A Genius - But A Human Being featured in BB2's Roar Of The Crowd strand. The Monkees' 'Daddy's Song'/'Porpoise Song', Little Milton's 'Let's Get Together'/'I'll Always Love You', The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Tadpoles, Dee & The Quotum's 'Someday You'll Need Someone'/'Send Some Flowers To Julie', Robin Scott's 'The Sailor'/'The Sound Of Rain', The Fantastic Johnny C's 'Is There Anything Better Than Making Love?'/'New Love' and The Doors' 'Tell All The People'/'Easy Ride' released. The pre-decimal halfpenny ceased to be legal tender. A retroreflector, deployed by Neil Armstrong on the Moon at the Apollo 11 landing site, was tested successfully for the first time as part of the ongoing Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. Astronomers at the Lick Observatory in San Jose had been trying for twelve days to strike the eighteen inches diameter unit, deployed as part of the mission in order to make precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The first laser measurement concluded that, at the time sent, the Moon was two hundred and twenty six thousand, nine hundred and seventy miles, 'give or take one hundred and fifty feet' from San Jose. NASA administrator Thomas Paine told a crowd - quite wrongly, as it turned out - that manned missions to both Mars and Venus 'would be feasible in the 1980s.' Paine told a San Francisco audience that 12 November 1981 'would be a particularly good date' for the launch of two rockets (and a total of twelve astronauts) powered by the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application then under development. With Mars, Earth and Venus in ideal positions relative to each other, Paine said, the astronauts could enter orbit around Mars by 9 August 1982, then send 'reusable stages much like jet planes' to ferry astronauts back and forth to the surface, before departing on 28 October 1982, toward Venus and then using the Venusian orbital motion for a gravity assist or slingshot on 14 August 1983 to return to Earth. The possibility, however, would depend on whether the American public was 'willing to commit to a cost of twenty four billion dollars.' Needless to say, they weren't.
Champions Leeds United beat FA Cup winners Manchester City two-one in the Charity Shield at Elland Road (Jack Cahrlton and Eddie Gray scoring for the hosts, Colin Bell replying for the visitors). It was an unusually early start to the football season due to the World Cup beginning in May 1970 in Mexico. Across The Top Of The World broadcast on BBC2. Richard Nixon became the first US president to visit the capital of a Communist nation, arriving in Bucharest, as the guest of Romanian dictator and despicable murderous old fucker Nicolae Ceaușescu. Thomas Day broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
David Buckton's electronic music documentary The Same Trade As Mozart broadcast in BBC2's Workshop strand. In which Desmond Briscoe, the head of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, enlisted the help of Daphne Oram, David Cain and John Baker to explain the fundamentals of synthesised sound. Denis Lawson's TV début on an episode of Dr Finlay's Casebook. Mariner To Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Creedence Clearwater Revival's Green River released. Stoke City signed Jimmy Greenhofdf from Birmingham City for one hundred thousand smackers.
I Want To Be - A Footballer! broadcast. Animal War, Animal Peace broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand. US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger secretly met with North Vietnam's former Foreign Minister, Xuan Thuy, to discuss a means of settling the Viet'nam War at the Paris Peace Talks.
So You Think You Can Survive Your Holiday? broadcast. Michael Frayn's As When In A Dream We Discover We Can Fly broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. The debut Iggy Pop & The Stooges LP and Beau's '1917 Revolution'/'Sleeping Town' released. Mariner Seven transmitted the closest pictures taken, to that time, of Mars, after the American interplanetary probe came within two thousand miles of the Martian surface. The thirty one images were received at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena little more than five minutes after having been sent from a distance of more than fifty eight million miles. William Rotsler's A Taste Of Hot Lead - starring Vincene Wallace, James Brand, Dee Howard and Susan Canyon - premiered.
Cause For Concern: The Farmer & The Bank broadcast. Graham Sutherland broadcast on BBC2. The first UK appearance of The Banana Splits on an episode of Rowen & Martin's Laugh-In. A Nick Drake session ('Time Of No Reply', 'Cello Song', 'River Man', 'Three Hours') featured on Radio 1's The John Peel Show. David Giles's adaptation of Dance Of Death - starring Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan and Robert Lang - premiered.
Bill Hays' Codename: Portcullis broadcast. And Another Thing...: The Hub Of Two Worlds broadcast on BBC2. NASA officials announced at the Ames Research Centre in Houston that testing of the lunar soil, brought back by the Apollo 11 mission, showed no organisms and no 'positive traces of life.' Scientists conceded that some of the Moon rocks had 'a trace of organic material' (ten parts per million) but that it was likely caused by Earth contamination from rubber gloves, tools and plastic bags which stored the samples. Testing included injection of Moon dust into laboratory mice, spectrometer analysis and burning the samples for signs of carbon. A letter was received at the San Francisco Examiner with stated: 'Dear Editor This is the Zodiac speaking.' This was the first time that the killer had used this name for identification. The letter was a response to Chief Stiltz's request for more details that would prove he had killed David Faraday, Betty Lou Jensen and Darlene Ferrin. In it, the Zodiac included details about the murders which had not been released to the public, as well as a message to the police that when they cracked his code 'they will have me.' The following day, Donald and Bettye Harden of Salinas, California, cracked the four hundred and eight-symbol cryptogram. It contained a misspelled message in which the killer seemed to refer the 1924 novel The Most Dangerous Game. He also said that he was 'collecting slaves for the afterlife.'
The Singing Barn broadcast. Francois Reichenbach's Un Cœur Gros Comme Ça shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Beatles had their picture taken on the zebra crossing on Abbey Road outside EMI studios, as the cover for their forthcoming LP of the same name, with photographer Iain Macmillan. The Isley Brothers' 'Put Yourself In My Place'/'Little Miss Sweetness', Anita Harris & The New World Symphony Orchestra's 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'/'Love Is Everywhere', The Pioneers & Rico's 'Long Shot Kick The Bucket'/'Jumping The Gun', Harry J All Stars' 'The Liquidator'/'Festive Spirit', Phillis Dillon's 'Get On The Right Track'/Tommy McCook's 'Moon Shot', Underground Sunshine's 'Birthday'/'All I Want Is You', Sallyangie's 'Two Ships'/'Colours Of The World', The Bee Gees' 'Don't Forget To Remember'/'The Lord, The Mirettes' 'Ain't You Trying To Cross Over'/'Whirlpool', Humble Pie's 'Natural Born Bugie'/'Wrist Job', Cannon Ball Bryan's 'Red Ash'/Silvertones' 'Blue Bird', Joni Mitchell's 'Chelsea Morning'/'Both Sides Now', Al Wilson's 'Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)'/'I Stand Accused' and The Open Mind's 'Magic Potion'/'Cast A Spell' released.
The Road To Gettysburg broadcast on BBC2. The new football season saw Match Of The Day experiment with a new format; one main match (Crystal Palace's two-two draw with Manchester United - Mel Blyth scoring Palace's first ever goal in the First Division) and several second games which were broadcast regionally. On this day, Leeds Unitd's three-on win against Tottenham Hotspur was broadcast in the North and South East, Wolverhampton Wanderers' three-one victory over Stoke City was shown in the Midlands, West Bromwich Albion's two-nil win at Southampton appeared in the South and West whilst Wales got coverage of the Fourth Division match between Wrexham and Exeter (Wrexham won three-nil). Elsewhere in the First Division Manchester City and Liverpool both enjoyed four-one victories (over Sheffield Wednesday and Chelsea respectively). Arsenal's one-nil defeat to Everton saw the debut of eighteen year old Charlie George, the first of three hundred and sixty seven games, for Arsenal, Derby County, Southampton, AFC Bournemouth and England, in a career that lasted until 1983. Promoted Derby County shared a goalless draw with Burnley. John Byrom scored three in Bolton Wanderers four-one defeat of Millwall in the Second Division. Both of the relegated sides, Leicester City and Queens Park rangers, enjoyed a return to life in the second tier (winning three-one against Birmingham City and three-nil over Hull City respectively). Sheffield United beat Middlesbrough three-nil. Rotherham United defeated bury four-three in the third Division. Four members of Charles Manson's Family cult - Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel - murdered the actress Sharon Tate (who was eight months pregnant), hair-stylist Jay Sebring, heiress Abigail Folger and her boyfriend Voyteck Frykowski - at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon. A fifth victim, Steven Parent, had the misfortune to be driving away from Cielo Drive as the group arrived to commit their murderous attack. According to legend, both the record producer Qunicy Jones and Steve McQueen (both friends of Tate) had been invited to the house that evening but, for different reasons, had not been able to come. The Manson Family had developed into a sick doomsday cult. The theory put forward by Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor in the subsequent trial, was that Manson had predicted a forthcoming apocalyptic race war, allegedly adopting the term 'Helter Skelter', taken from the song on The Beatles' White Album, to refer to this. Specific injuries and messages written in blood at the scene of the murder appeared to refer to the lyrics of another White Album song, George Harrison's 'Piggies'. Alternative theories behind the killings' rationale include a drug deal gone bad and an attempt by Manson and his followers to create copycat killings similar to the torture and murder of Gary Hinman by their friend Bobby Beausoleil a month earlier. Beausolei had been arrested for Hinman's murder on 6 August.
The Golden Years Of Alexander Korda and BBC2's Until Armageddon broadcast. The Edgar Broughton Band ('They Carrid A Star', 'Aphrodite', 'Psychopath Blues', For The Captain') featured on Top Gear whilst the entire second hour of the show was taken up by a live recording from Led Zeppelin as a pilot for Radio 1's forthcoming In Concert strand. The Department S episode Spencer Bodily Is Sixty Years Old broadcast on LWT.
In The Movies Michael Aspel took a look 'at pop groups who've ventured into the feature film world' which included the first ever UK broadcast of clips from Head. The Weather Of Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first episode of William L Shirer's The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich broadcast. The Dam Builders broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand. The first episode of The Adventures Of David Balfour broadcast on Radio 4. Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel, together with Leslie Van Houten, Steve Grogan and Charles Manson himself, returned to Bel Air and murdered Los Angeles grocery store owner Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary.
The rain-affected second test at Trent Bridge ended in a draw. There were only twenty minutes play on the third day and less than an hour's on the final day. John Edrich scored his second century in successive tests whilst Phil Sharpe also hit a hundred in England's four hundred and fifty one for eight declared. Willie Carr scored in impish hat-trick in Coventry City's three-one victory over West Bromwich Albion in the First Division. Liverpool defeated Manchester City three-two (Ian St John scoring twice) and Derby County had their opening win, one-nil at Ipswich Town. Sheffield United's fine start to the Second Division season continued, Alan Woodward and Tony Cuyrrie scoring in a two-nil win over Charlton Athletic. Mother Love broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maughan strand. The Battle of the Bogside occurred in Londonderry. The first episode of The Best Things In Life broadcast on Thames.
Apollo 11: Heroes' Welcome broadcast on BBC2. The Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, Jack Lynch, made a speech on Teilifís Éireann saying that his government 'can no longer stand by' and requested a United Nations peacekeeping force for Northern Ireland. John Byrom scored his second hat-trick in four days as Bolton Wanderers thrashed Rochdale six-three in the First Round of the Football League Cup. Ted MacDougall, recently arrived from York, scored twice in Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic's three-nil defeat of Bristol Rovers. Les O'Neill scored twice in Darlington's victory over York City by the same score. Southport thrashed Oldham Athletic five-one. Bury won one-nil at Second Division Preston North End. Everton were the early pace-setters in the first Division, Alan Ball and John Hurst scoring in a two-nil victory at Manchester United, Wilf McGuinness enduring a tough start as Sir Mat Busby's successor. Having scored thrity goals in all competitions last season, Pop Robson notched his first two of the new campaign in Newcastle United's thre-one beating of Sheffield Wednesday. Tottenham Hotspur beat Burnley four=nil and Crystal Palace defeated Sunderland two-nil (Gerry Queen scoring his second goal in two games).
Great Moments In Sport: Against The Odds broadcast. NASA announced the selection of the seventh Astronaut Group, referred to in some documents as 'the USAF MOL Transfer,' a group of seven astronauts and the last group to be selected during the Apollo era following the cancellation of the - still extremely secret - USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory project.
Val Doonican's Cinema broadcast. Sacha Guitry's Napoleon shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Franco-London Orchestra's 'Main Theme From Robinson Crusoe'/'Adrift', The Temptations' 'Cloud Nine'/'Why Did She Have To Leave Me (Why Did She Have To Go)', Jimmy Powell's 'I Can Go Down'/'Captain Man', Ken Parker's 'My Whole World Is Falling Down'/'Choking Kind', Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra's 'Theme From Department S'/'Theme From The W Somerset Maugham TV Series', Junior's Eyes' 'Star Child'/'Sink Or Swim', John Holt's 'What You Gonna Do Now?'/'Have You Ever Been To Heaven?', Bobbie Gentry's 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'/'Ace Insurance Man', Wild Silk's 'Help Me'/'Crimson & Gold', Eddie Holman's 'I Love You'/'I Surrender', Three Dog Night's 'Easy To Be Hard'/'Dreamin' Isn't Good For You' and Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising'/'Lodi' released.
