1975

1975
The first episode of The Secret Garden broadcast on BBC1. Margaret McCall's documentary The Cat broadcast on BBC2. John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman were convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury and were sent to The Joint for their naughty crimes. In total, forty one people would ultimately receive criminal convictions related to the Watergate scandal. But not Richard Nixon. England won the first one day international at Melbourne by three wickets, David Lloyd (having just about recovered from his eye-watering encounter with Jeff Thomson's nut-cruncher at Perth) top-scored with forty nine. Peter Duffell's Inside Out - starring Telly Savalas, Robert Culp and James Mason and Derren Nesbitt's The Amorous Milkman - starring Julie Ege, Diana Dors, Brendan Price and Alan Lake - premiered.
The first episodes of The Roman Way and After That, This broadcast. The first UK TV showing of The Missiles Of October. The first episode of The Sweeney - Ringer - broadcast on Thames.
Larger Than Life: Alexander The Big - Lord Hesketh broadcast. Wigan's Chosen Few's 'Footsee'/'Seven Days Too Long', Paul Anka's 'I Can't Help Loving You'/'Can't Get Along Very Well Without Her', The Montclairs' 'Hung Up On Your Love'/'I Need You More Than Ever', Pilot's 'January'/'Never Give Up' and Carl Carlton's 'Everlasting Love'/'I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze' released. Jack The Lad, Prelude and Ace featured on The Geordie Scene.
Isthmian League Leatherhead reached the Fourth Round of the FA Cup by beating Brighton & Hove Albion thanks to a goal by Chris Kelly, 'The Leatherhead Lip'. They were joined by the Southern League's Wimbledon, who win one-nil away to First Division Burnley. Mick Mahon scored the winner. Two other non-league sides, Altrincham and Wycombe Wanderers, held First Division opponents, Everton and Middlesbrough respectively (Everton were down to nine men after Gary Jones was sent-off and John Connolly broke his leg before a Dave Clements penalty levelled the scores). A fifth non-league side Stafford Rangers drew with Rotherham United and then won the replay three days later. Newcastle United, drawn at home to Manchester City but forced to play the game at Maine Road by an FA ban, won two-nil with goals by Geoff Nulty and Mickey Burns. The Rack shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Elvis profiled on Radio 1's All American Heroes. The first episode of Carry On Laughing broadcast on LWT.
The first episodes of Home Town and Time Running Out broadcast. King Creole shown in BBC2's Presley At Forty strand. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Mind Over Mayhem on LWT.
The first episode of The Changes broadcast. Brian Clough became manager of Nottingham Forest. The Pretty Things were in session of The John Peel Show ('Bridge Of God', 'Silk Torpedo', 'Come Home Momma', 'Dream'/'Joey'). The first episode of The Life of Riley and the World In Action episode Mister Grimshaw broadcast. Thames began their - rather unimaginatively-named - The X Film strand with a showing of The Mad Room. The slot would, subsequently, become rebranded as Appointment With Fear following the lead of several other ITV regions (Granada, ATV Midland, Tyne Tees and Yorkshire).
The first episode of The Ventures broadcast. Third Division underdogs Walsall knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup, winning the Third Round replay three-two at Fellows Park after the first match at Old Trafford ended in a goalless draw. In the first match of a new series of BBC2's International Pro-Celebrity Golf Peter Oosterhuis partnered Christopher Lee to victory over Tom Weiskopf and Telly Savalas. Armand Weston's The Defiance Of Good - starring Jean Jennings, Fred J Lincoln, Day Jason and Carole Holland - premiered.
The Big Job shown in The Wednesday Film strand. The Breakthrough broadcast in BBC2's Playhouse strand.
The first episode of Gangsters broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. England's Ashes woes continued as Australia won the fourth test at Sydney by one hundred and seventy one runs and, thus, regained the Ashes they had last held in 1971. Greg Chappell and Ian Redpath scored centuries for the hosts and, for once, it wasn't pace but, rather, Ashley Mallet's spin which did for England in the second innings. The Sweeney episode Jackpot broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Sportstown broadcast. Sparks' 'Something For The Girl With Everything'/'Marry Me', Redbone's 'Suzi Girl'/'Interstate Highway 101', Sailor's 'Blue Desert'/'Blame It On The Soft Spot', Trammps' 'Sixty Minute Man'/'Scrub Board', Betty Wright's 'Shoo-rah! Shoo-rah!'/'Tonight Is The Night', Trammps' 'Sixty Minute Man'/'Scrub Board', Love Unlimited's 'It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)'/'I Love You So, Never Gonna Let You Go', Sons Of Moses' 'Soul Symphony'/'Fatback' and The Harry South Orchestra's 'The Sweeney (Opening Version)'/'The Sweeney (Closing Version)' released. The Glitter Band ('Let's Get Together Again', 'Angel Face', 'Rock On', 'Goodbye My Love', 'Sealed With A Kiss', 'Give Me Some Loving') featured on The Geordie Scene.
Radio 1's Alan Freeman Show featured a broadcast of the majority of Pink Floyd's show at The Empire Pool, Wembley from 16 November 1974. This included not only a complete performance The Dark Side Of The Moon but, also, early versions of three new songs, 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Raving & Drooling' and 'You've Got To Be Crazy'. Diana Ross & The Supremes were profiled on All American Heroes. Alfie Conn scored a hat-trick for Tottenham in a five-two win at Newcastle. The Daughters Of Heaven broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of The 60 70 80 Show broadcast. Serial killer Ted Bundy shifted much of his criminal activity Eastward, from his base in Utah to Colorado. Twenty three-year-old registered nurse Caryn Eileen Campbell disappeared while walking down a well-lit hallway between the elevator and her room at the Wildwood Inn in Snowmass Village. Her naked corpse was discovered a month later next to a dirt road just outside the resort. She had been killed by blows to her head from a blunt instrument which left distinctive linear grooved depressions on her skull. The first episode of Radio 1's Quiz Kid 75 broadcast. The first episode of Joby broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Every Body Knows broadcast. Jonathan Raban's Snooker broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand.
Donald Neilson - 'The Black Panther' - kidnapped the heiress Lesley Whittle. Hammond Innes was profiled on BBC2's The Book Programme. The first episode of Nightingale's Boys and the World In Action episode The Morning After The Year Before broadcast on Thames.
William Trevor's Mrs Acland's Ghosts broadcast as part of BBC2's Playhouse strand. The first episode of Cilla's Comedy Six broadcast on Thames. CIA Director William Colby confirmed the reports from New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh and revealed to a Senate subcommittee that the agency had violated its charter by spying on American citizens for activities within the United States.
Malcolm Bradbury's The After Dinner Game broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The first episodes of BBC2's The Roman Way and After That, This broadcast. The Sweeney episode Thin Ice broadcast on Thames.
Little Feat performed 'Rock n Roll Doctor' and 'Fat Man In The Bath Tub' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Also featured were John Martyn, Mssrs Bachman Turner and, indeed, Overdrive and a Robert Plant interview. Pilot's 'January'/'Never Give Up', Dean Parrish's 'I'm On My Way'/'Watch Out!', Queen's 'Now I'm Here'/'Lily Of The Valley', Kiss' 'Nothin' To Lose'/'Love Theme From Kiss', The Emotions' 'Baby I'm Through'/'I Wanna Come Back', The Steve Karmen Big Band Featuring Jimmy Radcliffe's 'Breakaway (Parts 1 & 2)' and The Eagles' 'Best Of My Love'/'Midnight Flyer' released. Martin Campbell's Eskimo Nell - starring Roy Kinnear, Anna Quayle, Katy Manning and Christopher Timothy - premiered. Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames featured on The Geordie Scene.
Everton, who had lost only three league games thus far, took over leadership of the First Division with a three-nil win over Birmingham City. David Essex In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Johnny Cash profiled in Radio 1's All American Heroes strand. The first UK TV showing of Frankenstein Created Woman in BBC2's Midnight Movies strand. Lyn Paul's 'Love'/'I Could Get Arrested' released.
The Apple Cart broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Ella Fitzgerald At Ronnie Scott's broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Joshua Rifkin & Friends In The RedBack - Gershwin - Baroque Beatles Book Show broadcast on BBC2. Strangers On A Train shown in the Murder At The Movies strand.
Peter Ransley's The House On The Hill broadcast as part of BBC2's Centre Play strand. The World In Action episode Reverend Parker Says Goodybe broadcast.
Barry Norman interviewed Lauren Bacall on Film 75.
The first episode of The Love School broadcast on BBC2. Aston Villa and Norwich City completed aggregate victories in their League Cup Semi-Finals over Chester and Manchester United respectively. The first episode of Cilla's Comedy Six broadcast on Thames.
Breath broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Anita Sings Harris broadcast. Divorce - English Style broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The Sweeney episode Queen's Pawn broadcast on Thames.
Bruce Johnston performed a stunning solo piano version of 'Disney Girls' on The Old Grey Whistle Test, during which Bob Harris appeared to fall asleep. The first UK TV showing of David & Lisa. John Lennon's 'Number Nine Dream'/'What You Got' and Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge's 'Rain'/'What'cha Gonna Do' released. Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers featured on The Geordie Scene.
Wimbledon held Leeds United to a goalless draw at Elland Road in the FA Cup Fourth Round with Dicky Guy saving Peter Lorimer's eighty second minute penalty. Leatherhead's run came to an end with a three-two defeat to Leicester City (having been two goals ahead). FA Cup holders Liverpool were knocked out by Ipswich Town. Walsall's cup run continued with a one-nil win over Newcastle United. The first appearance of The Wirrn in Doctor Who. The Magic Moving Picture Show broadcast on BBC2. Towering Inferno and Death Wish previewed on Film Night. The first UK TV showing of Hammer's The Plague Of The Zombies in the Midnight Movies strand.
Alan Yentob's Omnibus film Cracked Actor - featuring a frequently snowflaked-off-his-tits David Bowie - broadcast. The first episode of Anne Of Avonlea broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Claude Chabrol's Le Boucher in BBC2's Murder At The Movies strand. A Gargantuan Pianistic Extravaganza broadcast. The Great Turtle Mystery broadcast in The World About Us strand.
Arthur Hiller's adaptation of The Man In The Glass Booth and Joseph Losey's Galileo - starring Topol, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox and John Gielgud - premiered. The World In Action episode No Smoke Without Fire broadcast.
Arsenal's three-nil victory ovr Coventry City in the FA Cup Fourth Round replay featured on Sportsnight. An Impeccable Elopement broadcast in BBC2's The Love School strand.
Willy Russell's The Death Of A Young Young Man broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Australia won the fifth Ashes test by one hundred and sixty three runs, despite some late resistance by Alan Knott (who scored an undefeated century). Derek Underwood took eleven wickets in the match. The Sweeney episode Jigsaw broadcast on Thames.
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's 'Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)'/'Another Journey', Sister Sledge's 'Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me'/'Don't You Miss Him', Lada Edmund Junior's 'The Larue'/'Soul Au Go-Go', Van McCoy's 'Soul Improvisations (Parts 1 & 2)', Parliament's 'Up For The Down Stroke'/'Presence Of A Brain' and Guys 'n' Dolls' 'There's A Whole Lot Of Loving'/'Don't Turn The Other Cheek' released. Peter Collinson's The Spiral Staircase - starring Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer and Sam Wanamake - premiered. Highway and Splinter featured on The Geordie Scene.
Mick Walsh scored the goal of the season as Blackppol beat Sunderland three-two on Match Of The Day, a game which was also memorable for John Burridge's penalty save from Billy Hughes whilst a white-coated steward behind the goal did his best to put Hughes off. The Man They Could Not Hang - featuring songs by Fairport Convention - broacast in BBC2's Second House strand. Ace and Doctor Feelgood featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Yücel Uçanoglu's Namus Belasi - starring Mustafa Adanali - premiered.
Double Indemnity shown in BBC2's Murer At The Movies strand. Ethiopian troops massacred over one hundred civilians in the village of Woki Duba, after driving Eritrean rebels from the town. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode An Exercise In Fatality on LWT.
Eli Black, the CEO of United Brands, was driven to his office at the Pan Am Building in Manhattan, locked the door inside his private office on the forty fourth floor, broke a window and jumped to his death. Subsequent investigations revealed that Black had paid a million dollar bribe to the Economics Minister of Honduras, Abraham Bennaton Ramos, in order to prevent that nation from placing a tax on the bananas from United Brands' farms. The Trip To Jerusalem broadcastin BBC2's Centre Play strand. Wolf Rilla's Bedtime With Rosie - starring Una Stubbs, Ivor Burgoyne, Diana Dors and Johnny Briggs - premiered. The World In Action episode Why I Want To Be Leader when behind the scenes with That Awful Thatcher Woman as she prepared to run for leadership of the Conservative party, meeting members of the public and spending time with her horrible family.
The first UK broadcast of Valley Of The Dinosaurs. Clive James appeared on BBC2's The Book Programme. And was his usual smug self. Edward Heath stepped down as chairman of the Conservative Party after That Awful Thatcher Woman outpolled him in the first round of the Tory leadership contest. Natalie Jane Imbruglia born in Sydney.
Scotland drew one-all with Spain in a European Chamionship Qualifier in Valencia. Joe Jordan scored in the first minute for the visitors for whom Celtic's Paul Wilson made his international debut. Kiwi TV broadcast in BBC2's Worldwide strand. Claude Weisz's Une Saison Dans La Vie d'Emmanuel - starring Germaine Montero, Claude Richard, Hélène Darche and Raphaëlle Devins - premiered.
Thieves broke into the Ducal Palace museum at Urbino and stole La Muta by Raphael, The Flagellation Of Christ and Madonna Di Senigallia by Piero Della Francesca, considered to be three of the ten most famous Italian paintings from the Renaissance. The works were recovered, unharmed, in March 1976, from a hotel room in Locarno. The Sweeney episode Night Out broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Ingmar Bergman's Six Scenes From A Marriage on BBC2. Slade's 'How Does It Feel?'/'So Far So Good', Paper Lace's 'Hitchin' A Ride '75'/'Love - You're A Long Time Coming', Wigan's Ovation's 'Skiing In The Snow'/'Northern Soul Dancer', Jimmy Helms' 'Ragtime Girl'/'Romeo & Juliet', José Feliciano's 'Golden Lady'/'Virgo', The IG's 'Thank You, Girl'/'Hang On To Me, Baby', Be-Bop Deluxe's 'Between The Worlds'/'Lights', George Soule's 'Get Involved'/'Everybody's Got A Song To Sing', Mud's 'The Secrets That You Keep'/'Still Watching The Clock', Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers' 'Breathe A Little'/'Friday Song' and Neil Sedaka's 'The Queen Of 1964'/'Solitaire' released. Former White House aide Charles Colson - fresh out of The Joint for his naughty crimes in relation to Watergate - told The Today Show that President Nixon had talked to him in December 1973, about resigning, but did not do so because he was afraid that Vice-President Ford 'couldn't control Henry Kissinger.' Hutch & It's Easy and Andy Fairweather-Low featured on The Geordie Scene.
Liverpool's five-two victory over Ipswich Town and Manchester United's surprise loss at Oxford United featured on Match Of The Day. A Suitable Case For Killing? broadcast on BBC2. Flame previewed on Film night. Nine members of The Stannary, the parliament of the Duchy of Cornwall, signed a resolution declaring Cornwall and its three hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, independent of the United Kingdom.
Changes: A Film About Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine shown in BBC2's Murder At The Movies strand. Claire Goose born in Edinburgh.
