1974

1974
George Best played his final game for Manchester United, a three-nil defeat at Queens Park Rangers. He failed to turn up for training three days later and was dropped by Tommy Docherty, though he subsequently claimed Docherty has been deceitful with him. New Year's Day was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time. Alpha Beta broadcast on BBC2.
Roy Boulting's Soft Beds, Hard Battles - starring Peter Sellers, Curd Jurgens and Lila Kedrova - premiered. Richie Havens In Concert broadcast on BBC2. The World At War: Stalingrad broadcast on ITV.
The first episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum broadcast. Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson were placed on the transfer list at Chelsea and told to train with the reserves. Peter Curran's The Cherry Pickers - starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Terry-Thomas, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Spike Milligan - premiered.
John Sturges's McQ - starring John Wayne - premiered. The Camera & The Song My Green Valley broadcast on BBC2. Ted Bundy entered the basement apartment of eighteen-year-old Karen Sparks, a dancer and student at the Univeristy of Washington. After bludgeoning Sparks senseless with a metal rod from her bedframe, Bundy sexually assaulted her with either the same rod or a metal speculum, causing extensive internal injuries. She remained unconscious for ten days, but survived with permanent physical and mental disabilities. This was the first confirmed attack by Bundy although there remained no consensus as to when or where he began his assaults on women. He told different stories to different people and refused to divulge the specifics of his earliest crimes, even as he confessed - in graphic detail - to dozens of later murders in the days preceding his 1989 execution for his extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile crimes. The first episode of Within These Walls broadcast on LWT. Yes's 'And You & I'/'Roundabout', Alice Cooper's 'Teenage Lament Seventy Four'/'Hard Hearted Alice', Geoff Love & His Orchestra's 'Match Of The Day'/'Bless This House', Anne Karine's 'The First Day Of Love'/'Harmony' and Mud's 'Tiger Feet'/'Mister Bagatelle' released.
BBC2's Second House featured a studio performance of Mike Oldfield's hippy drivel Tubular Bells. The Goodies episode Goodies In The Nick broadcast. The British Army carried out Operation Marmion, the occupation of Heathrow Airport, as a supposed training exercise for a possible terrorist incident at the terminal. It, allegedly, took place without the Prime Minister's foreknowledge. The operation was repeated on three further occasions in June, July and September. These military deployments were perceived by some as a practice-run for a potential military coup and, it has been claimed, were part of Clockwork Orange, a secret security services project which was alleged to have involved a right-wing smear campaign against British politicians from 1974 to 1975. The black propaganda led Harold Wilson to fear that elements of MI5 were preparing a coup d'état. Although there is some circumstantial evidence to support the claims, they have never been conclusively proven. Lindisfarne appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.

Alan Plater's The Needle Match broadcast as part of BBC2's Sporting Scenes strand. The first UK TV showing of How To Murder Your Wife. Sandy Denny featured on John Peel's Sounds On Sunday.
The first episode of Tom's Midnight Garden broadcast. A Matter Of Self Defence broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The first episode of Wish You Were Here ...? broadcast on Thames. The World In Action episode The Morning After followed a group of people from different walks of life as they coped (or, failed to cope) with the power cuts, resulting in The Three Day Week and spiraling vehicle fuel prices resulting from petroleum shortages.
Diana You Can't Go Back broadcast. The Haunting broadcast on BBC2.
Having drawn at St James' Park four days earlier, Isthmian League Hendon took on Newcastle United at Watford in an FA Cup Third Round replay. Hoping for another Hereford-style shock, the BBC sent their camera along to the afternoon kick-off and were, no doubt, disappointed as United won easily, four-nil. Hereford, meanwhile, were up to their old tricks again, beating West Ham two-one at Edgar Street. Other potential shocks were avoided by Derby County, who beat Boston United six-nil and Liverpool who overcame Doncaster Rovers two-nil. Holders Sunderland lost at home to Carlisle United. The Great Oil Rush broadcast in BBC2's Midweek strand. The World At War: Wolfpack broadcast on ITV.
Golden Earring appeared on Top Of The Pops performing 'Radar Love'. The first episode of Use Your Head broadcast on BBC2.
The Sweet's 'Teenage Rampage'/'Own Up, Take A Look At Yourself', Lulu's magnificent cover of 'The Man Who Sold The World'/'Watch That Man', Electric Light Orchestra's 'Ma-Ma-Ma Belle'/'Oh No Not Susan', 10CC's 'The Worst Band In The World'/'Eighteen Carat Man Of Means', Joni Mitchell's 'Raised On Robbery'/'Court & Spark', Paper Lace's 'Billy - Don't Be A Hero'/'Celia', Barry White's 'Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up'/'Standing In The Shadows Of Love', Cleo Laine's 'That's How Heartaches Are Made'/'Friendly Persuasion', Tom Green's 'Rock Springs Railroad Station'/'Endless Confusion' and Mud's 'Tiger Feet'/'Mister Bagatelle' released. David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz were born in Cape Town, the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived.
My Soul broadcast on BBC2. The Goodies episode The Race broadcast.On Stage Jimmy Logan brodcast on BBC Scotland whilst the rest of the UK got Match Of The Day instead.
Richard Harris's When The Boys Come Out To Play broadcast as part of BBC2's Sporting Scenes strand. The first episode of Death Or Glory Boy broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of You & Me broadcast. The World In Action episode Hotting Up & Slowing Down broadcast.
You Want It We've Got It broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first UK broadcast of Dorothy & Her Parrot. The US sitcom Happy Days debuted on ABC.
On Tour With The Osmonds broadcast. In Whose Interest? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The World At War: Red Star and the first episode of Hold The front Page broadcast on ITV.
Two commercial divers, Pier Skipness and Robert John Smyth, died from rapid decompression and drowning in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea after their diving bell abruptly surfaced from a depth of three hundred and twenty feet. Show Of The Week: The Vera Lynn Show broadcas on BBC2. Peter Curran's The Cherry Picker - starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton - premiered.
The first episode of Perils Of Pendragon broadcast on BBC2. Hudson Ford's 'Burn, Baby, Burn'/'Angels', The Sapphires' 'The Slow Fizz'/'Our Love Is Everywhere' and Paddy Kingsland's 'Spinball'/'Wobulator Rock' released.
The first episode of The Pallisers broadcast on BBC2. Alan Hudson joined Stoke City from Chelsea for two hundred and forty thousand pounds.
The first episode of John Halifax, Gentleman broadcast. The Changeling broadcast as part of the Play Of The Month strand. Strange Creatures Of The Night broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Any Old Port In A Storm on LWT.
Harold Pinter's Butley - starring Alan Bates and Jessica Tandy - premiered. Never Too Late To Learn broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Centre Point broadcast.
The Opening Ceremony Of The Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, broadcast. The Berwyn Mountain UFO incident (the so-called 'Welsh Roswell') occurred. The World At War: Whirlwind broadcast on ITV.
Television Club broadcast. Show Of The Week: Dave Allen Once Again broadcast on BBC2. Jack The Lad were in session on The John Peel Show.
Genesis's 'I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)'/Twilight Alehouse', Brenda & The Tabulations' 'Walk On In'/'I'm In Love' and The Hollies' 'The Air That I Breathe'/'No More Riders' released. George Best retired from football again, saying: 'If I can't get into a struggling team like Manchester United, it's time to quit.' Well, quite. Newcastle United signed Alex Bruce from Preston North End for one hundred and fifty thousand knicker.
In the FA Cup Fourth Round, Newcastle United were seven minutes away from being knocked out at home to Fourth Division Scunthorpe but were saved by a goal from Terry McDermott. United won the subsequent replay three-nil. Manchester United lost at home to Ipswich Town. Terry Cooper played for Leeds United for the first time since breaking his leg in April 1972 in their four-one win at Peterborough. To Be Young, Gifted & Black broadcast on BBC2. Cockney Rebel featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The UK TV debut of Can on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Stoke City won one-nil at Chelsea in the first top flight game played on a Sunday. Geoff Hurst scored the winner from the penalty spot. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Candidate For Crime on LWT.
The first episode of the superb Carrie's War broadcast. Marc Bolan & T-Rex's 'Teenage Dream'/'Satisfaction Pony' and Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Jet'/'Mamunia' released. Nixon campaign aide Bart Porter pleaded extremely guilty to perjury having previously lied to a grand jury at the urging of his boss, Jeb Magruder. The World In Action episode Mister & Mrs Olley Learn The Facts Of Life broadcast.
The San Francisco Chronicle received a - subsequently authenticated - letter from The Zodiac Killer, praising The Exorcist as 'the best saterical comidy [sic] that I have ever seen.'
The USSR performed a nuclear test at Semipalitinsk. The first UK TV showing of Work Is A Four Letter Word on BBC2's Midweek Movie strand. The World At War: Tough Old Gut broadcast on ITV. Sarah Caroline Colman born in Norwich.
Trevor Griffiths's All Good Men broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand.
Marc Bolan & T-Rex's Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow - A Creamed Cage In August, The Four Tops' 'I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Mind'/'Am I My Brother's Keeper?' and Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets released. The serial killer Ted Bundy broke into the basement room of Lynda Ann Healy, a University of Washington undergraduate who broadcast morning radio weather reports for skiers. He beat her unconscious, dressed her and carried her away. Bundy's first confirmed murder victim, Healy's skull and mandible were recovered from a site on Taylor Mountain the following year along with the remains of three of Bundy's subsequent victims.
Ipswich Town thrashed Southampton seven-nil at Portman Road in the biggest win of the First Division season. A Future For The Past broadcast on BBC2. The Electric Light Orchestra featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
On the second day of the first test at the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad, the West Indies had cruised to a first innings lead, thanks mainly to one hundred and forty two from Alvin Kallicharran. With four wickets still in hand, the home team was in a dominant position when the last ball of the day was bowled by Derek Underwood to Bernard Julien, who blocked it past Tony Greig (fielding close on the off-side) and then headed off to the pavilion with Kallicharran. However, Greig - not realising it was the final ball of the day - fielded the ball, threw down the stumps and appealed for a run out against Kallicharran. Umpire Douglas Sang Hue gave the batsman out and a near-riot broke out in the crowd. Technically, the decision was correct as Sang Hue had not called time but Greig's actions were considered unsporting and, together with the crowd's reaction, the England captain Mike Denness withdrew the appeal. Kallicharran was reinstated the following day, when he took his score to one hundred and fifty eight. Despite a heroic century by Dennis Amiss, West Indies won the match by seven wickets.
The heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the 'urban guerrilla' Symbionese Liberation Army. Eight soldiers and four civilians were killed by the Provisional IRA in the M62 coach bombing. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial The Blue & The Green and the World In Action episode Flying Pickets broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Suspected Person: Hold Up. Mud & Water Man broadcast on BBC2.
The Last Lighthouse broadcast. John Boorman's shit-weird Zardoz - starring Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman and John Alderton - premiered. The World At War: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow broadcast on ITV.
The Prime Minister called a General Erection for 28 February in an attempt to end the dispute over the miners' strike. During the campaign, the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress agreed a 'Social Contract' intended to produce wage restraint. Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles premiered. Neil Innes was in session on The John Peel Show. Norwich City's manager John Bond signed Phil Boyer from AFC Bournemouth for one hundred and fifty thousand smackers, reuniting Boyer with Ted MacDougall in striking partnership which had already worked at Bournemouth and York City.
Jacob Bronowski was interviewed on Parkinson. After a record eighty four days in orbit, the crew of Skylab Four returned to Earth. Ringo Starr's 'You're Sixteen'/'Devil Woman', Sons Of Robin Stone's 'Got To Get You Back'/'Love Is Just Around The Corner', Steeleye Span's 'Thomas The Rhymer'/'The Mooncoin Jig', Carpenters' 'Jambalaya (On The Bayou)'/'Mister Guder' and Roy Harper's '(Don't You Think We're) Forever'/'Male Chauvinist Pig Blues' released.
Highlights of the first test were - finally - broadcast on Grandstand. The Gondoliers broadcast on BBC2.
Suzi Quatro's 'Devil Gate Drive' released. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Double Exposure on LWT.
Joe Meets His Match broadcast. The Writing On The Wall broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode A Political Journey Part One broadcast.
The first episode of Bagpuss broadcast. The Pointer Sisters In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Can and Richard and Linda Thompson were both in session on The John Peel Show.
Helen Cresswell's adaptation of Dick Wittington broadcast. The first UK TV showing of What's So Bad About Feeling Good? on BBC2's Midweek Movie strand. The World At War: Home Fires broadcast on ITV.
Dennis Potter's Joe's Ark broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Everton signed Bob Latchford from Birmingham City for a British transfer record three hundred and fifty thousand quid fee (the deal involved a payment of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds to The Blues plus Howard Kendall and Archie Styles moving to St Andrews'). Pasquale Festa Campanile's La Sculacciata - starring Sydne Rome and Antonio Salines - premiered. Mike Hart's 'Son, Son'/'Bad News Man' released.
Arthur Hopcraft's Humbug, Finger Or Thumb? broadcast as part of BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Davie Bowie's 'Rebel Rebel'/'Queen Bitch' and Redbone's 'We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee'/'Speakeasy' released. Some months later the single was bought for this blogger as a birthday present by his uncle and aunt. Whom, one has to assume, had absolutely no idea what 'cue-lines and a handful of 'luudes' was a reference to. Slade's Old, New, Borrowed & Blue and The Tony Hatch Orchestra's 'The World At War'/'Sportsnight' released.

This blogger attended his first away football match, travelling with his dad (and about ten thousand others) on the train to watch his beloved Magpies take on West Bromwich Albion in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup. With Jinky Jim Smith and Tommy Cassidy in outstanding form, Malcolm Macdonald, Stewie Barrowclough and Hallelujah John Tudor scored in United's three-nil win, broadcast on Match Of the Day. It was just like watching Brazil (literally, in the case of the away strip United wore). It also meant this blogger missed the final episode of Invasion Of The Dinosaurs. So, no great loss there. Saturday Request: Neil Sedaka broadcast on BBC2. Norifumi Suzuki's Seijû Gakuen - starring Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi, Yayoi Watanabe, Hisako Kitano and Emi Jô - premiered.
The first episode of The Sunday Debate broadcast.
Shadow Chancellor Dennis Healey, in a speech in Lincoln, said that a future Labour government intended to 'squeeze property speculators until their pips squeak'. The first UK broadcast of The Waltons on BBC2. Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Jet'/'Let Me Roll It' released. The World In Action episode A Political Journey Part Two broadcast.
In the shock of the FA Cup Fifth Round, First Division champions-elect Leeds United lost at home to Second Division Bristol City in a replay following a one-all draw at Ashton Gate. Stan Bowles' last minute free-kick gave Queens Park Rangers a three-two win over Coventry City. The first episode of The Great Match broadcast on BBC2.
Tangerine Dream's Phaedra released. The World At War: Inside The Reich broadcast on ITV.
George Best was arrested and charged with stealing a fur coat, passport and cheque book from the American beauty queen Marjorie Wallace, but was eventually cleared of all charges. The second test at Kingston ended in a draw. Lawrence Rowe's century had given West Indies a first innings load of over two hundred. Dennis Amiss scored an undefeated two hundred and sixty two to save the game for England.
Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind'/'Bennie & The Jets', Argent's 'Thunder & Lightning'/'Keeper Of The Flame' and Jigsaw's 'I've Seen The Film, I've Read The Book'/'Mention My Name' released. James Robson's Girl broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand featuring what is believed to be the first gay kiss on British TV (between Alison Steadman and Myra Frances). Derby County signed Bruce Rioch from Aston Villa for tw hundred thousand quid.
After beginning the season with a twenty nine-game unbeaten run, Leeds United finally suffered a league defeat when they were beaten three-two by Stoke City. However, they remained eight points clear of Liverpool, who had, themselves, moved six points ahead of third-placed Derby County. Kevin Connor's From Beyond The Grace - starring Peter Cushing, Donald and Angela Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Nyree Dawn Porter, David Warner, Ian Ogilvy, Ian Carmichael and Lesley-Anne Down as - premiered.
