1971

1971
The first episode of Here Come The Double Deckers broadcast. Marty Abroad broadcast on BBC2. Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Moore, Brian Dear and Clyde Best were involved in a late-night drinking session, against the wishes of West Ham's manager, Ron Greenwood, prior to an FA Cup tie at Blackpool. On arriving in the seaside resort, the players had been informed by members of the press that the game the following day was unlikely to go ahead due to a frozen pitch. Greaves was reported to have drunk twelve pints of lager in a club owned by Brian London and did not return to the team hotel until 1.45am. The game, however, did got ahead and Tony Green tore West Ham apart, scoring twice and setting up the other two goals in a four-nil win featured on Match of The Day. John le Carré's The Naïve & Sentimental Lover published. The Byrds' 'Chestnut Mare'/'Just A Season' released. Zoltan G Spencer's The Hand Of Pleasure - starring Terri Johnson, Maria Arnold and Roxanne Brewer - premiered.

The first appearances of The Master and Jo Grant in the opening episode of the Doctor Who series Terror Of The Autons. The first episode of It's Cliff Richard broadcast. The Ocean Striding Sea-Bison broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Soft Machine featured on Top Gear. Sasha Distel appeared on Desert Island Discs. An appalling and tragic crush at Ibrox in the final moments of the Glasgow derby caused the deaths of sixty six spectators. Celtic had taken a late lead through Jimmy Johnstone, but with virtually the last kick of the game, Colin Stein equalised. As thousands of spectators were leaving the ground by stairway thirteen, it appeared that someone may have fallen, causing a massive chain-reaction pile-up of people. Most of the deaths were caused by compressive asphyxia. More than two hundred fans were also injured. Ten ties fell victim to the cold weather on FA Cup Third Round day. York City of the Fourth Division toppled Bolton Wanderers two-nil whilst West Bromwich Albion failed to beat Scunthorpe United at home. In an all-Welsh clash, Swansea City beat Rhyl six-one (Dai Gwyther scoring a hat-trick for the second round in succession). Jimmy Husband marked his return to the Everton team with both goals in a two-nil win against Blackburn Rovers. Crystal Palace and Chelsea drew two-two whilst Wolverhampton Wanderers' four goals in the second-half help them to defeat Norwich City five-one. Arsenal survived a tricky trip to Yeovil Town, winning three-nil. Manchester City also defeated minor-league opposition, Colin Bell scoring the only goal gainst Wigan Athletic. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic won two-one at Barrow in the Fourth Division (Ted MacDougall netting both). BBC Radio Newcastle began transmission. They were unable to report on the local side as United's FA Cup tie with Ipswich was one of those postponed due to frost. Buckets & Spades & Hand Grenades broadcast on LWT.
Open University broadcasts began on BBC2. But, Radio Times was on strike that week so you might have missed it. The Mysterious Mr Eliot broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Comus, Demon Fuzz, Heron and Titus Groan featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of Turn Of The Year - Sally For Keeps, starring Zoë Wanamaker - broadcast on LWT.
Harry Fowler read Ginger Over The Wall on Jackanory. Wildlife - The Last Great Battle broadcast in the Horizon strand. The third Ashes test at Melbourne was abandoned without any play. The World In Action episode American Radio broadcast.
Hastily arranged, the first ever cricket One Day International took place in Melbourne. Australia won by five wickets. The first episode of Intimate Relationships broadcast. Barnet lost their previously postponed FA Cup Third Round tie one-nil at home to Colchester United (Mick Mahon scoring the winner). In a replay, Middlesbrough knocked out Manchester United, winning two-one at Ayresome Park.
Firstborn broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Further FA Cup ties took place, last season's giant-killers Watford revived memories of their run to the Semi-Final, Barry Endean scoring three in a fiv-nil victory over Reading. The holders, Chelsea, beat Crystal Palace two=nil in a replay. The Champions episode A Case Of Lemmings broadcast on Thames.
Alma Mater broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The first episode of The Craftsmen broadcast on BBC2.
Having previously been a pilot on Comedy Playhouse in March 1970, the first episode of That's Your Funeral broadcast. James Mossman iunterviewed John Hopkins about BBC2's Review television play competition. The Supremes' 'Stoned Love', The Dog That Bit People's 'Lovely Lady'/'Merry-Go-Round', Elton John's 'Your Song'/'Into The Old Man's Shoes', Edison Lighthouse's 'It's Up To You Petula'/'Let's Make It Up', Balls' Fight For My Country'/'Janie Slow Down', The Glass House's 'Stealing Moments From Another Woman's Life'/'If It Ain't Love, It Don't Matter', Betty Everett's 'I Got To Tell Somebody'/'Why Are You Leaving Me?', Paradise Hammer's '1+1=2'/'To Live', Mama Cass Elliot's 'The Good Times Are Comin'/'Welcome To The World' and Elvis Presley's 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me'/'Patch It Up' released. Promotion-chasing Fulham won three-nil at Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division. The first episode of Six Dates With Barker - 1937: The Renovals Person - broadcast on LWT.
The TV debut of Pauline Quirke in the Two Children episode of Dixon Of Dock Green. Bill Fay, Stephen Stills, Tear Gas and Van de Graaf Generator appeared on Disco 2. The Incredible String Band featured on Top Gear. Precipitation broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. How Far Behind Appearance? broadcast on Radio 3. Arsenal and Leeds United again swapped places at the top of the First Division, The Gunners beating West Ham United two-nil whilst Leeds were losing two-one at home to Tottenham Hotspur (Martin Chivers scored both). Manchester United, with Sir Matt Busby back in charge, won two-one at Chelsea and Wolves defeated Derby County by the same score at The Baseball Ground. Luton Town went top of the Second Division following a goalless draw with Queens Park Rangers whilst Leicester City were losing one-nil at Middlesbrough. In a top-of-the-table clash in the Third Division, Aston Villa won two-one at Bristol Rovers.
The first episode of Anatomy Of Pop - presented by Michael Parkinson broadcast. With contributions from Soft Machine, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, Fairport Convention's Dave Swarbrick and Marmalade. The World of Heinz Sielmann broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Livingston Taylor featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Jennie Linden read East Of The Sun & West Of The Moon on Jackanory. The first episode of Road Sense - introduced by Eric Thompson - broadcast. The first episode of Crime & The Criminal - presented by Michael Molyneux - broadcast on BBC2. The Drifting Of The Continents broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Wind Cannot Read - starring Martin Jarvis, Tsai Chin and Anthony Valentine - broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The much-postponed FA Cup Third Round countined. Oxford United knocked out First Division strugglers Burnley three-nil, Coventry City were another top-flight side to be eliminated, losing two-one at Third Division Rochdale (Dennis Butler netting the winner). Orient won three-nil at Sunderland. Malcolm Macdonald scored a hat-trick in a losing caused as Nottingham Forest won four-three at Luton in a replay. West Bromwich Albion won three-one at Scunthorpe. The World In Action episode Round One broadcast.
The first episode of Where In The World? broadcast. Viewpoint: Francis Thompson broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Flaming Star in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. The Employment Secretary Robert Carr's home was bombed by The Angry Brigade. The group also admitted responsibility for planting a bomb at the Department of Employment offices at Westminster. Alan Pryce-Jones Talks About Texas broadcast on Radio 3.
Scenes from Ice Station Zebra, 2001 Space Odyssey and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang featured on the latest episode of Screen Test which the guest was John Glen illustrating his work as second unit director on On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The Approach Of Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. A Country Walk: Avebury To Stonehenge broadcast. Black Girls In Search Of God broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Men Of Iron broadcast on BBC2. Peter Yates's Murphys Law - starring Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret and Horst Janson - premiered. Rory Gallagher's 'It's You', 'Just The Smile'/'Sinner Boy' released. Ipswich Town beat Newcastle uNited tow-one in an FA Cup replay. The Champions episode Project Zero broadcast on Thames.
Stephen Gilbert's Circle Line broadcast in the Play For Today strand. England won the fourth Ashes test at Sydney by two hundred and ninety nine runs. Geoff Boycott's seventy seven in the first innings and one hundred and forty two in the second was the main differences between the sides. Despite a stubborn sixty from Bill Lawry, John Snow's hostile pace skittled the Australians for one hundred and sixteen in their second innings (Snow taking seven for forty). Twenty year old Bob Willis of Surrey - flown out to Australia as a replacement for the injured Alan Ward - made his test debut. When I'm Sixty Five broadcast in BBC2's People For Tomorrow strand. Alvin Rakoff's Say Hello To Yesterday - starring Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye, Derek Francis, Geoffrey Bayldon and James Cossins - premiered. Curved Air's 'It Happened Today', 'What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up'/'Vivaldi' released.
John Ford's Stagecoach shown in the Wayne In Action strand. The first episodes of BBC2's Within These Four Walls and Get The Drift - featuring Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow, The Fivepenny Piece and their guest Bernard Cribbins - broadcast. George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord'/'What Is Life?', Donna Gaines' 'Sally Go Round The Roses'/'So Said The Man', Linsey Moore's 'Stop I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore'/'Linsey's Song', David Bowie's 'Holy Holy'/'Black Country Rock', Mason * Cass' 'Something To Make You Happy'/'Next To You', Lancelot Link & The Evolution-Revolution's 'Sha-La Love You'/'Vibrations' and Andwella's 'Are You Ready?'/'People's People' href="https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_one/1971-01-15">released. Spike Milligan's The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town broadcast in LWT's Six Dates With Barker strand. It would, subsequently, be remade as a - well-remembered - serial in The Two Ronnies in 1976. Anton Holden's Cargo Of Love - starring Sheila Britt - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Wings Of Fire in The Saturday Thriller strand. Lord Of The Isles: Lord Leverhulme broadcast on BBC2. Holy Willie's Prayer and Wizz Jones featured on Top Gear. Robert Bolt was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Arsenal's two-one defeat at Huddersfield Town (Frank Worthington scoring the winner from the penalty spot) saw Leeds United (three-two victors at West Ham United) return to the top of the First Division. Everton beat Chelsea three-nil whilst Blackpool and Manchester City shared six goals at Bloomfield Road. Birmingham City won four-one at Leicester City in the Second Division. Chris Chilton scored the only goal as Hull City won at Charlton Athletic to go to the top of the table. Notts County went four points clear at the top of the Fourth Division following a three-two victory at Darlington.
The first episode of The Last Of The Mohicans broadcast. The Noble Savage broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Skid Row and The Third Ear Band featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Jimmy Sangster's Lust For A Vampire - starring Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh and both of Yutte Stensgaard's knockers - premiered.
The By The Pricking Of My Thumbs episode of Doomwatch broadcast. Great Ormond Street broadcast in the Horizon strand narrated by Peter Vaughan. Manfred Mann & Mike Hug's 'Ski "Full-Of-Fitness" Theme'/'Sweet Baby Jane' released. Leeds United survived an almighty scare, trailing twice before winning their FA Cup Third Round replay with Rotherham uNited three-two. The World In Action episode The Dutschke Affair broadcast.
Ports In Peril - London & Rotterdam broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Paul McCartney's case to formally dissolve The Beatles' opened with Justice Stamp presiding. David Hurst, Paul's QC, noted that among the reasons for bringing the case were that The Beatles had 'long since ceased to perform together', that McCartney had never been given audited accounts in the four years since the partnership was formed and that, basically, Allan Klien was a right bad'un. On 18 February further grievances were added, specifically that Klein's company, ABKCO, had altered 'The Long & Winding Road' without consulting Paul. Jane: Girl On Heroin broadcast in Radio 4's A Story Of Our Time.
Children At Risk broadcast on BBC2's Man Alive strand. A Walk Through The Alps: From Holland To The Mediterranean broadcast. An interview was carried out at Tittenhurst Park with John Lennon (recently declared 'a bore' by Time magazine) and Yoko Ono by prominent left-wing activists Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn for Red Mole (though, in a somewhat Capitalist move, the pair sold some of the more juicy part of the interview to be serialised in the Sun). The Champions episode The Mission broadcast on Thames.
Tony Read's Hell's Angel broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Empty Hills broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. The first episode of Dave Allen At Large broadcast. Mungo Jerry's 'Baby Jump', 'The Man Behind The Piano'/'Live From Hollywood ('Maggie'-'Midnight Special'-'Mighty Man') released.
The first episode of Some Matters Of Little Consequence broadcast on BBC2. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon shown in the Wayne In Action strand. Bryan Forbes's The Raging Moon - starring Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown and Barry Jackson - premiered. Bernard Mckenna's The Odd Job broadcast in LWT's Six Dates With Barker strand. Mousetrap's 'Susie'/'Greenfields', Matt McGinn With The Banshees' 'The Ibrox Disaster'/'Troubled Waters In My Soul', Fable's 'With A Boy Like You'/'She Said Yes', Beggars Opera's 'Sarabande'/'Think', Tracy's 'Rock Me In The Cradle (Of Your Lovin' Arms)'/'Strange Love', Argent's 'Celebration'/'Kingdom' and The Tremeloes' 'Right Wheel, Left Hammer, Sham'/'Take It Easy' released.
The first episode of the fourth series of Cilla - co-starring Frankie Howerd - broadcast. Search & Discovery broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Fleetwood Mac featured in session on Radio 1's Top Gear ('Get Like You Used To Be', 'Preaching', 'Teenage Darling', 'Start Again', 'Dragonfly'). The Arrest broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in Singapore, gave Britain permission to sell weapons to South Africa. The highlight of the FA Cup Fourth Round was Tottenham Hotspur coming from behind to win three-two at Carlisle United. Manchester City won three-nil to knock out holders Chelsea, Hull City (top of the Second Division) defeated Blackpool 9nottom of the First Division) two-nil. Mick jones scored three as Leeds United thrashed Swindon Town four-nil. There were three three-all draws, Rochdale and Colchester united, Stoke City and Huddersfield Town and York City and Southampton. Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Mister Brown'/The Upsetters' 'Dracula' released.
Tony MacAulay, Muff Winwood and John Peel appeared on the Anatomy Of Pop episode Is It All A Con? Chicago Blues broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Lollipop Tree broadcast in The World About Us strand. Atomic Rooster featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episodes of Training For D-Day and Decimal Five broadcast. Spike Milligan read Uncle & His Detective on Jackanory. A Bulldozer Through Heaven broadcast in the Horizon strand. In Uganda, twenty four carat nutter Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup and became president. In Los Angeles, Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houton and Patricia Krenwinkel were found extremely guilty of the Tate-LaBianca murders. Not far into the trial's penalty phase, the jurors saw, at last, the defence that Manson - in the prosecution's view - had planned to present. Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten testified that the murders had been conceived as 'copycat' versions of Gary Hinman's murder, for which Atkins now took credit. The killings, they said, were intended to draw suspicion away from Bobby Beausoleil by resembling the crime for which he had been jailed. This plan had supposedly been the work of - and carried out under the guidance of - not Manson, but someone allegedly in love with Beausoleil - Linda Kasabian. Among the narrative's weak points was the inability of Atkins to explain why, as she was maintaining, she had written 'political piggy' at Hinman's house in the first place. Midway through the penalty phase, Manson shaved his head and trimmed his beard to a fork; he told the press, 'I am the Devil and the Devil always has a bald head.' In what the prosecution regarded as belated recognition on their part that imitation of Manson only proved his domination, the female defendants refrained from shaving their own heads until the jurors retired to weigh the state's request for the death penalty. Malcolm Leigh's Games That Lovers Play - starring Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms and Richard Wattis - premiered. Fourth Division Colchester United thrashed Rochdale five-nil in an FA Cup replay. Orient's tie with Nottingham Forest was abandoed at half-time as the Brisbane Road pitch was considered 'unplayable'. The World In Action episode The Village That Quit challenged the Staffordshire village of Longnor to quit smoking,a forerunner of many of the popular challenge-documentaries that enjoyed success in the Twenty First-Century reality-television boom.
The Red Cross broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The fifth Ashes test at Melbourne ended in a draw. Ian Chappell (one hundred and eleven) and Rod Marsh (ninety two) were the top-scorers in Australia's first innings of four hundred and ninety three. England replied with three hundred and ninety two, Basil D'Oliveira and Brian Luckhurst both scoring centuries. Bill Lawry set England an improbable two hundred and seventy target in four hours on the final day. An adventurous or desperate captain might have been tempted but Ray Illingworth was neither and Geoff Boycot and John Edrich settled for the draw as England reached one hundred and sixty one without loss. For Australia, Kerry O'Keeffe made his test debut. Ipswich Town defeated West Bromwich Albion three-nil in an FA Cup replay.
The first episode of Ian Curties' trilogy Long Voyage Out Of War broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Adventures Of Nils Holgersson broadcast. Panorama In China broadcast. Newcastle United signed Sheffield United centre-forward John Tudor in a straight swap deal which saw winger David Ford and reserve goalkeeper John Hope head to Brammall Lane. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic moved into the Fourth Division promotion zone with a four-one victory over Exeter City (Ted MacDougall netting two).
Allan Prior's Two-Way Traffic broadcast in the Scene strand. Julia Jones' The Piano broadcast in the Play For Today strand. A Certain Inner Bloody-Mindedness broadcast in BBC2's People For Tomorrow strand. Richard Fleischer's Ten Rillington Place - starring Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson and John Hurt and James Clavell's The Last Valley - starring Michael Caine and Omar Sharif - premiered.
The Happy Haunting episode of Here Comes The Double Deckers - starring Clive Dunn as Hodge the Butler - broadcast. Repertory Conveyer-Belt broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Clare Victoria Balding born in Chiswick. The Sweet's 'Funny Funny'/'You're Not Wrong For Loving Me', Lynn Anderson's 'Rose Garden'/'Nothing Between Us', The Rattles' 'You Can't Have Sunshine Everyday'/'Where Is The Friend?', The Grass Roots' 'Temptation Eyes'/'Keepin' Me Down', Tin Tin's 'Shana'/'Rocky Mountain' and Hot Chocolate's 'You Could've Been A Lady'/'Everybody's Laughing' released. Fourth Division promotion-chasers Oldham Athletic won four-one at Southport.
The seven hundredth episode of Grandstand and the first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Mind Of Evil broadcast. James Burke interviewed Jim Lovell on Locky Thirteen. Annoying tuneless hippies Yes appeared on Disco 2. Lindisfarne made their debut on Top Gear ('Positive Earth', 'Knackers Yard Blues', 'Lady Eleanor', 'Dream Within A Dream'). Laurie Lee appeared on Desert Island Discs. Science & The Mass Media broadcast on Radio 3. Highlight of the First Division programme was Liverpool's two-nil victory over Arsenal. Leeds United went five points clear at the top following a two-nil victory at Manchester City. Chelsea beat West Bromwich Albion four-one (featured on Match of The Day) and Manchester United won two-one at Huddersfield Town. Burnley were heading for the third win of the season, leading one-nil against Newcastle United before teenage winger Stewart Barrowclough scored a late equaliser. Derek Dougan scored twice as Wolves beat Crystal Palace two-one. Sunderland defeated Blackburn Rovers three-two in the Second Division (Ritchie Pitt heading the winner). Bruce Bannister scored four in Bradford City's five-three victory at Mansfield Town in the third Division. Aston Villa went top of the table following a one-nil winer over Fulham thanks to a Willie Anderson penalty. Fourth Division leaders Notts County hammered Peterborough United six-nil (Tony Hateley netting three). Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic stretched their unbeaten run to six games with a three-all draw at Crewe Alexandra (Ted MacDougall hiting two and Phil Boyer the third). The first episodes of The More We Are Together and The Leslie Crowther Show broadcast on LWT.
The Man Who Shot At The Moon broadcast as Apollo 14 - piloted by Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Ed Mitchell - launched. Shepard would, later, become the first man to play golf on lunar surface. Hole in one. Animals In Action broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Kevin Ayers & The Whole World and Bridget St John featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Francis Searle's A Hole Lot Of Trouble - starring Arthur Lowe, Tim Barrett, Victor Maddern and Bill Maynard - premiered.

Bernard Falk reported on attempts by the Northern Ireland Government to encourage British holidaymakers to visit the country in Twenty Four Hours. The first episode of BBC2's Gentry broadcast - 'devised by and featuring the Music and Friends of Bobbie Gentry with special guests Jerry Reed, Sue & Sunny, Hank Strzelecki'. The Bequest nbroadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Broadcast Receiver Licence was abolished for radios. Factory's 'Time Machine'/'Castle On The Hill' and The Mob's 'I Dig Everything About You'/'Love's Got A Hold On Me' released. Arsenal defeated Portsmouth three-two in an FA Cup replay. Southampton beat York City by the same score. Graham Collier scored the winner as Nottingham Forest beat Orient at the third attempt. The World In Action episode The Monday Club broadcast.
Test For Life broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first episode of Bless This House - The generation Gap - broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of If You Were Me. Things Are Seldom What They Seem broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The world première of Get Carter took place in Los Angeles. The sixth Ashes test at the Adelaide Oval ended in a draw. England's four hundred and seventy contained a century by John Edrich and fifties for Keith Fletcher, Geoff Boycott and Jack Hampshire and five wickets or Australia's debutant fast bowler, Dennis Lillie. Peter Lever took four for forty nine as Australia were dismissed for two hundred and thirty five then Boycott scored another century as England declared setting Australia four hundred and sixty nine to win. Hundreds from Keith Stackpole and Ian Chappell ensured a draw. England beat Malta one-nil in a miserably poor European Nations Cup Qualifier in Valletta. Martin Peters scored whilst Derby County's Roy McFarland, Tottenham Hotspurs' Martin Chivers and the Everton duo Colin Harvey and Joe Royle all made their debuts (the latter a last minute replacement for Geoff Hurst who was taken ill shortly before the game). England's bench also contained the uncapped trio of Liverpool's Ray Clemence, Derek Parkin of Wolves and Tony Brown of West Bromwich Albion. Alan Mullery was skipper in place of Bobby Moore, who had been suspended by West Ham over the Blackpool drinking incident in January. Scotland lost three-nil aginst Belgium in Liege. Paul Van Himst scored twice for the hosts. Derby County's Archie Gemmell and Blackpool's Tony Green made their international debuts (the latter as a substitute). The Champions episode A Case Of Lemmings broadcast on Thames.
Billy's Last Stand broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Treasure Hunter broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Rolls Royce Engines was placed in receivership putting the future of the RB211 engine into doubt. The company subsequently went bankrupt and was nationalised by the government. Petter Brook's adaptation of King Lear - starring Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack and Susan Engel - premiered.
Apollo 14: On The Highlands Of The Moon broadcast. Now & Then: The Golden Honeycomb broadcast on BBC2. Chairmen Of The Board's 'Everything's Tuesday'/'Bless You', The Laurels' 'The Devil's Well'/'Underground', BB King's 'Chains & Things'/'King's Special' and Gordon Lightfoot's 'If You Could Read My Mind'/'Poor Little Allison' released.
The first episode of Jude The Obscure broadcast on BBC2. Apollo 14: Moonwalk broadcast, including Alan Shepard hitting the two longest one-handed six-iron shots in history (and in on-sixth gravity, admittedly). Gene Vincent & The Houseshakers and The National Head Band featured on Top Gear. Alan Keith appeared on Desert Island Discs. Gunner Robert Curtis became the first British soldier to die in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Derby County beat West Ham United four-one at Upton Park in the First Division. Leeds United lost at home to Liverpool whilst Arsenal beat Manchester City one-nil at Highbury. Manchester United's two-one win against Tottenham included one of George Best's finest goals, a delicate lob over Pat Jennings from the edge of the area. Middlesbrough thrashed Norwich city five-nil in the Second Division. Carlisle United won foru-one at Portsmouth, Peter Noble scored a hat-trick in Swindon Town's three-one defeat of Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United beat fellow promotion-chasres Luton Town two-one. Bury thrashed Reading five-one in the Third Division. Mark Vincent Letheren born in Chelmsford.
Egg appeared on the Anatomy Of Pop episode Will We Sing It Tomorrow? To which, in the case opf Egg, the answer was 'no, not really.' Ronald Eyre's biography of Anna Pavlova broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Mzima - Portrait Of An African Oasis broadcast in The World About Us strand. Brian Auger's Oblivion Express featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The Web Of Fear episode of Doomwatch broadcast. Don Shaw's Me Mackenna broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. DA Pennebacker's documentary film of Bob Dylan & The Hawks 1966 UK tour, Eat The Document, was - finally - premièred at New York City's Academy of Music. Stoke City beat Huddersfield Town at the third attempt in the FA Cup (Jimmy Greenhoff scoirng the game's only goal). Frank Pierson's award-winning TV movie The Neon Ceiling - starring Gig Young, Lee Grant amd Denise Nickerson - first broadcast on NBC.
Apollo 14 Splashdown broadcast. The Silver Chalice shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. The World In Action episode The Breaking Point broadcast.
Ford Fives European Festival saw international footballing greats of the 1950s and 1960s from Britain and Europe take part in a short-lived knockout five-a-side competition at Edinburgh's Meadowbank Stadium on Sportsnight With Coleman which also featured live coverage of Joe Bugner's points victory over Bill Drover in a heavyweight contest at Bethnal Green. Can We Give It Up? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Banks in the UK closed at 3.30pm in preparation for Decimal Day, not reopening until the following Monday. Carry On Henry - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Terry Scott, Barbara Windosr, Kenneth Connor, Julian Holloway, Peter Gilmore, Peter Butterworth and Bill Maynard - premiered. The Champions episode Desert Journey broadcast on Thames.
Sidney Hayers's Assault - starring Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay and Lesley-Anne Down and László Benedek's The Night Visitor - starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir - premiered.
The Temptations appeared on The Andy Williams Show. The Kinks performed 'Got To Be Free' and 'Powerman' on Top Of The Pops' short-lived 'Album Slot'. Clive Exton's The Rainbirds broadcast in the Play For Today strand. In the Footsteps Of Tess broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand.
The first episode of Trials Of Life broadcast. Crash! James Mossman's JG Ballard profile broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Gordon Lightfoot's 'If You Could Read My Mind'/'Poor Little Allison', The Osmonds' 'One Bad Apple'/'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother', Caravan's 'Love To Love You'/'Golf Girl', Tommy Roe's 'Little Miss Goody Two Shoes'/'Traffic Jam', Wilfred Brambell's 'The Decimal Song'/'Time Marches On' and R Dean Taylor's 'Indiana Wants Me'/'Love's Your Name' released. The first episode of the Timeslip serial The Day Of The Clone broadcast on Thames.
