At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.

Caroline is mentioned in the third series of the BBC comedy Blackadder, in which Mr. E. Blackadder dismisses Caroline as a potential wife for George because she " has the worst personality in Germany " ( allegedly " up against some pretty stiff competition ").

Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

A third version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on March 21, 2010 starring Rory Kinnear as Captain Bluntschli, Lydia Leonard as Raina and Tom Mison as Major Saranoff.

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

BBC Radio 4 had commissioned a third Dirk Gently six-part radio series for broadcast in mid-2010, based on the uncompleted chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by Spice World writer Kim Fuller.

The BBC had planned to conclude Blake's 7 at the end of its third series, but a further series was unexpectedly commissioned.

Although ratings declined compared to the first series, the BBC commissioned a third.

In addition, on August 5, 2006, the BBC reported that " free screensavers " and " screensavers " respectively were the first and third most likely search terms to return links to malware, the second being Bearshare.

At the end of 1967 the group released their third film, the one hour, made-for-television project Magical Mystery Tour ; it was written and directed by the group and first broadcast on the BBC on Boxing Day 1967.

Subject to any future Ofcom decision to re-advertise the slot, the capacity will remain with the BBC and can be used by it for BBC services or services provided by a third party via a commercial arrangement.

The BBC revival of Doctor Who uses Rhapsody in Blue as part of its musical score in the third series episode " Daleks in Manhattan ".

Le Mesurier's second and third marriages have been the subject of two BBC Four biographical films, the 2008 Hancock and Joan on Joan Le Mesurier's affair with Tony Hancock — with Le Mesurier played by Alex Jennings — and the 2011 Hattie on Jacques's affair with John Schofield — with Le Mesurier played by Robert Bathurst.

A third single, " Sandie ’ s Gone ( Part 1 )" / " Sandie ’ s Gone ( Part 2 )", was released on the band's new label in April 1970, and a number of sessions and concerts were also recorded for the BBC during this period.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

A third part-time service was created under the name of the BBC Third Programme.

BBC Radio 7 broadcast the second and third series throughout August and September 2010 with the fourth series beginning on 6 October.

On 19 January 2012 BBC Look East reported that there were growing tensions in the town where one third of the population are eastern European migrants.

They also assisted with production of the third series onwards that aired on the BBC.

The station and its staff featured prominently in the third episode of BBC Two documentary series The Tube, which first aired on 5 March 2012.

In 1923, extracts from all three Henry VI plays were broadcast on BBC Radio, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night.

In 1923, extracts from all three Henry VI plays were broadcast on BBC Radio 1, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night.

In 1923, extracts from all three Henry VI plays were broadcast on BBC Radio, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the third episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night.

The play-by-play announcer is former BBC Radio commentator Callum Williams who began broadcasting with the 2011 season.

During its first season the BBC titled the show as Crazy People, or in full, " The Junior Crazy Gang featuring those Crazy People, the Goons!

In August 2012, they presented an edition of The BBC Proms, Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels, as Prom 20 of the 2012 season.

Williams was a regular on the BBC radio panel game Just a Minute from its second season in 1968 until his death.

The play was also filmed for television, directed by Nick Wood, and was broadcast on BBC Four on 13 June 2004, as part of a Summer in the Sixties season, subsequently airing on BBC Two on 1 January 2005.

Notably, Barry Took was the principal writer in the 1969 season ; executive producer George Schlatter, a Canadian, was influenced by Round the Horne on CBC repeats of BBC original programming, and searched out Took for his programme.

This has been published by BBC Books since 2003 and is updated annually for the Christmas gift-giving season.

* In the fourth season episode " Lancelot du Lac " of the BBC series Merlin, Morgana uses necromancy to bring the knight Lancelot back from the dead in order to interfere with the pending marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere, thereby preventing Guinevere from becoming queen.

In 2009 he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008 – 09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation.

Both the BBC and ITV made special programmes to celebrate her 80th birthday in 1982 and the BBC ran a short season of her best films.

Hill's season earned him the 1994 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

In 2004 the BBC began releasing the series on CD in box sets, one per season.

It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979 – 80 season ( Season 17 ), but was never completed due to a strike at the BBC during filming.

The audio play was also broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7, on 10 December 2005 ( as a 2-hour omnibus ), and was repeated in six parts as the opening story to the Eighth Doctor's summer season which began on 16 July 2006.

The revised script, now titled The Curse of the Sephiroth, was credited to " David Agnew ", a standard pseudonym used by the BBC and which had been previously used on Doctor Who for the season fifteen serial The Invasion of Time.

At first Henry Wood, the founding conductor, prevailed on the corporation to engage his Queen's Hall Orchestra for each Prom season, but from 1930 onwards, the BBC provided the orchestra.

Under Schwarz, BBC SO concerts other than the Proms drew poor houses – as low as 29 per cent of capacity in the 1959 – 60 season.

The BBC SO is the associate orchestra of the Barbican Centre in London, where it gives an annual season of concerts.

Since 2002, Laurie has appeared in a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of the spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One.

The orchestra's workload in these years was second only to the other self-governing London orchestra, the LPO: the LPO played 248 concerts in the 1949 – 50 season ; the LSO 103 ; the BBC SO 55 ; the Philharmonia and RPO 32 each.

Outside the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season of 2008

The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London.