The first episode of The Fortunes Of Nigel broadcast. BBC2's - gloriously misnamed - Top American Stars featured Tony Orlando and Dawn.
President Nixon's personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal campaign activities. Midweek Special and Erection 74 broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Zodiac - Death Of A Crab - broadcast on LWT. The Edgar Winter Group's 'Hangin' Around'/'We All Had A Real Good Time', Hot Chocolate's 'Emma'/'Makin' Music' and Queen's 'Seven Seas Of Rhye'/'See What A Fool I've Been' released. The World In Action episode A Political Journey Part Three broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Getting Away From It All.
King Thrushbread & The Proud Princess broadcast. Enoch Powell, the controversial - sickeningly despicable racist and extremey punchable - Conservative MP, announced his resignation from the party in protest against Edward Heath's decision to take Britain into the EEC and advised his followers to vote Labour in the forthcoming General Erection. When one Tory shouted 'Judas' during Powell's speech, he angrily responded 'Judas was paid, I am making a sacrifice.' And, speaking of Nazi scum, The World At War: Morning broadcast on ITV.
The first General Erection of 1974. It ended in a well-hung draw. The Tories had two hundred and ninety seven seats, four fewer than Labour, though they did - narrowly - gain the largest number of votes. Ted Heath stated that he hoped to form a coalition with the Liberals in order to cling to power by his fingernails. The Mystery Of The Tubantia's Sunken Gold broadcast on BBC2.
The General Erection coverage went on. And on. And on. The Rubettes' 'Sugar Baby Love'/'You Could Have Told Me', The Black Douglas's 'Scotland'/'The Sky Is Bluer In Scotland', Fable's 'Madolin'/'Thick As A Plank', Supertramp's 'Land Ho'/'Summer Romance', NQB's 'Long Long Weekend'/'Free The People' and The Alan Tew Orchestra's 'Flamingo'/'I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)' released. In an indictment against seven former presidential aides, delivered to Judge Sirica together with a sealed briefcase intended for the House Committee on the Judiciary, President Nixon was named by the grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator. Eagles In Exile broadcast on BBC2.
Goals from Kenny Hibbitt and John Richards gave Wolverhampton Wanderers a two-one victory over Manchester City in the League Cup Final at Wembley. Common's Luck broadcast in BBC2's Second Housestrand. Can and Kevin Coyne featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of Bedtime Stories broadcast on BBC2. Omnibus featured a profile of Claire Bloom.
Prime Minister Edward Heath resigned shortly after the Liberals rejected his coalition terms, allowing Harold Wilson to return to Downing Street as leader of a Labour minority government. The Watergate Seven (John Mitchell, Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, Gordon Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson) were formally indicted. The World In Action episode The Others broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Brian's Song. The Lady From The Sea broadcast on BBC2. Eno & The Winkies were in session on The John Peel Show. The first episode of Napoleon & Love broadcast on Thames.
The miners' strike came to an end due an improved pay offer by the new Labour government. Billy Preston In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
Brian Clark and Ronnie King's Easy Go broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The Three-Day Week ended. Billy Cole's 'Extra Careful'/'Bump All Night' released.
Mungo Jerry's 'Long-Legged Woman Dressed In Black'/'Gonna Bop 'Till I Drop', Olivia Newton-John's 'Long Live Love'/'Angel Eyes' and Ireen Sheer's 'Bye Bye I Love You'/'Roseberry Avenue', The Queens Park Rangers Football Club's 'Give 'Em The Ol' One Two'/'Goal', Terry Venables' 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?'/'Lucy', Don Downing's 'Dream World'/'The Miracle' and Queen II released. Just like their debut, the latter was turgid, pompous, slappable rubbish. Charles de Gaulle Airport opened in Paris. The final episode of the American sitcom The Brady Bunch was broadcast.

With half-an-hour to go in the Sixth Round FA Cup tie, Newcastle United were losing three-one to Nottingham Forest and the referee, Gordon Kew, had just sent off Pat Howard (for nowt). At which point, about three hundred boys ran on the pitch, along with four older blokes (led by one Lenny Conroy, who took about five law to bring him down and ended up doing six months in stir). On the resumption, Terry McDermott, Hallelujah John Tudor and Bob Moncur scored in a remarkable comeback. Which was, instantly, annulled by the scum at the Football Association. Nevertheless, United did eventually progress to the semi-final ten days later after winning a second replay at Goodison Park. Elsewhere, Liverpool won at Bristol City, Burnley beat Wrexham and Leicester City beat Queens Park Rangers with two goals from debutant John Waters. The first UK broadcast of The Andersonville Trial on BBC2.
Jerome Courtland's Diamonds On Wheels - starring Peter Firth, Patrick Allen, George Sewell and Barry Jackson - premiered.
As part of Nationwide, Scene Around Six asked members of the public their views on streaking. Cockney Rebel's 'Judy Teen'/'Spaced Out' and Chic Murray & The Scotstars' 'It's A' Scotland'/'We'll Have A Go' released. Convicted armed robbers Kenneth Littlejohn and his brother, Keith, who claimed to be British spies in the Republic of Ireland, escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. Kenneth Littlejohn was recaptured, in his underpants at gunpoint, by West Midlands Police detectives at the home of his friend Thomas Watt in December 1974. Watt himself was arrested later that afternoon, but claimed he was released, on Detective Superintendent Pat Cooney's orders, as he could not be prosecuted because Littlejohn's crime was committed outside of the UK. The third test at Bridgetown ended in a draw. Tony Greig and Keith Fletcher scored centuries for England whilst Lawrence Rowe scored three hundred and two in West Indies total of five hundred and ninety six for eight. Greig took six wickets. Andy Roberts made his debut for the hosts. Manchester City signed Dennis Tueart and Mick Horswill from Sunderland for a cmbined fee of three hundreed and fifty thousand knicker. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial A Rift In Time and the World In Action episode The Trial Of PC Williams broadcast on Thames.
Donna Gail Manson, a nineteen-year-old student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, sixty miles from Seattle, left her dormitory to attend a jazz concert on campus, but never arrived. The serial killer Ted Bundy subsequently confessed to her murder though her remains were never found. Chick Corea featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
John Conteh retained his European light-heavyweight title, beating Denmark's Tom Bogs in six rounds. Jimmy Cliff In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead broadcast in the Playhouse strand. The World At War: Occupation broadcast on ITV.
John Arlott's Arlott's Innings broadcast. Bobby Moore was transferred from West Ham United to Fulham. Bob Kellett's Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! - starring Brian Rix, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Joanna Lumley and Katy Manning - premiered. Manchester United signed Jim McCalliog from Wolverhampton Wanderers for sixty thousand notes and Tony Towers moved from Manchester City to Sunderland for one hundred and twenty five grand.
The first episode of Fall Of Eagles broadcast. Mott The Hoople's 'The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll'/'Rest In Peace', The O'Jays' 'For The Love Of Money'/'People Keep Telling Me', The Glitter Band's 'Angel Face'/'You Wouldn't Leave Me Would You?', The Three Degrees' 'Year Of Decision'/'A Woman Needs A Good Man', Etta Thomas' 'Just Ask Me'/'Ninety Nine Ways', Sydney Devine's 'Oor Wee Willie'/'On Our Way To Munich', Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me'/'Just Like This Train' and Tina's 'Cross Your Heart'/'What Would I Be?' released. Architect John Poulson was jailed for five years for corruption. Swindon Town signed Peter Eastoe from Wolverhampton Wanders for seventy thousand quid, Bobby Moore moved from West Ham United to Fulham for twenty five thousand knicker and Peter Osgood signed for Southampton from Chelsea for two hundred and seventy five grand. The first episode of Not On Your Nellie broadcast on London Weekend.
Bottom Of The Bottle shown in The Saturday Thriller strand. The Hellfire Club shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Who Killed Lamb? broadcast on LWT.
The first UK broadcast of The Satan Bug on BBC2. The Deep Blue Sea broadcast in the lay Of The Month strand. Stevie Wonder appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Five-months of oil embargo by most OPEC nations against the United States, Europe and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis ended. Neville Smith's Match Of The Day broadcast in the Second City Firsts strand. Jimmy James & The Vagabonds' 'Marble & Iron'/'I Ain't Lying' released. The World In Action episode A Bad Week For Spectators broadcast.
Stephen Weeks's Ghost Story - starring Anthony Bate, Larry Dann, Marianne Faithfull, Sally Grace, Vivian MacKerrell and Penelope Keith - premiered. Sassafras (no, me neither) appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Ian Ball made an armed attempt to kidnapped Princess Anne and Mark Phillips. But failed, miserably. The Peter Principle and Electric Folk With Steeleye Span broadcast on BBC2. The World At War: Pincers broadcast on ITV.
David Rudkin's memorable Penda's Fen was broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Show Of The Week: Harry & Harry broadcast on BBC2.
The first UK TV showing of The Sheepman in The Friday Western strand. Big Jim Stafford's 'Spiders & Snakes'/'Undecided', Orient FC's 'Football, Football'/'We The Kings Of Orient', Gary Glitter's 'Remember Me This Way'/'It's Not A Lot (But It's All I Got)', Ecstasy, Passion & Pain's 'I Wouldn't Give You Up'/'Don't Burn Your Bridges Behind You', The Armada Orchestra's 'Do Me Right'/'Won't You Consider?' and The Scotland World Cup Squad's 'Easy, Easy'/'Scotland, Scotland' released.
The first UK TV showing of Midnight Lace in The Saturday Thriller strand. Monty Python Live At Drury Lane recorded at The Theatre Royal on the final night of their four week residency at the theatre. 'Rastus Odinga-Odinga has taken Wolverhampton South West, that's Enoch Powell's old constituency; an important gain for Darkie Power, there!' The recording also contained the audience's considerable amusement at a reference to Eric Idle's appearances in contemporary adverts for the Breakaway chocolate bar during the Nudge Nudge sequence.
John Boorman was profiled in the Omnibus strand. Nigel Kneale'sadaptation of Jack & The Beanstalk broadcast in BBC2's Bedtime Stories strand. Jeremy Thorpe MP featured on Radio 1's Speak-Easy. The first episode of Boy Dominic and the first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Lovely But Lethal on LWT. Emma Handy born in London.
Bonny!: The Ghost Of Ballikillern broadcast. Lunch Duty broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand.
The Raid On St Nazaire broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Barry Norman previewed Papillon and Mean Streets on Film 74. The first episode of BBC2's Where We Live broadcast.
The rain-affected fourth test at Georgetown ended in a draw. The highlight of the match was Tony Greig's second century in consecutive tests. Derek Ford's Keep It Up, Jack! - starring Mark Jones, Sue Longhurst and Linda Regan - premiered. Scotland lost two-one to West Germany in a friendly international in Frankfurt. Paul Breitner and Jurgen Grabowski scored for the hosts, Kenny Dalglish netting Scotland's consolation goal. Dundee duo Thomson Allan and Bobby Robinson, Hibernian's Erich Schaedler and Birmingham City's Kenny Burns made their Scotland debuts. The World At War: Genocide broadcast on ITV.
Chris Dunkley interviewed Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on BBC2's Real Time. Michael Sadler's Pidgeon - Hawk Or Dove? broadcast in the Play For Today strand.
Mott The Hoople's The Hoople, The Bee Gees' 'Mister Natural'/'It Doesn't Matter Much To Me', Slade's 'Everyday'/'Good Time Gals', Mouth & McNeal's 'I See A Star'/'My Friend', Dani's 'La Vie A 25 Ans'/'Pour Que Ca Dure', Moon Williams' 'Excuse Me (For The Strange Things I Do)'/'Can't Live Without You', MFSB Featuring The Three Degrees' 'TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)'/'Something For Nothing' and Peret's 'Canta Y Se Feliz'/'Tocale Las Palmas' released. The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang was discovered at Xi'an, China. The Volkswagen Golf was launched, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which was expected to replace the Volkswagen Beetle. Jack Clayton's The Great Gatsby and Erwin C Dietrich's Der Teufel In Miss Jonas - starring Christa Free, Marianne Dupont and Herbert Fux - premiered.
Malcolm Macdonald scored twice as Newcastle United reached the FA Cup final for the first time in nineteen years, beating Burnley in a classic at Hillsborough. Leeds United lost three-one at West Ham United, their third league defeat in a row. Les Dawson appeared as his hero, WC Fields, in BBC2's Second House. Procol Harum featured on Radio 1's In Concert. John Berry's Claudine - starring Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Tamu Blackwell - premiered.
Olivia NewtonJohn appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Andre Previn Asks 'What Price A Symphony?' broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Featuring Mister Andrew Preview, obviously. Louis Marks' adaptation of Hansel & Gretal broadcast in BBC2's Bedtime Stories strand.
Stevie Wonder's 'He's Misstra Know-It-All' released. The Local Government Act came into effect in England and Wales, creating six new metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map. Poogy's 'She Looked Me In The Eye (I Gave Her My Life)'/'Morris & His Turtle' released. The World In Action episode The Strange Story Of Kevin Kavanagh broadcast. The Curse of Frankenstein shown in Thames' The X Film strand.
The Best Of Times ... The Worst Of Times broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. BBC2's Europa focused on the tax havens of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
The first episode of The Family broadcast on BBC1. Shoulder To Shoulder began on BBC2. Liverpool beat Leicester City three-one in the FA Cup semi-final replay. A mich-changed England side drew nil-nil with Portugal in a friendly international in Lisbon in what proved to be Sir Alf Ramsey's final game in charge of the national side. West Ham United's Trevor Brooking, Stoke City's Mike Pejic, Sunderland's Dave Watson, Burnley's Martin Dobson and the Queens Park Rangers duo of Phil Parkes and Stan Bowels all made their international debuts. The World At War: Nemesis broadcast on ITV.
The first UK broadcast of Seven Little Australians. Tony Greig took thirteen wickets in the match and Geoff Boycott scored ninety nine and one hundred and twelve as England won the fifth test in Trinidad against the West Indies by twenty six runs to square the series. For the West Indies, Lawrence Rowe scored his third century of the series and Gary Sobers played in his final test. Lindisfarne were in session on The John Peel Show ('No Need To Tell Me', 'Taking Care Of Business', 'In Your Head', 'North Country Boy'). Ken Russell's Mahler - starring Robert Powell, Georgina Hale and Lee Montague - premiered.
Mud's 'The Cat Crept In'/'Morning', ABBA's 'Waterloo'/'Watch Out', Paulo De Carvalho's '(And Then) After Love'/'E Depois Do Adeus', Gigliola Cinquetti's 'Go (Before You Break My Heart)'/'Si', Piera Martell's 'My Ship Of Love'/'Mein Ruf Nach Dir' and Sparks' 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us'/'Barbecutie' released. Former White House staffer Dwight Chapin was convicted of lying hi ass off about the activities of The Plumbers to a grand jury. Stephen King published Carrie, his first novel in the UK. The first episodes of The Zoo Gang - Revenge: Post Dated - and The Aweful Mister Goodall - A Good English Breakfast - broadcast on LWT.
Little-known Swedish beat combo ABBA won The Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton. For Britain, Olivia Newton-John's 'Long Live Love' was fourth. California Jam was held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California, attracting two hundred and fifty thousand stoned hippies. 'Highlights' of the festival included performances by Deep Purple, The Eagles and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. So, if you missed it, congratulations. Dr Feelgood rocked the shack on Radio 1's In Concert.
Ed Reinecke, the Republican lieutenant governor of California, was indicted on three charges of perjury before the Senate committee. Francis Ford Coppolla's The Conversation and Brian Clemens's Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - starring Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Cator and John Carson - premiered. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Publish or Perish on LWT.
Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Band On The Run'/'Zoo Gang' and Mud's 'The Cat Crept In'/'Morning' released. Rhys Adrian's Thrills Galore, 'The tale of Welsh John's horrible end', broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial The Doomsday Men and the World In Action episode Harold Wilson At Number Tenbroadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Movie Quiz - presented by Michael Aspel - broadcast. Lady In The Lake shown in BBC2's The Detectives strand. The first episode of A Little Bit Of Wisdom broadcast.