A day of malarkey and discombobulation at the final Ashes test in Sydney. Terry Jenner retired hurt when he ducked into a short delivery from John Snow and was hit on the head. Hard. The umpire, stroppy, officious Lou Rowan, warned Snow for intimidatory bowling. Snow and Ray Illingworth objected strongly, the captain saying 'That's the only bouncer he's bowled' and stating he would complain to the ABC. The bowler was loudly booed and when he returned to his fielding position at long-leg Snow was pelted with bottles, cans and partially eaten pies. Then he was grabbed by a drunk at Paddington Hill and had to pull himself free. To avoid injury to his team Illingworth took his men to the dressing room without the permission of the umpires, an unprecedented move in test cricket at the time. He later justified his action by saying 'I've seen people hit by bottles and it makes a bloody mess of them.' The England tour manager, David Clark, tried to push Illingworth back onto the field and Rowan reportedly told them that if they did not immediately return they would forfeit the match (and the Ashes). A furious Illingworth said he would not return until the playing area had been cleared and the crowd had calmed down. It took seven minutes for the groundstaff to move the debris, during which one was hit on the head with a beer-can and had to be taken to hospital. The Australian batsmen Greg Chappell and Dennis Lillee remained at the crease throughout the incident which wound the crowd up even more. Inspired by veteran Ray Crawford, Fourth Division Colchester United knocked Leeds United out of the FA Cup with a three-two victory in the Fifth Round at Layer Road. And it was on Match Of The Day as well which made it even funnier. Tottenham Hotspur beat Nottingham Forsst two-one. Teenage centre-forward David Johnson scored the only goal as Everton beat Derby County. Sheffield United went to the top of the Second Division with a two-nil victory at Charlton Athletic. Cardiff City won four-nil at Sunderland. Sheffiled Wednesday and birmingham City shared six goals at Hillsborough (Trevor Francis neting two for The Blues). The first UK broadcast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ringo Starr was the guest on Cilla. Writing On The Wall and Quiver featured in session on Top Gear. Harvey Smith appeared on Desert Island Discs. Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. The Journey To The Unknown episode One On An Island (by Oscar Millard) broadcast on LWT.
A Chance To Meet: Caroline Coon broadcast. Cosmopolis broadcast in the Omnibus strand. No Welcome On The Map broadcast in The World About Us strand. Argent and Egg featured on Radio 1's In Concert. President Nixon installed a secret taping system in the White House. What could possibly go wrong? The Tehran Agreement (aka The Persian Gulf Oil Settlement) was signed, where OPEC's six Gulf producing countries negotiated a fifty five percent tax rate from the twenty two oil companies. OPEC reached a highly favourable settlement with the region's private oil producers, greatly increase their revenues over the next five years and changed the balance of power reflecting the fact that the producing countries were in the negotiating driver's seat for the first time. Peter Sasdy's Countess Dracula - starring Ingrid Pitt and Nigel Green - premiered.
I'm Dependent: You're Addicted broadcast in the Horizon strand. Decimal currency was introduced in the UK. Despite predictions of chaos by naysayers, due to the extensive preparations and publicity campaigns organised by the government with the aid of broadcasters, Decimal Day itself went smoothly. Enoch Powell predicted an 'explosion' unless there was a 'massive repatriation scheme' for the immigrants. There wasn't and, indeed, there wasn't. Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead - starring Ronnie Barker - broadcast on Radio 4. The first episode of The Sky's The Limit broadcast on LWT. 'Pundits please note: all answers are verified by Encyclopedia Britannica!' The World In Action episode Square One broadcast.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was accused of 'mouthing obscenities' at opposition MPs in the House of Commons. Alan Passaro, of the Hells Angels, who were acquitted of the stabbing to death of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, filed a lawsuit against The Rolling Stones for 'invasion of privacy' because the documentary film Gimme Shelter showed the stabbing. Denis Smith, having broken his ankle in the previous round, returned to head Stoke City's winner in a League Cup Fifth Round replay at Ipswich Town.
The first episode of Elizabeth R broadcast. England regained the Ashes after twelve years, Ray Illingworth's side gaining a two-nil victory in the ill-tempered seven match series. The last wicket in their sixty two run victory was Terry Jenner caught by Keith Fletcher off Derek Underwood, after which the England team chaired Illingworth from the field in celebration. Bill Lawry had been sacked as Australian captain before the game and replaced by Ian Chappell. Ken Eastwood and Tony Dell made their test debuts. Geoff Boycott - who averaged ninety three in the series - missed the test having had his arm broken by Graham McKenzie in a state game. The Drug Debate broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Charlie Geroge scored twice in Arsenal's two-one victory at Manchester City and Leicester City beat Oxford United three-one to complete the FA Cup Fifth Round. The Champions episode Full Circle broadcast on Thames.
Reddick broadcast in the Play For Today strand. By Hammer & Hand broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Raul De Anda's Juegos De Alcoba premiered. Derby County signed Colin Todd from Sunderland for one hundred and seventy grand.
The first episode of Peter Cook's disastrous chat-show Where Do I Sit? broadcast on BBC2. The guest star was Kirk Douglas. Instead of asking 'How are you?', a somewhat hammered Peter asked Kirk 'Who are you?!' The show was cancelled after three episodes. Switzerland: Life In The Grisons broadcast in the People Of Many Lands strand. T-Rex's 'Hot Love'/'Woodland Rock', 'The King Of The Mountain Cometh', Paul McCartney's 'Another Day'/'Oh Woman, Oh Why?', Can's Tago Mago, Janis Joplin's 'Me & Bobby McGee'/'Half Moon', Cotton Socks' 'Tired Of Waiting'/'At Last I've Got Someone To Love', Love Affair With Auguste Eadon's 'Wake Me I Am Dreaming'/'That's My Home' and The Yes Album released. The first episode of Copper's End broadcast on LWT.

Frankie Howerd was the guest star on Braden's Week. Where There's Muck broadcast in the Chronicle strand. John Peel was the guest presenter of Late Night Line-Up: One Man's Week. Nico and Groundhogs featured on Top Gear. Wendy Craig appeared on Desert Island Discs. The United States Emergency Broadcast System was accidentally activated on WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana, causing some Radio and TV stations to interrupt normal broadcasting in anticipation of a national emergency requiring the President to address the population. Leeds United remained top of the First Division with a three-nil win over Wolves. Manchester United beat Southampton five-one (Alan Gowling netting four), Newcastle United defeated Tottenham Hotspur one-nil (Pop Robson scoring his final goal for The Magpies) whilst Arsenal beat Ipswich Town three-two and Willie Carr hit two in Coventry City's two-one win at Crystal Palace. The Liverool derby ended in a goalless draw. Birmingham City thrashed Bolton Wanderers four-nil with Trevor Francis scoring all four. Ted Hemsley hit the only goal as table-toppers Sheffield United defeated Sunderland. Swindon Town had a three-nil victory over Oxford United. Halifax Town beat Tranmere Rovers four=three in the third Division. Colchester United thumped Newport County four-two in the Fourth Division.
Candida broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Water Web broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Roy Young Band and Patto featured in Radio 1's In Concert. Peter Duffell's The House That Dripped Blood premiered.
The first episode of Joe & The Gladiator broadcast. Hugo Charteris's Asquith In Orbit - starring Charles Gray and Peter Barkworth - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Having recently fallen out with the club's management, Pop Robson left Newcastle united for West Ham United for a one hundred and forty thousand knicker fee. The World In Action episode Square One followed an eightyeen year old from Devon, penniless and sleeping rough in London.
Viewpoint: Free To Be Free broadcast. Blackburn Rovers' goalless draw with Hull City in the Second Division saw the league debut of Derek Fazackerley, the first of seven hundred and nine games, for Blackburn, Chester City, York City and Bury, in a career that lasted until 1988. Allan Clarke scored twice in Leeds United's four=two victory at Ipswich Town.
England and Scotland's Under Twenty Three sides drew two-all at Hampden Park, the highlights being shown on Spoortsnight With Coleman. Larry Lloyd and Tony Currie scroed for an England side which also included Colin Todd, David Nish and Alan Hudson. For Scotland, John Blackley missed a penalty. Pop Robson scored on his West Ham United debut in a two-nil victory over Nottingham Forest in the First Division. The Forgotten People broadcast in the Man Alive strand.
The first episode of Mr Benn broadcast. Ian Niall's I, A Stranger & Afraid In A World I Never Made broadcast on BBC2. Nico featured on Disco 2. Ken Russell's The Music Lovers and Wenrer Jacobs' Zwanzig Mädchen Und Die Pauker - Heute Steht Die Penne Kopf - starring Balduin Baas, Ulrich Beiger, Sabine Bethmann, Mascha Gonska, Heidi Kabel, Gerhart Lippert, Eva Maria Meineke, Brigitte Mira and Jutta Speidel - premiered. Alios Brummer's Beichte Einer Liebestollen - starring Sandra Reni and Gisela Becker - premiered.
The Here Come The Double Deckers episode The Case Of The Missing Doughnut broadcast. George Martin featured on BBC2's Review strand. Paul McCartney became the only Beatle to give personal evidence in the Beatles dissolution court case. He noted that The Beatles had stopped working as a group and suggested that it was 'clear' from recent recordings by both John Lennon and George Harrison that neither saw themselves as Beatles. On his recent LP (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band), in the song 'God' John had listed things he didn't believe in, one of which was Beatles. Onyx's 'Our House'/'Air', John Barry's 'The Last Valley'/'Main Title Theme', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Small Axe'/'All In One', Mama Cass Elliot's 'Easy Come, Easy Go'/'Ain't Nobody Else Like You' and Shirley Bassey's '(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story'/'For The Love Of Him' released. Leeds United won for the third time in six days in the First Division, Peter Lorimer scoring the only goal at Coventry City. Ipswich town eased their relegation worries with a two-nil victory over Manchester City. Fulham returned to the top of the Third Division with a four-nil hammering of Torquay United.
Tottenham Hotspur beat Aston Villa two-nil in the Football League Cup Final with two goals from Martin Chivers. In the First Division, Leeds United held a seven-point lead over Arsenal, although The Gunners - who lost two-nil at Derby County, a game featured on Match Of The Day - had two games in hand. Everton and West Bromwich Albion drew three-three. Leicester City won three-nil at struggling Bolton Wanderers in the Second Division. Teenage sensation Trevor Francis continued his scoring streak, netting two in Birmingham City's two-one victory at Swindon Town. Dudley Roberts hit four in Mansfield Town's six-two defeat of Tranmere Rovers. Peter Cook was among the guests on Cilla. Godfrey Winn presented Late Night Line-Up: One Man's Week. Skid Row and Ivor Cutler were in session on Top Gear. Ravi Shankar featured on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Seven Men broadcast on LWT.
Stefan Grossman and Quiver appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Sir Bernard Lovell, the Director of Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, appeared on A Chance To Meet. Michael Dean introduced scenes from The Music Lovers on BBC2's Film Night. The first episode of Doctor At Large broadcast on LWT.
Ray Brooks read Nina Bawden's The Secret Passage on Jackanory. The Doomwatch episode The Inquest about a possible rabies outbreak broadcast. Happy Days Are Here Again broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. A bomb exploded in the men's room at the United States Capitol. The Weather Underground Organisation claimed responsibility. An estimated one hundred and twenty thousand 'kill the bill' protesters went on strike against the Industrial Relations Act in London. England won the first of a two test series against New Zealand at Christchurch by eight wickets. Basil D'Oliveira scored a century and Derek Underwood took twelve wickets in the match. Bob Taylor made his test debut - due to the form of Alan Knott it would be Taylor's only test appearance until 1978. Gillingham won four-three at Wrexham in the Third Division. Jacques Scandelari's La Philosophie Dans Le Boudoir - starring Souchka and Lucas de Chabaneix - premiered. The World In Action episode Ford: The Inside Story broadcast.
Prince Charles In The City broadcast. This Earth Is Mine shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Radio 4's A Story Of Our Time profiled the late Brian Jones. The first episode of Some Myths In Human Biology broadcast on Radio 3. David James Gorman born in Stafford. George Armstrong, Ray Kennedy and John Radford scored in Arsenal's three-nil victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the First Division. Fulham defeated Bristol Rovers - on a dreadful run of form - two-one in the third Division.
The Last Of The Sailormen broadcast. Sirius, The Dog-Star broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Women In Prison: The Way It Is broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Ralph Thomas's Percy - starring Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland and featuring music by The Kinks - premiered.
Ronald Eyre's Clean Sweep broadcast in the Scene strand. The first episode of Desert Crusader broadcast. The British Screen Awards broadcast. Trees and Graham Bond appeared on Disco 2. A Lockheed D-21B military reconnaissance drone aircraft made an abortive mission to spy on the Lop Nor nuclear test site in the People's Republic of China. The first episode of Slapstick & Old Lace broadcast on Thames.
Georgia Brown Sings Brecht broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Manhunt broadcast in the Trials Of Life strand. Led Zeppelin performed 'Stairway To Heaven' - all forty seven minutes of it - live for the first time, at Belfast's Ulster Hall. John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band's 'Power To The People'/'Open Your Box', Focus' 'House Of The King'/'Black Beauty', Spode's 'Singalong Song'/'Cincinatti Woman' and Nirvana's 'The Saddest Day Of My Life'/'I Wanna Go Home' released.
In the FA Cup Sixth Round Stoke City won three-two at Hull City and Everton beat Colchester United five-nil (on Match Of The Day). The other two ties (Leicester versus Arsenal and Liverpool against Tottenham Hotspur) ended goalless draws. Tony Brown scored three in West Bromwich Albion's four-three defeat of Manchester United in the First Division. Leeds United increased their lead at the top to seven points following a one-nil victory over Derby County. Huddersfield Town won three-one at Nottingham Forest. Blackpool's two-nil loss at Chelsea left The Tangerines deep, deep in the relegation clarts. Alan Warboys scored four as Cardiff City had a four-nil victory over Carlisle United to go top of the Second Division. Phil Boyer and Ted MacDoiugall were on-target (again) as Bournmeouth & Boscombe Athletic beat Chester three-one in the Fourth Division. Leaders Notts County defeated Oldham Athletic by the same score. Mai Zetterling's You People Make Me Angry broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Nick Drake's Bryter Layter released. Ludovic Kennedy featured on Desert Island Discs.
Furtwangler broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Uninhibited Islands broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Edgar Broughton Band appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. The postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ended after forty seven days.
Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden to retain his World Heavyweight title. The alarming Horizon episode Due To Lack Of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled about potential environmental disaster broadcast. Willis Hall's The Railwayman's New Clothes broadcast in BBC2's Thirty'Minute Theatre strand. The second test at Auckland was drawn. Alan Knott scored one hundred and one in England's first innings and ninety five in the second. The World In Action episode The Truants broadcast.
Brian Bleesed read - or rather bellowed - The Miller & The Smiling Cat on Jackanory. David & Bathsheba shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Étienne Périer's adaptation of When Eight Bells Toll - starring Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley and Nathalie Delon - premiered. Thanks to David Johnson's equaliser, Everton drew one-all with Greek champions Panathinaikos in the first leg of the European Cup Quarter-Final. Frank McLintock and Peter Storey scored as Arsenal defeated FC Köln two-one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Sheffiled United lost two-one at home to fellow promotion-chasers Hull City in the Second Division. The Fourth Division's bottom side, Newport County, with only eleven points from thirty three games, caused a major upset by beating runaway leaders Notts County two-one at Somerton Park.
Inspired by Johann Cruyff, Ajax thrashed Glasgow Celtic three-nil in the European Cup Quarter-Final. Both Chelsea and Manchester City suffered two-nil defeats in their Cup Winners Cup ties against Club Brugge and Poland's Górnik Zabrze respectively. It was a golden night for Cardiff City who beat Real Madrid one-nil at Ninian Park, Brian Clark netting the winner. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Leeds United and Liverpool won their first leg Quarter Finals - against Vitória Setúbal (two-one) and Fußball-Club Bayern München, the latter in a three-nil victory at Anfield with Alun Evans scoring a hat-trick. Derek Hart's Who Am I? braodcast in BBC2's Man In Society strand. BBC Wales' Late Call featured interviews with Barry John and Eartha Kitt. All The Eels In The Ranny Are Dead broadcast in Radio 4's Midweek Theatre strand. Mike Hodges's Get Carter - starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland, Bryan Mosley, George Sewell, Tony Beckley, Glynn Edwards, Alun Armstrong, Bernard Hepton, Petra Markham, Geraldine Moffat, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, John Bindon and Terence Rigby - premiered in the UK. The Northern Drift broadcast on Radio 3.
Ray Charles, Cass Elliot and Elton John appeared on The Andy Williams Show. Hosted by Ed Stewart, Top Of The Pops featured performances by T Rex ('Hot Love'), Deep Purple, Mungo Jerry ('Baby Jump'), Chairmen Of The Board, Lynn Anderson and Nana Mouskouri. Atomic Rooster, Fairweather and Leon Russell featured on Disco 2. Bob Kellett's adaptation of Up Pompeii - starring Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Bill Fraser, Julie Ege, Adrienne Posta, Bernard Bresslaw, Madeline Smith, Roy Hudd and Hugh Paddick - premiered.
McLintock shown in the Wayne In Action strand. Late-Night Line-Up included an interview with the Goddam Godfather of Soul, James Brown, ow! Scarecrows Don't Talk broadcast in the Review strand. The Judge in The Beatles dissolution court case found in favour of Paul McCartney in all regards - particularly that Allan Klein was, indeed, a right bad'un, up to no good - and appointed James Spooner as receiver for all The Beatles' business interests. Lennon, Harrison and Starr left court with an curt 'No comment.' (It has been alleged that they then drove to Paul's St John's Wood gaff and that Lennon put a couple of bricks through the window. This has never been confirmed.) Tangerine Dream's Alpha Centauri, Freda Payne's 'Cherish What Is Dear To You (While It's Near To You)'/'The World Don't Owe You A Thing', Clodagh Rodgers' 'Jack In The Box'/'Someone To Love Me', 'Wind Of Change', Emitt Rhodes' 'Fresh As A Daisy'/'You Take The Dark Out Of The Night', The Brotherhood Of Man's 'Reach Out Your Hand'/'A Better Tomorrow' and Fleetwood Mac's superb 'Dragonfly'/'The Purple Dancer' (their first single with Christine Mc Vie, without Peter Green and last to feature Jeremy Spencer) released. Robert Wise's The Andromeda Strain and Norman Cohen's adaptation of Dad's Army premiered.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Claws Of Axos broadcast. Is Roskill Right? and The Grand Tour: In The Footsteps Of Tobias Smollett broadcast on BBC2. At Cardiff Arms Park, Wales defeated Ireland twenty three-nine in the Five Nations Championship to take the Triple Crown. Relegation-haunted Blackpool's one-all draw iwth First Division leaders Leeds United was one of the featured games on Match of The Day. Fellow strugglers Burnley enjoyed a one-nil victory at Huddersfield Town. Brentford thrashed Grimsby town five-one in the Fourth Division. Notts County increasded their lead at the top to nine points following a three-one defeat of Southport. Mickey Jupp's Legend and Arc were in session on Top Gear. Patrick Cargill featured on Desert Island Discs.
In Prison A World Of Its Own broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Windriders broadcast on BBC2. Curved Air and Patto featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Rhys Adrian's No Charge For The Extra Service broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. John Laurie read The Princess & The Goblin on Jackanory. The first episode of Island Of The Great Yellow Ox broadcast. Charlie George netted the only goal as Arsenal beat Leicester City in the FA Cup Quarter-Final replay. The World In Action episode The Year Britain Stopped Growing broadcast.
Joe Bugner controversially beat Henry Cooper in the latter's final fight, winning the British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight belts. The crowd, mainly composed of Cooper fans, did not appreciate this with commentator Harry Carpenter asking, 'How can they take away the man's titles like this?' What Price Glory? shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Steve Heighway netted the winner as Liverpool won one-all at Tottenham Hotspur to reach the FA Cup Semi-Final.
Alan Plater's Terry broadcast. Inis Fail: Isle Of Destiny broadcast in BBC2's Bird's Eye View strand. John Tudor and Bobby Moncur were on-target as Newcastle United defeated Everton two-one in the First Division. The largest attendance for the Third Division game, over thirty seven thousand, were at Villa Park to watch a tame, sterile goalless draw between the hosts and Walsall. Fourth Division leaders Notts County thrashed Stockport County five-one.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Ed Stewart, featured T Rex, Barry Ryan, Atomic Rooster, Matchbox, Hot Chocolate and Tom Paxton. The Alan Bown Set appeared on Disco 2. Geza Radvanyi's Madchen In Uniform shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance shown in the Wayne In Action strand. The Fred Karno Story broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Colin Blunstone's 'Mary, Won't You Warm My Bed?'/'I Hope I Didn't Say Too Much Last Night', Detroit Emeralds' 'Do Me Right'/'Just Now & Then', Roy Budd's 'Carter'/'Plaything', Arkade's 'Morning Of Our Lives'/'Rhythm Of The People', Tony Blackburn's 'Is It Me, Is It You?'/'Happy' and Dave Edmunds Rockpile's 'I'm Comin' Home'/'Country Roll' released.
The Ronnie Barker Yearbook broadcast. Nefertiti & The Computer broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Roger McGough hosted Late Night Line-Up: One Man's Week. Southern Comfort and Freaks featured on Top Gear. I'm Sorry To Bother You broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Arsenal and Leeds United continued to lead the First Division, the former beating Blackpool one-nil, the latter gaining a two-one victory over Crystal Palace. Nottingham Forest's three-two win over Everton (Peter Cormack scoring twice, Ian Storey-Moore adding the third) featured on Match Of The Day). George Best netted two in Manchester United's two-one victory at Stoke City. Wolverhampton Wanderers had a four-two win at West Bromwich Albion. Newcastle United and Southampton drew two-two whilst West Ham United and Ipswich Town also shared four goals. Luton Town's three-one win against Hull City in the Second Division was also featured on Match Of The Day). Sheffield United thrashed Blackburn Rovers five-nil with just three points covering the top six. Preston North End led the Third Divison, winning four-nil against Doncaster Rovers. Peterborough United hammered Hartlepool in the Fourth Division whilst Workington thumped Aldershot foru-nil. Need Jesus Have Been Perfect? broadcast on Radio 3.
That Awful Thatcher Woman featured on A Chance To Meet. The Wild Duck broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Wandsworth Soundbroadcast in the Omnibus strand. Operation Seashore broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Film Night featured a location report on Melody including interviews with Jack Wild, Mark Lester and Tracy Hyde. Soft Machine (and their 'Heavy Friends') appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Sixteen Lives Of A Drunken Dreamer broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
Ronald Hines read Elizabeth Beresford's The Wandering Wombles on Jackanory. A Nice Sort Of Accident To Have broadcast in the Horizon strand. Ian Curteis' A Distant Chill broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Hasty Heart broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The World In Action episode As It Was In The Beginning broadcast.
The Punch & Judy Man shown in The Laugh Parade strand. The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Arsenal exited the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in away-goal, losing one-nil in Köln to a Werner Biskup penalty. Wolverhampton Wanderers reached the Final of the Texaco Cup, beating Derry City four-nil.
Bill Lyons' Sixty Pound Single, One Hundred Pound Return and Hugh Burnett's South Africa Loves Jesus broadcast. A Little Business Of Their Own broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Despite Jimmy Johnstone's goal in a one-nil win at Parkhead, Glasgow Celtic were knocked out of the European Cup by Ajax on aggregate. Everton were also eliminated from the competition, sharing a goalless draw with Panathinaikos in Athens and losing on away-goals. Chelsea strolled into the Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final with a four=nil victory over Club Bruges. Manchester City defeated Górnik Zabrze two-nil to level the tie. For reasons unknown, penalties were not used to decided the outcome but, instead, a play=off was arranged. There was heartbreak for Cardiff City who were knocked out after losing two-nil to Real Madrid. Liverpool and Leeds United both reached the Semi-Finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup following one-all draws with Fußball-Club Bayern München and Vitoria Setubal respectively.
Doctor Kit Pedlar appeared on Nationwide to highlight the pollution that was affecting London. Robin Knox-Johnston's Solo broadcast in the Scene strand. On Location: Dustin Hoffman broadcast. Jade and Stray featured on Disco 2. Paul Wendkos's The Mephisto Waltz - starring Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom and Curd Jürgens and Kurt Nachmann's Josefine Mutzenbacher II - Meine 365 Liebhaber - starring Christine Schuberth and Renate Kasché - premiered.
The first episode of Sunset Song broadcast. Horace Ove's documentary Reggae broadcast in BBC2's Review strand featuring performances by Millie and Desmond Dekker & The Aces. Tuneless hippies Emerson, Lake & Palmer recorded their wretched Pictures At An Exhibition at Newcastle City Hall. And, a right proper bloody disgrace it was, too. Get yer hair cut, you three. Maxine Nightingale's 'Love On Borrowed Time'/'It's That Hurtin' Thing', Man's 'Daughter Of The Fireplace'/'Country Girl', Fame & Price Together's 'Rosetta'/'John & Mary', Salvage's 'Hot Pants'/'Foundation Of Love' and Peter Gordeno's 'Here It Comes/'I'll Be The Man' released. Michael Miller's Der Lüsterne Türke
- starring Ingrid Steeger and Claus Tinney, Kurt Nachmann's Josefine Mutzenbacher II - Meine 365 Liebhaber - starring Christine Schuberth, Renate Kasché and Tonio Von Der Meden and Ernst Hofbauer's Erotik Im Beruf - Was Jeder Personalchef Gern Verschweigt - starring Reinhard Glemnitz, Emily Reuer, Karin Field and Günther Ungeheuer - premiered. Winless in five games, Aston Villa lost two-one at Doncaster Rovers as their Third Division promotion run threatended to come off the rails.
Ronnie Corbett In Bed broadcast. Doomsday Never Comes broadcast in the One Pair Of Eyes strand. In the FA Cup Semi-Finals Brian Hall's seventy fifth-minute winner gave Liverpool a two-one victory over Everton at Old Trafford. Arsenal and Stoke City drew two-two at Hillsborough, Peter Storey scoring twice for The Gunners. Alan Foggan netted two in Newcastle United's three-one victory over Derby County in the First Division. The game saw the debut for United of eighteen year old Irving Nattrass, the first of four hundred and ninety one games, for Newcastle and Middlesbrough, in a career that lasted until 1986. Chelsea defeated Leeds United by the same score. leeds still led the league by six points but Arsenal had three games in hand. Ian Storey-Moore hit a hat-trick in Nottingham Forest's three-one win against Crystal Palace. Nucleus and Steeleye Span were in session on Top Gear. Fairport Convention featured on Folk On 1. Clodagh Rodgers appeared on Desert Island Discs. Dinu Cocea's Haiducii Lui Saptecai - starring Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu and Colea Rautu - premiered.
The Sound & The Fury shown in The Sunday Film strand. The Making Of Husbands broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Written In The Water broadcast in The World About Us strand. Sheridan Morley interviewed Jane Asher about her role in Deep End in BBC2's Film Night. The Incredible String Band featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The Brian Lemon Trio featured on Radio 2's Night Ride.
Presenting Keith Michell - with guest star Diana Rigg - broadcast. The Waiting-Room broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. US Army Lieutenant William Calley was found extremely guilty of twenty two murders in the My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison. A Los Angeles jury recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. On the day the verdicts were returned, news came that the badly decomposed body of Van Houten's attorney Ronald Hughes was found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County. It was rumored, although never proven, that Hughes was murdered by the Family, possibly because he had stood up to Manson and refused to allow Van Houten to take the stand and absolve Manson of the crimes. Though he may have perished in flooding, Family member Sandra Good subsequently stated that Hughes was 'the first of the retaliation murders.' The World In Action episode South Of The Border broadcast.
