April 1965 highlights  BBC2 was close to celebrating its first birthday, but it had not yet reached the North of England, hence no listings in the channel in the Radio Times I was using for this feature, unfortunately.
Morning television was non-existent on this day - in fact, apart from Watch with Mother, it was virtually non-existent all week, there being no schools programmes due to the Easter holiday. When BBC1 finally did wake up, it was for coverage of the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, introduced from Putney by David Coleman. (Radio sport at this point was covered by the Third Network with Sport Service). Following David "Hello there" Jacobs (above) with the latest pop releases voted either a Hit or a Miss, it was time for the good Doctor, William Hartnell, in episode 2 of The Crusade, one of the many Doctor Who episodes which sadly no longer exists. (Hartnell's successor Patrick Troughton was this Sunday guest-starring in Dr Finlay's Casebook). Then Dick van Dyke (below left) was joined by Mary Tyler Moore for his 'hilarious' (according to Radio Times) comedy series, followed by Margaret Lockwood's (below middle) drama series The Flying Swan, which also featured her daughter Julia.  Petula Clark (right), who was now mainly pursuing her show business career in France, joined Billy "Wakey Wakey!" Cotton (who also had a Light Programme version of his show on this day), while later BBC1 traced the career of the 26 year-old Hollywood actress Natalie Wood. Saturday was rounded off by the successor to That Was The Week That Was. Managing an even longer title, Not So Much a Programme More a Way of Life retained David Frost for a similarly satirical series, though this was broadcast three times a week, Friday to Sunday, and quickly ran out of steam. Having begun the preceding November, it would last one more week.
 And in Radio Times 24-30 October 1964 Price 6d
A rare colour cover for Radio Times this week - Eric Fraser's illustration marked BBC1's showing
of The Wars of the Roses performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, with David Warner
in the role of Henry VI (right). It was broadcast for a total of nearly three hours during primetime on Thursday evening. There were no colour pages inside the magazine, however, and colour would not become a regular ingredient until September 1967. 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Radio Times Covers | 