Three Atlético Madrid players - Rubén Ayala, Panadero Diaz and Quique Hernandez - were sent off by the Turkish referee in a fantastically violent European Cup Semi Final first leg against Glasgow Celtic at Parkhead. Though Atlético ended the game with just eight players on the pitch, the tie remained goalless. Despite numerous suspensions, the Spanish side won the second leg two-nil. Focus In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Featuring yodelling. Lots of it. The World At War: Japan broadcast.
Peter Terson's Three For The Fancy broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. John Poulson and T Dan Smith were jailed for fraud and corruption in local government. Badfinger's 'Apple Of My Eye'/'Blind Owl' released.
A Festival Of Entertainment broadcast. Erasmus Of Rotterdam broadcast on BBC2. Bowie's 'Rock 'N' Roll Suicide'/'Quicksand', Ruby Pearl & The Dreamboats' 'The Shang-A-Lang Song'/'Will You Stop That!', Paul Ryder & Time Machine's 'Are You Ready?'/'If You Ever Get To Heaven', Leicester City Football Club's 'The Tank'/'This Is The Season For Us' and Cindy & Bert's 'Our Summer Song Of Love'/'Spanish Guitars' released. CV Rajendran's Vani Rani - starring Shivaji Ganesan and Vanisri - premiered.
Skating Superstars broadcast on BBC2. Roy Harer featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Leeds United remained at the top of the First Division with a goalless draw at Coentry. The first episode of The Wheeltappers' & Shunters' Social Club broadcast on ITV.
Frank Sinatra broadcast. The Big Bands From The Dorchester broadcast on BBC2. Joe Brown featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve. Catholics: A Fable Of The Future broadcast on LWT.
Alan Plater's Wish You Were Here broadcast as part of the Omnibus strand. The first UK TV broadcast of Yellow Submarine. The Sweet's Sweet Fanny Adams released. As 'Tania', Patty Hearst was photographed wielding an M1 carbine whilst robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco.
Special Watergate Prosecutor Jaworski issued a subpoena for sixty four White House tapes. On Film 74, there were previews of The Great Gatsby and Serpico.
Pan's People appeared on BBC2's In Concert. Susan Elaine Rancourt disappeared while on her way to her dorm room after an evening meeting at Central Washington State College in Ellensburg. Two students later reported encounters - one on the night of Rancourt's disappearance, the other three nights earlier - with a man wearing an arm sling, asking for help carrying books to his Volkswagen Beetle. Another victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy, Rancourt's remains were discovered in early 1975 on Taylor Mountain. The World At War: Pacific broadcast on ITV.
The Reporters broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Joe Bugner's preparations for his July 1973 fight with Smokin' Joe Frazier featured on BBC2's All In A Day strand. Lorraine Pilkington born in Dublin.
Pete Walker's House Of Whipcord - starring Sheila Keith, Ann Michelle, Barbara Markham and Penny Irving, Freddie Francis's Son Of Dracula - starring Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Freddie Jones, Suzanna Leigh and Dennis Price and Jack Gold's Who? - starring Elliott Gould and Trevor Howard - premiered. Nine Days In Twenty Six broadcast on BBC2. Golden Earring's 'Instant Poetry'/'From Heaven From Hell', Showaddywaddy's 'Hey Rock & Roll'/'You Will Lose Your Love Tomorrow', The Barrie Brothers & Harry's 'Howway The Lads It's Newcastle United!'/'My Julie', Montrose's 'Bad Motor Scooter'/'One Thing On My Mind', Focus' 'Harem Scarem'/'Early Birth', The Delfonics' 'I Told You So'/'Seventeen (& In Love)', Lyn Roman's 'Stop, I Don't Need No Sympathy'/'Where Do You Go?' and Jacques Hustin's 'Freedom For The Man'/'Fleur De Liberté' released.
Liverpool drew at home to Everton, allowing Leeds United to move to the verge of the First Division title with a three-two win over Ipswich Town. Norwich City were relegated to the Second Division. Tammy Wynette's performance at the Sixth International Festival of Country Music at Wembley featured on BBC2's Second House. Strawbs featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of The Carnforth Practice broadcast on BBC2. BryanFerry appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The Great Orchestras broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first episodes of Doctor At Sea and Childhood and the first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Swan Song on LWT.
George House's Vindolanda: A Smell Of The Romans and the first episode of Success Story - Isherwood's Cabaret - broadcast. The first episode of Masquerade (Caryl Churchill's Turkish Delight) and John Elliott and John King's The Fox broadcast on BBC2. In response to the events of the Nottingham Forest riot in March, Newcastle were banned by the Football Association from hosting home cup games during the next season. Paul Annett's The Beast Must Die - starring Anton Diffring, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray, Michael Gambon, Peter Cushing and Tom Chadbon - premiered. The first episode of My Name Is Harry Worth and the World In Action episode Death In The Family broadcast on Thames.
Frankie & Johnnie broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. In The Heat Of The Night shown in BBC2's The Detectives strand. Sidney Hayers' Deadly Strangers - starring Hayley Mills, Simon Ward and Sterling Hayden - premiered.
Leeds United won the Football League Championship with two matches to spare following Liverpool's one-nil defeat by Arsenal. Newcastle United beat Burnley in the final of the Texaco Cup. David Bowie's Diamond Dogs was released. Exposure of an East German spy, Günter Guillaume, within the West German government, led to the resignation of Chancellor Willy Brandt. He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt. The World At War: The Bomb broadcast on ITV.
Magnus Magnusson's A Taste Of The Romans, the one hundredth episode of Chronicle, broadcast. Paper Lace's 'The Night Chicago Died'/'Can You Get It When You Want It?' and Neil Innes's 'Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues'/'Fluff On The Needle' released.
A left-wing military coup in Portugal restored democracy, ending forty one years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano fled to Brazil and was granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel. The 'Carnation Revolution' had two secret signals. The first was the airing of Paulo de Carvalho's 'E Depois do Adeus' (Portugal's entry in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest) on Emissores Associados de Lisboa, which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the coup. The second signal occurred, when Rádio Renascença broadcast 'Grândola, Vila Morena' (a song by Zeca Afonso, an influential political folk musician and singer who was banned from Portuguese radio at the time). Despite repeated radio appeals from the 'captains of April' (the MFA) advising the population to stay home, thousands of Portuguese took to the streets - mingling with, and supporting, the military insurgents. Z shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Gordon Jackson's 'On The Road To Munich'/'The Boardroom Reel', Isley Brothers' 'Summer Breeze (Parts 1 & 2)', Major Lance's 'Without A Doubt'/'Open The Door To Your Heart', Al Green's 'Let's Get Married'/'So Good To Be Here', Tub-Thumper's 'Kick Out The Jams'/'Kahoutec' and Paper Lace's 'The Night Chicago Died'/'Can You Get It When You Want It?' released.
A cheeky back-heel by Manchester City's Denis Law relegated his former club, Manchester United, at Old Trafford. They would have been relegated even if they had won due to Birmingham City's victory at home to Norwich. Birmingham's win also relegated Southampton, despite the Saints' three-nil win at Everton. Champions Leeds United ended the season with a one-nil away win over Queens Park Rangers. Newly promoted Burnley finished in sixth place. Jack Charlton managed Middlesbrough to the Second Division title. Second-placed Luton Town finished fifteen points behind Boro. In the first year that three teams were promoted, Carlisle United, managed by Alan Ashman, gained a place in the First Division for the first - and, so far, only - time in their history, completing a rapid rise from the Fourth Division. Preston North End and Swindon Town were relegated along with Crystal Palace, who suffered a second successive relegation. The Life Game broadcast on BBC2. King Crimson featured in Radio 1's In Concert. Sidney Hayers' What Changed Charley Farthing? - starring Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Doug McClure and Warren Mitchell - premiered.
Medicine Head appeared on See You Sunday. Margrethe, Queen Of Denmark broadcast on BBC2. Engelbert Humperdinck was on Radio 1's Top Twelve. As were Zingelbert Bambledack, Yingibert Damblebang, Zangelbert Bingledack, Winglebert Humptyback, Slut Bumwallah, Kringlebert Fistgibuns, Gerry Dorsey et cetera.
Story Teller Extraordinary: Enid Blyton broadcast in the Success Story strand. May We Come In? broadcast in BBC2's Masquerade strand. The World In Action episode MP's Interests broadcast.
Howerd's History Of England broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. The White House published - heavily - edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes, but the House Judiciary Committee insisted the actual tapes must be turned over to the courts. Because, frankly, they didn't believe a single word allegedly coming out of the President's mouth unless they heard it for themselves.
Sir Alf Ramsey was extremely sacked as England's manager after the team's failure to qualify for the World Cup finals. Philip Jenkinson interviewed Federico Fellini on BBC2's Film Night Special. Hugh Whitemore's Outrage broadcast in the Shoulder To Shoulder strand. The World At War: Reckoning and the first episode of ... And Mother Makes Five broadcast on ITV.
The National Front gained more than ten per cent of the vote in several parts of London in local council elections, but failed to actually get any councillors elected. The bright side was that at least everyone now knew exactly how many disgraceful racist scumbags there were at large in the capital. Terence Fisher's Frankenstein^& The Monster From Hell - starring Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, David Prowse, Madeline Smith, John Stratton and Patrick Troughton - premiered.
R Dean Taylor's 1966 recording 'There's A Ghost In My House'/'Let's Go Somewhere' was finally released in the UK and, soon, became a top three hit. Sparks' Kimono My House, The Pearls' 'Guilty'/'I'll Say It Over Again', The Kop Choir's 'Let's All Go To Wembley'/'Kop Konga' and Thunderthighs' 'Central Park Arrest'/'Sally Wants A Red Dress' released. Peter Sykes's Venom premiered. La Dolce Vita shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The first episode of My Old Man broadcast on Thames.
Kevin Keegan scored twice as Liverpool thrashed a horribly below-par Newcastle in the FA Cup Final. This blogger cried all night as a result. Don Sharp's Dark Places - starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, Robert Hardy and Jean Marsh - premiered. Deep Purple featured on Radio 1's In Concert. So, a bad day all round, basically.
The first episode of Thursday's Child broadcast. Valdes - Bay Of The Whales broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Bill Haley appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Charles Wood's Mutzen Ab! broadcast as part of BBC2's Masquerade strand. Roberta Kathleen Parks left her dormitory at Oregon State University in Corvallis, to have coffee with friends at the Memorial Union, but never arrived. Her remains were found in early 1975 in neighouring Washington Statealong with the skulls of several other victims of Ted Bundy. An intended appearance by Sparks on Top Of The Pops was cancelled due to Island Records having failed to secure the band the necessary UK work permits. At short notice, The Rubettes were booked to perform 'Sugar Baby Love' in their place. Shortly afterwards, Sparks' work permits were issued and a memorable performance of 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us' a week later saw that fly up the charts, eventually making number two. It was held off the top sport by ... 'Sugar Baby Love'. The World In Action episode Business In Gozo broadcast.
The first episode of Happy Ever After broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. Gunter Grass: Not Only A Writer broadcast on BBC2.
A letter to the San Francisco Chronicle featured a complaint that the movie Badlands was 'murder-glorification' and asked the paper to cut its advertisements. Signed only 'A Citizen', the handwriting, tone and surface irony were all similar to earlier Zodiac Killer communications. Ken Taylor's Sylvia Pankhurst broadcast in BBC2's Shoulder To Shoulder strand. The final episode of The World At War - Remember - broadcast on ITV. Eddy Matalon's La Pension Du Libre Amour - starring Colette Mareuil, Gérard Maro, Sarah Sterling and Christine Locquin and Tim Spring's The Spots On My Leopard - starring Mark Hopley, Karen de Kock, Dale Cutts and Erica Rogers - premiered.
Impeachment hearings on President Nixon began before the House Judiciary Committee. Show Of The Week: Nana Mouskouri broadcast on BBC2. Tony Richardson's Dead Cert - starring Scott Antony, Geoffrey Bateman, John Bindon and Judi Dench - premiered.
Ken Boothe's 'Everything I Own'/'Drum Song', Jimmy Conwell's 'Cigarette Ashes'/'Second Hand Happiness', Fable's 'Motorbike'/'Gotta Getaway' and The Real Thing's 'Daddy Dear'/'Sun Gold' released. José Ramón Larraz's Symptoms - starring Angela Pleasence and Peter Vaughan and Joseph W Sarno's Vild På Sex - starring Marie Forså, Nadia Henkowa, Anke Syring and Ines André - premiered.
England's first match since the dismissal of Alf Ramsey ended in a two-nil win over Wales at Ninian Park in the Home International championship with caretaker Joe Mercer in charge. Stan Bowles and Kevin Keegan were on target for the visitors. Leicester City's Keith Weller made his England debut. Mercer, a master of PR, was something of a breath of fresh air after the sullen, secretive approach of Ramsey, whose dismissive handling of the media was his one major weakness. Northern ireland beat Scotland one-nil at Hampden Park with a goal from Newcastle's Tommy Cassidy. Thanks For The Frying Pan broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Beach Boys Story broadcast on Radio 1.
The first episode of On Union Business broadcast. White Man In A Hole broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Graham Nash appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Adrian Mitchell's Something Down There Is Crying broadcast in BBC2's Masquerade strand. The Green Lady (Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl) broadcast in the Success Story strand. The first episode of Skiboy and the World In Action episode The Ben Hunter Way broadcast on Thames.
Scotland defeated Wales two-nil in the Home International championship at Hampden Park, with goals from Kenny Dalgliush and a Sandy Jardine penalty. The only worry for the Scots with the World Cup approaching was an ankle injury to Tommy Hutchison (replaced within the first five minutes by Jimmy Smith).
Tony Richardson's adaptation of Dead Cert - starring Scott Antony, Geoffrey Bateman, John Bindon, Judi Dench and Julian Glover - premiered. England beat Northern Ireland one-nil in the Home International championship at Wembley with a Keith Weller goal. His Leicester team-mate Frankie Worthington made his international debut. Robert Hartford-Davies' The Take - starring Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke, Tracy Reed and Albert Salmi - premiered. Ravi Shankar In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
Freddie Francis's Craze - starring Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Michael Jayston and Julie Ege - premiered. The first in a series focused on the work of Middle Class hippy Communist Tony Garnett was a repeat of 1973's Blooming Youth.
Bayern München beat Atlético Madrid four-nil in the European Cup final replay. The Ulster Volunteer Force exploded four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan. The attacks killed thirty three civilians and wounded almost three hundred, the highest number of casualties in any single day during The Troubles. A massive, two-hour shootout between the Los Angeles Police Department and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army left six SLA members, including leader Donald DeFreeze, very dead. Don Siegel's The Black Windmill - starring Michael Caine and Donald Pleasence and Ottokar Runze's Der Lord Von Barmbeck - starring Martin Lüttge, Judy Winter, Inken Sommer, Simone Rethel and Käthe Haack - premiered. Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs'/'Holy Holy', Steely Dan's 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'/'Any Major Dude Will Tell You', Bryan Ferry's 'The 'In' Crowd'/'Chance Meeting', Steely Dan's 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'/'Any Major Dude Will Tell You' and Tim Barker & The Carlisle United Singers' 'Looking Good (We're Carlisle United)'/'Going On' released.
England lost two-nil to Scotland at Hampden Park in the Home International championship. Both of Scotland's strikes were own goals - by Mike Pejic and Colin Todd. Martin Peters played his final international. Second House was devoted to showing the work of independent film-makers.
Spike Milligan featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Stackridge appeared on See You Sunday. Gloucestershire beat Derbyshire by two wickets off the penultimate ball of a thrilling John Player League game at Bristol.
The first episode of Dial M For Murder - John Peacock's If You Knew Suzie - broadcast. The Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative social market think tank established by Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher and Alfred Sherman, held its first meeting. The World In Action episode The Day The Torture Stopped broadcast.
The first episode of Mr Big broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of Six Of The Best and The RSC's adaptation of Miss Julie - starring Helen Mirren - broadcast on BBC2. Yukio Noda's Zeroka No Onna Akai Wappa - starring Miki Sugimoto, Eiji Gô and Tetsurô Tanba - premiered.