Silbury '69 broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. The first episode of Jack Pulman's adaptation of Christ Recrucified broadcast. Six hundred thousand stoned, lice-infested hippies assembled in the mud of up-state New York for the Woodstock Festival. And nobody had the notion to point a thermonuclear device in their general direction. Although, to be fair, The Who were excellent. Particularly the bit where Abbie Hoffman got on-stage to make a political statement about the imprisonment of John Sinclair and Pete Townshend kicked his yippie ass into the press-pit bellowing: 'Get the fuck off my stage!' Another - somewhat smaller - gig took place at the Croydon Road Recreation Ground in Beckenham, headlined by local minor celebrity David Bowie (who would write 'Memory Of A Free Festival' about it). A week after the Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson and twenty five of his followers were arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the Spahn Ranch. A report at the time noted that 'The group - eleven men and fifteen women including several members of a motorcycle gang called Satan's Slaves - was stealing Volkswagens, dismantling them and converting them into dune buggies.' The Manson Family members were released ten days later because the arrest warrant had the wrong date on it. When the members returned to the Spahn Ranch, they murdered Donald Shorty Shea, a former movie stuntman whom they blamed for snitching them up to The Man. Champions Leeds United continued their unbeaten start to the First Division with a four-one victory at Nottingham Forest. Southampton caused a major upset winning four-one at Old Trafford against Manchester United (Ron Davies scoring all four). Liverpool (two-nil winners at Tottnenham Hotspur) were also unbeaten. Manchester City lost for the second time in a week, one-nil at Newcastle (to a Pop Robson penalty). Everton remained top, beating Crystal Palace two-one. Wolves won three-two at Sheffield Wednesday, the only team to be pointless after three games. Former Wednesday favourite Jim McCalliog scored the winner. Sheffield United topped the Second Division with maximum points, five-one winners at Portsmouth. Norwich City beat Blackpool three-one.
The first episodes of Hobby Horse and Dombey & Son broadcast. Orchestre de Paris's performance of Don Giovanni broadcast on BBC2. The Department S episode A Fish Out Of Water and the first episode of Stars On Sunday broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Lipizzaner Horses broadcast. The Child Watchers broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand. Hermione Gingold featured on Desert Island Discs.
The first episode of How Right Can You Be? broadcast. Dom Moraes's One Black Englishman broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant - starring Arlo Guthrie - premiered. In a Football League Cup First Round replay Luton Town thrashed Peterborough United five-two. Recently signed from Fulham, Malcolm Macdonald scored his first goal for Luton. Bristol City defeated Exeter City three-two. Everton contributed to Manchester united's horrible start to the First Division season, winning three-nil at Goodison Park. The first episode of Who-Dun-It? - Death Of A Hostess - broadcast on Thames.
The Alan Price Set were guests on BBC2's Bobbie Gentry. Down Under Capricorn broadcast in the Look strand. Stanley Donen's Staircase - starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton - premiered. Roy Massey scored a hat-trick in Colcehster United's three-nil victory at Reading in the League Cup. Bobby Graham scored twice as Liverpool maintained their one hundred per cent start in the First Division, winning two=nil at Manchester City. Derby County beat Ipswich Town three-one and Wlverhampton Wanderers won three-two at Southampton.
The Equals, The Move, The Bee Gees, Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, The Foundations and Robin Gibb featured on Top Of The Pops introduced by Fluff Freeman. The Violent Days Of Ulster broadcast in the Panorama strand. Fashionable Frolic broadcast in BBC2's And Another Thing ... strand.
Jacques Backer's Edward & Caroline shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. John Barry's 'Midnight Cowboy'/'Fun City', Love Children's 'Easy Squeezy'/'Every Little Step', Jason Crest's 'A Place In The Sun'/'Black Mass', Simon's 'Mrs Lillyco'/'There's No More You', Dennis Lotis' 'One Woman Man'/'The Finger Points At You', William Bell's 'Happy'/'Johnny, I Love You' and The Gun's 'Hobo'/'Don't Look Back' released.
The first UK TV showing of White Heat in the Cagney Cavalcade strand. Venice - The Vanishing Lady broadcast in BBC2's Cameron Country strand. Flowering Cherry by Robert Bolt broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Champions Leeds United remained unbeaten in the First Division, Mick Jones scoring in their one-all draw at home to Newcastle United (Jimmy Scott equalised). Manchester City's one-all draw with also unbeaten Everton featured on Match of The Day. Liverpool (who drew three-three with Burnley) and Wolves (who shared a goalless draw with Manchester United) had also yet to lose after five matches. West Bromwich Albion won three-one at West Ham United. Sheffield Wednesday picked up their second victory in a week, two-one at Sunderland (Tommy Craig and Peter Eustace scoring for the visitors, Colin Todd for the home side). Queens Park Rangers topped the Second Division following a three-two defeat of Millwall. Leicester City beat Norwich City three-nil. Luton Town defeated Orient three-two in the Third Division. Bristol Rovers won five-one at Reading (Ray Graydon scoring twice). Tranmere topped the division with a one hundred per cent record from three games (winning the latest three-one against Shrewsbury Town). Port Vale headed the Fourth Division after thrashing Northampton Town four-one.
Voyage To The Sea Of Ice broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Bridget St John and The Incredible String Vest featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode A Small War Of Nerves broadcast on LWT.
It's Ragtime! broadcast. Riddle Of Heredity broadcast in BBC2's Eye On Life strand. Olivia Manning appeared on Desert Island Discs. Robert Hartford-Davies's The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (aka School For Unclaimed Girls) - starring Renée Asherson, Patrick Mower, Dennis Waterman, Madeleine Hinde and Maureen Lipman - premiered. West Ham United's one-all draw with Arsenal in the First Division saw the debut of eighteen year old Bermudan Clyde Best, the first of two hundred and eighteen games for The Hamsters in the career that lasted until 1976. In doing so, he became a genuine trail-blazer, one of the first black players to regularly feature in the First Division. York City, who had needed to apply for re-election to the league at the end of the previous season, headed the Fourth Division, Mick Mahon scoring in the one=nil victory over Exeter City. Grimsby Town won three-one at Southend United (Stuary Brace netting a hat-trick).
Munich, 1938 broadcast. The World Through European Eyes broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Bob Dylan's 'Lay Lady Lay'/'Peggy Day' released. England beat New Zealand by eight wickets in the third test at The Oval. Once again, Derek Underwood was The Kiwi's nemesis taking twelve wickets in the match. Mike Denness made his test debut and scored an unbeaten fifty in Englnd's second innings. Everton extended their unbeaten start in the First Division to six games with a two-one victory over Sheffield Wednesday (Alan Ball and Joe Royle scoring). Rodney Marsh hit three in Queens Park Rangers six-one thrashing of Blackpool in the Second Division. John Tudor scored the winner in Sheffield United's two-one defeat of Bristol City. Scunthorpe United beat Bradford Park Avenue two-nil in the Fourth Division, Kevin Keegan netting The Irons' second.
Tony Parker's Some Women and BBC2's The Goshawk broadcast. Robert Parrish's Doppelgänger - produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry and Patrick Wymark, Cy Endfield's De Sade - starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Anna Massey, Lilli Palmer, Sonja Ziemann and Christiane Krüger and Werner Jacobs' Heintje - Ein Herz Geht Auf Reisen premiered. The first leg of the inaugual Anglo-Italian League Cup was played between Coppa Italia winners AS Roma and Football League Cup winners Swindon Town with Roma winning two-one. In the First Division, Liverpool joined Everton on eleven points, with a three-one victory at Crystal Palace. Southampton thrashed bottom side Ipswich town four-two, Manchester City won four-nil at fellow strugglers Sunderland (Ian Bowyer neting twice) and Jimmy Geenhoff scored for Stoke City in their two-nil defeat of Coventry City. Manchester United remained without a win, drawing nil-nil with Newcastle. Torquay United hammered Tranmere Rovers five-one in the Third Division. Brentford went to the top of the Fourth Division with a two-one victory at Chester.
Great Moments In Sport: The Crowd Pleasers broadcast. Pregnant Image broadcast in BBC2's And Another Thing ... John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths - starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Gene Hackman and Tony Richardson's Laughter In The Dark - starring Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, Peter Bowles and Siân Phillips - premiered. The Humblebums' 'Coconut Tree'/'Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway' released.
Last Of The Amateurs Alias Avery Brundage broadcast in BBC2's Roar Of The Crowd strand. Jean-Luc Godard's Bande A Part broadcast in the French Cinema strand. Even though he's Swiss. The first hijacking outside the Western Hemisphere of a United States commercial airline flight took place when TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Tel Aviv was commandeered by Leila Khaled and an accomplice, Salid Issawi. Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine boarded the flight at Rome's Fiumicino airport with carry-on luggage that included pistols and hand grenades, forced her way into the plane's cabin and dropped the pin of one of the grenades at the pilot's feet and ordered him to fly to Damascus. After the plane landed, the ninety five passengers and the twelve crew were released. Khaled and Issawi then threw the grenades into the cockpit and destroyed the front section of the jet. Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People - starring Shirley Knight, Robert Duall and James Caan - premiered. Radha Krishna Temple's 'Hare Krishna Mantra'/'Prayer To The Spiritual Masters', Locomotive's 'I'm Never Gonna Let You Go'/'You Must Be Joking', Andwellas Dream's 'Mrs Man'/'Felix', The New Formula's 'Harekrishna'/'Stay Indoors', Tangerine Peel's 'Play Me A Sad Song And I'll Dance'/'Wish You Could Be With Me', The Flying Machine's 'Send My Baby Home Again'/'Look At Me, Look At Me', Clague's 'Mandy Lee'/'Bottle Up & Go' and 'The Stride'/'I Wonder Where', Jack Hammer's 'What Greater Love?'/'The Mason Dixon Line', The Impressions' 'Choice Of Colors'/'Mighty Mighty Spade & Whitey', Keith Meehan's 'Darkness Of My Life'/'Hooker Street', Egg's 'Seven Is A Jolly Good Time'/'You Are All Princes' and The Tony Hatch Orchestra's '(Theme) Who-Dun-It?'/'The Champions' released. Richard Kanter and Erwin C Dietrich's The Ribald Tales Of Robin Hood - starring Ralph Jenkins, Dee Lockwood, Steve Vincent and Lynn Cartwright - premiered.
Goals from Wyn Davies, Alan Foggan and Pop Robson gave Newcastle United a three-one victory over Arsenal on Match Of The Day. Elsewhere in the First Division, top of the table Everton beat Leeds United three-two and Manchester United had their first win under Wilf McGuinness, defeating Sunderland three-one. Spurs beat Ipswich Town (who remained bottom) three-two. In the Second Division, Swindon Town thumped Charlton Athletic five-one (Peter Noble scoring three), Birmingham City hammered Queens Park Rangers three-nil (Bert Murray hitting a hat-trick) and Huddersfield beat Bristol City three-nil. Tony Currie scored against his old club as Sheffield United won two-one at Watford to return to the top of the division. Luton Town stayed top of the Third Division with a two-nil victory at Gillingham. Rochdale walloped Walsall four-one. Old World: New World broadcast on BBC2. Marjorie Proops appeared on Radio 4's The Time Of My Life strand. The Journey To The Unknown episode TheIndian Spirit Guide (by Robert Bloch) broadcast on LWT
Bob Dylan & The Band played their first gig since 1966 at the second Isle Of Wight Festival at Wootton Creek. Also on the bill were The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Edgar Broughton Band, Joe Cocker, Family, Free, Marsha Hunt & White Trash, The Moody Blues, The Nice, The Pentangle, The Pretty Things, Third Ear Band and The Who. Ken Dodd & The Diddymen broadcast. Ghosts At The End Of The Earth broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion in history, was killed in the crash of a Cessna 172 airplane that was taking him from Chicago to Des Moines, along with pilot Glen Belz and another passenger, Frank Farrell. The Department S episode The Bones Of Byron Blain broadcast on LWT.
Cilla Black hosted Disney Time. The Lovers Of Teruel broadcast on BBC2. Des O'Connor featured on Desert Island Discs. Stephen C Apostolof's Motel Confidential - starring Milton Kaye, Dora Lorber and Coleen O'Brien - premiered.
The Story Of Fighting Poland, BBC2's Man In Space - Beyond The Moon and Silo Fifteen broadcast.The Wrong End Of The Applause broadcast on Radio 3. In the League Cup Second Round, Fourth Division Wrexham won two-nil at Charlton Athletic, Sheffield united beat Newcastle by the same score and Peter Noble hit three in Swindon Town's three-one win at Swansea City. Leslie Woodhead and Jo Durden-Smith's Stones In The Park broadcast on Thames. Many, many butterflies died to bring you this show.
Shrewsbury became the first British representatives to win Jeux Sans Frontieres, sharing the title with West Germany's Wolfsburg. Where Were You On the Day War Broke Out? broadcast. Colour Me German broadcast on BBC2. Glen Campbell was the guest on Bobbie Gentry. Federico Fellini's Satyricon - starring Martin Potter and Hiram Keller - premiered. Alan Ball scored the winner in Everton's one-nil victory at Darlington in the League Cup. Brighton & Hove Albion defeated Birmingham City two-nil, Brian Clough enjoyed a sweet return to Hartlepool, Derby County winning three-one, Ipswich Town thrashed Colchester United four-nil, West Ham United beat Halifax Town four=two and Wolves defeated Spurs with a Jim McCalliog goal.
