1967

1967

MCMLXVII


 * UK Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
 * FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur (beat Chelsea FC 2-1)
 * Christmas Number One: The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
 * Eurovision Song Contest: Vienna, 08 April
 * Contest Winner: Sandie Shaw - Puppet On a String (United kingdom)
 * Blue Peter Team: Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Christopher Trace (until 24 July), Peter Purves (from 16 November)
 * Doctor Who: Patrick Troughton (Seasons 4&5)
 * Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ: Tony Blackburn (from first Radio 1 show, 30 September)
 * Big Christmas Day Film On BBC1: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Main events

 * Jan: Alf Ramsey knighted, UK begins negotiations for EEC membership, Milton Keynes designated 'new town'
 * Feb.: British National Front founded, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits UK
 * Mar: Queen Elizabeth Hall opened
 * April: UK wins Eurovision Song Contest, M1 expanded, Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Canada - visited by The Queen
 * May: Celtic F.C. win European Cup, Sir Francis Chichester completes round the world sailing voyage, first Spring Bank Holiday in late May,
 * June: The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Machin series of definitive stamps launched
 * July: first full colour television, Welsh Language Act passed, British steel industry nationalised,
 * Aug: Jimmy Hill leaves football team coaching for a career in television, Brian Epstein dies, first Late Summer Holiday (end of month)
 * Sept.: QE2 launched, BBC Radio reforms go live
 * Oct: The Naked Ape published
 * Nov: outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease,
 * Dec.. Beatles open Apple Shop, Concorde unveiled in France,

New shows
(first broadcast date in brackets) full list
 * BBC 1: Look and Read, Trumpton, The Forsyte Saga, Ask the Family, Pride and Prejudice, Belle and Sebastian (UK debut), Ironside, Omnibus, Magical Mystery Tour
 * BBC 2: Face the Music, Wuthering Heights, The World About Us
 * ITV: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, The Golden Shot, News at Ten, ITV Playhouse, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Prisoner, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Tarzan.

Shows ending

 * Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency - Ward 10

full list

Other TV events

 * A Song For Europe / Eurovision Song Contest
 * Wimbledon coverage moved from BBC1 to BBC2 for colour trasnmission
 * ATV wins the new seven-day Midlands licence
 * London Weekend Television begins
 * Our World airs to over 30 countries - in the UK The Beatles perform All You Need Is Love
 * Colour television is officially launched on BBC2 (December)
 * Final Sooty Show on BBC 1 (Christmas Day) - moves to Thames TV.
 * HM The Queen's Christmas Message is the first to be broadcast in colour and came from Buckingham Palace for the first time.



Radio

 * John Ravenscroft returns to the UK from California, joins 'pirate radio' station Wonderful Radio London, adopting the name John Peel.
 * Marine Broadcasting Offences Act (August) effectively bans all pirate radio stations.
 * 30 September - The Light Programme becomes Radio 1 & Radio 2, the Third Programme becomes Radio 3 and the Home Service becomes Radio 4.
 * October - first ever Peel session on the DJ's Top Gear programme (band, Tomorrow); The Official Chart begins on Radio 2
 * November - BBC Local Radio stations begin (Leicester, Sheffield, Merseyside)
 * Just a Minute begins on Radio 4



Music
UK Top 40 debuts:
 * Biggest selling singles: Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (full list of 1967 no.1s)
 * Biggest selling albums: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Monkees - More of the Monkees, Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass of Home, The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon, Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
 * Compilation albums: Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Mantovani's Golden Hits, Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits, British Motown Chartbusters
 * Debut albums: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Scott Walker - Scott, Bee Gees - Bee Gees' 1st
 * Alternative: The Troggs - Trogglodynamite, Cream - Disraeli Gears

Films
UK premiere date, where known, in brackets
 * Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice, Bonnie and Clyde (08 September)

Births

 * Emily Watson, Rhys Ifans, Noel Gallagher, Paul Gascoigne, Paul Ince,

Birthdays

 * 20: Sandie Shaw, David Bowie, Clodagh Rogers, Elton John, David Essex, Marc Bolan, Jeff Lynne
 * 30: Shirley Bassey, Vanessa Redgrave, Valerie Singleton, Una Stubbs, Susan Hampshire, Barbara Windsor, Bobbie Charlton, Rodney Bewes, Gordon Banks
 * 40: Danny La Rue, Roger Moore, Ken Dodd
 * 50: Frankie Howerd, Vera Lynn, Denis Healey,
 * 60:
 * 70:

Deaths

 * Claude Rains, Joe Meek, Brian Epstein, Vivien Leigh, Joe Orton, Clement Attlee,

Music
scans from Record Mirror, November 1967