Michael Cimino's Thuderbolt & Lightfoot premiered. England drew two-two with Argentina in a friendly international at Wembley. If any game between England and Argentina can ever be called a 'friendly'. Mick Channon and Frank Worthington were on target for the hosts in this particularly bad-tempered affair whilst Mario Kempes scored twice for the visitors - the second a penalty in the final minute. Liverpool's Alec Lindsay made his international debut. Jack Nicholson featured on BBC2's Film Night.
Don Sharp's adaptation of Callan - starring Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Russell Hunter, Eric Porter, Peter Egan, Carl Möhner and Catherine Schell - premiered. Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec were profiled on BBC2's Adventures In Light.
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, Elton John's 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me', Mouse's 'All The Fallen Teen Angels'/'Just Came Back' and 10CC's 'The Wall Street Shuffle'/'Gismo My Way' released. The first episode of The Small World Of Samuel Tweet - starring Freddie Parrot-Face Davies broadcast.
The weekly New Musical Express issue contained a giveaway flexi-disc, Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing. The flexi featured two recordings which featured on the popular comedy troupe's forthcoming Live At Drury Lane LP, although Election Night Special sketch was a longer version. Michael Palin provided some new linking material, with his performance as the Head of NME sounding a very close relation to Mister Gumby. The first Uk TV showing of The Ruling Class on BBC2. Elton John's 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me'/'Sick City' released.
Alan Price: Between Today & Yesterday broadcast. The Wildlife Of New York City broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Lynsey De Paul appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The first simultaneous stereo broadcast featuring Van Morrison & The Caledonian Soul Orchestra at The Rainbow Theatre, broadcast on BBC2 on The Old Grey Whistle Test and Radio 1's The Bob Harris Show. Brenda Joy Baker, aged fourteen, was seen hitchhiking near Puyallup, Washington; her body was found in Millersylvania State Park a month later. Although Ted Bundy was widely believed responsible for the murder, he claimed to detective Robert Keppel that he had 'no knowledge' of the case. The Baker homicide remains unsolved.
Roy Clarke's It's Only Me - Whoever I Am broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. Peter Brook's filmed adaptation of the RSC's production of The Marat/Sade shown on BBC2. The first episode of Armchair Cinema - The Prison - broadcast on Thames.
Tottenham Hotspur were defeated four-two on aggregate by Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup final. And, collected a one year European ban after some of their fans caused 'a bit of bother' in the streets of Rotterdam afterwards. England drew one-all with East Germany in a friendly international in Leipzig. Joachim Streich but the hosts ahead but Mick Channon equalised ninety seconds later. Martin Mull In Concert broadcast of BBC2.
Tomorrow's World included features on solar and wind power. Show Of The Week: Cleo Laine broadcast on BBC2.
Talk-In To Day broadcast. Roger Vadim's La Curée shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Vineyard's 'Ghost Train (Here It Come Again)'/'Unicorns & Minotaurs', Hot Chocolate's 'Changing World'/'Bump & Dilly Down', Oscar Toney Jnr's 'My Girl'/'The Thrill Is Gone' and Leo Sayer's 'One Man Band'/'Drop Back' released.
England's Eastern European summer tour continued with a one-nil win in Bulgaria. Frank Worthington scored the winner. Scotland lost the first of their pre-World Cup friendlies, two-one against Belgium in Bruges. Jimmy Johnstone, playing his first international in two years, scored Scotland's goal. Gordon McQueen of Leeds made his international debut. Twenty eight people were killed in the Flixborough chemical plant disaster. Brenda Carol Ball, aged twenty two, disappeared after leaving The Flame Tavern in Burien, near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. She was last seen in the parking lot, talking to a brown-haired man with his arm in a sling. A victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy, her remains were found at a site on Taylor Mountain in 1975. The Incredible String Vest appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of Thick As Thieves broadcast on LWT. The first UK broadcast of The Accursed Kings on BBC2.
The Hollies appeared on BBC2's They Sold A Million. Jose Feliciano featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Kevin Keegan was arrested after an incident with over-zealous Yugoslav police at Belgrade Airport following the England's team's arrival from Sofia. Dragged into a room, he was given a tactical fisting then charged with sexually assaulting a Bulgarian stewardess, assaulting a guard, disturbing the peace, causing an obstruction, having an outrageous perm, 'looking at me in afunny way' and 'being English without due care and attention.' Only after the intervention of the rest of the squad did the travelling England officials - Joe Mercer, Ted Croker the FA secretary and the FA chairman Sir Andrew Stephen - intervene and explain to the guards just who they were beating the shit out of. Kev was released, the charges were dropped and when the match went ahead, three days later, Keegan scored a late equaliser in a two-two draw. Mick Channon scored their other goal. The first episode of Seven Faces Of Woman broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Read All About It broadcast. The British Go®™ Association presented BBC2's Open Door. The World In Action episode The Hefferon Affair broadcast.
Brian Parker's Steven broadcast on BBC2. Construction of OV-101, the first Space Shuttle, began. It would later be named Enterprise by some Star Trek fan working in NASA. Galton and Simpson's The Last Man On Earth broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Ian Kennedy Martin's Regan broadcast in the Armchair Cinema strand on Thames. It would, subsequently, spawn the series The Sweeney.
Grundy, ridden by Pat Eddery, won The Derby. The first UK broadcast of Doc Elliot. Stomu Yamash'ta's East Wind In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Jim Atkinson's Can You Keep It Up Foir A Week? - starring Jeremy Bulloch, Sue Longhurst, Neil Hallett, Richard O'Sullivan and Valerie Leon - premiered.
John McGrath's The Cheviot The Stag & The Black Oil broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. A sister programme, Oil, Oil Underneath The Sea, broadcast in BBC2's In Vision strand. Scotland's final friendly beofre the World Cup resulted in a two=one victory over Norway in Oslo. Joe Jordan and Kenny Dalglish scored.
Petit A Petit shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Neil Sedaka's 'Laughter In The Rain'/'Kiddio', Gary Glitter's 'Always Yours'/'I'm Right, You're Wrong, I Win!', The Band Of The Scots Guards' 'World Cup Fanfare'/'The Pride Of Princes Street', Mike Oldfield's 'Mike Oldfield's Single (Theme From Tubular Bells)'/'Froggy Went A-Courting', Major Lance's 'Gimme Little Sign'/'How Can You Say Goodbye (To Someone Who's In Love With You)?', The Intruders' 'Win, Place Or Show (She's A Winner)'/'Memories Are Here To Stay', Jerry Williams' 'If You Ask Me (Because I Love You)'/'Yvonne', Gloria Gaynor's 'Honey Bee'/'Come Tonight', Marc Bolan's 'Jasper C Debussy'/'Hippy Gumbo', 'The Perfumed Garden Of Gulliver Smith', Be-Bop Deluxe's 'Jet Silver'/'Third Floor Heaven', The Fuzz's 'I'm So Glad'/'All About Love', Frankie & The Classicals' 'What Shall I Do?'/'Goodbye Love, Hello Sadness', Paul Da Vinci's 'Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore'/'She'll Only Hurt You', Pilot's 'Just A Smile'/'Don't Speak Loudly', Argent's 'Man For All Reasons'/'Music From The Spheres' and Max Greger & His Orchestra's 'World Cup Fanfare'/'Fair Play' released.
Jon Pertwee made his last appearance as The Doctor in Doctor Who in the final episode of Planet Of The Spiders before regenerating into Tom Baker. Everest 1924 broadcast on BBC2.
A Question Of Feeling? broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Gershwin's Porgy broadcast on BBC2. Tyrell-Ford Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler took the to slots in the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp. James Hunt in a Hesketh finished third.
The Voice broadcast in the Dial M For Murder strand. Search For Life broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode The Selling Of The Maharishi broadcast.
England won the first of a three test series against India at Old Trafford by one hundred and thirteen runs. Keith Fletcher and John Edrich scored undefeated centuries in England's two innings whilst the tourists had no answer to the pace of Bob Willis and Chris Old and the accuracy of debutant Mike Hendrick. Geoff Boycott played his last test until 1977. University of Washington student Georgann Hawkins vanished while walking down a brightly lit alley between her boyfriend's dormitory and her sorority house. After Hawkins' disappearance, witnesses reported seeing a man in the alley on crutches with a leg cast and struggling to carry a briefcase. One woman recalled that the man asked her to help him carry the case to his car, a light brown Volkswagen Beetle. Ted Bundy later told detective Robert Keppel that he had lured Hawkins to his car before rendering her unconscious with a crowbar. He then handcuffed Hawkins and drove her to Issaquah, where he strangled her, before spending the night with her body. Some of Hawkins' remains were discovered, along with those of two of Bundy's other victims on 6 September. Cockney Rebel were in session on The John Peel Show ('Bed In The Corner', 'Sling It', 'Mister Soft', 'Sweet Dreams', 'Psychomodo').
In the Quarter Final of the Benson & Hedges Cup at Taunton, Somerset beat Hampshire by one wicket in a thrilling finish. Eighteen year old all rounder Ian Botham scored an unbeaten forty five despite having lost four teeth when hit in the face by a bouncer from Andy Roberts.
The 1974 World Cup opened in West Germany with - for the third tournament running - a horribly dull game, Brazil's goalless draw with Yugoslavia. Show Of The Week: James Last & His Orchestra broadcast on BBC2. Including covers of 'Forty Eight Crash', 'Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me' and Rock 'n' Roll Part 2'. No, really.
David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs'/'Holy Holy', The London Stadium Orchestra's 'Lap Of Honour (IBA World Cup Theme)'/'Kitten (Theme From Thames TV Production Good Afternoon)', Julie Rogers' 'Long After Tonight Is All Over'/'I'm A Woman Now' and George McCrae's 'Rock Your Baby (Parts 1 & 2)' released. Scotland kicked-off their World Cup campaign with an easy (with hindsight, far too easy) two-nil victory over Zaire. The match was briefly interrupted in the fifth ninth minute due to a failure of some floodlights. Denis Law made his fifty fifth and final appearance for the Scottish national side.
Playing in their only World Cup, Haiti appeared on the verge of causing a major shock, taking the lead against Italy. The Italians recovered to win three-one. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book All The President's Men was published by Simon & Schuster. The Red Lion Square disorders: A National Front march through London's West End, while the London Area Council for Liberation conducted a counter demonstration, saw a student - Kevin Gately - killed during the ensuing clash, the first political demonstrator to be killed in Britain for fifty five years, leading to a public enquiry conducted by Lord Scarman. Alan J Pakula's The Parallax View - starring Warren Beatty - premiered.
Andrew Oldham featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Glory Glory broadcast. Sacha Distel, Dana and The Three Degrees apeared on BBC2's They Sold A Million.
The Provisional IRA planted a bomb at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people. The Secrets Of Sleep broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode The LeaderOf The Opposition broadcast.
Billy Bremner (winning his fiftieth Scottish cap) and Rivalino spent ninety minutes (plus injury time, of which there was a considerable amount) kicking lumps out of each other as Scotland drew with Brazil at the World Cup. Captain Beefhart & The Magic Band performed 'Upon The Oh My My' and 'This Is The Day' on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Johan Cryuff left Jan Olsson swinging at thin air as he produced The 'Cryuff Turn' on a world stage for the first time as the Netherlands' played Sweden at the World Cup. What is often forgotten is that the game was goalless draw, albeit, one of the best nil-nil draws you'll ever see. Alan Price In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
Dennis Potter's Schmoedipus broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Roman Polanski's Chinatown premiered.
Skywatch and The World Of Stan Smith broadcast. All The Buildings Fit To Print broadcast on BBC2. The Chants' 'Love Is A Playground'/'Sophisticated Junkyard', The Three Degrees' 'When Will I See You Again?'/'I Didn't Know', Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye's 'Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)'/'Love Twins', Little Joe Cook's 'Hold On To Your Money'/'Don't You Have Feelings' and The Anthony King Orchestra's 'BBC TV World Cup '74 Theme - Striker'/'Tee Time' released. Ernst Hofbauer and Chih-Hung Kuei's Yang Chi premiered.
The single greatest moment in the history of football occurred - Zaire's Mwepu Ilunga kicking the ball away whilst the Brazilians prepared to take a free-kick. Scotland's inability to beat Yugoslavia (they drew one-one, Joe Jordan scoring) coupled with Brazil neting one more goal than the Scots did against the hapless Africans condemned Willie Ormand's men to a first round exit despite being unbeaten in their three games. In Hamburg, Jürgen Sparwasser scored as East Germany beat West Germany. England piled on a score of six hundred and twenty nine in the second test at Lord's. Dennis Amiss, Mike Denness and Tony Greig all hit centuries and John Edrich ninety six. David Lloyd on his test debut scored forty six. Bishan Bedi's six wickets cost him two hundred and twenty six runs. Barclay James Harvest featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Albert Hammond appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. You're Here To Work broadcast. Persian Odyssey braodcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand.
Chris Old took five wickets and Geoff Arnold four as England bowled out India for forty two to win the second test by an innings and two hundred and eighty five runs at Lord's. The government admitted to testing a nuclear weapon in the United States causing a rift in the Labour Party between senior ministers and The Tribune Group. The World In Action episode Cancer Gas broadcast.
John le Carré's espionage masterpiece Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy published. Pygmalion Smith broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Peter Draper's adatation of The Cricket Match broadcast in BBC2's England, Their England strand.
Stuart Cooper's adaptaton of Little Malcolm - starring John Hurt and David Warner - premiered. Surrey and Leicestershire reached the Benson & Hedges Cup final with victories over Lancashire and Somerset resectively.
The Childhood Friend broadcast in the lay For Today strand. The first UK broadcast of Spain's Montreaux Golden Rose winner Don Juan in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand.
Slade's 'The Bangin' Man'/'She Did It To Me', Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Band On The Run'/'Zoo Gang', Sparks' 'Girl From Germany'/'Beaver O'Lindy', Man's 'Taking The Easy Way Out Again'/'California Silks & Satins', Wally Cox's 'This Man'/'I've Had Enough' and Carl Douglas's 'Kung Fu Fighting'/'Gamblin' Man' released. Huh! Let's get it on. Monty Python Live At Drury Lane released. 'Nixon's had an arsehole transplant.' 'Have you seen the stop press, though? The arsehole's rejected him!' Tadeusz Chmielewski's Wiosna, Panie Sierzancie - starring Józef Nowak and Malgorzata Pritulak - premiered.
Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her sick husband Juan, who died two days later. Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected while visiting Toronto and requested political asylum. Rory Gallagher appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
Brazil beat Argentina two-one and the Netherlands defeated East Germany two-nil in the World Cup second round Group A. In Group B, their were victories for West Germany (four-two against Sweden) and Poland (two-one over Yugoslavia). Heinz Sielmann's Woodecker - narrated by David Attenborough - broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. William Douglas Home's On Such A Night and John Tavener's Last Rites broadcast The latter simultcast on Radio 3). Michael Crawford featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Sandra Jean Weaver, aged nineteen, a Wisconsin native who had been living in Tooele, Utah, was last seen in Salt Lake City; her naked body was discovered the following day near Grand Junction, Colorado. Sources conflict on whether the serial killer Ted Bundy mentioned Weaver's name during his numerous death row interviews in which he confessed to approximately thirty murders across six states. Her murder remained, officially, unsolved.
Bird On A Wire and Fritz The Cat were reviewed in Film 74. The first episode of The Lost Wilderness broadcast on BBC2.
In farcical waterlogged conditions, West Germany controversially beat Poland one-nil to qualify for the World Cup final. In a bruising but utterly brilliant display, the dazzling Dutch beat reigning champions Brazil in the most memorable game of the cometition. Chelsea paid a club record two hundred and twenty five thousand pounds to Glasgow Celtic for Scotland's World Cup star midfielder David Hay. The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow. Soyuz Fourteen, a manned space mission, was successfully launched with cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich on board.
The Sweet's 'The Six Teens'/'Burn On The Flame', Robin Trower's 'Too Rolling Stoned'/'Lady Love' and T Rex's 'Light Of Love'/'Explosive Mouth' released. Don Revie accepted The Football Association's offer to manage the England team, ending his thirteen-year reign as manager of Leeds United.
