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- ↑ Ian Hartley - Goodnight children --everywhere - Page 137 1983 Muriel Young became another regular announcer on Lucky Dip and in 1961 was joined by a glove puppet, still at the time of ... In September 1961 Lucky Dip became Tuesday Rendezvous, with basically the same team.
- ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Children's TV in the 1960s". screenonline.org.uk.
- ↑ "Ollie Beak | Peter Firmin | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 10 August 2019.
- ↑ "The Beatles Bible - Television: Tuesday Rendezvous". The Beatles Bible. 4 December 1962.
- ↑ "The Beatles Bible - Television: Tuesday Rendezvous". The Beatles Bible. 9 April 1963.