Wimbledon's FA Cup run finally ended in a replay with a one-nil defeat to Leeds United. In one of their most memorable episodes The Goodies, The Movies, Tim, Graeme and Bill bought a film studio, fired all the directors (even Ken Russell, despite the fact that he had Oliver Reed burned at the stake!) and had a go at making their own movies. With hilarious consequences. The World In Action episode Wanted: A Home Of Their Own broadcast. Healing Force and Jack The Lad featured on The Geordie Scene.
That Awful Thatcher Woman replaced Ted Heath as leader of the Conservatives. The Glittering Eye broadcast on BBC2.
Hal Ashby's Shampoo premiered. Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly reaffirmed the 1972 Yushin Constitution.'
With Jeff Thomson absent and Dennis Lillie injured and able to bowl only a few overs England finally had something to smile about in the sixth Ashes test at Melbourne. Mike Denness and Keith Fletcher both scored hundreds and Peter Lever took nine wickets as England won by and innings and four runs. Richard Loncraine's Slade In Flame - starring Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim lea, Don Powell, Tom Conti, Alan Lake, Johnny Shannon and Kenneth Colley - premiered. The Sweeney episode The Placer broadcast on Thames.
PG Wodehouse died, aged ninety three. Big Jim Stafford's 'Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne'/'A Real Good Time', The Three Degrees' 'Sugar On Sunday'/'Maybe', Philly Devotions' 'I Just Can't Say Goodbye'/'Instrumental' and Showaddywaddy's 'Sweet Music'/'Windows' released.
Parkinson featured Parky's infamous car-crash of an interview with Helen Mirren. Clive James's contemporary review in the Observer noted: 'This week's number two lady superstar was Helen Mirren, who squared off against Parkinson in yet another doomed attempt to scale down her vitality within the limits of the medium's butter-brained expectations. Parky kept referring to "your physical attributes," apparently oblivious to the fact that his gesturing hands were busy grasping a pair of imaginary breasts. Mirren bashfully dodged such frivolous questioning but seemed all unaware that no other form of questioning was available - as a serious actress she seemed to think that the true topic for the evening, serious acting, was somehow being purposely held back. The truth was, of course, that it had never been conceived of: whatever Parky might be, he isn't devious.' Labi Siffre In Concert broadcast on BBC2. John Lawson's The Old Soldier - starring Fulton Mackay - broadcast in BBC2's Network strand. Man featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of The Hanged Man - Wheel Of Fortune - broadcast on LWT.
The School For Scandal broadcast as part of the Play Of The Month strand. The Postman Always Rings Twice shown in BBC2's Murder In The Movies.
The Goodies episode Clown Virus broadcast. The first episode of The Soul Of The City broadcast. John Lennon's Rock & Roll released. Doctor Feelgood made their TV debut on The Geordie Scene, performing incendiary versions of 'She Does It Right', 'Boom Boom', 'All Through The City', 'Roxette', 'Riot In Cell Block Number Nine', 'Route Sixty Six'. The World In Action episode The Rebel's Dilemma broadcast.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry previewed on Film 75. Sous Les Toits De Paris shown in BBC2's Tuesday Cinema strand.
The first broadcast of Matt Sings Munro. Dust A Case History broadcast on BBC2.
Alan Bennett's Sunset Across The Bay broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The remaining one hundred and fifty protesters who had occupied the proposed nuclear plant site in Wyhl, West Germany, were attacked and dispersed by German riot police, using water cannons, really mean dogs and armoured vehicles. The Sweeney episode Cover Story broadcast on Thames.
David Bowie's 'Young Americans'/'Suffragette City', Ozark Mountain Daredevils' 'Jackie Blue'/'Better Days', Kilburn & The High Roads's 'Crippled With Nerves'/'Huffety Puff', Tony Blackburn's 'Fairy Tales'/'Arnold' and The Goodies' 'The Funky Gibbon'/'Sick-Man Blues' released. Former US Attorney General John Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and former presidential adviser John Ehrlichman were each sentenced to a minimum of two-and-a-half years, in The Slammer by Judge John Sirica. All three had been convicted of obstruction of justice charges in connection with the Watergate scandal. Mitchell joked with reporters about his infamous wife, from whom he was separated, saying: 'It could have been a hell of a lot worse. He could have sentenced me to spend the rest of my life with Martha.' Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi's Mondo Candido - starring Christopher Brown, Michele Miller and Jacques Herlin - premiered. David Bowie's 'Young Americans'/'Suffragette City' released.
Bob MacNab and Alan Ball were both sent-off in Arsenal's two-one defeat at Derby. The Baker Gurvitz Army In Concert broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of Helen - Queen Of The Nautch Girls. The Reptile shown in BBC2's Midnight Movies strand. The Robin Trower Band featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK broadcast of Little House On The Prairie. Henri-Georges Clouzot's La Vérité shown in BBC2's Murder At The Movies strand.
Panorama Goes Comprehensive broadcast. The Goodies episode Chubby Chumps broadcast. Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti released. The World In Action episode The Siege Of Phnom Penh broadcast.
England won the first of a two test series against New Zealand by an innings and eighty three runs at Auckland. Keith Fletcher scored two hundred and sixteen in England's total of five hundred and ninety three for six. Tony Greig took five wickets in each of New Zealand's innings. The match, however, ended on a downbeat note as a bouncer from Peter Lever hit Ewan Chatfield, making his test debut, in the temple. Chatfield stopped breathing and his life was saved by the England physio, Bernard Thomas who performed heart-massage. Lever was visibly upset and, when he subsequently visited a, happily recovered, Chatfield in hospital the New Zealander joked 'he looked worse than I did!'
PC Stephen Tibble was fatally shot by Liam Quinn of the Provisional IRA during a chase through Central London. The Portuguese Ben-Hurs broadcast on BBC2.
Roy Minton's Funny Farm broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Letters From A Soldier broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. The Sweeney episode Golden Boy broadcast on Thames.
Forty three people died in the Moorgate Tube disaster. The Rubettes' 'I Can Do It'/'If You've Got The Time', Dave Edmunds' 'I Ain't Never'/'Some Other Guy', The Elton John Band's 'Philadelphia Freedom'/'I Saw Her Standing There', The Shadows' 'Let Me Be The One'/'Stand Up Like A Man', Little Feat's 'Dixie Chicken'/'Oh Atlanta', Swarbrigg's 'That's What Friends Are For'/'Love Is', Geraldine's 'You'/'It's All For You', Nicole Rieu's 'Live For Love'/'Et Bonjour A Toi L'artiste', Alice Cooper's 'Department Of Youth'/'Cold Ethyl' and George Harrison's 'Dark Horse'/'Hari's On Tour (Express)' released.
The first episode of Dennis Potter's adaptation of Late Call broadcast on BBC2. Aston Villa beat Norwich City one-nil in the all-Second Division final of the League Cup at Wembley. Ray Graydon scored the eighty first minute winner. Country Joe McDonald and Barry Melton featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK TV showing of Spring & Port Wine in the Film Of The Week strand. Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion shown in BBC2's Murder At The Movies.
In its decision in Cox Broadcasting Corporation Versus Cohn, the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a Georgia law prohibiting the press from revealing the names of rape victims. Jon Pertwee played The Reverend Llewellyn-Llewellyn-Llewellyn-Llewellyn, the rugby-supporting leader of The Seventh Day Repressionists in the Wacky Wales episode of The Goodies. This Yankee Dodge Beats Mesmerism Hollow - The Story Of Anaesthetics broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Mister Wilson's First Anniversary broadcast. Hello appeared on The Geordie Scene.
The War That Never Ended broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. ABC's TV movie Trilogy Of Terror - starring Karen Black - was broadcast in the US. Jesús Franco's Des Diamants Pour L'Enfer - starring Lina Romay, Martine Stedil and Nathalie Chape - premiered.
The first episode of You're On Your Own broadcast. Jack Rosenthal's The Evacuees broadcast on BBC2. Leeds beat Anderlecht three-nil in the European Cup. The second test at Christchurch ended in a rain-ruined draw with three of the six scheduled days washed out. Between showers, Dennis Amiss ended a wretched winter for English batsmen with an unbeaten century. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial Secret Weapon broadcast on Thames.
Hugh Whitemore's Goodbye broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The Sweeney episode Stoppo Driver broadcast on Thames. Ken Hughes's Alfie Darling - starring Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins, Hannah Gordon, Sheila White and Paul Copley - premiered.
Richard & Linda Thompson performed 'Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair' and 'A Heart Needs A Home' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. David Bowie's Young Americans, John Gregory & His Orchestra's 'She'/'Jaguar', Hot Chocolate's 'Blue Night'/'You Sexy Thing', Cilla Black's 'Alfie Darling'/'Little Bit Of Understanding', Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' 'You Get Your Kicks'/'Breakout', Curtis Mayfield's 'Mother's Son'/'Love Me (Right In The Pocket)', JJ Barnes' 'Sweet Sherry'/'Chains Of Love' and The Sweet's 'Fox On The Run'/'Miss Demeanour' released.
Second Division Fulham beat Carlisle United in the FA Cup Quarter-Finals. West Ham United (two-nil winners at Arsenal) and Birmingham City joined them in the last four. Orient's one=nil defeat at home to Notts County in the Second Division saw the debut of nineteen year old Glenn Roeder, the first of six hundred and twenty seven games, for Orient, Queens Park rangers, Notts County, Newcastle United, Watford and Gillingham, in a career that lasted until 1993. The first appearance of Davros in Doctor Who. LaBelle In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Getcha-getcha ya-yas here. The John Peel Show featured a preview of the music from the film version of Tommy.
The first episode of The Master Of Ballantrae broadcast. Strange Creatures Of The Night broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Negative Reaction on LWT.
The final episode of The Changes broadcast. The Planets broadcast in the Horizon strand. Kiki Dee Band featured on The Geordie Scene. The World In Action episode The Blood & Guts Shift spent twenty four hours at the casualty department of a Liverpool Hospital, as it struggled on its budget to treat the wounded from increasing alcohol fueled violence at the weekend.
Pierre Trudeau Of Canada broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Alan Bleasdale was interviewed about Scully on BBC2's The Book Programme.
Colin Bell and Malcolm Macdonald scored as England beat the reigning World Champions West Germany two-nil at Wembley in a friendly international. There were England debuts for Leicester City's Steve Whitworth, Queens Park Rangers' Ian Gillard and Stoke City's Alan Hudson. Alan Ball captained the side for the first time. The inexperienced German side - in their four hundredth international - included Erwin Kostedde of Kickers Offenbach, the first black player to appear for West Germany. His Kickers team-mate, Manfred Ritschel made his internatioanl debut. Giles Cooper's adaptation of A Man In The Zoo broadcast on BBC2. The Goodies episode Frankenfido broadcast.

Peter McDougall's Just Another Saturday - starring Billy Connolly - broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Senator Hubert Humphrey agreed to pay back taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service, after his claim of a deduction of almost two hundred thousand dollars for the donation of records from service as Vice President was disallowed. The Sweeney episode Big Spender broadcast on Thames.
Doctor Feelgood performed 'Keep It Out Of Sight', 'She Does It Right', and a legendary, wired version of 'Roxette' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. And, in three minutes flat, Wilko Johnson gave Paul Weller an entire career-plan. Hawkwind's 'Kings Of Speed'/'Motorhead', Ruby Wilson & The Blue Chips's 'Number One In My Heart'/'I'll Be Right Here (When You Return)', Fanny's 'Butter Boy'/'Beggar Man' and Electric Light Orchestra's 'Can't Get It Out Of My Head'/'Illusions In G Major' released. Rudolf Zehetgruber' Das Verrueckteste Auto Der Welt( premiered.
Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Chelsea seven-one in the biggest win of the First Division season. Ipswich Town beat Newcastle United five-four. Ski instructor Julie Cunningham, aged twenty six, disappeared while walking from her apartment to a dinner date with a friend in Vail. Ted Bundy later told Colorado investigators that he approached Cunningham on crutches and asked her to help carry his ski boots to his car, where he clubbed and handcuffed her, then assaulted and strangled her at a secondary site near Rifle, ninety miles West of Vail. Weeks later, he made the six-hour drive from Salt Lake City to revisit her remains, which were never found. Curved Air featured in Radio 1's In Concert. As did Chris de Burgh. The horror. Hans Billian's Zimmermädchen Machen Es Gern - starring Karin Lorson, Sepp Gneissl and Christine Szenetra and Gianni Martucci's La Collegiale - starring Sofia Dionisio - premiered.
The Race Of Champions broadcast. Plein Soleil shown in BBC2's Murder At The Movies strand.
The first UK broadcast of Hong Kong Phooey. Panoriffic! The Goodies episode Scatty Safari broadcast. Lindsay Andersin's In Celebration - starring Alan Bates, Bill Owen, Brian Cox and James Bolam - premiered. American Gypsy appeared on The Geordie Scene. The World In Action episode Tea - The Deadly Cost broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of The Rockford Files. Private schools were outlawed in Equatorial Guinea by order of its dictator, President Francisco Macías Nguema. Macías had previously closed all libraries in the nation and prohibited use of the word 'intellectual.'
The first episode of The Fight Against Slavery broadcast. Good old mad-as-toast Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy premiered. The first episode of The Wackers broadcast on Thames.
Alan Bleasdale's TV début Early To Bed broadcast as part of BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Tangerine Dream's Rubycon released. The Sweeney episode Contact Breaker broadcast on Thames.
Lord George-Brown was interviewed by David Dimbleby on Face Your Image. Nutz and Michael Chapman featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Tina Charles' 'One Broken Heart For Sale'/'Great Male Robbery', Steeleye Span's 'New York Girls'/'Two Magicians' and Jimmy James' 'A Man Like Me'/'Survival' released.
The Eurovision Song Contest was won by Teach-In for The Netherlands with the cheesy but rather brilliant 'Ding-A-Dong'. Second place, as usual, went to Britain, The Shadows' 'Let Me Be The One'. Lynsey De Paul In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Neil Diamond featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
King Lear broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Ring Of Bright Water shown in the Film Of The Week strand. The first UK TV showing of Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?.
Paul McCartney held a party celebrating the conclusion of the recording session for the Wings LP Venus & Mars on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Among the two hundred odd guests was George Harrison. This marked the first occasion that Paul and George had been seen socialising together in public since 1969. Otto Preminger's Rosebud - starring Peter O'Toole and Ashley Lazarus' Forever Young, Forever Free - starring José Ferrer, Karen Valentine, Bess Finney and Norman Knox - premiered. The Kung Fu Kapers episode of The Goodies introduced the world to a new martial arts craze, Ecky Thump. The episode is infamous for the unique documented example of a man, literally, laughing himself to death. Fifty-year-old Alex Mitchell suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart whilst laughing at the episode. Alex's widow later sent Tim, Graeme and Bill a letter thanking them for making her husband's final moments happy. In May 2012, Alex's granddaughter, Lisa Corke, suffered a heart attack at the age of twenty three. She was diagnosed with long QT syndrome and the doctors caring for her believed it was likely that her grandfather suffered from the same, hereditary, condition. The first episode of Noddy broadcast on Thames. Fogg and Geordie appeared on The Geordie Scene. The World In Action episode Tea: Too High A Price To Pay broadcast.
The first episode of The Italian Way broadcast. Police - Harrow Road broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Chuck Wepner, a relatively unknown heavyweight, went up against world champion Muhammad Ali in a bout in Cleveland. Wepner, a club fighter who had been selected as an easy opponent for the champ, knocked Ali down in the ninth round and only lost by a technical knock-out in the final seconds. The Ali-Wepner fight was watched by Sylvester Stallone, who turned his own idea about an obscure boxer getting a title shot into the film Rocky.
Douglas Hickox's Brannigan - starring John Wayne, Richard Attenborough and Judy Geeson - premiered. Spike Millgan's One Man's Week broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial Worlds Away broadcast on Thames.
