A BBC News article about a lack of " mid-career volunteers " in their 20s provided a Generation X age range, which, in 2007, would suggest birth years that fall between 1962 and 1982.

" A come Andromeda " ( 1972 ) was a remake of 1962 BBC miniseries ( from the novels of Hoyle and Elliott ).

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

It was also the first James Bond feature film of the Eon Productions series, released in 1962 and starring Sean Connery ; the most recent adaptation was a BBC Radio version, broadcast in 2008.

) Troughton's other notable film and television roles included Kettle in Chance of a Lifetime ( 1950 ), Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1955 ), Vickers in the episode entittled Strange Partners in the Invisible Man ( the ITP Series also starred one of Pat's future Doctor Who co-stars, Deborah Watling, as Sally ) ( 1958 ), Phineus in Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963 ), Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1962 ), Paul of Tarsus ( BBC 1960, title role ), Dr. Finlay's Casebook ( BBC 1962, semiregular ).

* Pete Clifton ( born 1962 ), head of BBC News Interactive

* BBC On this day in History 1 October 1962

Scott's novelty record " My Brother " ( written by Mitch Murray, released 1962 on PYE ) was based on this schoolboy character ( he dressed in the uniform to sing it on TV ) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio ( in particular Ed ' Stewpot ' Stewart's Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 ) for many years.

Deller was an influential figure in the renaissance of early music: an early proponent of original instrument performance and one of the first to bring this form to the popular consciousness through his broadcasts on the BBC, he also founded the Stour Music Festival in 1962, one of the first and most important early music festivals in the world.

That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme that was shown on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963.

Many books and documentaries detailing the plight of the Kakapo have been produced in recent years, one of the earliest being Two in the Bush, made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC in 1962.

By 1962 Glock had persuaded the management of the BBC to increase the orchestra's budget to allow for joint principals in the string sections, to attract top musicians who could play in the BBC SO without having to give up their solo or chamber careers.

The Beatles performed for fifty-two BBC Radio programmes, beginning with an appearance on the series Teenager's Turn — Here We Go, recorded on 7 March 1962, and ending with the special The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride, recorded on 26 May 1965 ; in total, 275 performances of 88 different songs were broadcast.

* January 2 – Z-Cars ( UK ) premieres on BBC Television ( 1962 – 1978 )

* April 17 – Brothers in Law ( UK ) premieres on BBC Television ( 1962 )

* July 6 – Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Television ( 1956 – 1962 )

He became a writer, contributing to the satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television, That Was The Week That Was in 1962 and 1963, along with many other names, where he was most remembered for the " Silent men of Westminster " sketch.

Another flagship programme, the long-running quiz show, University Challenge was originally aired between 1962 and 1987 and revived by the BBC in 1994 ( produced by Granada ).

In 2012, the BBC made a film of the story of his 1962 New York photoshoot with Jean Shrimpton.

The martial law continued until 1962 when the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan commissioned a constitutional bench under Chief Justice of Pakistan, Muhammad Shahabuddin, containing ten senior justices, each five from East Pakistan and five from West Pakistan.

In 1962, the Navy commissioned USS Thomas A. Edison ( SSBN-610 ), a fleet ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarine.

The first Atlas was commissioned in 1962 but working prototypes of paging had been developed by 1959.

In 1962, Norwegian sculptor Ørnulf Bast was commissioned to create two nine-foot bronze replicas of the original figurehead by the City of Moss.

The War Requiem, first performed on 30 May 1962, was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid on the night of 14 November 1940.

In September 1962, the Philharmonic commissioned Aaron Copland to write a new work, Connotations For Orchestra, for the opening concert of the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Andy Warhol attended the 1962 première of the static composition by La Monte Young called Trio for Strings and subsequently created his famous series of static films including Kiss, Eat, and Sleep ( for which Young was initially commissioned to provide music ).

In 1962, Stoneham commissioned a study of the wind conditions.

The group spent several months in intensive training, concluding with examinations in November 1962, after which four remaining candidates were commissioned Junior Lieutenants in the Soviet Air Force.

Although Rego was commissioned by her father to produce a series of large scale murals to decorate the works ' canteen at his electrical factory in 1954 whilst she was still a student, Rego's artistic career effectively began in the early 1962 when she began showing with The London Group, a long established artists ' organisation which included David Hockney and Frank Auerbach among its members.

After graduating, Boorda was commissioned as an officer in August 1962.

The Smeed Report, ' Road Pricing: The Economic and Technical Possibilities ' which had been commissioned in 1962 by the United Kingdom Ministry of Transport was published in 1964.

After his retirement from that office on August 1, 1954, he returned to Ottawa to act as under-secretary of state for external affairs, until, on September 25, 1958, he was commissioned as ambassador and permanent representative to the North Atlantic Council, occupying that post until 5 July 1962, as well as the Canadian representative to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation in Paris.

Woodcock, editor of the journal Canadian Literature, commissioned in 1962 the first of several essays from him, and Dudek invited him to guest-edit a Vancouver issue of his influential poetry magazine Delta.

* was also a light cruiser, commissioned 1946, active in the Korean War and scrapped in 1962

In 1942, he was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962.

The Borough Council commissioned Max Lock and Partners to draw up plans for the redevelopment of the town centre in 1960, with a preliminary report being delivered in May 1961 and a detailed report in 1962.

The current design of the Rangers ' badge was incorporated in 1962, when Ranger Hardy L. Purvis and his mother donated enough Mexican five-peso coins to the DPS to provide badges for all 62 Rangers who were working at that time as commissioned officers.

* was a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1947, converted to a command ship and recommissioned as CC-2 in 1962, and decommissioned in 1970.

The base was commissioned in 1962 and is operating as of 2012.

*, was commissioned as a nuclear powered destroyer leader and in service from 1962 to 1996.

* was a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer commissioned in 1962, and serving until 1994.

Hauck, a Navy ROTC student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to, where he served 20 months as communications officer and Combat Information Center officer.

Fabian, an Air Force ROTC student at Washington State University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962.