1971

**1971**

**MCMLXXI**

*This is a draft model/template of what a Year page could look like.* This idea partly courtesy of TV Cream:

* FA Cup Winners: Arsenal (beat Liverpool 2-1 aet, 08 May)
* Christmas Number One: Benny Hill - Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West
* Eurovision Song Contest: Dublin, 03 April
	+ UK Eurovision Entry: Clodagh Rogers - Jack In The Box (position 4th)
	+ Contest Winner: Séverine - Un banc, un arbre, une rue (Monaco)

* Blue Peter Team: Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves
* Doctor Who: John Pertwee (S8)
* Radio 1 Breakfast Show Jock: Tony Blackburn
* Big Christmas Day Film On BBC1: *Arabesque*

## Main events

* **January**: Look-In first issued, UK postal workers strike begins (workers resuming on 07 March)
* **February**: Decimalisation Day (15 Feb.).

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### New series

(channel and first broadcast date in brackets)

* BBC: *Mr Benn* (BBC1, 25 February), *The Two Ronnies* (BBC1, 10 April), *Parkinson* (BBC1, 19 June), *The Partridge Family* (BBC1, 17 September), *Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game*, (BBC1, 02 October), *The Onedin Line* (BBC1, 15 October), *Elizabeth R* (BBC2, 17 February), *The Old Grey Whistle Test* (BBC2, 21 September),
* ITV: Bless This House (ITV, 02 February), *Budgie* (ITV, 09 April), *The Comedians* (ITV, 12 June), Jason King (ITV, 15 September), The Persudaers (ITV, 17 September), Upstairs, Downstairs (ITV, 10 October),

### New seasons

* *Doctor Who* (02 January), *This Is Your Life* (ITV, 17 November)

### Shows ending

* *Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, The Lovers, Timeslip, UFO* (all ITV)

### Other TV events

* Open University begins broadcasting on BBC2 (Jan.), *Blue Peter* buries timecapsule for the year 2000 (June), Pebble Mill studios opened in Birmingham (Nov.)

## Radio

* Radio-only and combined radio & television licences are abolished.

## Music

* **Biggest selling singles**: George Harrison - My Sweet Lord, Rod Stewart - Maggie May, Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, Dawn - Knock Three Times (*full list*)
* **Biggest selling albums**: Simon & Garfunkel - *Bridge Over Troubled Water*, Rod Stewart - *Every Picture Tells A Story*, The Rolling Stones - *Sticky Fingers* (*full list*)
	+ Compilation albums: *Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5* (no.4 top selling), Andy Williams - *Greatest Hits*
* **Debut albums**: Olivia Newton-John - *If Not for You*, Wings - *Wild Life*, Gilbert O'Sullivan - *Himself* (*full list*)
	+ Eponymous debuts - Weather Report, Carly Simon, Electric Light Orchestra, Frida, Nazareth, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy,
* **Alternative/independent**: Pink Floyd - *Meddle,* Yes - *The Yes Album*

## Films

* *Carry On Henry*, *Death In Venice*, *Get Carter*, *Up Pompeii*, *Escape from the Planet of the Apes*, *Wuthering Heights* (US, 1970), *Le Mans*, W*illy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory*, *Shaft*, *And Now for Something Completely Different*, *Fiddler on the Roof* , *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, *Diamonds Are Forever*.
	+ *A Clockwork Orange* (UK release, Jan 1972), *Straw Dogs* (UK, Jan 1972), *Dirty Harry* (UK, March 1972)

## Births

* Gary Barlow (20 January), Sonia (13 February), Amanda Holden (16 February), Charlie Brooker (03 March), David Tennant (18 April), Martin Freeman (08 September), Chesney Hawkes (22 September), Emily Mortimer (01 December)