After three draws, Ipswich Town beat Leeds United three-two in the third replay of their FA Cup Quarter-Final at Filbert Street. The game saw the debut of John Wark, the first of six hundred and fifty one games - for Ipswich, Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Scotland - in a career that lasted until 1997. Plus an appearance in Escape To Victory. Fallen Idols broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Swallows broadcast in the Second City Firsts strand. The Sweeney episode Abduction broadcast on Thames. Freddie Francis's Legend of The Werewolf premiered.
One Friday In Eternity broadcast. Paul Ferris's The Revivalist broadcast on BBC2. The UFO episode The Long Sleep broadcast on LWT almost four years after it was first shown in most other ITV regions. 10CC's 'Life Is A Minestrone'/'Channel Swimmer', The Sounds Of Lancashire's 'Back To Bach'/'Sliced Tomatoes', Ecstasy, Passion & Pain's 'One Beautiful Day'/'Try To Believe Me', New Censation's 'First Round Knockout'/'Everybody's Got A Story', Dee Dee Warwick's 'Get Out Of My Life'/'Funny How We Change Places', Dean Courtney's 'I'll Always Need You'/'Tammy', The Three Degrees' 'Take Good Care Of Yourself'/'If And When' and Humble Pie's 'Rock & Roll Music'/'Scored Out Sister' released.
The Magnificent Two shown in the Saturday Night At The Movies strand. The first episode A Legacy broadcast on BBC2. Chas Chandler featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
African Sanctus broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Remember All The Good Things broadcast on BBC2. The Hollies featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday.
Further Up Pompeii broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Doctor Terror's House Of Horrors on BBC2. The Goodies episode Lighthouse Keeping Loonies broadcast. Everton beat Coventry City to move back to the top of the First Division table, as Liverpool lost two-nil to Stoke City. Tottenham Hotspur slipped back into the relegation zone alongside Carlisle United and Luton Town. The latter lost five-nil at Derby where Roger Davies scored all five.
Lothersdale: An Image Of England broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Neak Leung fell to Khmer Rouge insurgency, cutting off a critical supply line to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The first episode of Edward The Seventh and Shang A Lang broadcast on Thames.
The Lovat's Last Voyage broadcast in the Midweek strand. Twentieth Century-Fox Presents broadcast on BBC2. The Rance Allen Group's 'Ain't No Need Of Crying'/'If I Could Make The World Better' released.
James Robson's Waiting At The Field Gates broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Bobby Fischer refused to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov in Manila voluntarily giving up the world champion title he'd held since 1972.
The first episode of The Good Life broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's All In The Mind broadcast. Pilot's 'Call Me Round'/'Do Me Good', Sergio & Estibaliz's 'Love Come Home'/'Tu Volveras', Ruth Swann's 'Tainted Love'/'Boy - You'd Betta Move On', Betty Wright's 'Where Is The Love?'/'My Baby Ain't My Baby Anymore', Bob Relf's 'Blowing My Mind To Pieces'/Paula Roussell's 'Blowing My Mind To Pieces', The Sharonettes' 'Papa Ooh Mow Mow'/'Instrumental', Father's Angels' 'Bok To Bach'/'Disco Trucking' and Sailor's 'Sailor'/'Open Up The Door' released.
Both FA Cup Semi-Finals - Birmingham City versus Fulham and Ipswich Town versus West Ham United - required replays after both ended in draws. In the Second Division, Manchester United won at Southampton to seal promotion back to the to flight. François Reichenbach's The Monaco Of Prince Rainier broadcast on BBC2. On Film Night Tony Bilbow previewed Young Frankenstein, Tommy and The Great Waldo Pepper. Duane Eddy featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first episode of The Aweful Mister Goodall broadcast on LWT. Catherine Elizabeth Moran born in Brighton.
Freddie Francis's Legend Of The Werewolf - starring Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith and Roy Castle - premiered. BBC2's Closedown featured Manning Wilson reading Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Denise Lynn Oliverson, aged twenty five, disappeared near the Utah-Colorado border in Grand Junction whilst riding her bicycle to her parents' house; her bike and sandals were found under a viaduct near a railroad bridge. A victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy, Oliverson's remains - which Bundy claimed to have thrown into the Colorado River - were never found. Cozy Powell featured on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode By The Dawn's Early Light on LWT.
Sidney Hayers' Deadly Strangers - starring Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden, Ken Hutchison and Peter Jeffrey - premiered. The Long Long Walkabout broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The Goodies episode Rome Antics broadcast. The first episode of Sky broadcast on Thames. The World In Action episode Down With The Rates broadcast.
1956: The Year The Illusions Ended broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first episode of Managing To Survive broadcast.
Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam's Monty Python & The Holy Grail premiered in London. Viv Stanshall appeared on BBC2's One Man's Week. The Beatles & Company partnership was formally dissolved almost five years to the day since Paul McCartney first announced the split, in a private hearing in London attended by none of The Beatles. Everton lost two-one to relegation-threatened Luton Town and Derby County took advantage by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers to move two points clear at the top of the table with three matches left. West Ham United and Fulham reached the FA Cup final after narrow victories in their Semi-Final replays.
Mike Leigh's The Permissive Society broadcast as part of BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. North Viet'nam took control of six of the Spratly Islands which had been under the control of South Vietnam, but had also been claimed by the People's Republic of China. The dispute between the nations would be one of the factors in the war between China and Viet'nam in 1979.
Johan Cryuff was interviewed on Sporting Choice. Smokey and Mick Ronson appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Teach-In's 'Ding-A-Dong'/'Let Me In', Brenda Lee Jones' 'You're The Love Of My Life'/'Thread Your Needle' and Thunder Thighs' 'Stand Up & Cheer'/'I'm Free' released.
The first UK TV showing of Night Of The Big Heat in BBC2's Midnight Movies strand. Operation Eagle Pull started as the United States closed its embassy in Cambodia, and began the evacuation of all American citizens. Caravan featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The Way To The Stars shown in the A Wartime Screen strand. Tomb Of Ligeia shown in BBC2's Sunday Cinema strand. Pilot appeared on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday.
A Chorus Line, which would go on to become a long-running Broadway musical, was first performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival. The Overworked Miracle broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The Goodies episode Cunning Stunts broadcast. The World In Action episode The Dundee Dossier broadcast.
Melanie Suzanne Cooley, aged eighteen, disappeared after leaving Nederland High School in Colorado. Her bludgeoned and strangled corpse was discovered by road maintenance workers two weeks later in Coal Creek Canyon. Gasoline station receipts subsequently placed the serial killer Ted Bundy in nearby Golden on the day Cooley disappeared and she is included in some compilations of Bundy victims. But Jefferson County authorities said the evidence remained inconclusive and continued to treat her homicide as a cold case. The Wallace Collection broadcast in BBC2's Purely For Pleasure strand.
The first episode of Terry Nation's Survivors broadcast. England beat Cyprus five-nil at Wembley in a European Championship Qualifier. Malcolm Macdonald scored all five goals. Supermac became the first player to score five at Wembley and equal the five-goal haul by Tottenham's Willie Hall for England against Northern Ireland at Old Trafford in 1938. Ipswich Town's Kevin Beattie made his international debut. Confusingly, Cyprus had two players in their squad called Andreas Konstantinous - one a goalkeeper, the other a midfielder. Both came on as substitutes, replacing Makis Alkiviades and Nicos Charalambous respectively. With hilarious consequences. Scotland drew one-all with Sweden in a friendly international in Gothenburg. Norwich City;s Ted MacDougall, making his international debut, scored for the visitors. Glasgow Rangers duo Stewart Kennedy (and his massive hair) and Colin Jackson and Sunderland's Billy Hughes also played for Scotland for the first time. The first episode of the - really dreadful - The Tomorrow People serial A Man For Emily broadcast on Thames.
Tony Blackburn presented Top Of The Pops featuring Lelly Boone, The Glitter Band, April, Mud, Petula Clark, Minnie Riperton, KC & The Sunshine Band, Mike Reid, Wigan's Ovation, The Bay City Rollers and The Three Degrees. And people will still try to convince you that punk didn't need to happen. The Frank Crank Story broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. John Lennon's 'Stand By Me'/'Move Over Ms L' released.
John Lennon's final British TV interview, with an obscenely sycophantic Bob Harris on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn', Mud's 'Oh Boy'/'Watching The Clock', Judy Collins' 'Send In The Clowns'/'Houses' and The Jezebelles' 'Tainted Love'/'The Torch Is Back' released.
Spurs beat Chelsea two-nil in a vital relegation six-pointer. Tony Bilbow reviewed Phantom Of The Paradise on BBC2's Film Night. Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched into orbit from the Soviet Union. The Cambodian genocide began two days after the fall of Phnom Penh under the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror.
Sula broadcast. The first episode of The Glen Campbell Music Show broadcast on BBC2.
The episode of Z Cars (PJ Hammond's Distance) broadcast in which Joe Skinner was murdered. The Goodies episode South Africa broadcast. Christopher Miles's adaptation of The Maids - starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York and Vivien Merchant - premiered. The first episode of Sadie, It's Cold Outside broadcast on ITV. Members of the Symbiomese Liberation Army robbed a branch of the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California. Their kidnap victim, Patty Hearst, was subsequently identified as the driver of the getaway car. The World In Action episode The Tips Of The Iceberg investigated the scandal of illegal toxic waste dumping.
Tomorrow's Saudi Arabia broadcast in the Tuesday Documentary strand. JMW Turner The Rebel Angel broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action special The Psychic Surgeons - Miracle Or Illusion? broadcast.
Ipswich Town's drew with Manchester City meaning that Derby County were the Football League Champions for the second time. Leeds United's one-all draw in Barcelona saw them reach the European Cup Final, only the second English side to do so. Peter Lorimer scored their vital goal and Gordon McQueen was sent off. The Bird Men Of Steyning Bowl broadcast on BBC2. Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge commander-in-chief and new leader of Cambodia, arrived at Phnom Penh to begin his revolutionary plans to build Democratic Kampuchea. Mario Mercier's La Papesse - starring Lisa Livane, Erika Maaz and Jean-François Delacour - premiered.
The first episode of Sam & The River broadcast. X-ploitation broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand, about the making of the soon-to-be-released sex movie Erotic Inferno. Released broadcast in the Second City Firsts strand. Six terrorists of the Red Army Faction attacked the West German embassy in Sweden, took eleven hostages and demanded the release of twenty six of the group's jailed members (including Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof). Reversing prior West German policy, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government refused to give in to terrorist demands. In response, the group murdered two embassy employees, military attaché Andreas von Mirbach and Heinz Hillegaard. As Swedish commandos were preparing to storm the building, a terrorist bomb detonated, apparently accidentally, allowing the hostages to escape. Two of the terrorists were fatally injured by their own bomb and the others were captured. The event marked the beginning of the decline of domestic terrorism in West Germany.
The first episode of Roy Castle Beats Time broadcast. According to Radio Times The Old Grey Whistle Test featured a studio appearance by Judith Priest. That, this blogger would have aid good money to see. The Goodies' 'Stuff That Gibbon'/'Goodies Theme', Hot Chocolate's 'Disco Queen'/'You're A Natural High', The Sha-Na-Netts' (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet'/'The Flint-Nik Rock', Retta Young's '(Sending Out An) SOS'/'More SOS' and Joy Fleming's 'A Bridge Of Love'/'Divorcee' released.
Derby County finished two points clear at the top of the First Division after drawing their last match against already relegated Carlisle United. Liverpool finished second, ahead of Ipswich Town on goal average, with Everton fourth. Chelsea's one-all draw with Everton saw them relegated. Tottenham Hotspur also slipped into the relegation zone after losing the North London derby to Arsenal. Prepare To Meet Thy Boom broadcast on BBC2. Ian Hunter appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. George Foreman, in his first ring appearance since losing the world heavyweight championship to Muhammad Ali, fought five different challengers in Toronto as part of a televised exhibition promoted by Don King. The first episode of Tarbuck & All That! broadcast on LWT.
The first UK broadcast of Frank Gillard's Ed Murrow documentary Goodnight & Good Luck on BBC2. The first UK TV showing of Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? in the Sunday Cinema strand. Sidney Hayers' What Changed Charley Farthing? - starring Doug McClure, Lionel Jeffries, Hayley Mills and Warren Mitchell - premiered. 10CC featued on Radio 1's Sounds On Sunday. The first episode of Doctor On The Go broadcast on LWT.
Tottenham Hotspur beat Leeds United four-two to survive in the First Division and relegate Luton Town one year after the latter's promotion. Manchester United kept faith in manager Tommy Docherty after their relegation last year and sealed an instant return to the First Division. FIFA finally lifted George Best's worldwide ban from football, but Docherty said was not prepared to give Best another chance at Old Trafford and he joined Stockport County on a free transfer. Norwich City also sealed an quick return to the First Division going up along with United and runners-up Aston Villa. Sunderland just missed out on promotion, as did Bristol City. Don Howe paid for a second failure to take West Bromwich Albion back into the First Division and was replaced as manager by Johnny Giles. Nottingham Forest, battling against a second relegation in three seasons, turned to Brian Clough in hope of turning the club around and Clough guided them to Second Division survival in the relative comfort of sixteenth place. Cardiff City and Millwall were relegated to the Third Division, along with Sheffield Wednesday. Blackburn Rovers won their first promotion in nearly twenty years when they sealed the Third Division title. Plymouth Argyle finished a point behind them, with Charlton Athletic sealing the final promotion place. Swindon Town missed out on promotion by two points. Mansfield Town won the Fourth Division title by a six-point margin and went up along with Shrewsbury Town, Rotherham United and League Cup semi-finalists Chester. Lincoln City, with the league's youngest manager, Graham Taylor, missed out on promotion on goal average. The Goodies episode Bunfight At The OK Tea-Rooms broadcast. The World In Action episode Nuclear Power - For Peace Or War? broadcast.
Greece: The Seven Black Years broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. In Saigon, the order to carry out Operation Frequent Wind was received, commencing the evacuation of all Americans from South Viet'nam, as well as South Vietnamese nationals who might have faced retaliation. The first wave of helicopters was dispatched from the aircraft carrier USS Hancock landed on the grounds of the Defence Attaché Office compound next to Tan Son Nhut Airport. Two US Marine Security Guards - Corporal Charles McMahon and Lance Corporal Darwin Judge - became the last American servicemen to be killed in Viet'nam, the victims of North Vietnamese shelling of the airport.
Patrick Moore talked about Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the most remote members of the Sun's family in The Sky At Night. The Fall of Saigon took place, effectively ending the Viet'nam War as a victory for the Communists when South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh announced the surrender of the nation to Northern invaders. US Ambassador Graham Martin was the last American diplomat to leave Saigon, lifting off of the US Embassy roof ending the US presence in Vietnam. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Kraftwerk made their first appearance on UK TV on an episode of Tomorrow's World performing 'Autobahn'. Brian Clark's The Saturday Party broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Roy Harper's 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease'/'Hallucinating Light' and Fulham Football Team's 'You Lucky People'/'Fulham Stomp' released. Precious McKenzie set the world powerlifting record on Blue Peter. Ken Annakin's Paper Tiger - starring David Niven and Nejat Okçugil's Deli Deli Tepeli - starring Behiye Aksoy, Sadri Alisik and Feri Cansel - premiered. A three-one victory by Wales in Luxembourg (Leighton James scoring twice) confirmed the visitor's qualification for the Quarter-Finals of the European Champions, the only home national to do so. it was the first time Wales had made the final stages of an international tournament since they reached the Quarter-Final of the World Cup in 1958.