Due to coverage of the Budget, much of BBC1's tea-time programming transfered to BBC2. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in Seattle. Atomic Rooster were in session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies ('Tomorrow Night', 'Before Tomorrow', 'Death Walks Behind You'). The first episode of The Ten Commandments broadcast on Thames.
Arsenal beat Stoke City two-nil in the FA Cup Semi Final replay at Villa Park. It was a controversial victory with a hotly disputed acrobatic goal-line clearance by Bob McNab denying Denis Smith an early strike for Stoke. Manchester City reached the Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final (and a tie with Chelsea) following a three-one victory over Gornik Zabrze in a play-off in Copenhagen. Ken Wookey scored the winner in Workington's two-one victory over Peterborough in the Fourth Division. The Act Of Abortion broadcast in the Man Alive strand.
Just Harry & Me broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. It would later be developed into the series Now, Take My Wife. A Black Hole in Space? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Leon Russell & Friends featured on Disco 2. The UK lifted all restrictions on gold ownership. James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon released.
Great Britain - France: The Uneasy Years 1945-1971 broadcast. Tale Of Beatrix Potter broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Ralph Nelson's Flight Of The Doves - starring Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Dorothy McGuire, Stanley Holloway, Noel Purcell, Dana Rosemary Scallon and Niall Tóibín and Juan Bosch's Abre Tu Fosa Amigo ... Llega Sabata - starring Richard Harrison and Tania Alvarado - premiered. Ringo Starr's 'It Don't Come Easy'/'Early 1970', The Kinks' Percy EP ('God's Children', 'The Way Love Used To Be'/'Moments', 'Dreams'), Susan Shifrin's 'To Love'/'Twenty Five Miles', Blues Magoos' 'Can't Get Enough Of You'/'Sea Breeze Express' and Angela Farrell's 'One Day Love'/'How Near Is Love?' released.
Monaco (Séverine's 'Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue') won The Eurovision Song Contest. Britain's entry (Clodagh Rodgers' awful 'Jack In The Box') was fourth. Why Patriotism? broadcast in BBC2's Cameron's Country strand. Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come featured on Top Gear. The first episode of Radio 4's The Wrong Side Of The Law broadcast. Leeds United remained at the top of the First Division with a four-nil victory over relegation-threeatened Burnley (Allan Clarke netting all four) whilst Arsenal beat Chelsea two-nil in front of the largest attendance of the Football League season, sixty two thousand and eighty seven. Elsewhere, Blackpool's relegation was all but confirmed with a one-nil home defeat to Newcastle, Crystal Palace beat Stoke City three-two whilst Derby County defeated Huddersfield Town by the same score. There were also big wins for Manchester City (three-nil against Everton) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (four-nil over Nottingham Forest, Hugh Curran hitting a hat-trick). Sunderland thumped Swindon Town five-two in the Second Division. Luton Town defeated Birmingham City three-two whilst Blackburn Rovers beat Sheffield Wednesday by the same score. With goals flying in all over the place elsewhere, the Third Division game between Bristol Rovers and Preston North End (a goalless draw) was the sole feature on Match Of The Day. One imagines loads of people stayed up late, through an over-running Eurovision, to watch that. If the BBC had chosen to visit Sincil Bank instead, they could have featured a nine-goal thriller, York City winning five-four against Lincoln City in the Fourth Division. But, they didn't. Specify (ridden by John Cook) won The Grand National narrowly ahead of Black Secret and Astbury. Gay Buccaneer was very unlucky having been the clear leader at The Canal Turn on the first circuit, only to be interfered with by a loose horse which resulted in him going from first to last, eventually finishing tenth.
Brendan Behan broadcast in the Omnibus strand. There Are Monkeys At The Bottom Of The Garden broadcast in The World About Us strand. An adaptation of I, Claudius broadcast on Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand with Marius Goring in the title role. Led Zeppelin featured on Radio 1's In Concert. It was the first time 'Stairway To Heaven' had been broadcast anywhere on radio. But, tragically, not the last.
The first UK broadcast of Nimmo In New York: With The Dick Cavett Show. The Wood broadcast in the Horizon strand. Listen To The Drums broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. A major eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily began. In the course of the eruption, lava buried the Etna Observatory (built in the late Nineteenth Century), destroyed the first generation of the Etna cable-car and seriously threatened several villages. The World In Action episode The Man Who Stole Uganda profiled arch-loon Idi Amin.
The Wrong Arm Of The Law shown in the Best Of Sellers strand. Barrie Gill reviewed the 1971 motor racing scene in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Having met Edward Heath at Schloss Gymnich near Bonn the previous day, West Germany's Chancellor, Willy Brandt, wrote to French President Georges Pompidou to reiterate his determination to re-open negotiations for the United Kingdom to join the European Economic Community.
The first episode of Swim With Rolf broadcast. Do We Need Exams? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Tom Hanson's The Zodiac Killer premiered. The first episode of Hine - Rifles Are Dangerous - broadcast on Thames.
Uncle Tulip broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Stray, Quintessence and Yvonne Elliman featured on Disco 2. Adrian Hoven's Siegfried Und Das Sagenhafte Liebesleben Der Nibelungen - starring Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning and Heidy Bohlen - premiered. Three Dog Night's 'Joy To The World'/'I Can Hear You Calling', Karina's 'Tomorrow I'm Coming Your Way (En Un Neee Mundo Nuevo)'/'Something' released.
One Small Step broadcast in the Tomorrow's World strand. The Making Of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid broadcast. The Red Shoes shown on BBC2. George Martin was interviewed by Keith Skues about his work with The Beatles on Radio 1. Charles Manson was sentenced to death in the gas chamber on seven counts of first-degree murder and one of conspiracy to commit murder; the following year, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates would be commuted to life imprisonment. Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Blue Cheer's 'Pilot'/'Babaji (Twilight Raga)', Chopper's 'Singer Without A Song'/'I Think I'm A Man', Funkadelic's 'You & Your Folks, Me & My Folks'/'Funky Dollar Bill' and Third World War's 'Ascension Day'/'Teddy Teeth Goes Sailing' released. The first episode of Budgie - Out - broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Two Ronnies broadcast. The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Colony In Space broadcast. The World Of Icons and The Valley Of Animals broadcast on BBC2. Mick Abrahams Band and Principal Edwards Magic Theatre were in session on Top Gear. Geoff Boycott featured on Desert Island Discs. Leeds United's one-all draw at Newcastle United (who extended their unbeaten run to six games thanks to John Tudor's equaliser) gave Arsenal the opportunity to close the gap at the top of the First Division. The Gunners won two-one at Southampton. The Second Division table-topping clash between Leicester City and Sheffield United (a goalless draw) together with Burnley and Blackpool's basement First Division clash (The Clarets winning one-nil) were what Match Of The Day viewers had to get excited about. Halfiax Town kept their slim promotion hopes alive in the Third Division, winning three-nil at Rochdale. York City won their fifth successive game in the Fourth Division, thumping Hartlepool four-nil.
Heinz Sielmann's The Everglades, Blue Peter Royal Safari and Follies Of The Wise broadcast. Film Night Special: The Black Man In The Cinema broadcast on BBC2. The Keef Hartley Band and Brinsley Schwarz featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Claudius The God broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
Tommy Steele In Search Of Charlie Chaplin broadcast. Jimmy Wheeler was interviewed by Tony Bilbow on Late Night Line-Up. Blackpool's miserable year back in the First Division came to a predictable, sorry end as a goalless draw with Spurs condemned them to an immediate return to the second tier. Leeds United dropped another point, drawing nil-nil at Huddersfield Town. Everton beat Coventry City three-nil. Runaway Fourth Division leaders Notts County were promoted following a four-nil victory over Colchester United (Tony Hateley scoring three).
Two-Way Stretch shown in the Best Of Sellers strand. Barrie Gill and Judith Jackson reported from Nairobi on the East African Safari in the Wheelbase strand. Derek Ford's Suburban Wives - starring Eva Whishaw, Maggie Wright and Gabrielle Drake - premiered. Arsenal closed the gap at the top of the First Division to two points with a three-nil victory at Nottingham Forest. Burnley's survival chances received a boost, Geoff Nulty scoring the only goal against fellow strugglers West Ham United. Whilst the Second Division's top two (Leicester City and Cardiff City) were engaged in one-all draws (with Blackburn Rovers and Middlesbrough respectively), Sheffield United inched drew level on points with a two-nil win against Millwall.
Billy Bremner scored the winner as Leeds United beat Liverpool one-nil at Anfield in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final first leg. In another all-English Semi-Final in the Cup Winners Cup, Chelsea beat Manchester City (Derek Smethurst scoring the only goal). Wolves won three-one at Heart of Midlothian in the first leg of the Texaco Cup Final. James Kelley's The Beast In The Cellar - starring Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt and TP McKenna - premiered.
The first episode of It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The Rolling Stones (with Trevor Lawrence on sax) performed 'Brown Sugar' on Top Of The Pops. Mott The Hoople and Seals & Crofts featured on Disco 2. George C Scott became the first actor to reject an Oscar for his role in Patton, claiming that the Academy Awards were 'a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons' and that he did not feel himself to be 'in competition' with other actors. The Barbican Centre was given formal planning permission. Mario Colucci's Something Creeping In The Dark - starring Farley Granger - premiered. The Bilsdale UHF transmitter, situated on the north Yorks Moors on the border between Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees and much disputed over, began broadcasting Tyne Tees programming.
The Monty Python's Flying Circus Montreux 1971 episode broadcast. Albrecht Durer broadcast on BBC2. The Rolling Stones' 'Brown Sugar'/'Bitch', 'Let It Rock', Laurie Marshall's 'All I Want To Do Is Sit & Cry'/'Sing A Sad Song', The Partridge Family's 'Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted'/'You Are Always On My Mind', Free's 'My Brother Jake'/'Only My Soul', Tony Christie's 'I Did What I Did For Maria'/'Give Me Your Love Again', Mighty Dodos' 'Honey (I Need Your Love)'/'You Don't Love Me', Ray Charles's 'Don't Change On Me'/'Sweet Memories' and Ronnie Spector's 'Try Some, Buy Some'/'Tandoori Chicken' released. London saw a large demonstration of East Pakistanis calling for the recognition of the state of Bangladesh. The retiring head of the British Board of Film Censors, John Trevelyan, addressed a seminar and warned of the dangers of violence in film and TV whilst hoping that censorship would not be allowed to 'interfere with artistic integrity.' He used the examples of The Wild Bunch and Performance to illustrate movies which had 'something to say about society.' Conservative MP Sir Gerald Nabarro urged that the makers of the sex education film Growing Up should be prosecuted and that Education Secretary That Awful Thatcher Woman should inform local authorities about the film's 'undesirability.' Egypt, Syria and Libya, at the instigation of Colonel Ghaddafi, formed a Federation of Arab States which sought to unify foreign policy. Howard Moore, a defence lawyer for black activists Angela Davies and the Soledad Brothers arrived in London seeking European support for the case. Time Out magazine was banned by WH Smiths. Penny Brahams, an actress and model, aged twenty and the widow of millionaire property developer Clive Raphael, challenged her late husband's will which left her one shilling and four nude photographs of herself. Piers Haggard's The Blood On Satan's Claw - starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice and Wendy Padbury - premiered.
The first episode of Meanwhile On BBC2 ... presented by Kenneth Williams broadcast. The President's Overseas XV defeated England twenty eight-eleven at Twickenham.The match was played to celebrate the centenary of the Rugby Football Union. Danta and Caravan were in session on Top Gear. Mrs Mills appeared on Desert Island Discs. West Bromwich Albion beat Leeds United at Elland Road in controversial circumstances which ended with a pitch invasion - Old Blokes joining Young Tearaways (and Don Revie) in trying to lynch the referee, Ray Tinkler - which appeared to be actively encouraged by BBC commentator Barry Davies on Match Of The Day. As a consequence, Arsenal went top of the First Division table as they beat Newcastle United one-nil. Manchester United won five-three at Crystal Palace (Denis Law scoring three, George Best two), Coventry City beat Burnley three-nil and Derby County defeated Everton three-one. There were also plenty of goals in the Second Division where Hull City thrashed Orient five-two, Carlisle United defeated Norwich City four-two, Queens Park Rangers beat Swindon Town by the same score (Terry Venables scoring twice) and Chalrton Athletic defeated Bolton Wanderers four-one, confirming Bolton's relegation to the third tier. Cardiff City's defeat at home to Watford and Sheffield United's three-nil defeat of Birmingham City took The Blades into the promotion places. Both Fulham (who shared a goalles draw with Shrewsbury Town) and Preston North End (who lost three-one at Mansfield Town) continued to stutter towards the line in the third Division, allowing Halifax Town, the surprise package of the season, to close within three points following a one goal victory over Chesterfield. Northampton Town thrashed Workington five-nil in the Fourth Division. Promotion-chasing Oldham Athletic defeated Colchester United four-nil. The Pope was criticised by the Italian conservative press for holding an audience with 'young people' which included 'members of rock bands' and 'girls in hot pants.'
The Man From Cheju broadcast. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Eye Of Our Time broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Benjamin Britten's adaptation of The Burning Fiery Furnace broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of The Flip Wilson Show. Dustin Hoffman and Shirley MacLaine were interviewed on Film Night. Aubrey Small and Nucleus featured on Radio 1's In Concert. David John McDonald born in Bathgate. There was a serious fire at Kentish Town West railway station. It reopened in 1981. Doris Wishman's Love Toy - starring Pat Happel and Uta Erickson - premiered. The first episode of Persuasion broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Brett broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Alias Smith & Jones on BBC2, starring Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry. Robert Vas's The Issue Should be Avoided abvout the 1943 Katyn Forest Massacre broadcast. The Doors' LA Woman released. The Soviet Union launched the space station Salyut 1. The World In Action episode The Salvation Army broadcast.
A Shot In The Dark shown in the Best Of Sellers strand. The Tea House Of The August Moon shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. A Charlie George penalty gave Arsenal victory over Burnley and took then two points clear at the top of the First Division.
Worse Than Murder - Tom Mangold's documentary on the kidnapping and murder of Muriel McKay - broadcast in the Twenty Four Hours strand. John Wiles's Taste Of Evil broadcast as part of BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Waris Hussein's Melody - aka S.W.A.L.K), starring Jack Wild, Mark Lester and Tracy Hyde and with a gorgeous Bee Gees soundtrack - premiered. François Duvalier ('Papa Doc'), dictator of Haiti, died aged sixty four; his nineteen-year-old son Jean-Claude Duvalier ('Baby Doc') succeeded him as president-for-life. England beat Greece three-nil at Wembley in a European Nations Cup Qualifier. Martin Chivers, Geoff Hurst and Francis Lee scored whilst Arsenal's Peter Storey made his England debut. Scotland lost two-nil to Portugal in Lisbon. Pat Stanton put through his own goal and Eusabio added a second. Glasgow Celtic's Jimmy Brogan, Aberdeen's Davey Robb and Andy Jarvis of Airdrieonians made their debuts. Wales lost three-one to Czechoslovakia at Swansea. After Ron Davies had scored with a penalty early in the second-half Wales led until twelve minutes from time, but three goals in four minutes swung the tie in the visitor's favour. Tom Walley of Watford, Leighton Phillips of Cardiff City and twenty nine year old Arfon Griffiths of Wrexham made their Welsh debuts.
The first episode of The Rough With The Smooth broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The Faces performed 'Tell Everyone', 'Sweet Lady Mary' and 'Bad 'N Ruin' on Disco 2. The Rolling Stones featured on the Top Of The Pops 'Album Slot', performing 'Brown Sugar', 'Bitch' and 'Wild Horses'.
Riding The Storm featured an interview by Robert McKenzie of Harold Macmillan. The first UK broadcast of The Boston Pops. Shakespeare's Island broadcast on BBC2. Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall In Town - featuring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Warren Mitchell and Ronnie Barker - broadcast. The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, Free's 'My Brother Jake'/'Only My Soul', John Kongos' 'He's Gonna Step On You Again'/'Sometimes It's Not Enough', The Arnold Corns' 'Moonage Daydream'/'Hang On To Yourself', Monique Melsen's 'The Love Beat'/'Pomme, Pomme, Pomme', Severine's 'Chance In Time (Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue)'/'Nothing Bad Can Be This Good (Tu Ne Vois Jamais Le Vent)', Elton John's 'Friends'/'Honey Roll', Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen'/'Body', The Supporters' 'On The Ball'/'Sing Your Own Team', Steppenwolf's 'Snow Blind Friend'/'Hippo Stomp' and The Victorious MCC Team's 'The Ashes Song'/'Hello, Dolly!' released.
Arsenal were held to a two-all draw by West Bromwich Albion, but remained a point ahead of Leeds United in the title race, despite the latter's three-nil win at Southampton (featured on Match of The Day). Burnley had their relegation to the second tier confirmed losing two-one at home to Derby County. Manchester united beat Ipswich Town three-two. Leicester City moved to the brink of the Second Division title with a one-nil victory over Charlton Athletic. Gillingham became the first club relegated from the Third Division after a one-all draw with Port Vale. Halifax won again, two=nil at Brighton & Hove Albion, in the third Division but remained two points behind Preston North End (who drew with Aston Villa). Chester's three-one defeat at Exeter City meant that Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Oldham Athletic joined Notts County in promotion from the Fourth Division. Ted MacDougall scored an extraordinary forty two goals in the league (forty nine in all competitions), aided by manager John Bond teaming him up again with Phil Boyer, signed mid-season from York City, who weighed in with a further eleven strikes of his own. Tony Hateley, enjoying an Indian summer in his lengthy career, hit twenty two for champions County. The Wreck Of An East Indiaman broadcast in the Chronicle strand. JB Priestley hosted Late Night Line-Up: One Man's Week. Hawkwind ('Inwards Out', 'Dreaming', 'You Shouldn't Do That') were in session on Top Gear. Jonathan Miller appeared on Desert Island Discs. Five hundred thousand people in Washington, DC and one hundred and twenty five thousand in San Francisco marched in protest against the Viet'nam War.
Don Juan In Hell broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Road To Mandalay broadcast in The World About Us strand. Supernatural Obsession broadcast in the Film Night strand. Mogul Thrash and Medicine Head featured on Radio 1's In Concert. James Hill's adaptation of Black Beauty - starring Walter Slezak, Mark Lester, Patrick Mower and John Nettleton - premiered. An adaptation of Muriel Spark's Memento Mori broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
Neil Young appeared on BBC2's In Concert, performing 'The Needle & The Damage Done', 'Tell Me Why', 'The Bridge', 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Out On The Weekend', 'Old Man', 'Journey Through The Past', 'Cowgirl In The Sand', 'Heart Of Gold', 'Don't Let It Bring You Down', 'I Am A Child', 'There's A World' and 'A Man Needs A Maid'. Panorama featured an interview with That Awful Thatcher Woman over Conservative plans to withdraw free milk for children over seven years old and increase the price of school dinners. Leeds United kept their First Division title hopes alive, beating Arsenal at Elland Road with Jack Charlton scoring the only goal. The World In Action episode Sailors' Jail broadcast.
Only Two Can Play shown in the Best Of Sellers strand. Jupiter - The Other Magnetic Planet broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. I'll Cry Tomorrow shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Eight members of the Welsh Language Society went on trial for destroying English language road signs in Wales. British Leyland launched the Morris Marina which succeeded the Minor and Oxford models. Leciester City returned to the First Division after two seasons in the second tier following a victory at Bristol City. Top scorer Alistair Brown netted the only goal. Sheffield United all-but confirmed their own promotion, thrashing rivals Cardiff City five-one at Brammall Lane in front of almost forty three thousand. Queens Park Rangers beat Blackburn two-nil, condemning Rovers to relegation. Doncaster Rovers, who lost two-one at home to Rochdale, were relegated from the Third Division. York City missed a chance to clinch Fourth Division promotion, losing one-nil at Workington. The first episode of ... And Mother Makes Three broadcast on Thames.
Michael J Bird's To Lay A Ghost broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. The Last People of St Kilda broadcast in the Yesterday's Wtiness strand. Cancer - Not The Last Report broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Strange Case Of Rudolf Hess broadcast. Chelsea reached the Final of the Cup Winners Cup, Keith Weller scoring the only goal as they defeated holders Manchester City at Maine Road. Leeds United and liverpool shared a goalless draw in the Fairs Cup Semi-Final, Leeds progressing thanks to their one-nil victory in the first leg. David Young, Jimmy Smith and John Tudor scored as Newcastle United thumped West Bromwich Albion three-nil in the First Division. Fulham's three-two victory at Bradford City saw them promoted from the Third Division. The goals of Les Barrett (seventeen) and Steve Earle (fifteen) proving decisive for The Cottagers. Chester's two-nil defeat at Lincoln City meant that York City clinched the final promotion spot from the Fourth Division.
Rhys Adrian's The Foxtrot broadcast in the Play For Today strand. John Lloyd and Graeme Garden's Equal Partners broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Cochise and Loudon Wainwright III appeared on Disco 2. Percy Thrower In The Gardeners' World Of William Shakespeare.
Formation Dancing Challenge Trophy broadcast. What Use Philosophy? broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Adolf Hitler - A Fateful Friendship broadcast in the Late Night Line-Up strand. The Doors' 'Love Her Madly'/'(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further', Stevie Wonder's 'We Can Work It Out'/'Don't Wonder Why', John Dummer Band's 'Nine By Nine'/'Going In The Out', Peter Noone's 'Oh You Pretty Thing'/'Together Forever', Massimo Ranieri's 'Goodbye My Love'/'The Sun Is Shining Down On Me', Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'/'The Boy Next Door', Jackie Lee's 'The Shotgun & The Duck'/'Do The Temptation Walk', Johnny Johnson & His Bandwagon's 'Mister Tambourine Man'/'Soul Sahara', Skid Row's 'Night Of The Warm Witch'/'Mister De-Luxe' and The Velvet Underground's 'Who Loves The Sun?'/'Sweet Jane' released. The Agra Run broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Jack Hill's The Big Doll House - starring Roberta Collins, Pam Grier and Judith Brown - premiered.
The first episode of The World About Us's two-part documentary Thor Heyerndahl's Ra Experditions broadcast on BBC2. Amtrak began inter-city rail passenger services in the United States. Billie Whitelaw featured on Desert Island Discs. Cochise were in session on Top Gear. The Angry Brigade set off a bomb in the Biba store in London. Leeds United's two-nil victory over Nottingham Forest saw them finish the season one point ahead of Arsneal (who beat Stoke City one-nil) but with The Gunners still having a game to play. Sheffield United's promotion from the Second Division was confirmed, Gil Reece netting two and top scorer Alan Woodward adding a third against Watford. Ricky Heppolette scored the only goal of the gamne as Preston North End beat Fulham at Craven Cottage to snatch promotion from the Third Division. Halifax Town's four-one defeat of Barnsley meant they finished in their highest ever league position but missed out on promotion by one place. Bury were relegated.
Barry Hines, Colin Welland and Edward Blishen featured on The Education Programme. Equality: An impossible Utopia? broadcast. Film Night profiled Stanley Baker. Osibisa and Daddy Longlegs appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Peter Sykes's Venom - starring Simon Brent, Neda Arnerić and Sheila Allen - premiered.
The World Of Steve Heighway broadcast in the Panorama strand. Darwin's Bulldog broadcast in the Horizon strand. James Taylor appeared on BBC2's In Concert. Ray Kennedy's goal gave Arsenal a one-nil win over Spurs at White Hart Lane and confirmed The Gunners as First Division champions. Leeds finished runners-up ahead of Tottenham, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Liverpool and Chelsea and Southampton. Manchester United's eighth-place finish was rewarded (if that's the right won) with a place in the Watney Cup (along with West Bromwich Albion, who finished seventeenth). Derby County, Coventry City, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Stoke City and Huddersfield Town were all invited to take part in the Texaco Cup. Poor Old Everton, last year's champions, finished fourteenth and got invited into nowt. West Brom's Tony Brown, despite his team's disappointing season, finished as the First Division's top goal-scroer with twenty eight. Leicester City and Sheffield United were promoted to the First Division, replacing relegated Blackpool and Burnley. Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, two of the most historic names in English football, were relegated to the Third Division. Middlesbrough's John Hickton was, once-again, the Second Division's top scroer with twenty five (although Luton Town's prolific Malcolm Macdonald scored twenty four and thirty in all competitions). The Third Division's top scroers were Dudley Roberts of Mansfield Town and Gerry Ingram of promoted Preston North End, both with twenty four (although Swasnea City's Dai Gwyther hit twenty seven in all competitions). Besides Ted MacDougall's remarkable scoring feats, the other leading scorers in the Fourth Division were Ray Crawford who scored twenty four plus seven during Colchester United's stirring FA Cup run, Paul Aimson of York City and Jim Fryatt of Oldham Athletic, both of whom helped their repsective sides to promotion. Despite losing one-nil at home to Hearts, Wolverhampton Wanderers won the Texaco Cup on aggregate. Anti-war activists attempted to disrupt government business in Washington in what became known as the May Day Protests; police and military units arrested as many as twelve thousand, most of whom are later released. A Harris Poll was published which claimed that sixty per cent of Americans opposed the Viet'nam War. The World In Action episode Going Private broadcast.
Autoimmunity & Common Diseases broadcast in the Medicine Today strand. Wheelbase asked 'Will a Channel tunnel benefit Britain's thirteen million motorists?' Four home-made bombs were found in the vicinity of Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School. The authorities at first believed these belonged to the Angry Brigade but subsequent investigations suggested they were more likely to be the work of students who had devised improvised bombs as an experiment on a school trip to Norway in 1970. Southampton thrashed Crystal Palace six-nil in their final First Division match to clinch the fourth spot in the newly-created UEFA Cup. Malclom Macdonald scored a hat-trick in what turned out to be in his final appearance for luton Town, a three-nil victory over Cardiff City. Reading, who lost two-one at Aston Villa, became the fourth club to be relegated from the Third Division.
Twenty Four Hours celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Guardian newspaper. This Body Is Mine broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand. Tottenham Hotspur signed England international Ralph Coates (and his dodgy comb-over) from Burnley for one hundred and ninety thousand quid. Manchester United won four-three at Manchester City in the final First Division match of the season.
Kingsley Amis's The Importance Of Being Hairy broadcast in Comedy Playhouse strand. Tony Parker's When The Bough Breaks broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Keef Hartley Band appeared on Disco 2.