Top Of The Pops was hosted by Tony Blackburn and featured Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dusty Springfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Move, Humble Pie and Zager & Evans. The Bee Gees performed 'Don't Forget To Remember', appearing without their recently departed drummer, Colin Petersen who raised objections with the BBC. His spokesman said: 'The BBC have been notified that the disc was made by The Bee Gees which includes Colin Petersen. Therefore their action in using only the Gibb Brothers was wrong.' A BBC spokesman responded: 'If it is a legal matter it will go to our legal department for consideration.' In other words, 'sort it out between yourselves, lads.' To & Fro broadcast in BBC2's And Another Thing ... strand. Compensating Error broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Justice is A Woman broadcast on Thames.
Richard Attenborough's Cinema broadcast. Jean Renoir's Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Sweet's 'The Lollipop Man'/'Time', Julie Driscoll, Gary Farr's 'Hey Daddy'/'The Vicar & The Pope', Brian Auger & The Trinity's 'Take Me To The Water'/'Indian Rope Man', The Cups' 'Good As Gold'/'Life & Times', Girl Satchmo's 'Taken For A Ride'/'I'm Coming Home' and The Aerovons' 'World Of You'/'Say Georgia' released. Roberto Faenza's HS2 - starring Lionel Stander, Denis Gilmore and Carole André - premiered. The first episode of The Contenders broadcast on LWT.
Movie-Makers: Charlton Heston At The NFT broadcast. Gwyn Thomas's It's A Sad But Beautiful Joke broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. The first episode of Review: Three Views On Painting broadcast. Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by sixty nine runs in the final of the Gillette Cup at Lord's. Everton lost for the first time vall season, two-one at Derby County (featured on Match Of The Day). This allowed Liverpool (who beat Coventry City two-one) to go top of the table. George Best scored twice as Manchester untied drew two-two at Leeds United. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest drew three-all. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic thrashed Tranmere five-one in the Third Divison which was still ed by Luton Town, four-nil victors against Bristol Rovers. Jon Rollason's If I Were The Marrying Kind broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Jack Stewart won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to take his first World Drivers' Championship. Bryan Forbes' The L-Shaped Room shown in the British Film Night strand. What's Happening To Music? broadcast on BBC2. Blossom Toes, King Crimson and Strawbs featured on Top Gear. The Department S episode The Soup Of The Day broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Counterstrike broadcast. Kenneth Williams read Nikolai Tolstoy's The Founding Of Evil Hold School on Jackanory. BBC2's Line-Up: Monday, introduced by Mel Oxley, broadcast. Robin Day appeared on Desert Island Discs. The World In Action episode Untried, Inside broadcast.
The first episodes of Nationwide, How Right Can You Be? and Decidedly Dusty broadcast. Relativity broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Frank Lloyd Wright: Ninety Years In The Cause Of Architecture broadcast on BBC2. Arsenal won the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round tie with Glentoran three-nil. Third Division Bournemouth knocked Sheffield Wednesday out of the League Cup, John Hold netting in a one-nil victory. The first UK broadcast of The Borgia Stick in BBC2's Premiere strand.
Ray Reardon beat John Spencer in the first final of Pot Black. The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It) - starring Elvis Presley and Vincent Price and Richard Kanter's Starlet! - starring Shari Mann, Dee Lockwood, Stuart Lancaster and Chris Mathis - premiered. Swindon Town won the first Anglo Italian League Cup, beating AS Roma four-nil at The County Ground. Arthur Horsfield, recently signed from Newcastle, scored three. Derby County beat Southampton three-nil in the First Division.
The first episode of British By Choice broadcast. John Hopkins' Beyond The Sunrise broadcast in BBC2's Plays Of Today strand. The housing charity Shelter released a report claiming that there were up to three million Britons in need of rehousing due to poor living conditions. Rotherham United knocked Second Division Bolton Wanderers out of the League Cup, Trevor Womble (wandering free) scoring the winner at Millmoor.
Golden Silents broadcast. Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Kinks' 'Shangrila'/'This Man He Weeps Tonight', Love Sculpture's 'Seagull'/'Farandole', Hayden Wood's 'The Lady Wants More'/'The House Beside The Mine', Giant Crab's 'ESP'/'Hot Line Conversation', The Alan Tew Orchestra's 'The Big Country'/'Holiday Bound', Dusty Springfield's 'Am I The Same Girl?'/'Earthbound Gypsy', Bobby Goldsboro's 'Muddy Mississippi Line'/'Richer Man Than I', Bulldog Breed's 'Portcullis Gate'/'Halo In My Hair' and Sandie Shaw's 'Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now'/'So Many Things To Do' released. Stephen C Apostolof's The Divorcée - starring Marsha Jordan, Marlon Proctor and Deborah Downey - premiered.
Jerry Lewis featured on Movie-Makers. The Fate Of The Armada broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Highlight of the day's First Division fixtures was Stoke City's four-two victory over Sunderland. Derby County topped the league following a one-nil win at Newcastle. Everton beat West Ham United two-nil, Manchester City won three-nil at Tottenham and Willie Morgan (on the wing) scored the winner as Manchester United beat Liverpol one-nil. Gordon Bolland and Keith Weller both scored twice in Millwall's four-two victory over Carlisle United in the Second Division. Bob Hatton hit two for the Cumbrians. Dave Clement, Gerry Francis and Barry Bridges scored in Queens Park Rangers three-one win at Portsmouth. Watford gained their first win of the season, three-nil against fellow strugglers Aston Villa. rnie Moss scored all of Chesterfield's goals in the four-nil defeat of Newport County in the Fourth Division. Exeter City thumped Workington five-one. York City beat Bradford Park Avenue four-one. The Compost Heap broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Hugo Charteris's Remote Control broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The Singing Sands broadcast in the Detective strand. Caravan and Battered Ornaments featured on Top Gear.
Science On Safari broadcast in the Horizon strand. Guy Hamilton's Battle Of Britain - starring Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier and Susannah York - premiered. Donald Zec appeared on Desert Island Discs. Newcastle United's defence of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup began with a two-one win against Dundee United with two goals from Wyn Davies. Andy Lochhead scored three in Leicester City's three-one defeat of Bristol City in a League Cup Second Round second replay. Port Vale stayed top of the Fourth Division with a two-nil victory over Crewe Alexandra. The first episode of Dear Mother ... Love Albert and the World In Action episode No Surrender broadcast on Thames.
Jimmy Ruffin appeared on Decidedly Dusty performing 'What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted' and 'Private Number' (in a duet with the hostess). The Child Experts broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Paul Nihill won gold for Britain in the twenty kilometre walk at the European Athletics Championship in Athens. Mike Tagg took silver in the ten thousand metres behind Jürgen Haase of the GDR. Retreat Into A Dream broadcast on BBC2. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Liverpool defeated Dundalk ten-nil at Anfield (Alun Evans, Tommy Smith and Bobby Graham all scoring twice). Kilmarnock lost their opening game three-two at FC Zürich. Dunfermline Athletic hammered Girondins De Bordeaux four-nil (Bert Paton scoring twice). Tottenham Hotspur won three-two at Arsenal in the First Division (John Pratt hitting the winning goal). Coventry City defeated Nopttingham Forest by the same score. Steve Earle hit five in Fulham's eight-nil win at Halifax Town in the Third Division (just about the first thing The Cottagers'd had to smile about in two years). Alec Stock's exciting Luton Town side still lead the division, winning three-nil at Southport (Malcolm Macdonald, Graham French and Chris Nicholl scoring)Walsall beat Barrow thanks to a Ray Train penalty.
The first episodes of Up Pompeii! and BBC2's Indian Music With Imrat Khan broadcast. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Young Billy Young - starring Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr and David Carradine and Ted Kotcheff's Two Gentlemen sharing - starring Robin Phillips and Judy Geeson - premiered. The first episode of Special Branch - Troika - broadcast on Thames. Leeds United began their European Cup campaign with a ten-nil win over Lyn of Norway (Mick Jones scored a hat-trick and there were two goals apiece for Allan Clarke, Johnny Giles and Billy Bremner). It was night of goals in the comptition, Red Star Belgrade thrashing Northern Ireland's Linfield eight-nil and Feyenoord Rotterdam winning twelve-two in Iceland against Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur (Ruud Geels scored four, Ove Kindvall three and Wim Van Hanegem two). Real Madrid won eight-nil in Cyprus against Olympiakos Nicosia and AC Milan beat FC Avenir Beggen of Luxembourg five-nil. Bucking the trend somewhat, Scottish champions Glasgow Celtic shared a goalless draw at Fussball Club Basel. In the European Cup Winners Cup, Cardiff City defeated Mjøndalen IF seven-one in Norway (John Toshack and Brian Clark hitting two), Manchester City drew three-three against Athletic Bilbao and Glasgow Rangers had a two-nil victory over FC Steaua București (Willie Johnston netting twice). Southampton suffered an embarrassing European debut in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup losing one-nil to Norwgian part-timers Rosenborg BK. Jimmy Husband scored twice as Everton returned to the top of the First Division with a two-one victory at Newcastle United. Manchester United won three-one at Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City defeated West Bromwich Albion by the same score.
Lillian Board won eight hundred metres gold at the European Athletics Championships. John Sherwood (four hundred metres hurdles) and Lynn Davies (long jump) both won silver. Alun Owen's double bill, The Ladies broadcast in BBC2's Plays Of Today strand. Waris Hussein's A Touch Of Love - starring Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Michael Coles, John Standing and Eleanor Bron - premiered.
Ian Stewart won five thousand metres gold at the European Athletics Championships whilst Alan Blinston got a bronze. The Hollies' 'He Ain't Heavy ... He's My Brother'/'Cos You Like To Love Me', Fleetwood Mac's Then Play On, Russell Morris's 'The Real Thing (Parts I & II)'/'It's Only A Matter Of Time', Tina Tott's 'Take Away The Emptiness Too'/'Burning In The Background Of My Mind', Gordon Lightfoot's 'Early Morning Rain'/'The Gypsy', Argosy's 'Mister Boyd'/'Imagine', Portebello Explosion's 'We Can Fly'/'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass', The Delights Orchestra's 'Do Your Thing'/'King Of The Horse', Norman Johnson & The Showmen's 'Take It Baby'/'In Paradise', Long John Baldry's 'Wait For Me'/'Don't Pity Me', Trash's 'Golden Slumbers-Carry That Weight'/'Trash Can' and The Beatles' Abbey Road released. The entire Abbey Road LP was played, accompanied by stock footage and some specially commissioned animation, on BBC2's Line-Up: Friday. The first episodes of Parkin's Patch, Hadleigh - Thanks For The Offer - and Strange Report - Report 5055: Cult - Murder Shrieks Out - broadcast on LWT.
The Ryder Cup between American and Britain & Ireland was drawn for the first time when Jack Nicklaus conceded a - potentially missable - putt to Tony Jacklin on the final green at Royal Birkdale. John Whetton won gold in the fifteen hundred metres in Athens, as did Britain's women's four hundred metres relay team, Rosemary Stirling, Pat Lowe, Janet Simpson and Lilian Board. Running the last leg, Board came from ten metres down entering the home straight to beat her old rival Colette Besson, who was anchoring the French squad, in a dramatic photo finish, helping to set a new world record for the event. Highlights of the Cambridge Footlights Revue - featuring the TV debut of Clive James - broadcast on BBC2. Honest Vulgarity broadcast on Radio 4. Brian Clough's Derby County continued their impressive start to the First Division season with a five-nil win over Tottenham Hotspur. Top-of-the-table Everton won three-nil at Ipswich. West Bromwich Albion beat Crystal Palace three-one at Selhurst Park, Liverpool defeated Stoke City by the same score, Arsenal and Manchester United drew two-two and Leeds United beat Chelsea two-nil (on Match Of The Day). Queens Park Rangers remained top of the Second Division with a two-nil victory against swindon Town. Johnny Haynes hit the winner as Fulham beat Plymouth Argyle four-three in the Third Division. Scotland and the Republic of Ireland drew a friendly international, one-all, in Dublin. Colin Stein gave the visitors the lead with Manchester United's Don Givens equalising three minutes later. Aberdeen's Ernie McGarr and Dunfermline Athletic's Tommy Callaghan made their Scotland debuts. Long John Baldry featured on Radio 1's Pete's Saturday People. Enzo G Castellari's Eagles Over London - starring Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Evelyn Stewart and Luigi Pistilli - premiered.
The first episode of Wheel Of Fortune broadcast on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of Heavens Above! Mission To Hell broadcast on BBC2. Absolute Aggers & Torters broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Police evicted various lice-ridden squatters of the London Street Commune in Piccadilly. And gave them all a ruddy good bath in domestos. Probably. Hard Meat, Melanie and Third Ear Band featured on Top Gear. The first episodes of The Flaxton Boys and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - My Late, Lamented, Friend & Partner - broadcast on LWT.