Lord Hailsham's Convictions broadcast. The Jackal Of Najueltoro shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The Rubettes' 'Tonight'/'Silent Movie Queen' released.
Playing in only his second test, David Lloyd scored two hundred and fourteen not out as England beat India by an innings and seventy eight runs at Edgbaston inside three days. England's four hundred and fifty nine for two also included a century for Mike Denness and fifties for Dennis Amiss and Keith Fletcher. Mike Hendrick took seven wickets. The first episode of Orson Welles Great Mysteries broadcast on LWT.
Ruthless West German efficiency beat maverick Dutch totaalvoetbal flair in the final of the World Cup. No justice. Evan Jones's A Work Of Genius broadcast on BBC2. Maggie Bell featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Horizon's The Race For The Double Helix broadcast. In the Canadian federal erection, the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was re-elected with an increased majority. The first episode of The Squirrels and the World In Action episode The Old Country broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Wodehouse Playhouse broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. The US Judiciary Committee released 'enhanced' versions of eight of the White House tapes previously 'transcribed' by Nixon's team. These included potentially damaging statements not included in Nixon's own published versions of the conversations. The first episode of The Capone Investment broadcast on Thames.
Love From A To Z - featuring Charles Aznavour and Liza Minnelli - broadcast. The first episode of The Candidate broadcast on BBC2. The first episodes of Don't Ask Me and Late Night Drama and the first UK broadcast of Julie On Sesame Street on Thames.
The first episode of Delia Smith's Family Fare broadcast. The Kinks were in session of The John Peel Show ('Money Talks', 'Demolition', 'Mirror Of Love').
Bill Shankly surprisingly - and for reasons never fully disclosed - announced his retirement after fifteen years as manager of Liverpool. He was succeeded, some weeks later, by his assistant Bob Paisley. On the same day, the club paid a club record one hundred and eighty thousand notes to sign Arsnela double-winner Ray Kennedy. Although his career had a somewhat low-key start, spending much of his first season playing in the reserves, Kennedy would go on to have a glitering, trophy-laden career at The Reds.Sparks' 'Amateur Hour'/'Lost & Found', David Cassidy's 'Please Please Me'/'CC Rider Blues-Jenny Jenny', America's 'Mad Dog'/'Tin Man', Sweet Sensation's 'Sad Sweet Dreamer'/'Surething, Yes I Do', Lamont Dozier's 'Fish Ain't Bitin'/'Breaking Out All Over', The Casualeers' 'Dance, Dance, Dance'/'There's Something About This Girl', MFSB Featuring The Three Degrees' 'Love Is The Message'/'My One & Only Love' and Quincy Jones's 'Soul Saga (Song Of The Buffalo Soldier)'/'Body Heat' released. Carry On Dick - starring Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sim, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth and Jack Douglas and Herrmann Zschoche's Liebe Mit Sixteen - starring Simone von Zglinicki, Heinz-Peter Linse and Axel Gärtner - premiered.
The IRA bombed Birmingham and Manchester. Gary Player won The Open at Royal Lytham & St Anne's, four-strokes ahead of Peter Oosterhuis. There was a call to end 'political shilly-shallying' after two Commons votes ended in ties. Chinese Prime Minister Cho En-Lai suffered a heart-attack. Sybil Hathaway, the Dame of Sark, died aged ninety. Michael Heseltine, shadow trade minister launched a bitter attack on nationalisation plans announced by Tony Benn's Department of Industry Planning. The Senate Watergate report proposed the creation of a special prosecutor independent of the President. It also suggested White House 'smears' had caused Edmund Muskie's failure to win the 1972 Democratic nomination. Frank Sinatra told a Sydney audience that President Nixon was 'delighted' with press coverage of Sinatra's troubled Australia tour because it kept Watergate off the front pages. Noel Edmonds was injured driving in a rally in Wales. Tragically, the injury wasn't serious.
The first episode of The Double Dealers broadcast. Ted Bundy's sick and sordid Pacific Northwest murder spree culminated with the broad daylight abductions of two women from a crowded beach at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, near Seattle. Five witnesses described an attractive young man wearing a white tennis outfit with his left arm in a sling. Introducing himself as Ted, he asked for their help in unloading a sailboat from his Volkswagen Beetle. Four refused; one accompanied him as far as his car, saw that there was no boat and fled. Three additional witnesses saw him approach Janice Anne Ott, aged twenty three, a probation case worker at the King County Juvenile Court, with the same story and she left the beach in his company. About four hours later, Denise Marie Naslund, a nineteen-year-old studying to become a computer programmer, left a picnic to go to a nearby restroom and never returned. Bundy subsequently told both the author Stephen Michaud and the FBI's William Hagmaier that Ott was still alive when he returned with Naslund and that he forced one to watch as he murdered the other, though he later denied this in another interview on the eve of his 1989 execution. King County police, finally armed with a detailed description of their suspect and his car, posted fliers throughout the Seattle area. A composite sketch was printed in regional newspapers and broadcast on local television. Bundy's girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, a former colleague Ann Rule, a DES employee and one of Bundy's UW psychology professors all reportedly recognised the profile, the sketch and the car and reported Bundy to police as a possible suspect. Detectives - who were receiving up to two hundred tips per day - believed it unlikely that a clean-cut law student with no previous adult criminal record could possibly be the perpetrator of such appalling crimes. Bundy, therefore, remained free to kill again. The first episode of BBC2's The Double Dealers broadcast.
Tom Hadaway's God Bless Thee, Jacky Maddison broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. A military coup d'état took place in Cyprus by the Cypriot National Guard and the Greek military junta. President Makarios III was replaced by pro-Enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson as dictator; Makarios was said to have been killed. Christine Chubbuck, a news announcer on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, committed suicide by shooting herself on live television. The first episode of World In Action episode The Group broadcast on Thames.
A not-remotely-dead Archbishop Makarios was rescued by British troops from Paphos and flown to Malta. A Room With A View broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Village Hall broadcast on Thames.
The Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at the Tower of London, killing one person and injuring another forty one. A Contraceptive Bill sponsored by Ireland's National Coalition government was defeated in a vote in Dáil Éireann. The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, was one of seven Fine Gael members to vote against it. The first episode of Village Hall - Mister Ellis Versus The People - broadcast on Thames.
Robert Erskine's The Thousand Year Walk broadcast in BBC2's The Glory That Remains strand.
Geoff Boycott was interviewed on Personal Choice. The first episode of BBC2's Great Directors broadcast. Eric Clapton's 'I Shot The Sheriff'/'Give Me Strength', Mud's 'Rocket'/'The Ladies', The Graeme Edge Band Featuring Adrian Ben Gurvitz's 'We Like To Do It'/'Shotgun', The Edgar Winter Group's 'River's Risin'/'Animal' and Nutz's eponymous debut released.
In response to the coup d'état, Turkish forces invaded Cyprus and occupied the northern part of the island. The first rock and/or roll concert to be held at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire featured The Allman Brothers Band, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley and others and was attended by an estimated sixty thousand punters. SF Brownrigg's Scum Of The Earth premiered.
The Tour De France concluded in Paris. Eddy Merckx won both the final stage and the overall yellow jersey. The first UK broadcast of Thoroughbred on BBC2. Alvin Stardust featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Stevie Wonder's Fulfillingness' First Finale released. Richard Harris's Is It Something I Said? broadcast as part of BBC2's Centre Play strand. Two Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E airliners belonging to Cyprus Airways were destroyed on the ground at Nicosia International Airport during fighting between Greek and Turkish forces.
Greece's president, Phaedon Gizikis, called a meeting to appoint a national unity government to 'honourably extricate' Greece from an armed confrontation with Turkey over Cyprus. Former prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis returned to Athens on a Mystère jet made available to him by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
The United States Versus Richard Nixon was decided: The supreme court told Nixon to stop faffing about, get his shit together and give the requested White House tapes to investigators. Particularly the really incriminating ones. The Huntsville Prison siege began when Fred Gómez Carrasco, serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer and two other inmates laid siege to the education building of the Walls Unit. Ken Hughes's The Internecine Project - starring James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry and Michael Jayston - premiered. The first episode of How's Your Father? - Stand Up & Be Counted - broadcast on Thames.
Show Of The Week: It's Lulu broadcast on BBC2.
The Rolling Stones' 'It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)'/'Through The Lonely Nights', Gloria Jones' 'Tin Can People'/'So Tired (Of The Way You're Treating Our Love Baby)', Jackie Moore's 'Both Ends Against The Middle'/'Willpower', Ecstasy, Passion & Pain's 'Good Things Don't Last Forever'/'Born To Lose You', Tyrone Edwards' 'Can't Get Enough Of You'/'You Took Me From A World Outside', The Watts One Hundred & Third Street Rhythm Band's 'The Joker (On A Trip Thru The Jungle)'/'Brown Sugar', Dum's 'In The Mood'/'Watching The Clock', Montrose's 'Rock The Nation'/'One Thing On My Mind', Mike Post Coalition's 'Afternoon Of The Rhino'/'Bubble Gum Breakthrough', Heavy Metal Kids' 'Rock 'N' Roll Man'/'Hangin' On' and Cockney Rebel's 'Mister Soft'/'Such A Dream' released.
Tries by Roger Uttley and Andy Irvine gave the British Lions and thirteen-all draw in the fourth and final test against South Africa. The Lions won the - incredibly violent - series three-nil. The first episode of BBC2's Archie Hill Comes Home broadcast. The Kinks featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episodes of the On The Buses spin-off Don't Drink The Water and Good Girl broadcast on LWT.
Imaginary Zoo broadcast. Dusty Springfield and Tony Christie appeared on BBC2's They Sold A Million. Melanie featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Antony & Cleopatra broadcast on LWT.
Cass Elliot died from a heart attack in Harry Nilsson's Mayfair flat at Curzon Place. Four years later Keith Moon would die in the same flat, at the same age - thirty two - and from the same cause. Mutinies broadcast on BBC2's Centre Play strand. The first episode of Moody & Pegg broadcast on Thames.
Leeds United's search for a new manager ended with the shocking (and stunning appointment of Brian Clough, who had managed Third Division Brighton & Hove Albion since November. However, he was not joined at Elland Road by his long serving assistant, Peter Taylor, who was promoted to the manager's seat at the Goldstone Ground. The first test between England and Pakistan was set for an epic finish entering the last day at Headingley. England were on two hundred and thirty eight for six chasing a fourth innings score of two hundred and eighty two to win. Keith Fletcher was not out on sixty seven and Chris Old had scored ten; England needed a further forty four runs to win. However, persistent drizzle caused abandonment without a ball bowled and the game ended in a draw. The House Judiciary Committee passed Articles of Impeachment on Richard Nixon. Hilary Ann Swank born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm's Flesh Gordon premiered. Detailing Flesh, Dale Ardor and Professor Jerkoff's battles with Emeror Wang on the planet Prono. Obviously.
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox born in Hammersmith.
Hawkwind's 'The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)'/'It's So Easy', Barry White's 'Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe'/'Just Not Enough', Peter Shelley's 'Gee Baby'/'I'm In Love Again', One Hundred Per Cent Pure Poison's 'You Keep Coming Back'/'(And When I Said) I Love You', Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon's 'Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache'/'Dancin' Master', Showaddywaddy's 'Rock 'n' Roll Lady'/'I'm A Traveller' and Frankie Miller's 'Little Angel'/'Brickyard Blues' released. Three Daughters shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand.
Brendan Foster broke the world three thousand metres record at Gateshead. Our Own Correspondent broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Osmonds Story broadcast on Radio 1.
President Nixon released transcripts of three tape Oval Office conversations including a tape from 23 June 1972 (recorded a few days after the Watergate break-in) which documented Nixon and Bob Haldeman formulating a plan to block investigations with the clear intention of obstructing justice. The recording quickly became known as 'The Smoking Gun.' Key Republican Senators quickly told Nixon that enough - indeed, more than enough - votes existed to impeach his sorry ass and his shit was, effectively, cooked. A bomb exploded on a train between Italy and West Germany, killing twelve and wounding forty eight. Italian neo-fascists took responsibility. The first episodes of Rap and The Nearly Man broadcast on LWT.
PJ Hammond's Should Anyone Answer broadcast in the Dial M For Murder strand. Listen & Be Loyal broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand.
The Dracula Business broadcast in the Tuesday Documentary strand. Leeds signed Nottingham Forest striker Duncan MacKenzie for two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Fairport Convention were in session on The John Peel Show.
Philippe Petit crossed between Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City high-wire walking. There was extensive news coverage and public appreciation of Petit's feat and, after much public pressure, the district attorney dropped all charges of trespassing. In exchange, Petit was required to give a free aerial show for children in Central Park. Chinatown reviewed in BBC2's Film Night. Pierre Grunstein's Tender Dracula - starring Peter Cushing, Alida Valli and Miou Miou - premiered.
In a nationally televised speech, President Nixon told the nation: 'I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interest of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.'
Richard Nixon extremely resigned as US President. He was succeeded by a plank of wood in the shape of Gerald Ford. The first UK TV showing of Dracula, Prince Of Darkness. The Impressions' 'Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man)'/'I'll Always Be Here', Curtis Mayfield's 'Kung Fu'/'Right On For The Darkness' and The Armada Orchestra's 'It's The Same Old Song'/'To Chicago With Love' released.
Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were sent off for fighting at the FA Charity Shield at Wembley. The match ended in a draw with Liverpool winning six-five in a penalty shoot-out, after Leeds goalkeeper David Harvey missed his spot-kick. A publicity campaign to recruit 'better-educated boys' to the police was seen as a failure. Elton John appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Twenty people were arrested in Hyde Park during an anti-internment demonstration after they refused police requests to remove their black berets. Joseph McKee, serving seven years for arms offences, escaped from a Belfast hospital whilst dressed as a woman. Police secured London's biggest drug seizure - forty thousand LSD tablets. Amnesty International challenged a South African claim that floggings in Namibia were 'tribal law and custom.'
Big Cats broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Barry Blue featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The first episode of The Osmonds - presented by Noel Edmonds - broadcast. The Specialist broadcast in BBC2's Their World strand.
A Redditch woman who pioneered horse-riding lessons for handicapped children was fined three hundred and fifty pounds for lining up seven other children in her farmyard and hitting them with a riding crop. Hard. Audrey Steel disciplined the seven, she claimed, because they were 'larking about.' For the second test running, a result was denied by a final-day washout. England, for whom Derek Underwood had taken thirteen wickets in the match on a damp Lord's wicket, needed eighty seven in their second innings and were twenty seven without loss against Pakistan. But an overnight deluge ended hopes of a result.
Tony Bilbow interviewed Blake Edwards on BBC2's Film Night. Kent and Lancashire reached the Gillette Cup final with victories over Somerset and Worcestershire respectively.
The collapse of prominent holiday charter airline Court Line - and its subsidiaries Clarksons and Horizon Holidays - left around one hundred thousand British holidaymakers stranded abroad. And Goddamn pissed-off. The Village On The Wall broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Aram Avakian's 11 Harrowhouse - starring Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard and John Gielgud - premiered. The first episode of The Inheritors broadcast on Thames. Christine Adams born in Brentwood.
Alastair Burnet interviewed the novellist Dick Francis on Personal Choice. David Lean was profield on BBC2's Great Directors. Sailor's 'Traffic Jam'/'Harbour' and Hammond Brothers & Maggie's 'The Garbage Man'/'Soul Over Easy' released.
The first episode of The Haggard Falcon broadcast on BBC2. The First Division football season began with Brian Clough's first match in charge of Leeds. It ended in a three-nil defeat to Stoke City. Carlisle United, in the top flight for the first time, won two-nil at Chelsea, Newcastle United beat Coventry City three-two and Manchester City defeated West Ham United four-nil. Manchester United played their first game outside the First Division since 1938, beating Orient two-nil at Brisbane Road. Hooliganism, inevitably, reared its ugly head and was rife at Orient, with press reports of 'smashed subway trains', fighting in and outside the ground and kids gettin' unched and aal sorts. Gillingham's two-two draw with Walsall aw the debut of recent signing Ron Hilyard - the first of six hundred and fifty five games for The Gills in a career that lasted until 1991. In the process he broke John Simpsons's appearance record for the club, established in 1972.