Sportsnight Special profiled the FA Cup Final. Victoria On A Spree broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Newcastle United signed Malcolm Macdonald from Luton Town for one hundred and eighty thousand knicker. The Pretty Things' 'Stone-Hearted Mama'/'Summertime', 'Circus Mind', Frijid Pink's 'Music For The People'/'Sloony', Chairmen Of The Board's 'Pay To The Piper'/'When Will She Tell Me She Needs Me', Bread's 'If'/'Take Comfort', David Garrick's 'Mary In The Morning'/'Beautiful People', Tyrone Davis' 'Could I Forget You'/'Just My Way Of Loving You', Dee Dee Warwick's 'Suspicious Minds'/'I'm Glad I'm A Woman', Humble Pie's 'Shine On'/'Mister Ring', The Decisions' 'It's Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run)'/'I Can't Forget About You' and Ashton, Gardner, Dyke & Co's 'Can You Get It'/'Delirium' released. Karel Kachyna's Už zase Skáču Přes Kaluže - starring Vladimír Dlouhý and Zdena Hadrbolcová - premiered. Stoke City defeated everton three-two in the FA Cup Third Place Play-Off at White Hart Lane. To the interest of absolutely no-one.
Champagne Charlie George scored the winner as Arsenal beat Liverpool in the FA Cup Final after extra-time. The Gunners became the first side to win The Double since rivals Tottenham Hotspur a decade earlier. Earlier Steve Heighway had given Liverpool the lead only for substitute Eddie Kelly to deflect George Graham's shot past Ray Clemence to equalise. Lovelace Watkins At The Wookey Hollow broadcast. The first episode of Bel Ami broadcast on BBC2. Help Yourself were in session on Top Gear. Roy Smith, the Croydon headmaster who suspended a thirteen year old boy who refused to accept the cane said that he would take the same action again. West Germany and the Netherlands floated the Mark and the Guilder to restore financial stability. The government announced it was changing the locks on official safes after the revelation that tools existed which could detect combinations. Pakistani forces shelled the Indian border area of Sonamura. In the Vietnamese city of Huế a Buddhist monk committed suicide by setting himself ablaze. The first US attempt to send a spacecraft into orbit around Mars ended when Mariner Eight crashed into the Atlantic. John Pestridge, aged seventy eight, claimed to have spent fifty years fighting for a pension after his sight was damaged during the First World War. Legal aid was 'a waste of time and money' according to Lord Hailsham who noted 'a judicious plea of guilty accompanied by a discreet and concise plea for mitigation will, if he would only realise it, often get a defendant off with less.' Robert Pounder of County Durham revealed that police had located his wife whose disappearance had led to the digging up of his garden. She was alive and well and living in Newcastle but 'declined her husband's invitation to return home.'
The first episode of Myth & Truth broadcast. The Man Who Loves Giants broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Groundhogs and John Martyn featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of The Battle Of St George Without broadcast. The Secret broadcast in the Horizon strand. Ray Stevens featured on BBC2's In Concert. The first episode of The Last Of The Baskets and the World In Action episode The Tamzan Railway broadcast on Thames.
I'm All Right Jack shown in the Best Of Sellers strand. The first UK broadcast of The Selling Of The Pentagon in the Twenty Four Hours strand. A Very Special Favour shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. The Daily Sketch, Britain's oldest tabloid newspaper, was withdrawn from circulation after sixty two years. The first episode of the terrifying Oliver In The Overworld broadcast in ITV's Little Big Time strand.
Runaway World broadcast in the Search strand. Love On The Dole broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Deathday broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand. Mick Jagger married Bianca de Macías in Saint-Tropez, in a Roman Catholic ceremony. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and their wives were among the wedding guests. Keith Richards arrived wearing a Wermacht jacket. Alastair Reid's The Night Digger - starring Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, Jean Anderson, Brigit Forsyth and Peter Sallis - premiered. England beat Malta five-nil in a European Nations Cup Qualifier at Wembley. Martin Chivers scored twice with further goals from Francis Lee, Allan Clarke and debutant Chris Lawler of Liverpool.
Orkney, three stories by George MacKay Brown adapted by John McGrath, broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Allan Taylor and Warhorse featured on Disco 2. Liverpool signed twenty-year-old Kevin Keegan from Scunthorpe United for thirty five thousand pounds.
The first episode of Look, Mike Yarwood! broadcast. Stockhausen's Stimmung broadcast in BBC2's Review strand in an episode which also featured a series of sketches by Eleanor Bron and John Bird. Pink Floyd's Relics, Richard Barnes's 'Coldwater Morning'/'Suddenly I Know', Janis Ian's 'He's A Rainbow'/'See My Grammy Ride', The Arsenal First Team Squad's 'Good Old Arsenal'/'The Boys From Highbury', Unicorn's 'PF Sloan'/'Going Back Home', Hurricane Smith's 'Don't Let It Die'/'The Writer Sings His Song', Toby Jug's 'Breakaway Man'/'Brotherhood', Laurel Aitken's 'If It's Hell Below'/'Just A Little Bit Of Lovin', Bill Withers' 'Everybody's Talkin'/'Harlem', Jimmy Witherspoon's 'Handbags & Gladrags'/'It's Time To Live' and The Temptations' 'Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)'/'You Make Your Own Heaven & Hell Right Here On Earth' released.
England beat Northern Ireland one-nil in the Home Inernational championship at Windsor Park with a goal from Allan Clarke. His Leeds United team-mate Paul Madeley made his England debut. George Best had what would have been a memorable goal disallowed after flicking the ball away from Gordon Banks as the England goalkeeper threw it up in preparation for a clearance. It was a magical piece of skill and impudence by Bestie, but the sour-faced Scottish referee, Alistair MacKenzie, decided he had been guilty of dangerous play, much to the annoyance of the pretty-much everyone (except Banksie). Newcastle United's Tommy Cassidy made his international debut as a substitute for Eric McMordie. Wales and Scotland drew nil-nil at Ninian Park. Arsenal's John Roberts made his Welsh debut. The first episode of BBC2's Art At Any Price? broadcast. Roy Harper and The Pretty Things were in session on Top Gear. John Braine featured on Desert Island Discs.
The Eddy Duchin Story shown in The Sunday Film strand. Siberia: The Endless Horizon broadcast in The World About Us strand. Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave broadcast on BBC2. Caravan and Tir Na Nog appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. An adaptation of Children In Uniform broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
Roy Kinnear read Arabel's Raven on Jackanory. What Every Girl Should Know broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode The 2.9 Per Cent Swing To Democracy In Bradford broadcast.
A season of Gary Cooper movies began with The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer. Gordon Wilkins and Maxwell Boyd 'tuned-in to the car entertainment boom and discussed with the Managing Director of BBC Radio Ian Trethowan and Commercial radio spokesman Hughie Green what was in the air for motoring listeners in the months ahead' in BBC2's Wheelbase. Robert Fuest's The Abominable Doctor Phibes - starring Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey and Virginia North - and Don Chaffey's Creatures The World Forgot - starring Julie Ege and Brian O'Shaughnessy - premiered. Northern Ireland beat Scotland one-nil in the Home International championship at Hampden Park with John Greig scoring an own goal. Frank Munro of Wolves made his Scotland debut.
England and Wales drew nil-nil at Wembley in the Home International championship. The Liverpool centre-back pairing of Tommy Smith and Larry Lloyd made their England debuts as did West Brom's Tony Brown. Chelsea drew one-all with Real Madrid in the Final of the Cup Winners Cup in Greece. Peter Osgood gave Chelsea the lead but Zoco equalised in the late minute. Complaints Against the Police broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Sons & Daughters Of Tomorrow broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand. The Jarrow Crusade broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand.
Jim Allen's The Rank & File broadcast in the Play For Today strand. James Taylor, Livingston Taylor and Uriah Heep featured on Disco 2.
Kyung-Wha Chung broadcast. Blow Up Art broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On?, Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram, Lindisfarne's 'Lady Eleanor'/'Nothing But The Marvellous Is Beautiful', Medicine Head's '(And The) Pictures In The Sky'/'Natural Sight', Lorraine Ellison's 'Call Me Anytime You Need Some Lovin'/'Please Don't Teach Me To Love You', Stackridge's 'Dora, The Female Explorer'/'Everyman', Siren's 'Strange Locomotion'/'I'm All Aching', The Bells' 'Stay Awhile'/'Simple Song Of Freedom' and Slade's 'Get Down & Get With It'/'Do You Want Me?', 'Gospel According To Rasputin' released. Chelsea defeated Real Madrid two-one in a replay at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus to win the Cup Winners Cup, Peter Osgood hitting the winner.
England beat Scotland three-one at Wembley to win the Home International championship. Martin Chivers scored twice whilst his Tottenham team-mate Martin Peters added a third. Hugh Curran netted for the visitors who finished rock-bottom of the championship. Northern Ireland beat Wales one-nil at Windsor Park, Bryan Hamilton of Linfield hitting the winner. The first episode of the well-remembered Doctor Who five-part serial The Daemons broadcast. The Battle At Apache Pass shown in BBC2's Saturday Cinema strand. Loudon Wainwright III appeared in session on Top Gear. Joyce Grenfell featured on Desert Island Discs. Herod's Reign broadcast on Radio 3. The first episode of Kindly Leave The Kerb broadcast on LWT.
Coral Calypso broadcast in The World About Us strand. John Arlott's profile of Colin Milburn broadcast in BBC2's coverage of the John Player League match between Northampton and Kent. Jackie Stewart won the Monaco Grand Prix. John Peel presented The Faces in Radio 1's In Concert. The General's Dog broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play.
Tastes Of Foods To Come broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Wildlife Of Australia broadcast in the Merry-Go-Round strand. The World In Action episode Death In Afraid Of Us broadcast.
Battleship Bismarck: The Story Of An Epic Chase broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Anatomy Of A Murder shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade. A suitcase containing a blast bomb was thrown into the lobby of Springfield Road RUC station by the Provisional IRA. Sergeant Michael Willetts sheltered two civilians as thirty pounds of explosives detonated, killing him. Seven RUC officers, two British soldiers and eighteen civilians were injured in the attack.
Is Somebody Up There Watching? broadcast in the Search strand. Leeds United and Juventus shared a goaless draw in Turin in the first leg of the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final. Wales defeated Finland one-nil in a European Nations Cup Qualifier in Helsinki. John Toshack scored for the visitors for whom Birmingham City's Malcolm Page, Ray Mielczarek of Rotherham United and Wayne Jones of Bristol Rovers made their international debuts. The first Anglo-Italian Cup began. Don't Stop The Carnival broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Michael Tuchner's Villain - starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden and Fiona Lewis - premiered.
Simon Gray's The Man In The Sidecar broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Byrds featured on Disco 2.
George Cole read Two Cats In America and Mog, The Forgetful Cat on Jackanory. The first UK broadcast of Lodynski's Fleamarket Company in BBC2's Montreux 71 strand. Atomic Rooster's 'The Devil's Answer'/'The Rock', Lucifer's Friend's 'Ride The Sky'/'Horla', The Bee Gees' 'How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?'/'Country Woman', Carpenters' 'Rainy Days & Mondays'/'Saturday', Carole King's 'It's Too Late'/'I Feel The Earth Move', Norman Greenbaum's 'California Earthquake'/'Rhode Island Red', Lobo's 'Me & You & A Dog Named Boo'/'Walk Away From It All' and Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story released. Don Siegel's The Beguiled - starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman and Jo Ann Harris - premiered. Leeds United drew two-two with Juventus in Turin in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final (Paul madeley and Mick Bates scoring).
The first episode of Bristleface broadcast in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colour strand. Kenny Everett hosted BBC2's Late Night Line-Up: One Man's Week. Shawn Phillips and Henry Cow were in session on Top Gear. Radio 2's Ray Moore's Saturday Night came live from The Water's Edge Hotel, Jersey with the music of The Jack Duff All-Stars. Ronnie Corbett featured on Desert Island Discs. Robin Maconie's Sound Technology & Avant-Garde Music broadcast on Radio 3.
BBC2's Film Night, Easy Rider Goes To Woodstock By The Mayflower featured a location interview with the Academy Award-winning director Francois Reichenbach about his latest feature-documentary The Great Medicine Ball Caravan. Ingrid Bergman Remembers broadcast in the Omnibus strand. A new version of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? broadcast on BBC2 featuring Kate Pretty, Tony Birley and John Wild. A recording of The Rolling Stones at Leeds University broadcast on Radio 1's In Concert.
The Glencoe Climb broadcast. Jumbo Parker's Jilly broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Randy Newman In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
That Well-Known Store In Knightsbridge broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Minister of the Environment, Peter Walker, defended his 'clean car' anti-pollution policy on BBC2's Wheelbase. Mania - starring Orita De Chadwick, Rick Helm, Hal Nosek and Penny King - premiered.
Ajax Amsterdam beat Panathinaikos two-nil at Wembley in the European Cup Final with goals by Dick Van Dijk and Arie Haan. Martin Worth's The Last Witness broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Man Alive's The Black American Dream profiled Stokely Carmichael.
Everybody Say Cheese broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Assagai appeared on Disco 2. Leeds United won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on away goals against Juventus after a three-three aggregate over two games. It was the final time the competition would be played, from the following season it was renamed the UEFA Cup. Zaheer Abbass scored two hundred and seventy four for Pakistan in the first test at Edgbaston. Centuries by Alan Knott in the first innings and Brian Luckhurst in the second ensured a draw. Imran Khan made his test debut and Asif Mahmood took nine wickets in the match. The stage farce No Sex Please, We're British, opened at the Strand Theatre, beginning a sixteen-year run in London's West End.
An American Nightmare broadcast in the Review strand. Kosmos 426 was launched by the Soviet Union as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme, for the purpose of studying charged particles and radiation in the Earth's magnetosphere. It operated for six months, but remained in orbit until 2002. Don Chaffey's Clinic Xclusive - starring Georgina Ward, Alexander Davion and Polly Adams and Freddie Francis's The Vampire Happening premiered. The Sweet's 'Co-Co'/'Done Me Wrong All Right', Del Davis' 'Baby Don't Wake Me'/'Wishing & Hoping', Tommy Roe's 'The Greatest Love'/'King Of Fools', Frumpy's 'Life Without Pain'/'Morning', Parliament's 'The Silent Boatman'/'Livin' The Life', The Three Degrees' 'You're The One'/'Rose Garden', Edgar Winter's 'Where Would I Be?'/'Good Morning Music', Tin Tin's 'Is That The Way?'/'Swans On The Canal' and The Herd's 'You've Got Me Hanging From Your Lovin' Tree'/'I Don't Wanna Go To Sleep Again' released.
A Nation's Music, Andrew Mulligan's documentary about football in Brazil, broadcast. The Terrible Year broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Robin & Barry Dransfield and Ian Matthews were in session on Top Gear. A Headful Of Crocodiles broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Dan Martin and Byron Mabe's The Big Snatch - starring Peggy Church, Tracy Handfuss, Ginnie Kindall, Jane Tsentas and Uschi Digard - premiered.
Hitchcock's The Birds shown in the Film Of The Week strand. America On Trial broadcast. The American Birds Of Dorothy Doughty broadcast on BBC2. Mick Abraham's Band and Roy Harper featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Leicester City manager Frank O'Farrell resigned to take up the vacant job at Manchester United (his appointment would be confirmed on 1 July). The first episode of Jamie broadcast on LWT.
Blue Peter buried a time capsule in the grounds of BBC Television Centre, due to be opened on the first episode of the year 2000. Which it was. Alan Wells's Something For The Children broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. In Silver Spring, Maryland, the federal Alcohol Tobacco Firearms Division raided the home of Kenyon Ballew, resulting in a shooting, serious injury and a cause célèbre in the debate between advocates of gun control and advocates of gun owner rights. The World In Action episode Conversations With A Working Man broadcast.
The Great Twentieth-Century Love Affair: People Versus The Car broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Orbiting Space-Stations broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Jacklin broadcast on BBC2. Manchester United appointed Leicester City's Frank O'Farrell as their new manager. Sir Matt Busby became a director of the club.
The first episode of Where Do I Stand? broadcast. Death Row broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Man In My Head broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand. Finn Laudrup scored as Denmark defeated Scotland one=nil in a European Nations Cup Qualifier in Copenhagen. Tommy Forsyth of Motherwell and Dundee's Jocky Scott made their Scotland debuts.
The first episode of Crystal Tipps & Alistair broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's The Six & Britain broadcast. Gordon Lightfoot appeared on Disco 2. Leeds United were told they would have to play their first four 'home' games of the next season somewhere other than Elland Road as a consequence of the disorderly behaviour of fans (and players and manager) during the infamous West Bromwich Albion defeat in April.
The first episode of Birds On The Wing broadcast on BBC2. Angels With Dirty Faces shown in The Movie Crazy Years strand. The nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz by the group Indians Of All Tribes ended when a large force of government officers removed the remaining fifteen protesters from the island. Cy Endfield's Universal Soldier - starring George Lazenby - premiered. Dave & Ansel Collins's 'Monkey Spanner'/'Version Two', Blue Beard's 'Country Man'/'Sly Willy' and Primitive Man's 'Animal Love'/'Major Barmy From The Army' released.
Blackpool won the inaugural Anglo Italian Cup, beating Bologna two-one after extra time. The first episode of BBC2's The Woodlanders broadcast. Medicine Head and David Parker were in session on Top Gear. Dirk Bogarde was interviewed on Radio 4's Film Time. Blackpool won the Anglo-Italian Cup, winning two-one at Bologna (Mickey Burns scoring the winner). This time, there were not repeats of the disgracefulk scenes which had marred the previous year's Final. The first episode of The Comedians broadcast on LWT.
Three Looms Waiting broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Operation Musk Ox broadcast in The World About Us strand. Lancaster and Help Yourself featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The New York Times began publishing The Pentagon Papers, the Defence Department's secret history of the Viet'nam War leaked by former Defence Department staffer Daniel Ellsberg. Much to the sour-faced discombobulation of President Nixon.
Roy Russell's Sir Francis Chichester profile, The Lonely Sea & The Sky broadcast. The Total War Machine broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Room They Left broadcast in Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Gallagher & Lyle featured in BBC2's In Concert strand. Education Secretary That Awful Thatcher Woman's proposal to cut free milk for school children over the age of seven sparking the first of many angry protests, earning That Awful Thatcher Woman the nickname 'The Milk Snatcher'. During a fierce Parliamentary debate, Labour education spokesman Ted Short described the plans as 'the meanest and most unworthy thing' he had seen as an MP. The Sovient Union defeated Scotland one=nil in a friendly international in Moscow. John Brownlie of Hibernian and Motherwell's Bobby Watson made their vfirst appearances for Scotland. The first episode of Seasons Of The Year and the World In Action episode Anthony Maxcarenhas broadcast on Thames.
The Unborn Child - A New Dilemma broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. David Frost interviewed Stokely Carmichael on BBC2's Late Night Line-Up. Who Is Harry Kellerman & Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? - starring Dustin Hoffman - premiered.
Nigel Kneale's The Chopper broadcast in BBC2's Out Of The Unknown strand. Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards appeared on Frost Over America.
Pure Goldie broadcast. Yesterday's Men broadcast in the Twenty Four Hours strand. According to editor Anthony Smith, the film led to 'the biggest and most furious row that a television programme in the English language has ever provoked.' Loudon Wainwright III and Help Yourself featured on Disco 2. A well-drunken Jim Morrison made his final recording in a Paris studio with two - equally inebriated - American street musicians whom he had befriended.
The first episode of Ryan & Ronnie broadcast. Not Only ... But Also: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore In Australia broadcast. Mister Heath's Quiet Revolution broadcast in the Twenty Four Hour strand. Robert Lowell & Jonathan Miller broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Carole King gave her first performance in front of an audience at New York's Carneige Hall. The Rolling Stones' 'Street Fighting Man'/'Surprise Surprise', 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love', Ramases's 'Balloon'/'Muddy Water', The New Seekers' 'Never Ending Song Of Love'/'Cincinnati', Curved Air's 'Back Street Luv'/'Everdance' and The Beach Boys' 'Long Promised Road'/'Dierdre' released. Ernst Hofbauer's Der Neue Heiße Sex-Report - Was Männer Nicht Für Möglich Halten - starring Astrid Frank, Eva Garden and Karin Götz - premiered.
The first episode of Parkinson broadcast. Parky's guests included Terry-Thomas and tennis player Arthur Ashe. The first episode of BBC2's The Codebreakers, The Zimmermann Telegram broadcast. The Fastest Con In The West broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Manfred Mann featured on Radio 1's The Rosko Show. Clive Dunn appeared on Desert Island Discs.
Life At Large Looks At Some Lovely Islands broadcast. A production of Macbeth - starring Eric Porter and Janet Suzman - broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Peter Shaffer recalled James Mossman's career in To Be A Witness in the Omnibus strand. Chimpanzee! broadcast in The World About Us strand. Film Night Special: John Schlesinger broadcast. John Peel introduced 'David Bowie and Friends' on Radio 1's In Concert. Bowie unveiled a new composition, 'Kooks', written to celebrate the birth of his son, Zowie, two days earlier. Jacky Ickx won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Françoise Hardy appeared on The Spinners. The Dinosaur Hunters broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Oz obscenity trial began. Britain began negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg. The World In Action episode A Woman's Place broadcast.
Anthony de Lotbiniere's The Lion of Judah broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The rain-affected second test between England and Pakistan at Lord's ended in a predictable draw. Over seventeen hours play were lost due to the bad whether. In what little play was possible Geoff Boycott scored a century in England's first innings and Richard Hutton - on his test debut - fifty eight not out in the second. John Price took three for twenty nine as Pakistan were dismissed for one hundred and forty.
Bing Crosby was the guest on Frost Over America. The Health Food Boom broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Uninvited broadcast in the Out Of The Unknown strand. Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen, premiered. A paper in Nature by John Vane and Priscilla Piper put forward evidence that aspirin and similar drugs work by inhibiting the release of prostaglandin.
Nationwide sent reporter Nicky Woodhead out to pinch men's bottoms in public, all in the name of sexual equality. It was a dirty job but someone had to do it. Hugo Charteris's There Is Also Tomorrow broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Stress With The Scaffold broadcast. Ian Matthews and Stefan Grossman featured on Disco 2. Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller premiered.
The first episode of Andre Previn's Music Night broadcast. John Davis, City editor of the Observer was the guest on BBC2's Money Minder. The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again'/'I Dont Even Know Myself', Frijid Pink's 'We're Gonna Be There (When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home)'/'Shorty Kline', Burundi Steiphenson Black's 'Burundi Black' (Parts 1 & 2), Curtis Mayfield's 'Move On Up'/'Beautiful Brother Of Mine', 'Give It Up', Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds' 'Don't Pull Your Love'/'Funk-In-Wagnal', Zior's 'Za Za Za Zilda'/'She's A Bad Bad Woman' and Fairport Convention's Angel Delight released. The first Reading Festival 'of jazz and progressive music' took place. Headliners included Arthur Brown, East Of Eden, LIndisfarne and Rory Gallagher. Alan J Paluka's Klute - starring Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda - and Shaft - starring Richard Roundtree - premiered.
A try by Ian McLauchlan and two penalties by Barry John gave the British Lions a nine-three victory against the All Blacks in the opening test at Dunedin. Pierre Salinger and Shelley Winters were guests on Parkinson. Bill Greenhalgh's Albert broadcast on BBC2. Roger Ruskin Spears & The Giant Orchestral Wardrobe and Soft Machine featured on Top Gear. Glenda Jackson appeared on Radio 4's Film Time. The Queen Of Spades From Glyndeboume broadcast on Radio 3.
The Tchaikovsky Competition broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Conquered Dream broadcast in The Word About Us strand. Paladin and Bell 'N' Arc featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Frank Nesbitt's Dulcima - starring Carol White and John Mills - premiered at the Berlin Film Fesitval. Robert Parrish's A Town Called Bastard - starring Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau and Fernando Rey - premiered.
Sandie Shaw appeared on The Spinners. The World In Action episode The Dust At Arce Mill broadcast.
Looking Back With Lord Reith broadcast. A Bruised Daffodil Of Last Night's Sin broadcast in BBC2's Summer Season Presents strand. Democrat Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska attempted to read The Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record as part ofa filibuster against the draft.
The Shattered Eye, the final episode of BBC2's Out Of The Unknown broadcast. Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson appeared on Frost Over America. Tracking The Stars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and Curtis Harrington's What's The Matter With Helen? - starring Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters and Dennis Weaver - premiered. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Olkov and Viktor Patsayev died from asphyxiation when Soyuz 11 depressurised before re-entry after their successful mission to Slayut 1. The US Supreme Court ruled that The Pentagon Papers could be published by the New York Times and other media outlets, rejecting government injunctions as 'unconstitutional prior restraint.' Reginald Mills's much-loved adaptation of the Royal Ballet Company's The Tales Of Beatrix Potter - premiered.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by disgusting kiddie-fiddler Jimmy Savile (wearing orange hot pants) featured Atomic Rooster, Medicine Head, Family, Sweet, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Three Dog Night, Greyhound, The Delfonics, Strawbs and Middle Of The Road. So You Think You Know Your Kings & Queens? broadcast. Brewer & Shipley featured on Disco 2. White House staffers David Young and Egil Krogh write a memo to their bosses, Presidential counsel John Ehrlichman and White House chief of staff Bob Haldeman, suggesting the formation of what later became known as 'The White House Plumbers' in response to the leak of The Pentagon Papers. John Schlesigner's Sunday Bloody Sunday - starring Murray Head, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Peggy Ashcroft - premiered.
The Roaring Twenties shown in The Movie Crazy Years strand. Who Will Still Need You? broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. T-Rex's 'Get It On'/'There Was A Time', 'Raw Ramp', The Platters' 'Sweet, Sweet Lovin'/'Going Back To Detroit', Jack Wild's 'Working On It Night And Day'/'The Old Man Song (Na Na Na Na)', The Treetops' 'Without The One You Love'/'So Here I Go', Bobbi Lynn's 'Earthquake'/'Opportunity Street' and Keith Mansfield Orchestra & Chorus's 'Love Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry'/'By Tomorrow' released. Analysis: China & The Triangular Power Game broadcast on Radio 4. The first episode of Follyfoot - Dora - broadcast on Thames. With its memorably catchy theme tune.
Art Buchwald and Peter Finch were the guests on Parkinson. Tom Friswell's Aneurin broadcast on BBC2. Australians John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong won the Wimbledon mens and womens singles titles. Dando Shaft and The Edgar Broughton Band ('Hotel Room', 'Look At The Mayor', 'Mama's Reward') were in session on Top Gear. Michael Crawford featured on Desert Island Discs. Jim Morrison was found extremely dead in a Paris bathtub. The cause of death remains uncertain, but an unintentional heroin overdose is the most popular theory. The first episode of The Trouble With You, Lilian broadcast on LWT. Benedict Wong born in Eccles.
Bream At Stratford broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Solti Era broadcast in the Music On 2 strand. Joni Mitchell featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix took place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, won by Jan de Vries. French rider Christian Ravel was killed during the race.