The first episode of Nina Bawen's A Handful Of Thieves broadcast. A True Madness broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Susan Elizabeth Perkins born in East Dulwich. The World In Action episode Crack Of The Whip broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Prescription Murder on BBC2. The subsequent series which developed from this, Columbo, was acquired by ITV and it would be the 1980s before Peter Falk's Frank Columbo again featured on the BBC. The first episode of Chips With Everything broadcast in the Drama strand. The Temptations' Puzzle People, The Dave Pell Singers' 'Oh, Calcutta'/'Mah-Na'-Mah-Na' and Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul released. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and Jerome Epstein's The Adding Machine - starring Milo O'Shea and Phyllis Diller - premiered. Manchester United beat Wrexham two-nil in the League Cup Fourth Round. Sheffield United defeated Luton Town three-nil. Rodney Marsh scored four in Queens Park Rangers six-nil humbling of Tranmere Rovers. In the Second Division, Bristol City thumped Charlton Athletic by the same score (John Galley hiting three). The first episode of The Dustbinmen broadcast on Thames.
Sidney Nolan was interviewed by A Alvarez on Personal Reflections. Children From Homes broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well' released. Fairport Convention - with new members Dave Mattacks and Dave Swarbrick - made their first live appearances following the tragic death of Martin Lamble at London's Royal Festival Hall, supported by Nick Drake and John and Beverley Martyn. Manchester City beat Liverpool thre-two in a classic Football League Cup Third Round tie.
Scenes From A Family Life broadcast in BBC2's Plays Of Today strand. Cliff Michelmore Meets The Adopted Scots broadcast in the British By Choice strand.
The Equal featured on Crackerjack. Love & The Frenchwoman shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well (Part 1 & 2)'. The Hollies' 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother'/'Cos You Like To Love Me', The Byrds' 'I Wasn't Born To Follow'/'Child Of The Universe', Trash's 'Golden Slumbers-Carry That Weight'/'Trash Can', David Essex's 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'/'Is It So Strange?', Anonymously Yours' 'Get Back'/Ernie Smith's 'Not For Sale', Raw Material's 'Time & Illusion'/'Bobo's Party', David Garrick's 'Poor Little Me'/'Molly With The Hair Like Silver', Izzy Pound's 'Pumpkin Mini'/'Na, Na, Na, Na', Carla Thomas' 'Unyielding'/'I've Fallen In Love', Paula Parfitt's 'I'm Gonna Give You Back Your Ring'/'Love Is Wonderful' and Man's Two Ounces Of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle released.
The first episode of Match Of The Day to be broadcast - in some parts of the country, though not others - in colour featured Manchester United's five-two victory of West Ham United at Old Trafford (George Best scored two stunners). Tottenham Hotspur's one-nil defeat at home to Sunderland in the First Division saw the debut of eighteen year old Steve Perryman, the first of nine hundred and sixty eight first class matches for in a career, with Spurs, Oxford United, Brentford and England, that lasted until 1990. In the process he broke Pat Jennings' appearance record for Spurs, established in 1977. Joe Royle scored three as league leaders Everton won four-two against Southampton. John Toshack hit a hat-trick as Cardiff City beat Second Division promotion-chasers Queens Park Rangers four-two. York City defeated Scunthorpe three-two in the Fourth Division. Kevin McMahon scored twice for the hosts, Kevin Keegan netted two for the visitors. The first episode of The First Churchills broadcast on BBC2. Pacific Union College students Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were picnicking at Lake Berryessa on a small island connected by a sand spit to Twin Oak Ridge. A man, subsequently confirmed to be The Zodiac Killer, approached them wearing a black executioner's-type hood and a bib-like device on his chest that had a white cross-circle symbol on it. He had brought precut lengths of plastic clothesline and told Shepard to tie up Hartnell, before he tied her up. The man then drew a knife and stabbed them both repeatedly. The killer called the Napa County Sheriff's office from a pay-phone to report his crime. After hearing their screams for help, a man and his son who were fishing in a nearby cove discovered the victims and summoned help by contacting park rangers. Shepard was conscious when police arrived, providing them with a detailed description of the attacker before lapsing into a coma during transport to the hospital and never regained consciousness. Hartnell survived. Cliff Morgan appeared on Desert Island Discs. Speak-Easy: The Trend To Nudity (presented by filthy kiddie-fiddler Jimmy Savile) and the first Saturday episode of Top Gear (featuring Humble Pie and Fairport Convention) broadcast on Radio 1.
Robin Smyth's Gangster broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. George Robey: Prime Minister Of Mirth broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The National Trust acquired ownership of the island of Lundy. The Advertisement broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode A Disturbing Case broadcast on LWT.
The first UK broadcast of Babar. Problems Of Pain broadcast in the Horizon strand. Absalom broadcast on Radio 4. Andwellas Dream's 'Mrs Man'/'Felix' released. Arsenal's one-nil defeat at Glentoran in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - a night which will live-long in shame and ignominy in Gunners history - saw the debut of Ray Kennedy, the first of six hundred and eighty one games, for Arsenal, Liverpool, Swansea City, Hartlepool United and England, in a career that lasted until 1984. An Ian Henderson penalty decided the game though Arsenal still went through on aggregate. The World In Action episode Castro broadcast.
Mick Vickers demonstrated the Moog synthesizer on Tomorrow's World. The Tubby Hayes Big Band appeared on BBC2's Jazz Scene live at Ronnie Scott's. Liverpool won four-nil at Dundalk in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Kilmarnock also reached the next round winning three-one against FC Zürich. In the League Cup Third Round Geoff Nulty and Martin Dobson scored in Burnley's two-nil win over Rotherham United. Everton beat Arsenal one-nil and West Bromwich Albion defeated Ipswich Town two-nil. Luton Town went three points clear at the top of the Third Division with a three-one victory at Walsall.
Peter Terson's The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first episode of BBC2's Know Your Onions broadcast. All of England's six representatives in the three European football competitions progressed to the next rounds. Leeds United won six-nil against Lyn 1896 Fotballklubb (Rod Belfitt and Terry Hibbett both socring twice) in the European Cup. Manchester City thrashed Athletic Bilbao three-nil in the Cup Winners Cup. Keith Dyson scored a last-minute winner as Newcastle United defeated Dundee United in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and Southampton joined Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool in the next round with a two-nil win against Rosenborg BK Trondheim (Ron Davies and Terry Paine on-target). It was also a good night for Scottish clubs, Glasgow Celtic beating Basel two-nil in the European Cup (Harry Hood and Tommy Gemmill on-target). Rangers also reached the next round of the Cup Winners Cup with a goalless draw at Steaua Bucureșt. Dunfermline Athletic lost two-nil to Girondins de Bordeaux in the Fairs Cup but went through on away goals. George Andrews hit three in Southport's four-two win at Gillingham in the Third Division. Exeter City thrashed Swansea City six-nil in the Fourth Division. John Rappoport's The Detention Girls - starring Dolly Abrams, Jennifer Early and Larry Hunter - premiered.
Keith Dewhurst's Men Of Iron broadcast on BBC2's Plays Of Today broadcast. Sir Alf Ramsey discussed 'the men and teams who matter as the qualifying groups of the 1970 World Cup reach their final stages' on Sportsnight With Coleman. The first episode of Girls About Town broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Graham Kerr's The Galloping Gourmet (initially Entertaining With Kerr) broadcast. Francois Truffaut's La Peau Douce shown in BBC2's French Cinemastrand. Henry Reed's adaptation of Summer broacast on Radio 3. The La-De-Da Band's 'Come Together'/'Here Is Love', John Cushing's 'She's Independent'/'Tell Me Now', Merlin Q's 'The Secret'/'Love's Beautiful', Family's 'No Mule's Fool'/'Good Friend Of Mine', Timebox's 'Yellow Van'/'You've Got The Chance', The Wedgwoods' 'In Rainbow Valley'/'My Home', Mark Wirtz's 'Caroline'/'Goody, Goody, Goody', Al Wilson's 'Lodi'/'By The Time I Get To Phoenix', Red Alligator's 'Real Cool'/'Slow Down' and The Factory's 'Try A Little Sunshine'/'Red Chalk Hill' released. The first UK broadcast of Hawaii Five-0 on LWT.
Movie-Makers: Carl Foreman At The NFT broadcast. In Search Of Rembrandt - narrated by James Mason - broadcast on BBC2. Diane Linkletter, the daughter of popular US TV host Art Linkletter, died after falling from a window of her sixth floor apartment at the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood. The Trouble With Joss broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. First Division highlights included Newcastle United's three-nil victory at Crystal Palace, Derby County's two-nil defeat of Manchester United, Everton's three-two win at Wolverhamtpon Wanderers (featured on Match Of The Day) and West Ham United's three-one victory over Burnley. Mick Lambert scored the winner as Ipswich Town gained their second successive victory, one-nil against Sheffield Wednesday, which took them out of the relegation zone for the first time all season. The Second Division's top three, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United and Blackburn Rovers, all enjoyed big wins (four-nil against Middlesbrough, three-nil over Hull City and three-one against Norwich City respectively). The Slade's 'Wild Winds Are Blowing'/'One Way Hotel' released.
The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus broadcast. To an initial audience of insomniacs, intellectuals and burglars. And George Harrison, obviously. A Year In The Life Of Craghead broadcast on BBC2. John Huston's A Walk With Love & Death starring Anjelica Huston - premiered. The Pentangle featured on Radio 1's Peter Sarstedt. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode All Work & No Pay broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Chigley broadcast. Four Fast Legs & A Nose broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The Beatles' 'Something'/'Come Together' released. Irving Lerner's adaptation of The Royal Hunt Of The Sun - starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer - premiered. Colchester United's four-two defeat at Wrexham in the Fourth Division saw the debut of Micky Cook, the first of seven hundred games for The U's in a career which lasted until 1984. In the process he broke Peter Wright's appearance record for the club, established in 1964. Chelsea defeated Leeds United two-nil in a League Cup Third Round replay. West ham United and Stoke City drew three-three in the First Division. Tranmere Rovers thumped Barrow five-nil in the Third Division. The World In Action episode The Secret Life Of Sam The Plumber broadcast.

The first episode of Mary, Mungo & Midge and the debut UK broadcast of The Wacky Races. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac performed 'Oh Well' on the opening episode of Monster Music Mash, presented by Alan Price. Stars That Come & Go broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first broadcast of The Smugglers in BBC2's Premiere strand. The first episode of The Question Of Pressures broadcast. The first episode of The State Of Welfare broadcast on Radio 3. Gil Reece scored three as Sheffield United returned to the top of the Second Division with the five-nil cuffing of Portsmouth.
Patterson OK broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Few broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Noel Redding's Fat Mattress appeared as guests on Peter Sarstedt: On Cool. Fell Swoop broadcast in Radio 2's Midweek Theatre strand. In the First Division, Coventry City won three-one at Derby County, Manchester United defeated Southampton three-nil at The Dell and Burnley beat Sunderland one-nil (Ralph Coates scoring) keeping The Black Cats trapped at the foot of the table.
The first episode of Car-Wise broadcast. The English Boy broadcast in BBC2's Plays Of Today strand.
Star Close-up: Jackie Coogan broadcast. Fifty Years Of The Bentley broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. The Kinks' Arthur (Or The Decline & Fall Of The British Empire), King Crimson's In The Court Of King Crimson, Orange Bicycle's 'Carry That Weight-You Never Give Me Your Money'/'Want To B Side', Gene Vincent's 'Be-Bop-A-Lula '69'/'Ruby Baby', Rainbows' 'New Day Dawning'/'Days & Nights', Pete Brown & Piblokto!'s 'Living Life Backwards'/'High Flying Electric Bird', Soul Joe Clements' 'Ever, Ever'/'Smoke & Ashes', Leviathan's 'Flames'/'Just Forget Tomorrow', Judy Collins' 'Chelsea Morning'/'Pretty Polly', Babylon's 'Into The Promised Land'/'Nobody's Fault But Mine', Shocking Blue's 'Venus'/'Hot Sand', Jackie Lee's 'Love Is A Gamble'/'Something Borrowed Something Blue', Spirit Of John Morgan's 'Train For All Reasons'/'Never Let Go', The Hot Chocolate Band's 'Give Peace A Chance'/'Living Without Tomorrow', Soul Joe Clements' 'Ever, Ever'/'Smoke & Ashes' and Frank Zappa's Hot Rats released. The Government accepted the recommendations of Lord Hunt's report on policing in Northern Ireland including the abolition of the Ulster Special Constabulary. The first episode of Ours Is A Nice House broadcast on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of Foxhole In Cairo. The first episode of The Dave Allen Show broadcast. The Aquarium On Platform Two broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Zodiac Killer claimed his sixth - and final - victim, shooting San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine to death. Soon afterwards, the killer mailed a piece of Stine's shirt to the San Francisco Chronicle. Ron Geesin, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band and Led Zeppelin featured on Top Gear. Everton remained at the top of the First Division with a three-one win over relegation-haunted Sunderland. Second placed Liverpool lost one-nil to Alan Foggoan's goal at Newcastle. Burnley defeated Crystal Palace four-two. Chelsea and Derby County's two-two draw featured on Match of The Day whilst Nottingham Forest and Manchester City also shared four goals at The City Ground. Cardiff City, Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough all enjoyed four-nil victories in the Second Division (against Aston Villa, Charlton Athletic and Bolton Wanderers respectively). Bury defeated Southport four-three in the Third Division. Chesterfield walloped Notts County five-nil in the Fourth Division.