Andre Previn Meets Ken Russell broadcast. Six Healthy Englishmen broadcast on BBC2. Twiggy featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Recording Angel broadcast in the Dial M For Murder strand.
The first episode of A Thinking Man As Hero broadcast on BBC2.
Robert Aldrich's The Longest Yard and Luis García Berlanga's Grandeur Nature - starring Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov and Lucienne Hamon - premiered.
Le Million shown in BBC2's Milestones Of The Film strand. 10CC's 'Silly Love'/'The Sacro-Iliac', The O'Jays' 'Now That We Found Love'/'You Got Your Hooks In Me', The Tymes' 'You Little Trustmaker'/'The North Hills', Bryan Ferry's 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'/'Another Time, Another Place' and Paper Lace's 'The Black-Eyed Boys'/'Jean' released.
Kojak first broadcast in the UK. Carlisle United moved to the top of the First Division after winning their first three games. Old Trafford hosted its first Second Division game in thirty six years as Manchester United beat Millwall four-nil, with a Gerry Daly hat-trick and Stuart Pearson adding the other goal. Kenny Hibbitt scored all four goals for Wolves in their four-two defeat of a Newcastle side featuring his brother, Terry. Ron Greenwood handed over first team duties at West Ham to John Lyall.
The Quiet Man shown in the Film Of The Week strand. John Denver and Dana featured on BBC2's They Sold A Million. Graeme Edge and Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The BBC's Bank Holiday movie was the first showing of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. This blogger spent that afternoon down the coast at Tynemouth with his mates Stephen Scott, Brian Cook and Andy Burnham and lost his best football in the sea during a kickabout. As a consequence, after he got home, he spent the rest of the week having difficulty sitting down.
At The Oval, Dennis Amiss - having scored an impressive one hundred and eighty three - was hit in the head with beamer bowled by Sarfraz Nawaz during the third test against Pakistan and had to retire, very hurt. Earlier Zaheer Abbas had scored two hundred and forty in Pakistan's total of six hundred for seven. The game - and the series - ended in a draw. Denis Law retired from football. Everton signed Martin Dobson from Burnley for a British record transfer fee of three hundred thousand pounds. Sports Minister Denis Howell proposed an identity card system to combat football hooliganism. Hereford United's one-nil win at Shrewsbury Town in the League Cup first round saw the debut of John Layton - the first of five hundred and forty nine games for The Bulls in a career that lasted until 1981. Colour My Soul, featuring Madeline Bell, Jimmy Helms and Doris Troy, broadcast on BBC2.
Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were banned from all football (even having a kickabout in the park with jumpers for goalposts. Probably) until the end of September and fined for their brawl at the Charity Shield, meaning they would miss a total of eleven games. Ron Durban, the Cardiff City trainer accused of pouring a bucket of water over an opposition fan during a game against York City announced he was resigning. 'This is not for me,' he said. 'It's become too emotional, too violent, there's too much money involved.' Rufus Thomas In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
Bill Nicholson resigned as Tottenham's manager after sixteen years. 'The players have become impossible,' he said. 'They talk all the time about security but they are not prepared to work for it. There is no longer respect.' Thames Valley Police broke up the Windsor Free Festival. Violently and with much use of truncheons. Those attendees who did not disperse when ordered to were arrested or evicted with a level of force that led seven national newspapers to call for an inquiry and Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, to order a report. Nicholas Albery, the playwright Heathcote Williams and his partner, Diana Senior, later successfully sued David Holdsworth, the Thames Valley Chief Constable for 'creating a riotous situation' in which the police attacked the plaintiffs without just cause. Hammer's The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires premiered. John Frankenheimer's Ninety Nine and Forty Four One Hundredth Percent Dead - starring Richard Harris and Edmond O'Brien - premiered. Ralph Thomas's Percy's Progress - starring Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Harry H Corbett, Vincent Price, Adrienne Posta, Julie Ege, Barry Humphries, James Booth, Milo O'Shea, Ronald Fraser, Anthony Andrews, Bernard Lee, Madeline Smith, Alan Lake, Jenny Hanley, Carol Hawkins and TP McKenna - premiered.
The first episode of Life In The Circus - presented by Mike Hope and Albie Kean - broadcast. John Huston was profiled in BBC2's Great Directors. Diddy David Hamilton and the Radio 1 Roadshow was in rock and/or roll South Shields. Elton John's 'The Bitch Is Back'/'Cold Highway', Harry Chapin's 'Cats In The Cradle'/'Shooting Star', Little Milton's 'Behind Closed Doors'/'Bet You I Win' and Bee Gees' 'Charade'/'Heavy Breathing' released.
The first UK broadcast of Star Trek: The Animated Series. David Lloyd scored one hundred and sixteen for England in the first One Day International against Pakistan at Trent Bridge. Majid Khan also hit a century at under a run a ball and the visitors won by seven wickets.
The first episode of It Takes A Stranger broadcast. Five Faces Of The Guitar broadcast on BBC2. Mick Jagger featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Occupations broadcast on LWT.
Having moved from Seattle to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in August, Ted Bundy resumed his murderous activities. He raped and strangled a - still-unidentified - hitchhiker in Idaho, then either disposed of the remains immediately in a nearby river, or returned the next day to photograph and dismember the corpse (Bundy's story changed depending upon to whom he was speaking). The European Athletics Championships opened in Rome. The first episode of Rising Damp and the World In Action episode An Accident At Sea about the loss of the Burtonia broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Pueblo. The first episode of The Entertainers broadcast on BBC2.
Steve Ovett won his first major medal, a silver in the European Athletics Championship eight hundred metres in Rome. Alan Pascoe won gold in the four hundred metres hurdles. Robert Parrish's The Marseille Contract - starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and James Mason - premiered.
The first episode of Porridge broadcast. Peter Hunt's adaptation of Gold - starring Roger Moore and Susannah York - premiered. The first UK broadcast of The Six Million Dollar Man on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Harry O. Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill, The Exciters' 'Blowing Up My Mind'/'Instrumental', Scotch Mist's 'Ra-Ta-Ta'/'Pamela' and Leo Sayer's 'Long Tall Glasses'/'In My Life' released. Saul Bass's Phase IV - starring Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport and Lynne Frederick - premiered. Two grouse hunters discovered the skeletal remains of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund near a service road in Issaquah, two miles East of Lake Sammamish State Park from where the women had been abducted in July. An extra femur and several vertebrae found at the site were later identified by serial killer Ted Bundy as belonging to another of his victims, Georgann Hawkins. Tyne Tees Television began their Appointment With Fear strand with a showing of Frankenstein.
Kent beat Lancashire in a low-scoring, rain-interrupted Gillette Cup final which didn't get concluded until the following Monday. Turgid, horrible, tuneless hairies Deep Purple featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Kiss Me Deadly shwon in BBC2's Midnight Movies. The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show broadcast on LWT.
Brendan Foster won the European five thousand metres title in Rome. Ian Thompson won the marathon and Britain's four hundred metres relay squad - Glen Cohen, Bill Hartley, Alan Pascoe and David Jenkins - also collected gold. President Ford pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon of any crimes he may, or may not, have committed whilst in the White House. Twelve thousand barrels of brandy went up in smoke after a fire at a Martell warehouse in Cognac. Evel Knievel spectacularly failed to jump Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho in a rocket-propelled 'Skycycle'. Oliver Reed appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The first UK broadcast of Speed Buggy. What's So Big About Us? broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The World In Action episode John Conteh broadcast on Thames.
Miss United Kingdom broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Yogi's Gang. Luis Buñuel's Le Fantôme De La Liberté premiered. The first episode of South Riding broadcast on Thames.
Brian Clough was sacked after forty four days in charge of Leeds. The events of Cloughie's period at Elland Road would subsequently form the basis for David Peace's award-winning novel The Damned United. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed by The Derg, bringing an end to the Solomonic dynasty's rule since 1270. The Ethiopian Civil War began.
The American Film Institute's Salute To James Cagney broadcast. Priestley At Eighty broadcast on BBC2. Leni Riefenstahl featured in Great Directors. Robert Wyatt's 'I'm A Believer'/'Memories', Joni Mitchell's 'Free Man In Paris'/'Car On A Hill', Trammps' 'Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart'/'Penguin At The Big Apple', Robert Knight's 'My Rainbow Valley'/'Branded' and Bowie's 'Knock On Wood/'Panic In Detroit' released. The first episode of Russell Harty broadcast on LWT.
Leda, the thirteenth satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by Charles Kowal at the Mount Palomar Observatory. The New York Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing broadcast on BBC2. Something For Mama broadcast on Radio 1. Harry H Corbett's 'Shetland Oil'/'Your Baby Has Gone Down The Plug Hole' released.
The first UK TV showing of Battle Of Britain. Engelbert Humperdinck In Bermuda broadcast on BBC2. Zingelbert Bambledack, Yingibert Damblebang, Zangelbert Bingledack, Winglebert Humptyback, Slut Bumwallah, Cringlebert Fishtgybuns, Gerry Dorsey and Steviebuns Buttrocktrumnsnsn In Bermuda was, tragically, not broadcast. An oortunity missed, one could suggest. Kiki Dee featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first episodes of The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs and Soldier & Me broadcast on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of The Collector. The first episode of The Frost Interview broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode The Special Unit broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Paper Moon. Liverpool beat Norwegians Strømsgodset eleven-nil in the European Cup Winners Cup.
The first episode of Microbes & Men broadcast on BBC2. Muhammad Ali and George Foreman discussed with Harry Carpenter their chances of winning their forthcoming world heavyweight championship title fight on Sportsnight.
The first episode of Sir Mortimer & Magnus broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of Chico & The Man. Ken Hughes's The Internecine Project - starring James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Jayston and Christiane Krüger and Steve Carver's Big Bad Mama - starring Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett and Robbie Lee - premiered.
Pilot's 'Magic'/'Just Let Me Be', Dave Edmunds' 'Need A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues'/'Let It Be Me', The Playthings' 'Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine'/'Dance The Night Away', Olivia Newton-John's 'I Honestly Love You'/'Home Ain't Home Anymore', The Main Ingredient's 'Happiness Is Just Around The Bend'/'Why Can't We All Unite?', Razzy's 'I Hate Hate'/'Singing Other People's Songs', The Playthings' 'Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine'/'Dance The Night Away' and Mister George's 'Lazy Susan'/'Something To Say' released. The Blue Angel shown in BBC2's Milestones of The Film strand. The first episode of Intimate Strangers broadcast on LWT.
Forty two goals were scored in the First Division. West Ham United hit six (against Leicester), Leeds scored five (versus Sheffield United), Derby scored all five goals in their three-two win over Burnley (Kevin Hector, Francis Lee, Bruce Rioch and two own goals). Liverpool beat Stoke three-nil, Newcastle won at Queens Park Rangers. Arsenal put Charlie George and Jeff Blockley on the transfer list at their own request. Blodwyn Pig appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of Cheri broadcast on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of Sweet Charity. Gerry Marsden featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode A Friend In Deed on LWT.
Ceefex began a regular service on the BBC. The Average White Band's drummer Robbie McIntosh died of an accidental heroin overdose at a party at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. McIntosh and bandmate Alan Gorrie took what they believed to be cocaine; Gorrie's life was saved by the intervention of Cher, who kept him conscious long enough for paramedics to arrive. The party's host, millionaire Kenneth Moss, was subsequently indicted for murder by a grand jury. Badger's Set band the World In Action episode It Won't Chance My Life broadcast on Thames.
Help Yourself To A House broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first UK broadcast of Paper Moon on BBC2. Arlo Guthrie, Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Digance and Planxty featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test's coverage of the Cambridge Folk Festival.
Jill Hyem's adaptation of Muriel Spark's Bang, Bang, You're Dead broadcast on Radio 4's Midweek Theatre. Jack Cardiff's The Mutations - starring Donald Pleasence and Tom Baker and Richard Lester's Juggernaut - starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Freddie Jones, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Clifton James and Roy Kinnear - premiered.
John Lennon's Walls & Bridges and David Essex's 'Gonna Make You A Star'/'Window' released. The first episode of Father Brown - The Hammer Of God - broadcast on Thames.
The Glitter Band's 'Lets Get Together Again'/'Jukebox Queen', Rod Stewart's 'Farewell'/'Bring It On Home To Me'-'You Send Me', Santana's 'Samba Pa Ti'/'Incident At Neshabur', Marvin Smith's 'Let The Good Times Roll'/'Ain't That A Shame', Ila Van's 'Can't Help Loving Dat Man'/'I've Got The Feeling', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'So Jah Seh'/'Natty Dread' and Thunderthighs' 'Dracula's Daughter'/'Lady In Question' released. The first episode Top Score broadcast. Lindsifarne appeared on the first episode of The Geordie Scene broadcast on Tyne-Tees and other ITV regions, including Thames.
Brides Of Fu Manchu shown in the Saturday Night At The Movies strand. Everton's three-two over Leeds United featured on Match Of The Day. The first UK TV showing of Of Pure Blood on BBC2.
The first episode of Anno Domini broadcast. Journey To The Outer Limits broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Mickey Most featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first episode of Affairs Of The Heart broadcast on LWT. Jesús Franco's La Noche De Los Asesinos - starring Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, Maribel Hidalgo and Lina Romay - premiered.
Campaign Special broadcast. David Attenborough interviewed Andre Previn on BBC2's Music Makers. The first episode of Oh No - It's Selwyn Froggitt and the World In Action episode After The Hurricane broadcast on Thames.
In The Midst Of Life broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Wally (no, me neither) appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, an episode which also featured an interview with Keith Richards.
Ted Bundy abducted sixteen-year-old Nancy Wilcox in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Her remains were, he subsequently stated, buried near Capitol Reef National Park but were never found. Sportsnight featured highlights of John Conteh winning the vacant WBC light-heavyweight title with a points victory over Jorge Ahumada at the Emire Pool Wembley. Ipswich Town, Stoke City and Wolverhamton Wanderers were allknocked out of the UEFA Cup at the second round stage (to FC Twente, AFC Ajax and FC Porto respectively). Derby County were England's only survivors in the competition with a six-two aggregate win over Servette FC. In the European Cup Leeds United lost their second leg to FC Zürich, but went through five-three on aggregate. The first episode of Going A Bundle broadcast on Thames.
Anthony Harvey's The Abdication - starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann - premiered. Show Of The Week: Twiggs broadcast on BBC2.
Stevie Wonder's 'You Haven't Done Nothin', John Lennon's 'Whatever Gets You Thru' The Night'/'Beef Jerky', Man's 'Day & Night'/'A Hard Way To Live' and Rod Stewart's Smiler released. After nearly a month, Leeds United appointed a successor to Brian Clough, Jimmy Armfield formerly of Bolton Wanderers becoming their new manager. The first episode of No - Honestly broadcast on LWT. Fogg and Showaddywaddy featured on The Geordie Scene.
Melvyn Bragg interviewed Pete Townshend on an episode of Second House, which also featured extended highlights of The Who's summer gig at Charlton Athletic's The Valley. The Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings by the Provisional IRA left four off-duty soldiers and a civilian dead and forty four injured. The first episode of Who's Who broadcast on Radio 1.
The first UK TV showing of Isadora. The Roman Way broadcast in BBC2's Network strand. Sparks appeared on John Peel's Sounds On Sunday.
The first episode of The Case Of Eliza Armstrong broadcast. The first episode of A Taste Of Britain broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode The Granada Five Hundred broadcast.
A night of hat-tricks in the League Cup. Malcolm MacDonald scored three in Newcastle's four-nil win at Queens Park Rangers whilst Mick Channon's treble helped Southampton to a shock five-nil win over Derby. Johnny Rivers and Andy Fairweather Low appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The first episode of Dave Allen In Search Of The Great English Eccentric and Graceless Go I broadcast on Thames.
Florence - The Fifth Element broadcast on BBC2.
The second General Erection of 1974. Labour won a narrow majority - three seats. It was widely expected that Edward Heath's leadership of the Conservative Party would soon end, as he had now lost three of the four General Erections he contested. The Scottish National Party secured its highest Westminster representation to date with eleven seats. Enoch Powell returned to parliament standing for the Ulster Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris and Clive Donner's Vampira - starring David Niven, Teresa Graves, Nicky Henson, Jennie Linden, Linda Hayden and Bernard Bresslaw - premiered.