A Dream Of Living brodcast in BBC2's Private Affairs strand. David Robert Joseph Beckham born in Leytonstone. Pere Curran's Penelope Pulls It Off - starring Linda Marlowe, Anna Bergman and Nicholas Day - premiered. Dalglish & Jardine With The New Firm's 'Each Saturday'/'Let's Go Together', Chapter Three's 'I'll Never Be The Same (Parts 1 & 2)', Bataan's 'The Bottle (La Botella)'/'When You're Down (Funky Mambo)' and The Exciters' 'Love You Baby'/'Instrumental' released.
West Ham United beat Fulham two-nil in one of the less memorable FA Cup Finals of the seventies. Alan Taylor - a recent signing from Rochdale - scored both goals as he had down in both the quarter and semi finals. The first episode of Ken Taylor's adaptation of The Girls Of Slender Means broadcast on BBC2. Jeff Lynne featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Christina Rene Hendricks born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his last meeting of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman Mao Zedong spoke out to reverse the disastrous Cultural Revolution. Mao criticised his own wife (Jiang Qing), along with her associates (Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen) for their instigation of the movement, telling them 'Don't function as a gang of four.' Mao would also call for the reversal of the persecution of intellectuals.
Claes Oldenburg was profiled on Omnibus. The Romance Of Indian Railways broadcast in The World About Us strand.
Television began in South Africa, as the first test broadcasts of the South African Broadcasting Corporation were made. The Goodies office became encased in concrete and Tim chanted 'I'm a teapot!' in The End. Kôji Wakamatsu's Gômon Hyakunen-Shi - starring Rumiko Satô - premiered. The World In Action episode Here Is The News broadcast.
Ted Bundy abducted twelve-year-old Lynette Dawn Culver from Alameda Junior High School in Pocatello, Idaho. He drowned and then sexually assaulted her in his hotel room, before disposing of her body in a river North of Pocatello. The first Moon tree to be planted, so called because it was grown from a seed that had been part of five hundred which had been taken to the Moon on the Apollo 14 mission, was placed at Washington Square Park in Philadelphia.
The first episode of Inside Story broadcast on BBC2. John Schlesinger's The Day Of The Locust - starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith and Richard Fleischer's Mandingo - starring James Mason, Susan George and Perry King - premiered. Crystal Palace's two-nil defeat at Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division saw the league debut of Kenny Sansom, the first of six hundred and thirty seven games - for Palace, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Queens Park Rangers, Coventry City, Everton, Brentford, Watford and England - in a career that lasted until 1994. The first episode of The Tomorrow People serial The Revenge Of Jedikiah and the first episode of The Loner broadcast on Thames.
Trevor Wrenn's Erotic Inferno (aka Adam & Nicole) - starring Chris Chittell, Karl Lanchbury, Jennifer Westbrook, Heather Deeley and Mary Millington - premiered. Erotic Inferno is notable for being one of the few British sex films to have been viewed by moral reformer Lord Longford, who saw the film and two others in order to gain first hand experience of sex films, so that he could then morally condemn them. Longford saw the film on a double bill with Hot Acts Of Love at the Astral Cinema in Soho. He later went to see Jess Franco's How To Seduce A Virgin, but reportedly walked out inm disgust. These three movies were later reviewed in Cinema X magazine under the banner Lord Longford - We Rate His selection.
Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time, Showaddywaddy's 'Three Steps To Heaven'/'The Party', The Real Thing's 'Stone Cold Love Affair'/'A Love That's Real', The Chicken Runners' 'Heave Ho The Hammers'/'Chicken Conga', Lorraine Chandler's 'Love You Baby'/'What Can I Do?', Shirelles' 'Last Minute Miracle'/'March', Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony's 'The Hustle'/'Get Dancin', Cottage Pie's 'The Boys In White'/'Sochorale', A Band Called O's 'There Ain't Nothing I Wouldn't Do'/'Moroccan Roll', Hamilton Bohannon's 'Disco Stomp'/'Run It On Down Mister DJ' and Slade's 'Thanks For The Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)'/'Raining In My Champagne' released.
Martin Campbell's Three For All - starring Adrienne Posta, Cheryl Hall, Lesley North, Paul Nicholas, Graham Bonnet, Robert Lindsay, Christopher Neil, Richard Beckinsale, George Baker, Simon Williams, Diana Dors, Arthur Mullard, John Le Mesurier Hattie Jacques, Roy Kinnear, Liz Fraser, David Kossoff, Anna Quayle Ian Lavender, Dandy Nichols, Edward Woodward and the music of Showaddywaddy - premiered.
England beat Cyprus one-nil in European Championship Qualifier in Limassol. Kevin Keegan scored for a very under-par England for whom Manchester City's Dennis Tueart made his debut. Alice Cooper's 'Only Women'/'Devil's Food' released.
The first episode of Rutland Weekend Television broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode Sex & Violence broadcast.
Scotland defeated Portugal one-nil in a friendly international at Hampden Park thanks to an own goal. Derby County's Bruce Rioch and Aberdeen's Arthur Ducan made their debuts.

The Godfather Part II was released in the UK.
Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Listen To What The Man Said'/'Love In Song', Neil Sedaka's 'The Immigrant'/'Your Favourite Entertainer', Bee Gees' 'Jive Talkin'/'Wind Of Change', Ann Byers' 'This Man Is Rated X'/'Gotta Get You Back', Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes' 'Get Out (And Let Me Cry)'/'You May Not Love Me', Temprees' 'At Last'/'I'll Live Her Life' and 10CC's 'Waterfall'/'Four Per Cent Of Something' released.
England and Northern Ireland drew nil-nil in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Ipswich Town's Colin Viljoen made his international debut. Wales and Scotland also drew, two=two, at Ninian Park. John Toshack and Brian Flynn had given the Welsh a two goals lead but Colin Jackson and Bruce Rioch replied for the visitors. West Germany and The Netherlands met for the first time since the previous year's World Cup Final in a friendly international in Swtizerland (if any fixture between those two could ever be described as 'fiendly'). The match ended in a one-all draw, Wim Van Hangegam equalising Herbert Wimmer's opener. The mach-changed German side included an attack led by Fortuna Dusseldorf's Wolfgang Seel and, making his international debut, Erich Beer of Hertha Berlin.
Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman - starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson - premiered.
Scotland thrashed Northern Ireland three-nil at Hampden Park in the Home International championship. Ted MacDougall, Kenny Dalglish and Derek Parlane scored. Tottenham Hotspur's Alfie Conn made his Scotland debut as a substitute.
The trial of West German terrorists Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and other members of the Red Army Faction began in Stuttgart. Blake Edwards's The Return Of The Pink Panther - staring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Christopher Plummer and Catherine Schnell - premiered. John Frankenheimer's French Connection II - starring Gene Hackman - premiered. England and Wales drew two-two in the Home International championship at Wembley. Debutant Dave Johnson of Ipswich Town scored both goals with John Toshack and Arfon Griffiths replaying for the visitors. Aston Villa's Brian Little made his only England appearance as a substitute. The first UK broadcast of The Brady Bunch on Thames.
David Hare's Brassneck broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. John Milius's The Wind & The Lion premiered.
The first episode of The Balloon Game - the most bizarre game show in TV history presented by Magnuss Magnusson - broadcast on BBC2. Linda Carr & The Love Squad's 'Highwire'/'Mama's Little Corner Of The World', Ace Cannon's 'Sea Cruise'/'Peace In The Valley' and Olivia Newton-John's 'Follow Me'/'Summertime Blues' released. A strike over the payments agreed before the government-imposed pay freeze came into force resulted in many ITV companies being unable to broadcast for seventy two hours, apart from at London Weekend, Tyne Tees and Westward where ACTT members ignored the strike. However normal programming did not fully resume until 30 May, apart from at Scottish Television where the members got all stroppy and discombobulated and the strike continued until 9 June.
The first episode of Looking For Clancy broadcast on BBC2. England won the Home International championship, thrashing Scotland five-one at Wembley. Gerry Francis scored twice and the Scotland goalkeeper, the madly be-permed Stewart Kennedy of Glasgow Rangers, had a game to forget, colliding with the post whilst trying to keep out Kevin Beattie's goalbound header. Unsurprisingly, he never played for Scotland again. Colin Bell and Dave Johnson scored the other goals with Bruce Rioch replying for the visitors. This was the final time that Alan Ball - the last survivor of the 1966 World Cup winning side - played for England.
The first UK broadcast of Kim & Co. The first episode of David Attenborough's The Tribal Eye broadcast on BBC2. Paul McCartney & Wings's Venus & Mars released. Freddie Francis's The Ghoul - starring Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo and Veronica Carlson - premiered. The World In Action special A Bus Round The Market - Part One broadcast.
Bayern Munich retained the European Cup controversially beating Leeds in an ill-tempered match at the Parc Des Princes. The night ended with hooligans on the rampage in the streets of Paris. The first episode of You Must Be Joking! broadcast on Thames.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band performed 'Give My Compliments To The The Chef' and a hilarious version of 'Delilah' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Mad! As! Toast! 10 CC's 'I'm Not In Love'/'Good News' and Wigans Ovation's 'Per-So-Nal-Ly'/'Be With Me Tonight' released.
The first episode of Jim'll Fix It broadcast. Not that you'll ever be seeing that again.
Rockin' Ronnie Wood replaced Mick Taylor in The Rolling Stones. Scotland drew one-one with Romania ia a European Championship Qualifier in Bucharest, Gordon McQueen scoring a last minute equaliser. Sheffield uNited's Jim Brown and Aberdeen's Willie Miller made their Scotland debuts. Peter Sasdy's I Don't Want To Be Born - starring Joan Collins and Ralph Bates and Freddie Francis's The Ghoul - starring John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo and Peter Cushing - premiered. The UFO episode The Responsibility Seat finally broadcast on LWT, almost four years after it was shown in other ITV regions.
In what would be remembered as a summer almost as hot of the one of the following year, a cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton was delayed when 'snow stopped play'!
The World In Action special A Bus Round The Market - Part Two broadcast.
Alan Bridges' Out Of Season - starring Cliff Robertson, Vanessa Redgrave and Susan George - premiered.
The United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum. Brexit lost. In Abbey Road, Pink Floyd were in the process of mixing 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' when they were visited - for the first time in several years - by Syd Barrett (about whom the song had been written). The band were, reportedly, shocked (and stunned) by their former bandmate's overweight appearance and fragile mental state. It would be last time any of them saw Barrett before his death in 2006.
The kidnapped Italian magnate Vallarino Gancia was freed after a shoot out between the police and members of the terrorist Red Brigades. Steely Dan's 'Black Friday'/'Throw Back The Little Ones', The Goodies' 'Black Pudding Bertha (The Queen Of Northern Soul)'/'Panic', The Chi-Lites' 'Have You Seen Her?'/'Oh Girl', Paper Lace's 'So What If I Am?'/'Himalayan Lullaby', Mud's 'Moonshine Sally'/'Bye Bye Johnny', Nils Lofgren's 'Back It Up'/'If I Say It, It's So' and Laurel Aitken's 'Fatty Bum Bum Gone To Jail'/'Version' released.
The first cricket World Cup began in England. At Lord's Dennis Amiss scored one hundred and thirty seven as England beat India by two hundred and two runs. Sunil Gavaskar batted through the full sixty overs for thirty six not out, prompting several pitch invasions from unhappy Indian fans.
The World In Action episode Coming Out In Newport Pagnell broadcast.
The notoriously politically incorrect The Melting Pot - with Spike Milligan, John Bird and Frank Carson - broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. A last wicket stand of sixty four between Deryck Murray and Andy Roberts helped West Indies to a thrilling one wicket victory over Pakistan at Edgbaston in the World Cup. At Trent Bridge, England beat New Zealand by eighty runs with Keith Fletcher scoring a century. Robert Altman's Nashville premiered. Joe Harvey resigned after thirteen years as manager of Newcastle United. His replacement, former Blackburn Rovers manager Gordon Lee, was announced the following day.
The first episode of Galton and Simpson's Dawson's Weekly broadcast on Thames.
Tony Tyrone's 'Please Operator'/'Apple Of My Eye', Be-Bop Deluxe's 'Maid In Heaven'/'Lights', The Kids' 'Blue Eyed Boy'/'You Got Me Rollin' and Kiss' 'Rock & Roll All Nite'/'Anything For My Baby' released.
Omnibus featured a profile of Ronald Searle. The first episode of The Siege Of Golden Hill broadcast on LWT. Jimme Shelter's 'Achin' In My Heart'/'Cold On Me' released.
The World In Action episode The Rise & Fall Of The CIA - Part One broadcast.
Jeannot Szwarc's fantastically nasty Bug - starring Bradford Dillman and Joanna Miles and Howard Ziehm's Sexteen - starring Bree Anthony, Gwen Star, Candy Love and Jenny Lane - premiered.
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenias' Only On Sunday - starring Trevor Bannister and Peter Bowles - broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of The Poisoning Of Charles Bravo broadcast on BBC2. Roy Harper's HQ released. Gary Gilmour took six for fourteen as England were bowled all out for ninety three in the World Cup semi-final at Headingley. Australia initially suffered just as dramatic a collapse, being thirty nine for six at one point but recovered to win by four wickets. At The Oval, West Indies beat New Zealand by five wickets thanks to impressive bowling by Bernard Julien, Andy Roberts and Vanburn Holder and fifties from Gordon Greenidge and Alvin Kallicharran.
Stephen Spielberg's Jaws premiered. A second search of Loch Ness was conducted by a group of researchers from the Academy of Applied Science led by Robert H Rines. Some of the underwater photographs obtained, despite their murky quality and lack of any concurrent sonar readings, did appear to show unknown animals in various positions and lightings. One photograph seemed to show the head, neck and upper torso of a plesiosaur-like creature, but sceptics argue - probably correctly - that the object is a log due to the lump on its 'chest' area, the mass of sediment in the full photo and the object's log-like 'skin' texture. Another photo seemed to depict a horned 'gargoyle head', consistent with that of some previous alleged sightings of The Monster; however, sceptics point out that a tree stump was later filmed during Operation Deepscan in 1987, which bore a striking resemblance to this gargoyle head. A full analysis of the exercise was publishing in Match 1976 in the MIT Technology Review. Elton John's 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight'/'House Of Cards', The Eagles' 'One Of These Nights'/'Visions', Garland Green's 'Bumpin' And Stompin'/'Nothing Can Take You From Me', Earl Wright & His Orchestra's 'Thumb A Ride'/'Like A Rolling Stone', The Rubettes' 'Foe-Dee-O-Dee'/'With You' and David Essex's 'Rolling Stone'/'Coconut Ice' released.
The West Indies beat Australia in the first Prudential Cricket World Cup Final at Lord's by seventeen runs with Clive Lloyd scoring a magnificent century. In the Australian innings, five batsmen were run out - three by Viv Richards - and Keith Boyce took four for fifty. Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson put on a last wicket stand of forty two to keep the game alive. With three overs remaining, the game reached a surreal climax when Lillee hit a no-ball to Roy Fredericks at extra cover and the crowd rushed onto the field oblivious to the umpire's call. Amid the chaos, Fredericks attempted a run-out but missed and the ball disappeared into the crowd. Lillee and Thomson kept running between the wickets until the crowd were dispersed. Next ball, Deryck Murray ran out Thomson. In Uganda, Idi Amin ordered a stay of execution for Briton Dennis Hill, convicted of treason, after the Queen sent a personal envoy to Kampala. Robert Mark head of the Metropolitan Police ordered the transfer of Commander Kenneth Hannam who had recently remarked 'the attitudes of some MPs have greatly contributed to the decline in respect for the law by the general population.' Refugees from the civil war in Angola were 'flooding' into Portugal. A row was brewing in the Tory party with Peter Walker and Sir Keith Joseph clashing on economic policy. Chrysler's UK car production was halted by a strike at the company's Coventry plant. MP Jack Ashley called for the removal of Judge Christmas Humphreys who the previous week had freed a self-confessed double rapist. James Hunt won the Dutch Grand Prix. Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios met the PLO's Yassir Arafat in Syria and said that he supported the Palestinians 'just struggle.' The inquest into the death of Sandra Rivett, the Lucan family nanny, concluded. The verdict was that the missing Lord Lucan had murdered her.
