7 days in TV
Saturday 10th: From 5.30pm, the Doctor and Sarah Jane
battled the Cybermen on Nerva Beacon in the final episode of
Tom Baker's first season as Dr Who. Brian Grellis (Grice in Parasites) appeared as
the Vogan - Sheprah.
Sunday
11th: Colin Baker and Kate O'Mara crossed
swords for the first time as Paul Merroney and Jane Maxwell
in The Brothers at 7.25pm.
Monday
12th: The new BBC2 comedy programme for
Mondays was Rutland Weekend Television, which was fronted by
Eric Idle and featured on the front cover (see above). Bill
Tidy's cartoons promoted the new series in the pages of Radio
Times.
Tuesday
13th: Jan Francis was this week's storyteller
in Jackanory. Today at 4.35pm she continued to read The
Bronze Trumpeter by Jenny Nimmo.
Wednesday
14th: Survivors went out at 8.10pm as usual
and was preceded by The Wednesday Film: Some Will, Some Won't
which starred Thora Hird and Ronnie Corbett. It was followed
by the News presented by Kenneth Kendall and a Wodehouse
Playhouse starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins called
Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court. BBC2 competition came in
the form of a documentary on the changing face of French TV,
with a feature on Brigitte Bardot.
Thursday
15th: June Page (Sally) appeared in the
children's series, Sam and the River, today. The co-creator
of the Cybermen, Kit Pedler, took part in Man Alive, a
documentary on nuclear waste. In her preview column, Joan
Bakewell described him as 'one of my favourite scientists'.
Earlier that day the real James Herriot was interviewed on
Pebble Mill following the completion of the first All
Creatures Great and Small film. Sue Barker, Britain's 2nd
ranked tennis player of the time, competed in the Coca-Cola
championships that afternoon and was interviewed about her
ambitions in the opening pages of the Radio Times. Nula
Conwell and Linda Robson (Over the Hills) also appeared
together in the Play for Today: the Dandelion Clock at
9.25pm, a good year before they were to work together once
more in the second series of Survivors.
Friday
16th: On Friday, Terry Nation discussed
Daleks, Doctor Who and Survivors when he was the special
guest on Woman's Hour on Radio 4 at 1.45pm (see below).
[Clockwise:
The Brothers, Kit Pedler, Dr Who, Sue Barker, Rutland Weekend
Television, James Herriot]
Commerical Breaks
Week
End, the 1970's favourite box of chocolates and candies,
appeared on the back cover of Radio Times this week in its
'colourful new box containing 48 sweets', which were all
pretty nasty as I remember. Whilst Homeline Continental
Quilts shouted for attention with their incredibly garish
colours...