Slade's 'Far, Far Away'/'OK Yesterday Was Yesterday', Queen's 'Killer Queen'/'Flick Of The Wrist', The Modulations' 'I Can't Fight Your Love'/'Your Love Has Me Locked Up' and Sparks' 'Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth'/'Alabamy Right' released. Television & The Erection broadcast in BBC2's In Vision strand.
The first episode of The Sound Of Petula broadcast. Duel At Diablo shown in BBC2's Midnight Movies strand. Jack The Lad and Nutz featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Rhino Safari broadcast. Science For People broadcast in BBC2's Open Door strand. The Electric Light Orchestra featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday and Cozy Powell on Top Twelve. The first UK broadcast of Planet Of The Apes on LWT.
The Thomas Crown Affair shown in The Monday Film strand. American Ballet Theatre broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode Killer Dust: A Standard Mistake broadcast.
We Never Turn Back broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Climax Blues Band featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Can were in session on The John Peel Show.
Rioting prisoners set fire to the Maze Prison in Belfast.
President Ford testified before Congress on his recent pardon of his predecessor. It was the first a sitting president was compelled to testify before Congress since President Lincoln. David Matthew Macfadyen born in Great Yarmouth.

Mott The Hoople's 'Saturday Gigs'/'Medley a) Jerkin' Crocus b) Sucker c) Violence', The Goodies' 'The Inbetweenies'/'Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me', The Intruders' 'To Be Happy Is The Real Thing'/'A Nice Girl Like You', Gloria Gaynor's 'Never Can Say Goodbye'/'We Just Can't Make It', The Three Degrees' 'Get Your Love Back'/'I Like Being A Woman', Micky Moonshine's 'Baby Blue'/'Name It You Got It', Bunk Dogger's 'Red Alert'/'Whenever I See Your Light' and The Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock 'N Roll released. Ronald Neame's The ODESSA File - starring Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi and Peter Jeffrey and Melville Shavelson's Mixed Company - starring Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen, Dorothy Shay, Ariane Heller and Haywood Nelson - premiered. Melissa Anne Smith - the seventeen-year-old daughter of the police chief of Midvale (a Salt Lake City suburb) - disappeared after leaving a pizzaria. Her naked corpse was discovered in nearby mountains nine days later. Ted Bundy subsequently confessed to her murder. Bull Frog and The Bay City Rollers featured on The Geordie Scene. Tyne Tees Television showed Dracula Has Risen From The Grave for the first time in their Appointment With Fear strand.
Keith Joseph made a speech in Edgbaston on the cycle of deprivation; the controversy it provoked had the effect of ruling him out of high office in the Conservative Party. Randy Newman appeared on BBC2's Second House.
The first episode of Martin Worth's dramatisation of Heidi broadcast. The Jackie Stewart Motor Show, Who Was Charles Ives? and the Tuareg episode of The World About Us strand broadcast on BBC2. Rod Stewart featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve and Slade on Sounds On Sunday.
The first episode of Roobarb broadcast. John Bowen's Heil Caesar broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode Birth Of A Nation broadcast.
Film 74 previewed Stardust and The Diary Of Miss Jane Pitman. Joseph Heller was interviewed on BBC2's The Book Programme. Supertramp and Country Joe McDonald featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The first episode of Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Second Time Around broadcast. Labi Siffre featured on BBC2's Colour My Soul.
Ken Russell's Mahler - starring Robert Powell, Georgina Hale and Lee Montague - and Michael Apted's Stardust - starring David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Rosalind Ayres, Marty Wilde, Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds, Paul Nicholas and Karl Howman - premiered. Show Of The Week: Johnny Mathis broadcast on BBC2.
Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Junior's Farm'/'Sally G' - 'Take me down, Jimmy!' - The Javells Featuring Nosmo King's 'Goodbye Nothin' To Say'/'Nothin' To Say', Barry White's 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything'/'More Than Anything, You're My Everything', Ronnie Corbett's 'Fanny'/'To Get A Laugh', Ayshea's 'Another Without You Day'/'Moonbeam', John Baldry & Barracuda's 'Crazy Lady'/'End Of Another Day' and Bob Marley & The Wailers' Natty Dread released. Kestral and Mud ('Rocket', 'The End Of The World', 'See You Later Alligator', 'Shae, Rattle & Roll') appeared on The Geordie Scene.
Chelsea and Stoke City shared six goals at Stamford Bridge whilst Sheffield United beat Birmingham City three-two at Bramall Lane. Kieran Prendiville charted the rise and fall of the ' bovver boys' and, at Queens Park Rangers' training ground, Desmond Wilcox attempted (unsuccessfully) to find a reason for the increased violence in the A Spot Of Bovver episode of BBC2's Man Alive strand. Supertramp featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of Bogeyman - Prophet - Guardian broadcast on BBC2. Open House featured 'an anarchist from the Northampton steel town on Corby' who explained 'why he believes we need revolutionary social change.' Ah, bless. Joseph Conrad & The Story Of Amy Foster & Yanko Goorall - with Patrick Stewart, Sandor Eles, Hazel Clyne and Peter Barkworth - broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Les Gray of Mud featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Thin Lizzy played The Greyhound in Croydon supported by teenage Woking four-piece, The Jam, playing their first ever date in London.
Brian Glover's Pig Bin broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. The wife and son of Sports Minister Denis Howell survived an IRA bomb attack on their car. The World In Action episode The Low Road broadcast.
The Bomb Disposal Men broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Murder On The Orient Express previewed on Film 74. The Country Girl broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand. Johnny Winter and Janis Ian featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Muhammad Ali chinned George Foreman in The Rumble In The Jungle. Clerical staff at the London HQ of the engineering workers union went on strike, describing the AUEW's President, Hugh Scanlon, as 'a terrible employer!' The Shrewsbury Two - Ricky Tomlinson and Dennis Warren - lost their appeal against a 1973 conviction for conspiracy to intimidate and returned to jail. England beat Czechoslovakia three-nil at Wembley in a European Championship Qualifier, Don Revie's first match as manager, with two goals from Colin Bell and another from Mick Channon. Queens Park Rangers duo Gerry Francis and David Thomas made their intrnational debuts. Scotland defeated East Germany thre-nil in a friendly international at Hampden Park, with goals from Tommy Hutchison, Kenny Burns and Kenny Dalglish. Middlesbrough Graham Souness and Glasgow Celtic's Dixie Deans made their Scotland debut. Sandy Jardine had a penalty saved by Jürgen Croy. Robert Dhéry's Vos Gueules Les Mouettes! - starring Le Bagad Ar-Re-Goz, Fernand Berset and Colette Brosset - premiered.
Colin Welland's Leeds United broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Richard Lester's The Four Musketeers - starring Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York, Roy Kinnear and Christopher Lee and Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise - starring Paul Williams - premiered. Laura Ann Aime, aged seventeen, disappeared in Lehi, Utah after leaving a café. Her naked corpse was found by hikers nine miles to the North in the American Fork Canyon on Thanksgiving Day. Both she and another recent victim of Ted Bundy, Melissa Smith, had been beaten, raped, sodomised and strangled with nylon stockings. Later, Bundy described his postmortem rituals with the corpses of Smith and Aime, including shampooing their hair and applying make-up.
Kraftwerk's Autobahn, The Rubettes' 'Juke Box Jive'/'When You're Falling In Love', The Sweet's 'Turn It Down'/'Someone Else Will' and Desolation Boulevard, Neil Sedaka's 'Bad Blood'/'Hey Mister Sunshine', The Joneses' 'Sugar Pie Guy (Parts 1 & 2)', The Edgar Winter Group's 'Easy Street'/'Do Like Me', The Vel-Vets' 'I Got To Find Me Somebody'/'What Now My Love?', John Schroeder & Orchestra's 'Soul For Sale'/'Lovin' You Girl', Supertramp's 'Dreamer'/'Bloody Well Right', Ace Cannon's 'There Goes My Everything'/'Tennessee Saturday Night' and Marc Bolan's 'Zip Gun Boogie'/'Space Boss' released. Peter Collinson's Open Season - starring Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe and John Phillip Law and Andrew Sinclair's Blue Blood - starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Derek Jacobi and Anna Gaël - premiered. Fogg and John Miles featured on The Geordie Scene.
Ipswich Town beat Liverpool with a Brian Talbot goal to go top of the First Division. Forty Five Minutes Each Way broadcast in BBC2's Second House strand. Carole King featured on Radio 1's All American Heroes.
The first episode of Notorious Woman broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Oh! What A Lovely War. Gene Sings Pitney broadcast. Gallagher & Lyle appeared on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday.
Judith Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment for the M62 coach bombing. Eighteen years later the conviction would be overturned. Sunday Tea broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. The World In Action episode On The Trail Of The Torturers broadcast.
Liverpool went out of the European Cup Winners Cup on away goals after a goalless draw with Ferencváros in Hungary. Smog broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand. The first episode of Rooms broadcast on Thames.
Leeds progressed in the European Cup, beating Újpest Dózsa three-nil. Derby County drew two-two in Madrid against Atlético in the UEFA Cup and then won seven-six on penalties, Colin Boulton saving from Eusabio. Aston Villa full-back John Gidman was rushed to hospital with an eye injury after a firework accident. Pete Walker's Frightmare - starring Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood and Kim Butcher - premiered. The first episode of Rogue's Rock broadcast on Thames.
John Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan, disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett and the attempted murder of his wife, Veronica. Fleeing the scene, Lucan drove his Ford Corsair forty miles to Uckfield, to the home of friends. Susan Maxwell-Scott's meeting with Lucan in the early hours of the following morning was his last confirmed sighting. Jim Clark's Madhouse - starring Vincent Price and Peter Cushing - Blake Edwards' The Tamarind Seed - starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, Don Chaffey's Persecution - starring Lana Turner, Ralph Bates, Olga Georges-Picot and Trevor Howard and Donovan Winter's Escort Girls premiered. This Week broadcast an episode covering the Maxwell Confait case and claimed - rightly, as it turned out - a miscarriage in the case of the three youths jailed for the 1972 murder.
Val Guest's Confessions Of A Window Cleaner - starring Robin Askwith, Antony Booth, Linda Hayden, Sheila White, Dandy Nichols and Bill Maynard - premiered. Ted Bundy approached eighteen-year-old telephone operator Carol DaRonch at Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah less than a mile from the Midvale restaurant where Melissa Smith had last been seen. He identified himself as 'Officer Roseland' of the Murray Police Department and told DaRonch that someone had attempted to break into her car. He asked her to accompany him to the station. When DaRonch pointed out to Bundy that he was driving on a road that did not lead to the police station, he immediately pulled over and attempted to handcuff her. During their struggle, he inadvertently fastened both handcuffs to the same wrist and DaRonch was able to open the car door and escape. Later that evening, Debra Jean Kent, a seventeen-year-old student at Viewmont High School in Bountiful, disappeared after leaving a theatre production at the school to pick up her brother. The school's drama teacher and a student told police that 'a stranger' had asked each of them to come out to the parking lot to identify a car. Another student later saw the same man pacing in the rear of the auditorium and the drama teacher spotted him again shortly before the end of the play. Outside the auditorium, investigators found a key which unlocked the handcuffs removed from Carol DaRonch's wrist. Minimal skeletal remains (one patella) were eventually discovered in 2015 and were identified by DNA as Kent's. The Barron Knights' 'The Ballad Of Frank Spencer'/'Pardon Me', Hot Chocolate's 'Cheri Babe'/'Sexy Lady', Fanny's 'I've Had It'/'From Where I Stand', Roger Glover & Guests' 'Love Is All'/'Old Blind Mole', 'Magician Moth', John Miles' 'What's On Your Mind?'/'Rock 'N' Roll Band', Steve Ashley's 'Old Rock 'N' Roll'/'Fire & Wine', The Rubettes' 'Juke Box Jive'/'When You're Falling In Love', Larry Saunders' 'On The Real Side'/'Let Me Be The Special One' and Golden Earring's 'Candy's Going Bad'/'She Flies On Strange Wings' released. Geordie, Lamplight and The Freelanders appeared on The Geordie Scene.
The first episode of Cakes & Ale broadcast on BBC2. Peter Sellers appeared in an extraordinary interview on Parkinson. Stevie Wonder featured on Radio 1's All American Heroes.
Music From The Flames broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Sydney Opera House: The Building That Nearly Was broadcast on BBC2. Jack The Lad featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday.
Bob Fosse's Lenny - starring Dustin Hoffman - premiered. Silence broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. The World In Action episode Misery Magic broadcast.
Peter Davison's TV début in an episode of Warship. Although, he had previously been spotted in the audience at an episode of Top Of the Pops in 1970 featuring The Dave Clark Five. A Certain Circumstance broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand.
The first McDonald's takeaway opened in the UK, in Woolwich. And, helped enormously to promote the cause of childhood obesity in Britain. The first episode of The Chinese Puzzle broadcast. Fourth Division Chester City beat Leeds three-nil in the League Cup. Liverpool signed Newcastle's Terry McDermott for one hundred and seventy five thousand pounds. Ronald DeFeo Junior, murdered his entire family in their home in Amityville on Long Island, an event which subsequently inspired the story of The Amityville Horror. The first episode of Follow That Dog broadcast on Thames.
James McDade, a lieutenant in the Birmingham Battalion of the Provisional IRA was killed in a premature explosion whilst planting a bomb at the Coventry telephone exchange. Roxy Music's Country Life released.
Terry Mancini, recently signed by Arsenal, was given a two match ban by the FA for bringing the game into disrepute. He admitted dropping his shorts in front of the Queens Park Rangers director's box in a game against Ipswich and showing his big hairy arse but claimed it was merely 'a gesture of jubilation!' The incident had not been reported by the referee but was widely discussed in the media. Earthquake premiered. Ringo Starr's 'Only You'/'Call Me', Gary Glitter's 'Oh Yes! You're Beautiful'/'Thank You, Baby, For Myself', Rock 'n' Roll With Mungo Jerry EP ('All Dressed Up And No Place To Go', 'Shake 'Til I Break'/'Too Fast To Live & Too Young To Die', 'Burnin' Up'), Argent's 'Keep On Rollin'/'I Am The Dance Of Ages', Junior English's 'Big Boy & Teacher'/'Paul & Paula', Isis's 'Do The Football'/'Rubber Boy', Sparks' Propaganda, Kilburn & The High Roads' 'Rough Kids'/'Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself In London)', Executive Suite's 'You Believed In Me (Parts 1 & 2)' and Elton John's 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'/'One Day At A Time' ('featuring Doctor Winston O'Boogie & His Reggae Guitars'). released. Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets featured on The Geordie Scene.
Scenes from Willy Russell's John, Paul George, Ringo ... and Bert - featuring Bernard Hill and Trevor Eve - broadcast as part of BBC2's Second House strand. Pink Floyd's show at The Empire Pool Wembley was recorded in stereo by the BBC. Forty four goals were scored in the First Division - the most in a single day in four years. Newcastle beat Chelsea five-nil (with all of the goals scored in the second half). David Johnson hit a hat-trick for League leaders Ipswich against Coventry. The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sent an interstellar radio message towards Messier Thirteen, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message is expected to reach its destination around the year Twenty Seven Thousand.
The Wood Demon broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first episode of BBC2's The End Of The Pier Show broadcast. Bad Company featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday. Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders published. The book recounted and assessed the investigation, arrest and subsequent prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers for the notorious 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, the actress Sharon Tate and several others. The book took its title from the apocalyptic race war that Manson allegedly believed would occur, which in turn took its name from the song by The Beatles. It became an instant bestseller, won the 1975 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book and was the basis for two television movies, released in 1976 and 2004. At the time of Bugliosi's death in 2015, it had sold over seven million copies, making it the best-selling true crime book in history (ahead of Truman Captoe's In Cold Blood).
Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway released. John Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence premiered. The World In Action episode The Trials Of Zanzibar broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Rhoda. Badlands previewed on Film 74.