The World In Action episode The Rise & Fall Of The CIA - Part Two broadcast. The first episode of Ten From The Twenties broadcast on BBC2. Jasper Carrott's 'Funky Moped'/'Magic Roundabout', Lorna Bennett's 'Breakfast In Bed'/'Skank In Bed', T Rex's 'New York City'/'Chrome Sitar', Al Matthews' 'Fool'/'Don't Run From My Love', The Soul Fox Orchestra's 'Thumb A Ride'/'Ain't No Soul (Left In These Old Shoes)', The Three Degrees' 'Long Lost Lover'/'Lonelier Are Fools', Bryan Ferry's 'You Go To My Head'/'Re-Make, Re-Model' and The Sharonettes' 'Going To A Go-Go'/'Instrumental' released.
The terrifying episode At The Cradle Foot of the American anthology chiller Ghost Story was broadcast in the UK. It was so diarrhoea-inducing to eleven year old Keith Telly Topping that he couldn't sleep for days afterwards. Susan Curtis vanished from the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, South of Salt Lake City. Curtis' murder became Ted Bundy's last confession, recorded mere moments before he entered the execution chamber in 1989. Curtis's remains were never recovered.
The World In Action episode The Rise & Fall Of The CIA - Part Three broadcast.
Shelley Kay Robertson, aged twenty four, failed to show up for work in Golden, Colorado. Her naked, decomposed corpse was discovered six weeks later inside a mine on Berthoud Pass near Winter Park Resort. Gas station receipts placed the serial killer Ted Bundy in the area at the time of the crime, but there was no direct evidence of his involvement and the case remained open. Norman Cohen's Confessions Of A Pop Performer - starring Robin Askwith, Antony Booth, Bill Maynard, Doris Hare, Sheila White, Carol Hawkins, Bob Todd and Jill Gascoine - premiered.
The first episode of Three Comedies Of Marriage broadcast on Thames.
The Sweet's 'Action'/'Sweet FA', Geraldine's 'Fly Me'/'I Can Dream', Nutz's Nutz Too, Maxine Brown's 'One In A Million'/'Let Me Give You My Lovin', Major Harris' 'Love Won't Let Me Wait'/'After Loving You' and Wess & Dori Ghezzi's 'Fallin'/'Era' released. Nancy Perry Baird, aged twenty three, disappeared from the service station where she worked in Layton, North of Salt Lake City. She remained classified as a missing person. Ted Bundy specifically denied any involvement in this particular case during his death row interviews.
The first episode of Seaside Special broadcast. Anna Rogulskyj was subjected to an horrific attack by a man armed with a hammer in Keighley. Later the man was identified as Peter Sutcliffe and this was the first incident in what would be known The Yokrshire Ripper crimes. Nutz featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK broadcast of the Australian drama Ben Hall broadcast. Monsters! Mysteries Or Myths? broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Comedy At Montreaux broadcast.
Brian Clark's Post Mortem broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. The first UK TV showing of Hammer's The Witches.
Norman Cohen's Confessions Of A Pop Performer - starring Robin Askwith, Antony Booth, Bill Maynard, Doris Hare, Sheila White, Carol Hawkins, Bob Todd, Peter Jones and Jill Gascoine- premiered. ... Waves broadcast on BBC2.
Robert Stevenson's One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing - starring Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill and Derek Nimmo - premiered. David Agnew's Diane broadcast on BBC2.
In the first of a four test - non-Ashes - series between England and Australia at Edgbaston, in overcast conditions, Mike Denness asked Australia to bat; bad decision. Rick McCosker and debutant Alan Turner added eighty for the first wicket and further contributions from Ian Chappell, Ross Edwards, Rod Marsh and Jeff Thomson enabled the tourists to reached three hundred and fifty nine. Shortly after England's reply began, a thunderstorm produced treacherous batting conditions; devastating spells from Dennis Lillee and Max Walker bowled England out for one hundred and one. The pace of Thomson accounted for England's second innings demise, one hundred and seventy three, to hand Australia an innings victory. Keith Fletcher (fifty one) top-scored for England. Graham Gooch, on his test debut, bagged a pair. Denness scored three and eight and was dropped from the side before the second test, replaced as captain by Tony Greig.
Sparks' 'Get In The Swing'/'Profile', Smoky & The Fabulous Blades' 'Jerk, Baby Jerk'/'Charlie's Theme Part Two', South Shore Commission's 'Free Man'/'Disco Mix', The Cooperettes' 'Shing-A-Ling'/'Don't Trust Him' and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music released. If you had teeth fillings, you were advised to prepare to have them rattled.
Trevor Griffiths and Snoo Wilson's Eleventh Hour broadcast. Robert Baker and Monty Berman's Jack The Ripper shown in BBC2's Midnight Movies strand. Jackie Wilson feaured on Radio 1's Top Twelve which just about made up for Genesis appearing on In Concert.
Tom Watson won a play-off against Jack Newton to win The Open at Carnoustie. Slade - Six Days On The Road broadcast in Radio 1's Insight strand. The Peter Gordeno Show the BBC's entry for the annual The Golden Seaswallow Of Knokke broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Against The Crowd broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of My Honourable Mrs broadcast. The Flight Fund broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand.
So You Think You Know Your Rights? and This Is Ceefax broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Gold Diggers Of 1935 in BBC2's Tuesday Cinema strand. Wes Craven's The Fireworks Woman - starring Jennifer Jordan - premiered.
The first episode of The Rough With The Smooth broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Die Rote Kapelle on BBC2.
Apollo 18 - piloted by Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton - docked with Soyuz 19 and its crew, Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. NASA had calculated that the historic event would occur whilst the two spacecraft were over Bognor Regis. Sadly, for the sleepy Sussex seaside town, a slight delay meant that the actual docking occurred over Metz in France. The mission was considered a great success, both technically and in term of public relations. The Hamburg apartment building where night-watchman Fritz Honka lived caught fire. Firemen tackling the blaze discovered a partially decomposed female torso in a plastic bag which prompted the police to search the flat and discover the body-parts of at least our women. Honka was at work at the time and was extremely arrested when he returned home. On 29 July Honka confessed to killing the women due to his perverse sexual practices. He withdrew his confession at his trial in November 1976, claiming to remember nothing.
David Bowie's 'Fame'/'Right', Harpo's 'Movie Star'/'Teddy Love', Rita DaCosta's 'Don't Bring Me Down'/'No, No, No', Dobie Gray's 'Out On The Floor'/'Be A Man', The Chantelles' 'Runaway'/'Instrumental', Lenis Guess' 'Just Ask Me'/'Workin' For My Baby', Mud's 'One Night'/'Shake Rattle & Roll-See You Later Alligator' and The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python & The Holy Grail released. Bob Marley & The Wailers' concert at the Lyceum was recorded for subsequent release as Live! The first episode of The Squirrels broadcast on LWT.
Clive Exton and Tom Stoppard's The Boundary broadcast in the Eleventh Hour strand. The first episode of The National Dream broadcast on BBC2. Be Bop Deluxe featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Rick Wakeman appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Spike Milligan appeared on BBC2's Something To Sing About. The first episode of Celebrity Squares broadcast on LWT.
Sandra Clark's Holding On broadcast as part of BBC2's Centre Play strand. The Likes of ...: Jack Hedley broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Roger Corman's X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes in Monday Film strand.
Dame Vera - This Is Your Lunch broadcast. John Willis's acclaimed documentary Johnny Go Home broadcast.
The BBC's coverage of The Royal International Horse Show was marred by an accident to Derek Rickett's horse Beau Supreme which fell at the second element of a three-fence combination and broke his fetlock. Hessian screens were hastily erected, the house lights dimmed and, whilst Dorian Williams diverted the viewing public's attention, the horse was shot in the head. In the ensuing jump off Alwin Schockemöhle (on Rex The Robber), narrowly pipped David Broome (on Philco) and Paddy McMahon (on Penwood Forgemill) to win the King George V Gold Cup. Reg Prentice, Minister for Overseas Development, lost his fight for the support of his local party in Newham. Another cabinet member, John Silkin fought off a similar challenge in Deptford. Egypt's President Sadat agreed to an extension of UN peacekeepers in Sinai. The first episode of Down The 'Gate - starring Reg Varney - broadcast on Thames. Eddy Naka's Les Chevaliers De La Croupe - starring Jacques Ardouin, Claude Sandoz and Muriel Joubert - premiered.
The Private Life Of The Fox broadcast in the Private Lives strand. Ten Years Of Man Alive broadcast on BBC2.
Aunt Tatty broadcast in BBC2's Ten From The Twenties strand. Hot Chocolate's 'A Child's Prayer'/'Everything Should Be Funky', Barbara Jean English's 'I'm Living A Lie'/'Key In The Mailbox' and Mike Post's 'The Rockford Files'/'Dixie Lullabye' released.
The Old Grey Whistle Test featured an hour - that's an hour - of Yes. Truly horrifying. Even Seaside Special - with Tony Blackburn, Cilla Black and Don Maclean - on BBC1 was preferable to that horseshit. As was Don MacLean on Radio 1's In Concert.
The Scuffers Are Out broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. The Electric Guitar broadcast in Radio 1's Insight strand.
Keith Dewhurst's Our Terry broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand.
A Set Of Slides broadcast on BBC2.
Johan Barrington profiled in Success Story. Keep America Singing broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of the radio adaptation of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? broadcast on Radio 2.
Dennis Lillee's four-wicket spell reduced England to forty nine for four on the first morning of the second test at Lord's before Northants' batsman David Steele scored fifty on his test debut and bailed England out of trouble. Steele - who had, famously, got lost in the Lord's pavilion on his way out to bat - set a platform for contributions from Tony Greig (ninety six), Alan Knott (sixty nine) and another debutant Bob Woolmer (thirty three). In reply, John Snow reduced Australia to eighty one for seven, but Ross Edwards (ninety nine) was well supported by the tail, especially Lillee (seventy three not out, with three sixes) giving England a first innings lead of forty seven. Don Sharp's Hennessy - starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick - premiered.
Beneath The News broadcast. The Anarchist broadcast in BBC2's Ten From The Twenties strand. The first episode of Winner Takes All broadcast on LWT.
Ralph Nelson's The Wilby Conspiracy - starring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson and Prunella Gee - premiered. Ray Stevens featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first episode of The Summer Show broadcast on LWT.
Dennis Abey's Never Too Young Too Rock - starring Mud, The Glitter Band, The Rubettes and Slik - premiered. An Island Called Danger broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Carrying President Ford on his departure from the Helsinki summit, Air Force One strayed from its flight plan and veered into restricted air-space near Swedish military installations, prompting the Swedish Air Force to send a J35 Draken to intercept the jet. Major Carl-Christen Hjort later said that the fighter was equipped with air-to-air missiles, 'but, of course, there were no plans to use them.'
Michael Angelow streaked across the pitch at Lord's. And was caught at Long Leg by The Bobbies. The hot summer continued with temperatures in the nineties. London was hotter than North Africa on this particular day - as this blogger who got spectacularly sunburned whilst sitting in the Nursery End watching the streaker well remembers. John Edrich (one hundred and seventy five) anchored England's second innings, sharing partnerships of one hundred and eleven for the first wicket with Barry Wood, one hundred and four for the second with David Steele and sixty six for the fourth with Graham Gooch. Sedate at first, Edrich hit out as a declaration neared, adding sixty five for the fifth with Greig (forty one), before a hard-hitting cameo from Bob Woolmer (thirty one, including two sixes) heralded Greig's declaration. Thanks to Rick McCosker, Ian and Greg Chappell and Ross Edwards, Australia did not struggle to salvage a draw, losing only three wickets in one-and-a-half days. The first UK TV showing of The Man Who Haunted Himself. Three female 'professional pickpockets' from Chile on holiday in London were jailed after being caught 'loitering' in an Oxford Street store and other general naughty malarkey.
The Kenneth Williams episode of Going Places and a film profile of Muhammed Ali broadcast.
The death of Hercule Poirot was announced by the publishers of Agatha Christie's forthcoming final novel, Curtain. To Die, To Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima broadcast on BBC2.
Robert Fuest's The Devil's Rain - starring William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine and Christopher Miles's That Lucky Touch - starring Roger Moore and Susannah York - premiered. Charlize Theron born in Benoni, South Africa. The first episode of Comedy Premiere - What A Turn Up - broadcast on Thames. Oscar Brazzi's Giro Girotondo Con Il Sesso è Bello Il Mondo - starring Patrizia Webley, Ghigo Masino and Giovanni Petrucci - premiered.
Peter Weir's stunning adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock - starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver and Anne-Louise Lambert - and Dick Richards' Farewell My Lovely premiered. An incident of so-called 'ball lightning' took place in Birmingham. Rod Stewart's 'Sailing'/'Stone Cold Sober', Sally Sagoe's 'A Little Bit Of Love'/'Stop' and Three's A Crowd's 'Confessions Of Timmy Lea'/'This Is Your Life (From Confessions Of A Window Cleaner)' released.
Derby County beat West Ham United two-nil in the Charity Shield at Wembley. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Premature Burial formed an Edgar Allen Poe double-bill in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Elton John featured in Radio 1's In Concert.
The World About Us film In Deepest Britain broadcast, which would later spawn its own series. Richard Nixon signed a contract with David Frost, agreeing to answer any questions posed in four sessions of ninety minutes apiece. Bryan Ferry was profiled on Radio 1's Insight.
The Likes Of ... focused on Uri Geller and his spoonbending ways. The BBC Midlands programme The Golden Game featured the TV debut of Jasper Carrot. The Ghost Of Adelphi Terrace broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand.
Telly Savalas: Who Loves Ya, Baby broadcast. Fritz Lang's Metropolis shown in BBC2's Tuesday Cinema strand. John Walker of New Zealand became the first person to run a mile in less than three minutes and fifty seconds in Gothenburg.
A terrorist attack by the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade on a popular pub in Belfast, killed five people and injured fifty. Driving up to the pub in a stolen car, two Brigade members killed two people outside, while another placed a bomb inside the Bayardo Bar. Although the murder was believed to have been done in retaliation for the Miami Showband killings by the UVF on 31 July, only one UVF member was killed.
John Edrich and David Steele added one hundred and twelve for England's second wicket in the third test at Headingley and Tony Greig contributed a fifty. Following Greig's run-out, England's last five wickets fell for just twenty runs, the last four to Gary Gilmour. In reply, Middlesex left-arm spinner Phil Edmonds, on his test debut, claimed five for twenty eight as Australia collapsed for one hundred and thirty five. With typical stoicism, Steele (ninety two) anchored England's second innings. Chasing a target of four hundred and forty five, contributions from Rick McCosker and Ian Chappell led Australia to two hundred and twenty for three at the close of the fourth day's play. It's A Small World: The Carlisle Collection broadcast on BBC2.
Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing, Albert Hammond's 'It Never Rains In Southern California'/'A Job Is A Home To A Homeless Man' and Janis Ian's 'At Seventeen'/'Stars' released. Olive Smelt became the second assault victim of Peter Sutcliffe in Halifax. As with his previous attack, Sutcliffe was disturbed during the incident and his victim survived, albeit with series head injuries. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Meat Loaf and Charles Gray and Richard Lester's Royal Flash - starring Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed and Tom Bell - premiered. The Birmingham Six - Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Joe Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker - were sentenced to life imprisonment after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of twenty one people in the bombings of the Mulberry Bush pub and the Talk of the Town in Birmingham. After a sixteen-year campaign which would show that the police coerced their confessions and mishandled evidence, the convictions were overturned in 1991.
