12 July 1969

Saturday 12 July

1969-07-12

Events
"Originally produced from 1966 to 1968, the BBC began showing it in summer 1969 as a replacement for Doctor Who, now being reduced to six month-long seasons.  Star Trek soon acquired a loyal audience, though the BBC regarded it as a family programme, but thought some of the episodes weren't suitable to be shown before the watershed."
 * US science-fiction TV series Star Trek is aired on BBC One for the first time.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 10.00 am Si Dice Così. Twenty-six programmes for beginners in Italian. 26: Conversazioni
 * 11.00 am Grandstand Introduced by Harry Carpenter direct from Lytham featuring The Open Golf Championship from the Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club.


 * 5.15 pm Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before The star-ship Enterprise, under captain James Kirk, is engaged in patrolling the new-found galactic oceans; and in tonight's first story, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", it is ordered beyond the limits of explored space.
 * 7.00 pm The Likely Lads (S03, E08) Goodbye to All That


 * BBC Two
 * 8.15 pm Cameron Country Tonight James Cameron visits Houston, the multi-million-dollar headquarters of America's Manned Space programme, and travels the long trail to their science-fiction launch pad on the Florida coast.BBC TV in 1969 - Journalist James Cameron at NASA