📺 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' Sunday 05 October 1969 - BBC1: 22:55 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' is broadcast for the first time. Manic, unstructured, at times incomprehensible and often, most certainly in the worst possible taste, Monty Python became perhaps the biggest cult hit ever seen on television. By turns irreverent, surreal, chaotic and at times simply silly in a way which is uniquely and quintessentially British, its comedic influence echoing down the decades and in the process he

26 reactions |  'Dad's Army' Thursday 11 September 1969 -- BBC1: 19:30 The first Dad's Army episode filmed in colour was aired. However, since BBC1 was still broadcasting in black and white at the time, it wasn't until November that the series could be seen in colour. #DadsArmy | Bernie Briffa | Facebook

On this day in 1969, at 5:55pm - just before the BBC1 news - we whistled hello to the Clangers for the very first time... 💖🎶✨ | Clangers

1.1M views · 45K reactions | "On The Buses" was a British sitcom that...