Ted Bundy was arrested by Utah Highway Patrol officer Bob Hayward in Granger. Hayward had observed Bundy cruising a residential area in the pre-dawn hours; Bundy fled the area at high speed after seeing the patrol car. Once apprehended, the officer searched his car after he noticed that the Volkswagen's front passenger seat had been removed. He found a ski-mask, a second mask fashioned from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an ice pick and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. Bundy explained that the ski-mask was for skiing, he had found the handcuffs in a dumpster and the rest were 'common household items.' However, Detective Jerry Thompson remembered a similar suspect and car description from the November 1974 Carol DaRonch kidnapping, which matched Bundy's name from Liz Kloepfer's December 1974 phone call to Salt Lake City police suggesting her boyfriend, Bundy, as a potential suspect. In a search of Bundy's apartment, police found a guide to Colorado ski resorts with a checkmark by the Wildwood Inn and a brochure that advertised the Viewmont High School play in Bountiful, where Debra Kent had disappeared. The police did not have sufficient evidence to detain Bundy at that stage and he was released on his own recognisance. Bundy later said that searchers missed a hidden collection of Polaroids of his victims, which he destroyed immediately after he was released. Arsenal's nil-nil draw at Burnley saw the league debut of seventeen year old David O'Leary - the first of seven hundred and ninety four games for The Gunners, Leeds United and the Republic of Ireland in a career that lasted until 1993. In the process he broke George Armstrong's Arsenal appearance record. The Allman Brothers appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Don Edmonds' Ilsa: She-Wolf Of The SS - starring Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo and Maria Marx - premiered.
Mark Donohue was fatally injured during practice for the Austrian Grand Prix, when a punctured tire caused his car to crash through a fence. Donohue walked away from the crash, complaining of a headache, then went into convulsions. Two days after undergoing emergency brain surgery at Graz, Donohue died of complications. 10CC were profiled on Radio 1's Insight.
Brian Clough was featured on The Likes Of .... Alfie shown in The Monday Film strand. Meditation & The Mind broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The Stick Insect broadcast in the Centre Play strand.
Supporters of the convicted bank robber George Davis dug up the pitch at Headingly overnight causing the abandonment of the - intriguingly poised - third test before the final day. Although, persistent rain in the afternoon would probably have produced a draw anyway. Middlesex beat Derbyshire by twenty one runs and Lancashire defeated Gloucestershire by three wickets in the semi-finals of the Gillette Cup. NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe to Mars. Finn Henriksen's Piger I Trøjen - starring Dirch Passer, Birte Tove, Helle Merete Sørensen and Ulla Jessen - premiered.
Newsround Extra: Rollermania broadcast.
The Kojak two-parter The Chinatown Murders broadcast as The Kojak Movie. Jonathan Richman's 'Roadrunner'/'It Will Stand', The Jelly Beans' 'You Don't Mean Me No Good'/'I'm Hip To You', Showaddywaddy's 'Heartbeat'/'Lucy Jane', Leo Sayer's 'Moonlighting'/'Streets Of Your Town', The Crow's 'Your Autumn Of Tomorrow'/'Uncle Funk' and Carpenters' 'Solitaire'/'Love Me For What I Am' released.
A new football season began. Match Of The Day featured Newcastle three-nil victory at Ipswich and Queens Park Rangers two-nil defeat of Liverpool. The first UK broadcast of Ghost Story. This Island Earth and Barbarella shown in BBC2's Fantastic Double Bill strand. Trini Lopez featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Stylianos Pattakos, Nikolaos Makarezos and former President George Papadopoulos, the three Greek Army colonels who had led the 1967 military coup in Greece, were sentenced to death after being convicted of treason and insurrection. Crustacean Cocktail broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The Influence Of Jazz On Pop broadcast on Radio 1's Insight.
Tom Baker hosted the Bank Holiday episode of Disney Time. A House Full Of Otters and The American Film Institute Salute To Orson Welles broadcast on BBC2. Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band's Born To Run released in the US.
The first episode of Oil Strike North broadcast. Citizen Kane shown in BBC2's Tuesday Cinema strand.

The first episode of I Didn't Know You Cared broadcast. Fourteen year old Tracy Browne was violently attacked by a man with a hammer in the Yorkshire village of Silsden. Luckily, she survived. Despite giving a detailed description of her attacker, police failed to connect her attack with others in the area. Although never charged with the crime, Peter Sutcliffe admitted responsibility for the attack in 1992. The death of Haile Selassie I, the last Emperor of Ethiopia, was announced by the republic's radio station. Officially, the eighty three-year-old deposed Emperor had been found dead in his palace and had been in failing health after prostate surgery and was buried in 'a secret location' by orders of President Mengistu. After the overthrow of the Mengistu regime sixteen years later, Selassie's body was unearthed from a grave beneath Mengistu's office at the former Imperial Palace and it was revealed that the Emperor had been smothered with a pillow while sleeping, after he refused to provide information about his overseas bank accounts. The defendants in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University were acquitted of all responsibility for the killing of four students.
Rick McCosker (scoring his maiden test century) and Ian Chappell took Australia to two hundred and eighty for one at the end of the first day for the fourth test at The Oval, setting up an eventual total of five hundred and thirty two for nine. The Galilean Satellites broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Truth About Verity broadcast in Thames's Comedy Premiere strand. Just Jaeckin's Histoire d'O - starring Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier and Anthony Steel - premiered.
The first episode of Quiller broadcast. The Year Of The Bulldozer broadcast on BBC2. Éamon de Valera, former President of Ireland, died aged ninety two. Crown Heights Affair's 'Dreaming A Dream'/'Instrumental', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'No Woman, No Cry'/'Kinky Reggae' and Ede Robin & Six Feet Under's 'There Must Be A Love Somewhere'/'Soul Over Easy' released.
The first appearance of The Zygons in Doctor Who. The Will Is Not Enough broadcast on BBC2. Ron and Russell Mael appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The first episode of Disco, presented by Terry Wogan, broadcast. Louis Malle's A Human Condition broadcast on BBC2. Reggae Music - The Sound of Kingston broadcast on Radio 1's Insight.
The first episode of Angels broadcast. Don Shaw's Judge The Bloody City broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. Richard Lester's The Four Musketeers and David Eady's The Hostages premiered. The Sweeney episode Chalk & Cheese broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose broadcast. The first episode of Runaround broadcast on Thames.
Following on and facing a possible innings defeat, Bob Woolmer defied Australia for more than eight hours scoring his maiden test century, sharing partnerships of one hundred and twenty two with Graham Roope and one hundred and fifty one with Alan Knott as England held out for fourteen hours to reach five hundred and twenty two for five. Only a spell of gentle medium pace from Doug Walters eventually conquered England's lower order. The match ended in a draw, Australia winning the series one-nil. England beat Switzerland two-one in a friendly international in Basel with goals from Kevin Keegan and Mick Channon. Scotland won a Eiropean Championship Qualifer one-nil against Denmark in Copenhagen. Joe Harper scored the vital goal. After the game several players were ejected from a nightclub for an alleged altercation which led to a lifetime ban from international football by the Scottish Football Association for captain Billy Bremner (who has just won his fifty fourth cap) and four other players - Harper, Willie Young, Pat McCluskey and Arthur Graham (Graham and Harper subsequently had their bans overturned). Bremner maintained his innocence, stating that the incident had been blown out of proportion by the SFA. The first episode of Shadows - The Future Ghost - broadcast on Thames.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest broadcast. The Sinai Interim Agreement was signed in Geneva by Major General Taha Magdoub for Egypt and Major General Herzl Shafir for Israel, along with the ambassadors to Switzerland from the two nations. The first episode of The Stars Look Down broadcast on Thames. Sparks' Indiscreet released.
Barry Norman previewed Rollberball and The Drowning Pool on Film 75. Five Minutes To Midnight broadcast on BBC2. In Sacramento, wearing a red nun's habit Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate President Ford, but was thwarted by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf. She subsequently received thirty four years in The Joint for her efforts. The Rolling Stones' 'Out Of Time'/'Jiving Sister Fanny', Richard O'Brien & The Rocky Horror Picture Show's 'Science Fiction/Double Feature'/'Time Warp', Esther Phillips' 'What A Difference A Day Made'/'Turn Around, Look At Me', David Essex's 'Hold Me Close'/'Good Ol' Rock & Roll', Bruce Thompson's 'My World Is A Football'/'One-Man Band' and Wings' 'Letting Go'/'You Gave Me The Answer' released.
Clive and David Lloyd helped Lancashire win their fourth Gillette Cup in six years in a low-scoring match against Middlesex. ABBA's 'SOS' released. Portsmouth's two-nil defeat against Luton Town in the Second Division saw the league debut of Chris Kamara, the first of six hundred and forty two games - for Pompey, Swindon Town, Brentford, Stoke City, Leeds United, Luton Town, Sheffield United, Middlesbrough and Bradford City - in a career that lasted until 1995. The first episode of Space 1999 broadcast on LWT. Billy Connolly appeared on Radio 1's Top Twelve. The first episodes of Space: 1999 - Breakaway, Two's Company and Supersonic (including performances by Suzi Quatro, Alvin Stardust, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Linda Lewis and David Essex) and the first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Playback on LWT.
Niki Lauda finished third at the Italian Grand Prix - in a race won by Clay Regazzoni - to take his first World Drivers' Championship. Rick Wakeman At Wembley broadcast on BBC2. 'With music from The Myths & Legends Of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.' The horror. The Soulful Years broadcast in Radio 1's Insight strand. The first episode of My Brother's Keeper - Pig In The Middle - broadcast on LWT.
Officials in the intelligence agencies of Israel (Mossad) and West Germany (the Bundesnachrichtendienst) met secretly to discuss a joint effort to conduct a new type of electronic eavesdropping by Mossad on foreign offices in Germany. Andrew Davies's Grace broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. The Sweeney episode Faces, the first episodes of My Son Reuben and Hogg's Back and the World In Action episode The Reluctant Bride broadcast on Thames.
Ships Of State broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first episode of Shades of Greene - When Greek Meets Greek - broadcast on Thames.
Viking 2, which had originally been slated for a July landing on Mars until problems forced it to be replaced by a back-up, was launched as the second vehicle to the red planet. Raffles - The Amateur Cracksman - starring Anthony Valentine - broadcast on Thames. It would be followed, two years later, by a series. After School broadcast in the Shadows strand. Radley Metzger's The Image - starring Mary Mendum, Carl Parker and Marilyn Roberts - premiered.
The first episode of Days Of Hope broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Salty. Claude Snelling, a journalism professor at the College of the Sequoias, was murdered by an intruder at his home in Visalia, California, part of a series of burglaries and other criminal activity attributed to The Visalia Ransacker. In 2020, Joseph DeAngelo, the notorious Golden State Killer, pleaded guilty to the murder of Snelling.
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here - their last half-way decent record - The Goodies' 'Nappy Love'/'Wild Thing', The Real Thing's 'Watch Out Carolina'/'I Want You Back', Trammps' 'Hold Back The Night'/'Tom's Song', Sheila Anthony's 'Livin' In Love'/'Woman To Woman', Barbara Hall's 'You Brought It On Yourself'/'Drop My Heart Off At The Door' and Marc Wirtz's 'We Could Have Laughed Forever (Happy Kind-A-Sad)'/'Bonita Noleta' released. The Secret World broadcast on BBC2.
Gambit shown in the Saturday Night At The Movies strand.
The Secret War Of Harry Frigg shown in the Film Of The Week strand. David Frost's We British and the first episode of Explores broadcast on BBC2. The Rolling Stones US tour profiled on Radio 1's Insight. Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch was slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Wilhelmus De Rijk, an unemployed schoolteacher, was committed to a mental hospital at Middenbeemster after slicing the canvas with a kitchen knife. He would commit suicide in 1976.
The Killers shown in The Monday Film strand. England cricketer Chris Balderstone who also played midfield for Doncaster Rovers became the first and, thus far, only person to play first-class matches in both sports on the same day. In the afternoon, he played for Leicestershire against tDerbyshire, then travelled from Chesterfield to Doncaster, where he played in Roers' one-all draw with Brentford in a Fourth Division match. The next day, he returned to Chesterfield to help Leicestershire's win their first championship. The Sweeney episode Supersnout and the World In Action episode The Roche Affair broadcast on Thames.
Yer actual Keith Telly Topping attended his very first ever rock and/or roll jig - Paul McCartney & Wings at the Newcastle City Hall on the Venus & Mars tour. On a school night, an'all. Hell, it was The Seventies. An Artist From Moscow broadcast on BBC2.
Derby County lost to Slovan Bratislava in the first round first leg of the European Cup. West Ham United beat Reipas Lahti at the same stage in the Eurpoean Cup Winners Cup. Aston Villa were thrashed four-one by Royal Antwerp, Evert shared a goalless draw with AC Milan, Ipswich won two-one at Feyenoord and Liverpool lost to Hibernian in Edinburgh in the UEFA Cup. Carved In Ivory - narrated by Kenneth Clark - broadcast on BBC2.
Noel Edmonds presented Top Of The Pops with performance by Desmond Dekker, Mud, Procol Harum, Cliff Richard, Five Thousand Volts, Johnny Nash, Bad Company, The Goodies, Mac & Katie Kissoon, Candlewick Green, Mike Batt With The New Edition abd Rod Stewart.
The first episode of Fawlty Towers broadcast on BBC2. Film 75 featured an interview with Robert Altman and a location report on Shout With The Devil. The first episode of Larry Grayson broadcast on LWT. The Playthings' 'Stop What You're Doing'/'Sad Songs', Judy Collins' 'Salt Of The Earth'/'Song For Duke', Mud's 'L' L' Lucy'/'My Love Is Your Love' and Annette Thomas' 'You Need A Friend Like Mine'/'What Good Is A Song' released.
Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon premiered. Born 1900 broadcast on BBC2. Top goalscorers in the first division were Newcastle United who beat Wolverhampton Wanderers five-one. Birmingham City beat Burnley four-nil and Liverpool scored three against Aston Villa. Little Feat featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Exton, Stoppard & Co At The Eleventh Hour broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Big Top Ballet broadcast on BBC2. Rod Stewart was profiled on Radio 1's Insight.
George Harrion's Exta Texture (Read All About It) and ELO's Face The Music released. The Sweeney episode Big Brother and the World In Action episode Conversations With The Craigs broadcast on Thames.
Everything New Under The Sun broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary. Roberta Findlay's Anyone But My Husband - starring CJ Laing, Tony Perez and Jennifer Jordan - premiered.
The first episode of The Hill Of The Red Fox broadcast. Adrian Mitchell's Daft As A Brush broadcast on BBC2. Dougal Haston and Doug Scott, part of Chris Bonington's expedition, reached the peak of Everest by the South-West face. Sydney Pollock's Three Days Of The Condor premiered.
The first episode of Michael Frayn's Making Faces broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Animal Kwackers broadcast on Thames.

The first episode of The Wild West Show broadcast on BBC2. Sparks' 'Looks, Looks, Looks'/'Pineapple', David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'/'Changes', 'Velvet Goldmine', Justin Hayward & John Lodge's 'Blue Guitar'/'When You Wake Up', Young Trafford's 'The Reds Are Back'/'Discus', Barbara Acklin's 'Love Makes A Woman'/'Am I The Same Girl? (Soulful Strut)', T Rex Disco Party's 'Dreamy Lady'/'Do You Wanna Dance?', 'Dock Of The Bay' and Jigsaw's 'Sky High'/'Brand New Love Affair' released. Ján Kadár's Lies My Father Told Me premiered.
