Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

In 1963 the BBC paid £ 65 for the radio play The Ruffian on the Stair broadcast on 31 August 1964.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

Two series were made in 1963 and 1964 and ( presumably because it was shot on 35mm film rather than video ) the entire series has reportedly been preserved in the BBC archives.

* BBC Panorama ( 1964 ) episode produced for the last night of the Windmill Theatre in 1964.

When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

This was followed by a 1964 dramatision of The Caves of Steel for the BBC series Story Parade and then four episodes of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown, based on " Satisfaction Guaranteed " ( 1966 ), " Reason ( in an episode titled " The Prophet ", 1967 ), " Liar!

Subsequently, Caine's agent got him cast in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore ( 1964 ) as Horatio in support of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.

* BBC Wales feature on tramps as gentlemen of the road from 1964

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

* 1964 BBC TV Personality of the Year

* 1964: The Count of Monte Cristo, BBC television serial starring Alan Badel and Natasha Parry

The reason given by the BBC was that 1964 was an election year, and it was felt the show's political material could compromise the corporation's impartiality.

Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966.

He also was the " voice " of Lloyd-George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War ( 1964 ).

After 1964 the BBC SO was the only one of the five London symphony orchestras that was not self-governed, and some musicians felt that the BBC SO's constitution as a body of salaried employees, with no say in the management or repertory of the orchestra, attracted an unadventurous type of player.

Notable television performances include narration for The Great War ( 1964 ), a history of the First World War using stills and ' stretched ' archive film, and the less successful Lost Peace series ( BBC Television, 1964 and 1966 ).

The video for " Don't Let's Start ", filmed in the New York State Pavilion built for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, became a hit on MTV, earning them a broader following.

Michelangelo Antonioni filmed his 1964 movie Red Desert ( Deserto Rosso ) within the industrialised areas of the Pialassa valley within the city limits.

" In 1962, he filmed Panic Button ; ( not released until 1964 ); playing opposite blonde bombshell / sex symbol, Jayne Mansfield.

* The 1964 pilot, Calhoun: County Agent, starring Jackie Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, was filmed in and around Las Cruces, but never aired.

During this era, he starred in Jack Hill's Spider Baby ( filmed 1964, released 1968 ), for which he also sang the title song.

It was filmed in New York in July 1964.

From 1964 onwards they were filmed, edited and then transmitted on British television a few weeks after they had taken place.

The video was directed by Adam Bernstein and filmed inside the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair.

CBS ceased all regular color programming between 1960 and 1965 ( including at least one of their shows, The Lucy Show, which was filmed in color, beginning in 1963, but continued to be telecast in black and white through the end of the 1964 – 65 season ), while ABC delayed its first color series until 1962.

Other British color television programmes include Stingray ( 1964 – 1965 ), which was the first British TV show to be filmed entirely in color, Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 1966 ) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 – 1968 ).

* In 1964 several scenes in The Beatles film A Hard Day's Night were filmed at Marylebone station.

The date of 1965 makes it the last footage ever filmed for Stingray, being shot after completion of filming on the 1964 series.

It was filmed in 1964.

* Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ) US production filmed in Spain, Sophia Loren

* Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ) U. S. production filmed in Spain, Sophia Loren

Other than the Poldark novels, Graham's most successful work was Marnie ( 1964 ), a thriller filmed by Alfred Hitchcock with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery in the leads.

* Circus World ( 1964 ), directed by Henry Hathaway, with John Wayne and Claudia Cardinale ; some circus scenes are filmed inside the Liceu theatre.

His 1964 stage performance as Claudius in the Richard Burton Hamlet was filmed live on the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, using a " quickie " process called Electronovision, and shown in movie theatres in a very limited engagement.

Ambler's best known works are probably The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1939 ) ( originally published under the title A Coffin for Dimitrios ), which was made into a film in 1944, and The Light of Day ( 1962 ), filmed in 1964 as Topkapi and also lampooned in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ).

The pilot episode of Gomer Pyle was filmed in 1963 as part of The Andy Griffith Show, but was not aired until 1964, as the finale of The Andy Griffith Shows fourth season.

In the early sixties, Jean became interested in politics, and made a short documentary in 1964 called Vivre en Espagne ( Life in Spain ), it was about Generalissimo Francisco Franco, thirty minutes were filmed and it wasn't very good, but he risked a lot to get it made.

Carry on Cleo was filmed between 13 and 28 July 1964.

* Castle Minerva ( 1954 ) US A Handful of Silver — filmed in 1964 as Masquerade

* The Scorpio Letters ( 1964 ) — filmed in 1966