04 December 1976

Saturday

1976-12-04

Events

 * TV: BBC One 5.50 pm Doctor Who - The Brain of Morbius. Sinister foes menace the Doctor from the moment he sets foot on the storm-lashed planet of Karn. What evil power has lured so many space-travellers to their doom?
 * Benjamin Britten, considered to be Britain's leading composer, dies aged 63 at his home, in Aldeburgh, in Suffolk. He had been fighting ill health since a heart operation in 1973.