The last use of capital punishment in Spain. A day after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco rejected worldwide pleas for mercy, Spain executed two members of ETA (Txiki Paredes and Ángel Otaegui) and three Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriótico members (Humberto Baena, José Luis Sánchez Bravo, and Ramón García Sanz) by firing squad. The First Picture Show broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode A Deadly State Of Mind on LWT. Hello, Smokie, Sparks, John Miles, Johnny Nash and Alvin Stardust appeared on Supersonic.
Arnold Wesker's Chips With Everything broadcast as part of the Play Of The Month strand. The Spaghetti House Siege began in London. Franklin Davies, claiming to be a member of The Black Liberation Front and two other gunmen, took members of staff prisoner when an armed robbery went wrong. The siege lasted for six days. Radio 1 devoted an hour of their Insight strand to 'the Northern Soul phenomena.' Skill.
The first UK broadcast of Inch High Private Eye. The Sweeney episode Hit & Run and the World In Action episode Democracy In Bulk broadcast on Thames.
Crisis & The Dairy Farm broadcast in the Tuesday Documentary strand. Ray Connolly's James Dean - The First American Teenager broadcast on BBC2.
Herbert Wise's adaptation of The Secret Agent broadcast on BBC2. Muhammad fought Smokin' Joe in The Thrilla In Manilla. The first episode of Radio 2's The News Huddlines broadcast.
The first group of four murders attributed to the notorious Ulster loyalist criminal gang The Shankhill Butchers took place at Casey's Bottling Plant in Millfield. Detectives in Salt Lake City put Ted Bundy into a line-up. Carol DaRonch immediately identified him as 'Officer Roseland' who had tried to abduct her in November 1974 and witnesses from Bountiful recognised him as the stranger at the high school auditorium when Debra Kent disappeared. There was insufficient evidence to link him directly to Kent. There was, however, more than enough evidence to charge Bundy with aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault in the DaRonch case. He was freed on fifteen thousand dollars bail, paid by his parents and spent most of the time between indictment and trial in Seattle, living in Liz Kloepfer's house. Seattle police had insufficient evidence to charge him with the Pacific Northwest murders, but kept him under close surveillance. 'When Ted and I stepped out on the porch to go somewhere,' Kloepfer later wrote, 'so many unmarked police cars started up that it sounded like the beginning of the Indy Five Hundred.' In September, Bundy had sold his Volkswagen Beetle in Midvale. Utah police impounded it and FBI technicians dismantled and searched it. They found hairs matching samples obtained from Caryn Campbell's body. Later, they also identified hair strands 'microscopically indistinguishable' from those of Melissa Smith and Carol DaRonch. FBI lab specialist Robert Neill concluded that the presence of hair strands in one car matching three different victims who had never met one another would be 'a coincidence of mind-boggling rarity.'
Marion Coyle and Eddie Gallagher kidnapped the Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema near his home in Castletroy. On The Northern Myth, broadcast on BBC1 (North East), George House was joined Brian Clough, Lawrie McMenemy and North East football writers John Gibson (Newcastle Evening Chronicle) and Doug Weatherall (the Daily Mail), to debate the eternal question what's wrong with football in the North-East? Roxy Music's 'Love Is The Drug'/'Sultanesque', Steeleye Span's 'All Around My Hat'/'Black Jack Davy', Tommy Hunt's 'Crackin' Up'/'Get Out', Freddie Waters' 'Groovin' On My Baby's Love'/'Kung Fu & You Too', Ebb Tide's 'Give Me Your Best Shot-Baby (Parts 1 & 2)', Tommy Hunt's 'Crackin' Up'/'Get Out', Heavy Metal Kids' 'Ain't Nothing But A House Party'/'You Got Me Rollin' and Bee Gees' 'Nights On Broadway'/'Edge Of The Universe' released.
In Grimsby Town's two-nil defeat at Walsall in the Third Division, sixteen year old Tony Ford made his debut as a substitute. It was the first of one thousand and eighty two first class matches for in a career - with Grimsby, Sunderland, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Bradford City, Mansfield Town, Scunthorpe United and Rochdale - that lasted until 2001. He would become one of only three outfield players in English football to have passed one thousand games in competitive matches. Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years broadcast on Radio 1. Arthur Brown, The Hollies, Marc Bolan, America, David Essex and Mud appeared on Supersonic.
The first episodes of Poldark and Ballet Shoes broadcast. Lesley Susan Molseed an eleven-year-old schoolgirl was sexually assaulted and murdered on Rishworth Moor near Rochdale. Stefan Ivan Kiszko, a tax clerk, served sixteen years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of the crime. He died in 1993 shortly after his conviction was quashed. The circumstances of his ordeal was described by one MP as 'the worst miscarriage of justice of all time.' Ronald Castree, a retired taxi driver, was eventually found guilty of the crime in November 2007 and jailed for life. James Ivory's Autobiography Of A Princess - starring James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher and Timothy Bateson and Michael Anderson's Conduct Unbecoming - starring Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York - premiered.
The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, secret police agency of Chile, attempted to assassinate former Interior Minister Bernardo Leighton and his wife Anita, who were in exile in Italy. The Leightons were seriously wounded but survived a machine gun attack by gunmen. The first episode of John Cleese's The Selling Line broadcast on BBC2. Italo Luder, serving as Acting President of Argentina during a leave of absence by Isabel Peron, signed Decree 2772, giving the Argentine armed forces authority to 'annihilate subversion' by any means necessary against conspiring insurgents. The Sweeney episode Trap and the World In Action episode Jobless In Batley broadcast on Thames.
John Lennon won the right to stay in the United States after a four-year legal battle to avoid deportation. The first episode of Never 'Eard Of Paradise broadcast. Druid (no, me neither) featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The first episode of Arena and Stuart Burge's adapt1ation of Under Western Eyes broadcast on BBC2. François Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H premiered. It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - The Story Of The 1943 Bethnal Green Tube Disaster and the first episode of Rune Britannia! broadcast on Thames. Dutch Schultz's Shoes broadcast in the Shadows strand.
Sean Taro Ono Lennon born in New York. Woody Allen's Love & Death previewed on BBC2's Film Night.
Ken Russell's Lisztomania - starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr and Rick Wakeman - premiered. Colin Welland's Melvyn's Marauders broadcast in the The Wild West Show strand. The Palace's 'Power To The Palace'/'Flying High', Ayshea's 'Don't Wait Till Tomorrow'/'Moonbeam' and The Eagles' 'Lyin' Eyes'/'James Dean' released.
Richard Lester's adaptation of Royal Flash - starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed and Alan Bates - premiered. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, both professors at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, were married.
The first episode of On The Move broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Catch-22 in BBC2's Sunday Cinema strand.
Crisis at The Observer broadcast on BBC2. The Māori land march took place in New Zealand. The Sweeney episode Golden Fleece and the World In Action episode The Guinea Pig Soldiers broadcast on Thames.
A tragically stoned Paul Kossoff appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, in theory to be interviewed by Bob Harris. Kossoff died the following March from heart failure on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. Simon Grey's Plaintiffs & Defendants broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The first episode of Couples and Do We Have To Have Lions In The Garden? broadcast on Thames.
Jean-Marie Seroney, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya and another MP, Martin Shikuku, were arrested at their offices in Nairobi on the orders of President Jomo Kenyatta, who was reportedly 'displeased' at their criticism of the government. Both would remain imprisoned until after Kenyatta's death in 1978. The Changeling broadcast on BBC2. 'Kenneth Tynan tackles a topical issue and we investigate why Birds Of Paradise has been packing them in on Bournemouth Pier,' on Arena: Theatre.
Tony Bilow interviewed Candice Bergan on BBC2's Film Night. The first UK broadcast of Switch. The Balibo Five, five television journalists who were reporting for networks in Australia, were murdered at the town of Balibo by Indonesian forces that had invaded Portuguese Timor. The first episode of Get Some In! broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of The Invisible Man starring David McCallum. The Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers broadcast on BBC2. Stretch's 'Why Did You Do It?'/'Write Me A Note', The Brothers Featuring George Young's 'Are You Ready For This?'/'Everybody Loves A Winner' and Wigans Ovation's 'Super Love'/'Stand In Line' released.
Swansea City's two-one defeat at Doncaster Rovers in the Fourth Division saw the league debut of Liverool loanee Tommy Tynan, the first of six hundred and thirty three games - for Swansea, Sheffield Wednesday, Lincoln City, Newport County, Plymouth Argyle, Rotherham United, Torquay United and Doncaster Rovers - in a career that lasted until 1992. Bette Davis and Ron Moody were the guests on Parkinson. The Street With No Name shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. Doctor Feelgood and The Kursaal Flyers featured on a pub-rock-tastic episode of Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK TV showing of Charge Of The Light Brigade. Belshazzar's Feast broadcast on BBC2. James William Guercio profiled on Radio 1's Insight.
The Russian space probe Venera Nine sent back the first image from the surface of Venus. Prometheus: The Life Of Balzac broadcast on BBC2. John Lennon's Shaved Fish released. The Sweeney episode Poppy and the World In Action episode The Luddenden Experiment broadcast on Thames.
Two Sundays broadcast in the Play For Today strand. John Mayall, Jean Luc Ponty and Andrew Bailey appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The Guildford Four - Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson - were sentenced to life for the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. The trial judge Justice Donaldson expressed regret the four had not been charged with treason, which still carried a mandatory death penalty. Just as well, perhaps, otherwise when they were discovered to have been wholly innocent eighteen years later, the then Home Secretary would have been making apologetic noises to four graves. Four men pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering car dealer Ginger Marks in 1965. A witness at the trial of John Stonehouse, the MP who faked his own death, said that his secretary and co-accused, Sheila Buckley, had mentioned her plans to 'visit friends in Australia' where the MP was hiding. A Westminster environmental inspector described in the court the dirty, cockroach-infested conditions he found in the kitchens of the Golden Orient tandoori restaurant in Soho.
Incompetent hit man Andrew Newton shot Norman Scott's dog, Rinka (but, not Scott himself which he had, allegedly, been paid to), an incident which would, eventually, lead to the trial (and acquittal) of Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe for conspiracy to murder. Three Days Of The Condor profiled on BBC2's Film Night. Cancer specialist Gordon Fairley was killed by a terrorist bomb which had been intended by the IRA to assassinate Conservative politician Sir Hugh Fraser. He had been preparing to drive Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John Kennedy, on an errand, but a telephone call delayed him. Doctor Fairley was walking his dogs past Fraser's Jaguar when the time bomb exploded.
Roxy Music's Siren released. The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers broadcast. In which Basil did mention the war. Bix Beiderbecke & The King Of Jazz broadcast on BBC2. John Lennon's puke-inducing 'Imagine'/'Working Class Hero', Diana Ross' 'Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?)'/'No One's Gonna Be A Fool Forever', Sheer Elegance's 'Milky Way'/'Satisfaction Is What I Need' and Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing'/'A Warm Smile' released.
The first appearance of Sutekh in Doctor Who. The Climax Blues Band and Gordon Giltrap appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Club Havana broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts. Bernard Cribbins Bob Monkhouse and June Whitfield featured on Radio 2's Punch Lines. Sean Walsh's The Do broadcast on Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre. John Osbourne appeared on Radio 3's Man Of Action. Venera 10 became the second probe to land on Venus and relayed data, including photographs. Violent disorder at Upton Park where West Ham were taking on Manchester Unitedf left one hundred and two people injured and thirty eight arrested, with kids gettin' punched and aal sorts. West Ham won two-one.
Remember, Remember broadcast. Albert Hammond featured on BBC2's In Concert. Giles Cooper's Under The Loofah Tree broadcast in Radio 3's Drama Now strand. George Martin appeared on Radio 1's Insight. The first episode of The Richard Rodgers Story broadcast on Radio 2. The Antique Baby broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Venus & Mars-Rock Show' released. In one of Canada's first school shootings, Robert Poulin shot five people, one fatally, at St Pius X High School Ottawa before turning the gun on himself. The Sweeney episode Stay Lucky, Eh?, the World In Action episode The Billion Dollar Grain Fraudand the first episode of The Cuckoo Waltz broadcast on Thames. Robert Sickinger's The Naughty Victorians: An Erotic Tale Of A Maiden's Revenge - starring Susan Sloan, Angel Barrett and Jennifer Jordan - premiered.
Moss broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Freddie King and Jack The Lad appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. President Gerald Ford and Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller agreed that Rockefeller would announce a decision not to be Ford's running mate in the 1976 erection. Ford had been in favour of retaining Rockefeller on the ticket, but was persuaded by his aides the odious Donald Rumsfeld and the even more odious Dick Cheney that Rockefeller's presence could give Ronald Reagan an edge in getting the Republican nomination.
Christopher Hamilton's The Philanthropist broadcast on BBC2. A series of Carry On movies - What A Carry On! - began with a showing of Carry On Cleo. Infamy! Scotland defeated Denmark three-one at Hampden Park in a European Championship Qualifier. Kenny Dalglish, Bruce Rioch and Ted MacDougall scored. Manchester United's Stewart Houston made his international debut.
Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper - murdered his first victim, Wilma McCann, in Leeds. Czechoslovakia beat England two-one in a European Championship Qualifier in Bratislava in the second attempt to play the match - the previous day's game having been abandoned after nineteen minutes due to thick fog. Zdeněk Nehoda and Dušan Galis scroed for the hosts with Mick Channon replying for the visitors. In a rather brutal match, the only player actually ordered off by a lenient referee was the Czech reserve goalkeeper, Alexander Vencel, who was sent to the stands for disputing a decision from the bench. Warren Beatty appeared on BBC2's Film Night.
The first episode of Spirit Of The Age broadcast on BBC2. Prince Juan Carlos became acting Head of State in Spain after despiaclbe old fascist dictator Francisco Franco conceded that he was too ill to govern. Alan Bown's 'Rockford Files'/'I Don't Know', Chris Bartley's 'I See Your Name'/'Instrumental', The Third Time Around's 'Soon Everything Is Going To Be Alright (Parts 1 & 2)', Magic Night's 'If You & I Had Never Met (Parts 1 & 2)', The Jones Brothers' Lucky Lady'/'Good Old Days', Rubettes' 'Little Darling'/'Miss Goodie Two Shoes', Argent's 'Rock 'N' Roll Show'/'It's Fallen Off' and Queen's tiresomely awful 'Bohemian Rhapsody'/'I'm In Love With My Car' released.
Norman Hunter memorably chinned Franny Lee on Match Of The Day during Derby County's exciting three-two victory over Leeds at the Baseball Ground. The Heavy Metal Kids appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. The first episode of BBC2's That Monday Morning Feeling broadcast. The Writing On The Wall broadcast in the Second City Firsts.
The Little Minister broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Peter Bogdanovich's Targets shown in BBC2's Sunday Cinema strand. An arsonist set fire to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Don Chaffey's Ride A Wild Pony - starring Michael Craig, John Meillon and Robert Bettles - premiered.