Jean Morris's Travelling In Winter broadcast on Radio 4. Music On The March broadcast. The first episode of Seven Days In The Life Of Andrew Pelham broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of You're Only Young Twice and the World In Action episode End Of A Journey broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of What's The Sense? - presented by Cardew Robinson - broadcast. The first TV showing of Help! opened a new series of Pop Go The Movies. Subsequent weeks included the first UK TV showings of Catch Us If You Can, Everyday's A Holiday (with Freddie & The Dreamers), Up Jumped A Swagman (with Frank Ifield) and What A Crazy World (with Joe Brown & The Bruvvers). The Fountainhead shown in BBC2's Hollywood Star Parade strand. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu gave a speech - 'The July Theses' - to the Executive Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, marking the beginning of a mini cultural revolution.
The first episode of Hope & Keen's Crazy House broadcast. Liza Minnelli was the guest on Frost Over America. James Kenelm Clarke's The Jesus Trip broadcast in the Man Alive strand.
The first episodes of He Who Dares and DogWatch broadcast. The first UK broadcast of All In The Family. Heaven featured in the final episode of Disco 2.
The first episode of We Want To Sing - introduced by Bernard Cribbins - broadcast. Revolution On The Pirate Coast broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Peter Ustinov On The Art Of Communication broadcast. Twenty five thousand people attended the funeral of Louis Armstrong in New York. 'When the Saints Go Marching In', his theme tune, was played at the service and Peggy Lee sang 'The Lord's Prayer'. The Settlers' 'The Lightning Tree'/'Just This Side Of Nowhere', Dave Edmunds' 'Blue Monday'/'I'll Get Along', Floyd Cramer's 'Theme From Flight Of The Doves'/'Making Up', Ayshea Brough's 'Master Jack'/'Both Sides Now', Hope & Keen's 'Crazy House'/'You Can Go My Way', Freda Payne's 'Bring The Boys Home'/'Odds & Ends' and Paladin's 'Anyway'/'Giving All My Love' released.
Peter Ustinov was the guest on Parkinson. Together They Made It On The Euston Road broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Osibisa and Wishbone Ash were in session on Top Gear. Smallbone Deceased broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Knokke Nights broadcast on Radio 2. The first episode of The Guardians - The State Of England - broadcast on LWT. A Witch Guide To The Occult broadcast in the Aquarius strand.
The Hustler shown in the Film Of The Week strand. Solzhenitsyn - The Writer & His Government broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Journals Of Lewis & Clark broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Thynne Blue Line broadcast on BBC2. Heads, Hands & Feet and Dando Shaft featured on Radio 1's In Concert strand. Gloria Steinem made her Address to the Women of America at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. The first UK broadcast of The Odd Couple on LWT.
The first episode of He Said, She Said broadcast. Johann Cruyff signed a seven-year contract with Ajax of Amsterdam. The World In Action episode Major Khaled's War broadcast.
Paid Off: The Harder They Fall broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. A Venus Observed broadcast in BBC2's Summer Season Presents strand. England won the third test at Headingley by twenty five runs. Set two hundred and thirty to win, Pakistan fell agonisingly short of their target despite a brilliant ninety one by Sadiq Mohammad. Peter Lever took three for ten. Earlier Geoff Boycott scored his second century of the series and there was a fine all-round performance by Basil D'Oliveira. Michael Bassett was found dead in his fume-filled car. Police identified him as their prime suspect in a recent triple murder of French tourists in Cheshire. David Rea's She'll Follow You Anywhere - starring Kenneth Cope, Keith Barron, Richard Vernon and Hilary Pritchard - premiered.
The Conservative Party & The Common Market: The Prime Minister Speaks broadcast. The Prisoner broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Criminal Damage Act abolished the - theoretically capital - offence of arson in royal dockyards. Mime in the royal dockyards, however, rightly remained a hanging offence.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Tony Blackburn, featured performances by Curved Air, Fairport Convention, Labi Siffre, Middle Of The Road, Slade, The Dave Clark Five, T Rex, The New Seekers, The Rolling Stones and The Who. The first UK broadcast of Pierre Koralnik's production of Salome on BBC2. Jesus Franco's Vampyros Lesbos - starring Soledad Miranda and Ewa Strömberg - premiered in Berlin. Fanny's 'Changing Horses'/'Conversation With A Cop' released. The first episode of Alexander The Greatest broadcast on Thames.
Movie-Makers: Noel Coward At The NFT broadcast. A Sussex Samarkand broadcast on BBC2. In the World Cup qualifying draw, England were paired with Wales and Poland. Scotland were in a group with Czechoslovakia and Denmark. It was announced that Old Trafford would be closed for the opening two weeks of the next season following a knife-throwing incident at Manchester United's match with Newcastle in February. Mad Ken Russell's The Devils - starring Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Michael Gothard and John Woodvine - premiered. Bill Elliot & The Elastic Oz Band's 'God Save Us'/'Do The Oz', The James Gang's 'Walk Away'/'Yadig?' and Jigsaw's 'Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring'/'No Questions Asked' released.
The Labour Party & The Common Market broadcast. The British Grand Prix at Silverstone was won by Jackie Stewart. Storm In The Peninsular broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Joseph Cotten was interviewed about his work with orson Welles on Film Night. Family were in session on Top Gear. John Cleese featured on Desert Island Discs. Hans Keller's Originality & Influence: The Problem Of Comprehensibility broadcast on Radio 3.
Hail & Farewell broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Last Frontier broadcast in The World About Us strand. Gillian Reynolds' One Woman's Week broadcast on BBC2. Southern Comfort and Lindisfarne ('City Song', 'Train In G Major', 'Lady Eleanor', 'Fog On The Tyne', 'Knackers Yard Blues', 'We Can Swing Together') featured in Radio 1's In Concert. Pelé played his ninety second and final international for Brazil, scoring in a one-all draw with Yugoslavia in the Maracana in front of a crowd of two hundred thousand.
Starting Work: A Leap In The Dark? broadcast in the Panorama strand. Rita Patricia Curran, a twenty four-year-old elementary school teacher and part-time motel maid, was murdered in her basement apartment, in Burlington, Vermont. The location of the motel where she worked was adjacent to the serial killer Ted Bundy's birthplace, the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers and similarities to known Bundy crime scenes later led retired FBI agent John Bassett to propose him as a suspect. No evidence placed Bundy in Burlington on that date, but municipal records noted a person named Bundy was bitten by a dog that week and long stretches of Bundy's activities - including the summer of 1971 - remain unaccounted for. Curran's murder officially remains unsolved. According to detective Robert Keppel, Bundy told him that he had murdered a woman in July 1971 in Burlington, who worked next door to the building where Bundy was born. The first episode of an abridged adaptation of Tom's Midnight Garden broadcast on Radio 4. The premiere of Viktors Ritelis's Crucible Of Horror (aka The Corpse) in San Antonio, Texas.
Strike Command broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand.
How Far Are The Stars? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Army Game broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Gordon Hessler's Murders In The Rue Morgue - starring Jason Robards, Christine Kaufmann, Herbert Lom, Adolfo Celi, Michael Dunn and Lilli Palmer - premiered. Leicester City signed Jon Sammels from Leicester City for one hundred thousand pounds. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Seven Serpents, Sulphur & Salt broadcast on Thames.
The first Uk broadcast of The Arte Johnson Show in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. Home Sweet Home Sweet Nothing broadcast in the Stress strand. Undergraduate Joyce LePage, aged twenty one, was last seen on the campus of Washington State University. Nine months later, her skeletal remains were found wrapped in carpeting and military blankets in a ravine South of Pullman. Multiple suspects - including Ted Bundy - have 'never been cleared,' according to investigators and Whitman County authorities have said that Bundy 'remains a suspect.' Given that Bundy was also a suspect in a murder case committed three days earlier in Vermont, two thousand miles away, it is probable that if Bundy was involved in one of these two cases, he was not involved in the other.
Movie-Makers: Rod Steiger At The NFT broadcast. Gyles Brandreth's The Life Of A Cathedral broadcast on BBC2. Diana Ross's 'I'm Still Waiting'/'Reach Out I'll Be There', Mick Softley's 'Goin' Down The Road'/'Gypsy', Brenton Wood's 'Gimme Little Sign'/'I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up', Tina Charles' 'Baby Don't You Know Anymore'/'Joe' and Rare Earth's 'I Just Want To Celebrate'/'The Seed' released. Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, opened the Brixton extension of the London Underground Victoria line and travelled on it to the newly opened Vauxhall station.
Dusty Springfield and Alan Price & Georgie Fame featured on It's Lulu. Joan Bakewell interviewed Ron Moody on BBC2's Film Night. Mott The Hoople were in session on Top Gear. Those Who Eat The Cascadura broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. John Frankenheimer's The Horsemen - starring Omar Sharif and Jack Palance - premiered.
The Ken Russell profile Russell's Progress broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Countdown For The Everglades broadcast in The World About Us strand. Supertramp and The National Head Band featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Ronnie Corbett read Saki's Hullabaloo: The Storyteller on Jackanory. Sir John Betjeman was one of the panellist on Call My Bluff. Apollo 15 - piloted by Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin - launched.
Muhammad Ali's first fight since his defeat by Joe Frazier ended in a twelve round victory over Jimmy Ellis in the Houston Astrodome. On the final day of the first test between England and India at Lord's, an accidental collision between Sunil Gavaskar and John Snow saw (predictable) press fury and allegations that the England bowler had deliberately charged into the Indian batsmen. The match ended in a draw but Snow - who had scored a career-best seventy three in England's first innings - was dropped for the next test as punishment. Norman Gifford took eight wickets in the match. Ajit Wadekar top-scored for India with eighty five. Gordon Hessler's Murders In The Rue Morgue - starring Jason Robards and Herbert Lom - premiered. Tony Blackburn's 'Chop-Chop'/'If You Were A Dream' released.
Lancashire beat Gloucestershire in a thrilling Gillette Cup Semi-Final at Old Trafford which didn't finish until almost nine o'clock in almost cpitch darkness - David Hughes hitting John Mortimore for twenty four in an over. An Hour Of Harry Worth broadcast. The Oz trial ended with Richard Neville, Felix Dennis and James Anderson, the editors of the magazine, convicted of obscenity at the Old Bailey over the 'schoolkidz' edition. They were found not guilty of 'conspiring to corrupt morals.' A subsequent appeal found that Justice Argyle had 'grossly misdirected' the jury 'on numerous occasions' and the sentences were quashed. Labour's NEC voted not to support Britain joining the Common Market. The Minister for Aerospace announced that the government would continue to support Rolls Royce's RB211 engine even if the intended client, Lockheed's Tristar Airbus, did not secure funding from Congress.
Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Blue Peter Flies The World: Expedition To Ceylon broadcast. The United Kingdom opted out of the Space Race - not that many people realised they'd ever been in it - with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle. Joseph Losey's The Go-Between - starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Michael Gough and Dominic Guard - premiered.
The Usual Channel broadcast in the AP Herbert's Misleading Cases strand. Movie-Makers: John Frankenheimer At The NFT broadcast. A Touch Of Churchill, A Touch Of Hitler: The Life Of Cecil Rhodes broadcast on BBC2. Apollo 15's Dave Scott and Jim Irwin became the seventh and eighth men to walk on the Moon. And, because they were Americans, they took a car with them and became the first to drive on the Moon. Union leader Jimmy Reid made his famous 'there will be no bevvying' speech to shipyard workers in Glasgow as Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers took control of the shipyards in a 'work-in.' Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May'/'Reason To Believe', Third World War's 'A Little Bit Of Urban Rock'/'Working Class Man', Tidbits' 'Jean Harlow'/'Vietnam', 'Six O'Clock Blues', Marc Ellington's 'Alligator Man'/'Song For A Friend', The Fantastics' 'Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music'/'Who Could Be Loving You?' and George Harrison's 'Bangla-Desh'/'Deep Blue' released. Stanley Kramer's Bless The Beasts & Children - starring Bill Mumy and Barry Robins and Michael Winner's The Nightcomers - starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews, Verna Harvey, Christopher Ellis and Anna Palk - premiered.
Fourth Division Halifax Town beat Manchester United two-one in the opening game of The Watney Cup. The other Fourth Division side in the competition, Colchester United, beat Luton Town of Division Two. Hugh Pitt's Miracles Take A Little Longer broadcast on BBC2. Sean Connery was interviewed by Sheridan Morley on the set of Diamonds Are Forever on Film Night. Reginald (no, me neither) were in session on Top Gear. You Never Can Tell broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Yuri Ilyenko's Білий птах з чорною ознакою (The White Bird Marked With Black) - starring Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mykolaychuk and Bohdan Stupka - premiered.
Jackie Stewart won the German Grand Prix at The Nürburgring. Ganga Mayya (Mother Ganges) broadcast in The World About Us strand. Cochise and Forest featured on Radio 1's In Concert. George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh took place in New York. Fascinating, if you enjoy twenty eight minutes of Ravi Shankar tuning-up. Welsh international Wyn Davies moved from Newcastle United to Manchester City for sixty thousand pounds. Harry Booth's adaptation of On The Buses - starring Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Michael Robbins - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Pixie & Dixie. Apollo 15 began its return to Earth. Bernard Cribbins read the Winnie-The-Poo stories of AA Milne in Radio 4's Story Time strand. Philip Larkin's This Be The Verse first published in New Humanist magazine. 'They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do/They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you.'
Just Let Them Notes Come Out Right broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Galia broadcast in BBC2's Summer Season Presents strand. Radio 4's The Entertainers profiled Gracie Fields. Wyn Davies joined Manchester City from Newcastle United for a fee of fifty two thousand quid. Also leaving The Magpies were Alan Foggan, sold to Cardiff City for twenty five thousand and John Craggs, who joined Middlesbrough for sixty thousand as Joe Harvey begin a radical overhaul of his squad. The World In Action special The Man From Number Ten profiled Ted Heath.
At Sea With The Navy and Harry Secombe's Cinema broadcast. The Edward Woodward Hour broadcast on Thames.
Finding The Finns broadcast in the Nairn's Journey strand. And When Did You Last See Your Father? By WF Yeames broadcast in BBC2's Canvas strand.
Movie-Makers: James Mason At The NFT broadcast. In We Want To Sing future convicted sex offender Dave Lee Travis joined three hundred children 'in rousing, uninhibited singing of songs they want to sing. Abetted by The Spinners.' The first episode of BBC2's A View Of The Islands broadcast. Chay Blyth became the first person to sail around the world from East to West against the prevailing winds. Love Children's 'What Are You Doing Sunday?'/'The Morning Of Your Life', Al Green's 'Tired Of Being Alone'/'Right Now Right Now' and Redbone's 'The Witch Queen Of New Orleans'/'Chant: Thirteenth Hour' released.
The first episode of Cousin Bette and Robert Abel's profile of Creedence Clearwater Revival broadcast on BBC2. The Dudley Moore Trio, Buddy Greco and Gilbert O'Sullivan featured on It's Lulu. The first episode of Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes broadcast on Radio 1, featuring a guest appearance by Keith Moon. Ian McKellan featured on Desert Island Discs. Colchester United won The Watney Cup on penalties after drawing four-all with West Bromwich Albion. Seventeen year old Phil Bloss scored the winning penalty. Earlier Mick Mahon had scored an outrageous thirty yarder. Steve Whitworth netted the winner as Second Division champions Leicester City beat FA Cup runners-up Liverpool in the Charity Shield at Filbert Street. Egon Wellesz broadcast on Radio 3.
Kenneth Harris's interview with Dean Acheson broadcast. Vincent Kane hosted BBC2's One Man's Week. With John Peel on his annual summer holiday, Radio 1's In Concert was introduced by buck-toothed hippy Bob Harris. The first episode of Twenty-Seven Million Listeners Can't Be Wrong broadcast on Radio 4.
Alan Hart's interview with Golda Meir broadcast on Panorama. British security forces arrested hundreds of nationalists and interned them - without trial - in Long Kesh prison; twenty people died in the riots which follow, including eleven in The Ballymurphy Massacre. Newcastle united completed the signing of talented left-sided midfielder Terry Hibbert from Leeds United for thrity five thousand smackers.
Don Haworth's Flying Doctor broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Max Hastings reported on the reaction of people in Northern Ireland to the introduction of internment in the Twenty Four Hours strand. The second England versus India test at Old Trafford ended in a draw. Ray Illingworth and Brian Luckhurst both scored centuries for England whilst Sunil Gavaskar top-scored for the tourists with fifty seven. John Jameson made his test debut.
An Hour With Eric Sykes broadcast. Country Joe MacDonald sang 'Ballad Of Jean Duprez' on BBC2's One In Ten. Prime Minister Edward Heath participated in the British victory in the Admiral's Cup yacht race on Morning Cloud, the probable inspiration for Third World War's classic protest song 'Teddy Teeth Goes Sailing'. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Joker broadcast on Thames.
Britain's Pat Lowe and Rosemary Stirling took silver and bronze respectively in the women's eight hundred metres at the European Athletics Championship, behind Yugoslavia's Vera Nikolić. Alan Mouncer's presentation of the Moscow State Circus broadcast. Ingmar Bergman's The Face shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Bob Kellett's Girl Stroke Boy - starring Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern and Clive Francis - premiered.
David Jenkins won the four hundred metres for Great Britain at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. Movie-Makers: Dirk Bogarde At The NFT broadcast. A Strong Constitution? broadcast in BBC2's A View Of The Islands strand. Paul & Linda McCartney's 'The Back of My Car'/'Heart Of The Country', Tangerine Peel's 'Loddy-Lo'/'Long Long Ride', Hot Chocolate's 'I Believe (In Love)'/'Caveman Billy', The Marmalade's 'Cousin Norman'/'Lonely Man', Suspect's 'Mariooka'/'Belinda', East Of Eden's 'Ramadhan'/'Have To Whack It Up', Paper Lace's 'You Can't Touch Me'/'I've Got You, That's Enough For Me', Levi Jackson's 'This Beautiful Day'/'Don't You Be A Sinner', Gene Latter's 'Too Busy Thinking About My Baby'/'Sing A Song Of Freedom', The Exciters' 'Soul Motion'/'You Know It Ain't Right', Steppenwolf's 'Ride With Me'/'For Madmen Only', Gayle McCormick's 'Gonna Be Alright Now'/'Save Me' and The Supremes' 'Nathan Jones'/'Happy (Is A Bumpy Road)' released. Pete Walker's Die Screaming, Marianne - starring Susan George, Barry Evans, Chris Sandford, Judy Huxtable and Leo Genn and Lindsay Shonteff's The yes Girls premiered.
Harvey Smith infamously 'flicked the V' at Hickstead and was stripped of his victory in the British Show Jumping Derby by judges. Sir Walter Scott broadcast on BBC2. The football season started with a 'relatively quiet' Saturday, police reporting only seventy three arrests across the country. This, despite the cancellation of all plod leave in Derby where Manchester United supporters had, reportedly, threatened to 'smash the town up.' The game ended in a two-all draw. Kevin Keegan scored on his debut for Liverpool, who beat Nottingham Forest three-one in the First Division. That was featured on Match Of The Day, as was reigning champions Arsenal's three-nil thumping of Chelsea. Promoted Sheffield united beat Southampton three-one. Blackpool began life in the Second Division with a four-one victory over Swindon Town - a match watched by scouts from a dozen First Division clubs watching Tony Green and Don Rogers (both of whom scored for their resepctvie sides). Fulham beat Watford three-nil and Queens Park Rangers hammered Sheffield Wednesday by the same score (Rodney Marsh hitting two). Notts County's return to the Third Divisiion began with a four-nil victory over Rochdale. Aston Villa defeated Plymouth Argyle three-one and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic beat Shrewsbury town by the same score. Matt Tees scored a hat-trick in Grimnby Town's four-one thrashing of Scunthorpe United in the Fourth Division. In New Zealand, two penalties by Barry John and a drop kick by JPR Williams helped The British Lions to a fourteen-all draw in the fourth test against The All Blacks, thus winning the series two-one the first, and, to date only, time that The Lions have won a series there. Richard Gordon featured on Desert Island Discs.
At the European Athletics Championship, there were medels for Trevor Wright and Ron Hill (silver and bronze in the marathon), Brendan Foster (bronze in the fifteen hundred metres) and Alan Pascoe (silver in the one hundred and ten metres hurdles). Loch Ness & other Monsters broadcast in BBC2's Children Talking strand. The Strawbs featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Hugh Trevor-Roper's Sir Walter Scott & History broadcast on Radio 3. Soviet writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn publicly complained about the activities of the KGB. President Nixon announced a suspension of the gold standard relating to the US dollar. There were calls by both politicians - including Shadow Home Secretary Jim Callaghan - and civil rights groups to end internment in Northern Ireland. An 'International Socialists' rally in Hyde Park included a man brandishing a placard mounted with a pig's head describing the Prime Minister as 'a war criminal.' A top Scotland Yard officer, known only as Commander X, was asked to investigate an explosion at an army recruiting office for which The Angry Brigade had claimed responsibility. Jackie Stewart won his second World Drivers' Championship despite crashing in the Austrian Grand Prix. A strike by TV technicians who refused to operate colour recording equipment meant that episodes of some ITV shows - including Budgie, Upstairs, Downstairs, Timeslip and Escape Into Night - were filmed in monochrome. The Los Angeles Times claimed several US servicemen 'in charge of atomic weapons' has been caught taking marijuana and LSD. Comedian Felix Bowness was fined one hundred quid by the actors union Equity for refusing to strike at his summer show in Bognar Regis.
Sandor Eles read Kate Seredy's The Good Master on Jackanory. Defence & The Responsibility Of The Scientist broadcast in BBC2's Controversy strand.
Ping-Pong In Peking broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Has The Past Got A Future? broadcast on BBC2. Sheffield United's flying start in the First Division continued, John Flynn, Eddie Colquhoun and Bill Dearden scoring in a three-nil victory over Leeds United. Liverpool and Arsenal also won their second games (three-two against Wolves and one-nil at Huddersfield Town respectively). Ipswich Town defeated Coventry City three-one and Southampton beat Stoke City by the same score. Steve Earle scored three in Fulham's four-nil victory over Cambridge United in the League Cup First Round. Ted MacDougall scored twice as Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic knocked out Second Division Portsmouth, two-one.
Behind The Scenes: BBC Television Centre and An Hour With Clive Dunn broadcast. Mars Comes Close broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first episode of Spoiling In The Sun: Tahiti & Bora Bora - presented by Johnny Morris - broadcast. Buffy Saint Marie appeared on BBC2's One In Ten. George Best was sent off for swearing at the referee as Manchester United beat Chelsea three-two at Stamford Bridge. After the game Chelsea manager Dave Sexton placed Peter Osgood on the transfer list citing 'a lack of effort'. Manchester City thrashed Crystal Palace four-nil. At White Hart Lane two fourteen year old hooligans fired metal staples from a catapult, hitting three Newcastle United players - Willie McFaul, Malcolm Macdonald and Terry Hibbitt - at the start of the second half. As the new disciplinary code was enforced an unheard of five players were cautioned in a game which was far from dirty. 'It's crazy. The game seems to be going to the dogs' was Joe Harvey's opinion. The match ended goalless. British troops were engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry. The Return Of Count Yorga premiered in Los Angeles. Tony Bilbow's Ugly Duckling broadcast in Radio 4's Midweek Theatre.
The first episode of Heinz Sielmann's Expedition North America broadcast. Judith Durham broadcast. Ingmar Bergman's Now About These Women shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Bernard Cribbins hosted Pickettywitch on We Want To Sing. Movie-Makers: David Niven At The NFT broadcast. Tourists. Please Note. This is Private Property broadcast in BBC2's A View The Islands strand. The Doors 'Riders On The Storm'/'Changeling', John Baldry's 'Rock Me When He's Gone'/'Flying', Three Dog Night's 'Liar'/'Can't Get Enough Of It' and One Hundred Proof's 'Somebody's Been Sleeping'/'I've Come To Save You' released. Peter Wack's Wenn Mein Schätzchen Auf Die Pauke Haut - starring Uschi Glas and Roy Black - premiered. Manchester United beat Arsenal three-one in a First Division game played at Anfield - the first of two 'home' fixtures for United staged away from Old Trafford as a disciplinary measure following a knife-throwing incident in match against Newcastle February.
Trevor Howard, Harold Pinter and Freddie Trueman were the guests on Parkinson. Sheridan Morley interviewed Tom Courtenay on BBC2's Film Night. Malcolm Macdonald scored a hat-trick on his home début for Newcastle United who beat Liverpool three-two in a thriller at St James Park (providing a bumper audience for Shoot on Tyne-Tees the following afternoon). Tottenham Hoitspur thrashed Huddersfield Town four-one First Division. Sheffield United won their third successive game, one-nil at Everton (Alan Woodward netting the winner). Leeds United shared a goalleas draw with Wolves at Huddersfield, the first of their four 'home' games played away from Elland Road. Ian Bowyer hit a hat-trick in Orient's four-one victory over Cardiff City in the Second Division. John Galley also netted three as Bristol City won five-one at Sheffield Wednesday. Grimsby Town won four=three at Exeter City in the fourth Division. The Executioners broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Nixon's Enemies List was was started by White House aides (Nixon himself may not have been aware of it, at least at this early stage) to 'use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.'
The first episode of The Silver Sword broadcast. Kingdom Of Coral broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Rory Gallagher featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Richard Crispin Armitage born in Huncote, Lincolnshire.
Bernard Cribbins read The Wizard Of Oz on Jackanory. Playground Of The Western World broadcast in the Panorama strand. Race, Intelligence & Education broadcast in the Controversy strand. Superintendent Gerry Richardson of the Lancashire Constabulary tackled a gang of armed robbers and was shot whilst attempting to persuade one of the gang to give up his weapon. Richardson died later in hospital and was posthumously awarded the George Cross. George Best returned from suspension to score twice in Manchester United's three-one vicotry over West Bromwich Albion in a First Division game played at Stoke. Martin Wright hit three in Chesterfield's five-wnil win at Mansfield Town in a league Cup First Round replay.
England's cricket team lost their first test in almost three years (twenty six matches) as Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Beshan Bedi and Srinivasaraghaven Venkataraghaven spun India to victory by four wickets in the third test at The Oval. The first UK TV showing of Change Of Habit in the Starring Elvis! strand. The Irresistible Rise Of Axel Springer broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Sheffield united won a fourth First Division game in succession, Stewart Scullion scoring the only goal at Arsenal. Southampton won three-two at Nottingham Forest.
The Flying Falcons: The RAF Free Fall Parachute Display Team broadcast in the Behind The Scenes strand. The first episode of BBC2's All In A Day broadcast. The Who's Who's Next released.
The first episode of Trial broadcast on BBC2. The Boy From Khathmandu and the first episode of Escape To Fulfilment broadcast. Sidney Hayers's Revenge - starring James Booth, Joan Collins and Kenneth Griffiths - premiered.
The first episode of First Time Out broadcast. Gunther Schuller's The Visitation broadcast on BBC2. John Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica To Death - starring Zohra Lampert - premiered. Mighty Baby's 'Devil's Whisper'/'Virgin Spring' and Kevin Ayers & The Whole World's 'Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes'/'Stars' released.
