According to the listings in the Radio Times on this day programming started at 1pm. That seemed wrong; I remember the mornings were full of Asian TV programmes, Farming, and other stupid stuff of no interest to me.
So at 1pm we open with the weather presented by a well know face of the time Jack Scott and after five minutes another famous face lit up the screen, Ron Pickering. He was presenting a 25-minute athletics show-previewing sports for the upcoming Munich Olympics, which would be remembered for more than sport, but today he was advertising field sports on the programme.
Kicking off a 1.30pm was the BBCs number one sports show, flagship sports show. “Grandstand” is no longer with us in the world of multi-channels where money talks. In over three and a half hours slot there would be plenty to cram in to the show. Today it was a short football preview as the football season had yet to kick-off. There was always the regular diet of horseracing and with the Olympics weeks away, there was athletics from Crystal Palace and final score with the cricket scoreboard.
There was a dramatized TV version of “The Last of the Mohicans” after the sports, which puzzled me I always remember it on a Sunday early evening but no it is here in black and white, Saturday. It starred one of the great Welsh actors, Philip Madco as Magua that reminds me I must check out YouTube and see if it is available on there to screen.
Following we have the News/Weather then off to the Wild West with the series “Gunsmoke” that can still be seen being rehashed on a channel daily. At 7pm, it was Saturday film night, I remember those days. Tonight “The Lost World” (1960) where Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there. The plus side the refined and beautiful Jill St John was starring.
Lulu was next to hit the screen with her entertainment show ”It’s Lulu” at 8.23pm. Lots of singing and a few jokes your usual Saturday night family show the kind of show we do not see any more with Saturday becoming reality TV night.
9.20pm “A Man Called Ironside” A long running police drama from America about a San-Francisco cop who uses a wheelchair after being paralysed from the waist down. Now he is a special consultant to the police department along with three staff who help him solve cases. Lucky for him and the guy who pushes him around all the murders happen in buildings with lifts.
Why was I still up at 12-years-old on a Saturday night that 10.10pm not for news/weather but for the next programme “Match of the Day”? I would sit there waiting on dads return from the pub, hopefully with a bag of chips for me and a non-sensible chat depending how drunk he was. This “Match of the Day” was a pre-season special according to the Radio Times.
Featuring the “Watney Cup Final” showing highlights from the final of the Watney Cup tournament a pre-season event between the highest-scoring soccer clubs in all four divisions of the Football League. It only lasted a few seasons. A couple of first come with this competition like it was the first tournament in England to sell its naming rights. The first ever penalty shootout in England took place in a semi-final of the 1970 tournament between Hull City and Manchester United.
The night end with Parkinson at 11.25 and unless there was some I wanted to listen to I would end for bed.
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