The Heiress - starring Vincent Price - broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Charlotte and Denis Plimmer's A Formula For Treason broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Never Trust A Ghost broadcast on LWT.
The scheduled episode of Counterstrike - Out Of Mind - was postponed due to a late programme chance and was never rescheduled. The video tape containing the episode was, subsequently, erased. The episode Out Of Mind was replaced by was a - previously postponed - Panorama documentary about Ronnie and Reggie Kray who, earlier that day, had been refused leave to appeal against their life sentences for their naughty murdering ways. Father Of The Man broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Black Velvet's 'Peace & Love Is The Message'/'Clown' released. The World In Action episode Put To The Test broadcast.
Raymond Baxter and James Burke interviewed the crew of Apollo 11 on Tomorrow's World. The first UK broadcast of See How They Run in BBC2's Premiere strand. The new seven-sided fifty pence coin was introduced as replacement for the ten-shilling note. In the League Cup Fourth Round, Frank Clarke scored twice as Queens Park rangers beat Wolverhampton Wanderers three-one/ West bromwich Albion thrashed Bradford City four-nil.
William Trevor's The Mark II Wife broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Real Bonanza broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Paint Your Wagon premiered. John Dexter's adaptation of The Virgin Soldiers - starring Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick and Rachel Kempson - premiered. David Bowie made his movie debut as an uncredited extra in the bar scene. Carlisle United knocked Chelsea out of the Football League Cup, Derek Hemstead scoring in a one-nil victory at Brunton Park. Oxford United one one-nil at Nottingham Forest (Ken Skeen netting the winning). Manchester City defeated Everton two-nil.
John Mortimer's A Voyage Around My Father broadcast in BBC2's Plays Of Today strand. Top Of The Pops, hosted by Alan Freeman, included Lou Christie, Bobbie Gentry, Joe Cocker, Sounds Nice and David Bowie.
What Are The Facts?: Oil On The Beaches broadcast on BBC2. Star Close-up: Joan Fontaine broadcast. Amen Corner's 'Get Back'/'Farewell To The Real Magnificent Seven', Billy Preston's 'Everything's All Right'/'I Want To Thank You', John Walker's 'Everywhere Under The Sun'/'Traces Of Tomorrow', Incredible String Band's 'Big Ted'/'All Writ Down', Neil MacArthur's 'It's Not Easy'/'12.29', The Tremeloes' '(Call Me) Number One'/'Instant Whip', Spectrum's 'Glory'/'Nodnol', The Casuals' 'Caroline'/'Naughty Boy', The Peanut Butter Conspiracy's 'Back In LA'/'Have A Little Faith', Big Bertha Featuring Ace Kefford's 'This World's An Apple'/'Gravy Booby Jamm', Root & Jenny Jackson's 'Let's Go Somewhere'/'If I Didn't Love You', Pat Campbell's 'The Deal'/'The Mission', Jeremy Spencer's 'Linda'/'Teenage Darling' and The Scaffold's 'Gin Gan Goolie'/'Liver Birds' released.
Movie-Makers: The Boulting Brothers At The NFTbroadcast. Vic Damone At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. Caravaggio's Nativity With St Francis & St Lawrence was stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo. Investigators believe the painting changed hands among the Sicilian Mafia in the decades following the robbery and may still be hidden. The Lady Of Lyons broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Rennaissance and Bridget St John featured on Top Gear. Everton beat Stoke City six-two at Goodison Park in the First Division. Jimmy Greaves scored twice in front of Match Of The Day cameras as Suprs beat Newcastle United two-one. The second was one of goals of the season, Greavsie running half the length of the pitch before rounding Ollie Burton and Willie McFaul to score. Burnley defeated Sheffield Wednesdat four-two. Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke scored as Chelsea beat West Bromwich Albion two-nil. Graham Winstanley scored a late winner as Carlisle United beat Second Division leaders Queens Park Rangers three-two. Fellow promotion-chasers heffiled United also lost at home to Blackpool by the same score. Watford thrashed Portsmouth four-nil. Terry Bell scored three and Harry Kirk two in Hartlepool's five-two victory over Bradford Park Avenue in the Fourth Division. Aldershot beat Nothampton Town by the same score. Phil Boyer hit two in York City's four-two defeat of Colchester United.
What The Hell Ever Happens In Malborough? broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Someone's Knocking At Me Door broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatrestrand. What Did You Do In The War, Mummy? broadcast on Radio 4. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode That's How Murder Snowballs broadcast on LWT.
Donovan appeared on The Andy Williams Show. Master Of The Microscope broadcast in the Horizon strand. Roy Ward Baker's Moon Zero Two - starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell and Adrienne Corri - premiered. Arsenal shared a goalless draw at Sporting Lisbon in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round first leg. George Best's penalty eased Manchester united past Burnley in a League Cup Fourth Round replay. The World In Action episode State Of The Lion broadcast.
In the first of three Free For All documentaries, 'several hundred young people, including hippies, greasers, skinheads and Hell's Angels, have been invited to forget their differences and meet under one roof to tell us about themselves.' The first UK broadcast of The Sound Of Anger in BBC2's Premiere strand. Jack Kerouac died.
Alan Plater's Close The Coalhouse Door broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Fleetwood Mac appeared on Peter Sarstedt: On Losers. Led Zeppelin II released. AC Milan won the Intercontinental Cup against Estudiantes four-two on agrregate. In the second leg in Buenos Aries, two Italian players were assaulted and events took a surreal turn when stretcher-bound Milan striker Néstor Combin was arrested by Argentine police for alleged draft dodging (Combin was born in Argentina but represented France at international level). The match had immediate political ramifications, partly due to Argentina's (ultimately successful) bid to host the World Cup in 1978. Several of the Estudiantes players were arrested and goalkeeper Alberto Poletti, who had punched Gianni Rivera, kicked Combin and clashed with supporters after the match, was handed a life ban. Ramon Suárez, who had broken Combin's nose, was banned from internationals for five years. The match was also partly to blame for a subsequent boycott of the Intercontinental Cup by several European teams over the following decade. Scotland lost what would turn out to be a vital World Cup Qualifier three-two against West Germany in Hamburg. Jimmy Johnstone and Alan Gilzean scored for the Scots, Kluas Fichtel, Gerd Müller and Reinhard Libuda for the home side. Tommy Gemmill was sent off two minutes from time for a violent retaliation after being fouled (although, to be completely fair, whom amongst use hasn't wanted to kick Helmut Haller up a-height on general principle at least once in our lives?) Wales lost three-one to East Germany at Ninian Park, their ninth consecutive international defeat. Dave Powell of Sheffield United scored for the hosts, for whom West Bromwich Albion's Dicky Kryzwicki made his international debut.
The first episode of BBC2's adaptation of The Canterbury Tales broadcast. Convicted of espionage eight years earlier, spies Morris Cohen and Lona Cohen, better known by their aliases as Peter and Helen Kroger, were released from prison. Morris Cohen had been serving a twenty-year sentence at Parkhurst, while his wife had been held at Holloway. They were reunited in London, taken to Heathrow Airport and put on a flight to Warsaw, from which they arrived in the Soviet Union.
Herman's Hermits appeared on Crakerjack. Fairport convention featured on Line-Up Friday: Pop Into Bed. Gladys Knight & The Pips' 'Nitty Gritty'/'Got Myself A Good Man', The Temptations' 'Run Away Child, Running Wild'/'I Need Your Lovin', The Bar-Kays' 'Midnight Cowboy'/'AJ The House Fly', The Pentangle's 'Light Flight (Theme from Take Three Girls)'/'Cold Mountain', The Marmalades 'Butterfly'/'I Shall Be Released', House Of Lords' 'In The Land Of Dreams'/'Ain't Gonna Wait Forever', Pavement's 'Double Decker Of A Man'/'Saffron', Horatio Soul's 'Nobody's Gonna Sleep Tonight'/'Turn Around Baby', Jimmy Cliff's 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People'/'Hard Road To Travel', The Intrigues' 'In A Moment'/'Scotchman Rock' and The Plastic Ono Band's 'Cold Turkey'/'Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)' released. And, in the case of the latter, immediatey banned. Paul McCartney (MBE) appeared in public for the first time since the notoriously bollocks 'Paul Is Dead' rumour had first reared its ugly head in America. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, Macca told reporters 'rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.' The New York Daily News' reported this nonsense under the headline Paul McCartney Insists He's Alive. John Brason's Walk A Crooked Path - starring Tenniel Evans, Faith Brook and Patricia Haines - premiered.
Tutankhamen Post-Mortem broadcast on BBC2. Edward Woodward and Frank Gorshin were amongst the guests on The Dave Allen Show. West Bromwich Albion's two-one victory over Manchester United saw the club debut of Ally Robertson , he first of six hundred and twenty two games for The Throstles in a career that lasted until 1986. Liverpool beat Southampton four-one. Everton remained six points clear at the top, Joe Royle scoring in a one-nil victory at Coventry City. Allan Clarke scored twice as Leeds United beat Derby County two-nil on Match of The Day, which carried a pre-game warning to those of a nervous disposition that this was not for the faint-hearted. Frank Worthing scored twice in Huddersfield Town's three-two win at Hull City in the Second Division. Blackburn Rovers went top following a three-one defeat of Leicester City. Rochdale joined the Third Division promotion-chase, winning three-nil at Southport. Bury thrashed Barrow four-nil. Jim Bowie scored twice for Oldham Athletic in a four-two victory over Aldershot and also netted an own goal at the other end. Fat Mattress and The Keef Hartley Band featured on Top Gear. The first episode of Pilgrim's Way broadast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK TV showing of A French Mistress. Allan Prior's Trespassers broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Roy Ward Baker's Moon Zero Two - starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell and Adrienne Corri - premiered. Rio Song Festival 1969 broadcast on Radio 2. The Patriot broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand. Alan Pryce-Jones's October In New York broadcast on Radio 3. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Just For The Record broadcast on LWT.
CERN broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Johnny Cash appeared on The Andy Williams Show. The World In Action episode Unknown Soldier broadcast.
Lord Snowdon and Derek Hart's documentary Love Of A Kind broadcast.
The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Apple Records' Trash were guests on BBC2's Peter Sarstedt. Derby County thumped Crystal Palace three-nil in a Footnall League Cup Fourth Round replay. Meanwhile the Fifth Round got underway with Manchester City defeating Queens Park Rangers by the same score. Peter Lorimer scored three as Leeds United hammered Nottingham Forest six-one in the First Division. With both Johnny Giles and Billy Bremner injured, rare starts for Mick Bates and Terry Hibbert produced goals for both.
Portrait of Petula broadcast on BBC2. Five constituencies went to the polls in by-elections. Labour retained Glasgow Gorbals, Islington North, Newcastle-Under-Lyme and Paddington North but lost Swindon to the Tories. Glasgow Rangers thrashed Dundalk six-one in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round (Willie Henderson and Alkex Ferguson each scoring twice).
Lon Chaney Junior was interviewed in Star Close-Up. Edward De Bono featured in BBC2's What Are The Facts? Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's 'The Onion Song'/'I Can't Believe You Love Me', Hugh Masekela's 'I Haven't Slept'/'Where Has All The Grass Gone?', The Moody Blues' 'Watching & Waiting'/'Out & In', Sean McLeod's 'Living Without You'/'Love Song From Another Planet', Jeannie C Riley's 'Things Go Better With Love'/'The Back Side Of Dallas', The Love Affair's 'Baby I Know'/'Accept Me For What I Am', Writing On The Wall's 'Child On A Crossing'/'Lucifer Corpus', Arcadium's 'Sing My Song'/'Riding Alone', Brian Parrish's 'In Good Time (Love Chant)'/'I Wanna Go To Sleep', Sweet Plum's 'Lazy Day'/'Let No Man Steal Your Thyme', Acid Gallery's 'Dance Round The Maypole'/'Right Toe Blues', Garland Green's 'Jealous Kind Of Fella'/'I Can't Believe You Quit Me', Clifford Curry's 'She Shot A Hole In My Soul'/'We're Gonna Hate Ourselves In The Morning', Phillis Dillon's 'Lipstick On Your Collar'/Tommy McCook & The Supersonics' 'Tribute To Rameses', Pioneers' 'Black Bud'/'Too Late', House Of Lords' 'In The Land Of Dreams'/'Ain't Gonna Wait Forever', Major Lance's 'The Beat'/'You'll Want Me Back' and The Alan Bown!'s 'Gypsy Girl'/'All I Can' released.