The Bee Gees appeared on It's Lulu. You're Never Alone With A Stately Home broadcast in BBC2's One Pair of Eyes strand. The first UK broadcast of TV Wonderland. Artur Rubinstein featured on Desert Island Discs. First Division highlights included Manchester City's four-nil win over Tottenham Hotspur (featured on Match Of The Day), Liverpool's three-two victory against Leicester City and Derby County and Southampton's two-two draw (also televised). Sheffilked United dropped their first point but remained unbeaten, sharing a goialles draw with West Bromwich Albion. Blackpool topped the Second Division, Bob Hatton scoring the only goal against Sheffield Wednesday. Kit Napier scored a hat-trick that sent Brighton & Hove Albion to the top of the Third Division in a three-nil win at Mansfield Town. Bernard Purdie netted four in Chester's five-one hammering of Gillingham in the Fourth Division.
Richard Demarco hosted BBC2's One Man's Week. The Pipkins appeared on The Basil Brush Show.
Getaway With Cliff broadcast. Health Hazards From Lead Pollution broadcast in BBC2's Controversy strand. Tony Macaulay Meets Neil Diamond broiadcast on Radio 1. Clyde Best scored twice in West Ham United's four-nil win over Coventry City in the First Division. Burnley enjoyed a three-one victory at Preston North End in the Second Division. Tony Hateley was sent off after scoring in Notts County's three-nil defeat of Port Vale in the Third Division. Darlington won three-two at Hartlepool in the Fourth Division. Michael Winner's The Nightcomers - starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird and Harry Andrews - premiered.
The Noise Invasion broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Daphne Du Maurier broadcast on BBC2 featuring an interview with the author by Wilfred De'Ath. Sheffield United took a three point lead at the top of the First Division after a three-one defeat of Huddersfield Town. Bristol City led the Second Division following a two-nil victory over Cardiff City (Gerry Gow scoring the second). Queens Park Rangers won three-nil at Fulham. Brighton & Hove Albion won four-two at Rotherham uNited in the Third Division. Aston Villa beat Wrexham four=three in a League Cup second replay.
Frost Over America featured interviews with the creators and cast of Hair. An Hour With Ian Carmichael broadcast. The pre-decimal penny and threepenny bit ceased to be legal tender. Chelsea signed Chris Garland from Bristol City for one hundred thousand pounds. Martin Chivers scored the only goal as Tottenham Hotspur won in Torino in the first leg of the Anglo-Italian League Cup Final. Leeds United thrashed Newcastle United five-one at Hillsbrough in the First Divsion. Blackpool returned to the peak of the Second Division, winning three-nil at Portsmouth. Carlisle United won three-nil at Sunderland. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Nightmare Gas and Frankie Howerd's Hour broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Boy On An Island. Susan Pleat's Peggy broadcast in BBC2's Trial strand. Sitar Master Class and Daniel Ellsberg: The Man Who Gave The Game Away broadcast. Richard Fleischer's See No Evil - starring Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison and Robin Bailey - premiered.
First Time Out: Brain broadcast. Daphne Du Maurier's Vanishing Cornwall - narrated by Michael Flanders - broadcast on BBC2. Fleetwood Mac's Future Games, Ronnie Dyson's 'When You Get Right Down To It'/'Sleeping Sun', Carpenters' 'Superstar'/'For All We Know', The Equals' 'Help Me Simone'/'Love Potion', The Dreams Band Featuring Keni Lewis' '(They Call Me) Jessie James'/'Charge', The Newbeats' 'Am I Not My Brothers Keeper?'/'Run, Baby, Run (Back Into My Arms)', Mama Cass Elliot's 'One Way Ticket'/'Words Of Love', Link Wray's 'Fire & Brimstone'/'Juke Box Mama' and Mungo Jerry's 'You Don't Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War'/'We Shall Be Free' released. White House 'Plumbers' E Howard Hunt, G Gordon Liddy and others broke into the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, looking for material which might be used to discredit Ellsberg, under the direction of John Ehrlichman. This was the Plumbers' first 'black bag' major operation. Qatar gained independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, it declined to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
Clive Lloyd scored sixty six as Lancashire retained the Gillette Cup against Kent by twenty four runs, despite Asif Iqbal's Man Of The Match performance. The Forgotten War, the story of the Allied attack on Soviet Russia in 1918 broadcast on BBC2. Sheridan Morley selected scenes from some of the best recent releases including Drive, He Said, The Abominable Doctor Phibes and Vanishing Point on Film Night. Shirley MacLaine was among the guests on Parkinson. Tim Hart & Maddy Prior were in session on Top Gear. Glenda Jackson appeared on Desert Island Discs. Sheffield united's astonishing start to the First Division season continued, winning three-two at Nottingham Forest (Tony Currie scoring the winner). Chelsea and Coventry City drew three-three, Tottenham Hostpur beat Liverpol two-nil (featured on Match Of The Day), Leeds United won the last of their four 'home' games played awat from Elland Road, two-nil, against Crystal Palace at Hudersfield, Newcastle United drew two-all with West Ham United and Derby County won two-nil at Everton. Bob Latchford netted a hat-trick for Birmingham City in their four=one defeat of Charlton Athletic in the Second Division. Bristol Rovers thrashed Bradford City seven-one in the third Division. Leaders Notts County won two-one at Walsall. Brentfordd walloped Hartlepool six-nil in the Fourth Division (John O'Mara netting three).
The first episode of BBC2's For Love Or Money broadcast. Soldier Of Fortune shown in The Great Stars strand. If and Mister Fox featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Milo O'Shea read My Friend Mister Leakey on Jackanory. March Against The Bomb broadcast in the Late Night Line-Up strand. Dick Clement's To Catch A Spy - starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard and Tom Courtenay - premiered. The World In Action episode The Village That Quit. Well, Not Exactly broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series. Take Me Somewhere East Of Suez broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Apocalypse Of Angers broadcast in the Collector's World strand. The Night The Germans Didn't Come broadcast on Radio 4. Third Division Bristol Rovers knocked Sunderland out of the League Cup with a three-one vicotry on the Second Round. Bolton Wanderers won two-nil at First Division Hddersfield Town and charlton Athletic defeat Leciester city three-one. Carlisle United thrashed Sheffield Wednesday five-nil, Manchester United won three-one at Ipswich Town, Nottingham forest hammered Aldershot five-one and Sheffield United beat Fulham three-nil.
An Hour With Harry H Corbett broadcast. James Taylor appeared in BBC2's One In Ten. Martin John Christopher Freeman born in Aldershot. Colchester United thrashed Swindon Town four-one in the League Cup. Manchester City beat Wolverhampton Wanderers four-three, Newcastle United avoided their annual Second Round exit, winning two-one against Halfiax Town whilst Stoke City won two-one at Southport.
Art & Technology - featuring profiles of Garth Evans, Bruce Lacey and David Hall - broadcast. Counsel For The Prosecution broadcast in BBC2's Trial strand. The Attica State Riots took place at the New York prison. Based upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions and political rights, the riot was one of the most well-known and significant uprisings of the Prisoners' Rights Movement. Two weeks after the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin Prison, about one thousand of the Attica's approximately two thousand two hundred inmates rioted and took control of the prison, taking forty two staff hostage. During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to twenty eight of the prisoners' demands. By the order of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was over, at least forty three people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian employees and thirty three inmates. Only one death was definitely attributed to the prisoners. John Lennon's Imagine released. Which actually had some great songs on it, although the hideously over-rated title song wasn't one of them. British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson was freed after being held captive for eight months by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay. Ralph Thomas's beautiful adaptation of John Wyndham's Quest For Love - starring Tom Bell, Joan Collins and Denholm Elliott - premiered.
Peter Noone was the guest on Look - Mike Yarwood! Woman Of The Place broadcast in the First Time Out strand. The first UK broadcast of Marcel Ophuls' The Sorrow & The Pity on BBC2. Mark Stuart's movie adaptation of Please Sir! - John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty, Patsy Rowlands, Peter Cleall, Carol Hawkins, Liz Gebhardt and David Barry and Paul Verohoevan's Wat Zien Ik - starring Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur and Piet Römer - premiered. The Partridge Family's 'I Woke Up In Love This Morning'/'Twenty Four Hours A Day', Humble Pie's 'I Don't Need No Doctor'/'A Song For Jennie', The Wailers' 'Dreamland'/The Upsetters' 'Dream Version', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'More Axe'/The Upsetters' 'The Axe Man', Rockin' Horse's 'Biggest Gossip In Town'/'You Say', Doris Troy's 'I'll Do Anything (Anything He Wants Me To Do)'/'But I Love Him', Bill Withers' 'Harlem'/'Ain't No Sunshine', The Bells' 'Lady Dawn'/'Rain' and Love Affair Featuring Gus Eadon's 'Help (Get Me Some Help)'/'Long Way Home' released.

The first episode of Presenting Lena Martell broadcast. Was This The Garden Of Eden? broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Lindisfarne were in session on Top Gear ('Meet Me On The Corner', 'Uncle Sam', 'Fog On The Tyne', 'All Right On The Night'). A Remarkable First Play broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. A gang of naughty tea-leaves tunnelled into a branch of Lloyds Bank at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road and robbed the safe deposit boxes in the vault. The robbers had rented a leather goods shop and tunnelled a distance of approximately forty feet, passing under the Chicken Inn fast food restaurant located between the shop and the bank. This would subsequently become the basis for the 2008 movie The Bank Job. The film's producers claimed they had 'an inside source,' identified in press reports as George McIndoe. The movie's plot concerning the issuance of a D-Notice, because one safe deposit box held sex pictures of Princess Margaret with London gangster-turned-actor John Bindon, is almost certainly fictional. A possible connection to black activist (and, later, convicted murderer) Michael X was, apparently, based on information provided by McIndoe, though the veracity of this remained unclear. Whilst Sheffield United were still unbeaten, drawing two-two with Spurs, Derby County, also yet to lose, were the other early pace-setter in the First Division, beating Stoke City four-nil. Arsenal defeated Leeds United two-nil whilst Manchester United won three-one at bottom-of-the-table Crystal Palace (on Match Of The Day). Bristol City thrashed Hull City four-nil in the Second Division. Sheffield Wednbesday, with but one point from six games, remained stuck at the bottom of the division, losing three at Cardiff City. Ted MacDougall hit three in recently renamed AFC Bournemouth's four-one defeat of Rochdale in the Third Division. Bolton Wanderers won three-nil at Blackburn Rovers.
The first episode of Eyeless In Gaza broadcast on BBC2. So You Think You Know Britain? broadcast. Happy Birthday, Dear Albert broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Dion and Stackwaddy featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of The Well At The World's End broadcast in Radio 4's The Sunday Play strand.
Bernard Horsfall read The Sea Islanders on Jackanory. The first episode of Now, Take My Wife broadcast (a pilot having, previously, featured in the Comedy Playhouse strand). The Peaceful Use Of Nuclear Explosives broadcast in BBC2's Controversy strand. Newcastle United signed Barnsley centre half Pat Howard for twenty five thousand quid. The World In Action episode The Sound Of The Clyde broadcast.
When Fire Fell From The Skies broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Ken Buchanan defeated Panama's Ismael Laguna over fifteen round at Madison Square Gardens to become the undisputed Lightweight Champion of the World. Alan Gilzean scored three, Alan Mullery two and Ralph Coates added a sixth in Tottenham Hotspur's six-one victory at Knattspyrnudeild Keflavík in the first leg of the UEFA Cup First Round. York City won two-one at Middlesbrough in a League Cup replay.
The first episodes of Barlow At Large and Owen MD broadcast. The fourth (and final) first-run Star Trek episodes began with Spectre Of The Gun. The Life & Death Of A Star broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Sandy Denny appeared on BBC2's One In Ten. In the first of the European Cup First Round, Arsenal won three-one in Norway against Strømsgodset Toppfotball. Glasgow Celtic lost two-one to Danish champions Blodklubben 1903 in Copenhagen. In the Cup Winners Cup, holders Chelsea enjoyed an eight-nil victory at Jeunesse Hautcharage od Luxembourg (Peter Osgood scoring three). Liverpool lost two-one to Servette in Geneva, Cardiff City gained a one-all draw with Dunamo Berlin and Glasgow Rangers also drew at Stade Rennes. Leeds United won two-nil at Lierse SK in the UEFA Cup (Chris Galvin and Peter Lorimer on-target), Southampton defeated Athletic Bilbao two-one, Wolverhampton Wanderers thumped Academica Coimbra three-nil, Aberdeen beat Celta Vigo two-nil, Dundee walloped Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe four-two (Alex Bryce scoring twice) and St Johnstone made their European debut with a narrow two-one defeat at SV Hamburg. Derby County thrashed Dundee United six-two in the Texaco Cup First Round first leg. Phil Hubbard hit a hat-trick in Lincoln City's four-one victory over Blackburn Rovers in the League Cup.
The first appearance of Blue Peter's new puppy, Shep, the replacement for the recently deceased Patch. Ringo Starr (wearing a particularly nasty jacket) also featured, talking about his furniture company. The first episode of BBC2's George Bernard Shaw - starring Max Adrian - broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of The Partridge Family. The first episode of Under & Over - featuring The Bachelors - broadcast. The Music & Dance Of Burma broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Persuaders! - Overture, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis - broadcast on LWT. In America, NBC broadcast the first episode of McMillan & Wife, starring Rock Hudson and Jill St John. John Barry's 'Theme From The Persuaders'/'The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair', The Three Degrees' 'There's So Much Love All Around Me'/'Maybe', Mister Flood's Party's 'Compared To What'/'Unbreakable Toy', Jack Wild's 'Everything's Comin' Up Roses'/'Hello Jack' and Uriah Heep's 'Look At Yourself'/'Simon The Bullet Freak' released. Jack Lemmon's Kotch premiered.
Joker, The Amiable Ocelot broadcast in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colour strand. Chris Brasher's The Mountains Of My Youth broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of Diana! - featuring Diana Ross and The Jackson Five. Roger Corman's The Raven shown in the Midnight Movie strand. Gypsy and Stone The Crows were in session on Top Gear. Kenneth Allsop appeared on Desert Island Discs. The first episode of Radio 3's Action & Reaction broadcast. Highlights of the First Division programme includes Manchester United's four-two victory over West Ham United (George Best netting a hat-trick), Newcastle United beating Wolverhampton Wanderers two-nil, Leeds United's one-nil win against Liverpool and Chelsea and Derby County drawing one-all at Stamford Bridge. Everton beat Arsenal two-one (featured on Match of The Day). Norwich City topped the Second Division following a three-two victory over Oxford United. Swindon Town thrashed Fulham four-nil. Sheffield Wednesday picked up their first win of the season, three-nil against Sunderland. Third Division leaders AFC Bournemouth had a three-one victory at Wrexham. Brian Greenhalgh scored four in Cambridge United's record six-nil hammering of Darlington in the Fourth Division. Table-toppers Brentford beat Peterborough united five-one. The first episode of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's UFO - Identified - broadcast on London Weekend almost exactly a year after it had debuted on several other ITV regions (notably ATV Midlands).
Battle Of Britain Air Display and A Chance To Meet: The Right Honourable Harold Wilson OBE, FRS, MP, The Leader Of The Opposition broadcast. A Private Face In A Public Place - featuring Kenneth Tynan interviewing Gelnda Jackson - broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Hugh Gibb's Ways Of The Middle Kingdom broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Quiver and Bridget St John featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of Radio 4's Where Pleasures Have Been Sadly Taken broadcast. Michael Tuchner's Villain - starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Fiona Lewis and Donald Sinden - premiered.
Jim Allen's Walt, King Of the Dumper broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Fight For The Wild Places broadcast in the Panorama strand. The first episode of The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes - A Message from The Deep Sea - broadcast on Thames. The first UK TV showing of Solo For Sparrow in Thames' Tales of Edgar Wallace strand.
The first episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast on BBC2 featuring performances by Alice Cooper, America and Lesley Duncan and presented by Richard Williams. The first episode of The Boy From Space broadcast in the Look & Read strand. Hugh Cochrane's The Fight For Clydeside broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Chelsea signed Steve Kember from Crystal Palace for one hundred and fifty thousand quid. The first episode of Keep It In The Family broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Search For The Nile broadcast on BBC2. Out Of The Past: Man-Made Mounds broadcast. Athlete broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Leicester City signed Alan Birchenall from Crystal Palace for one hundred thousand smackers. In possibly the most pointless game of football ever organised in an already massively over-crowded fixture list, Barcelona the first winners of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup beat Leeds United, the last winners, two-one a play=off for the right to retain the trophy. The only consolation for Leeds was their goal was the first scored for the club by teenage striker Joe Jordan. Tottenham Hotspur won the Anglo-Italian League Cup, beat Torino two-nil. Mansfield Town, the last football league team in England without a win, got one, beating Aston Villa one=nil in the Third Division. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Eye Of Ra broadcast on Thames.
Escape To Fulfilment profield James Fox. Albania - China's Foothold In Europe? broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The first TV showing of Roman Polanski's Repulsion in the World Cinema strand. John Mackenzie's adaptation of Unman, Wittering & Zigo - starring David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer and Carolyn Seymour - premiered.
Blackpool, representing Great Britain, won Jeux Sans Frontieres. Alan Bates was profiled on BBC2's Review. By, With & From Bentine broadcast. T-Rex's Electric Warrior, George Torrence & The Naturals' '(Mamma Come Quick And Bring Your) Lickin' Stick'/'So Long, Good Bye', Bobby Byrd's '(Hot Pants) I'm Coming, Coming, I'm Coming'/'Hang It Up' and Barbara Lynn's 'Take Your Love & Run'/'(Until Then) I'll Suffer' released. Joseph Losey's The Go-Between premiered. The first episode of The Fenn Street Gang broadcast on LWT.
The first TV showing of PT 109. The first episode of BBC2's Glen Campbell broadcast. Miloš Forman was profiled on Film Night. Mister Fox were in session on the final Saturday episode of Radio 1's Top Gear. The Hundred Lamps broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Arsenal led the First Division after a three-nil win over Leicester City. Derek Dougan scored three in Wolverhampton Wanderers four-nil defeat of Nottingham Forest. Liverpool and Manchester United drew two-two on Match Of The Day. Sunderland beat Preston North End four-three in the Second Division. Hartlepool defeated Barrow by the same score in the Fourth Division. Leaders Grimsby Town beat Stockport County four-one. The Nationwide Festival of Light, a short-lived movement formed by some tight-arsed God-Botherers concerned about the development of the permissive society, held rallies in Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park. Its notable members included the clean-up TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse, the journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge and Cliff Richard. If not anyone that actually mattered. The UFO episode Exposed broadcast on LWT. The first UK broadcast of Sesame Street.
A Midsummer Night's Dream broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Song Of The Sirens broadcast in The World About Us strand. Giulio Gianini's animated The Thieving Magpie broadcast on BBC2. Steeleye Span featured on the final Sunday episode of Radio 1's In Concert. From the first week of October, both of John Peel's afternoon weekend shows relocated to Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and In Concert was broadcast in FM.
Rosalie Crutchley read Peruonto on Jackanory. Your Country Needs You? broadcast in the Horizon strand. Michael Cacoyannis's The Trojan Women - starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Brian Blessed and Patrick Magee - premiered. Peter Lorimer scored twice as Leeds United beat Derby County two-nil in the League Cup. The Missing Witness Sensation broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand. The World In Action episode DFeath Of A Revolutionary examined the circumstances surrounding the death of George Jackson.
Jack Bodell defeated Joe Bugner on points at Wembley to take the British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight titles. Heads, Hands & Feet and Bridget St John featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. In the UEFA Cup, Spurs beat Iceland's IBK Keflavick nine-nil (fifteen-one on aggregate) with Martin Chivers scoring a hat-trick. Alex MacDonald scored the only goal as Glasgow Rangers defeated Stade Rennes at Ibrox in the Cup Winners Cup. Coventry City and Newcastle United progressed to the Second Round of the Texaco Cup, the former beating Falkirk three-one, the latter on penalties after a two-one victory levelling the tie which was then decided by penalties. Blackburn Rovers signed Danish international Ben Arentoft from Newcastle for twenty thousand notes. In the Second Division, Arthur Bellamy hit a hat-trick in Burnley's six-one thrashing of Orient. Birmingham City hammered Watford four-one (Bob Latchford netting three), Carlisle United defeated Charlton Athletic five-two (Bobby Owen htting three) and Bristol City beat Blackpool four-nil. Carl Gilbert scored four in Rotherham United's four-nil victory over Swansea City. And Now For Something Completely Different premiered.
A Valley Near Ipswich broadcast in the Double Vision strand. Father Alone broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Chelsea beat Luxembourg's Jeunesse Hautcharage thirteen-nil at Stamford Bridge in the First Round of the European Cup Winners Cup to go along with an eight-nil victory in the first leg. The aggregate score (twenty one-nil) was, at the time, a UEFA record. Peter Osgood scored five and Tommy Baldwin three with further goals from Ron Harris, John Hollins, Peter Houseman, Alan Hudson and David Webb. Cardiff City were knocked out on penalties following a one=all draw with Dynamo Berlin at Ninian Park. Liverpool beat Servette two-nil. In the European Cup Arsenal completed a seven-one aggregate win over Stromgodset of Norway. Glasgow Celtic completed a comfortable aggregate victory over Boldklubben 1903 with a three-nil thumping at Parkhead. A below-strength Leeds United crashed out of the UEFA Cup, losing four-nil at home to Belgium's Lierse despite having won the away leg two-nil. Derek Douglas scored three in Wolverhampton Wanderers' four-one victory at Academica Coimbra. Southampton lost two-nil at Athletic Bilbao and were eliminated. John Duncan netted the only goal as Dundee won at Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe. Joe Harper strike against Celta Vigo put Aberdeen into the next round. St Johnstone defeated SV Hamubrg three-nil. Stoke City beat Motherwell four-one in the Texaco Cup. Sunderland won the Second Division's Wear-Tees derby four-one against Middlesbrough.
The Most Immaculate Emperor broadcast. Everyone Is Guilty broadcast in the Europa strand. The first TV showing of Roman Polanski's Cul-De-Sac in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Barney Platts-Mills's Private Road - starring Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson and Michael Feast - premiered. Leicester City signed Keith Weller from Chelsea for one hundred thousand knicker.
The Great Debate - on the question of Britain's proposed entry to the European Economic Community - broadcast. A New King Lear broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode The Loch Ness Monster broadcast. The Sweet's 'Alexander Graham Bell'/'Spotlight', Nimbo's 'Maisie Jones'/'Forget Her', Steeleye Span's 'Rave On', 'Reels'/'Female Drummer', Donald Height's 'Three Hundred And Sixty Five Days'/'I'm Willing To Wait', Mother Nature's 'Orange Days & Purple Night'/'Where Did She Go?', Argent's 'Hold Your Head Up'/'Closer To Heaven', 'Keep On Rollin', The Doggs' 'Billy's Gotta Run'/'Why Do I Lie?', Norman Johnson & The Showmen's 'You're Everything'/'Our Love Will Grow', Tommy Roe's 'Stagger Lee'/'Back Streets & Alleys', Ray Charles's 'The Long & Winding Road'/'Wichita Lineman' and The Pipkins' 'Gonna Give Up Smoking & Take Up Lovin' With You'/'Hole In The Middle' released. Rod Amateau's The Statue - starring David Niven, Virna Lisi and Robert Vaughn and Olaf Pooley's The Johnstown Monster - starring Connor Brennan and Simon Tully - premiered. The first episode of The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine broadcast on LWT. Alois Brummer's Pornografie Illegal? - starring Elke Boltenhagen and Johannes Buzalski - premiered
The first episode of The Generation Game broadcast. Carole King In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Caterina Valente featured on Desert Island Discs. Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, the CAT scan, was used for the first time on a patient at a hospital in Wimbledon. Derby County moved into the top three of First Division with a one-nil win at Newcastle. Sheffield United still topped the table, though the lost their first game of the season, two-nil, at Manchester united (George Best scoring another memorable solo effort captured by Match Of The Day cameras). Ian St John scored the winner for Coventry City in a two-one victory at Everton. Alf Wood scored five in Shrewsbury Town's seven-one walloping of Blackburn Robers in the Third Division. Fourth Division leaders brentford thrashed Northampton Town six-one (John O'Mara hitting three). Ian Hopkinson also netted a hat-trick in Workington's four-one defeat of Peterborough United. The UFO episode Conflict broadcast on LWT.
The first episodes of Fact & Fiction and The Countryman broadcast. David Lean was profiled on Omnibus. Derek Dougan hosted BBC2's One Man's Week. John Hough's Twins of Evil - starring Mary and Madeleine Collinson and Peter Cushing - and Peter Sasdy's Hands Of The Ripper - starring Eric Porter, Angharad Rees and Jane Merrow - premiered.
The first episode of The Witch's Daughter broadcast. Phillip Martin's Gun Play broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Filming of Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii began. T Rex, David Bowie and Sandy Denny featured on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies: Bob Harris. The Affair Of The Avalanche Bicycle & Tyre Company, Ltd broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
Clement Freud read Grimble on Jackanory. Christians At War broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Jack Bruce Band and Cat Stevens featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Van Der Graaf Generator featured on the first Tuesday episode of Radio 1's In Concert (now part of the Sounds Of The Seventies strand). Garry Jones scored three as Bolton Wanderers knocked Manchester City out of the League Cup at the Third Round stage with a three-nil win at Burnden Park. Queens Park Rangers beat Lincoln City four-two, Blackpool thumped Colchester united foru-nil and Sheffield United defeated York City three-two. York's scorers were Swallow and Topping. Behave yourselves.
Down in the Forest Something Stirred broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Faces' second Radio 1 session ('Stay With Me', 'Miss Judy's Farm' and 'Maggie May') broadcast on the first episode of Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel (the successor to Top Gear). Etienne Périer's Zeppelin - starring Michael York and Elke Sommer - premiered. In the Football League Cup, Arsenal thrashed Newcastle United four-nil, Tottenham Hotspur won four-one at Torquay United and Norwich city defeated Carlisle United by the same score.
The first episode of BBC2's History On The Rack broadcast. Richard Marsh, the new boss of British Rail, answered the whinges of BR passengers in a Nationwide Special. Nic Roeg's Walkabout - starring Jenny Agutter, Lucien John and David Gulpilil, William Friedkin's The French Connection and Disney's Bedknobs & Broomsticks - starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson - premiered.
The Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung made her British TV concert debut playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Agit Prop Art broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Commonwealth Games broadcast. Hawkwind's In Search Of Space, Slade's 'Coz I Luv You'/'My Life Is Natural', The Undisputed Truth's 'Smiling Faces Sometimes', The Laurie Johnson Orchestra's 'The Jason King Theme'/'There Comes A Time', Colin Blunstone's 'Caroline Goodbye'/'Though You Are Far Away', Kris Kristofferson's 'Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)'/'Epitaph (Black & Blue)', Lou Rawls' 'A Natural Man'/'You Can't Hold On', Another Monty Python Record and Focus's Focus II and the single 'Hocus Pocus'/'Janis' released. A warning to the unwary; the latter contained yodelling. Lots of it. Oliver Reed featured on Radio 2's Be My Guest. The first episode of Justice - The Most Important Thing Of All - broadcast on LWT.
