6 January – Alan Freeman takes over as presenter of Pick of the Pops; he remains with the programme until the BBC ceases to broadcast it in 1972, and then with revivals.
19 February – Actress Ellis Powell is dismissed from the leading role of Mrs Dale in the BBC Light Programme soap opera The Dales, which she has played since the first episode as Mrs Dale's Diary in 1948, and it is given to former musical actress Jessie Matthews; Powell dies 3 months later aged 57.[1]
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