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The Play for Today series continued to take risks throughout Curran's eight years as Director-General and, in the drama series Days of Hope which accounted the early years of the Labour movement in Britain, the BBC proved that it was not necessarily as Tory-biased as some thought ( although significantly the series was never shown again ; it might have been more likely to gain a repeat under Hugh Greene or Alasdair Milne ).

The Morecambe and Wise Show became one of the best-loved British TV institutions ever between 1969 and 1977, and the Curran era also saw the development of Michael Parkinson's hugely-popular Saturday-night chat show, which has become a major force again since its revival in 1998.