She shown in The Saturday Film strand. The Carpenters appeared on The Harry Secombe Show. Sheridan Morley interviewed David Hemmings on BBC2's Film Night. Sir Sacheverell Sitwell featured on Desert Island Discs. Having lost to Arsenal in the League Cup during midweek, Newcastle again conceded four at Highbury in the First Division, although at least this time Malcolm Macdonald scored two late consolation goals. Leeds United lost three-one at Coventry City, Stoke City won three-two at Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Southampton four-two. Bruce Bannister hit three in Bradford City's three-nil victory over Walsall in the Third Division. Having recently been on the end of a couple of right hammerings in the fourth Division, Peterborough United handed out one of their own, seven-nil against Barrow (Jim Hall and Peter Price both scoring hat-tricks). Northampton Town thumped Reading five-nil and Lincoln City beat Exeter City four-one (Percy Freeman hitting three). The UFO episode Survival broadcast on LWT.
There Was An Old Person Called Lear broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Dirk Bogarde was one of the guests on Parkinson. Derek Cooper hosted BBC2's One Man's Week. The London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The first episode of Upstairs, Downstairs broadcast on LWT.
Maurice Roëves read The Escape Of Charles II on Jackanory. Raymond Hitchcock's Combing Down His Yellow Hair broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. If At First You Don't Succeed ... You Don't Succeed broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Duchess Of Wiltshire's Diamonds broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
The Car Makers broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Lindisfarne performed 'Fog On The Tyne' and 'Meet Me On The Corner' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommended the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars. Gene Vincent died of a ruptured stomach ulcer aged thirty six. Pink Floyd featured on Radio 1's In Concert, playing 'two hours of progressive pop.'

England beat Switzerland three-two in a European Nations Cup Qualifier in Basel. Geoff Hurst, Martin Chivers and an Anton Weibel own goal were on-target for the visitors. Derby County duo John O'Hare and Archie Gemmill scored as Scotland kept their slim chances of qualification for the European Nations Cup alive, beating Portugal two-one at Hampden Park in Tommy Docherty's first game in charge of the national side. Atsenal's Bob Wilson and George Graham, Eddie Colquhoun of Sheffield United, Alex Cropley of Hibernian and Aberdeen's Martin Buchan made their Scotland debuts. Wales defeated Finland three-nil at Ninian Park with goals from Alan Durban, John Toshack and Gil Reece. Sheffield United's Trevor Hockey and Swansea City's Brian Evans made their international debuts. Andy Lochhead and Ray Graydon scored as Aston Villa knocked the First Division's basement side, Crystal Palace, out of the League Cup. Norwich City increased their lead at the top of the Second Division to three points with a three-nil defeat of Burnley. Kepler, Genius & Mystic broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The worst Star Trek episode, Spock's Brain, received its first UK broadcast. Though, sadly, not its last. What Price Charity? - The Oxfam Dilemma broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The first episode of BBC2's Spain Is Different broadcast. The Incredible String Vest and Loudon Wainwright III featured in session on Radio 1's Sound Of The Seventies: John Peel.
Dennis Potter's Traitor - with a BAFTA-winning performance by John le Mesurier - broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Right To Wander broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The US conducted an underground nuclear weapon test in Nevada. Seth Holt's Blood From The Mummy's Tomb - starring Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers and Hugh Burden - premiered.
The first episode of The Onedin Line broadcast. The Chap With A Good Tale To Tell broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Pollution broadcast. Lindisfarne's Fog On The Tyne, Edwin Starr's 'Agent Double O Soul'/'Back Street', Tony Bennett's 'Walkabout'/'How Beautiful Is Night (With You)', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Trench Town Rock'/'Grooving KGN Twelve', Gerry Rafferty's 'Can I Have My Money Back?'/'So Bad Thinking', Tony Christie's '(Is This The Way To) Amarillo'/'Love Is A Friend Of Mine', The Platters' 'With This Ring'/'Washed Ashore (On A Lonely Island In The Sea)', Richard Harris' 'My Boy'/'Why Did You Leave Me?', Andrea Robinson's 'Fire & Rain'/'Presence Of The Lord' and The Who's 'Let's See Action'/'When I Was A Boy' released. Wodehouse At Ninety broadcast on Radio 3. Colchester United beat Lincoln City five-two in the Fourth Division, Brian Lewis scoring three. Ian Lawther also hit a hat-trick in Stockport County's three-one defeat of Crewe Alexandra.
Vince Hill appeared on Bruce Forsyth & The Generation Game. The Ukrainian Dance Company featured in BBC2's Wide World Of Entertainment. Ivy Benson featured on Desert Island Discs. Leeds United won three-nil against Manchester City and Liverpool defeated Nottingham Forest three-two in the First Division. Sheffield United lost their third successive match (three-two at Southampton) allowing Manchester United (George Best scoring the only goal against Derby County) to go top. Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Wolverhampton Wanderers four-one. Ray Treacy scored three in Charlton Athletic's three-two victory at Hull City in the Second Division. Millwall's three-one defeat of Bristol City featured on Match Of The Day. Bristol Rovers beat York City five-four in a Third Division thriller (Harold Jarman netting three). Workington thrashed Aldershot five-nil in the Fourth Division. The UFO episode The Psychobombs broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of She Shall Have Music broadcast. Paul Klee: The Heart Of Creation broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Muhammad Ali guested on Parkinson. The first episode of BBC2's Fathers & Sons broadcast. Roy Ward Baker's Doctor Jekyll & Sister Hyde - starring Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick - premiered.
Keith Barron read The Book Of Fate on Jackanory. One Liverpool Or Two? broadcast in the Horizon strand. Tom Clarke's The Moonligthers broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Southport moved into the Fourth Division's top three with a four-three victory over Chester. In New York City, The Knapp Commission began public hearings on police corruption. The Horse of The Invisible broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
Expulsion broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Drugs In School broadcast. Stone The Crows and The Faces featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Manfred Mann and Michael Chapman appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Dundee lost two-one to FC Köln in the first leg of their UEFA Cup Second Round tie. AFC Bournemouth remained top of the Third Division following a three-two victory over Port Vale. Stan Bowles scored twice in Crewe Alexandra's three-two win at Grimsby Town in the Fourth Division.
Arsenal won two-nil against Grasshopper Club Zürich in the first leg of the European Cup Second Round. Glasgow Celtic defeated Sliema Wanderers five-nil (Lou Macari scoring twice). Borussia Moenchengladbach beat Internazionale seven-one. However, Inter's Roberto Boninsegna was carried off after, allegedly, being hit on the head by beer can thrown from the crowd. UEFA subsequently ordered the match to be replayed. In the Cup Winners Cup Liverpool shared a goalless draw with Fußball-Club Bayern München. Glasgow Rangers defeated Sporting Lisbon three-two at Ibrox (Colin Stein netting two). Holders Chelsea drew with Swedish side Åtvidabergs. Wolverhampton Wanders (three-one victors in the Netherlands against ADO Den Haag) and Tottenham Hotspur (who drew with Nantes) would progress in the UEFA Cup. St Johnstone defeated Hungarian side Vasas SC two-nil at Muirton Park with goals from John Connolly and Jim Pearson. Ferencváros thrashed Greek side Panionios six-nil in Budapest (Florian Albert scoring a hat-trick). After the final whistle, Panionios fans invaded the pitch and attacked Ferencváros players, match officials and the Hungarian police. Panionios were immediately ejected from the competition and Ferencváros were awarded a walkover. Clyde Best scored the only goal as West Ham United knocked Leeds United out of the League Cup in a Third Round replay at Elland Road. Ecology broadcast in BBC2's Late Night Line-Up strand. Cottage On A Cliff broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Stackridge and John Martyn were in session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('May You Never', 'Bless The Weather', 'Inside Of Him', 'Singing In The Rain'). Calvin Cordozar Broadus Junior born in Long Beach. Danielle Jane Minogue born in Melbourne. The first episode of Tottering Towers broadcast on Thames.
Jeremy Sandford's Edna, The Inebriate Woman broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Fay Weldon's A Load Of Guilt broadcast in BBC2's Trial strand. Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger born in Paris. A gas explosion in the town centre of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire killed twenty people. Trinity Is Still My Name - starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer - premiered.
The Man Behind Nader broadcast. Pablo Picasso was profiled in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode The Lost Tribe broadcast. Benny Hill's 'Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)'/'Ting-A-Ling-A-Loo', Roy Hudd's 'Are You Coming In (Or Stopping Out)?'/'Tuba Song', Tin Can Alley's 'Funky World'/'Same Old Thing' and Yoko Ono's 'Mrs Lennon'/'Midsummer New York' released. One sold considerably more than the other. Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and Ted Hooker's Crucible Of Terror - starring Mike Raven, Mary Maude, James Bolam and Ronald Lacey - premiered.
The first episodes of The Passenger - part of the Francis Durbridge Presents ... strand - and Ali Bongo's Cartoon Carnival broadcast. Klute was among the films reviewed on BBC2's Film Night. Dame Sibyl Hathaway of Sark featured on Desert Island Discs. Highlights of the First Division programme included Tottenham Hotspurs six-one defeat of Nottingham Forest (Martin Peters and Jimmt Pearce both scoring twice), Leeds United's three-two win over Everton and Chelsea's three-nil win against Southampton. Sheffield United lost for the fourth game in a row, two-one at Manchester City. Manchester United remained top, George Best netting the only goal as they won at Newcastle United. Cardiff City rhashed Charlton Athletic in the Second Division whilst Bristol City defeated Orient five-three. Portsmouth hammered Fulham six-three. In a clash of the top two, Millwall defeated Norwich City two-one. AFC Bournemouth defeated Aston Villa three-nil. Workington beat Reading five-nil in the Fourth Division. In the Scottish League Cup Final, Partick Thistle beat Glasgow Celtic four-one at Hampden Park. Two women were shot dead by soldiers in Belfast as their car failed to stop at a checkpoint. The UFO episode Destruction broadcast on LWT.
A Victory Grand Prix broadcast from Brands Hatch. The race lasted for less than half of its intended distance following a number of accidents, including the death of Mike Hailwood. Rap Her The Bank broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Ronald Eyre's adaptation of Rasputin - starring Robert Stephens and Peter Barkworth - broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Kifaru broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Strange Case Of Inspector Whicher broadcast on Radio 4.
Rutherford broadcast in the Horizon strand. Getting In broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of quite possibly the worst sitcom ever made, Lollipop Loves Mister Mole and the World In Action episode Does An MP Have The Right? broadcast on Thames. The Case Of The Mirror Of Portugal broadcast in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
The probable broadcast date of the legendary BBC North East documentary All Dressed Up & Going Nowhere about rival gangs of skinheads and 'hairies' in Newcastle, shown in the Look North strand. The rest of the country got Nationwide instead. Indira Gandhi Of India broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Byker Will Not Die broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. Buffy Sainte Marie and Day Of Phoenix appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Loudon Wainwright III and The Pink Fairies featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Blackpool thrashed Aston Villa four-one in the League Cup Fourth Road. Carlisle United signed Stan Bowles from Crewe Aelxandra for twelve thousand quid. Luboš Kohoutek discovered over thirty new asteroids, including 1840 Hus, 1841 Masaryk, 1865 Cerberus, 1894 Haffner, 1895 Larink and 1896 Beer.
He Scratches For A Living broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. In London to film their memorable appearance in Dracula AD 1972, Stoneground recorded a session for Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Tragically, their set ('Rock & Roll Tonite', 'Sad Man', Super Clown' and 'You Must Be One Of Us') did not include a version of 'Alligator Man'. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire. Wales lost one-nil against Czechoslovaki in Prague in a European Nations Cup Qualifying game which eliminated the visiotrs from the competition. Ipswich Town's Mick Hill and Burnley's Leighton James made their first appearacnes for Wales whilst Newcastle's Ollie Burton play for his country for the last time. Aberdeen lost the first leg of their UEFA Cup Second Round tie with Juventus two-nil in Turin.
Rhys Adrain's Evelyn broadcast inthe Play For Today strand. Robert Holmes' Mister X broadcast in BBC2's Trial strand. Newcastle United signed Blackpool's brillaint Scottish international midfielder Tony Green for one hundred and fifty thousand pounds plus Keith Dyson. Ted MacDougall scored three as AFC Bournemouth won five-nil at Mansfield Town in the Third Division. Prospero X-3 was the first satellite launched by Britain using a British rocket from Woomera in Australia. The United Kingdom became the sixth nation to launch a satellite into orbit. The House of Commons voted in favour of joining the European Economic Community.
The King's Road To Park Lane broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode The Music Lovers broadcast. The Growth Of Modern Wales broadcast. Winona Laura Horowitz born in Olmsted County, Minnesota. Duane Allman killed in a motorcycle accident, aged twenty four. Nirvana's 'Stadium'/'Please Believe Me', Stairsteps' 'Stay Close To Me'/'I Made A Mistake', The Tams' 'What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think I Am)?'/'Laugh It Off' and Redwing's 'I'm Your Lover Man'/'Bonnie Bones' released. Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! - starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn - premiered.
Leeds United's one-nil victory at Old Trafford against Manchester United featured on Match of The Day. Other First Division highlights included West ham United's three-nil win at Crystal Palace (Nigerian-born Ade Cokjer scoring on his debut) and Derby County's two-nil victory at Nottingham Forest. Jenny Agutter was interviewed on BBC2's Film Night. Such Quantities Of Sand broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Radio 1 debut of Peter Powell. The UFO episode The Square Triangle broadcast on LWT.
Tom Jones guest-starred on The Morecambe & Wise Show. The Stan Barstow profile, Mind You I Live Here, broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Peter Fonda featured on Parkinson. Surrender To Everest and The Truly Amazing Phenomenon broadcast on BBC2. A bomb exploded in the Post Office Tower causing extensive damage but no injuries. The Kilburn Battalion of the IRA claimed responsibility although it was widely believed to have actually been the work of The Angry Brigade.
History 1917-71: Hitler's War broadcast. The Fierce People broadcast in the Horizon strand. Psychological Warfare broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre. I, Monster - starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven and Richard Hurndall - premiered. Madame Sara broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand. T-Rex's 'Jeepster'/'Life's A Gas' released.
Making Of A Republic broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Ralph McTell and Family appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Stefan Grossman and Unicorn featured on Radio 1's In Concert. An Angel Without Wings broadcast on Radio 4. St Johnstone reached the Third Round of the UEFA Cup despite losing their second leg one-nil to Vasas SC in Budapest. Spurs joined them, Martin Peters scoring the only goal in a victory over Nantes. Bristol Rovers knocked Queens Park Rangers out of the League Cup with a one-nil win at Eastville.
The first episode of Gold On Crow Mountain broadcast. Arsenal completed a five-nil aggregate win over Grasshopper Club Zürich in the European Cup. Glasgow Celtic also had an easy aggregate victory over Sliema Wanderers, winning two-one in Malta. In the Cup Winners Cup Glasgow Rangers lost four-three to Sporting Lisbon (in a game in which Ronnie McKinnon broke his leg). The Dutch referee, Laurens Van Ravens, then erroneously ordered that the tie should be decided on penalites, despite Rangers having scored more away goals than the hosts. Sporting won shoot-out three-one but UEFA subsequently ruled that Rangers had won on away goals and suspended the referee for being such a daft glake. Both English sides in the competition exited, Liverpool beaten three-one at Fußball-Club Bayern München (Gerd Müller scoring twice) and holders Chelsea sharing a one-all draw with Åtvidabergs FF and loising on away goals. Three own goals mostly accounted for Wolverhampton Wanderers' four-nil UEFA Cup win over ADO The Hague at Molineux. Aberdeen joined them in the Third Round, defeating FC Köln four-two at Dens Park (John Duncan scoring a hat-trick). Newcastle United fans got a taste of what they could look forward to o=ver the coming months, Tony Green having a brilliant home debut in a five-one thrashing of Coventry City in the Texaco Cup Second Round. Airdrieonians defeated Huddersfield town by the same score. Thin Lizzy's first session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel broadcast ('Raygun', 'The Rise & Dear Demise Of The Funky Nomadic Tribes', 'Dublin', 'Clifton Grange Hotel'). Premières of Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me, Norman Jewison's Fiddler On The Roof, Peter Collinson's Fright - starring Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen, John Gregson and Dennis Waterman - and Sam Peckipah's Straw Dogs - starring Dustin Hoffman - premiered.
William Trevor's O Fat White Woman - with its eerie, unsettling Delia Derbyshire soundtrack - broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Price Of A Bride broadcast in the Europa strand.
The first episode of Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer's Now Look Here - starring Ronnie Corbett - broadcast. Television & The Immigrant broacast in BBC2's Late Night Line-Up strand. The Goodies episode Art For Art's Sake broadcast. Elton John's Madman Across The Water, Fairport Convention's Babbacombe Lee, John Kongos' 'Tokoloshe Man'/' Can Someone Please Direct Me Back To Earth', Cilla Black's 'Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)'/'La La La Lu', Rattles' 'Devil's On The Loose'/'I Know You Don't Know', Labi Siffre's 'It Must Be Love'/'To Find Love', Alice Cooper's 'Under My Wheels'/'Desperado', Pink Floyd's Meddle, Black Widow's 'Wish You Would'/'Accident', Curtis Mayfield's 'We Got To Have Peace'/'People Get Ready', Billy Sha-Rae's 'Do It'/'Crying Clown' and Johnny Johnson & His Bandwagon's 'Sally Put Your Red Shoes On'/'Gasoline Alley Bred' released. Johnny Cash featured on Radio 2's Be My Guest.
The Man Who Never Was shown in The Saturday Movie strand. Bill Shankley was a guest on Cilla. Asa Hartford's proposed transfer from West Bromwich Albion to Leeds United was called off after a medical revealed that he had a hole in his heart. The Manchester derby at Maine Road ended three-three, with seventeen-year-old debutant Sammy McIlroy scoring for United. It was the first of eight hundred and six matches, for both Manchester clubs, Stoke City, Bury, Preston North End and Northern Ireland, in a career that lasted until 1990. Liverpool beat Arsenal three-two, Newcastle United defeated Southampton three-one Malcolm Macdonald scoring twice, Tony Green netting his first for The Magpies), Derby Country won three-nil against Crystal Palace and Spurs beat Everton three-nil in a First Division programmes which saw thirty six goals scored in eleven games. Port Vale and Aston Villa drew four-four in the Third Division. Christopher Bidmead's A Head Held High broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The US tested a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At five megatons, it was the largest ever American underground detonation. The UFO episode Close Up broadcast on LWT.
Glenda Jackson made a meorable appearance as Cleopatra in a play wot Ernie wrote in The Morecambe & Wise Show. Fifty Years On broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Under London Expedition broadcast in The World About Us strand. Graham Stark's The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins - starring Bruce Forsyth, Harry Secombe, Leslie Phillips, Harry H Corbett, Ian Carmichael, Alfie Bass and Spike Milligan - premiered.
The first episode of The Runaway Summer broadcast. The City That Waits To Die broadcast in the Horizon strand. Tom Clarke's A Settled Sort Of Life broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth LP and Genesis's Nursery Cryme released. Burt Kennedy's Hannie Caulder - starring Raquel Welsh, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine and Christopher Lee - premiered. Tommy Baldwin scored a hat-trick in Chelsea's six-nil win at Bolton Wanderers in a Football League Cup Fourth Round replay. Tottenham Hotspur won two-one at Preston North End and Sheffield united knocked out Arsenal with a two=nil victory. The Case Of The Dixon Torpedo broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
Something For The Children broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. On Location: Young Winston broadcast. Gordon Giltrap, Alice Cooper and Isaac Hayes appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Tom Paxton featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Miss World 1971 broadcast. Motorway Madness broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. England drew one-all with Switzerland in a European Nations Cup Qualifier. Mike Summerbee was on target for the hosts. Queens Park Rangers' Rodney Marsh made his England debut. Scotland failed qualify for the final stages, despite winning one-nil against Belgium in a game played at Aberden. John O'Hare scored the winner. Aberdeen's Steve Murray, Glasgow Celtic's Kenny Dalglish and Patrick Thistle's John Hansen made their Scotland debuts. Terry Reid, Natural Gas and Lol Coxhill & David Bedford were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attacked Phnom Penh and its airport, killing forty four, wounding at least thirty. The ten-route Spaghetti Junction motorway interchange was opened North of Birmingham city centre, incorporating the A38(M) Aston Expressway and the Southern section of the M6.
The four hundredth episode of Top Of The Pops broadcast featuring performances by Slade, Cilla Black, John Kongos, The Move, Clodagh Rodgers, Dana, Cher and Olivia Newton-John. NF Simpson's Thank You Very Much broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Jonathan Miller's Writers in Society: Alternative Worlds broadcast. The Mafia: The Death Blow? broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand.
Man Under The Sea broadcast in the Tomorrow's World strand. The Savage God broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Kitten Kong broadcast. The - original - Kitten Kong episode of The Goodies broadcast. The Beach Boys' 'Don't Go Near The Water'/'Student Demonstration Time', America's 'A Horse With No Name'/'Everyone I Meet Is From California', 'Sandman', The Electric Express' 'It's The Real Thing (Parts 1 & 2)', Nature's Children's 'Jesus Met The Woman At The Well'/'Gonna Hold On To You', JJ Jackson's 'But It's Alright'/'Do The Boogaloo', Jean Wells' 'After Loving You'/'Puttin' The Best On The Outside', Gayle McCormick's 'It's A Cryin' Shame'/'If Only You Believe', JJ Jackson's 'But It's Alright'/'Ain't Too Proud To Beg', Friday Brown's 'The Only One To Love Me'/'The Promise', Heads, Hands & Feet's 'Warming Up The Band'/'Silver Mine' and Harry H Corbett's 'Harry You Love Her'/'It's The End Of A Beautiful Day' released. Blackburn Rovers signed John Macnamee from Newcastle United for twenle thousand quid.
The Supremes were among the guests on Cilla. John Braine: The Magic Is Here & Now broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. James Taylor In Concert broadcast (featuring a guest appearance by Carole King) broadcast. Nicolette Milnes-Walker featured on Desert Island Discs. Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully. Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed TV Movie Duel - starring Dennis Weaver - broadcast in the US on ABC. In the First Division - Arsenal, Liverpool, Derby County and Leeds United all lost (two-one at home to Manchester City, one-nil at Everton, two-one at Wolves with John Richards netting twice and two-one at Southampton, resepctively). Manchester United went thre points clear at the top, Denis Law scoring twice in a three-one victory over Tottenham Hotspur featured on Match Of The Day. Nottingham Forest thrashed West Bromwich Albion four-one, one of their goals coming from debutant Martin O'Neill, the first of five hundred and ninety nil games, for Forest, Norwich City, Manchester City, Notts County and Northern Ireland in a career that lasted until 1984. Burnley hammnered Middlesbrough five-two in the Second Division (Leighton James, Geoff Nulty, Arthur Bellmany and Martin Dobson all on-target). Fulham beat Cardiff City four-three. Rotherham United defeated Plymouth Argyle by the same score in the Third Division. The UFO episode A Question Of Priorities and the first part of Sir Kenneth Clark's Pioneers Of Modern Art broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Anthony Steven's adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays broadcast. The first episode of Wives & Daughters broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of When Uncle Klaas Fell Over broadcast in the Merry-Go-Round strand. The Men Who Painted Caves broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Gardeners Of My Youth broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Intel released the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Stoke City beat Manchester United two-one in a League Cup Fourth Round second replay. The Woman In The Big Hat broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand. The World In Action episode The Most Widely Used Drug In The World investigated allegations of the harmful side-effects of Asperin.
In Search of The Real Che Guevara and the first episode of Film 71 broadcast. The first episode of Dennis Potter's adaptation of Casanoa - starring Frank Finlay - broadcast on BBC2. Stone The Crows and The Pink Fairies featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Jack Bodell was knocked out by Jerry Quarry in the first round of their heavyweight contest at the Empire Pool, Wembley. The forthcoming Mars visits of the Soviet Mars 2 and Mars 3 probes and NASA's Mariner 9 were discussed on The Sky At Night. VD - Who Cares? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Nucleus and Gong were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Stephen Schwartz's Godspell opened at London's Roundhouse with an initial cast that included David Essex, Julie Covington, Gay Soper, Jeremy Irons and Marti Webb. Uriah Heep's 'Look At Yourself'/'Simon The Bullet Freak' released. Aberdeen were knocked out of the UEFA Cup, drawing one-all with Juventus. Pop Robson scored three and Clybe Best two in West Ham uNited's five-nil thumping of Sheffield United in the League Cup Fifth Round.
Michael Regan broadcast in the Play For Today strand. PJ Hammond's Verdict broadcast in BBC2's Trial strand.
Review In The USA broadcast on BBC2. The Goodies episode Come Dancing broadcast. Shirley Bassey's 'Diamonds Are Forever'/'Pieces Of Dreams', Bread's 'Baby I'm A-Want You'/'Truckin', Jeff Astle's 'Sweet Water'/'Summer Sadness', Frankie Howerd With June Whitfield's 'Up Je T'Aime'/'All Through The Night', Al Greene & The Soul Mates' 'Back Up Train'/'Don't Leave Me', Steppenwolf's 'For Ladies Only'/'Sparkle Eyes', Judy Collins' 'Open The Door (Song For Judith)'/'Innisfree (The Lake Of Innisfree)' and Fanny's 'Charity Ball'/'Place In The Country' released. Carlisle United won four-one at Bristol City in the Second Division.
The first episode of Play Away broadcast on BBC2. Sacha Distel and Michael Bentine were among the guests on Cilla. Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On released. In the First Round of the FA Cup, Ted MacDougall's nine goals for AFC Bournemouth as they annihilated Margate eleven-nil remains the record. Northampton Town won five-one at Basingstoke Town, Brighton & Hove Albion thrashed Hillingdon Borough seven-one, Reading won three-nil at Bridgwater Town whilst Bristol Rovers defeated Telford United by the same score. Hartlepool walloped Scarborough six-one (Ron Young and Bobby Veart both scoring twice, Ken Ellis and Neil Warnock adding further goals). Tranmere Rovers won four-nil at Skelmersdale United, Torquay United defeated Nuneaton Borough one-nil, Walsall thumped Dagenham four-one and Wrexham beat Bradford City five-one. George Andrew netted three in Shrewsbury Town's four-one victory at last season's giant-killers Colchester United. In the day's big shocks, Brian Slane scored the only goal in Northern League Blyth Spartans' win at Crewe Alexandra and Wigan Athletic defeated Third Division Halifax Town two-one (Billy Sutherland and Graham Oates scoring for Gordon Milne's Athletic which also contained another former Cup winner, Derek Temple). Romford won three-nil at Hellenic League Witnewy Town. Boston United won the all-Northern Premier League tie, three-nil, at Ellesmere Port Town (former Leicester striker Bobby Svarc amongst the scorers). Isthmian League Enfield beat Athenian League Maidenhead two-nil at Southbury Road (Tony Turley and Ray Hill on-target). Barnet won four-two at Kettering Town (Ben Embury and Les Eaton both netting twice). Crawley Town earned a goalless draw with Exeter City whilst Midland League Frickley Colliery twice led against Rotherham United in a game that finished two-two.The all-Southern League tie between Guildford City and Dover also finished goalless as did King's Lynn and Hereford United. West Midlands Regional League Redditch United drew one-all with Peterborough United. South Shields shared a six-goal thriller with Scunthorpe United. Notts County thrashed Newport County six-nil. In the First Division, Everton thrashed Southampton eight-nil at Goodison Park (Joe Royle scoring four and David Johnson three). Wolverampton Wanderers beat Arsenal five-one (featured on Match of The Day). Chelsea won three-two at Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur also both won three-two (against Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion respectively). Malcolm Macdonald scored twice in Newcastle United's two-one defeat of Nottingham Forest. Derby County thumped Sheffield United three-nil. Letter From Tangier broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Radio 3's Rock strand - hosted by Manfred Mann - profiled Cream. The UFO episode E.S.P broadcast on LWT.
