Nor did ' Tom and Jerry ' vanish with Egan: the celebrated duo have been perpetuated in Warner Brothers ' cartoon cat and mouse and as the male protagonists of BBC television's Seventies ' sitcom The Good Life.

By 1960, a small " beatnik " group in Newquay, Cornwall, England ( including a young Wizz Jones ) had attracted the attention and the abhorrence of their neighbours for growing their hair to a length past the shoulders, resulting in a television interview with Alan Whicker on BBC television's Tonight series.

In 1950, he began presenting programmes for the BBC, being particularly well known for boxing commentaries, and soon became one of television's most popular presenters.

* November 29 – Pinwright's Progress ( UK ), British television's first sitcom, debuts on the BBC Television Service ( 1946 – 1947 ).

Notable inhabitants of Bierton include architect Deborah Saunt of Channel 4 television's series Grand Designs, playwright Robert Farquhar, BBC fashion commentator Jerry O ' Sullivan, and the notable author and poet May Sinclair who lived at The Gables in Burcott Lane for the last ten years of her life.

Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows.

Alan Coren ( 27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007 ) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff.

From October 2006 he was Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision Productions, effectively overseeing all of BBC television's in-house programme production.

Jackson remained as editor of The Late Show for the next two years, until in 1991 he was promoted to become BBC television's Head of Music and Arts.

In a live interview on BBC television's Newsnight the journalist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris had identified Mandelson as a fellow homosexual.

Graham Parker and the Rumour appeared on BBC television's Top of the Pops in 1977, performing their version of The Trammps ' " Hold Back the Night " from The Pink Parker EP, a Top 30 UK hit in March 1977.

Not only did he start his tenure by holding an unprecedented press conference, he appeared as a guest on BBC television's Question Time and as a castaway on Desert Island Discs.

Jarvis was the subject of BBC television's This Is Your Life in 1999.

On 31 July 2011 the island was featured on BBC television's Countryfile

" Nessun dorma " achieved pop status after Luciano Pavarotti's 1972 recording of it was used as the theme song of BBC television's coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.

During her time in the country, she also presented BBC Two's Open Minds arts and culture series in 1999, as well as Channel 4 television's miscarriage of justice series Clear My Name in 1998.

Other projects, including participation in BBC television's Global Report series, enhanced the reputation of the New Internationalist magazine and team.

In 1963 Levin was invited to appear regularly on BBC television's new weekly late-night satirical revue, That Was The Week That Was, where he delivered monologues to camera about his pet hates and conducted interviews, appearing as " a tiny figure taking on assorted noisy giants in debate ".

" He also was a member of the punditry panel for BBC television's coverage of the 1986 World Cup.

In 2005, he was voted ' cult hero ' in an internet poll for the BBC television's Football Focus programme, receiving 64 % of votes cast for Morton players.

BBC television's first look at the problem of global warming, and the challenge presented by alternative energy technologies.

Its 10, 000th subscriber was Tom Corcoran, a director of BBC television's Top Of The Pops.

Nationwide talk stations include BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 4 Extra and talkSPORT.

Lime Grove would be home to many BBC TV shows over the next forty-two years, including: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Quatermass II, Steptoe and Son, Doctor Who, Nationwide, Top of the Pops and the 1950s soap opera The Grove Family took the name of its title family from the studios, where it was made.

* Fanny Cradock's Nationwide Cook Book ( BBC, 1972 )

His first few television appearances were on the long-running BBC television show Nationwide as a horticulture expert.

The following day, the 12 songs were broadcast on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 show and a recap of the top places, plus an interview with the winners took place on the BBC TV Show Nationwide the same evening.

Frank Bough (; born 15 January 1933 ) is a retired British television presenter who is best known as the former host of BBC sports and current affairs shows including Grandstand, Nationwide and Breakfast Time, which he launched alongside Selina Scott and Nick Ross.

In 2009, he contributed to a programme looking back on Nationwide, broadcast on BBC Four.

He was a reporter on the Cardiff evening newspaper The South Wales Echo where he was a contemporary of Michael Buerk ( later to become a distinguished BBC correspondent ) and of Sue Lawley ( later to become presenter of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide ).

This ' Nationwide ' style show launched on BBC One in the summer of 2006 and features a mix of interviews, factual features and topical stories.

A year later it changed its name to Nationwide Building Society-the name was suggested by the then chairman, Leonard E. H. Williams, and borrowed from the BBC current affairs programme, Nationwide.

Contentious programme making included the impartial reporting of the Falklands War on Newsnight, the Nationwide general election special with Margaret Thatcher in 1983, the coverage of the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ), the Real Lives fracas, the Panorama libel action and its reporting of the U. S. bombing of Libya and the controversy surrounding the programme Secret Society which took place in light of MI5's vetting of BBC employees.

Conversely, it was under Curran that the BBC developed a distinctly populist current affairs format in the form of Nationwide, and also produced some of its best-loved and most consistently-repeated comedy series, such as Dad's Army, Porridge and the first series of Fawlty Towers.

** 14 August – The One Show first broadcast on BBC One and was a modern day version of highly popular series Nationwide.

He is also seen on BBC Budget specials, and was a presenter of the BBC early evening weekday current affairs series Nationwide, on which he famously addressed Paddy Ashdown as " Panty Ashdown ".

He made his name on the BBC television teatime programme Nationwide, followed by Esther Rantzen's That's Life !, a light-hearted consumer affairs programme for which he wrote comic songs satirising various minor domestic misfortunes, often to the tune of Oh!

It is responsible for much of Britain's blue-chip company radio advertising, including among its clients The Carphone Warehouse, Harrods, BBC, Nationwide Building Society, Nestlé, Churches Advertising Network, Channel 4, DRDB, Autoglass and Time Out.

* Valerie Singleton, OBE, ( Arts Educational School, Tring site ) Former BBC TV co-presenter of ; Blue Peter, Nationwide, The Money Programme, etc.

He started directing in BBC Current Affairs ( 1969 – 73 ) on The Money Programme, 24 Hours and Nationwide.

He was declared bankrupt in 1973, then returned to the BBC, first on local television in East Anglia and then on the acclaimed network TV programme Nationwide.