The Last Days Of Minos broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Bryan Forbes and Danny Kaye were among the guests on Simon Dee. Christine Perfect featured on Top Gear. Late Call broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. TWA Flight Eighty Five landed safely at Rome's Fiumicino Airport eighteen hours after it had been hijacked during a scheduled flight in California. The Boeing 707 was en route to San Francisco when Marine Lance Corporal Raphael Minichello entered the cockpit with a carbine rifle and directed the six-member crew to travel East. Minichello subsequently escaped from the Italian police. Hours later, he was recaptured, found 'shivering in his underwear near The Appian Way.' In the First Division Derby County defeated Liverpool four-nil, Arsenal won five-one at Crystal Palace (John Radford scoring three), Newcastle United beat Burnley one-nil at Turf Moor whilst Everton remained top of the league with a single-goal victory over Nottingham Forest. Diane Parish born in Tottenham. Cardiff City thrashed Hull City six-nil in the Second Division. Sheffield United battered Blackburn Rovers four-nil. Peterborough United's John Wile scored at both ends in their five-two defeat at Brentford in the Fourth Division. Leaders Port Vale beat Newport County three-one.
The first UK TV showing of The Sporting Life. A performance of Peter Grimes broadcast on BBC2. Noel Edmonds made his Radio 1 debut filling in on the post-Mike Raven's R & B Show Sunday evening slot. Tragically, he was considered good enough to be invited back. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Murder Ain't What It Used To Be broadcast on LWT.
Nana Mouskouri guested on Kenneth McKellar Sings A Song For Everyone. Snap, Crackle & Bang broadcast in the Horizon strand. Motown Chartbusters Volume III, Hugh McNeil's 'Celtic Four Rangers Nil'/'My Old Fenian Gun' and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Willy & The Poor Boys released. The World In Action episode The Life & Death Of James Griffiths was a reconstruction of the Glasgow gunman 'running amok' and his final shoot out with The Fuzz.
The TV début of Slade - playing, of all things, a cover of 'Martha My Dear' - on Monster Music Mash. The Moons of Saturn broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. 'Why are Saturn's ten satellites so different from each other?' wondered Patrick Moore. As of 2022 we now calculate there are actually eighty three! The first UK broadcast of Fame Is The Name Of The Game in BBC2's Premiere strand. More Power For Parliament broadcast on Radio 3. Southampton drew three-all at Vitoria de Guimaraes in the leg leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round tie (Mick Channon, Ron Davies and Terry Paine scoring). A Chris Balderstone penalty saw Carlisle United beat Oxford United in a League Cup replay.
England beat an emergent Netherlands side - containing Cruyff, Van Hanegem, Krol and Rensenbrink - one-nil in a friendly international in Amsterdam with a late goal from Colin Bell. Liverpool's Emlyn Hughes made his England debut. Scotland lost a World Cup Qualifier with Austria two-nil in Vienna and, with it, their chances of reaching the finals of an international competition effectively went up in smoke. As usual. Manchester United's Francis Burns, Hugh Curran of Wolves and Leeds United's Peter Lorimer made their Scotland debuts. Already eliminated, Wales received a four-one hiding at the hands of Italy in Rome, Gigi Riva scoring a hat-trick and Sandro Mazzola adding a fourth. Mike England scored for the visiotrs for whom Terry Yorth of Leeds United made his international debut. Dunfermline Athletic defeated Gwardia Warszawa two-one in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round. Jeff Astle scored twice as West Bromwich Albion beat Leciester City two-one in a League Cup Fifth Round replay. A Window Of Sky broadcast in Radio 4's Story Time strand. Safari To Park Lane broadcast in Radio 2's Midweek Theatre strand. The first episode of Lift Off (later, Lift Off With Ayesha) broadcast on Thames.
One's A Crowd - Presenting Frank Gorshin broadcast on BBC2. A promo clip of The Plastic Ono Band's 'Cold Turkey' was shown on Top Of The Pops, disproving John Lennon's oft-quoted claim that the song was bannd by the BBC.
Star Close-up: Mickey Rooney broadcast. No Noise Is Good Noise broadcast in BBC2's What Are The Facts? strand. The Pink Floyd's Ummagumma, Octopus's 'Laugh At The Poor Man'/'Girlfriend', Harvey Matusow's Jew's Harp Band's 'Afghan Red'/'Wet Socks', The Exception's 'Pendulum'/'Don't Torture Your Mind', Take Three's 'Diane'/'Home', Bud Flanagan's 'Who Do You Think You're Kidding Mister Hitler?'/'It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo!', Shy Limbs' 'Lady In Black'/'Trick Or Two', The Annie Rocket Band's 'A Little Smile On Christmas Morning'/'Apology For Living', Billie Davis's 'Nights In White Satin'/'It's Over', Jimmy Thomas' '(We Ain't Here Looking For) No Trouble'/'Springtime', Three Dog Night's 'Eli's Coming'/'Circle For A Landing', Raphael's 'The Sound Of The Trumpet'/'I Believe', The Influence's 'I Want To Live'/'Driving Me Wild', Contrast's 'Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye'/'We Can Make It If We Try' and Stevie Wonder's 'Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday'/'I'd Be A Fool Right Now' released.
The Star Trek episode What Are Little Girls Made Of? broadcast; it was the last episode of the series to be shown in black and white. Patrick Moore's Can You Speak Venusian? broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Juicy Lucy and Juke Boy Bonner featured on Top Gear. Newcastle United beat Sunderland three-nil in the Tyne-Wear derby with two goals from Keith Dyson and one by Wyn Davies. Elsewhere in the First Division, Leeds United thrashed Ipswich Town four-nil, Arsenal stuffed Derby County by the same score, Ian Hutchinson scored twice in Chelsea's three-one victory at Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United won two-one at Coventry City. Leaders Everton lost, two-nil, at West Bromwich Albion. In the Second Division, two of the promotion-chasers met at Loftus Road with Match Of The Day cameras present, Queens Park Rangers defeating Sheffield United two-one. Huddersfield Town remained top, winning two-one at Norwich City. Luton Town stayed top of the Third Division, despite drawing their third game in succession (one-all against Barnsley. Malcolm Macdonald scored for the hosts, Pat Howard for the visitors. Evelyn Rothwell appeared on Desert Island Discs.
A Year In The Life For Rebel Rocker Tony broadcast on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of The Password Is Courage. The Zodiac Killer mailed a seven-page letter to the San Francisco Chronicle stating that two policemen stopped and spoken with him about three minutes after he shot Paul Stine in October. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Whoever Heard Of A Ghost Dying? broadcast on LWT.
Ray Charles, Mama Cass Elliott and The Creedence Clearwater Revival appeared on The Andy Williams Show. Canada Goose broadcast on BBC2. John Sturges's Marooned and A Change Of Habit - starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore - premiered. Huddersfield Town went three points lcear at the top of the Second Division, winning three-one at Preston North End. The World In Action episode Ken Petty, Alas No Longer With Us looked at 'the alternative life styles of young people who have dropped out of society.'
Garbo and the first episode of BBC2's Britain's Role In The Seventies broadcast.
Alan Gosling's Happy - starring Malcolm McDowell - broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Vera Lynn featured in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. Both Leeds United and Glasgow Celtic enjoyed three-nil victories in the first leg of the European Cup Second Round (against Ferencváros and Benfica respectively). Gornik Zabrze beat Glasgow Rangers threee-one in Poland in the Cup Winners Cup. Turkish cup winners Goztepe Izmir Cardiff City three-nil but Manchester City defeated Lierse SK in Belgium by the same score. Vitoria de Setubal beat Liverpool one-nil in the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tie, but Southampton cruised past another Portuguese side, Vitoria de Guimaraes, winning their second leg five-one. Rodney Fern scored three in Leicester City's three-two victory at Bolton Wanderers in the Second Division. Derby Count and Manchester united shared a goalless draw in the League Cup Fifth Round.
The Star Spangled Scotsman broadcast on BBC2. The last episode of Top Of The Pops to be broadcast in black and white hosted by Alan Freeman and featuring Gene Vincent, Malcolm Roberts, The Tremeloes, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, Nancy Sinatra and a promo film of The Beatles 'Something'. Mad Ken Russell's adaptation of Women In Love - starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Vladek Sheybal and Sharon Gurney - premiered. Glasgow Rangers completed a comfortable aggregate victory over Dundalk in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning three-nil in Ireland with Colin Stein netting two. His former club, Hibernian (for whom Stein had played and scored in an earlier round) won the first leg of their Second round tie with a three-one defeat of Lokomotive Leipzig (Joe McBride hitting three).
The first colour programme, An Evening With Petula, broadcast on BBC1. A Mini From Milan broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Apollo 12 - piloted by Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Al Bean - launched. David Bowie's self-titled second LP (subsequently known as Space Oddity), Marsha Hunt's 'Desdemona'/'Hippy Gumbo', Syd Barrett's 'Octopus'/'Golden Hair', Andwellas Dream's 'Mister Sunshine'/'Shades Of Grey', Sprong & The Nyah Shuffle's 'Moon Walk/'Think', The Marmalade's 'Reflections Of My Life'/'Rollin' My Thing', Nite People's 'Is This A Dream?'/'Creme Tea', Onyx's 'Time Off'/'Movin' On', Marc Brierley's 'Lady Of The Light'/'Sunny Weather', Aphrodite's Child's 'Let Me Love, Let Me Live'/'Marie Jolie', The Brixton Market's 'Children Get Ready'/'Bangarang', Cardboard Orchestra's 'Nothing But A Sad Sad Song'/'Yes I Heard A Little Bird', Tony Blackburn's 'Blessed Are The Lonely'/'Wait For Me', Michael Lewis' 'Irma's Theme'/'Aurelia's Theme', Marcel Latour & His Orchestra's 'Women In Love'/'Kes', Fats Domino's 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey'/'So Swell When You're Well', Lou Christie's 'Lightnin' Strikes'/'Cryin' In The Streets', Judy Collins' 'Turn, Turn, Turn'/'Mister Tambourine Man' and Scott Walker's Scott 4 released. The Space Hopper was introduced to the United Kingdom. The Cambridge Evening News contained an advertisement for the hopper and described it as 'a trend.' Ken Loach's Kes - starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland and Brian Glover - premiered.
Full colour transmission began on BBC1 (at least, for those who owned a colour set). Liverpool beating West Ham two-nil at Anfield was the first Match Of The Day broadcast to all areas of the country in colour (the BBC had been recording occasional games in colour since 1968 and broadcasting the odd one to certain areas). Chris Lawler and Bobby Graham scored. Many people discovered that Starfleet uniforms were actually red, yellow and blue rather than various shades of grey as Star Trek was now shown in colour for the first time in the UK (it was a memorable episode too, Arena). The One Hundred Days broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Forest and High Tide featured on Top Gear. Dudley Moore appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Manchester derby saw City thrash United four-nil (Colin Bell scoring twice). Other First Division highlights included Derby County's three-nil defeat of bottom-of-the-table Sunderland, Newcastle's three-one victory over Nottingham Forest and Chelsea and Everton drawing one-all in a top-of-the-table clash at Stamford Bridge. Huddersfield thrashed Portsmouth four-nil in the Second Division. In the FA Cup First Round, a large number of lower league sides, ten, reached the next stage at the first attempt. Northern Premier League Bangor City walloped Lancashire Combination Kirkgy Town six-nil, Southern League Brentwood Town defeated Third Division Reading, one-nil, with John Charles as player-manager, Hereford United won two-one at Chelmsford City (Dudley Tyler and Mick Lewis on-target for The Bulls). Oxford City had a two-nil victory at Cheltenham Town, fellow Isthmian Leaguers Sutton United won one-nil at Athenian League Dagenham (John Faulkner netting the winner), Hendon defeated Carshalton Athletic five-three (John Baker and Paul Collet netting twice for the hosts, Lee Burnham replying with two for the visitors). Hillingdon Borough beat Wimbledon two-nil (Bill Carter and Seth Vafiadis on-target), Len Smith scored two as South Shields defeated Fourth Division strugglers Bradford Park Avenue two-one, West Midlands League Tamworth won two-one against Torquay United (Graham Jessop scoring the winner) and Barnet edged past Walton & Hersham, one-nil. Midland League Alfreton Town and Barrow drew one-all, as did Macclesfield Town and Scnuthorpe United, Northampton Town had a goalless encounter with Weymouth whilst Wigan Athletic and Third Division leaders Port Vale also required a replay after one-all draw. Brighton & Hove Albion beat Ishtmian League Enfield two-one, Peterborough United won four-one at South Western League Falmouth Town, Hartlepool thumped Amateur Cup holders North Shields three-nil, Aldershot had a fine seven-nil victory at Margate (Dennis Brown and Jack Howarth both scored hat-tricks), Oldham Athletic cruised to a third-one win against Midland League Grantham Town, Wrexham hammered Spennymoor United four-one, Bristol Rovers had a three-nil victory at Telford United, Shrewsbury Town won three-two at Yeovil Town and York City defeated Whitby Town two-nil.
The first episodes of Clangers and Special Project Air broadcast. Psy-Fi broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The House On Haunted Hill broadcast on LWT.
The Sun newspaper was relaunched as a tabloid under the ownership of odious right-wing shit Rupert Murdoch. The first episodes of Take Three Girls and Pegasus broadcast. There's A Rhino In The Sugar broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. All Souls' Night broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The World In Action episode Five Days In Washington broadcast.