Clothes belonging to the former Postmaster General John Stonehouse were found on a beach in Miami. It appeared that he had gone swimming and had drowned or, possibly, been killed by a shark. He was presumed dead, and obituaries were published despite the fact that no corpse had been found. In reality, he was en route to Australia, hoping to start a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley. The first BBC showing of Village Of The Damned. England drew nil-nil with Portugal at Wembley in a European Championship Qualifier. Terry Cooper, recalled to the national side by his old Leeds United boss for his first England appearance since 1972, broke down with a nagging injury after just twenty minutes and never played for England again. Scotland lost two-one to Spain in a European ChChampionship Qualifier at Hampden Park. Billy Bremner scored first but two goals by Quini gave Spain the points. Tommy Hutchison had a penalty saved.
The Birmingham pub bombings, twenty one killed and one hundred and eighty injured by the IRA. Peter Shilton moved from Leicester City to Stoke for three hundred and twenty five thousand pounds, a world record for a goalkeeper. Peter Crane's Moments - starring Keith Michell, Angharad Rees and Bill Fraser, Sidney Lumet's Murder On The Orient Express - starring prettty much everyone, Lewis Gilber's Paul & Michelle - starring Anicée Alvina, Sean Bury and Keir Dullea and José Bénazéraf's Le Bordel, 1ère époque: 1900 premiered.
The first episode of Ken Dodd's World of Laughter broadcast. Lieutenant-Colonel John Elliott Brooks, a former Mayor of Kensington, Tory counsellor and solicitor, sued the Sunday People for libel over a 1972 article, Exposed: Top Lawyer Who Traps Girls For Sex which accused him of spanking a student, Sue Carr, on-board his motor yacht, the Adelaide III and described him as 'a menace to young girls.' In evidence the Manchester University student - who had been paid for her story - told the court that she was smacked on her bottom about thirty times by the claimant. The judge decided that the newspaper had exaggerated the story, albeit not by much and though the colonel won his case, he was awarded damages of but one half-penny. Helen Morgan representing Great Britain won the Twenty Fourth Miss World pageant at the Royal Albert Hall. Although it was known to the organisers at the time she was crowned Miss Wales and she was completely open about the issue with the media, Morgan resigned four days later over the intense pressure and media interest in the fact that she was a single mother. The wife of the child's father had given many media interviews in the hours following the contest, creating negative and lurid headlines. Joseph Hardy's adaptation of Great Expectations - starring Michael York, Sarah Miles and James Mason - premiered. Lulu's 'The Man With The Golden Gun'/'A Boy Like You', Doctor Feelgood's 'Roxette'/'(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66', Mud's 'Lonely This Christmas'/'I Can't Stand It', Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden's 'Theme From Murder On The Orient Express'/'Waltz Theme From Murder On The Orient Express', Showaddywaddy's 'Hey Mister Christmas'/'Rock 'N' Roll Man', The Tymes' 'Ms Grace'/'The Crutch', Charlie Williams' 'Ta Luv'/'Hanging Around' and ABBA's 'So Long'/'I've Been Waiting For You' released. Raw Spirit and Mungo Jerry ('Long-Legged Woman Dressed In Black', 'Gonna Bop Till I Drop', Little Miss Hip-Shake', 'All Dreesed Up & No Place To Go') appeared on The Geordie Scene.
Richard Burton's appearance on Parkinson had to be pre-recorded in the afternoon for fear that the notorious drinker would be inebriated by the evening if allowed sufficient access to alcohol. An audience was hastily convened and as a result, mainly comprised staff of the BBC canteen still in their kitchen whites. Burton confessed afterwards that the view from the studio floor as he walked on made him think that the 'men in white coats' had caught up with him at last. The Hudson Report broadcast on BBC2. Aretha Franklin featured on Radio 1's All American Heroes.
The Royal Variety Performance broadcast. It Didn't Rain Every Day broadcast on BBC2. Uri Gellar appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The Birmingham Six were charged with the Birmingham pub bombings. The Faces' 'You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)'/'As Long As You Tell Him' released.
The Family Way shown in the Monday Film strand. Tom Pickard's Squire - starring and with music by Alan Hull - broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Singer-songwriter Nick Drake died at his parents home in Tanworth-in-Arden from an overdose of antidepressants. The World In Action episode Who Runs Ulster? broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Essington in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was passed.
Jim Atkinson's Can You Keep It Up For A Week? - starring Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett, Jill Damas, Sue Longhurst, Richard O'Sullivan and Valerie Leon - premiered. Inside The Great Pyramid broadcast on BBC2.
Paul Burnett presented Top Of The Pops featuring Pilot, The Javells featuring Nosmo King, Kenny, The Goodies, Barry White, Suzi Quatro, Gary Glitter, Splinter, Ace, David Essex and Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes. Show Of The Week: The Complete Victor Borge broadcast on BBC2.
The Slade In Flame soundtrack, David Essex's 'Stardust'/'Miss Sweetness', The Newcastle United Players & Bobby Webber's 'United, Newcastle United'/'A Thank-You Message From The Team', Carpenters' 'Please Mister Postman'/'This Masquerade' and Status Quo's 'Down Down'/'Nightride' released. The Ashes series began in Australia. In it, Mike Denness's ageing England side would be cruelly worked-over by the hostile pace of Dennis Lillie and Jeff Thomson. Keith Fletcher and John Edrich (twice each), Dennis Amiss, David Lloyd, Colin Cowdrey and Fred Titmus were all injured whilst batting in the series. Australia won the six test series four-one with one match drawn. Kevin Conor's The Land That Time Forgot - starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Keith Barron - premiered. Cozy Powell's Hammer and Beckett appeared on The Geordie Scene.
The first episode of The Early Life Of Stephen Hind broadcast on BBC2. Stoke City beat Leicester City one-nil to move to the top of the First Division, though a mere three points separated the top nine clubs. Carlisle United's early form had deserted them and they now lay in the relegation zone along with Luton Town and Chelsea. In the Second Division a crowd of over sixty thousand saw leaders Manchester United beat promotion rivals Sunderland three-two at Old Trafford. Chris Stainton's Tundra and Kokomo featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episodes of A Day With Dana on BBC2 and David Copperfield broadcast. Steve Harley featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK TV showing of Coogan's Bluff. Too Hot To Handle broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Gerry O'Hara's Feelings - starring Kate O'Mara, Paul Freeman and Edward Judd - premiered. The World In Action episode Trouble Afoot broadcast.
Pioneer 11 entered the shadow of Jupiter (twenty seven thousand miles from the planet's atmosphere) and captured famous images of the Great Red Spot. Little Man Lasse broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand. Nico was in session on The John Peel Show. Natalie Joy Robb born in Bellshill.
The first episode of Melissa broadcast as part of the Franics Durbridge Presents ... strand. Despite Tony Greig's century in the first innings and seven wickets from Bob Willis, Australia easily won the first Ashes test by one hundred and sixty six runs. Dennis Lillie and the under-rated Max Walker took four wickets each and Jeff Thomson nine as England got a jolly nasty taste of what they could look forward to over the next couple of months. Michael Carreras's Shatter - starring Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li and Peter Cushing - premiered.
Fugitive broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Party Political Broadcast, the final episode of Monty Python broadcast on BBC2.
Introducing Diane Solomon broadcast. The Battleship Potemkin shown in BBC2's Milestones Of The Film strand. William Hardcastle Meets Monty Python broadcast in BBC2's In Vision strand. George Harrison's 'Ding Dong'/'I Don't Care Anymore', Pretty Things' 'Is It Only Love?'/'Joey', Lonette McKee's 'Save It (Don't Give It Away)'/'Do To Me' and Sambo Jim's 'Natty Dread'/'Collie Burning' released. Sandgate and The Sweet ('Breakdown', 'Solid Gold Brass' and 'Turn It Down') featured on The Geordie Scene.
Muhammad Ali appeared on Parkinson and launched into a tirade when Parky challenged him on the nature of his religious belief and, in particular, the treatment of women in Islam. Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra At The Royal Albert Hall and Sir John Betjeman's A Passion For Churches broadcast on BBC2. Manchester United came back from three-one down against Sheffield Wednesday to draw four-all. And, there was loads of rock hard violence in the ground too. Stoke City were top of the First Division after a three-nil victory over Birmingham Cty. An eight-man 'on-pitch brawl' broke out in the match between Carlisle United and Arsenal. Carlisle won the game two-one. Tottenham beat Newcastle three-nil at White Hart Lane. Spurs' opening goal came when United's goalkeeper - teenage debutant Tony Bell - spilled Cyril Knowles' cross into his own net. Tony's error - broadcast to the nation the following day on The Big Match - was made worse by Brian Moore's less-than-helpful commentary. Bell never played another first team game from Newcastle. Thin Lizzy appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. José Ramón Larraz's Vampyres - starring Anulka Dziubinsaka, Marianne Morris and Michael Byrne - premiered.
David Mercer's Find Me broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first episode of BBC2's A Day With Dana broadcast. Freddie Starr ate Radio 1's Top Twelve.
George Harrison's Dark Horse released. Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore premiered. The World In Action episode Round Up Of The Year broadcast.
Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics 'for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars.' Arthur Miller's After The Fall - starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer - broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand.
Newcastle United retained the Texaco Cup with a three-one aggregate victory over Southampton. Derby lost four-one to Yugoslavia's Velež Mostar and went out of the UEFA Cup. Stanley Long's Naughty! premiered.
Sing The Lady Out Of Bed broadcast on BBC2.
Too Much Monkey Business broadcast. William Trevor's Eleanor broadcast in the Play For Today strand. James Kenelm Clarke's Got It Made - starring Lalla Ward and Michael Latimer - premiered.
Val Meets Barry Sheene broadcast. Fritz Lang's M shown in BBC2's Milestones Of The Film strand. Kelly's Eye appeared on The Geordie Scene.
John Guillermin's The Towering Inferno and Bernard Girard's Gone With The West (aka Little Moon & Jud McGraw) - starring James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray and Barbara Werle - premiered. The Juniper Tree broadcast in BBC2's Second House strand. Liverpool two-nil victory over Luton Town included the first of three hundred and sixty six consecutive league apearances by Phil Neal. The sequence was finally broken on 24 September 1983 when Neal was injured in a game against Manchester United and missed the follow week's match with Sunderland. In one of the least-likely gig pairings in popular music history, The Pretty Things and Jasper Carrott featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Jeff Thomson hit David Lloyd reet hard in the Jacob's Cream Crackers at Perth during the - bruising - second Ashes test. England, with two fortysomethings - Colin Cowdrey and Fred Titmus - in their side were outclassed on a lightning fast wicket and Australia (for whom Ross Edwards and Doug Walters both scored centuries) won comfortably by nine wickets. Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein premiered. Emerson Lake & Palmer featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday. So, that would've been worth avoiding.
So You Think You're Safe At Home? broadcast. The Festive Poacher broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand.
New speed limits were introduced on Britain's roads in an attempt to save fuel at a time of Arab embargoes following the Yom Kippur War. Eric Idle appeared as a guest on The Book Programme. Diary Of A School Teacher broadcast in BBC2's Globe Theatre strand.
Fourth Division Chester City reached the semi-finals of the Football League Cup after beating Newcastle United one-nil in a replay. Middlesbrough lost three-nil to Manchester United, leaving no First Division clubs in the competition. Mary Quant was profield on BBC2's Lifestyle. The first UK TV showing of If ... in the Midweek Cinema strand.
Guy Hamilton's The Man With The Golden Gun - starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams and Hervé Villechaize - premiered. Christmas Oneupmanship broadcast on BBC2. Film Night included Tony Bilbow's location report from the set of Monty Python's Holy Grail. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were both in New York with a view to signing a document ending The Beatles' partnership (Ringo Starr had already signed, in England). They were initially thwarted as John Lennon's astrologer told him 'the time wasn't right.' Lennon finally signed the document eight days later at Disneyworld, which he was visiting with his son, Julian. The Provisional IRA exploded a car bomb which was parked opposite to Selfridge's department store on Oxford Street. The attack was carried out by an IRA active service unit known as The Balcombe Street Gang who carried out some forty attacks in England between October 1974 and December 1975.
Leicester City's Keith Weller staged a half-time walk-out during his team's one-nil defeat to Ipswich Town. Ipswich, themselves, were without full-back Kevin Beattie who had disappeared earlier in the week and gone home to Carlisle. 'I'm completely shattered, life has got on top of me,' claimed Beattie. 'I am no George Best but I just want people to realise the pressures. I decided to go home and see my mum. She understands me better than anybody.' Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II and Earl Bellamy's Seven Alone premiered.
Bottom-of-the-league Carlisle United won three-two at Everton after Everton had led two-nil. Newcastle thrashed Leeds United three-nil at St James' Park and Birmingham City beat Liverpool three-one. Arsenal won two-nil at Stoke to knock The Potters off the top of the table. Bob Dylan was profiled on Radio 1's All American Heroes. Ronnie Laine's Slim Chance appeared on In Concert.
The Omnibus film Cuckoo: A Celebration Of Mister Laurel & Mister Hardy broadcast, narrated by Eric Morecambe. Denver In Colorado brodcast on BBC2.
The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas broadcast as part of the A Ghost Story For Christmas strand. Spike Millgan's The Last Turkey In The Shop Show broadcast on BBC2. Gerald Ford, in a conversation-interview with James Alsop, declared his belief that a new war in Middle East and a world crisis were likely in 1975, following the economic breakdown of 'a European country, allied to the United States' (speculated to be either the United Kingdom or Italy).
The - utterly brilliant - final episode of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Ice Station Zebra. Elton John's concert at the Hammersmith Odeon was broadcast on The Old Grey Whistle Test (and simultcast on Radio 1). Darwin, Australia was almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. The former government minister John Stonehouse who went missing in November was found alive in Australia having faked his own death. He was arrested by Australian police, who initially believed he was Lord Lucan. On his arrest, the police instructed Stonehouse to 'pull down his trousers' so they could determine whether or not he was Lucan, who had a six-inch scar on the inside of his right thigh. Have Yourself A Swinging Christmas - featuring Norrie Paramer and the BBC Midland Radio Orchestra broadcast on Radio 2.
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise appeared on Parkinson. Marjorie Bilbow's documentary Dracula Revisited broadcast of Radio London. When The Angels ... broadcast on BBC2.
In the First Division at Elland Road the referee booked seven players in Leeds United's two-two draw with Burnley. The latter's manager, Jimmy Adamson, noted: 'We were provoked and we retaliated. It's a pity this sort of thing happens but it has happened with Leeds for the last ten years. Not just against Burnley!' Liverpool returned to the top of the league with a four-one win over Manchester City. I've Cracked It and The Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplin broadcast on BBC2. The launch of the Soviet Space station Saljut Four. Ed Stewart's Glitter Party - in which Stewpot played host to The Glitter Band broadcast on Radio 1.
James Kenelm Clarke's Got It Made - starring Lalla Ward, Michael Latimer and Michael Feast - premiered. Tony Bennett At The Royal Festival Hall broadcast on BBC2.
Tom Baker's first full appearance as The Doctor. The first episode of An Unofficial Rose broadcast on BBC2.
Gerry O'Hara's Feelings - starring Kate O'Mara, Paul Freeman and Edward Judd - premiered. Tim King's documentary Lost broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Churchill's People broadcast. John Wiles's The Lysenko Affair broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Initiation broadcast in the Centre Play strand. Muriel Spark's Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse broadcast on Radio 4's Morning Story, read by Sheila Mitchell. Dave Allen: Eccentrics At Play broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Mister Men broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Hammer's The Devil Rides Out on BBC2. The third Ashes test ended in a draw. In the closest game of the Ashes series, Australia ended eight runs short of victory with two wickets remaining. Dennis Amiss top-scored for England with ninety. As a result of Nixon administration's abuses of privacy, Privacy Act of 1974 passed into law. President Ford was persuaded by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to veto the bill. However, Congress overrode Ford's veto. Paul Burnett's Pop Into 75 broadcast on Radio 1. Gary Anthony's Moonshine Girls - starring Jerry Mills, Mary Martyn and Hugh Ward - premiered.