The first petroleum pipeline in Scotland opened between Cruden Bay and Grangemouth. Cuba: The People's Television broadcast in BBC2's Worldwide goes Latin American. John Sealey's The Ups & Downs Of A Handyman - starring Barry Stokes, Gay Soper, Sue Lloyd, Bob Todd, Valerie Leon and Chic Murray - premiered. The Sweeney episode Trojan Bus broadcast on Thames. This was a late replacement for the scheduled episode, Thou Shalt Not Kill!, due to 'Thou Shalt Not Kill's uncomfortable similarity to the kidnapping of the Dutch businessman Tiede Herrema in Ireland by two IRA members, Eddie Gallagher and Marion Coyle in early October. After a massive security operation, the kidnappers were traced on 21 October to a house in Monasterevin. After a two week siege, Herrema was eventually released on 7 November. The eventual broadcast of 'Thou Shalt Not Kill!' also took place between two other notorious siege incidents in London. The first was the 'Spaghetti House siege' which began on 28 September and lasted for six days. The even more memorable 'Siege of Balcombe Street' (in which an IRA gang fleeing from the police held a couple hostage in a Marylebone flat) took place from 6 to 12 December, just days after 'Thou Shalt Not Kill!' was transmitted. The World In Action episode Popular Power broadcast.
President Ford replaced several Nixon cabinet members in what became known as 'the Halloween Massacre', engineered by Ford aide Donald Rumsfeld. Dick Cheney, George HW Bush and Brent Scowcroft joined Ford's administration; the odious Rumsfeld became Secretary of Defence; Henry Kissinger remained as Secretary of State but not National Security Advisor. Nils Lofgren featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The first episode of Circus broadcast on BBC1. Peter Nichols' Forget-Me-Not Lane broadcast on BBC2. Eric Lipmann's Les Onze Mille Verges - starring Yves-Marie Maurin, Florence Cayrol and Marion Game - premiered.
The Sex Pistols played their first gig at St Martin's College in London. The Sunshine Boys premiered.
The acclaimed documentary about Belfast schoolchildren It's Not All Bombs broadcast. ELO's 'Evil Woman'/'10538 Overture', Rod Stewart's 'This Old Heart Of Mine'/'All In The Name Of Rock 'N' Roll', Showaddywaddy's 'Heavenly'/'Smiling Eyes', Sailor's 'A Glass Of Champagne'/'Panama', Pilot's 'Lady Luck'/'Dear Artist', The Tymes' 'God's Gonna Punish You'/'If I Can't Make You Smile' and Ronnie Walker's 'Magic's In The Air'/'Just Can't Say Hello (Once You've Said Goodbye)' released. A team of psychiatrists concluded that former kidnap victim turned bank robbing criminal, Patty Hearst, was competent to stand trial. Netherlands industrialist Tiede Herrema was released unharmed in Ireland, after having been held captive for thirty six days.
Liverpool beat Manchester United three-one on Match Of The Day. How It Is broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Return To Dunkirk broadcast. Jack The Lad and Chas & Dave featured on Radio 1's In Concert. The crew of the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy mutinied, as second-in-command Valery Sablin, locked up Captain Anatoly Putorny, then seized control of the vessel. The mutiny, which ultiamtely failed, would inspire the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt For Red October. Sablin was subsequently convicted of treason and executed in August 1976. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady on LWT.
Shafts Of Sunlight broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first episode of Looking At Documentary broadcast. The Flying Dutchman broadcats on BBC2. John Hammond profiled on Radio 1's Insight strand.
Quatermass & The Pit shown in The Monday Film strand. The Decipherment Of Linear B broadcast in BBC2's Chroniclestrand. The Sweeney episode I Want The Man and the World In Action episode Scotland: A Political Journey - Part One broadcast on Thames.
Brian Glover's Keep An Eye On Albert broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Lynyrd Skynard appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, inevitably performing 'Freebird'. All forty two hours of it. On the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal, the Marxist MPLA was able to defeat the FNLA in the fight for control of the capital, Luanda.
The Sex Discrimination Act became law. Christopher Hampton's Savages broadcast on BBC2.
The 1973 agreement that had ended the Cod War between Britain and Iceland, expired. Under the pact, the two nations had agreed on fishing rights in the best fishing waters, located within fifty miles of Iceland. With no agreement now in place, Iceland attempted again to bar British fishing, and the disagreement would go on for some months. Lee J Cobb interviewed by Tony Bilbow on BBC2's Film Night.
ABBA's 'Mamma Mia'/'Tropical Loveland', Slade's 'In For A Penny'/'Can You Just Imagine?', Mud's 'Show Me You're A Woman'/'Don't You Know?' and Monty Python's 'The Lumberjack Song'/'Spam Song' released (the latter produced by George 'Onotimagen' Harrison). Prince Charles, Pilot Royal broadcast on BBC2.
Bob Mason's On The Good Ship Yacki-Kicki-Doola - featuring the TV debut of David Threlfall - broadcast in BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. Nationwide featured the story of 'the sixteen year old street sweeper.' ABBA's 'Mamma Mia'/'Tropical Loveland', Alice Cooper's 'Welcome To My Nightmare'/'Black Widow' and The Walker Brothers' 'No Regrets'/'Remember Me' released.
Derek Taylor profiled on Radio 1's Insight. Fay Weldon's The Tale Of Timothy Bagshott broadcast. The first episode of The Friendly Invasion broadcast. Happy Birthday Aaron Copland bradcast on BBC2.
The two-part Panodrama Special Coming Apart? The Devolution Debate braodcast. Colossus - The Ship That Lost A Fortune broadcast on BBC2. The Sweeney episode Country Boy and the World In Action episode Scotland: A Political Journey - Part Two broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Emu's Broadcasting Company broadcast. Though, sadly, not the last. Can featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test performing 'Vernal Equinox' featuring an amaziong duet between Michael Karoli and Irmin Schmidt before a highly startled Bob Harris. Whatever Happened To Johnny Go Home? broadcast on Thames.
Milos Forman's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next and Edward Dmytrk's The Human Factor - starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone and Rita Tushingham - premiered. England drew one-one with Portugal in Lisbon in a European Championship Qualifier. England needed a victory to reach the Quarter-Finals. The result left Czechoslovakia needing only a draw in Cyprus to qualify ahead of England. The Czechs duly beat the Cypriots three-nil and went on to win the championship the following year. Mick Channon scored England's goal. Allan Clarke and Malcolm MacDonald made their final international appearances. Arfon Griffiths scored the winner as Wales defeated Austria at Wrexham in their last group qualificartion gamebefore the Quarter-Finals.
The body of Joan Harrison was discovered in Preston. For a time her murder was linked to The Yorkshire Ripper crimes, at least in part due to a claim made in a letter sent to the Daily Mirror in 1978 which the police believed had come from the killer but which, in reality, was the work of a hoaxer, John Humble. When he was arrested in 1981, Peter Sutcliffe denied having any involvement in Harrison's murder. In 2011, DNA evidence proved that Harrison had, in fact, been killed by Christopher Smith who died in 2008. Michael Tuchner's Mister Quilp - starring Anthony Newley, David Hemmings and David Warner - and Cyril Frankel's Permission To Kill - starring Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Timothy Dalton - premiered.
The first episode of Trinity Tales broadcast. Chuck Jackson's 'I've Got The Need'/'Beautiful Woman' and Graeme Edge's 'The Tunnel'/'Bareback Rider' released.
David Bowie's 'Golden Years'/'Can You Hear Me?', 10CC's 'Art For Art's Sake'/'Get It While You Can', Wings' 'Venus & Mars-Rock Show'/'Magneto & Titanium Man', Carl Douglas's 'I Want To Give You My Everything'/'Witchfinder General', Supertramp's 'Lady'/'You Started Laughing When I Held You In My Arms' and The Miracles' 'Love Machine' released. Mike Stott's Thwum broadcast as part of BBC2's Second City Firsts strand. John Byrum's Inserts - starring Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright, Jessica Harper and Bob Hoskins - premiered. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Identity Crisis on LWT.
The first episode of The Legend of Robin Hood broadcast. The first UK TV showing of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point on BBC2's Sunday Cinema strand. Marc Bolan, David Essex and Leo Sayer featured on Radio 1's Insight strand.
Inside Story: Ambassador broadcast on BBC2. The Sweeney episode Thou Shalt Not Kill! and the World In Action episode An Element Of Risk broadcast on Thames.

The first episode of The Doll broadcast as part of the Francis Durbridge Presents ... strand. John Challen's After The Solo broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Michael Anderson's Conduct Unbecoming - starring Michael York, Richard Attenborough and Trevor Howard - premiered.
The first episode of Moll Flanders broadcast on BBC2. Malcolm Macdonald ran the one hundred metres in under eleven seconds in an episode of Superstars. Milk-O broadcast in Thames's Comedy Premiere strand.
Ross McWhirter was murdered by the IRA. John Huston featured on BBC2's Film Night.
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes's Smarter Brother previewed by Barry Norman on Film 75. The Goodies' 'Make A Daft Noise For Christmas'/'The Last Chance Dance' released.
The first episode of The Generation Game not presented by Bruce Forsyth broadcast (Roy Castle guested as Brucie had 'flu). Frightful hippy dirge 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by turgid, pompous rockers The Queen Group reached number one in the UK. It would remain there for a depressingly long time. Graham Hill was killed when his light aircraft crashed returning to the UK from a race meeting in France. Tanya Tucker featured in Radio 1's Top Twelve.
The Battle Of Anzio shown in the Film Of The Week strand. African Masque broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Don Kirshner featured in Radio 1's Insight.
The Times ran an article quoting gobshite Tory MP Norman Tebbit as accusing Michael Foot of 'undiluted fascism.' And, let's face it, if anyone should know about that malarkey, Norm should. Alec Guinness's reading of TS Eliot's The Waste Land broadcast on Radio 3. The first episode of David Turner's adaptation of North & South broadcast on BBC2. The World In Action episode Blood Money - Part One, saw doctors expressing concerns about the blood-clotting drug Hemofil which is used by those suffering with hemophilia.

Trevor Griffiths's Through The Night broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The first episode of BBC2's At A Time Like This broadcast.
In the League Cup Fifth Round Middlesbrough won two-nil at Burnley, Tottenham thrashed Doncaster Rovers seven-two. Manchester City beat Mansfield Town four-two and Newcastle United beat Notts County thanks to goalkeeper Eric McManus spilling Malcolm MacDonald's long-throw into his own net. The wreck of the hospital ship HMHS Britannic was found by Jacques Cousteau, fifty nine years after it was sunk off of the coast of Greece by a German submarine.
The first episode of State Of Emergency broadcast. It's A Wonderful Life shown in BBC2's Midweek Cinema strand.
Bob Marley & The Wailers' Live! released. The policy of internment without trial in Northern Ireland was ended.
The Balcome Street Siege began. IRA members on the run from police broke into a London flat, taking the residents hostage. Brent Geese broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. Noel Anthony Clarke born in Notting Hill.
The first UK TV showings of The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes and William Friedkin's The Birthday Party. Before The Beatles broadcast in Radio 1's Insight.
The first UK TV showing of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly in The Monday Film strand. Pulcinella broadcast on BBC2. The second part of the World In Action special Blood Money broadcast.
Leon Griffiths's A Passage To England broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. Membrs of Yes featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The Sports Personality of The Year award was won by David Steele, the first cricketer to win the award since Jim Laker in 1956. John Christie In Concert broadcast on BBC2.
The episode of Q6 featuring the 'Pakistani Dalek' sketch broadcast. Longitude Zero broadcast.
Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg were profiled on Film 75. Satcom-1, the third domestic communications satellite was blasted into orbit by the RCA Corporation. John Williams' 'Main Title (Theme From Jaws)'/'End Title (From Jaws)' and George & Gwen McCrae's 'I'll Do The Rockin'/'I'm Comin' At You' released.
The Parish Boy's Progress broadcast as part of BBC2's Second House strand. The Patti Smith Group's Horses released. Dick James featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve.
Gene Wilder's The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - starring Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters - premiered. The Ghost Trio broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Rumpole Of The Bailey broadcast in the Play For Today strand.
Everest The Hard Way broadcast. The Naked Civil Servant broadcast in Thames's The Wednesday Special strand. Scotland failed to qualify for a major tournament yet again, drawing one-all with Romania at Hampden Park. Bruce Rioch scored for the hosts. Aston Villa's Andy Gray and John Doyle of Ayr United made their Scotland debuts.
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon - starring Ryan O'Neal and John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King - starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine - premiered.
Carry On Behind - starring Elke Sommer, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sim, Windsor Davies, Peter Butterworth, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rowland, Carol Hawkins, Adrienne Posta and Ian Lavender and Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Hedda - starring Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart - premiered.
Andrew Davies's adaptation of Poe's The Imp Of The Perverse broadcast in BBC2's Centre Play strand. The Ulster Defence Association bombed Biddy Mulligan's pub in Kilburn. Five people were injured. The UDA claimed responsibility because the ub was 'frequented by republican sympathisers.' Art Garfunkel featured on Radio 1's Top Twelve. Luciano Salce's L'Anatra All'Arancia - starring Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet and Sabina De Guida - premiered.
Carlos The Jackal led a terrorist team that attacked a meeting of OPEC leaders in Vienna. Goodies Ruke - OK? broadcast on BBC2.
The first UK TV showing of Ken Russell's Women In Love. The British At Play broadcast on BBC2.
The first episode of Bod broadcast. The Ash Tree broadcast as part of the A Ghost Story For Christmas strand. The Golden Harp broadcast on BBC2.

The Old Grey Whistle Test's annual Christmas concert featured Christawful pomp rockers The Queen Group at the Hammersmith Odeon. If this blogger had been there, he would have thrown things at them and shouted rude words. The Crackerjack Pantomime: Robinson Crusoe and the No Way Out episode of Porridge broadcast. Chris Langham's It Was On The Spaceship Venus ... broadcast on Radio 2. Victorian Top of the Pops broadcast on Radio 4. Max Pécas's Les Mille Et Une Perversions De Felicia - starring Mary Mendum, Béatrice Harnois and Jean Roche - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Great Big Groovy Horse broadcast on BBC2. Thank You Christmas & Goodnight broadcast on Radio 1. Christmas With The Crosbys broadcast on Radio 2. Crown Matrimonial broadcast on Radio 4. In Spite Of Darkness, It Was Day boradcast on Radio 3.
The first UK TV showing of Let It Be. On BBC2, George Harrison appeared as Pirate Bob on Christmas With Rutland Weekend Television. The final of Brain Of Sport 1975 broadcast on Radio 2. Eric & Ernie's Second Hall Of Fame broadcast on Radio 4.
The first UK broadcast of Frankenstein: The True Story on BBC2. Simply Simon broadcast on BBC1. Radio 1's Steeleye Span Special broadcast. Review Of The Year's Radio 2 Top Tunes broadcast. The Taxman Cometh broadcast in Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. The Mediocrity Of Women? broadcast on Radio 3.
Around The World In Eighty Hours - with Fyfe Robertson - broadcast. This Year, Next Year broadcast on BBC2. In the cod war, the British frigate Andromeda collided with the Icelandic vessel Tyr while both were sailing what Iceland claimed as its territorial waters. Although Britain denied that its ship had deliberately rammed the Tyr, the Andromeda would damage another Icelandic ship, Thor, on 7 January and the Thor would be rammed by another British frigate on two days later. After which, presumably, they learned their lesson.
JB Priestley's When We Are Married broadcast as part of the Play Of The Month strand. Prime Minister Harold Wilson reportedly discussed whether there were 'too many hippies' at the BBC in talks with the corporation's then-chairman, Sir Michael Swann. Swann said that he would not describe the BBC as 'clear of such problems' but it was 'a picnic' compared to his time as head of Edinburgh University.
The All Star Records Breaker and The Inventing Of America - introduced by Raymond Burr and James Burke - broadcast. In Company and The Gamekeeper broadcast on BBC2.
Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You A Story broadcast. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Three Men In A Boat - starring Tim Curry, Stephen Moore and Michael Palin - broadcast on BBC2. Derek Nimmo's Holiday In Disneyland broadcast on Radio 2. The Last Riot broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. A Touch Of The Casanovas broadcast on Thames.