Tokyo - The Fifty First Volcano broadcast. Europa looked at how other countries in Europe viewed the Common Market. Dunfermline Athletic reached the third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning one-nil at Gwardia Warszawa. In the fourth English-versus-Portugal clash in the same competiton's Second Round, Newcastle United shared a goalless draw with FC Porto. Stockport County won one-nil at Cheshire Counties League Mossley in an FA Cupo replay. Scunthorpe United defeated Macclesfield Town four-two. Luton Town also reached the Second Round, beating Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic three-one. Chelsea won four-one at struggling Ipswich Town in the First Division. The first episodes of Cribbins and Happy Ever After and the first UK broadcast of Branded on Thames.
The first episode of The Doctors broadcast. Hugo Charteris's There Is Also Tomorrow broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Protest In The Ranks: Resistance broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Pete Conrad and Al Bean became the third and fourth men (respectively) to walk on the Moon. Ross Mathie scored twice as Kilmarnock thrashed Slavia Sofia four-one in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round. Frank Rankmore scored twice in Northampton Town's three-one victory at Weymouth in an FA Cup replay. Biran Kidd hit the winner as Manchester United defeated Derby County one-nil in an League Cup Fifth Round replay to set up a Semi-Final tie against neghbours City. Meanwhile the first leg of the other Semi-Final took place, Frank Barton netting the only goal in Carlisle United's victory over West Bromwich Albion. Leeds United thumped Sunderland two-nil in the First Division. The first episode of The Benny Hill Show broadcast on Thames. And, fifteen years later, Benny was still telling exactly the same jokes about slapping the little bald man on the head. This Is Your Life returned to TV on Thames five years after it had ended on the BBC.
The first episode of BBC2's The Price Of Fame broadcast. Conrad and Bean spent a second day on the Moon. Hibernian reached the Third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup following a one-nil victory against Lokomotive Leipzig in East Germany.
Vanity Fare appeared on Crackerjack. Trois Chambres A Manhattan shown in BBC2's French Cinema strand. The Moody Blues' To Our Children's Children's Children, Ron Grainer's 'The Paul Temple Theme'/'The Jazz Age', John Barry's 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'/'We Have All The Time In The World', Trapeze's 'Send Me No More Letters'/'Another Day', The Dave Clark Five's 'Good Old Rock 'N' Roll Parts 1 & 2', Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Green River'/'Commotion', Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell's 'All I Have To Do Is Dream'/'Walk Right Back', Louis Armstrong's 'All The Time In The World'/'Pretty Little Missy' and Kevin Ayers' Joy Of A Toy released. The first episode of Curry & Chips broadcast on London Weekend.
Where The River Bends shown in the High Adventure strand. Renaissance featured on BBC2's Review strand. Tell Me A Story broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Skynet One, the UK's first military communications satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy. In the First Division, Everton beat Burnley two-one to remain five points lcear at the top. Sheffiled United thrashed Aston Villa five-nil in the Second Division (Eddie Colquhoun scoring twice). Southport wallopoed Reading six-two in the third Division (Tony Field netting a hat-trick). Tyrannosaurus Rex featured on Top Gear ('Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart', 'Pavillions Of The Sun', 'A Day Laye', 'By The Light Of The Magical Moon', 'Wind Cheater', 'Summertime Blues', 'Jewel', 'Hot Love'). Elvis Presley's 'Suspicious Minds'/'You'll Think Of Me' released.
The first episode of Paul Temple broadcast. Hickory Dockery broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Desmond Davis's A Nice Girl Like Me - starring Barbara Ferris and Harry Andrews and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Scacco Alla Regina - starring Rosanna Schiaffino and Haydée Politoff - premiered. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode When Did You Start To Stop Seeing Things? broadcast on LWT.
Fit To Live? broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Apollo 12 splashed down, ending the second manned mission to the Moon. The United States and the Soviet Union both signalled their joint ratification of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the simultaneous signing of the document. The US Army ordered the court-martial of Lieutenant William L Calley on one hundred and nine charges of murder in connection with the My Lai Massacre. The World In Action episode A Welcome In The Hillsides broadcast. John James finally settled an FA Cup tie in Port Vale's favour as they beat Wigan Athletic at the third attempt at Old Trafford. Meanwhile, Bobby Know and Joe Fletcher were on-target as Barrow overcame Alfreton in a third replay at Preston. Reading thrashed Tranmere Rovers five-one in the Third Division.
Peter Cook, Ronnie Corbett and The Hollies were the guests on Cilla. The first UK TV showing of The Ugly American on BBC2. John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen to protest against the British Government's involvement in Biafra and support of the US war in Vietnam ('and 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts'). Tosser. Alvin Rakoff's Crossplot - starring Roger Moore, Claudie Lange and Alexis Kanner - premiered. Malcolm Macdonald scored against his former club as Luton Town beat Fulham to go two points clear at the top of the third Division.
Johnny Speight's Double Bill - starring Marty Feldman - broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. There Was This Dog ... broadcast. James Thurber's My World ... & Welcome To It: Little Girls Are Sugar & Spice - & Not Always Nice broadcast on BBC2. Whilst Leeds United comfortable won their European Cup Second Round tie with Ferencváros (with a three-nil victory in Budapest), Glasgow Celtic lost three-nil at Benfica. With the tie all-sqaure after extra-time, Billy McNeill called correctly and Celtic won on the toss of a coin. Kilmarnock reached the Third Round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup despite losing two-nil to Slavia Sofia in Bulgaria. Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle uNited all joined them - and Southampton - in the next round, all defeating Portuguese oppositon. The Gunners hammered Sporting Lison, three-nil, The Reds needed a late Tommy Smith penalty to scrape past Vitoria de Setubal three-two and, for The Magpies, Jim Scott scored the only goal of the game. Glasgow Rangers exited the Cup Winners Cup, Jim Baxter scoring in the three-one defeat against Gornik Zabrze. Cardiff City were also knocked out, winning one-nil against Goztepe Izmir but losing on aggregate. Manchester City marched on, thrashing Lierse SK five-nil. Third Division relegation candidates Gillingham hammered Plymouth Argyle four-nil. Peterborough United larruped Oldham Athletic eight-one in the Fourth Division. Jim Hall scored four and Peter Price three. The first episode of The Champions - The Beginning starring Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt and Stuart Damon - broadcast on Thames, a year after its debut on several other ITV regions.
Personal View: Jimmy Savile broadcast in the Scene strand. 'Jimmy Savile earns enough money from one day's work a week not to have to work on the other six days,' noted Radio Times. 'How does he spend those six free days?' We would find out. Eventually. Michael Dean interviewed Tom Wolfe, author of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on Line-Up: Thursday. The first nationwide teachers strike in Britiain took place.
Those Concerned broadcast in the Free For All strand. Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'Someday We'll Be Together'/'He's My Sunny Boy', The Equals' 'Rub A Dub Dub'/'After The Lights Go Down Low', The Californians' 'You've Got Your Troubles'/'Early Morning Sun', Medicine Head's 'His Guiding Hand'/'This Love Of Old', Brian Fahey & His Orchestra's 'Countdown'/'Open House', Robin Gibb's 'One Million Years'/'Weekend', Cuby + Blizzards' 'Appleknockers Flophouse'/'Go Down Sunshine', Shubert's 'She Was A Woman'/'Green Green Boy', Symarip's 'Skinhead Moon Stomp'/'Must Catch A Train', Tina Charles' 'Good To Be Alive'/'Same Old Story' and Arrival's 'Friends'/'Don't Turn His Love Away' released. BBC2's What Are The Facts? focused on cannabis use.
Cilla Black, Mary Hopkin and convicted sex offender Rolf Harris appeared on The Harry Secombe Show. BBC2's Review profiled Rudolf Nureyev. Soft Machine ('Instant Pussy', 'Mousetrap/Noisette/Backwards Ballad/Mousetrap Reprise/Pig/Orange Skin Food/A Door Opens And Closes/10:30 Returns To The Bedroom') and Black Sabbath featured on Top Gear. Tommy Roe's 'Jam Up Jelly Tight'/'Moontalk' and Barbara Acklin's 'Am I The Same Girl (Soulful Strut)'/'Be By My Side' released. Lillian Board appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Icelandic Hero broadcast on Radio 3. Nottingham Forest's two-nil victory at Derby County featured on Match Of The Day (Ian Storey-Moore and Barry Lyons were on-target). Other First Division highlights included Leeds United's two-one victory at Manchester City and Arsenal winning one-nil at Liverpool. In the Second Division Bolton Wanderers won a remarkable game against Queens Park rangers six-fou and Preston North End beat Swindon Town three-one.
Berlioz - A Singular Obsession broadcast in the Omnibus strand. John Bull's Workshop broadcast in BBC2's Bird's-Eye View strand. Conversation At Night broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Callers' department store on Newcastle's Northumberland Street burned down, the biggest fire the city had seen since the war. Eighty eight firefighters using fifteen appliances struggled for five hours to bring the blaze under control. Tex Watson, who had carried out most of the killing of the seven victims in the Tate-La Bianca murders under the direction of Charles Manson, was arrested in McKinney, Texas after the Los Angeles Police Department identified his fingerprints at the scene. Several others involved in the sick killing spree were arrested over the following days. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The Ghost Who Saved The Bank At Monte Carlo broadcast on LWT.
The Smothers Brothers, Judy Collins, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap and The Osmond Brothers featured on The Andy Williams Show. Don't Cackle Lay Eggs broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Michael Cort's Zeta One - starring James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey, Dawn Addams and Anna Gaël - premiered. Roger Dixon's Galico Cay broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the World In Action episode The Breadline lower income workers discussed how they managed to cope on poor wages, amongst politicians and trade union leaders.

Charles Denton's documentary Stampede broadcast. The Grand Tour broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. 'In the late 1970s a spacecraft may be sent on a tour of four of the outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - using the gravity and orbital speed of each to boost it on to the next and sending back photographs and scientific information,' noted Radio Times. Patrick Moore discussed the chances of success for this ambitious project - which eventually became Voyager - with Iain Nicolson and Doctor WH Pickering, the head of America's unmanned scientific space programme. Back Street shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. Carry On Again Doctor - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan Sim, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Peter Butterworth, Patsy Rowland and Wilfred Brambell - premiered.
Leon Whiteson's Blood Of The Lamb broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Overcrowded Profession broadcast in the Man Alive strand. West Bromwich Albion reached the League Cup Final with a four-one victory over Carlisle United. In the first leg of the other Semi-Final, Manchester City beat neighbours United two-one thanks to a late Francis Lee penalty. The Champions episode The Invisible Man broadcast on Thames.
Thirty year old 'public-relations man', briefly, international sprinter and future convicted perjurer Jeffrey Archer won the Louth by-election for the Tories. The Black Panther Party's Illinois chairman, Fred Hampton and his associate, Mark Clark were killed by the Chicago Police, who were raiding the Panther location searching for illegal weapons. Having boasted to fellow prisoners of her involvement in the Tate-LaBianca murders and been snitched up to the authorities, Susan Atkins (in jail for an unrelated offence) agreed to cooperate and makes a deal with prosectors. Over the following days, details of her grand-jury testimony were widely reported. Vincent Bugliosi, an LA deputy district attorney, took over as prosecutor in the case.
Hijack broadcast. Malcolm Muggeridge's Mother Teresa Of Calcutta. The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed, The Kinks' 'Victoria'/'Mister Chrchill Says', Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love'/'Livin' Lovin' Maid (She's A Woman)', Earth's 'Resurrection City'/'Comical Man', King Horror's 'Cutting Blade'/'The Vampire', The Dillards' 'Rainmaker'/'West Montana Hannah', Alex Harvey's 'Midnight Moses'/'Roman Wall Blues', Fifth Dimension's 'Sunshine Of Your Love'/'Workin' On A Groovy Thing', BJ Thomas's 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head'/'Never Had It So Good', Pioneers' 'Poor Rameses'/Beverley All Stars' 'In Orbit', Ansel Collins' 'Night Of Love'/Derrick Morgan's 'Copy Cat', Hamilton's 'Easy Rider'/'Hare Krishna', Sacha Distel's 'Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head'/'Don't Tell Me You Love Me', JJ All Stars' 'Memphis Underground (Parts 1 & 2)', The Melodians' 'Sweet Sensation'/'It's My Delight', Rulers' 'Got To Be Free'/'Situation', Craig Douglas's 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'/'Don't Mind If I Cry', Tony Roberts' 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'/'The Windows Of The World', Jeannie Dee's 'Don't Go Home My Little Darling'/'Come See About Me' and Badfinger's 'Come And Get It'/'Rock Of All Ages' released. In Los Angeles, the District Attorney applied for a 'Conspiracy to Murder' indictment against Charles Manson, described as 'the bearded high-priest of the hippy commune believed responsible for the Sharon Tate killings.'