James Camerson and Joanna Woodward were among the guests on Parkinson. The Forbidden Route broadcast in The World About Us strand. Sir Hugh Greene hosted BBC2's One Man's Week.
George Benson read The Cruise Of The Happy-Go-Gay on Jackanory. Crab Nebula broadcast in the Horizon strand. Blues In The Morning broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Peterborough thrashed Redditch United six-nil in an FA Cup replay. Mansfield Town defeated Chester four-three. The Affair of The Tortoise broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand. The World In Action episode Year Of The Killing focused on the Bangladesh liberation war.
Our Children & The Germans broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Alice Stuart, Fanny and Redwing featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Stoneground appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. David Wild's penalty was the only goal as Rossendale United beat Altringham in the FA Cup. Carl Gilbert scored three in Rotherham United's four-nil defeat of Frickley Colliery. Stoke City won four-two at Bristol Rovers in the League Cup Fifth Round. The first episode of Suspicion broadcast on Thames.
Mary McCarthy's Expatriates & Internal Exiles broadcast in the Writers In Society broadcast. To The Bitter End broadcast in the Man Alive strand. A Regional Development Plan: The North-East Of England broadcast in BBC2's Places For People strand. During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself DB Cooper parachuted from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he had hijacked, with two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money and was never seen again (the case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history). Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home signed an agreement on proposals for a political settlement. The Kinks' Muswell Hillbillies released. Ivor Cutler and The Soft Machine were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Dundee lost three-nil to AC Milan in the Third Round of The UEFA Cup. John Connolly scored the only goal three minutes from time as St Johnstone beat FK Željezničar Sarajevo. John Richards hit the winner as Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Carl Zeiss Jena. Aldershot defeated Alvechurch of the Midland Combination four-two in a twice postponed FA Cup tie. A;vechurch, the Worcestershire village team had already made FA Cup history in the Fourth Qualifying Round, drawing with Oxford City five times before winning a sixth game, one-nil at Viilla Park. Guildford City (who won two-nil at Dover) and Hereford United (who beat King's Lynn one-nil) reached the Second Round but Crawley Town lost their replay with Exeter City, two-nil. The North London derby at White Hart Lane ended in a one-all draw in the First Division.
The first episode of The View From Daniel Pike broadcast on BBC2. The UK broadcast of The Adventures Of Doctor Dolittle. Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook's Skin Deep broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Yes's Fragile released.
Gala Concert - Edward Heath and Andre Previn - broadcast. La Calisto From Glyndebourne broadcast on BBC2. Elvis Presley's 'I Just Can't Help Believin'/'How The Web Was Woven', RB Greaves' 'Paperback Writer'/'Over You Now', Ponderosa Twins + One's 'You Send Me'/'Hey Girl', Emitt Rhodes' 'Really Wanted You'/'Love Will Stone You', John Martyn's 'May You Never'/'Just Now' and The Johnny Pearson Orchestra's 'Sleepy Shores'/'Old World Charm'released. Southend United went top of the Fourth Division with a four-two victory over Stockport County (Billy Best and Bill Garner both scoring twice).
Cilla In Scandinavia - guest starring Ringo Starr and Basil Brush - broadcast. The Ship Of The Sun Gods broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Cat Stevens: In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Steve Race featured on Desert Island Discs. The Inner London Education Authority announced a ban on corporal punishment in primary schools. Alan Woodward scored four of the seven goal Sheffield United put past Ipswich Town without reply in the First Division. George Best scored a hat-trick as Manchester United beat Southampton five-two (featured on Match of The Day). Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated West Bromwich Albion three-two in the Black Country derby and Stoke City and Newcastle United drew three-all (Malcolm Macdonald scoring his eleventh and twelfth league goals of the season for the visitors). Colin Bell and Francis Lee both hit two in Manchester City's four-nil defeat of Coventry City. Andy Lochhead scored three and Bruce Rioch two in Aston Villa's six-nil win at Oldham Athletic in the Third Division. Notts County had a three-two victory at Bradford City. Peter Graham hit a hat-trick in Darlington's three-all draw with Lincoln City in the Fourth Division. The UFO episode The Sound Of Silence broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Story Of Carl Gustav Jung broadcast. Vive La Culture! broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Incredible Hummingbirds broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Alan Bennett hosted One Man's Week. Wasfi al-Tal, the Prime Minister of Jordan, was assassinated by members of Black September on the steps of the Sheraton Hotel, Cairo, where he was attending an Arab League summit meeting.
David Snodin's Jenkins braodcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Can Venice Survive? broadcast in the Horizon strand. Northern Premier League South Shields won three-two at Fourth Division Scunthorpe United in an FA Cup First Round replay. Bob O'Donnell, Malcolm Leask and Alan Bains scored for Shields. The Assyrian Rejuvenator broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand. The World In Action episode The Backsteat Generals broadcast.
What Scot? - an entertainment for St Andrew's Day - broadcast. Jacky Gillott interviewed Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman on Film 71. The Move and Emitt Rhodes featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Ralph McTell and America appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Coventry City had a two hundred and fifty thousand knicker joint bid for AFC Bournemouth's Ted MacDougall and Phil Boyer rejected.
The Appreciation Of Literature broadcast in the Writers In Society strand. The Alternative Press broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Island That Refused To Die broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Aubrey Small were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. White Nights broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Nelly Kaplan's Papa Les Petits Bateaux - starring Sheila White, Michel Bouquet, Judith Magre and Michael Lonsdale - premiered. Scotland lost two-one in a friendly international with the Netherlands in Amsterdam. John Cruyff opened the scoring, George Graham equalised before Cruyff's Ajax team-mate Barry Hulsoff scored the winner two minutes from the end. Geoff Hurst and Martin Chivers scored as England qualified for the Quarter-Finals of the European Nations Cup with a comfortable two-nil victory in Greece. Francis Lee also hit the post.
Alun Owen's Pal broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Egypt - A Year Of Sadat broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The Faces' 'Stay With Me' released. Ken Loach's Family Life - starring Sandy Ratcliff, Brian Dean and Malcolm Tierney - premiered.
Adam & Eve - a Birgit Cullberg ballet for television - broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Bristol Entertainment broadcast. The Indo-Pakistani War began as Pakistan initiated hostilities by carrying out air attacks on nine Indian airbases. The next day India launched a massive invasion of East Pakistan. The Indian Navy destroyer INS Rajput (formerly HMS Rotherham) sank the Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo). The Bangladesh Air Force, composed of Bengali pilots and technicians defecting from the Pakistan Air Force, launched attacks on depots and communication lines, flying light aircraft donated by India. Two years after production began, Robert Hartford-Davies's' Incense For The Damned - starring Patrick Mower, Peter Cushing, Patrick Macnee, Edward Woodward, Alexander Davion and Johnny Sekka - finally premiered. Hartford-Davies was so upset with various changes made by the producers in post-production that he had his name removed from the movie (it was credited on-screen to the fictitious Michael Burrowes). Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas Darling'/'Ticket To Ride', 'Saturday', Bell & Arc's 'She Belongs To Me'/'Dawn', The Faces' 'Stay With Me'/'Debris', Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together'/'Tomorrow's Dream', The Coasters' 'Love Potion Number Nine'/'DW Washburn', Frijid Pink's 'Lost Son'/'I Love Her', Jack Wild's 'Punch & Judy'/'Takin' It Easy' and The Don Harper Orchestra's 'World Of Sport March'/'England 88' released.
Des O'Connor, The New Seekers and Frankie Howerd were guests on Cilla. Before The Mast and Lesley Duncan In Concert broadcast on BBC2. The Galloping Gourmet himself Graham Kerr featured on Desert Island Discs. Radio 3's Rock strand profield The Who. 'Some stupid with a flare-gun' started the fire which burned down the Montreux Casino on the Lake Geneva shoreline during a gig by Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, an event later commemorated in Deep Purple's turgid, hippy dirge 'Smoke On The Water'. Lindisfarne recorded Lindisfarne Live at Newcastle City Hall. Which began with Ray Jackson's impassioned whinging about Newcastle United's inability to beat Chelsea at St James' Park that afternoon (it was a goalless draw). The big winners in the First Division were Crystal Palace who defeated Sheffield United five-one with two brilliant goals by Big John Hughes 'giving it The Hammer' (featured on Match of The Day as was Derby County's three-one victory over Manchester City). Manchester United were five points clear at the top, three-two winners over struggling Nottingham Forest. Norwich City continuied to lead at Second Division following a one-nil victory at Swindon Town. Notts County moved top of the Third Division, winning three-nil against Barnsley whilst AFC Bournmemouth were drawing, two-all, with York City. Third placed Aston Villa won three-nil against Bradford City (Bruce Rioch netting twice). The McGurk's Bar bombing in Belfast killed fifteen people. The first episode of Jason King - A Deadly Line In Digits - and the UFO episode Kill Straker! broadcast on LWT. Granada became the first ITV region to use the generic Appointment With Fear strand title with a showing of King Kong. Leslie Halliwell had programmed this Saturday night season of thriller movies and chose the title when recalling the 1940s BBC radio series from the 1940's. This would become the default title for horror film seasons on the station. In due course ATV, Scottish, Tyne-Tees, Yorkshire, Westward, Channel and Thames (mostly, 10.30pm on a Friday) would also use the Appointment With Fear brand.
Instant Nostalgia broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Frankie Howerd and Sir Ralph Richardson were the guest on Parkinson. The Barron Knights, Norman Collier and Clive Dunn appeared on BBC2's Comedy Tonight. The Great Mojave Desert broadcast in The World About Us strand.
John Bird read The Balloon People on Jackanory. Sean Hignett's Allotment broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Willingly To School? broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Ripening Rubies broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
Elton John performed a stunning version of 'Tiny Dancer' on The Old Grey Whistle Test, an episode which also featured Fanny and film footage of The Rolling Stones. A Question Of Survival broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary. Patrick Moore talked to the Astronomer Royal, Sir Richard Woolley on The Sky At Night. Lindisfarne, Rab Noakes and Steelers Wheel appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Wings' debut LP, Wild Life released.
West Ham United won two-one at Stoke City in the League Cup Semi-Final first leg, highlights shown on Sportsnight With Coleman. Scotland's last two representatives in the UEFA Cup both fell in the Third Round, St Johnstone being thrashed five-one by FK Željezničar in Sarajevo whilst Dundee came close to pulling off a miracle, beating AC Milan two-nil but being eliminated of aggregate. It was better news south of the border, Spurs beat Rapid Bucharest three-nil in the first leg with Martin Chivers socring two and Wolves progressed to the Third Round with a victory by the same score over Carl Zeiss Jena (Derek Dougan hitting two and Kenny Hibbert adding a third). Derby County won three-two at Newcastle United to reach the final of the Texaco Cup, Colin Todd netting a late winner. West Ham united won two-one at Stoke City in the first leg of the Football League Cup Semi-Final at The Victoria Ground (Geoff Hurst scoring the winner). Who's Afraid Of Helen Gurley Brown? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. King Biscuit Boy were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel.
The Pigeon Fancier broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Jan Troell's Who Saw Him Die? shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Stephen Frears's Gumshoe - starring Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour and Fulton Mackay - premiered.
James Burke In California broadcast in the Tomorrow's World strand. The End Of The Pier? broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Farm Fresh Food broadcast. The John Sinclair Freedom Rally was held at the University of Michigan. Performers included John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Both of whom felt that it wasnn't fair on John Sinclair, being in the stir for breathing air. (And, for possession of marijuana, as well, admittedly.) A disgruntled fan, Trevor Charles Howell, pushed Frank Zappa off the stage at London's Rainbow Theatre at the climax of a Mothers Of Invention gig, inflicting multiple injuries, ultimately leaving Frank in hospital with several fractures. Howell admitted that he was jealous, his girlfriend had recently admitted her infatuation with Zappa, which triggered the sudden burst of rage (and not, as widely reported at the time, that Zappa had done a cover of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'). The Murgatroyd Band's 'Magpie'/'Twice A Week', Zior's 'Cat's Eyes'/'I Really Do', The New Seekers' 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)'/'Boom Town', Ramases's 'Jesus Come Back'/'Hello Mister', Jackie Edwards' 'Johnny Gunman'/'Version', Jimmie Haskell's 'William Tell Overture'/'Zachariah (Main Title)', Three Dog Night's 'An Old Fashioned Love Song'/'Jam', Ayshea's 'An Old Fashioned Love Song'/'The Family Of Man', Funkadelic's 'Can You Get To That?'/'Back In Our Minds' and The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's 'The Onedin Line Theme'/'Sabre Dance' released. Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize in Physics 'for his invention and development of the holographic method.' Jesus Franco's Sie Tötete In Ekstase (She Killed In Ecstacy) - starring Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams and Ewa Strömberg and Carry On At Your Convenience - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Cope and Jacki Piper and Jesús Franco's She Killed In Ecstacty premiered.
Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway were among the guests on Cilla. Starting From Zero broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Jim Webb In Concert broadcast. Barbara Mullen featured on Desert Island Discs. Radio 3's Rock strand profiled Led Zeppelin. The Politics Of Conviviality and Sartre In 1971 broadcast. In the Second Round of the FA Cup three non-league team progressed - Boston United who beat Hartlepool two-one (John Froggatt scoring the winner), Blyth Spartans who defeated Stockport County with Alan Young netting the only goal and Hereford United who shared a goalless draw with Northampton Town. Barnet and South Shields looked like joining them but both were ultimately defeated after taking the lead though Colin Flatt against Torquay and Alan Bains veres Notts County respectively. Alan Wlesh scored three in Torquay's four-one victory whilst County won three-one. Rossendale United lost four-one at home to Bolton Wanderers (Roy Greaves scoring three). Wrexham beat Wigath Athletic four-nil and Peterborough united thumped Enfield by the same score. Phil Boyer and Ted MacDougall were on-target again as AFC Bournemouth beat Southend united two-nil. In the First Division, leaders Manchester United drew one-all at Stoke City. Derby County were defeated three-two at Liverpool (Jack Whitman scoring three), Manchester City beat Ipswich Town four-nil, Newcastle United won three-nil at West Bromwich Albion (Malcolm Macdoland scoring two and Viv Busby, signed on-loan from Luton Town, adding another on his debut) and Southampton and West Ham United drew three-all (featured on Match Of The Day). Hull City defeated Middlesbrough four-three in the Second Division. The UFO episode Sub-Smash broadcast on LWT.
Will The Real Mister Hogarth ...? broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Charlton Heston was the guest on Parkinson. Behind The Veil broadcast in The World About Us strand. Philip Saville's Secrets - starring Jacqueline Bisset, Per Oscarsson and Robert Powell - premiered.
Rodney Bennett's Farewell Performance broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Best Of Baxter broadcast. Franklin J Schaffner's Nicholas & Alexandra - starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier and Tom Baker - premiered. Rotherham United won three-two at York City in an FA Cup replay. The winner was scored by Trevor Womble. The Case Of Laker, Absconded broadcast in Thames' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes strand.
John La Rose, the distinguished Trinidadian poet and publisher, presented Viewpoint. Uriah Heep and Colin Blunstone featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Marmalde appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Facing defeat in the Indo-Pakistan-Bangladesh War, the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, most notably the extreme right-wing Islamist militia group Al-Badr, engaged in the systematic execution of Bengali pro-liberation intellectuals. Northampton Town and Hereford United drew again, two-two, in the FA Cup. Kingdom Of The Jungle and the first episode of Mike & Bernie broadcast on Thames. Though, sadly not the last.
The final episode of Star Trek, Turnabout Intruder, received its first UK broadcast. The three episodes which the BBC delined to show - because 'they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease' - would not be broadcast in the UK until 1992-93. Sports Review Of 1971 broadcast - Princess Anne won the Sports Personality Of The Year Award. Hyde Park broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Power Of The Witch broadcast on BBC2. Ralph McTell was in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. John Ritchie's goal and a stunning penalty save by Gordon Banks from Geoff Hurst earned Stoke City a replay against West Ham United in the League Cup Semi-Final second leg after a one-nil win at Upton Park. Tottenham Hotspur eased into the next round of the UEFA Cup, winning two-nil at Rapid Bucharest. Substitue Jimmy pearce scored one, had another disallowed and was then sent off for retaliation of the Rapid full-back Ion Pop, all inside ten minutes.
Top Of The Pops featured performances by Benny Hill, Elvis Presley, The Supremes & The Four Tops, Deep Purple, Jonathan King, Middle Of The Road - Soley Soley, New World, Shirley Bassey and T Rex. How Can A Prime Minister Just Vanish? broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The Pakistan Armed Forces surrendered to the Joint Forces, comprising the Mukti Bahini and the Indian Armed Forces, ending the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War. The Banking and Financial Dealings Act passed, updating the definition of bank holidays in the UK. Ken Russell's The Boy Friend - starring Twiggy, Christopher Gable and Max Adrian - premiered. Chelsea drew one-all at Coventry City in the First Division but lost kepper Peter Boneti to an ankle inujury. David Webb played in goal for the last hour of the match.
Jimmy Edwards featured on Ask Aspel. Ken Campbell Meets Kirkby broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Women's Lib broadcast. David Bowie's Hunky Dory - still this blogger's favourite LP of all time, Anita Harris' 'Genesis'/'Put On A Little Music' and Donnie Elbert's 'Where Did Our Love Go?'/'That's If You Love Me' released. Guy Hamilton's Diamonds Are Forever and Paul Newman's Sometimes A Great Notion premiered.
Around The World Under The Sea shown in The Saturday Film strand. King Bernadotte broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Gilbert O'Sullivan In Concert broadcast. Diamonds Are Forever, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory were among the movies reviewed on Film Night. A Touch Of Flu broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Derby County beat Everton two-nil in the First Division (Alan Hinton netting twice). Arsenal defeated bottom-to-the-table West Bromwich Albion two-nil (on Match Of The Day), Newcastle United won one-nil at West Ham (Viv Busby scoring his second in two games) and Crystal Palace and Leeds United drew one-all. Stan Bowles scored a hat-trick as Carlisle united beat Second Division leaders Norwich City. Millwall missed a chance to close the gap, drawing three-three at Sunderland. All three of the Third Division's leading sides won (AFC Bournemouth three-one against Halifax Town, Aston Villa three-two versus Bolton Wanderers and Notts County three-nil over Walsall). Roy Boulting's Mister Forbush & The Penguins - starring John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton and Thorley Walters - premiered. The UFO episode The Computer Affair broadcast on LWT.
The Cherry Orchard broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Somewhere A Voice Is Calling broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Christmas Story broadcast in the Music On 2 strand. Fielder Cook's The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - starring Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas and Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange - starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive and Miriam Karlin premiered in New York. Viddy well, droogies.
Sounds Of Christmas broadcast. The Periscope War broadcast in the Horzion strand. Footprints broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in New York in an attempt to patch-up their fractured relationship. Throughout 1971, the duo had vented their fury at each other through their music ('Too Many People' and 'How Do You Sleep?' most obviously). In November, Paul had been interviewed by Melody Maker and said 'I just want the four of us to get together somewhere and sign a piece of paper saying it's all over. But John won't do it.' Lennon replied, venomously, two weeks later with a letter published in the same magazine. The attempted detante appeared to have been mostly successful and, for the rest of Lennon's life, he and McCartney remained on reasonable - if occasionally frosty - terms. They met infrequently (and jammed together only once, in Los Angeles in 1974 during Lennon's infamous 'lost weekend' period), but they talked on the phone every few months and at least stopped calling each other names in public. Roman Polanski's blood-soaked adaptation of Macbeth - starring Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler and Keith Chegwin - premiered. Dudley Tyler scored an extra-time winner as Hereford United defeated Northampton Town at the third attempt, two-one, at The Hawthorns in the FA Cup. IOt was Hereford's second success in the competition against Northampton in successive seasons.
Jerusalem International broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Jumbo In The Outback broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Alexis Korner and Gerry Rafferty featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Brinsley Schwarz appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends - starring Dyan Cannon and James Coco and Delbert Mann's adaptation of Kidnapped - starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence - premiered.
The Great Exodus broadcast. Chelsea beat Tottneham Hotspur three-two in the League Cup Semi-Final first leg, Chris Garland scoring and equaliser and John Hollins netting a penalty in the last ten minutes after Spurs had led. Arsenal signed World Cup winner Alan Ball from Everton for a British transfer record, two hundred and twenty thousand quid. Some Of Our Best Friends Are Foreigners broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Reindeer Man broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Curtis Harrington's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - starring Shelley Winters and Mark Lester, Delbert Mann's adaptation of Kidnapped - starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence and Charles Jarrott's Mary, Queen Of Scots - starring Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard and Ian Holm - premiered.
John Noakes and Peter Purvis visited Bavaria and explored the fairytale town of Nuremberg on Blue Peter. Une Parisienne shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Don Siegel's Dirty Harry - starring Clint Eastwood and Andy Robinson - premiered.
The first A Ghost Story For Christmas - an adaptation of The Stalls Of Barchester - broadcast. Tomorrow's World Visits Yesterday's World broadcast. Alan Bennett, Keith Dewhurst, Eric Porter and Dorothy Tutin featured on BBC2's Review. LANSA Flight 508 crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru, killing ninety of the ninety one people aboard. A seventeen-year-old girl, Juliane Koepcke, survived, falling into the Amazon rainforest strapped to her seat and walking through the jungle for ten days until rescued by local lumbermen. Those killed in the crash included Juliane's mother, the noted ornithologist Maria Koepcke. Hayley Mills appeared on Radio 2's Be My Guest. Great God Of Galaxies broadcast on Radio 3.
Hugh Whitemore's adaptation of Cider With Rosie and I Can See It All: Or The Grand Illusion broadcast on BBC2. Ronnie Taylor's production of Aladdin - starring Cilla Black - broadcast. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker hosted Christmas Night With The Stars. Andrew Preview, Glenda Jackson and Shirley Bassey guested on The Morecambe & Wise Show. Sir Noël Coward, Petula Clark, Robert Morley, Kenneth Williams, Orson Welles, Liberace, Rex Harrison, Edward G Robinson, Debbie Reynolds and Morecambe and Wise featured on Radio 2's Pete's Christmas Stars. David Frost featured on Desert Island Discs. Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong born in London. All Star Comedy Carnival broadcast on LWT, featuring mini episodes of Doctors At Large, The Lovers, ... And Mother Makes Three, His & Hers, Please Sir!, The Fenn Street Gang, Girls About Town, Dear Mother ... Love Albert!, Sez Les, Lollipop Loves Mister Mole and Father, Dear Father.
Wildlife Spectacular - introduced by Peter Cushing and David Bellamy - broadcast. The Life & Death Of The Scharnhorst broadcast. Bird's-Eye View: Switzerland broadcast on BBC2.
Rod Stewart & The Faces performed 'Maggie May' on the Christmas Top Of The Pops - Rod, Ronnie Wood and Ronnie Lane memralby had a kick-about with a football during the closing seconds. The mandolin part - played on the record by Lindisfarne's Ray Jackson - was mimed by The Faces' friend John Peel (still, unofficially, banned from presenting the programme over the 1968 'forgetting the name of Amen Corner' incident). On the same show, T Rex performed 'Get It On' with Elton John guesting on piano. A Wen broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Joni Mitchell, Pentangle and John Martyn featured on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies: Bob Harris. The highlight of the Bank Holiday First Division programme was Leeds United's three-nil victory over Derby County. With both Peter Bonetti and John Phillips injured and Steve Sherwood stuck on the motorway en route to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea were forced to play centre-half David Webb in goal against Ipswich Town. Chelsea still won two-nil. Newcastle uNited lost two-one at home to Sheffield United - this blogger missed the game as he buying Motown Chartbusters Volume 3 at JG Windows at the time. And, his life was never the same again. Manchester City closed the gap at the top of the league to three points after they won three-one at Stoke City whilst United were drawing two-all with Coventyr city at Old Trafford. Millwall beat Fulham four-one in the Second Division. Another Edward Woodward Hour broadcast on Thames.
Paul Gallico's adaptation of The Snow Goose - with Jenny Agutter - and Private Eye TV broadcast on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of what was to become a British Christmas tradition over the next few years The Great Escape on BBC1. The Dæmons became the first Doctor Who serial to be rebroadcast in omnibus form. The broadcast attracted ten-and-a-half million viewers, the popular long-running family SF drama's highest rating since 1965. Family featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Poetry Of The Night - in which John Ebdon, Director of the London Planetarium, looked at the stars through the eyes of poets, writers and musicians to whom they have given inspiration - broadcast on Radio 4. Uruguay's Club Nacional De Football beat Panathinaikos three-two on aggregate in the Intercontinental Cup. The European Cup winners Ajax Amsterdam declined to participate following the violent clashes which marred the 1967, 1968 and 1969 finals.
Soper At Large In The Cairngorms, David Attenborough's A Blank On The Map and The Golden Years Of Alexander Korda broadcast. Zzonk!! Eeeeefnu - Uurgh! Splatt! - The World Of Children's Comics broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Van Der Graaf Generator were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. An adaptation on Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The first UK broadcast of The Dean Martin Show With Frank Sinatra. The Eccentrics broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The UK première of Diamonds Are Forever. The Electronic Tunesmiths, George Lucie's documentary on the output of the Radiophonic's Workshop broadcast on Radio 4. A 'prohibition' law is introudced by Manchester Trasport Police. Fans boarding trains to London, where United are due to meet West ham on New Year's Day, will be 'frisked'.
The Story Of The Silver Skates, Tom Jones Up Close and Top Of The Year broadcast. How To Talk Dirty & Influence People broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode Gender Education broadcast. The Manchurian Candidate shown on BBC2. Pete Duel, the American actor best known for Alias Smith & Jones, shot himself at his home in Glen Green, Hollywood. According to police, Duel's friends and family said he was depressed about his drinking problem.