Sandy Brown scored a memorable diving headed own goal in the Merseyside derby on Match Of The Day. Liverpool won three-nil. Elsewhere in the First Division, Leeds United beat Wolverhampton Wanderers three-one, Manchester City won four-nil at West Ham United (Ian Bowyer scoring twice), Coventry City defeated Tottenham Hotspur three-two, Newcastle United won one-nil at Stoke City and Chelsea secured a two-nil victory at Manchester United. Three lower league sides reached the FA Cup Third Round at the first attempt, Sutton United winning two-nil at Barnet, Brentwood Town defeating Hendon by the same score and Hillingdon Borough causing the shock of the Second Round, with a two-one victory over Third Division Luton Town. Bangor City and South Shields, both of the Nothern Premier League, both forced replays again league oppositon (York City and Oldham Athletic respectively). Gillingham thrashed Tamworth six-nil (Ray Bailey netting three) and Swansea City won five-one at Oxford City (David Gwyther hitting four). Back To Bikini broadcast in BBC2's Cameron Country strand. Skin Alley and Stone The Crows featured on Top Gear. Meredith Hunter was murdered by a group of Hell's Angels at The Rolling Stones disastrous free concert at Altamont Speedway Stadium in California which, together with the breaking news of the arrest of Charles Manson provided journalists with handy death-of-the-Sixties metaphors ever since. A group of students occupied Harvard University in a demonstration organised by the militant Organisation for Black Unity. Former Olympic long-distance champion Emil Zatopek was dismissed as a Colonel in the Czech army for 'violating legal norms.' Liverpool's teenage striker Alun Evans received sixty stitches to his face after being glassed in a Wolverhampton nightclub, The Oasis.
The episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring The Parrot Sketch broadcast. It was not dead. Merely resting. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's Lecture To An Academy broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode For The Girl Who Has Everything broadcast on LWT. Derek Ford's A Promise Of Bed - starring Victor Spinetti, Dennis Waterman, John Bird and Vanessa Howard and Lindsay Shonteff's Night After Night After Night - starring Jack May and Justine Lord - premiered.
A grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Charles Manson and four of his followers - Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Linda Kasabian and Susan Atkins - on seven counts of murder arising from the Tate-LaBianca murders and other nefarious naughty doings. A sixth defendant, Leslie Sankston, was charged with two counts of murder in connection with the LaBianca murders. How Much Do You Drink? broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Where Crime Is A Habit looked at the work of the New York Police Department and the vigilantes groups which had come about to also tackle crime.
Following The Imperial Sunset broadcast in BBC2's Britain's Role In The Seventies strand. Strangers In A Town broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Edgar Broughton Band recorded a live set before an invited audience at Abbey Road studios. Although the only initial results were an edited single, 'Out Demons Out', the full concert was eventually released in 2004 as Keep Them Freaks A-Rollin'. Michael Hayes's The Promise - starring John Castle and Ian McKellen - premiered. South Shields won two-one at Odlham Athletic in an FA Cup Second Round replay (Len Smith scoring the winner).
Noel Coward's The Vortex broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. What's The Truth About Hell's Angels & Skinheads? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Sydney Pollock's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? premiered. England beat Portugal one-nil in a friendly international at Wembley with a Jackie Charlton goal. Though, given the fact that four English clubs had recently knocked Poruguese opposition out of the Inter-Citieis Fairs Cup, 'friendly' might not, perhaps, have been the most accurate description. York City defeated Babgor City in an FA Cup Second Round replay. The Champions episode Reply Box Number 666 broadcast on Thames.
Sports Review Of 1969 broadcast. Wimbledon Champion Ann Jones won the Sports Personality Of The Year award, beating Tony Jacklin and George Best. The first UK TV showing of This Happy Breed. Derek Ford's A Promise of A Bed - starring Victor Spinetti, Dennis Waterman, John Bird, Vanessa Howard, Alexandra Bastedo, Yutte Stensgaard and Valerie Leon - premiered.
Fourteen people were killed and ninety injured in Milan in what would become known as The Piazza Fontana Bombing. Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto shown in BBC2's The Italian Cinema strand. The End's Introspection, Morecambe & Wise's 'Bring Me Sunshine'/'Just Around The Corner', The Other Brothers' 'Let's Get Together'/'Little Girl', Alan Hull's 'We Can Swing Together'/'Obidiah's Grave', Johnny Otis's 'Country Girl'/'The Signifying Monkey' and Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief released. Joe McGrath's The Magic Christian - starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr - premiered.
Manchester United beat Liverpool four-one at Anfield on Match Of The Day including Bobby Charlton scoring a rasping twenty yard cracker in front of The Kop. Everton returned to the top of the First Division with a one-nil win at West Ham United. Wolves defeated second placed Chelsea three-nil. Veteran John Connelly scored three in Blackburn Rovers four-two victory over Preston North End in the Second Division. Sheffield United thrashed Birmingham City six-nil. Malcolm Macdonald hit three in Luton Town's five-nil drubbing of Bradford City in the Third Division. Moby Dick & The Great American Novel broadcast on BBC2. Al Stewart and Free ('Trouble On Double Time', 'Mister Big', 'I'll Be Creepin', 'Mouthful Of Grass') featured on Top Gear. Moira Anderson appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Music Of Noel Coward broadcast on Radio 4.
Noel Coward's The Marquise broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Switch broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Jesus Franco's The Castle of Fu Manchu premiered in Madrid. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode But What A Sweet Little Room broadcast on LWT.
The Twenty Four Hours documentary The World Of John & Yoko and the first episode of The Battle Of St George Without broadcast. A Game Of War broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Wednesday's Children focused on Muscular dystrophy.
The English Village Is Alive & Well broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Spinster. Gene Kelly's Hello Dolly! premiered.
James Hanley's It Wasn't Me broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Peter Batty's The Battle Of The Bulge broadcast on BBC2. The Shoplifters broadcast in the Man Alive strand. In a record for an American late-night television show, at least thirty million viewers tuned in to watch the wedding of Tiny Tim on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Carson. Tiny's seventeen-year old bride, Victoria Mae Budinger, was quickly nicknamed 'Miss Vicky' by the American press. The first widely-publicised warning of climate change, caused by pollution, was delivered by physical scientist Joseph O Fletcher of The Rand Corporation. Fletcher told the assembled scientists that 'very substantial changes have taken place during our lifetime' in the increase in temperature, resulting in the melting of the ice caps of the Earth; that carbon dioxide had been responsible for up to one half of the warming and that although mankind's influence on the warning had been 'small' compared to natural causes, 'within another generation, man will become important, the carbon dioxide pollution apparently being the most important' and that the world had 'only a few decades to solve the problem.' And, he was right. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round first legs, Kilmarnock drew one-all with Dinamo Bacău whilst Dunfermline Athletic lost one-nil at RSC Anderlecht. Too the annoyance of many, two English sides -Southampton and Newcastle United had been drawn against each other. The shared a nil-nil draw in the first leg. Arsenal visit to Rouen also ended goalless. The two Manchester clubs drew two-two in the second leg of the League Cup Semi-Final, Mike Summerbee's rqualiser sending City through to the Final. Leeds United thrashed West Ham United four-nil to return to the top of the First Division. The Champions episode The Experiment broadcast on Thames.
Tony Palmer's documentary Will The Real Mister Sellers ... ? broadcast. Rudolph Cartier's docudrama Rembrandt - with Richard Johnson in the title role - broadcast on BBC2. The UK premières of Peter R Hunt's On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Anne Of A Thousand Days - starring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold and Anthony Quayle. Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Great Britain. Royal assent was not required because the Murder Act of 1965 had included a provision that the Act would be temporary 'unless Parliament by affirmative resolutions of both Houses otherwise determines' that it should not expire on 31 July 1970. Hibernian lost the first leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round tie, one-nil, as SV Hamburg.
Rock Hudson's Cinema and BBC2's Dateline: San Francisco broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz and James Hill's Captain Nemo & The Underwater City - starring Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman - premiered. Life magazine ran a cover story on Charles Manson giving him his first nationwide notoriety. Life presented the prosecution's version of the murders, introducing America for the first time to the 'Helter Skelter'/Race War theory. Ethiopians' 'Well Read'/'Robert F Kennedy' released.
The first UK TV showing of The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Hockney's Television broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Mighty Baby featured on Top Gear. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein appeared on Desert Island Discs. Highlights of a First Division programme reduced by weather postponements were Newcastle United's four-nil victory over Ipswich Town (Pop Robson netting two) and Nottingham Forest four-two win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Chelsea's three-one defeat of Manchester City featured on Match Of The Day.
The Ken Dodd & The Diddymen Christmas Party broadcast. The Last Of The Lapps broadcast in T|he World About Us strand. Tony Richardson's adaptation of Hamlet - starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins, Gordon Jackson and Judy Parfitt - premiered. The first episode of The Owl Service broadcast on LWT.
The World In Action episode Nancekuke Dossier investigated allegations that Britain was still producing nerve gas.
The Day The Sold Alaska and The First Night of Pygmalion broadcast. Everton went back to the top of the First Division, Alan Whittle scoring the winner in a one-nil victory over Manchester City. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Who Killed Cock Robin? broadcast on LWT.
The Spinners At The Phil broadcast. A Sky At Night Special: 1969 - Year Of Space broadcast. Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard and Kenny Everett were guests on Cilla. Johnny Cash broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Charles Manson was allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. Turner Talks Turkey broadcast on Radio 2. Daphne du Maurier was interviewed by Wilfred De'ath on Radio 4. Bernard Shaw's Overruled broadcast on Radio 3.
The Price Of Fame Or Fame At Any Price featured performances by Billy Preston, Doris Tory and Delany & Bonny (with Eric Clapton). Sir John Betjeman's Bird's-Eye View: Beside The Seaside broadcast on BBC2. The first Christmas Morecambe & Wise Show broadcast. The first UK TV showing of McLintock. Seiko, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, introduced the world's first quartz wristwatch, the Astron. Ringo Starr appeared on Kenny Everett's Christmas Show. Mark Rydell's The Reivers - starring Steve McQueen and Mitch Vogel - premiered. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - starring Cherie Lungi - broadcast on Radio 4.
The Miles Davis Quartet appeared on BBC2's Jazz Scene. Nice. The first episode of John Hale's adaptation of Hardy's The Distracted Preacher and The Coward Revue broadcast. If It Moves - It's Rude! The Story Of The Windmill Theatre broadcast. In the First Division, Liverpool won five-one at Burnley, Chelsea defeated Southampton three-one and Newcastle United beat Leeds United two-one. Alan Mullery and Steve Perryman scored in Tottenham Hotspur's two-nil defeat of Crystal Palace. Colin Suggest hit two as West Bromwich Albion beat West Ham United three-one. In the Second Division, Huddersfield Town defeated fellow promotion-chasers Sheffield United two-one whilst leaders Blackburn Rovers were losing three-nil at Hull City. Blackpool won three-two at Birmingham City. Plymouth Argyle hammered Torquay United six-ni in the Third Division (Mike Bickle scoring four). Rosko's Christmas Socking, Stuart Henry's Second Day Of Christmas and T|he Georgie Fame Show broadcast on Radio 1. Al Stewart, The Strawbs, Adrian Mitchell and Brian Patten featured on Radio 3's Poetry & Folk. The first episodes of It's Tommy Cooper and The Engelbert Humperdinck Show broadcast on LWT.
Quiz Of The Year and Just Pet broadcast. Is Art Dangerous? broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Chelsea closed the gap on Everton in the First Division, winning five-one at Crystal Palace (Peter Osgood scoring four) whilst The Toffees were losing two-one at Leeds United (on Match Of The Day). John O'Hare scored twice as Derby County beat West Bromwich Albion two-nil. Huddersfield Town returned to the top of the ASecond Division, Frank Worthington netting the winner in a two-one vicotry at Bristol City. Tommy Steele appeared on Desert Island Discs. Robert Wyatt and Sandy Denny were amongst several interviewees on Top Gear. The Moody Blues Show broadcast on Radio 1.
Ten Years Of What? broadcast on BBC2. Robert Holles' The Discharge Of Trooper Lusby broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. John Wayne & His Films broadcast. The Pentangle presented half-an-hour of 'their kind of music' on Radio 1. A dramatisation of The Box Of Delights Or When The Wolves Were Running broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The Man From Nowhere broadcast on LWT.
From Here To The Seventies broadcast. For The Safety Of Mankind broadcast in the Horizon strand. Jennifer Anne Ehle born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lindsay Shonteff's Night After Night After Night - starring Jack May and Justine Lord - premiered. The World In Action episode Last Week In Biafra broadcast.
Hitchcock At The NFT and the first episode of BBC2's While We're On The Subject broadcast. The Marowitz Hamlet broadcast in Line Up: Tuesday. A Present For Dickie broadcast on Thames.
The last night of the decade was celebrated with Pop Go The Sixties! The first UK broadcast of Elvis Presley's 1968 NBC TV special under the title The Fabulous Elvis on BBC2. Radio 1's Night Ride 'greets the New Year from Aberdeen, Jimmy Mack with swinging sounds to welcome 1970.' The Wife's Talking broadcast in Radio 2's Midweek Theatre strand. Conversations From The Arts This Week broadcast on Radio 3. The Done Thing broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.